But it is not, perhaps he will pretend. for to assuage a private passion, or to promote his particular concernment, that he makes so bold with his neighbour, or deals so harshly with him; but for the sake of orthodox doctrine, for advan

tage of the true church, for the advancement of publick good, he judgeth it expedient to asperse him. Barrow, vol. i. Ser. 18.

and brutality.

This [delight in beholding torments] has been the raging passion of many tyrants, and barbarous nations; and belongs, in some degree. to such tempers as have thrown off; that courteousness of behaviour which retains in us a just reverence of mankind, and prevents the growth of harshness Shaftesbury. Inquiry concerning Virtue, b. ii. pt. ii. s. 3. But their peculiarity is not excellence; if they differ from the verses of others, they differ for the worse; for they are too often distinguished by repulsive harshness. Johnson. Life of Milton. We might place in contrast those songs of praise and thanksgiving, which were chaunted to the honour of the God of Israel, accompanied by the cymbol, the sacbut, and the harp, with the harsh and discordant notes, by which savage nations make their earlier attempts at harmony. Cogan. Theol. Dis. on the Jewish Dispensation. With a smile Gentle, and affable, and full of grace. As fearful of offending whom he wish'd Much to persuade, he plied his ear with truths, Not harshly thunder'd forth, or rudely press'd, But, like his purpose, gracious, kind, and sweet. Cowper. The Task.

HART.

Their haslets are equal to that of a hog, and the flesh of some of them eats little inferior to beef-steaks. Cook. Voyages, b. i. c. 4. A. S. Heort; Ger. Hirsch ; HART'S-HORN. Hjort. derives from Heort, cor, and thinks it applied to the animal from the largeness and timorousness of its heart. Wachter, from Gr. Kepaos, horned, from the size of its horns; and Ihre from A. S. Heorod, a herd, because they feed or pasture in herds.

Hartshorn,-sec the quotation from Pennant.

Ther saw he hartes with hir hornes hie,
The gretest that were ever seen with eie.

Chaucer. The Frankeleines Tale, v. 11,503.
Centaurus badde, that he [Achilles] ne sholde
After no best make his chas,

Whiche wolde fleen out of his place:

As bucke and do, and herte and hynde,

With whiche he maie no werre finde.-Gower. C. A. b. iv.

A strong solution of the volatile salt of harts-horn, or of blood, made with their own phlegm or spirit, after some time exhibits certain short flat prismes.

Grew. Cosmo. Sacra, b. i. c. 3. "And," as a great warrior said, "I had rather had an army of harts, their general being a lion, than an army of lions, their general being an hart."

Strype. Life of Smith, p. 192. App. The Count Kinski, ambassador from the emperor to the treaty at Nimeguen, gave me a receipt of the salt of hartshorn, by which a famous Italian physician of the emperor's had performed mighty cures upon many others as well as himself. Sir W. Temple. Of the Cure of the Gout.

They [the horns of the stag] abound in ammonia, which

is the basis of the spirit of hartshorn; and the remains (after

astringent in fluxes, which is known by the name of burnt the salts are extracted) being calcined, become a valuable hartshorn.-Pennant. British Zoology. Deer.

HARVEST, v. Į A. S. Harfest, which Wach

HARVEST, N.

ter derives from the Goth. Ar, annona, and A. S. Fon, capere. Dr. Th. H., in Skinner-from Hertha, whom the ancient Germans worshipped pro Vesta, and feast, q.d. Vestæ seu Terræ, festivitas, seu dies festi. Skinner himself is inclined to herba and festum, q.d. Festum seu festivitas herbarum. The A. S. Har-ian, canescere, to grow or become hoary, and wastmiun, fructificare, to bear or produce fruit, (expressing quentially, the ripening of the fruits of the earth,) by their composition, the whitening, and, conseseem to present a plain and satisfactory etymology. Harvest, then, will first be used to signify,

Ripened corn; and be, then, applied to the season for the ripening and reaping of corn; to the gathering of any produce, of any thing produced or gained; to the produce or gain itself. 'Harvest is much used-prefixed.

So that thys duc adde agen heruest al gare Hys barons & hys knygtes, myd hym vorto fare. R. Gloucester, p. 358. Heruest trees without fruyt, twies deed, drawn up bi the roote.-Wiclif. Judas, v. 11.

And yet what parson or uicar is there that will forget to haue a pygin house to pecke vp somewhat both at sowing tyme, and at haruest whe corne is ripe. They will forget nothing. Tyndall. Works, p. 136.

Next him September marched eeke on foote;
Yet was he heavy laden with the spoyle

Of harvests riches, which he made his boot,
And him enricht with bounty of the soyle;
In his one hand, as fit for harvests toyle,

He held a knife-hook.-Spenser. Faerie Queene, c. 7.

In harvest time, harvest folk, servants and all,
Should make altogether good cheer in the Hall;
And fill out the black bowl of blythe to their song,
And let them be merry all harvest time long,
Once ended thy harvest, let none be beguiled-
Please such as did help thee-man, woman, and child.

Came there a certaine lord, neat, trimly drest; Fresh as a bride-groome, and his chin new reapt, Shew'd like a stubble land at haruest-home.

Shakespeare. 1 Pt. Henry IV. Act i. sc. 3. And thus of all my harvest-hope I have Nought reaped but a weedie crop of care.

Spenser. Shepheard's Calender. December. Think, oh, grateful think! How good the God of harvest is to you; Who pours abundance o'er your flowing fields; While those unhappy partners of your kind Wide hover round you like the fowls of heaven, And ask their humble dole. Thomson. Autumn

I have seen a stock of reeds harvested and stacked, worth two or three hundred pounds.-Pennant. Tour in Scotland.

Fancy, with prophetic glance,
Sees the teeming months advance;
The field, the forest, green and gay,
The dappled slope, the tedded hay;
Sees the reddening orchard blow,
The harvest wave, the vintage flow.

HASH. See To HACK.

To hack or chop, to cut in pieces; to cook or dress meat so cut.

Warton. Ode. The first of April.
See ARUSPEX.

HARUSPICES.

A little after the civil war between Cæsar and Pompey, the haruspices ordered the temples of the deities to be de

molished. Jortin. Rem. on Eccles. Hist.

A hash, (met.)-applied to things cut and dressed up anew.

The entertainment [at the Portugal Ambassador's] was exceeding civil, but besides a good olio, the dishes were trifling. hash'd and condited after their way, not at all fit for an English stomach, which is for solid meate.

Evelyn. Memoirs, Dec. 4, 1679.

I ask my readers to no treat
Of scientific hash'd-up meat,
Nor seek to please theatrick friends,
With scraps of plays, and odds and ends.

Lloyd. A Dialogue between the Author and his Friend. Old pieces are revived and scarcely any new ones admitted; the public are again obliged to ruminate over those hashes of absurdity, which were disgusting to our ancestors even in an age of ignorance.—Goldsmith. Of Polite Learning.

HASK. The Glossarist to Spenser says, "A haske, is a wicker ped (basket) wherein they use to carry fish." Mr. Todd, in his note upon the passage, cites an instance of the usage of the word from Davison's Poems. Dr. Jamieson thinks it

may be from the Sw. Hwass, a rush.

But nowe sadde winter welked hath the day,
And Phoebus, wearie of his yearly taske,
Ystabled hath his steedes in lowly lay,
And taken up his ynne in fishes haske.

Spenser. Shepheard's Calender. November. HASP, v. A. S. Haps, a lock, a haspe. HASP, n. Hapsian, to locke, to haspe, (Somner.) Ger. Hespe; Sw. Haspe; Low Lat. Haspa, which Spelman calls. retinaculum quod posti

Gr. 'ATTEw, nectere. ostium annectit. Skinner and Junius-from the Wachter-from the Ger. verb Heb-en, (Goth. Hab-an; A. S. Habban,) tenere, to hold or keep.

His knave was a strong carl for the nones,
And by the haspe he haf it at ones;
Into the flore the dore fell anon.

Chaucer. The Milleres Tale, v. 3470.
Besides these jewels, you must get
Cuff buckles, and an handsome set
Of tags for palatine, a curious hasp
The manteau 'bout her neck to clasp.

Evelyn. A Voyage to Marry-land. Haspt in a tombril, awkward have you shin'd, With one fat slave before, and none behind.

Garth. The Dispensary, e. 5. Which may for some uses be a little more commodious if the cover be joined (as it may easily be) to the rest of the frame, by two or three little hinges and a hasp, by whose help the case may be readily opened and shut at pleasure. Boyle. Works, vol. iii. p. 221.

Upon landing two little trunks, which was all we carried with us, we were surprised to see fourteen or fifteen fellows all running down to the ship to lay their hands upon them: four got under each trunk, the rest surrounded, and heid the hasps.-Goldsmith. To Sir Joshua Reynolds.

stack.)
Buy a mat for a bed, buy a mat,
A hassock for your feet.

Beaum. & Fletch. The Night-Walker, Act v.
HASTE, v.
HASTE, n.

HA'STEN.

HA'STENER.

HA'STY.

Ger. Hasten; Dut. Haasten: Sw. Hasta; Fr. Haster. The A. S. verb is written Efstan, efstian, "accelerare, festinare, contendere; to hasten, to make speed, to speed or make haste to go, to strive, to endeavour HA'STINGS, n. earnestly," (Somner.) The Ger. Dut. Sw. and Fr. appear to be the same word, with the omission of f and addition of the aspirate, and the change of e into a.

HA'STILY.
HA'STINESS.

To move or act speedily or swiftly; to accelerate, to add to, to increase the speed or swiftness, the velocity; to quicken.

Hasty, (met.)-having the feelings or passions quickly excited; passionate, precipitate, rash.

Hastings,-Fr. Hastiveau, hastivel, "an hasting apple or pear, a soon-ripe apple;" more commonly applied to peas, as green-hastings.

Insects which do not sit upon their eggs, deposite them in those particular situations, in which the young, when hatched, find their appropriate food.

Paley. Natural Theology, c. 18. HATCH, v. "A. S. Hæca, pessulus, a barre HATCH. n. or bolt of a door; whence hatch, as buttery hatch: because usually barred or bolted. Belgis, Heck," (Somner,) from the Dut. Heckten, apprehendere, tenere; to hold fast. The hatches of a ship, (Minshew,) so called, "because they fall to like the hatch of a door." Hatch is commonly applied to

The fastened half or part of the door, the other part being thrown open: the door (which shuts down) in the deck of a ship, communicating from deck to deck, or deck to hold.

At the same time there were two armadaes set out of Asia, the one conducted by king Attalus, consisting of foure and twentie saile of quinqueremes: the other were of Rhodians and stood of twentie covert ships with decks and hatches, commanded by Agesimbrotus the admirall.

Holland. Livivs, p. 818. Yielding at length the waters wide gave way And fold her in the bosom of the sea; Then o'er her head returning rolls the tide, And covering waves the sinking hatches hide. Row. Lucan. Pharsalia, b. iii. We hoysed out our boat, and took up some of them; as also a small hatch, or scuttle rather, belonging to some bark. Dampier. Voyages, an. 1688. He assures us, how this fatherhood began in Adam, continued its course, and kept the world in order all the time of the patriarchs, till the flood; got out of the ark with Noah and his sons, made and supported all the kings of the earth, till the captivity of the Israelites in Egypt; and then the poor fatherhood was under hatches, till "God, by giving the Israelites kings, re-established the ancient and prime right of lineal succession in paternal government."

Locke. Of Government, b. i. c. 2. If by the dairy's hatch I chance to hie,

1 shall her goodly countenance espy;
For there her goodly countenance I've seen,
Set off with kerchief starch'd and pinners clean.
Gay, Past. 5.
Fr. Hâcher, to hack, or cut.
To cut or carve, to grave.

HATCH, n. HATCH, V. HATCHING, n.

And such againe

As venerable Nestor (hatch'd in siluer)

Should with a bond of ayre, strong as the axletree
In which the heauens ride, knit all Greekes eares
To his experienc'd tongue.

Shakespeare. Troyl. & Cress. Act i. sc. 3. When thine own bloudy sword, cryed out against thee, Hatcht in the life of him? yet I forgave thee.

Beaum. & Fleich. Custom of the Country, Act v. - Why should not I Doat on my horse well trapt, my sword well hatcht? Id. Bonduca, Act ii. To discern an original print from a copy print (not to speak of such plates as have been retouch'd and therefore of little

value) is a knack very easily attain'd; because 'tis almost impossible to imitate every hatch, and to make the stroaks of exact and equal dimensions.-Evelyn. Sculptura, c. 5.

HATCHET. Fr. Hache, hachette; Ger. A. S. Haccan, to hack or cut. Hatsche. Brunne has the old word Hache, from See To HACK. That which (a tool, which) hacks, cuts, or chops.

Ther he slouh Colibrant with hache Daneis.

R. Brunne, p. 32. The Indian sayde vnto vs, if wee would see them, wee should giue him some hatchets, and he would bring vs of those eagles.-Hackluyt. Voyages, vol. iii. p. 665.

Moreover, there ought a little hatchet to hang evermore fast to the plough beame before, therewith to cut through roots within the ground, that might breake or stay the plough.-Holland. Plinie, b. xviii. c. 18.

After supper we agreed with one of the Indians to guide us a day's march into the country, towards the north side; he was to have for his pains a hatchet, and his bargain was to bring us to a certain Indian's habitation, who could speak Spanish.-Dampier. Voyages, an. 1681.

This their digging or hatchet-work they help out by fire; whether for the felling of the trees, or for the making the

inside of their canoe hollow.-Id. Ib. an. 1683.

Next morning I made the natives another visit, accompanied by Mr. Forster and Mr. Hodges, carrying with me various articles which I presented them with, and which they received with a great deal of indifference, except hatchets and spike nails; these they most esteemed. Cook. Second Voyage, b. i. c. 4. HATCHMENT. See ATCHIEVEMENT, ACHIEVEMENT, of which word Hatchment is a corruption; and is applied to—

or

Any sign, ensign, or monument, of achievements performed; and commonly to the coat of arms suspended in the front of a deceased person's house.

No trophee, sword, nor hatchment, o're his bones,
No noble rite, nor formall ostentation,
Cry to be heard, as 'twere from heauen to earth.
Shakespeare. Hamlet, Act iv. sc. 5.

Let there be deducted out of our main potation Five marks in hatchments to adorn this thigh, Crampt with this rest of peace, and I will fight Thy battels.-Beaum. & Fletch. The Scornful Lady, Act ii.

For as I am condemn'd, my naked sword Stands but a hatchment by me; only held To shew I was a souldier. Id. Valentinian, Act iv. Here, in a heap of confus'd waste, I found Neglected hatchments tumbled on the ground. Olway. Windsor Castle. His [W. Dugdale's] care was also manifested in defacing such tablets of arms, as he found in any publick places which were fictitious, and by pulling down several atchievements (commonly called Hatchments) irregularly and against the law of arms hung up in any churches or chapels within the precincts of his province.-Wood. Fasti Oxon.

HATE, v. HATE, n.

HATEFUL.

Goth. Hatjan; A. S. Hatan, hat-ian; Dut. Haeten; Ger. Hagsen; Sw. Hata; HATEFULLY. which some etymologists deHATEFULNESS. rive from the Lat. Od-isse. HA'TELESS. The A. S. Hat-ian, is to heat HA'TER. and to hate; and Junius says, HA'TRED. "from Hat, (hot,) calidus, (whence I think Hat-ian formed,) the A. S. have taken their Hete, odium, rancor, malitia, and also Hatheort, iracundus, and Hatheortnys, iracundia, excandescentia." By the same metaphor, are the words incense, inflame, &c. applied to the human passions. It is applied as the Fr. Haïr,"To loath, detest, abhor, spight, malice, repine at, bear ill-will unto," (Cotgrave.)

And tho he ssolde kyng be, thys god man Seyn Dunston
Hatede muche to crouny hym, gyf he yt mygte vergen
[forego.]
R. Gloucester, p. 290.
Of the toun of Wynchestre feaute had he at wille,
Sithen he went to London, that hated he fulle ille.
R. Brunne, p. 43.
Hatred before was, S. Bede herd I say,
Biten the kyng of Kent, & the kyng of Lyndsay.
Id. p. le.

And gut ich have hated hure, al my lyf tyme.
Piers Ploukman, p. 109.

If the world hatith ghou, wite ghe that it hadde me in hote rathere than ghou.-Wiclif. Jon, c. 15.

If the world hate you, ye know that he hated me before he hated you.-Bible, 1551. Ib.

Greet Babiloyne is maad the abitacioun of deuelis, and the keping of ech uncleene spirit, and the keping of ech uncleene foul and hateful.-Wiclif. Apocalips, c. 18.

But I, who all punctilios hate,

Though long familiar with the great,

Nor glory in my reputation,

have or keep after him; i.e. follow, pursue. will have, or, Let us have,-a blow, a hit, an aim, a trial at him or it. I will have, or, Let us have, or Swift. Verses by Dr. J. Sican to the Dean. keep (in company) with him; attend him. Strange rules for constancy your priests devise, If love and hate must vary with your skies,

Am come without an invitation.

From such viie servitude set reason free.

Tho kyng Arture yt yuelde, [felt] and ysey al so ys blod
Vp ys haubert & ys sselde, he was ney vor wraththe wod.
R. Gloucester, p. 185.
For ge ben men beter y tagt to schouele and to spade,
To cartestaf and to plowstaf, and a fischyng to wade,
To hamer and to nedle, and to marchandise al so,
Than with swerd or hauberk eny batail to do.-Id. p. 99.
And more encense into the fire he cast,
With other rites mo, and at the last
The statue of Mars began his hauberke ring,,
Chaucer. The Knightes Tale, v. 2433.

And on the hauberk strooke the prince so sore,
That quite disparted all the linked frame,
And pearced to the skin but bit no more,
Yet made him twice to reele, that neuer moou'd afore.
Spenser. Faerie Queene, b. ii. c. 8.

It hit the knight the buckels rich among,
Wherewith his precious girdle fast'ned was,
It bruised them and pierc'd his hawberke strong,
Some little bloud downe trickled on the grasse.

Fairefax. Godfrey of Bovlogne, b. vii. s. 103.
Hauberks and helms are hew'd and many a wound
Out spins the streaming blood, and dies the ground.
Dryden. Palamon & Arcite.

Ere the ruddy sun be set.
Pikes must shiver, javelins sing,
Blade with clattering buckler meet,
Hauberk crash, and Helmet ring.

HAVE, v.

HA'VELESS.

HA'VER. HAVING, n.

Gray. The Fatal Sisters.

Goth. Haban; A. S. Habban, haban; Ger. Haben; Dut. Hebben; Sw. Hafree; Fr. Avoir; Sp. (say

For my god heo louede me, & now he habbeth euery del,
He nul not geue me of myn owne mid god herte a mel.
R. Gloucester, p. 35.
Cole was a noble mon, & gret power hadde on honde,
Erl he was of Colchestre here in this londe.-Id. p. 82.
Knoute of his body gatte sonnes thre
Tuo bi tuo wifes, the thrid in jolifte.

Bi the first had he Suane, he was eldest brother.
R. Brunne, p. 50.

The conquerour is laid at Kame dede in graue, The Courthose befor said Normundie salle haue.

Id. p. 85. And bere hit in thy bosom, abowte wer th" wendest Shal never barne be abaisshed. that hath this a boute. Piers Plouhman, p. 251. He that hath eeris of heryng; here he.

Wielif. Matthew, c. 11.

He yt hath eares to heare let him heare.-Bible, 1551. Ib.

Moyses seide if any man is deed, not havynge a sone: that his brother wed his wyf and raise sed to his brothir.The firste weddide a wyf and is deed and hadde no seed.In the risynge agen to lyf, whos wyf of the sevene schal sche be? for alle hadden hir.-Wiclif. Matthew, c. 22.

Moses bade, yf a man dye hauynge no children, that the brother mary his wyfe, and reyse vp sede vnto his brother.The first maried and deceased without issue.-Nowe in ye resurrection whose wyfe shal she be of the seuen? For al had her.-Bible, 1551. Ib.

And when the wyne fayled the mother of Jesus sayde vnto him: They haue no wyne.-Bible, 1551. Ib.

The etymologists) from the Lat. Hab-ere. Tooke,-
hat the Lat. is from the Gothic.
Has, contraction of hav-es.
Hath, contraction of hav-eth.
Had, contraction of hav-ed.
Han, contraction of hav-en.

To hold or keep; to possess or obtain; to en

oy the tenure or

possession; to take or receive

t; to attain or procure the possession; to seek

or require.

Have after him, at him, with him; are elliptical expressions, equivalent to-I will have, or, Let us

It is held
That valour is the chiefest vertue,
And most dignifies the hauer.

Shakespeare. Coriolanus, Act ii. sc. 2. But I pardon you for that, for simply your hauing in beard, is a yonger brother's reuennew.

Id. As You Like It, Act iii. sc. 2. The gentleman is of no hauing, hee kept companie with the wilde Prince, and Pointz.

Id. Merry Wives of Windsor, Act iii. sc. 2. Mat. Lye in a water-bearer's house! A gentleman of his havings! Well, I'le tell him my mind.

B. Jonson. Every Man in His Humour, Act i. sc. 4. Hor. He waxes desperate with imagination. Mar. Let's follow; 'tis not fit thus to obey him. Hor. Haue after, to what issue will this come. Shakespeare. Hamlet, Act i. sc. 4. And he that will caper with mee for a thousand markes, let him lend me the money, and haue at him. Id. 2 Pt. Hen. IV. Act i. sc. 2. What, shall we toward the tower? the day is spent. Hast. Come, come, haue with you.

Id. Richard III. Act iii. sc. 2. We are in thus holding, or thus spending, truly, λeoveкTa, not only covetous, but wrongfull, or havers of more than our own, against the will of the right owners. Barrow, vol. i. Ser. 31.

Dut. Haven; Ger. Hafen; Fr. Havre; A. S. Haf-en; from habban; to have or hold, to contain: quod (says Junius) ingentem navium numerum capiat ac teneat.

HAVEN.
HA'VENER.
HA'VENET.
HA'VEN-LESS.

That which holds or contains; (sc.) ships: a port, a harbour.

Byuore Lammasse the tuelfte day at an hauene ther by
Southe

Myd hys ost he aryuede, that me clupeth Portesmouthe.
R. Gloucester, p. 423.
Thei failed of ther pray, to hauen gan thei hie,
& hired tham a schip.

R. Brunne, p. 304.
Where I sought hauen, there found I hap,
From danger unto death.

Vncertaine Auctors. The Louer Disceiued, &c. Where is there haven found, or harbour, like that road, Int' which some goodly flood his burthen doth unload? Drayton. Poly-Olbion, s. 15. Rest, royal dust! and thank the storms that drove, Against its will, you to your haven above.

Brome. On the Death of King Charles. These earls and dukes appoynted to this end their special officers as receyuer, hauener, and customer, &c. Carew. Survey of Cornwall, fol. 79. From Langunda to Fischard at the Gwerne mouth foure miles, and here is a portlet or hauenet also for ships. Holinshed. Description of Britaine, c. 14.

On the left hand the haven-lesse and harbourlesse coasts of Italie, and on the right, the Illyrians, Liburnians, and Istrians, fierce nations, and for the most part, reputed infamous, for roving and robbing by the sea-side, put him in exceeding feare.-Holland. Livivs, p. 352.

As for mee, my intent and purpose was, to goe against Ephesus with the whole armada, and thither to bring with me the vessels of burden charged with heavie ballace of gravell and sand, and to sinke them in the verie hauenmouth, for to choke it up.-Id. Ib. p. 953.

HAUGHT. HA'UGHTY. HA'UGHTILY. HA'UGHTINESS. tivo; from Fr. Hault, haut; It. and Sp. Alto: and these from the Lat. Altus, high.

It.

High; lofty; high-minded, proud, disdainful.
Vor he was somdel hayt, as hys herte was best,
He wende hym vorth an honteth to the ny we forest.
R. Gloucester, p. 418.
The fader hem louede alle ynog, ac the gongost mest :
For heo was best and fairest, & to hautenesse drow lest.
Id. p. 29.
The erle's sonnes wer hauteyn, did many folie dede.
R. Brunne, p. 219.

Lordings, quod he, in chirche whan I preche,
I peine me to have an hautein speche,
And ring it out, as round as goth a bell,
For I can all by rote that I tell.

Chaucer. The Pardoneres Tale, v. 12,264. For they are cruel and hautain.-Id. The Rom. of the R. The spirite of the deuil, and the worlde maketh and .oueth such myndes as are haute, puffed vp with pryde, and suche as are fierce; but that heauenly spyrite loueth those which are lowlye, meke, and peasible.-Udal. Mark, c. 1.

The hearte of this vergen dyd not throughe these so high promises of the aungell, weaxe any whit the more hauit to take highly upon her.-Id. Luk, c. 1.

In her estate there sate the noble quene
Of Fame, perceyuyng howe that I was cum
She wondred me thought at my laurell grene:
She loked hautely. Skelton. The Crowne of Laurell.
If yelding feare, or cancred villanie,
In Cæsar's haughtie heart had tane the charge,
The walles of Rome had not ben rearde so hye,
Nor yet the mightye empire left so large.

Gascoigne. Memories.