Love is too young to know what conscience is;
Yet who knows not conscience is born of love?
Then, gentle cheater, urge not my amiss,
Lest guilty of my faults thy sweet self prove.
For, thou betraying me, I do betray
My nobler part to my great body's treason;
My soul doth tell my body that he may
Triumph in love; flesh stays no further reason;
But rising at thy name, doth point out thee
As his triumphant prize. Proud of this pride,
He is contented thy poor drudge to be,
To stand in thy affairs, fall by thy side.
No want of conscience hold it that I call
Her-love, for whose dear love I rise and fall.
In loving thee thou know'st I am forsworn,
But thou art twice forsworn to me love swearing;
In act thy bed-vow broke, and new faith torn,
In vowing new hate after new love bearing.
But why of two oaths' breach do I accuse thee,
When I break twenty? I am perjured most;
For all my vows are oaths but to misuse thee,
And all my honest faith in thee is lost :
For I have sworn deep oaths of thy deep kindness,
Oaths of thy love, thy truth, thy constancy:
And, to enlighten thee, gave eyes to blindness,
Or made them swear against the thing they see;
For I have sworn thee fair: more perjured I,
To swear, against the truth, so foul a lie!
Cupid laid by his brand, and fell asleep;
A maid of Dian's this advantage found,
And his love-kindling fire did quickly steep
In a cold valley-fountain of that ground;
Which borrowed from this holy fire of love
A dateless lively heat, still to endure,
And grew a seething bath which yet men prove,
Against strange maladies a sovereign cure.
But at my mistress' eye love's brand new fired,
The boy for trial needs would touch my breast;
I sick withal, the help of bath desired,
And thither hied, a sad distempered guest,
But found no cure: the bath for my help lies
Where Cupid got new fire; my mistress' eyes.
CLIV.
The little love-god lying once asleep,
Laid by his side his heart-inflaming brand,
Whilst many nymphs that vowed chaste lives to keep,
Came tripping by ; but in her maiden hand
The fairest votary took up that fire
Which many legions of true hearts had warmed;
And so the general of hot desire
Was sleeping by a virgin hand disarmed.
This brand she quenchéd in a cool well by,
Which from love's fire took heat perpetual,
Growing a bath and healthful remedy
For men diseased; but I, my mistress thrall,
Came there for cure, and this by that I prove,
Love's fire heats water, water cools not love.
Brands, a part of the andirons on which the wood for the fire was supported. Brasier, a manufacturer of brass; also a vessel in which charcoal
Brave, to defy, also to make fine.
Bravely, splendidly, gallantly.
Bravery, finery.
Brawl, a kind of dance.
Braying, harsh, grating.
Break up, to carve.
Break with, to break the matter
Breath, speech, also exercise. Breathing-courtesy, mere verbal
Breeched, foully sheathed, mired. Breeching, liable to be flogged. Breathed, inured by constant practice.
Breathe, to utter.
Breed-bate, an exciter of quarrels. Bribe-buck, a buck sent as a bribe Bridal, the nuptial feast.
Bring, to attend or accompany. Brize, the gad, or horse-fly. Broach, to put on the spit, to
Brock, the badger.
Brogues, a kind of shoes.
Broken, communicated.
Broker, a match-maker, a pro
Brooched, adorned.
Brought, attended.
Brow of youth, the height of youth.
Brown-bill, a battle-axe.
Brownist, a follower of Brown, a
Bruising-irons, an allusion to the
ancient mace.
Bruit, report with clamour.
Brush of time, decay of time.
Bug, bugbears, false terrors.
Bumbard, a large drinking vessel.
Bung, a cutpurse.
Bunting, a bird.
Burgonet, a helmet.
Busky, woody.
Butt-shaft, an arrow to shoot at shafts with.
Buxom, obedient.
By 'r lakin, by our little lady.
Caddis, worsted lace. Cade, a barrel.
Cadent, falling.
Cage, a prison.
Cain-coloured, yellow.
Caitiff, a scoundrel.
Calculate, to foretel.
Caliver, a species of musket.
Call, to visit.
Callet, a woman, a witch.
Calling, appellation.
Calm, qualm.
Camelot, a place where King Ar
thur is supposed to have kept
his court.
Canary, a dance.
Candle-wasters, those who sit up
all night to drink.
Canker, the dog-rose.
Canstick, candlestick.
Cantons, cantos.
Canvas, to sift.
Canvas-climber, a sailor.
Cap, the top, the chief.
Cap, to salute by taking off the cap.
Capable impressure, hollow mark.
Capitulate, to make head against.
Capocchia, a sot.
Capon, metaphor for a letter.
Capricious, lascivious.
Captious, capacious.
Carack, a ship of great bulk.
Caracts, characters.
Carbonado, a piece of meat cut
crossways for the gridiron. Card, a sea-chart, perhaps also the
compass.
Carded, mixed.
Care, inclination.
Careires, the motion of a horse; to pass the careires, means to overstep the bounds of de
Carkanet, a necklace.
Carl, clown, boor.
Carlot, peasant.
Carnal, sanguinary.
Carowses, drinks.
Carriage, import.
Carried, conducted.
Carry, to prevail over.
Cart, a chariot.
Case, skin, outward garb.
Case of lives, a set of lives.
Casques, helmets.
Cassock, a horseman's loose coat. Cast, to empty; also to dismiss, reject.
Castilian, an opprobious term. Castiliano vulgo, a cant term of
contempt. Cast-lips, left-off lips.
Coigne of vantage, convenient
Coignes, corners.
Coil, bustle, stir. Cold, naked.
Collection, consequence, or co
Collied, black, smutted.
Colt, to trick.
Co-mart, a joint bargain.
Come off, to pay.
Come off well, to succeed.
Co-meddled, mingled.
Combinate, betrothed.
Comfort, to aid.
Comforting, abetting.
Comma, connection.
Commission, authority.
Commend, commit.
Committed, lain with.
Commodity, self-interest.
Commonty, a comedy.
Compact, made up of.
Companies, companions.
Compare, comparison.
Comparative, a dealer in compa-
Compassed, round.
Compassed cape, a round cape. Compassed window, a bow-window.
Compassionate, plaintive. Compose, to come to a composition Composture, composition. Composition, bargain; also con
Competitors, confederates.
Complements, accomplishments.
Complexion, humour.
Comply, to compliment.
Comptible, submissive.
Conceit, imagination, wit, idea.
Conceited, ingenious.
Concent, connected harmony.
Conclusions, experiments.
Concupy, concupiscence.
Condolement, sorrow.
Conduct, conductor.
Coney-catched, tricked.
Coney-catcher, a cheat.
Confession, profession.
Confineless, boundless.
Confound, to destroy.
Conject, conjecture.
Consent, will, conspiracy.
Consider, reward.
Consigned, sealed.
Consist, stand.
Consort, company.
Conspectuity, sight.
Constancy, consistency.
Constantly, certainly.
Contemptible, contemptuous.
Continuate, uninterrupted.
Continue, to spend.
Continent, containing.
Contraction, marriage-contract.
Contrarious, different.
Contrary, to contradict.
Contrive, to spend, to wear out.
Control, confute.
Convents, agrees, is convenient.
Convented, summoned.
Conversion, change of condition.
Converse, associate, interchange.
Convertite, a convert.
Convey, to steal.
Conveyance, sleight of hand, theft.
Conveyers, thieves.
Conveyed himself, derived his title. Convicted, overpowered, baffled. Convince, to convict, to subdue. Convive, to feast.
Copatain hat, a hat with a conical
Cope, encounter, covering.
Copped, rising to a top or head.
Copy, theme.
Coragio, courage, be of good
cheer.
Corinth, a brothel.
Corinthian, a wencher.
Corky, dry, withered.
Corollary, surplus.
Corporal, corporeal.
Corrigible, corrected.
Coster-monger, a dealer in cos
tards or apples. Cote, to overtake.
Coted, quoted, regarded.
Cotsale, Cotswold, in Gloucester
Couch, to lie with.
Count, to reckon upon.
Countenance, favour; also false
appearance, hypocrisy.
Counter, a hunting term.
Counter-caster, one who reckons
Counter-check, a term in chess.
Counterfeit, a portrait.
Counterpoints, counterpanes.
County, count, earl.
Couplement, a couple.
Courses, the mainsail and foresail.
Court-cupboard, sideboard.
Count-confect, a spurious noble-
Court holy-water, flattery. Covered, hollow.
Cowed, awed.
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