Yet at my parting sweetly did she smile, In scorn or friendship, nill I construe whether; 'Tmay be, she joy'd to jest at my exile, 'Tmay be, again to make me wander thither: "Wander," a word for shadows like myself, As take the pain, but cannot pluck the pelf. XI. Ard, how mine eyes throw gazes to the east! While Philomela sits and sings, I sit and mark, Pack night, peep day; good day, of night now borrow: Short, night, to-night, and length thyself to-morrow. Whenas thine eye hath chose the dame, Take counsel of some wiser head, But plainly say thou lov'st her well, The strongest castle, tower, and town, When time shall serve, be thou not slack And twice desire, ere it be day, That which with scorn she put away. What though she strive to try her strength, And ban and brawl, and say thee nay, Her feeble force will yield at length, When craft hath taught her thus to say,"Had women been so strong as men, In faith, you had not had it then." The wiles and guiles that women work, Dissembled with an outward show, The tricks and toys that in them lurk, The cock that treads them shall not know. Have you not heard it said full oft, A woman's nay doth stand for naught? Think women love to match with men, And not to live so like a saint: Here is no heaven; they holy then Begin, when age doth them attaint. Were kisses all the joys in bed, One woman would another wed. But, soft enough,-too much I fear; For if my mistress hear my song, She will not stick to ring mine ear, To teach my tongue to be so long: Yet will she blush, here be it said, To hear her secrets so bewray'd. XV. As it fell upon a day, Which a grove of myrtles made,' Beasts did leap, and birds did sing, Trees did grow, and plants did spring; Everything did banish moan, Save the nightingale alone: She, poor bird, as all forlorn, Lean'd her breast up-till a thorn, And there sung the dolefull'st ditty, That to hear her so complain, Senseless trees, they cannot hear thee; All thy friends are lapp'd in lead; Whilst as fickle Fortune smiled, Words are easy, like the wind; Faithful friends are hard to find: Every man will be thy friend, Whilst thou hast wherewith to spend; But if store of crowns be scant, They have him at commandèment: THE PHOENIX AND TURTLE. (From the additional poems to CHESTER'S Love's Martyr, or Rosalin's Complaint, 1601.) LET the bird of loudest lay, To whose sound chaste wings obey. But thou, shrieking harbinger, To this troop come thou not near. From this session interdict Let the priest in surplice white, Property was thus appall'd, That the self was not the same; THRENOS. 1 Beauty, truth, and rarity, Truth may seem, but cannot be ; To this urn let those repair For these dead birds sigh a prayer. THE END. Approved, seen, experienced, worthy. Aqua vite, whisky. Argosies, ships laden with rich cargoes. Argentine, silvery. Argier, Algiers. Argument, subject, conversation, proof. Aroynt, avaunt. Arras, tapestry. Articulated, shewn in articles. Assurance, a deed. Assured, affianced. Astonished, stunned. Astringer, falconer. Ate, the goddess of discord. B Baccare, stand back. Baffled, overreached. Bale, ruin. Balk, to pile. Balm, oil of consecration. Bedlam, a madman. Beg us, to beg the wardship of us. Beholden, indebted. Belongings, endowments Besmirch, discolour, stain. Bestowed, deposited. Bestraight, distracted. Beteem, bestow, suffer. Bevel, crooked. Bewray, discover. Bezonian, shabby fellow. Bid, invited. Biggin, a cap. Bilberry, whortleberry. Bilbo, from Bilboa, renowned for its swords. Blood, impulse, disposition, passion. Banbury cheese, nothing but paring Bloodless, inactive." Bund, bond. Bandy, drive smartly. Bane, poison. Bans, curses. Barbason, the name of a fiend. Barful, full of obstacles. Barm, yeast. Barne, a child. Base, a challenge, a rustic game called prison-base, dishonoured. Bases, armour for the legs. Basilico, a character in an old drama. Bate, flutter, contention. Battle, army. Bed of Ware, a bed which held forty Bravery, finery. Carl, peasant. Carlot, churl, peasant. Carracks, ships of great burden. Carry coals, submit to any indignity. Castigation, penance. Castilian, cant term for Spaniard. Cataian, a lying sharper, romancer. Cat the adage, "the cat would eat fish, and would not wet her feet.” Catlings, lute strings. Cautelous, cautious, insidious. Caviare, a Russian delicacy made of the roe of sturgeons, and limited in its use to the nobility, therefore too good for the common people. Cease, perish. Censure, judgment, opinion, sen tence. Centre, the world. Century, a company of a hundred men. unsullied. Cliff, key. Clerkly, scholarly. Cling, shrivel, wither. Clothier's yard, an arrow a cloth yard long. Clout, the white mark at which archers shoot. Coach-fellow, accomplice. Coasting welcome, conciliatory ad Combine, bind. Comforting, encouraging. Comiaa, connexion. Commended, committed. Commission, authority. Commodity, interest. Commonly, comedy. Compact, composed of. Compact of credit, composed of cre dulity. Companies, companions. Companion, fellow. Comparative, opponent. Compare, comparison. Comparisons, circumstances. Compass'd, arched. Compassed window, bow-window, Compassionate, complaining Competitor, confederate. Complement, union. Complements, accomplishments. Complexion, humour. Comply, compliment. Compose, agree. Composition, consistency. Composture, manure. Compt, account. Comptible, accountable. Conceit, wit, idea. Conceited, ingenious. Concent, harmony. Conception, understanding. Conclusion, riddle, experiment. Concupy, concupiscence. Condition, vocation, character, qual ity, temper. Condolement, mourning. Conduct, guide, conductor. Confession, profession. Confound, expend, consume. Conjects, conjectures. Consorted, accompanied. Constant, firm, stable-minded. Contemptible, contemptuous. Content, to acquiesce. Continent, temperate. Continents, contents, confines. Continuate, continual. Contraction, marriage contract. Contringed, compressed." Contrive, spend, wear away. Control, confute. Convent, to serve. Convented, summoned. Convey, manage, theft. Conveyance, artifice. Convicted, overpowered. Convince, convict, attain, overpower. Convive, to feast. Copatain, high crowned. Cope, encounter, the heavens. Copy, lease, subject, theme. Corky, deceitful, withered. Corollary, a surplus number. Corrigible, corrected, humble. Costard, a head. Coted, overtook. Cotsale, Cotswold, Gloucestershire. Couch, to cower. Council, the Star Chamber. Count-confect, a nobleman made out of sugar. Counter, a hunting phrase. Counterfeit, likeness, portra ̧ Counterpoints, counterpanes. Counts, scars, marks. County, count. Courage, ardour. Courser's hair, it was imagined that a horse hair placed in stagnant water became an animal. Court-cupboard, side-board. Court holy-water, fair words. Covetousness, eagerness. Cowl-staff, a staff for carrying a basket. Coy, to stroke, to caress, Coystril, keystril, a bastard hawk, a contemptible rascal. Coziers, cobblers. Crab, wild apple. Crack, a stripling, lively. Crants, garlands. Crare, a slow-sailing vessel. Craren, a coward. Credent, unquestionable. Crescent, growing. Crescive, increasing. Cressets, lights. Crest, perfection. Critical, censorious. Cross, a coin once current. Crossed, thwarted. Crow-keeper, scare-crow. Cry, company, a pack. Cubiculo, chamber. Cue, the last few words of a preced- Disrouched, contradicted. Entertain, recommend. Entreatments, favours entreated. Escape, escapade, exploit. Esil, Weisel, the river Vistula. Esperance, hope, the motto of the Percy family. Estimation, conjecture. Et tu, Brute, And thou, Brutus! Excrement, beard. Executors, executioners. Exempt, excluded, acquit. Exequies, obsequies. Exhibition, an allowance, mainten ance. Exigent, end. Expect, expectation. Expedience, expedition. Expedient, expeditious. Expense, waste. Expiate, expired. Expostulate, discuss. Express, reveal. Exsufficate, swollen, contemptible. Extend, praise. Extent, violence, seizure. Extirped, extirpated. Extravagant, wandering. Extreme, extravagant. Eyas-musket, a young hawk. Eye of green, shade of, tinge of green. Eysell, vinegar. |