Stager,-one accustomed to act a part on the stage; an experienced performer or person.

Staged man, (Holinshed),-a performer on a stage.

And a ghoung man Euticus bi name sat on the wyndowe whanne he was fallun into an heuy sleep while Poul disputide longe, al slepynge he fel doun fro the thridde stage. Wiclif. Dedis, c. 20. Than syr Henry, and iiii. with hym, issued out and came to syr Bartilmewe, and to John de Guystelles, and they brought hym to the myne, and there shewed hym how the great toure stode but on stages of tymbre.

Berners. Froissart. Cronycle, vol. i. c. 208.

But yet as a staged man can not alwaies dissemble and cloke himselfe, so this man, who to haue his will ouer me & to depraue me, inucigheth against the second point, thinking and meaning by reproouing me to be a lier therein, to condemne all the rest.

Holinshed. The Conquest of Ireland, Pref.

A bedde where I laie,
Me thought I seighe vpon a stage,
Where stoode a wonder strange image.

Gower. Con. A. Prol.

Aloft if thou do liue, as one appointed here
A stately part on stage of worldly state to bere,
Thy freind, as only free from fraude, wil thee aduise,
To rest within the rule of meane, as do the wise.

Vncertaine Auctors. The Praise of a True Frende.

O if my temples were distain'd with wine,
And girt in girlonds of wilde yvie twine,
How I could reare the muse on stately stage,
And teach her tread aloft in buskin fine,
With queint Bellona in her equipage!

Spenser. The Shepheard's Calender. October.

This world they'd think a fable. e'en as we
Do think the story of the golden age;
Or as some sensual spirits 'mongst us be,
Which hold the world to come, a feigned stage.

Davies. Immortality of the Soul, s. 32. Your prince, I say, may beat you, so far forth as his dominion reacheth, that's for the distance, the time, ten miles a day, I take it.

2. Brother, you err, 'tis fifteen miles a day, His stage is ten, his beatings are fifteen.

Beaum. & Fletch. A King and no King, Activ.

Nor may this be called an histrionick parada, or stagely visard and hypocrysy, while women seek to appear advantaged in stature, or in beauty. Bp. Taylor, Artificial Handsomeness, p. 168.

And safe in your stage-cloaths

Dare quit upon your oaths,

The stagers, and the stage-wrights too (your peers)
Of larding your large ears
With their soul comic socks.

B. Jonson. The just Indignation of the Author.

While he is so over-greedy to fix a name of ill sound upon another, note how stupid he is to expose himself or his own friends to the same ignominy; likening those grave controversies to a piece of stagery, or scene-work.

Milton. An Apology for Smectymnuus.

'Tis true, some stagers of the wiser sort Made all these idle wonderments their sport.

Dryden. The Hind and the Panther.

The clause in the beginning of it ("without a series of action") distinguishes satire properly from stage - plays, which are all of one action, and one continued series of action.-Id. Juvenal, Ded.

To pay my duty to sweet Mrs. Page,

A place was taken in the Stamford stage.

Our coachman Dick, the shades of night to shun,

Had yok'd his horses long before the sun.

Fawkes. The Stage Coach.

O sweet retirement, who would balk the thought,
That could afford retirement, or could not?
'Tis such an easy walk, so smooth and straight,
The second milestone fronts the garden gate;
A step, if fair, and, if a show'r approach,
You find safe shelter in the next stage-coach.

Cowper. Retirement.

The bank is so steep for near a quarter of a mile, that a ship may lie afloat at low water, so near the shore as to reach it with a stage, and the situation is extremely convenient for heaving down.-Cook. First Voyage, b. iii. c. 5.

STAGGER, v. STAGGERING, n.

STA'GGERS, n.

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Dut. Staggeren, to stagger, or, as written in Chaucer and Froissart, to stakker, may

She riste her vp, and stakkereth here & there.
Chaucer. Legende of Hypermestre.

Than sir Bouciquaut, to acōplisshe sir Peters desire, came forthe, and ran and met eche other in ye myddes of their sheldes so rudely, yt both their horses stakered in the place. Berners. Froissart. Cronycle, vol. ii. c. 168.

Then the disciples and apostles (because they were yet but fieble in the faythe) must nedes haue woondered, stonned, and staggered, and haue been more inquisitiue therin then they were.-Sir T. More. Workes, p. 1112.

My writhled cheekes beuraye, that pride of heate is past,
My slagring steppes eke tell the trueth, that nature fadeth
fast.
Gascoigne. Diuorce of a Louer.

If sundrie of our predecessours, or elders haue donne certaine thinges, which at that time might wel be donne without hurte, and afterwarde are turned into errour, and superstition, withoute any staggeringe, and with greate authoritie let them be destroied, and abolished by the successours.-Jewell. Defence of the Apologie, p. 309.

"Thrise happy man," said then the father grave, "Whose staggering steps thy steady hand doth lead, And shewes the way his sinfull soule to save!" Spenser. Faerie Queene, b. i. c. 10.

Tydides rais'd a stone, With his one hand, of wondrous weight, and pour'd it manly on

The hip of Anchisiades, wherein the ioynt doth moue The thigh, tis cald the huckle bone, which all in sherds it drove ;

Brake both the nerves, and with the edge, cut all the flesh away:

It staggerd him upon his knees, and made th' Heroe stay
His strooke-blind temples on his hand, his elbow on the
earth.
Chapman. Homer. Iliad, b. v.

Cym. Does the world go round? Posth. How comes these staggers on mee? Shakespeare. Cymbeline, Act v. sc. 5. While we are but staggeringly evil, we are not left without parentheses of consideration, thoughtful rebukes, and merciful interventions to recall us to ourselves. Brown. Christian Morals, vol. i. p. 30. The immediate forerunners of an apoplexy are commonly a vertigo, staggering, loss of memory, stupor, &c. Arbuthnot. On Diet, c. 5. At this they were so much staggered, that they plainly discovered their ignorance of the effect of fire arms. Cook. Third Voyage, b. iv. c. 3.

To fly for refuge from distracting thought
To such amusements, as ingenious woe
Contrives, hard-shifting, and without her tools-
To read engraven on the mouldy walls,
In stagg'ring types, his predecessor's tale,'
A sad memorial, and subjoin his own.

Though the country people are so wise
To call these rivers, they're but stagnancies,
Left by the flood.-Id. Wonders of the Peake, (1681,) p. 55.

They run, they fly, till flying on obscure,
Night-founder'd in town-ditches stagnant gurge,
Soph rowls on Soph promiscuous.-J. Philips. Cerealia.

They remain here till the water drains off from the land; and then confine themselves to the stagnant ponds; and when they are dry, they ramble away to some creek or river. Dampier. Voyages, an. 1676. Unexercised reason will melt away in sloth and idleness, and all its vital powers freeze for want of motion, and, like standing water, stagnate and gather mire, and by degrees corrupt and putrify.-Scott. Christian Life, pt. i. c. 3

My Tirians eke for thee

Ar wroth; by thee my shamefastnes eke stained,
And good renoume, wherby vp to the starres
Perelesse I clame,
Surrey. Virgile. Eneis, b. iv.
With which infami he wold not haue his honoure stayned
for any crowne.-Sir T. More. Workes, p. 65.

The phoenix wings are not so rare
For faultless length, and stainless heu.

Sidney. Arcadia, b. it.
"But if she had her least helpe to thee lent,
T' adorne thy forme according thy desart,
Their blazing pride thou wouldest soone have blent,
And staynd their prayses with thy least good part."
Spenser. Faerie Queene, b. ii. c. 4.

For from thy wombe a famous progenee
Shall spring out of the auncient Trojan blood,
Which shall revive the sleeping memoree
Of those same antique peres, the Hevens brood,
Which Greeke and Asian rivers stayned with their bloc.
Id. Ib. b. iii. c. à

The hare-belle for her stainlesse azur'd hue.
Claimes to be worne of none but those are true.
Browne. Britannia's Pastorals, b. ii. s. 3.

See what reward the grateful senate yield,
For the lost blood which stains your northern field;
For wounds, for winter camps, for Alpine snow,
And all the deaths the brave can undergo.

Rowe. Lucan's Pharsalia, b. i.

Hirco, who knows not Hirco? stains the bed
Of that kind master who first gave him bread.
Churchill. The Conference.

The town has ting'd the country; and the stain Appears a spot upon a vestal's robe, The worse for what it soils.

Cowper. Task, b. iv.

Yet not entirely from their censure free,
Who judge our failings with severity:
The very care he took to keep his name
Stainless, with some was evidence of shame.

Crabbe. Tales of the Hall, b. viii.

STAIR, n. Dut. Steghe, stegher; Ger. Steg; Sw. Steg; A. S. Stæg-er; from Dut. Steghen; Ger. Steigen; A. S. Stig-un, to go up, to ascend, (Skinner.) And see Tooke, and STIE. Stair, (or as Chaucer and Fabyan write, steyer,) meansAn ascender, that which or that by which we ascend, go or come up, climb, mount.

It is so hie from thens I lie, and the common yerth, there ne is cable in no land maked, that might stretche to me, to drawe me into blisse, ne steyers to steye on is none, so that without recouer endlesse, here to endure I wote well I purueide.-Id. The Testament of Love, b. i.

At Bedforde this yere at the keping of a shire daie by the falling of a steyer, were xviii murdered and slaine. Fabyan. Chronycle, vol. ii. p. 434. But, ere my hoped day of spousall shone, My dearest lord fell from high honors staire Into the hands of hys accursed fone, And cruelly was slaine.-Spenser. Faerie Queene, b. i. c.2. The Thames, by water when I took the air, That danc'd my barge, in lanching from the stair? Drayton. Elenor Cobham to Duke Humphry.

To make a compleat stair-case, is a curious piece of architecture; the vulgar cautions are these: that it have a very liberal light; that the space above the head be large ar aery; that the half paces be well distributed; that the wholl stair-case have no nigard latitude. Reliquiæ Woltonianæ, p. 35.

To do any thing with stakes; to pledge, to risk.

First the nemnid alle the, the purale suld make, That thorgh the reame suld go, the boundes forto stake. R. Brunne, p. 309. After many examinations, at the last they condemned him by vertue of the emperours decree made in the assembly at Ausbrough, and shortly after brought him forth to the place of execution, and there tyed him to a stake, where with a fernent zeale, and a loud voyce hee cried, Lord open the eyes of the king of Englande.-Fox. Life of Tyndali, p. 10.

Thou weart that only stake, whereby I ment to stay.
Gascoigne. In Trust is Treason.

The mines the duke of Glocester doth guide:
Then caus'd his ships the river up to stake,

That none with victual should the town relieve,
Should the sword fail, with famine them to grieue.
Drayton. Battle of Agincourt.

Th' increasing sound is borne to either shore,
And for their stakes the throwing nations fear
Their passions double with the cannon's roar,
And with warm wishes each man combats there.
Dryden. Annus Mirabilis.

Dam. To bring it to the trial, will you dare Our pipes, our skill, our voices, to compare? My brinded heifer to the stake I lay; Two thriving calves she suckles twice a day. Id. Virgil, Past. 3. The desperate gamester, who had staked his person and liberty on a last throw of the dice, patiently submitted to the decision of fortune, and suffered himself to be bound, chastised, and sold into remote slavery, by his weaker but more lucky antagonist.-Gibbon. Decline & Fail, c. 9.

STALACTICAL. Gr. TaλAKTIKOS, from Oraλag-ew, stillare, to drop. Applied to

Dropping or dripping water-congealed; an

icicle.

Hard by the cave is one or more vast stones, which (if I mistake not) are incrustrated with this sparry, stalactical substance, if not wholly made of it.

Derham. Physico-Theology, b. iii. c. 1. STALE. Dut. Stallen; Ger. Stallen; It. Stallàre, from stabulum, quia quum recenter veniunt in stabulum, quod stallam vocant Germani, tunc fere urinam solent emittere, (Scaliger.) Junius thinks Dut. Stel bier, vetus cerevisia et defecata; Eng. Stale beer, originates from this source. Their [mares] staling is no hinderance to their pace in unning their carriere, as it doth the horse, who must needs then stand still.-Holland. Plinie, b. viii. c. 42.

Thou did'st drinke

The stale of horses, and the gilded puddle
Which beasts would cough at.

Shakespeare. Anthony & Cleopatra, Act i. sc. 4.

STALE, adj. STALE, n. STALE, V. STA'LELY. STA'LENESS.

Dut. Stal; Ger. Stal; A.S. Stal, steal, is a place, a place in which things are exposed for sale. The Dut. Stullen, staellen; Fr. Estaller, is-to set upon a stall, to expose unto the view (as Cotgrave expresses) of all passengers, comers, or customers. Stale then is,

Exposed (sc.) till seen by every one; till become a common sight or spectacle; till it has lost its youth, novelty or freshness; and hence, old or aged, obsolete. offered, (sc. as a lure or enticement; a decoy, Fr. Stale, n. - any thing exposed, held out or Estalon,) any thing much used or worn.

To stale, to expose, to make public or common, old or obsolete; to wear out.

No, this thrise worthy and right valiant Lord,
Must not so staule his palme, nobly acquir'd,
Not by my will assubiugate his merit,
As amply titled as Achilles is.

Shakespeare. Troyl. & Cres. Act ii. sc. 3.

Age cannot wither her, nor custome stale
Her infinite variety: other women cloy
The appetites they feede, but she makes hungry,
Where most she satisfies.

Id. Anthony & Cleopatra, Act ii. sc. 2.

He's grown a stranger to all due respect,
Forgetful of his friends; and not content
To stale himself in all societies,
He makes my house here common as a mart,
A theatre, a public receptacle

For giddy humour, and diseased riot.

B. Jonson. Every Man in his Humour, Act ii. sc. 1. I'll go tell all the argument of his play afore-hand, and so stale his invention to the auditory, before it come forth. Id. Cynthia's Revels, Induction.

The lard of Drumlanrig lieng all this while in ambush with seuen hundred men, forbeare to breake out to giue anie charge vpon his enimies, least the earle of Lennox had kept a stale behind.-Holinshed. Hist. of Scotland, an. 1547.

Still, as he went, he craftie stales did lay,
With cunning traynes him to entrap unwares,
And privy spyals plast in all the way,

To weete what course he takes, and how he fares;
To ketch him at a vauntage in his snares.
Spenser. Faerie Queene, b. ii. c. 1.
Do you bring me liveries?
Stales to catch kites?
Beaum. & Fletch. Humourous Lieutenant, Act iii. sc. 2.
Kate. I pray your sir, is it your will
To make a stale of me amongst these mates?

Shakespeare. Taming of the Shrew, Act i. sc. 1.
Was this your drift, to use Ferneze's name,
Was he your fittest stale?

B. Jonson. The Case is altered, Act v. sc. 3.

The proof hath been, that both the beer, and the wine, (as well within water, as above,) have not been palled or deaded at all; but as good or somewhat better than bottles of the same drinks, and staleness, kept in a celler.

Bacon. Naturall Historie, § 385.

So that more than necessitie compelled him he could not eat, by reason that the stalenesse tooke awaie the pleasant tast thereof, and lesse prouoked his appetite. Holinshed. Historie of England, b. iv. c. 20.

All your promis'd mountains
And seas I am so stalely acquainted with.-B. Jonson.

This easie fool must be my stale, set up
To catch the people's eyes; he's tame and merciful,
Him I can manage, till I make him odious
By some unpopular act, and then dethrone him.
Dryden. Don Sebastian, Act i. sc. 1.

I'd rather read Orlando's comic tale,
Than a dull author always stiff, and stale,
Who thinks himself dishonour'd in his style,
If on his works the Graces do but smile.

Id. Art of Poetry.

Here wont the dean, when he's to seek,
To spunge a breakfast once a week;
To cry the bread was stale, and mutter
Complaints against the royal butter.

STALK, v. STALK, N. STALKY.

Swift. Past. Dialogue.

A. S. Stalc-an, to go warily, fairly, and softly; to stalke as fowlers do: also,-to go on stilts, (Somner.) See the quotation from Drayton; whence it appears that walking on stilts over ditches was the common practice in pursuit of moor-fowl. G. Douglas uses stalker for pastor agens telis, (En. 4.) The A. S. verb Stalc-an seems to have been formed upon the verb stæl-an, (stal-ig-an, stalg- or stælc-an,) to steal or creep upon; and the modern application to-lofty, stately walking, to have been derived from walking upon stilts.

Stalk, the noun,

Tooke thinks should be written stawk, and that the I may have been introduced (see the quotations from Chaucer) for the sake of the rhime to balkes; he concludes it to be the past part. of Stig-an, to ascend, to climb. We now apply it only to plants; Chaucer,-to the rounds, steps or stairs of a ladder.

To move or go warily, or creepingly; to go with or behind (a horse painted on cloth, used to conceal and deceive, and called) a stalking horse; to walk as if on stilts, with lofty, stately steps. Stalk, n.-the rising (stem of plants). The night was short, and faste by the day, That nedes cost he moste himselven hide. And to a grove faste ther beside With dredful foot than stalketh Palamon.

Chaucer. The Knightes Tale, v. 1478. His owen hond than made he ladders three, To climben by the renges and the stalkes Unto the tubbes honging in the baulkes.

Id. The Milleres Tale, v. 3024.

He can wel in min eye seen a stalk But in his owen he cannot seen a balk.

Id. The Reves Tale, v. 3917.

And to the bedde he stalketh stille,
Where that he wist was the wife,
And in his hande a rasour knife
He bare, with whiche hir throte he cut.

Gower. Con. A. b. ii.

But ere he could his armour on him dight,
Or gett his shield, his monstrous enimy
With sturdie steps came stalking in his sight.
Spenser. Faerie Queene, b. i. 7.

Come hither Leonato, what was it you told me of to day, that your niece Beatrice was in loue with signior Benedicke? Cla. O I, stalke on, stalke on, the foule sits. I did neuer thinke that lady would haue loued any man.

Shakespeare. Much Adoe about Nothing, Act ii, sc. 3.
His frank tongue

Being lent the reins, would take away all thought
Of malice, in your course against the rest;
We must keep him to stalk with.

B. Jonson. Sejanus, Act iii. sc. 2. Like as the seeded field greene grasse first showes, Then from greene grasse into a stalke doth spring, And from a stalke into an eare forth-growes, Which eare the frutefull graine doth shortly bring. Spenser. The Ruines of Rome. These cranes if they be made tame and gentle, are very playfull and wanton birds; and they will one by one dance (as it were) and run the round with their long shankes staulking full untowardly.-Holland. Plinie, b. x. c. 23.

The fowler is employed his limed twigs to set.
One underneath his horse, to get a shoot doth stalk;
Another over dykes upon his stilts doth walk.
Drayton. Poly-Olbion, s. 25.

Let the counsellour shew that hee beleeues it, by giuing counsell rather wholsome then pleasing, not for faction but for conscience, and by forbearing to make the good of the state the stalking horse of his private ends.

Hakewell. Apologie, b. iv. c. 14.

At least where vetches, pulse and tares have stood,
And stalks of lupines grew, (a stubborn wood)
Th' ensuing season, in return, may bear

The bearded product of the golden year.

Dryden. Virgil. Georgics, b. i. It grows upon a round stalk, and at the top bears a great stalky head.-Mortimer.

Protestant dissenters were therefore to serve as stalking horses, that papists might creep behind them, and have hopes of being some time or other admitted with them. Bolingbroke. Dissert, upon Parties Let. 2,

STALL, v. The A. S. Stall, stæl, appears STALL, n. to be the diminutive of Goth. STA'LLAGE. Stads; A. S. Sted, (stad-dæl,) STALLATION. and to be applied generally to STAʼLLING, n. any place; so are the Dut. and STA'LLON. Ger. Stal, including the Lat. Stabulum, a stable, (qv.) The Fr. Estal is the stall of a shop or booth. Dut. and Ger. Stallen; A. S. Styll-an, stabulare, in stabulo locare, to stall or stable, to stall oxen, or put them into a stall or stable; to feed, to fatten them.

Place, station; the place in which any thing stands, (horses, cattle;) any thing on or in which wares are placed, laid, spread for sale.

A stall is part of the stable-cach division in which an animal may stand: also-the seat appropriated in the choir to certain ranks of the clergy.

To stall, (generally,) is-to place, to station, to stand. (See INSTALE.) And

To stall, in Lincolnshire, (says Skinner,) and in other northern parts of England, is-to satiate, a met. from cattle fed in a stall.

Stallon, (Holinshed) seems to be-a scion, a cutting, to be graffed or planted.

It is not alle brouht to stalle for no powere.

R. Brunne, p. 282. The plough oxe in winter stalleth.-Gower. Con. A. b.vii. So that if any of our batayls breke, or dis-aray by any aduenture, than if ye se any suche nede, drawe thyder and confort them, and whan ye haue done, kepe agayne your stall and ye can, for this day ye can nat do better seruyce. Berners. Froissart. Cronycle, vol. i. c. 225.

In heuen to be stallyd with moost felicite.

Fabyan. Chronycle, c. 140. The munkys of ye house of Crystys Churche of Caubery chas hym to the archebysshopys see, & had ye palle, & was stalled soone after.-Id. Ib. an. 1597.

Their peeces then are called Petronels,

And they themselues by sundrie names are calld;
As Bandolliers, for who in mountaynes dwels,

In trowpes and bandes, ofte times is stoutly stalld.
Gascoigne. Vpon the Fruite of Fetters.

He came of the sanke roiall
That was cast out of a bouchers stall.

Skelton. Why come ye not to Court?

And now his stallation grew near, when the earl of Northumberland, warden of the marches, with one Sir Walter Welsh, gentleman of the king's privy chamber, came by the king's command to Cawood, to arrest the cardinall, [Wolsey.]-State Trials. 20 Hen. VIII. an. 1529.

The fat oxe, that wont ligge in the stall,
Is nowe fast stalled in her crumenall.

Spenser. The Shepheard's Calender. September.
All these together in one heape were throwne,
Like carkases of beastes in butchers stall.

Id. Faerie Queene, b. i. c. 5. Howbeit such a one [rose] was to be seene in Antwarpe 1585, as I haue heard, and I know who might haue had a slip or stallon thereof, if he would haue ventured ten pounds vpon the growth of the same, which should haue been but a tickle hazard.-Holinshed. Desc. of England, b. ii. c. 19. We could not stall together

In the whole world.

Shakespeare. Anthony & Cleopatra, Act v. sc. 1.
Praie you leaue mee, stall this in your bosome, and I
thanke you for your honest care.
Id. All's Well that Ends Well, Act i. sc. 3.
Long mayst thou liue, to wayle thy childrens death,
And see another, as I see thee now,
Deck'd in thy rights, as thou art stall'd in mine.
Id. Rich. III. Act i. sc. 3.
Call you that keeping for a gentleman of my birth, that
differs not from the stalling of an oxe?
Id. As You Like It, Act i. sc. 1.

Each stall, his herdsman hath an honest swaine,
Yet euery one, must euery day sustaine
The load of one beast, (the most fat, and best
Of all the stall-fed) to the woers feast.

Chapman. Homer. Odyssey, b. xiv.

Cries the stall-reader, bless us! what a word on
A title page is this! and some in file
Stand spelling false, while one might walk to Mile
End Green.

But if I gain the maid, three victims are decreed;
A stall-fed lamb, a goat, and heifer fair.

Fawkes. Theocritus. A Vow to Priapus.¦ [Taxes used to be levied upon the persons and goods of travellers] when they erected in it a booth or stall to sell them in. These different taxes were known in England by the names of passage, pontage, lastage, and stallage.

STALLION.

Smith. Wealth of Nations, b. iii. c. 3.

Fr. Estalone; It. Stallone, quasi stabuli dominus, lord of the stable or stall, says Skinner; but Junius and Ihre derive from the A. S. Stal-an, salire, saltare, (Ihre in v. Bespringa.)

A great sort of the quenes true harted subiectes in England, thincke it more mete for wanton Weston to be turned out for a stalaunt, and to kepe company and race among the courtesens of Colma hedge, than to vse anie kinde communication among worthi ladies or honest gételwomen.-Bp. Gardner. True Obedience, To the Reader.

Commonly the stalion and the mare are put together, when both of them are full two yeares old: and that about the spring æquinoctiall, that is to say, in mid-march: but if they be kept asunder untill they are full three years of age, they breed stronger colts.-Holland. Plinie, b. viii. c. 42. Staked up like to some stallion steed. Bp. Hall, b. iv. Sat. 1. Here she comes And yonder walks the stallion to discover. Beaum. & Fletch. The Woman's Prize, Act i. sc. 4. The colt that for a stallion is design'd, By sure presages shows his generous kind, Of able body, sound of limb and wind.

Dryden. Virgil. Georgics, b. iii. STALWORTH. Į Scotch Stalwart. (See STA'LWORTHHOOD. ( Jamieson.) A. S. Stalweorthe, or wyrthe, captu dignus; worth the taking (Somner;) and conse- i (stealing) or seizing, quentially,Redoubted, brave or bold, strong, daring, violent, vehement.

For ther nas knygt in monylonde, ny stalewarde man,
That in the o syde ther was; & al for a womman.
R. Gloucester, p. 9.
For Gode's loue, staleworthe men, armeth gou faste,
To sle these homlynges, and here casteles a doun caste.
Id. p. 18.

The kyng adde by hys vorste wyf one stalwarde sone,
That, vor hys stalwardhed, longe worth in mone [mind].
Id. p. 293.
Hii bygonne an holy Thore's ene then toun asaly there
Stalwardlyche & vaste ynou, noblemen as yt were.

Id. p. 395.

26.

After this Alfride hom Edward the olde, Faire man he was & wis, stalworth & bolde. R. Brunne, p. Whan thei were alle dight, stalworthely & fast Bothe day & nyght vnto the toure he hast. Id. p. 165. This in the Englysshe booke is named Maximian, the whiche, as testyfyeth Gaufride and other, was stalworth and mighty of his handes.-Fabyan. Chronycle, c. 72.

O frendship, flour of flowers, O liuely sprite of lyfe, O sacred bond of blissful peace, the stalworth stanch of strife.-Poems of Vncertaine Auctors. Of Frendship.

STA'MINA. STA'MINATED. STAMI'NEOUS.

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Here you a muckworm of the town might see,
At his dull desk, amid his legers stall'd,
Eat up with carking care and penurie.

Thomson. Castle of Indolence, c. 1. Coming nearer still, I saw a great deal of meat on the stalls, that were plac'd at a small distance from the tower. Dampier. Voyages, an. 1688.

It may be stamin, Fr. Estamine, from stamen, (qv.),—a kind of woollen stuff.

Is't not a misery, and the greatest of our age, to see a handsome, young, fair enough, and well mounted wench, humble her self, in an old stammel petticoat, standing pos sest of no more fringe, than the street can allow her. Beaum. & Fletch. The Woman Hater, Activ. sc. 2. Red-hood, the first that doth appear In stamel.-Scarlet is too dear.

STAMMER, v. STAMMERER, n. STAMMERING, n.

When children first begin to spell, And stammer out a syllable,

We think them tedious creatures.-Cowper. The Parrot.

STAMP, v.

STAMP, n.

STA'MPER.

Fr. Estampe; It. Stampa; Sp. Estampa; Dut. Stampen; Ger. Stampfen; Sw. Stampa. Benson STAMPING, n. has A. S. Stampe, pilum. Thre suggests from the A. S. Stapp-an, to step; to fix or set down the step; firmly, strongly, so as to impress or make an impression.

To strike down firmly with the foot, to impress or mark; to make or fix a mark, sign or impression; to press, force or beat down, to imprint; to form or fashion, (as metal stampt,) to designate or denote (a value-as to coin-for currency.)

Thise cokes how they stamp, and strein, and grind,
And turnen substance into accident,
To fulfill all thy likerous talent!

Chaucer. The Pardoneres Tale, v. 12,472.

I happened upon the side of it, in a little falling of the ground which was a rampier against the sun's rage, to perceive a young maid, truly of the finest stamp of beauty. Sidney. Arcadia, b. iii.

The lords at London having tried all kinds of stamping, both of the fineness of 9, 8, 6, 4, and 3, proved that without any loss, but sufferable, the coin might be brought to eleven ounces fine.-Burnet. Records, pt. ii. b. 2.

Her twyfold teme (of which two blacke as pitch,
And two were browne, yet each to each unlich)
Did softly swim away, ne ever stamp
Unlesse she chaunst their stubborne mouths to twich.
Spenser. Faerie Queene, b. i. c. 5.
He smote the upper part

Of all his skull, even where the haire, that made his foretop, sprung;

The hurt was deadly, and the paine, so sore the courser stung,

(Pierc't to the braine) he stampt and plung'd.

Chapman. Homer. Iliad, b. viii Concerning gold coined into money, it came up threescor and two years after the stamping of silver peeces and scriptule of gold was taxed and valued at twentie sesterces which ariseth in every pound according to the worth of ses terces as they were rated in those daies, to nine hundre sesterces.-Holland. Plinie, b. xxxiii. c. 3.

It is an established opinion amongst some men, that ther are in the understanding certain innate principles; som primary notions, Korvai evroiai, characters; as it were stamps upon the mind of man, which the soule receives in its ver first being; and brings into the world with it.

Locke. On Hum. Underst. b. i. c.

To make nature and the material forms of bodies to be one and the self-same thing, is all one as if one should make the seal (with the stamper too) to be one and the same thing, with the signature upon the wax.

Cudworth. Intellectual System, b.i. c. 3. It must be written on stamped paper, for instance; it must be signed and sealed, and executed before witnesses. Gilpin, vol. iii. Ser. 23.

Hence the origin of coined money, and of those public offices called mints; institutions of exactly the same nature with those of the aulnagers and stamp-masters of woolen and linen cloth.-Smith. Wealth of Nations, b. i. c. 4.

Stanchion.-Fr. Estanson, a prop or stay.

Fr. Estancer, to stop or stay, to prop or uphold.

His herte gaf tille dame Blanche, if hir wille wer therto, & holy kirke wild stanche sibred bituex tham tuo, Hire than wild he wedde.

R. Brunne, p. 253. But couetise of men, that may not be staunched, shall it binde me to be stedfaste, sythen that stedfastenesse is vncouthe to my maners -Chaucer. Boecius, b. ii.

Who shall than yeue me a contrarious drinke, to staunch the thrust of my blisfull bitternes ? Id. The Testament of Loue, b. i.

And downe he light, and by the brinke
He tide his hors vnto a branche
And laide him lowe for to stanche
His thrust.

Gower, Con. A. b. i.
O frendship, flour of flowers, O liuely sprite of lyfe,
O sacred bond of blissful peace, the stalworth stanch of
strife.-Poems of Vncertaine Auctors. On Frendship.

I wil staunche his floudes, and the great waters shal be restrayned.-Bible, 1551. Ezechiel, c. 31.

The foresayde erle sette fyre vpon a syde of the cytie and brent a great parte thereof, as well churchys as other, whiche fyre was scantly stenchyd in viii. dayes after.

Fabyan. Chronycle, an. 8. John (of France.)

When he hath thus done, he stoppeth the orifice again with mud, and so stancheth the bloud, and healeth up the wound.-Holland. Plinie, b. viii. c. 26.

erect position; distinguished from-to lie, to sit, to kneel.

To be, or cause to be or become, in an erect, upright posture; to rest, to remain, to abide, to continue erect, firm, fixed; motionless ;-firm, secure ;-to stop, stay, cease, or cause to stop or stay, or cease from motion, from falling; to halt; to be or cause to be, to put or place, to stay, remain in hold or keep any place, position, state, or condition; any way or path-course or direction.

Stand, used with prepositions, has various consequential applications; as to stand by, or stand up; as assistant, friend, advocate, defender, coadjutor;-to assist, to befriend, to aid or abet.

To stand out, (sc. )-in opposition or resistance, to persist. It is also thus used as equivalent to other compounds of the Lat. Sistere.

To assist, to consist, to insist, to persist, to resist.

Standard, a standard tree, (distinguished from a dwarf,) one that stands-upon a tall trunk. A standard,-around which soldiers or others stand or place themselves.

A standard,-(of measure, of fineness, &c.)— that by which quantity or quality is fixed or regulated, rated, estimated, valued.

Standish,-for pens to stand in.

He gedere ys ost anon

To werre, & to stonde a geyn the Romaynes ys fon.
R. Gloucester, p. 80.
And Edmond ydygt hys standard, were he ssolde hym suif
abyde.
Id. p. 303.
Thise men lift ther standard, that stoute was & grim.
R. Brunne, p. 115.
He asayed tham bi and bi, & retreied tham ilkone,
& stoned tham alle wery, standand stille as stone.

Id. p. 219. And Jhesus stood and clepide hem and seide, what wolen ye that I do to you? Thei seyen to him, Lord that oure yghen be opened.-Wiclif. Matthew, c. 20.

Then Jesus stode styll, and called the, and sayde: what wyll ye that I shoulde do to you; they sayde to hym: Lorde that our eyes maye be opened.-Bible, 1551. Ib.

And he gede out aboute the thridde houre and sigh othere stondynge ydel in the chepyng: and he seide to hem go ye also in to my vyneyerd.-Wiclif. Matthew, c. 20.

And he wet out about the third houre, & sawe other

Mal. With this, there growes

In my most ill-compos'd affection, such

A stanchlesse auarice, that were I king,

I should cut off the nobles for their lands.

Shakespeare. Macbeth, Act iv. sc. 3.

It should make us staunch and cautious of grounding judgment or censure upon present events about any cause, or any person.-Barrow, vol. i. Ser. 22.

If some staunch hound, with his authentic voice,

Avow the recent trail, the justling tribe

Attend his call, then with one mutual cry
The welcome news confirm, and echoing hills
Repeat the pleasing tale.-Somervile. The Chase.

Having once, to try the stanchness of the phial, blown in so much air (without taking out any thing as we use to do in the like case) that the air in the cavity of the phial raised and kept the quick-silver three inches high in the pipe. Boyle. Workes, vol. iii. p. 184.

Some of the staunchest friends of the people, men brought into the country at the revolution, owing all their honours and emoluments to it, and hitherto professed and zealous Whigs, deserted the standard of liberty, and took distinguished posts under the banners of the enemy.

Knox. The Spirit of Despotism. When all the parts are prepared, the keel is laid upon blocks, and the planks being supported by stanchions, are sewed or clamped together with strong thongs of plaiting. Cook. First Voyage, b. i. c. 18. Goth. and A. S. Stand-an; Dut. Standen, staen; Ger. Stehen; Sw. Staa; Lat. Stare; Gr. Ernvaι; A. S. Standard; Dut. Standaerd; Ger. Standart; Sw. Standar; Fr. Estandart; It. Stendàrdo; Sp. Estandarte.

STAND, v.
STANDARD.
STANDEL.

STANDER.
STANDING, n.
STANDISH.

Applied to the position of the human body,To stand,-to be, to rest upon the feet in an VOL. II.

go ye also in to my vyneyarde.-Bible, 1551. Ib.

Ye shul understond also, that fasting stont in three thinges in forbering of bodily mete and drinke, in forbering of worldly jolitee, and in forbering of dedly sinne ; this is to say, that a man shall kepe him fro dedly sinne with all his might.-Chaucer. The Persones Tale.

The people stode in obeisance
Under the rule of gouernance

And peace with vnrightewisenesse keste
With charitee tho stode in reste.-Gower. Con. A. Prol.

But the yong spring there, and everie where else, was pitifullie nipt and over-troden by very beastes; and also the fairest standers of all were rooted up, and cast into the fire. Ascham. Schole-master, b. ii.

Wise men do know, that meane lookers on may trewlie say, for a well made picture; "This face had been more comlie, if that hie redde in the cheeke were somwhat more pure sanguin than it is:" and yet the stander by cannot amend it himselfe by any way.—Id. Ib.

Some that were heretikes in dede, would for the great estimacyō yt Origene was in through al yt church, auaunce their owne heresies forwarde vnder the name and standerd of hys famous authoritie.-Sir T. More. Workes, p. 410.

Knights banerets are made in the fielde, with the ceremonie of cutting of the point of his standert, & making it as it were a banner.-Smith. Commonwealth, b. i. c. 18.

But those two other, which beside them stoode,
Were, Britomart and gentle Scudamour;
Who all the while beheld their wrathfull moode,
And wondred at their implacáble stoure,
Whose like they never saw till that same houre.
Spenser. Faerie Queene, b. iv. c. 9.

Prodigious wits! that study to confound
The life of wit, to seem to know aright;
As if themselves had fortunately found
Some stand from off the earth beyond our sight;
Whence overlooking all as from above,
Their grace is not to work, but to reprove.
Id. Musophilus.

1809

She tooke her horrid stand

Vpon Vlysses huge blacke barke, that did at anchor ride,
Amidst the fleet.-Chapman. Homer. Iliad, b. xi.

Look how you see a field of standing coru,
When some strong wind in summer haps to blow,
At the full height, and ready to be shorn,
Rising in waves, how it doth come and go
Forward and backward.

Drayton. The Battle of Agincourt.

In warlike state the royal standard borne
Before him, as in splend'rous arms he rode,
Whilst his courveting courser seem'd in scorn
To touch the earth whereon he proudly trod.-Id. Ib.
The ficklenesse and fugitivenesse of such servants justly
addeth a valuation to their constancy who are standards in
a family, and know when they haue met with a good master.
Fuller. General Worthies, c. 11.

He said; and swiftly through the troupes, a mortall lance
did send,
That reft a standard-bearers life, renownd Æneas friend.
Chapman. Homer. Iliad, b. v.

The commissioners of this county did not over-weary themselves in working, when they returned these persons; presenting no under wood, yea, no standels, but onely tymber oaks, men of great wealth and worship in this shire.

Fuller. Worthies. Northumberland.

Care was taken in the reign of king Henry the eighth (when woods were in a far better condition than now adays) for the preserving of the standells of beech. Id. Ib. Buckinghamshire.

The law was given with terrors and noises, with amazements of the standers by, and Moses himself the minister did exceedingly quake and fear.-Bp. Taylor, vol. i. Ser. 7.

I have newly made, at least an essay of my invention, at least in the structure of a little poor standish, of so contemptible value, as I dare offer it to your Lordship without offence of your integrity.-Reliquiæ Wottonianæ, p. 339 The French have set up purity for the standard of their language; and a masculine vigour is that of ours. Dryden. Eneis, Ded.

Your cavalcade the fair spectators view,
From their high standings, yet look up to you.
Id. To his Sacred Majesty.

"Take your desert, the death you have decreed;
I seal your doom, and ratify the deed:

By Mars, the patron of my arms, you die."
He said; dumb sorrow seiz'd the standers-by.

Id. Palamon & Arcite.

"What well? what weapon?" (Flavia cries)

"A standish, steel and golden pen !

It came from Bertrand's, not the skies;
I gave it you to write again.

Pope. On receiving from Lady Shirley a Standish and
two Pens.

It is therefore necessary to have recourse to some visible, palpable, material standard; by forming a comparison with which, all weights and measures may be reduced to one uniform size: and the prerogative of fixing this standard our antient law vested in the crown.

Blackstone. Commentaries, b. i. c. 7.

Labour alone, therefore, never varying in its own value, is alone the ultimate and real standard by which the value of all commodities can at all times and places be estimated and compared.-Smith. Wealth of Nations, b. i. c. 5.

STANG. A. S. Stang, steng; Dut. Stanghe; Ger. Stang, a pole. It. Stanga, a bar or post, from the A. S. Sting-an, to push into, to sting, (pungere), and as the Lat. Contus, from Gr. Kevrew, (pungere),—

A pole, a long bar, post, shaft of cart, &c.; and (as pole also is) applied to a measure of length.

These fields were intermingled with woods of half a stang, and the tallest trees, as I could judge, appeared to be 7 feet high.-Swift. Voyage to Lillipul, c. 2.

STANK, adj. is probably a consequential usage of stanch, as the Fr. Estanche,-stanched, slaked, quenched, quailed, (Cotgrave.)

Hob. Diggon I am so stiffe and so stanck, That uneth may I stand any more.

Spenser. The Shepheard's Calender. September. STANK. Fr. Estang, a great pond, pool or standing water, (Cotgrave.) G. Douglas also uses this word, and the Gloss. derives it from the Lat. Stagnum. It has probably no other origin than the preceding stank. See STANCH.

Ray calls it "a dam, or bank to stop water." Whan thei had wele reden, that tham thouht righe lang They lighted and abiden biside a water stank.

R. Brunne, p. 68. And fand æne stank that florirt from a well.

G. Douglas. Eneados, b. vii. 10 X

STANNARY. Lat. Stannum; Fr. Estain, tin, (qv.) See the quotations from Carew, and Holinshed.

To each of these [quarters] is assigned by the Lord Warden, a steward, who keepeth his court once in euery three weekes: they are termed stannery courts, of the Latine stannum, in Englishe Tynne, and hold plea of whatsoever action of debt or trespasse whereto any one dealing with blacke or white tynne either as plaintife or defendant, is a party.-Carew. Suruey of Cornwall, fol. 18.

She hath also laid vpon you the charge of a gouernement in your owne countrie, where you are to command manie people by your honourable office of the stannarie, and where you are both a iudge and chancellor, to rule in iustice and to iudge in equitie.-Holinshed. Chronycle, Ep. Ded.

If by publick law the mint were ordained to be onely supplied by our stannaries, how currantly would they pass for more precious than silver mines?

Bp. Hall. Select Thoughts.

The stannary courts in Devonshire and Cornwall, for the administration of justice among the tinners therein, are also courts of record, but of the same private and exclusive nature.-Blackstone. Commentaries, b. iii. c. 6.

STA'NYEL. The first folio of Shakespeare reads stallion; Hanmer changed it into stanyel, the common stone-hawk, which inhabits old buildings and rocks. In the North called stanchil, (Steevens.)

To. And with what wing the stallion checkes at it? Shakespeare. Twelfth Night, Act ii. sc. 5.

To prevent this daunger therefore, the doves need to have with them the bird which is called Tinnunculus, i. a kestrill, or stannell for she defendeth them, and (by a certaine naturall power that she hath) skareth and terrifieth all other hawkes insomuch, as they cannot abide either to see her, or to heare her crie.-Holland. Plinie, b. x. c. 37.

STANZA. Fr. Stance, a staff of verses, (Cotgrave;) It. Stanza; Sp. Estancia; a staying place, dwelling place. Also,

A pause or stay; a staff or stave, or set number of lines; at the end of which the metrical versification stays or stops and resumes or recurs again.

Therefore (but not without new-fashioning the whole frame) I chose Ariosto's stanza, of all other the most compleat and best proportioned, consisting of eight; six interwoven or alternate, and a couplet in base.

Drayton. Barons' Wars, Pref.

I have chosen to write my poem in quatrains, or stanzas of four alternate rhyme, because I have ever judged them more noble and of greater dignity, both for the sound and number, than any other verse in use amongst us.

Dryden. Let. to Sir R. Howard.

The poet having made choice of a certain number of verses to constitute his strophe, or first stanza, was obliged to observe the same in his antistrophe, or second stanza. Congreve. Disc. on the Pindaric Ode.

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STAPLE, adj. Fr. Estape; Dut. Stapel; STA'PLE, n. Ger. Stapel; Sw. Stapel; STAPLER. the staple of a door, &c. a staple mart or market. A. S. Stapel, stapol, stapul, the staple of a door, &c., so called (says Skinner) quia ostium stabilit et fulcit, because it props the door, and renders it stable, fixed, firm. Staple in all its other applications seems to have the same origin, i.e. stable, established. (Dut. Stapelen, stabilire.)

A staple market, an established market or port; a market or port established by law or ordi-a mart or market, an emponance; generally,— rium, a place of resort. A staple commodity,-a commodity, the trade in, or manufacture of which, is in any place (more than other) established, settled, regular, and, consequentially, there the principal or chief. Also, a commodity subject to the king's staple or place established for paying imports.

From the old statute it appears that staple was applied to a district,-as the staple of Westminster, extending from Temple Bar to Tothill. (See Rastell.) Hence the staple granted to the

Abbies.

And he an axe before the foremost rought
Wherewith he gan the strong gates hew and break :
From whens he bet the staples out of brass.
Surrey. Virgile. Eneis, b. ii.

Whan kyng Edwarde was thus stablysshed in this realme, great sute and labour was made to hym for the repayment of the foresayd. xviii. M. li. to hym and other dyleueryd by stapelers.-Fabyan. Chronycle. Edw. III. an. 1463.

Also they haue a maior and officers of the staple yearelie to be chosen, who haue the liberties for taking of statutes and recognisances staple, within their owne towne & concerning themselues. Holinshed. Chronicles of Irelande, an. 1576. Merch. Sirrah, I'll make you know you are my prentice, And whom my charitable love redeem'd Even from the fall of fortune; gave the heat And growth, to be what now thou art, new cast thee, Adding the trust of all I have at home,

In forreign staples, or upon the sea
To thy direction.

Beaum. & Fletch. Knight of the Burning Pestle, Act i. sc. 1.

The Spaniards notwithstanding they are the masters of the staple of jewels, stood astonished at the beauty of these, and confessed themselves to be put down.

Howell, b. i. Let. 1.

I have now made a resolution to plant a staple whensoever we shall be separated, to venture my whole poor stock in traffique with you, finding the return so ganeful unto me. Reliquia Wottonianæ, p. 414.

I say had this vineyard been there, it had disinherited Tempe of its honour; and hence the poets would have dated all their delights as from a little paradise, and staple-place of earthly pleasure.-Fuller. Worthies. Hartfordshire.

He also graunted libertie of coyning to certaine cities and abbeíes, allowing them one staple, and two puncheons at a rate, with certaine restrictions.-Camden. Remaines. Money.

This city of Amsterdam, tho she be a great staple of news, yet I can impart none unto you at this time, and I will defer that till I come to the Hague.-Howell, b. i. Let. 5.

The kingdom abounds in rich staple commodities, as silks, cottons, and wine, and there is a mighty revenue comes to the crown.-Id. Let. 39.

They [the English] throve so well, that they took the whole trade into their own hands, and so divided themselves

(tho they be now but one) to staplers and merchant-adven

tures, the one residing constant in one place, where they kept their magazine of wool, the other stirring, and adventuring to divers places abroad with cloth, and other manufactures.-Id. Let. 3.

The silver ring she pull'd, the door reclos'd,
The bolt, obedient to the silken cord,
To the strong staple's inmost depth restor'd,
Secur'd the valves.

Pope. Homer. Odyssey, b. i.

The staple of this commerce to and from Manila, was removed from Callao on the coast of Peru, to the port of Acapulco on the coast of Mexico.-Anson. Voyages, b. ii. c. 10.

And while each little author struts
In calves-skin gilt, adorn'd with cuts;
I, vouching, pass 'em off as dear
As any staple-classic ware.

Fenton. Knight of the Sable Shield. These [customs on wool, skins, and leather,] were formerly called the hereditary customs of the crown; and, were due on the exportation only of the said three commodities, and of none other: which were styled the staple commodities of the kingdom, because they were obliged to be brought to these ports where the king's staple was established, in order to be there first rated, and then exported.

STAR. STA'RRED. STA'RLESS. STARLIKE. STARLIGHT, adj. STARLIGHT, n. STARLIT, adj. STA'RRY.

Blackstone. Commentaries, b. i. c. 8.

Goth. Stairn; A. S. Steorra; Dut. Sterre; Ger. Stern; Sw. Stiern; Gr. Αστηρ. Wachter supposes from the Ger. Steuren, to rule, (to steer,) from the influence attributed to the stars in the government of human affairs. The A. S. Stir-an, to steer, to stir, to move, (Ger. Steuren,) is probably the origin of our word star; and the name may have been given to the glittering luminaries of the sky from their apparent perpetual motion or twinkling. Kilian says (upon the authority of Becan), that starre is which is peculiar to the stars, especially to those the continual, the perpetual quivering (vibratio) which, on account of their remote distance, are perceived continually to glitter.

Instead of starlight and moonlight, adj. modern refinement is attempting to introduce the past part. star-lit and moon-lit ;-there is no reason for an entire change.

Rigte aboute the kynge's deth, in the firmament an hey
A sterre, gret and fayr ynow, and swythe cler, me sey.
R. Gloucester, p. 151.

The tethe ger a sterre, that comete ycluped ys,

At Alle Halwyn tyd hym ssewede vyftene nygt ywys,
That the taylede sterre men cluped hym myd rygte,
Vor ther come frame hyre a leme suythe cler & brygte,
As a tayl, other a lance, as me may y se.
R. Gloucester, p.416,

Kynde wol gow telle
That in mesure God made. alle manere thynges
And sette hit at sertayn. and at a syker numbre
And nempnede hem names. and nombrede the sterres.
Piers Ploukman, p. 405.

And seiden, where is he that is borun kyng of Jewis! for we han seen his sterre in the eest: and we comen for to worschipe him.-Wiclif. Matthew, c. 2.

Saying where is he that is borne kynge of Jewes? We haue sene his starre in the east, and are come to worshyp him.-Bible, 1551. Ib.

Thus hath this pitous day a blisful end;
For every man, and woman, doth his might
This day in mirth and revel to dispend,
Til on the welkin shone the sterres bright.

Chaucer. The Clerkes Tale, v. 8934.
In goodnes of gentil manlich spech, without any maner
of nicite of starieres imaginacion, in wit and in good reason
of sentence, he passeth al other makers.
Id. The Testament of Loue, b. iii.
Like to the crabbe [Cancer] hath semblance,
And hath vnto his retinance
Xvi. sterres, wherof ten,

So as these olde wise men
Discriue, he bereth on him tofore,
And in the middell two before,

And. iiii. he hath vpon his ende:

Thus goeth he sterred in his kende.-Gower. Con. A. b.vii.

So is he [Taurus] not there sterreles.
Upon his brest eke eightene

He hath, and eke as it is sene,
Upon his taile stand other two.
But for all that yet nethelesse
Is Scorpio not sterlesse.
For Libra graunteth him his ende,
Of viii. sterres, where he wende,
The whiche vpon his head assised
He beareth, and eke there ben deuised
Upon his wombe sterres thre.

Ossa was layde on Pindus backe,
and Pelion on hie :

And thus they thought to bring to sack in time the starrie skie.

Id. Ib.

Id. Ib.

Turbervile. Myrrour of the Fall of Pride If Mars mooue warre, as starcoonners can tel, And poets eke in fables use to faine.

Gascoigne. The Fruites of Warre Let now the astrologers, the starre gasers, and prognosti catours stand vp, & saue thee from these things, that she come vpon thee.-Bible, 1583. Isa. xlvii. 13.

And though also that al the ceremonies, & sacrifices hau as it were a starrelight of Christ, yet some there be the haue as it were the lyght of the broad day, a little befcr the sonne rising.-Tyndall. Workes, p. 12.

The which, more eath it were for mortall wight
To tell the sands, or count the starres on hye,
Or ought more hard, than thinke to reckon right.
Spenser. Faerie Queene, b. iv. e. 11
Then form'd the moon

Globose, and every magnitude of starrs,
And sowd with starrs the heav'n thick as a field.
Milton. Paradise Lost, b. vi

My third comfort

(Star'd most vnluckily) is from my breast
(The innocent milke in it's most innocent mouth)
Hal'd out to murther.

Shakespeare. The Winter's Tale, Act iii. sc. 1
Or that starr'd Ethiop queen that strove
To set her beauty's praise above
The sea-nymphs, and their pow'rs offended.

Milton. Il Penseres

For not beneath the ample sunne, and heavens starr bearing hill,

There is a towne of earthly men, so honour'd in m minde,

As sacred Troy.-Chapman. Homer. Iliad, b. iv.

A globe farr off

It seem'd, now seems a boundless continent
Dark, waste, and wild, under the frown of night
Starless expos'd, and ever-threatning storms
Of Chaos blustring round.-Milton. Paradise Lost, b. ii
Nor silent night
With this her solemn bird, nor walk by moon,
Or glittering starr-light without thee is sweet.

Id. Ib. b. i

Yet well I wot where to recover mine, [wit,]
Tho not in Paradise, nor Cynthias spheare,
Yet doubtless in a place no less divine,
In that sweet face of yours, in that fair hair,
That ruby lip, in those two star-like eyne,
There is my wit-I know it wanders there.
P. Fletcher. Eclogues, Eel