[Footnote 52: a purse or bag.] [Footnote 53: slay.] [Footnote 54: ease.] [Footnote 55: truth.] [Footnote 56: happy.] [Footnote 57: workest.] [Footnote 58: the hidden or secret part of.] [Footnote 59: souls.] [Footnote 60: full soon, or presently.] [Footnote 61: car.] [Footnote 62: two.] [Footnote 63: a bottle.] [Footnote 64: a country dance, still practised in the North.] [Footnote 65: baffle.] [Footnote 66: a corruption of _feints_.] [Footnote 67: a minstrel is a musician.] [Footnote 68: unbounded.] [Footnote 69: branches.] [Footnote 70: furious.] [Footnote 71: tempests, storms.] [Footnote 72: dire.] [Footnote 73: dismay.] [Footnote 74: dwarf.] [Footnote 75: humility.] [Footnote 76: decked.] [Footnote 77: unhurt.] [Footnote 78: picture.] [Footnote 79: tempest-beaten.] ELINOURE AND JUGA. Onne Ruddeborne[1] bank twa pynynge Maydens fate, Theire teares faste dryppeynge to the waterre cleere; Echone bementynge[2] for her absente mate, Who atte Seyncte Albonns shouke the morthynge[3] speare. The nottebrowne Elinoure to Juga fayre 5 Dydde speke acroole[4], wythe languishment of eyne, Lyche droppes of pearlie dew, lemed[5] the quyvryng brine. ELINOURE. O gentle Juga! heare mie dernie[6] plainte, To fyghte for Yorke mie love ys dyghte[7] in stele; O maie ne sanguen steine the whyte rose peyncte, 10 Maie good Seyncte Cuthberte watche Syrre Roberte wele. Moke moe thanne deathe in phantasie I feele; See! see! upon the grounde he bleedynge lies; Inhild[8] some joice[9] of lyfe or else mie deare love dies. JUGA. Systers in sorrowe, on thys daise-ey'd banke, 15 Where melancholych broods, we wyll lamente; Be wette wythe mornynge dewe and evene danke; Lyche levynde[10] okes in eche the odher bente, Or lyche forlettenn[11] halles of merriemente, Whose gastlie mitches[12] holde the traine of fryghte[13], 20 Where lethale[14] ravens bark, and owlets wake the nyghte. [ELINOURE.] No moe the miskynette[15] shall wake the morne, The minstrelle daunce, good cheere, and morryce plaie; No moe the amblynge palfrie and the horne Shall from the lessel[16] rouze the foxe awaie; 25 I'll seke the foreste alle the lyve-longe daie; Alle nete amenge the gravde chyrche[17] glebe wyll goe, And to the passante Spryghtes lecture[18] mie tale of woe. [JUGA.] Whan mokie[19] cloudis do hange upon the leme Of leden[20] Moon, ynn sylver mantels dyghte; 30 The tryppeynge Faeries weve the golden dreme Of Selyness[21], whyche flyethe wythe the nyghte; Thenne (botte the Seynctes forbydde!) gif to a spryte Syrr Rychardes forme ys lyped, I'll holde dystraughte Hys bledeynge claie-colde corse, and die eche daie ynn thoughte. 35 ELINOURE.