Who, disciplined, ay, dieted in grace,
Believed her eyes when they to assail begun,
All vows and consecrations giving place:
O most potential love! vow, bond, nor space,
In thee hath neither sting, knot, nor confine,
For thou art all, and all things else are thine.
"When thou impressest, what are precepts
worth

Of stale example? When thou wilt inflame,
How coldly those impediments stand forth 269
Of wealth, of filial fear, law, kindred, fame!
Love's arms are peace, 'gainst rule, 'gainst

sense, 'gainst shame,

And sweetens, in the suffering pangs it bears, The aloes of all forces, shocks, and fears.

""Now all these hearts that do on mine depend,

Feeling it break, with bleeding groans they

Or swooning paleness; and he takes and leaves,

In either's aptness, as it best deceives, To blush at speeches rank to weep at woes, Or to turn white and swoon at tragic shows: 'That not a heart which in his level came Could 'scape the hail of his all-hurting aim, Showing fair nature is both kind and tame; And, veil'd in them, did win whom he would maim : [claim; Against the thing he songht he would exWhen he most burn'd in heart-wish'd luxury, He preach'd pure maid, and praised cold chastity.

'Thus merely with the garment of a Grace The naked and concealed fiend he cover'd ; That th' unexperient gave the tempter place, Which like a cherubin above them hover'd. Who, young and simple, would not be so lover'd?

Ay me! I fell; and yet do question make
What I should do again for such a sake.

320

'O, that infected moisture of his eye,
O, that false fire which in his cheek so glow'd
O, that forced thunder from his heart did fly,
O, that sad breath his spongy lungs bestow'd,
O, all that borrow'd motion seeming owed,
Would yet again betray the fore-betray'd,
And new pervert a reconciled maid !' 329

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.

Here the anthem doth commence :
Love and constancy is dead;
Phoenix and the turtle fled
In a mutual flame from hence.

So they loved, as love in twain
Had the essence but in one;
Two distincts, division none:
Number there in love was slain.

Hearts remote, yet not asunder;
Distance, and no space was seen
"Twixt the turtle and his queen:
But in them it were a wonder.
So between them love did shine,
That the turtle saw his right
Flaming in the phoenix' sight;
Either was the other's mine.

30

ABATE, v.t. to shorten. M. N's Dr. III. 2. To cast down. Cor. III. 3. To blunt. R. III. v. 4. Abatement, sb. diminution. Lear, 1. 4. Abide, v.i. to sojourn. Wint. Tale, IV. 3. r.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. II. 2.
Abrook, v.t. to brook, abide. 2 H. VI. II. 4.
Absey-Book, sb. a primer. John, I. 1.
Absolute, adj. positive, certain.

Ham. v. 2. Complete. Temp. 1. 2.
Abuse, v.t. to deceive. Lear, iv. 7.
Abuse, sb. deception. M. for M. v. 1.

Cym. IV. 2;

Aby, v.t. to expiate a fault. M. N's Dr. III, 2.
Abysm, sb. abyss. Temp. 1. 2.

Aceite, v.t. to cite, summon. 2 H. IV. v. 2.
Accuse, sb. accusation. 2 H. VI. III. 1.
Achieve, v. to obtain. H. V. IV. 3.

Acknown, p.p.

'to be acknown' is to acknowl

edge. Oth. III. 3. Acquittance, sb. a receipt or discharge. Ham.

IV. 2.

Advertisement, sb. admonition. Much Ado, &c. v. 1.

Advertising, pr. p. attentive. M. for M. v. 1.
Advice, sb. consideration, discretion. Two Gent.
II. 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, II. 1.
Affeered, p.p. assessed, confirmed. Mac. IV. 3.
Afront, adv. in front. 1 H. IV. II. 4.

Affy, v.t. to affiance. 2 H. VI. IV. 1. l'o trust.
T. A. I. 1.

Agazed, p.p. looking in amazement. 1 H. VI. 1. 1. Aglet-baby, sb. the small figure engraved on a jewel. Tam. of S. I. 2.

Agnise, v.t. to acknowledge, confess. Oth. I. 3.
A-good, adv. a good deal, plenteously. Two Gent.
IV. 4.

A-hold, adj. a sea-term. Temp. I. 1.

Aiery, sb. the nest of a bird of prey. R. III. I. 3.
Aim, sb. a guess. Two Gent. II. 1.

Alder-liefest, adj. most loved of all. 2 H. VI. I. 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, II. 3.

Amort, adj. dead, dejected. Tam. of S. IV. 3.
An, conj. if. Much Ado, I. 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, I. 3.
Anight, adv. by night. As you Like it, II. 4.
Answer, sb. retaliation, Cym. v. 3.

Anthropophaginian, sb. a cannibal. Merry Wives, IV. 5.

Antick, $3. the fool in the old plays. R. II. III. 2.
Antre, sb. a cave. Oth. 1. 3.

Apparent, sb. heir-apparent. Wint. Tale, I. 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, sb, preparation. M. for M. III. 1. Apprehension, sb. opinion. Much Ado, III. 4. Apprehensive, adj. apt to apprehend or under stand. J. C. III. 1.

Approbation, sb. probation. Cym. 1. 5.

Approof, sb. approbation, proof. All's Well, 1.2; Temp. II. 5.

Approve, v.t. to prove. R. II. I. 3. To justify, make good. Lear, II. 4.

Approver, sb. one who proves or tries. Cym. 11. 4. Arch, sb. chief. Lear, II. 1.

Argal, a ridiculous word intended for the Latin ergo. Ham. v. I.

Argentine, adj. silver. Per. v. 2.

Argier, sb. Algiers. Temp. I. 2.

Argosy, sb. originally a vessel of Ragusa or Ragosa, a Ragosine; hence any ship of burden. M. of V. I. 1.

Argument, sb. subject. Much Ado, II. 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. 1. 3; Lear, III. 4.

A-row, adv. in a row. Com. of E. v. 1.
Articulate, v.i. to enter into articles of agree
ment. Cor. I. 9. v.t. to exhibit in articles. 1 H.
IV. v. 1.

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 generally 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. II. 1.

Assubjugate, v.t. to subjugate. T. & Cr. II. 3. Assurance, sb. deed of assurance. Tam, of S. IV.

2.

Assured, p.p. betrothed. Com. of E. III. 2. Atomy, sb. an atom. As you Like it, III. 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. III. 3; Com. of E. IV. 1.

Attasked, p.p. taken to task, reprehended. Lear,

I. 4.

Attend, v.t. to listen to. Temp. 1. 2; M. of V 7.

1.

Attent, adj. attentive. Ham. I. 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. Audacicus, adj. spirited, daring, but without any note of blame attached to it. L's L's L. v. 1. Augur, sb. augury. Mac. III. 4.

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