<33.14> This word does not appear to have any very exact meaning. See Halliwell's DICTIONARY OF ARCHAIC WORDS, art. POSSE, and Worcester's Dict. IBID, &c. The context here requires TO TURN SHARPLY OR QUICKLY. <33.15> Original has SIGHT. <33.16> Original reads I. The meaning seems to be, "I crave that my woes may be smothered in me, and I may be smothered in my grave." <33.17> Reverence. <33.18> i.e. in heaven. <33.19> i.e. than among human kind. <33.20> It may be presumed that LUCASTA had adopted the name of CAELIA during her sylvan retreat. <33.21> Impatient. <33.22> Tranquil or secluded. TO ELLINDA, THAT LATELY I HAVE NOT WRITTEN. I. If in me anger, or disdaine In you, or both, made me refraine From th' noble intercourse of verse, That only vertuous thoughts rehearse; Then, chaste Ellinda, might you feare The sacred vowes that I did sweare. II. But if alone some pious thought Me to an inward sadnesse brought, Thinking to breath your soule too welle, My tongue was charmed with that spell; And left it (since there was no roome To voyce your worth enough) strooke dumbe. III. So then this silence doth reveal No thought of negligence, but zeal: For, as in adoration, This is love's true devotion; Children and fools the words repeat, But anch'rites pray in tears and sweat. ELLINDA'S GLOVE. SONNET. I. Thou snowy farme with thy five tenements!<34.1> Tell thy white mistris here was one, That call'd to pay his dayly rents; But she a-gathering flowr's and hearts is gone, And thou left voyd to rude possession. II. But grieve not, pretty Ermin cabinet, Thy alabaster lady will come home; If not, what tenant can there fit The slender turnings of thy narrow roome, But must ejected be by his owne dombe?<34.2> III. Then give me leave to leave my rent with thee: Five kisses, one unto a place: For though the lute's too high for me, Yet servants, knowing minikin<34.3> nor base, Are still allow'd to fiddle with the case. <34.1> i.e. the white glove of the lady with its five fingers. <34.2> Doom. <34.3> A description of musical pin attached to a lute. It was only brought into play by accomplished musicians. In the address of "The Country Suiter to his Love," printed in Cotgrave's WITS INTERPRETER, 1662, p. 119, the man says:-- "Fair Wench! I cannot court thy sprightly eyes With a base-viol plac'd betwixt my thighs, I cannot lisp, nor to a fiddle sing, Nor run upon a high-strecht minikin." In Middleton's FAMILIE OF LOVE, 1608 (Works by Dyce, ii. 127) there is the following passage:-- "GUDGEON. Ay, and to all that forswear marriage, and can be content with other men's wives. GERARDINE. Of which consort you two are grounds; one touches the bass, and the other tickles the minikin."