Wythe syke an eyne shee swotelie[137] hymm dydd view, Dydd foe ycorvenn[138] everrie shape to joie, 170 Hys spryte dydd chaunge untoe anodherr hue, Hys armes, ne spoyles, mote anie thoughts emploie. All delyghtsomme and contente, Fyre enshotynge[139] fromm hys eyne, Ynn hys arms hee dydd herr hente[140], 175 Lyche the merk[141]-plante doe entwyne. Soe, gyff thou lovest Pleasure and herr trayne, Onknowlachynge[142] ynn whatt place herr to fynde, Thys rule yspende[143], and ynn thie mynde retayne; Seeke Honnoure fyrste, and Pleasaunce lies behynde. 180 [Footnote 1: sport, or play.] [Footnote 2: bounded, or measured.] [Footnote 3: curiously devised.] [Footnote 4: fancys or devices.] [Footnote 5: painted, or displayed.] [Footnote 6: fiery.] [Footnote 7: ornamented, enameled.] [Footnote 8: a young lion.] [Footnote 9: drawings, paintings.] [Footnote 10: that.] [Footnote 11: soul.] [Footnote 11: dispenser.] [Footnote 12: quickly.] [Footnote 13: give.] [Footnote 14: armer.] [Footnote 15: burnish.] [Footnote 16: many.] [Footnote 17: young, weak, tender.] [Footnote 18: grows.] [Footnote 19: body.] [Footnote 20: nothing.] [Footnote 21: alone.] [Footnote 22: so.] [Footnote 23: herald.] [Footnote 24: a contraction of _them_.] [Footnote 25: _Guie de Sancto Egidio_, the most famous tilter of his age.] [Footnote 26: William Rufus.] [Footnote 27: run.] [Footnote 28: against.] [Footnote 29: feeble.] [Footnote 30: honour, glory.] [Footnote 31: useless.] [Footnote 32: a kind of claryon.] [Footnote 33: sound.] [Footnote 34: quickly.] [Footnote 35: ready.] [Footnote 36: soon.] [Footnote 37: command.] [Footnote 38: most.] [Footnote 39: fate, or doom.] [Footnote 40: against.] [Footnote 41: pitched, or bent down.] [Footnote 42: drink.] [Footnote 43: servants, attendants.] [Footnote 44: song, or ballad.] [Footnote 45: activity.] [Footnote 46: joined (_1842; left blank in 1777 and 1778_)] [Footnote 46: bent.] [Footnote 47: burnished.] [Footnote 48: commanding.] [Footnote 49: servants.] [Footnote 50: hidden.] [Footnote 51: arrows.] [Footnote 52: worked with iron.] [Footnote 53: bends.] [Footnote 54: sounds.] [Footnote 55: loudly.] [Footnote 56: dark, or gloome.] [Footnote 57 & 58: frighted owl.] [Footnote 59: marked with evening dew.] [Footnote 60: standing on their hind legs.] [Footnote 61: venemous.] [Footnote 62: adders.] [Footnote 63: hot, sultry.] [Footnote 64: sound, noise.] [Footnote 65: distracted.] [Footnote 66: arrows.] [Footnote 67: walking leisurely.] [Footnote 68: rolling.] [Footnote 69: arrow.] [Footnote 70: horse coursers.] [Footnote 71: full soon.] [Footnote 72: across his shoulders.] [Footnote 73: garlands of flowers being put round the neck of the game, it was said to be _ouch'd_, from _ouch_, a chain, worn by earls round their necks.]
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