"Full little knowest thou that hast not tride, What hell it is in suing long to bide: To lose good dayes that might be better spent; To wast long nights in pensive discontent; To speed today, to be put back tomorrow; To feed on hope, to pine with feare and sorrow; To have thy Princes grace, yet want her Peeres; To have thy asking, yet waite manie yeeres; To fret thy soule with crosses and with cares; To eate thy heart through comfortlesse dispaires; To fawne, to crowche, to waite, to ride, to ronne; To spend, to give, to want, to be undonne." 3. =silver streaming Themmes.= Sir John Denham's apostrophe to the Thames is well known: "Oh, could I flow like thee, and make thy stream My great example, as it is my theme! Though deep, yet clear; though gentle, yet not dull; Strong without rage; without overflowing full." --_Cooper's Hill_, 189. And Pope praises the stream in still more extravagant terms: "No seas so rich, so gay no banks appear, No lake so gentle, and no spring so clear." --_Windsor Forest_, 227. See, also, Spenser's "Faerie Queene," IV, xi. 4. =rutty.= Rooty. 5. =Against.= For, or in preparation for; to provide for. Compare Genesis xliii. 25: "And they made ready the present against Joseph came at noon." And Shakespeare's "Midsummer Night's Dream," Act iii, sc. ii: "I'll charm his eyes against she do appear." 6. =Flood.= This word was often used, as here, to denote simply a river. Pope addresses the river Thames: "Thou, too, great father of the British floods!" 7. =all loose untyde.= Steevens says: "Brides formerly walked to church with their hair hanging loose behind." 8. =entrayled.= Twisted, interlaced. 9. =flasket.= A long, shallow basket. Not used here as the diminutive of _flask_. Hales says it is the name given by the fishermen of Cornwall to the vessel in which the fish are transferred from the seine to the "tuck-net." 10. =cropt.= Gathered, Dutch _krappen_, to cut off. =feateously.= Neatly, skilfully. Compare Chaucer: "And French she spake ful fayre and fetisly." --_Canterbury Tales_, 124. "A chambre had he in that hostelrie Ful fetisly ydight with herbes sote." --_Ibid._, 3205. 11. =on hye.= In haste. Probably the same as _hie_, haste. 12. =pallid.= Pale. 13. =primrose trew.= Compare Milton's "Lycidas," 142: "The rathe primrose that forsaken dies." And Shakespeare's "The Winter's Tale," Act iv, sc. iii; "Pale primroses that die unmarried." 14. =store.= Abundance. =vermeil.= Vermilion. Commonly used as a noun. 15. =posies.= "Posy originally meant verses presented with a nosegay or a bunch of flowers, and hence the term came to be applied to the flowers themselves."