[Footnote 49:  running.]

[Footnote 50:  foes.]

[Footnote 51:  if.]

[Footnote 52:  make ready.]

[Footnote 53:  dark.]

[Footnote 54:  engage.]

[Footnote 55:  cease, stand still.]

[Footnote 56:  a young lion.]

[Footnote 57:  flaming.]

[Footnote 58:  a meteor, from gron, a fen, and fer, a corruption of fire; that is, a fire exhaled from a fen.]

[Footnote 59:  deckt.]

[Footnote 60:  small, insignificant.]

[Footnote 61:  carr.]

[Footnote 62:  enameled.]

[Footnote 63:  white, silver.]

[Footnote 64:  stars.]

[Footnote 65:  distracting.]

[Footnote 66:  affright.]

[Footnote 67:  armed.]

[Footnote 68:  terribly.]

[Footnote 69:  encouraging, heating.]

[Footnote 70:  break, a herald term, signifying a spear broken in tilting.]

[Footnote 71:  sounds.]

[Footnote 72:  blacken.]

[Footnote 73:  waves.]

[Footnote 74:  many, great numbers.]

[Footnote 75:  slain.]

[Footnote 76:  decreasing.]

[Footnote 77:  glorious, worthy.]

[Footnote 78:  wonders.]

[Footnote 79:  astonished.]

[Footnote 80:  certainly.]

[Footnote 81:  brow.]

[Footnote 82:  plucked, pulled.]

[Footnote 83:  often.]

[Footnote 84:  grief, trouble.]

[Footnote 85:  swollen.]

ECLOGUE THE THIRD.

    Wouldst thou kenn nature in her better parte? 
    Goe, serche the logges [1] and bordels[2] of the hynde[3];
    Gyff[4] theie have anie, itte ys roughe-made arte,
    Inne hem[5] you see the blakied[6] forme of kynde[7]. 
    Haveth your mynde a lycheynge[8] of a mynde? 5
    Woulde it kenne everich thynge, as it mote[9] bee? 
    Woulde ytte here phrase of the vulgar from the hynde,
    Withoute wiseegger[10] wordes and knowlache[11] free? 
    Gyf soe, rede thys, whyche Iche dysporteynge[12] pende;
  Gif nete besyde, yttes rhyme maie ytte commende. 10

  MANNE.

  Botte whether, fayre mayde, do ye goe? 
    O where do ye bende yer waie? 
  I wille knowe whether you goe,
    I wylle not bee asseled[13] naie.

  WOMANNE.

  To Robyn and Nell, all downe in the delle, 15
    To hele[14] hem at makeynge of haie.

  MANNE.

  Syr Rogerre, the parsone, hav hyred mee there,
    Comme, comme, lett us tryppe ytte awaie,
  We’lle wurke[15] and we’lle synge, and wylle drenche[16] of stronge beer
    As longe as the merrie sommers daie. 20

  WOMANNE.