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. 370 That which with scorn she put away. What though she strive to try her strength, And to her will frame all thy ways: The strongest castle, tower, and town, Serve always with assured trust, When time shall serve, be thou not slack The wiles and guiles that women work, Think women still to strive with men, To sin and never for to saint: There is no heaven, by holy then, But, soft enough, too much, I fear; To teach my tongue to be so long: [xx.] Live with me, and be my love, 320 330 340 350 [XXI.] As it fell upon a day In the merry month of May, 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, 'Fie, fie, fie,' now would she cry; Ah, thought I, thou mourn'st in vain! Senseless trees they cannot hear thee: All thy friends are lapp'd in lead; All thy fellow birds do sing, Careless of thy sorrowing. Even so, poor bird, like thee, 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: 38 390 410 If he be addict to vice, 420 He that is thy friend indeed, THE PHOENIX AND THE TURTLE. 430 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, And thou treble-dated crow, That thy sable gender makest With the breath thou givest and takest, 'Mongst our mourners shalt thou go. 20 GLOSSARY TO SHAKESPEARE'S WORKS. ABATE, v.t. to shorten. M. N's Dr. III 2. Able, v.t. to uphold. Lear, IV. 6. A brook, v.t. to brook, abide. 2 H. VI. 11. 4. Absey-Book, sb. a primer. John, 1. 1. II. 1; Antick, sb. the fool in the old plays. R. II. III. 2. Absolute, adj. positive, certain. Cym. IV. 2; Apparent, sb. heir-apparent. Wint. Tale, 1. 2. Ham. v. 2. Complete. Temp. 1. 2. Abuse, vt. to deceive. Lear, IV. 7. Aby, v.t. to expiate a fault. M. N's Dr. III. 2. Accite, v.t. to cite, summon. 2 H. IV. v. 2. Acquittance, sb. a receipt or discharge. Ham. iv. 2. Address, v.r. to prepare oneself. 2 H. VI. v. 2; Ham. I. 2. Addressed, part. prepared. L's L's L. 11. 1. Tim. 1. 2. Advertisement, sb. admonition.. Much Ado, &c. V. I. Advertising, fr. f. attentive. M. for M. v. 1. Advise, v. sometimes neuter, sometimes reflective, Affy, v.t. to affiance. 2 H. VI. IV. I. To trust. Agazed, p.p. looking in amazement. 1 H. VI. I. 1. Agnise, v.. to acknowledge, confess. Oth. 1. 3. IV. 4. A-hold, adj. a sea-term. Temp. 1. 1. Aiery, sb. the nest of a bird of prey. R. III. 1. 3. Amort, adj. dead, dejected. Tam. of S. IV. 3. Appeal, sb. accusation. M. for M. v. 1. Approof, sb. approbation, proof. All's Well, 1. 2; Approve, v.. to prove. R. II. 1. 3. To justify, Approver, sb. one who proves or tries. Cym. II. 4. Argal, a ridiculous word intended for the Latin Argier, sb. Algiers. Temp. 1. 2. Argosy, sb. originally a vessel of Ragusa or Ra- Armigero, a mistake for Armiger, the Latin for Ask, v.t. to require. 2 H. VI. 1. 2. Assay, v. t. to attempt, test, make proof of. Merry Assinego, sb. an ass. T. & Cr. II. 1. Attasked, p.p. taken to task, reprehended. Lear, 1. 4. 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. Ave-Mary, sb, the angelic salutation addressed to 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. 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- Bold, v. t. to embolden. Lear, v. 1. Bombard, sb. a barrel, a drunkard. Temp. II. 2. Boot, v.t. to help, to avail. Two Gent. 1. 1. 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. |