"When thou impressest, what are precepts worth Of stale example? When thou wilt inflame, How coldly these impediments stand forth Of wealth, of filial fear, law, kindred, fame? Love's arms are peace, 'gainst rule, 'gainst sense, 'gainst shame: And sweetens, in the suffering pang he bears, "Now all these hearts that do on mine depend, Feeling it break, with bleeding groans they pine, And supplicant their sighs to you extend, Aud leave the battery that you make 'gainst mine, Lending soft audience to my sweet design, And credent soul to that strong-bonded oath, That shall prefer and undertake my troth." This said, his watery eyes he did dismount, Whose sighs till then were levelled on my face: Each cheek a river running from a fount With brinish current downward flow'd apace: O how the channel to the stream gave grace! Who, glaz'd with crystal, gate the flowing roses That flame through water which their hue incloses. O father, what a hell of witchcraft lies What rocky heart to water will not wear? For lo! his passion but an art of craft, Even there resolv'd my reason into tears; Shook off my sober guards and civil fears; All melting: though our drops this difference bore, His poison'd me, and mine did him restore. 'In him a plenitude of subtle matter, Applied to cautels, all strange forms receives, Of burning blushes, or of weeping water, Of 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, would win whom he would maim. Against the thing he sought he would exclaim; When he most burnt in heart-wish'd luxury, He preach'd pure maid, and prais'd cold chastity. 'Thus merely with the garment of a Grace The naked and concealed fiend he cover'd, That the unexperienc'd gave the tempter place, Which, like a cherubim, above them hover'd. Who, young and simple, would not be so lover'd? Ah me! I fell; and yet do question make What I should do again for such a sake. O, that infected moisture of his eye, Ó, that faise fire which in his cheek so glowed, O, that forc'd thunder from his heart did fly, O, that sad breath his spungy lungs bestow'd, O, all that borrow'd motion, seeming ow'd, Would yet again betray the fore-betrayed, And new pervert a reconciled maid!' . COMMENDATORY VERSES ON SHAKSPEARE. BY CONTEMPORARY POETS. ·00 On William Shakspeare, who died in April, 1616. For Shakspeare, in your three-fold, four-fold tomb. A fourth place in your sacred sepulchre, WILLIAM BASSE. To the Memory of my Beloved the Author, Mr. Willium Shakspeare and what he hath left us. To draw no envy, Shakspeare, on thy name, As neither man, nor muse, can praise too much; And shake a stage; or, when thy socks were on, The merry Greek, tart Aristophanes, As they were not of Nature's family. And such wert thou. Look, how the father's face Of Shakspeare's mind, and manners, brightly shines In each of which he seems to shake a lance, To see thee in our waters yet appear; Aud make those flights upon the banks of Thames, But stay; I see thee in the hemisphere And despairs day, but for thy volumes light! To the Memory of the deceased Author, Master Shakspeare, at length thy pious fellows give Shall loath what's new, think all is prodigy Or till I hear a scene more nobly take, Than when thy half-sword parlying Romans spake: L. DIGGES Upon the Lines and Life of the famous Scenic Poet, Master William Shakspeare. THOSE hands which you so clapp'd, go now and wring, You Britons brave; for done are Shakspeare's days; His days are done that made the dainty plays, Which made the globe of heaven and earth to ring: Dry'd is that vein, dry'd is that Thespian spring, Turn'd all to tears, and Phoebus clouds his rays; That corpse, that coffin, now bestick those bays, Which crown'd him poet first, then poet's king. If tragedies might any prologue have, All those he made would scarce make one to this; Where fame, now that he gone is to the grave, (Death's public tiring-house) the Nuntius is For, though his line of life went soon about, The life yet of his lines shall never out. HUGH HOLLAND. On the worthy Master Shakspeare, and his Poems. Roll back the heavens, blow ope the iron gates In that deep, dusky dungeon, to discern Them sudden birth, wondering how oft they live; To raise our ancient sovereigns from their hearse, To strike up and stroke down, both joy and ire; This-and much more, which cannot be express'd And she whose praise the heavenly body chants, Now, when they could no longer him enjoy, Which never fades; fed with ambrosian meat, So with this robe they clothe him, bid him wear it; The friendly Admirer of his Endowments. J. M. S. What needs my Shakspeare for his honour'd bones, GLOSSARY OF OBSOLETE WORDS, AND OF WORDS VARYING FROM THEIR ORDINARY SIGNIFICATION. Acquittance, requital. Action, direction by mute signs, Action-taking, litigious. charge, or accusation. Actures, actions. Additions, titles or characters. Address, to prepare, to make ready. Addressed, or addrest, ready. Adversity, contrariety. Advertisement, admonition. Advice, consideration, discretion, thought. Advise, to consider, to recollect. Aery or Aiery, a hawk's or eagle's neat. Approof, approbation, proof. Approve, to justify, prove, estab lish. Approved, experienced. Aqua-vitæ, strong waters, probably usquebaugh. Arabian bird, the phoenix. Arch, chief. Argentine, silver. Argentine, the goddess Diana. Argosies, ships laden with great wealth. Argument, subject for conversation, evidence, proof. Arm, to take up in the arms, Art, practice as distinguished from theory; also, theory., Articulate, to enter into articles. Ascaunt, askew, sideways. Aspersion, sprinkling. As point, completely armed Ascapart, a giant. Astringer, a gentleman falconer. Ates, instigate from Até, the god dess of bloodshed. Atomies, minute particles visible in the discretional agency of another. Attornied, supplied by substitution of embassies. Audacious, spirited, animated. Audrey, a corruption of Ethelrea. Augurs, prognosticators. Aukward, adverse. Aunts, strumpets. Authentic, learned. Awful, reverend. Awless, failing to produce awe. Ancient, an ensign, or standard- Baccare, stand back, give place. Amort, dispirited. An, as if, **Anchor, a hermit. bearer. Bairn, brushwood. Baldrick, a belt. Bale, misery. Balked, bathed or piled up. Balm, the oil of consecration. Battle, army. Bawcock, a jolly fellow. Bay, the space between the main beams of a house. Bay-curtal, a bay-docked horse. Beadsmen, religious persons, maintained to pray for their benefactor. Beak, the forecastle. Bear a brain, to perfectly resemble. Beard, to defy. Bearing, demeanour. Bearing-cloth, a mantle used at christenings. Beat (in falconry), to flutter. Beating, hammering, dwelling upon Beaver, helmet in general. Beck, a salutation" made with the head. Becomed, becoming. Beetle, to hang over the base. Behests, commands. Beholding, viewing with regard. Behowl, to howl at. Being, abode. Beldame, ancient mother. Be-lee'd, becalmed. Belongings, endowments. Be-mete, be-measure. Be-moiled, bedraggled, bemired. Beshrew, may ill befall. any passion. Besmirch, to foul or dirty. Bestowed, stowed away, lodged. Beteem, to give, pour out, permit | Braying, harsh, grating. suffer. Bewray, betray. Bezonian, a mean fellow. Break, to begin. Break with, to break the matter to Bias-cheek, swelling out like the Breast, voice. bias of a bowl. Bid, to invite. Bid-the-base, to challenge in a con test. Bifold, two-fold. Bilberry, a whortleberry. Bilbo, a Spanish blade, made at Bilboa. Bilboes, tetters. Bill, articles of accusation. Breath, speech, also exercise. Breeched, foully sheathed, mired. Breathe, to utter. Breed-bate, an exciter of quarrels. Bill, a weapon, formerly carried by Bring, to attend or accompany. watchmen. Bin, is. Bird-bolt, an arrow shot at birds from a cross-bow. Bisson, blind. Blank, the white mark of a target. Blank and level, mark and aim, (terms in gunnery.) Blaze of youth, the spring of early life. Blear, to deceive. Blench, to start off, to fly off. Blind-worm, the cæcilia, or slow. Brize, the gad, or horse-fly. Brock, the badger. Blurt, blurted, an expression of con- Bunting, a bird. tempt. Board, to accost. Bobb, to trick. Bodged, boggled, clumsy. Bodkin, a small dagger. Bolted, sifted. Bolting-hutch, the receptacle in which the meal is bolted. Bombard, or bumbard, a barrel. Bond, bounden duty. Bony or bonny, handsome. Book, paper of conditions. Boot, profit, something over and above. Burgonet, a helmet. Butt-shaft, an arrow to shoot at Buxom, obedient. Caddis, worsted lace, Caliver, a musket. Call, to visit. Callet, a woman, a witch. Calling, appellation. Calin, qualm. Camelot, a place where King Ar thur is supposed to have kept Canary, a dance. Candle-wasters, those who sit up all night to drink. Canker, the dog-rose, Bottled-spider, a large bloated spi- Cantons, cantos. Canvas, to sift. Canvas-climber, a sailor, Cap, to salute by taking off the Chance, fortune. Chary, cautious. Chases, a term in tennis. Cheater, for escheatour, an officer Checks, probably for ethics. Cherry-pit, a game with cherry stones. Cheveril, soft leather; also, con science. Chew, to ruminate, consider. Chough, a bird of the daw species. |