Complete Works of W. Shakespeare

Yet at my parting sweetly did she smile, In scorn or friendship, nill I construe whether; 'Tmay be, she joy'd to jest at my exile, "Tmay be, again to make me wander thither: "Wander," a word for shadows like myself, As take the pain, but cannot pluck the pelf.

XI.

bord, 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.
Not daring trust the office of mine eyes,

While Philomela sits and sings, I sit and mark,
And wish her lays were tuned like the lark;
For she doth welcome daylight with her ditty,
And drives away dark dismal-dreaming night:
The night so pack'd, I post unto my pretty;
Heart hath his hope, and eyes their wished sight;
Sorrow changed to solace, solace mix'd with sorrow:
For why she sigh'd, and bade me come to-morrow.

Were I with her, the night would post too soon;
But now are minutes added to the hours;
To spite me now, each minute seems a moon;
Yet not for me, shine sun to succour flowers!

Pack night, peep day; good day, of night now borrow:
Short, night, to-night, and length thyself to-morrow.

Herds stand weeping,
Flocks all sleeping,
Nymphs back peeping
Fearfully:

All our pleasure known to us poor swains,
All our merry meetings on the plains,
All our evening sport from us is fled,
All our love is lost, for love is dead.
Farewell, sweet lass,

Through heartless ground,

Like a thousand vanquish'd men in bloody fight!

Clear wells spring not,

Sweet birds sing not, Green plants bring not Forth their dye;

Thy like ne'er was

For a sweet content, the cause of all my moan Poor Corydon

Must live alone;

Other help for him I see that there is none,

XIV.

Whenas thine eye hath chose the dame,

And stall'd the deer that thou shouldst strike,
Let reason rule things worthy blame,
As well as fancy, partial like:

Take counsel of some wiser head,
Neither too young, nor yet unwed.

And when thou com'st thy tale to tell, Smooth not thy tongue with filed talk, Lest she some subtle practice smell; (A cripple soon can find a halt :)

But plainly say thou lov'st her well.
And set thy person forth to sell.
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.

What though her frowning brows be bent,
Her cloudy looks will clear ere night;
And then too late she will repent,
That she dissembled her delight;

And twice desire, ere it be day,

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." 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 naught? Think women love to match with men, And not to live so like a saint: Here is no heaven; they holy then Begin, when age doth them attaint. Were kisses all the joys in bed, One woman would another wed.

But, soft! enough,-too much I fear;
For if my mistress hear my song,
She will not stick to ring mine ear,
To teach my tongue to be so long:
Yet will she blush, here be it said,
To hear her secrets so bewray'd.

XV.

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;
Everything 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 shewn,
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 bears, 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;

THE PHOENIX AND TURTLE.

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

To whose sound chaste wings obey.

(From the additional poems to CHESTER'S Love's Martyr, or Rosalin's Complaint, 1601.)

But thou, shrieking harbinger,
Foul pre-currer 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 mak'st
With the breath thou giv'st and tak'st,
'Mongst our mourners shalt thou go.
Here the anthem doth commence:-
Love and constancy is dead:
Phoenix and the turtle fled
In a mutual flame from hence.

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,

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.

They have him at commandèment:
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 does bear a part.
These are certain signs to know
Faithful friend from flattering foe.

So between them love did shine, That the turtle saw his right Flaming in the phoenix's sight; Either was the other's mine.

THE END.

Property was thus appall'd,
That the self was not the same;
Single nature's double name
Neither two nor one was call'd.
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.

THRENOS..

Beauty, truth, and rarity,
Grace in all simplicity,
Here enclosed in cinders lie.
Death is now the phoenix's nest;
And the turtle's loyal breast
To eternity doth rest,
Leaving no posterity:-
'Twas not their infirmity,
It was married chastity.

Truth may seem, but cannot be ; Beauty brag, but 'tis not she; Truth and beauty buried be.

To this urn let those repair
That are either true or fair;
For these dead birds sigh a prayer.

GLOSSARY.

Abased, mistaken.

Abate, to shorten, to blunt, to lower.

A B C, book, the catechism.

Abide, sojourn.

Abjects, servile subjects.

Able, uphold.

Abridgment, pastime, amusement.

Absolute, determined, perfect.
Abstract, short note.

Approved, seen, experienced, worthy.

Aqua vile, whisky.
Arabian bird, phoenix.
Arbitrement, decision.
Arch, boundary, chief.

Argosies, ships laden with rich cargoes.

Argentine, silvery.

Argier, Algiers,

Argument, subject, conversation, proof.

Aroynt, avaunt.

Arras, tapestry.

Art, theory.

Articulated, shewn in articles.
Artificial, ingenious.
Aspect, countenance.
Aspersion, sprinkling.
Assinego, ass.
Assurance, a deed.
Assured, affianced.

Astonished, stunned.
Astringer, falconer.

Ate, the goddess of discord.
Atone, reconcile.
Attach, arrest.
Attask, reprehend.
Attorney, deputation.
Aunts, loose women.
Ares, salutations.
Awful, lawful, reverend
Awkward, adverse.
Aye, ever.

Abstruct, obstacle removed.

Abuse, deceive.

Aby, to suffer for it.

Accite, sumamon.

Aconitum, monkshood.

Across, a failure.

Action, accusation, exertion.

Adam, the name of a celebrated

archer.

Additions, titles.

Addrest, ready, prepared.

Admittance, consequence.
Advertisement, admonition.
Advertising, attentive.

Advice, knowledge, consideration,
discretion.

Advised, cautious.
Affect, love.

Affection, capriciousness, imagina

tion.

Affect the letter, affect alliteration.
Affeer'd, confirmed.

Affiance, confidence.

Afied, betrothed.

Affined, joined by affinity, related

in office.

Affront, encounter, attack.
Agenor's daughter, Europa.
Aglet-baby, a diminutive figure
carved on the end of the tag
which carried the lace.

aiguillette, a point.

Aglet is

Agnize, confess, acknowledge.

A-good, in good earnest.

Aim, surmise, guess, direction.
Airy, verbal.

Alder-liefest, dearest of all things.
Ale, a rural festival, or church
holiday.

All-hallown summer, winter-sum

mer.

Allicholly, melancholy.

Allowed, privileged, approved.

Amaimon, a demon.

Amaze, confound, confuse.

Amiss, calamity.

Amort, dispirited.

Anchor, anchorite.

Ancient, a standard, a standard

bearer, ensign.

Angel, a gold coin.
Anthropophaginian, a cannibal.
Antic, the fool of the old drama.

Antres, caverns.
Apparent, next.
Appay, to please.
Appeal, accusation.

Applejohn, a two-year-old apple.
Appointment, preparation.
Apprehension, opinion.

Approbation, probation, proving.
Approve, substantiate, authenti-
Jule.

Baccare, stand back.

Baffled, overreached.

Bale, ruin.

Balk, to pile.

Balm, oil of consecration.

Banbury cheese, nothing but paring
Band, bond.

Bandy, drive smartly.
Bane, poison.

Bans, curses.

Barbason, the name of a fiend.
Barful, full of obstacles.
Barm, yeast.

Barne, a child.

Base, a challenge, a rustic game
called prison-base, dishonoured.
Bases, armour for the legs.

Basilico, a character in an old drama.
Basilisks, heavy artillery.
Basta, 'tis enough.
Bat, club.

Bate, flutter, contention.
Batlet, a clothes-beater.
Batten, to feed fat.

Battle, army.
Bavin, brushwood.
Bawcock, jolly fellow.
Bay-windows, bow-windows.
Bearing, demeanour, manner.
Bearing-cloth, the mantle in which
a child is carried to be baptized.
Bear in hand, to delude.

Beat, flutter.

Bearns, children.

Beaver, helmet.

Beck, call, command.

Bedlam, a madman.
Beguile, cheat.

Beg us, to beg the wardship of us.
Behave, govern.
Beholden, indebted.

Belongings, endowments
Bemoiled, bemired.

Bend, incline."
Benison, blessing.
Bent, arch, exertion.
Ben venuto, welcome.
Bermoothes, Bermudas.
Beshrew, ill betide.

Besmirch, discolour, stain.
Bested, plight.

Bestowed, deposited.

Bestraight, distracted.

Beteem, bestow, suffer.

Bevel, crooked.

Bewray, discover.

Bezonian, shabby fellow.

Bid, invited.

Biggin, a cap.

Bilberry, whortleberry.

Bilbo, from Bilboa, renowned for its

swords.

Bill, a weapon.

Bills, orders, instructions.
Birthdom, birthright.

Birth-hour's blot, bodily blemishes.

Bisson rheum, hot blinding tears.
Blames, faults.

Blank, aim, object.

Blench, to flinch, to swerve, to fly

off.

Blent, mixed together.

Blind-worms, slow-worms.

Blistered, puffed.

Block, shape, or fashion of a hat.

Blood, impulse, disposition, passion.
Bloodless, inactive.

Blossoms, the flower of the nobility.
Blue-bottle rogue, beadle.
Blue caps, Scotsmen.
Blow, puff.

Board, accost.

Bobb, to fish, to trick.

Bodged, bungled.

Bolins, bowlines.

Bolt, a short arrow.
Bolter, to besmear.

Bolting-hutch, receptacle in which
flour is separated from bran.

Bombast, the padding of clothes.
Bond, duty.

Boot, profit, something more, refusal.
Bootless, useless.

Boots, a rustic sportive punishment.

Bores, wounds.

Bosky, woody.

Bots, worms.

Bourn, limit, confine, place.

Bow, yoke.

Boy-queller, boy-killer.

Brace, condition.

Brach, a scent hound,

Braid, violent.

Brake, a thicket.

Brands, torches, bars on which fuel was placed.

Brave, to make fine, to defy, bravado.

Bed of Ware, a bed which held forty Bravery, finery.

persons.

Brawn, arm.

Ceremonies, ornaments, omens.
Certes, certainly.
Cess, measure.
Cesse, cease.

Chaces, the duration of a game at
tennis.

Chafe, anger.

Chalice, cup.

Cadent, dropping.
Cadises, a kind of riband.

Caliver, a small gun.
Callet, a drab.

Calling, designation.
Calm, qualm.

Camelot, in Somersetshire, famous

for its geese.

Chamberers, courtiers, intriguers.
Chambers, small pieces of ordnance.
Champian, an open country.
Changeling, a fairy child.
Channel, kennel.
Chanson, Christmas carol.
Chantry, a little chapel.
Chape, hook of a scabbard.
Charactery, letters, writing.
Chare, task work.

Canaries, quandaries.
Canary, a lively dance.
Candy, sugared.
Canker, the dog-rose.
Canker-blossom, a worm that preys

on buds of flowers. Cannibals, Hannibals.

Cantle, corner.
Cantons, verses.
Canvass, sift.

Cap, to salute by uncovering, chief.
Capable, perceptible, comprehend,
ample.

Capitulate, make head.
Capocchia, fool.

Capon, figuratively a letter.
Capricious, lascivious.

Captious, capacious.

Charge, command, trust, a guard.
Charge-house, free school.
Chariness, caution.
Charitable, endearing.

Charles-wain, constellation of the Comply, compliment.
Great Bear.

Compose, agree.

Charm, withcraft.

Charmer, enchantress.
Charneco, a sort of wine.
Charter, privilege.

Chase, argument.
Chaudron, entrails.
Cheater, gamester; Escheator, an

officer of the exchequer.
Check, to object, to fly.
Checks, harsh rules.
Cheer, countenance.
Cherry-pit, a boyish game.
Cheveril, a kid, elastic leather.
Chew, ruminate, reflect.
Chewet, a magpie.

Chide, echo, resound.

Child, a female infant, knight, hero.
Childing, unseasonably fruitful.
Chop, to change.

Chopine, a high shoe.

Chough, a bird of the jackdaw
species.

Christom-child, a child less than a

Carbonadoed, cut like a piece of Clepeth, nameth.

Clerkly, scholarly.
Cliff, key.

Cling, shrivel, wither.
Clip, embrace.

Careires, bounds of good behaviour.

Carkanet, a necklace.

month old.

Cicatrice, the scar of a wound.
Circle, crown.

Carl, peasant.

Carlot, churl, peasant.
Carpet, a table-cloth.

Carracks, ships of great burden.
Carry, manage.

Carry coals, submit to any indignity.
Case, exterior, outside, to strip.
Cast, dismiss.

Circummured, surrounded.
Circumstance, circumlocution.
Circumvention, foreknowledge.
Cites, proves.

Civil, demure, grave.

Clam your tongues, shut your
mouths.

Clean, completely.

Clear, pure, unsullied.

Castigation, penance.
Castilian, cant term for Spaniard.
Cataian, a lying sharper, romancer.
Cat the adage, "the cat would eat

fish, and would not wet her feet."
Catlings, lute strings.
Cautelous, cautious, insidious.
Caviare, a Russian delicacy made
of the roe of sturgeons, and limited
in its use to the nobility, therefore
too good for the common people.
Cease, perish.
Censure, judgment, opinion, sen-

tence.

Centre, the world.
Century, a company of a hundred

men.

Combine, bind.
Comforting, encouraging.
Comiaa, connexion.
Commended, committed.
Commission, authority.
Commodity, interest.
Commonly, comedy.
Compact, composed of.
Compact of credit, composed of cre
dulity.

Companies, companions.
Companion, fellow.
Comparative, opponent.
Compare, comparison.
Comparisons, circumstances.
Compass'd, arched.

Compassed window, bow-window,
Compassionate, complaining
Competitor, confederate.
Complement, union.

Complements, accomplishments.
Complexion, humour.

Cobloaf, crusty loaf.

Cock, cockboat.

Composition, consistency.
Composture, manure.
Compt, account.
Comptible, accountable.
Conceit, wit, idea.
Conceited, ingenious.
Concent, harmony.

Cockered, pampered.
Cockle, a corn weed.
Cockled, inshelled.
Cockle-hat, a pilgrim's hat.
Cock-shut, twilight.

Cog, to falsify dice, to deceive.
Cogging, lying.
Cognizance, token, proof.
Coigne of 'vantage,

corner.

Clothier's yard, an arrow a cloth
yard long.

Clout, the white mark at which
archers shoot.
Coach-fellow, accomplice.

Coasting welcome, conciliatory ad

vances.

Coil, tumult, uproar.
Collied, black, smutted.
Collier, cheat.
Colt, to trick.

Comart, joint bargain.
Combinate, betrothed.

Conception, understanding.
Conclusion, riddle, experiment.

Concupy, concupiscence.

Condition, vocation, character, qual
ity, temper.
Condolement, mourning.
Conduct, guide, conductor.
Coney-catching, thieving.
Confession, profession.
Confound, expend, consume.
Comes, rabbits.
Conjects, conjectures.
Consent, conspiracy.
Consist, insist.
Consorted, accompanied.
Constant, firm, stable-minded.
Contemptible, contemptuous.
Content, to acquiesce.
Continent, temperate.
Continents, contents, confines.
Continuate, continual.
Contraction, marriage contract.
Contringed, compressed."
Contrive, spend, wear away.
Control, confute.
Convent, to serve.
Convented, summoned.
Convey, manage, theft.

Cockatrice, a serpent supposed to be
hatched from a cock's egg.

convenient

Conveyance, artifice.
Convicted, overpowered.
Convince, convict, attain, overpower
Convive, to feast.
Copatain, high crowned.
Cope, encounter, the heavens.
Copy, lease, subject, theme,
Corky, deceitful, withered.
Corollary, a surplus number.
Corrigible, corrected, humble.
Costard, a head.

Coted, overtook.

Cotsale, Cotswold, Gloucestershire.
Couch, to cower.

Council, the Star Chamber.
Count-confect, a nobleman made ont
of sugar.
Counter, a hunting hrase.
Counter-caster, expresive of co-
tempt, as a mere clerk.
Counterfeit, likeness, porträt
Countergate, prison.
Counterpoints, counterpanes
Counts, scars, marks.
County, count.

Courage, ardour.

Courser's hair, it was imagined that
a horse hair placed in stagnant
water became an animal.
Court-cupboard, side-board.
Courtesies, ceremony.
Court holy-water, fair words.

Dank, wet, rotten.
Danskers, Danes.
Dares, challenges.
Dark, gloomy, unhappy.
Darkling, in the dark.

Darraign, prepare.
Daub, disguise.
Day-bed, a couch.

Deracinate, uproot.
Derogate, degenerate.
Descant, a term in music.
Descried, observed.
Design, exhibit.
Despised time, old age.
Detected, suspected.

Determine, come to an end, dissolve.
Dewberries, gooseberries.
Dexter, right.

Di-dapper, dab-chick.
Die, gaming.

Diet, regimen by prescription.
Differing, discordant.

Diffuse, disguise.
Diffused, discordant.
Dight, digged.

sevenpence.

Draught, a common sewer.

Drawn, embowelled.
Drollery, a show.
Drugs, drudges.
Drumble, loiter.
Dudgeon, handle.
Due, endue.

Duello, the laws of duelling.
Dump, a mournful elegy.
Dup, do up, open.
Dwell, remain, continue.

Digression, transgression, offence.
Dig-you-den, give you good even.
Dint, impression.
Disable, undervalue.
Discandy, to dissolve.
Disclosed, hatched.

Discourse, power of comprehension.
Disease, uneasiness.
Disgrace, hardship.
Dismes, tenths.
Dispatched, bereft.

Disponge, squeeze as a sponge.
Disposed, settled.
Dissemble, disguise.
Distemper, intoxication.
Distractions, detachments.
Discouched, contradicted.
Divert, to turn aside.
Dividable, separated.
Division, music.
Divulged, spoken off.
Doff, do of.

Dole, alms, lot, distribution.
Dolphin, dauphin.
Done, consumed, destroyed.
Double-set, twenty-four hours.
Doubt, awe.

Dout, extinguish.
Dower, gift.

Dowle, a particle of down.

Down-gyred, hanging down like a
fetter band.

Drachma, a Roman coin.

Drachmas, a Greek coin, value about Eysell, vinegar.

Estate, high rank.
Estimate, price.

Estimation, conjecture.
Estridge, hawk.
Eterne, eternal.

Et tu, Brute, And thou, Brutus!
Even, remember, the fellow.
Ever parted, endowed.
Evitate, avoid.

Excrement, beard.
Executors, executioners.
Exempt, excluded, acquit.
Exequies, obsequies.

Exhibition, an allowance, mainten

ance.

Exigent, end.

Expect, expectation.
Expedience, expedition.
Expedient, expeditious.
Expense, waste.

Expiate, expired.
Expostulate, discuss.
Express, reveal.

Ersufficate, swollen, contemptible.
Extend, praise.

Extent, violence, seizure.
Extirped, extirpated.
Extravagant, wandering.
Extreme, extravagant.
Eyases, nestlings.
Eyas-musket, a young hawk.
Eye, presence.

Eye of green, shade of, tinge of green.
Eyne, eyes.

Face, opinion, play the hypocrite.

Faced, made facings.

Facenorious, wicked.
Factious, active, energetic.
Fadge, to fit, suit, agree.
Fair, beauty.
Faithfully, fervently.
Faitours, traitors.

Falcon, the female hawk.
Falsely, dishonestly.

Familiar, an attendant spirit.

Fan, winnow.

Day-woman, dairy woman.
Dear, great, chief, worthy, dire, sad.

Dearest, best.

Dearly, inveterately.
Dearn, solitary.
Debile, weak.

Deboshed, debauched.
Deck, a pack of cards.

Decked, sprinkled, decorated.
Deem, surmise.

Deep-fet, deep-fetched.

Defeat, destruction.

Defeatures, plainness of features.
Defence, some knowledge of fencing.

Defend, forbid.

Defiance, refusal.

Deformed, deforming.
Deftly, adroitly.
Defy, disdain.

Degrees, means.
Demerits, merits.

Denay, denial.

Denier, the twelfth part of a French

sou.

Denotements, indications.
Depart, to part.

Eager, sharp, acrid.

Eanlings, lambs just dropped.
Earing, tilling.

Eat no fish, being a good Protestant.

Eche, eke out.

Ecstasy, madness.

Ejects, actions, affections.

Eftsoons, soon.

Egal, equal.

Eld, old age.
Elder, better.
Element, knowledge.
Elf, to entangle.
Embarquements, embargoes.
Embossed, enclosed, swollen.
Embowel, to embalm.

Empery, sovereign command, do-
minion.

Emulation, triumph, envy.
Enactures, determinations.
Engross, to fatten.
Engrossments, accumulations.
Enmew, shut up.

Ensconce, protect, hide.
Enseamed, greasy.
Enshield, concealed, covered

Fancy, invention, love.
Fancy-free, free from love.

Fang, seize.

Fantastical, unreal, imaginary.

Fap, drunk.

Farced, stuffed.

Fardel, bundle, burden.

Fashious, farcy, a disease in horses.

Fat, dull, gross.

Farour, countenance.

Favoured, resembles.
Fay, faith,

Fear, to scare, to terrify.
Fearful, terrible.

Feat, dexterous, neat,
Feeders, servants.
Feeding, pasture.
Felicitate, made happy.
Fell, skin.

Fellow, keeper.
Feodary, associate.
Festinately, hastily, quickly.
Fet, fetched, derived.
Fico, fig.

Fierce, precipitate, rapid,
Fig, shew contempt.

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