I said, "My sweet, forsooth I shall "For ever love you, and no mo: "Though others love, and leave withall, "Most certainly I do not so. "I do you true love hecht,1 "By all thy beauties bright! "Ye are so fair- be not my foe! "Ye shall have sin an ye me slo2 "Thus through a sudden sight." "That I you slay, that God forshield! "And ye not me I trow. "Therefore, good sir, take in none ill, "Shall never bairn gar brief the bill "At bidding me to bow.3 "Into this wood aye walk I shall, "Leading my life as woful wight; "Here I forsake both bow'r and hall, 3 I do not understand these two lines. These buildings. Rudd. Gloss. "My bed is made full cold "With beastis brim and bold; “That gars me say, both day and night, These words out through my heart so went, But thereto would I not consent, And said, that it should not be so; Into my armis swithe 2 Embraced I that blithe,3 Saying, "sweet-heart, of harmis ho! 4 Then kneeled I before that clear," And meekly could her mercy crave. Fierce. Rudd. Gloss. • Quickly. "An interjection, commanding to desist or leave off." Rudd. Gloss. "That can of wrath and malice never ho." b Go. G. Doug. Virg. p. 148, 1. 2. 6 Shew. 378 This use of the adjective was probably a Gallicism. As the French would say cette belle, this author employs 8 That seemly then, with sober cheer, Me, of her goodliness, forgave. It was no need, I wis, To bid us other kiss; There might no hearts more joy receive, Nor9 either could of other have. Thus brought were we to bliss. "that hend-that blithe-that clear-that seemly." Such was the usage of the times. • Than. |