She burn'd with love, as straw with fire flameth;
She burn'd out love, as soon as straw out-burneth;
She framed the love, and yet she foil'd the fram-
ing;
She bade love last, and yet she fell a-turning. 100
Was this a lover, or a lecher whether?
Bad in the best, though excellent in neither.
If music and sweet poetry agree,
As they must needs, the sister and the brother,
Then must the love be great 'twixt thee and me,
Because thou lovest the one, and I the other.
Dowland to thee is dear, whose heavenly touch
Upon the lute doth ravish human sense;
Spenser to me, whose deep conceit is such
As, passing all conceit, needs no defence.
Thou lovest to hear the sweet melodious sound
That Phoebus' lute, the queen of music, makes;
And I in deep delight am chiefly drown'd
Whenas himself to singing he betakes.
One god is god of both, as poets feign;
One knight loves both, and both in thee remain.
Paler for sorrow than her milk-white dove,
'Even thus,' quoth she, 'the warlike god embraced me,'
And then she clipp'd Adonis in her arms;
'Even thus,' quoth she, 'the warlike god unlaced
me,'
As if the boy should use like loving charms; 150
'Even thus,' quoth she, 'he seized on my lips,'
And with her lips on his did act the seizure:
And as she fetched breath, away he skips,
And would not take her meaning nor her pleasure.
Ah, that I had my lady at this bay,
To kiss and clip me till I run away!
Crabbed age and youth cannot live together:
Youth is full of pleasance, age is full of care;
Youth like summer morn, age like winter weather;
Youth like summer brave, age like winter bare.
Youth is full of sport, age's breath is short; 161
Youth is nimble, age is lame;
Youth is hot and bold, age is weak and cold;
Youth is wild, and age is tame.
Age, I do abhor thee; youth, I do adore thee;
O, my love, my love is young!
Age, I do defy thee: O, sweet shepherd, hie thee,
For methinks thou stay'st too long.
A shining gloss that vadeth suddenly;
A flower that dies when first it gins to bud;
A brittle glass that's broken presently:
A doubtful good, a gloss, a glass, a flower,
Lost, vaded, broken, dead within an hour.
For Adon's sake, a youngster proud and wild; 120 Beauty is but a vain and doubtful good;
Her stand she takes upon a steep-up hill:
Anon Adonis comes with horn and hounds;
She, silly queen, with more than love's good will,
Forbade the boy he should not pass those grounds:
'Once,' quoth she, 'did I see a fair sweet youth
Here in these brakes deep-wounded with a
boar,
Deep in the thigh, a spectacle of ruth!
See, in my thigh,' quoth she, 'here was the sore.' She showed hers: he saw more wounds than one,
And blushing fled, and left her all alone.
Sweet rose, fair flower, untimely pluck'd, soon
vaded,
Pluck'd in the bud, and vaded in the spring!
Bright orient pearl, alack, too timely shaded!
Fair creature, kill'd too soon by death's sharp
sting!
Like a green plum that hangs upon a tree,
And falls, through wind, before the fall should be.
I weep for thee, and yet no cause I have;
For why thou left'st me nothing in thy will:
And yet thou left'st me more than I did crave;
For why I craved nothing of thee still:
O yes, dear friend, I pardon crave of thee,
Thy discontent thou didst bequeath to me,
Venus, with young Adonis sitting by her
Under a myrtle shade, began to woo him:
And as goods lost are seld or never found,
As vaded gloss no rubbing will refresh,
As flowers dead lie wither'd on the ground,
As broken glass no cement can redress,
Lord, how mine eyes throw gazes to the east!
My heart doth charge the watch; the morning rise
Doth cite each moving sense from idle rest.
She told the youngling how god Mars did try Not daring trust the office of mine eyes,
And as he fell to her, so fell she to him.
While Philomela sits and sings, I sit and mark,
And wish her lays were tuned like the lark;
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.
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.
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.
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:
Every man will be thy friend
Whilst thou hast wherewith to spend;
But if store of crowns be scant,
No man will supply thy want.
If that one be prodigal,
Bountiful they will him call,
And with such-like flattering,
'Pity but he were a king;'
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.
THE PHOENIX AND THE TURTLE.
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,
Property was thus appalled,
That the self was not the same;
Single nature's double name
Neither two nor one was called
Reason, in itself confounded,
Saw division grow together,
To themselves yet either neither,
Simple were so well compounded,
That it cried, How true a twain
Seemeth this concordant one!
Love hath reason, reason none,
If what parts can so remain.
Whereupon it made this threne
To the phoenix and the dove,
Co-supremes and stars of love,
As chorus to their tragic scene.
GLOSSARY TO SHAKESPEARE'S WORKS.
ABATE, v.t. to shorten. M. N's Dr. II 2. To
cast down. Cor. III. 3. To blunt. R. III. v. 4.
Abatement, sb. diminution. Lear, I. 4.
Abide, v.i. to sojourn. Wint. Tale, Iv. 3. v.t. to
expiate (a corruption of 'Aby'). J. C. III. 1;
Ibid. III. 2.
Able, v.t. to uphold. Lear, iv. 6.
Abridgement, sb. a short play. Ham. 11. 2.
Abrook, v.t. to brook, abide. 2 H. VI. 11. 4.
Absey-Book, sb. a primer. John, 1. 1.
Absolute, adj. positive, certain. Cym. IV. 2;
Ham. v. 2. Complete. Temp. 1. 2.
Abuse, v.t. to deceive. Lear, IV. 7.
Abuse, sb. deception. M. for M. v. 1.
Aby, v.t. to expiate a fault. M. N's Dr. III. 2.
Abysm, sb. abyss. Temp. 1. 2.
Accite, v.t. to cite, summon. 2 H. IV. v. 2,
Accuse, sb. accusation. 2 H. VI. 111. 1.
Achieve, v. to obtain. H. V. IV. 3.
Acknown,p.p.' to be acknown' is to acknowledge.
Oth. III. 3.
Acquittance, so. a receipt or discharge. Ham. IV. 2.
Action-taking, adj. litigious. Lear, II. 2.
Acture, sb. action. Lover's Com. 185.
Addition, sb. title, attribute. All's Well, 11. 3;
T. & Cr. 1. 2.
Address, v.r. to prepare oneself. 2 H. VI. v. 2;
Addressed, part. prepared. L's L's L. II. 1. Advance, v.t. to prefer, promote to honour. Tim. I. 2.
Advertisement, sb. admonition. Much Ado, &c.
Advertising, pr. p. attentive. M. for M. v. 1. Advice, sb. consideration, discretion. Two Gent. 11. 4; M. for M. v. 1.
Advise, v. sometimes neuter, sometimes reflective,
to consider, reflect. Tw. N. IV. 2.
Advised, p.p. considerate. Com. of E. v. 1.
Advocation, sb. pleading, advocacy. Oth. III. 4.
Afeard, adj. afraid. Merry Wives, III. 4.
Affect, v.t. to love. Merry Wives, 11. 1.
Affeered, p.. assessed, confirmed. Mac. IV. 3.
Afront, adv. in front. 1 H. IV. 11. 4.
Affy, v.t. to affiance. 2 H. VI. IV. 1. To trust.
T. A. I. I
Agazed, p.p. looking in amazement. 1 H. VI. 1. I. Aglet-baby, sb. the small figure engraved on a jewel. Tam. of S. 1. 2.
Agnise, v.t. to acknowledge, confess. Otn. 1. 3. A-good, adv. a good deal, plenteously. Two Gent.
A-hold, adj. a sea-term. Temp. 1. I.
Aiery, sb. the nest of a bird of prey. R. III. 1. 3.
Aim, sb. a guess. Two Gent. III. 1.
Alder-liefest, adj. most loved of all. 2 H. VI. 1. 1.
Ale, sb. alehouse. Two Gent. II. 5.
Allow, v. to approve. Tw. N. 1. 2.
Allowance, sb. approval. Cor. III. 2.
Ames-ace, sb. two aces, the lowest throw of the
dice. All's Well, 11. 3.
Amort, adj. dead, dejected. Tam. of S. Iv. 3.
An, conj. if. Much Ado, 1. 1.
Anchor, sb. an anchorite, hermit. Ham. III. 2.
Ancient, sb. an ensign-bearer. 1 H. IV. IV. 2.
Angel, sb. a coin, so called because it bore the
image of an angel. Merry Wives, 1. 3.
Anight, adv. by night. As you Like it, II. 4.
Answer, sb. retaliation. Cym. v. 3.
Anthropophaginian, sb. a cannibal. Merry Wives,
Antick, sb. the fool in the old plays. R. II. 11. 2.
Antre, sb. a cave. Oth. 1. 3.
Apparent, sb. heir-apparent. Wint. Tale, 1. 2.
Appeal, sb. accusation. M. for M. v. 1.
Appeal, v.t. to accuse. R. II. 1. 1.
Appeared, p. p. made apparent. Cor. IV. 3.
Apple-John, sb. a kind of apple. 1 Hen. IV. III. 3.
Appointment, so. preparation. M. for M. III. 1.
Apprehension, sb. opinion. Much Ado, III. 4.
Apprehensive, adj. apt to apprehend or under-
stand. J. C. III. I.
Approbation, sb. probation. Cym. 1. 5.
Approof, so. approbation, proof. All's Well, 1. 2;
Temp. 11. 5.
Approve, v.t. to prove. R. II. 1. 3. To justify, make good. Lear, 11. 4.
Approver, sb. one who proves or tries. Cym. 11.4. Arch, sb. chief. Lear, 1. 1.
Argal, a ridiculous word intended for the Latin ergo. Ham. v. I.
Argentine, adj. silver. Per. v. 2.
Argier, sb. Algiers. Temp. 1. 2.
Argosy, sb. originally a vessel of Ragusa or Ragosa, a Ragosine; hence any ship of burden. M. of V. 1. 1.
Argument, sb. subject. Much Ado, 11. 3. Armigero, a mistake for Armiger, the Latin for Esquire. Merry Wives, 1. 1.
Aroint, v.r. found only in the imperat. mood, get thee gone. Mac. I. 3; Lear, III. 4. A-row, adv. in a row, Com. of E. v. 1. Articulate, v.i. to enter into articles of agreement. Cor. 1. 9. v.t. to exhibit in articles. 1 H. IV. v. I.
Ask, v.t. to require. 2 H. VI. 1. 2.
Aspect, sb. regard, looks. A. & C. 1. 5.
Aspersion, sb. sprinkling; hence blessing, because
before the Reformation benediction was gene-
rally accompanied by the sprinkling of holy
water. Temp. III. 3.
Assay, sb. attempt. M. for M. III. 1.
Assay, v. t. to attempt, test, make proof of. Merry
Wives, II. 1.
Assinego, sb. an ass. T. & Cr. 11. 1.
Assubjugate, v.t. to subjugate. T. & Cr. 11. 3.
Assurance, sb. deed of assurance. Tam. of S. IV. 2.
Assured, p.p. betrothed. Com. of E. 111. 2.
Atomy, sb. an atom. As you Like it, 111. 2. Used
in contempt of a small person. 2 H. IV. v. 4.
Atone, v.t. to put people at one, to reconcile.
R. II. 1. 1. v.i. to agree. Cor. iv. 6.
Attach, v.t. to seize, lay hold on. Temp. 111. 3;
Com. of E. iv. 1.
Attasked,p.p. taken to task, reprehended. Lear,
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