If that the world and love were young, And truth in every shepherd's tongue, These pretty pleasures might me move To live with thee and be thy love.

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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.'

And to her will frame all thy ways:
Spare not to spend, and chiefly there
Where thy desert may merit praise,
By ringing in thy lady's ear:

The strongest castle, tower, and town,
The golden bullet beats it down.

Serve always with assured trust,
And in thy suit be humble true;
Unless thy lady prove unjust,
Press never thou to choose anew:

When time shall serve, be thou not slack
To proffer, though she put thee back.

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 nought?

Think women still to strive with men, To sin and never for to saint:

There is no heaven, by holy then,
When time with age doth them attaint.
Were kisses all the joys in bed,
One woman would another wed.

But, soft enough, too much, I fear;
Lest that my mistress hear my song,
She will not stick to round me i' the ear,

To teach my tongue to be so long:
Yet will she blush, here be it said,
To hear her secrets so bewray'd.

[xx.]

Live with me, and be my love,
And we will all the pleasures prove
That hills and valleys, dales and fields,
And all the craggy mountains yields.

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[XXI.]

As it fell upon a day

In the merry month of May,
Sitting in a pleasant shade

Which a grove of myrtles made,

Beasts did leap, and birds did sing.

Trees did grow, and plants did spring: Every thing 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 it was great pity:

'Fie, fie, fie,' now would she cry;
'Tereu, tereu!' by and by;
That to hear her so complain,
Scarce I could from tears refrain;
For her griefs, so lively shown,
Made me think upon mine own.

Ah, thought I, thou mourn'st in vain!
None takes pity on thy pain:

Senseless trees they cannot hear thee:
Ruthless beasts they will not cheer thee:
King Pandion he is dead;

All thy friends are lapp'd in lead;

All thy fellow birds do sing,

Careless of thy sorrowing.

Even so, poor bird, like thee,
None alive will pity me.

Whilst as fickle Fortune smiled,

Thou and I were both beguiled.

Every one that flatters thee

Is no friend in misery.

Words are easy, like the wind;

Faithful friends are hard to find:

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If he be addict to vice,
Quickly him they will entice;
If to women he be bent,
They have at commandement:
But if Fortune once do frown,
Then farewell his great renown;
They that fawn'd on him before
Use his company no more.

He that is thy friend indeed,
He will help thee in thy need:
If thou sorrow, he will weep;
If thou wake, he cannot sleep;
Thus of every grief in heart
He with thee doth bear a part.
These are certain signs to know
Faithful friend from flattering foe.

LET the bird of loudest lay,
On the sole Arabian tree,
Herald sad and trumpet be,

To whose sound chaste wings obey.

But thou shrieking harbinger,
Foul precurrer of the fiend,
Augur of the fever's end,

To this troop come thou not near!

From this session interdict
Every fowl of tyrant wing,
Save the eagle, feather'd king:
Keep the obsequy so strict.

Let the priest in surplice white,
That defunctive music can,
Be the death-divining swan,
Lest the requiem lack his right.

And thou treble-dated crow,

That thy sable gender makest

With the breath thou givest and takest,

'Mongst our mourners shalt thou go.

Attend, v.. to listen to. Temp. 1. 2; M. of V.

V. I.

Attent, adj. attentive. Ham. 1. 2. Attorney, sb. an agent. R. III. IV. 4. Attorney, v.t. to employ as an agent. M. for M. v. 1. To perform by an agent. Wint. Tale, 1. 1. Audacious, adj. spirited, daring, but without any note of blame attached to it. L's L's L. v. 1. Augur, sb. augury. Mac. 11. 4.

Authentic, adj. clothed with authority. Merry Wives, 11. 2.

Avaunt, int. be gone, a word of abhorrence. Com. of E. IV. 3.

Ave, int, the Latin for hail; hence acclamation.
M. for M. 1. 1.

Ave-Mary, sb, the angelic salutation addressed to
the B. Virgin Mary. 2 H. VI. 1. 3.
Averring, pr. p. confirming. Cym. v. 5.
Awful, adj. worshipful. Two Gent. IV. 1.
Awkward, adj. contrary. 2 H. VI. III. 2.

Baccare, int. keep back. Tam. of S. 11. 1. Backward, sb. the hinder part; hence, when applied to time, the past. Temp. 1. 2.

Balked, p. heaped, as on a ridge. 1 H. IV. 1. 1. Ballow, so a cudgel. Lear, IV. 6.

Balm, sb. the oil of consecration. R. II. v. 1; 3 H. VI. III. I.

Ban, v.t. to curse. Lucr. 1460.

Bank, v.t. to sail by the banks. John, v. 2. Barm, sb. yeast. M. N's Dr. 11. 1. Barn, sb. a child. 1 H. IV. 11. 3. Barnacle, sb. a shell-fish, supposed to produce the sea-bird of the same name. Temp. IV. I. Base, sb. a game, sometimes called Prisoners' base. Cym. v. 3.

Bases, sb. an embroidered mantle worn by knights on horseback, and reaching from the middle to below the knees. Per. II. 1. Basilisk, sb. a kind of ordnance. 1 H. IV. IV. 3. Basta, int. (Italian) enough. Tam. of S. 1. 1. Bastard, sb. raisin wine. M. for M. 111. 2. Bat-fowling, part, catching birds with a clap-net by night. Temp. II. 1.

Bate, v.i. to flutter, as a hawk. 1 H. IV. IV. 1. Bate, v.. to except. Temp. 11. 1. To abate. Much Ado, II. 3.

Batlet, so. a small bat, used for beating clothes. As you Like it, II. 4.

Battle, sb. army. 1 H. IV. IV. 1.

Bavin, sb. used as an adj. a piece of waste wood, applied contemptuously to anything worthless. 1 H. IV. 111. 2.

Beteem, v.t. to pour out. M. N's Dr. 1. 1.
Betid, pp. happened. Temp. 1. 2.
Bezonian, so. a beggarly fellow. 2 H. IV. v. 3.
Biding, sb. abiding-place. Lear, IV. 6.
Biggen, sb. a night-cap. 2 H. IV. IV. 5.
Bilberry, sb. the whortleberry. Merry Wives, v. 5. ¦
Bilbo, sb. a sword, from Bilboa, a town in Spain
where they were made. Merry Wives, 1. 1.
Bilboes, sb. fetters or stocks. Ham. v. 2.
Bill, sb. a bill-hook, a weapon. Much Ado, u. 3.
Bin been, are. Cym. II. 3.

Bird-bolt, sb. a bolt to be shot from a crossbow at birds. Much Ado, I. 1.

Birding, part. hawking at partridges. Merry Wives, III. 3.

Bisson, adj. blind. Cor. II. 1.

Blank, sb. the white mark in the middle of a target; hence, metaphorically, that which is aimed at. Wint. Tale, 11. 3.

Blench, v.. to start aside, flinch. M. for M. IV. 5-
Blent, pp. blended. M. of V. III. 2.
Blood-boltered, part. smeared with blood. Mac

Bold, v. t. to embolden. Lear, v. 1.
Bollen, adj. swollen. Lucr. 1417.
Bolter, sb. a sieve. 1 H. IV. I. 3.
Bolted, pp. sifted, refined. H. V. 11. 2.
Bolting-butch, sb. a hutch in which meal was
sifted. 1 H. IV. 11. 4.

Bombard, sb. a barrel, a drunkard. Temp. II. 2.
Bombast, sh. padding. L's L's L. v. 2,
Bona-roba, sb. a harlot, 2 H. IV. m. 2.
Bond, so, that to which one is bound. Lear. I. I.
Book, sb. a paper of conditions. 1 H. IV, m. 1.
Boot, sb. help, use. Tam. of S. v. 2.

Boot, v.t. to help, to avail. Two Gent. 1. 1.
Bootless, adj. without boot or advantage, useless
Temp. 1. 2.

Boots, sb. bots, a kind of worm. Two Gent. 1. I. Bore, sb. calibre of a gun; hence, metaph. size, weight, importance. Ham. IV. 6.

Bosky, adj. covered with underwood. Temp.

III. 3.

Bosom, sb. wish, heart's desire. M. for M. IV. 2. Bots, sb. worms which infest horses. 1 H. IV. ui. Bourn, só. a boundary. Wint. Tale, 1. 2. A brook, Lear, 111. 6.

Brace, sb. armour for the arm, state of defence. Oth. 1. 3; Per. 11. 1.