"But now (made free from them) next her, before,
Peacefull and young, Herculean silence bore
His craggie club; which vp aloft hee hild;
With which and his forefingers charme hee stild
All sounds in ayre," &c.

Chapman's Euthymic Raptus, or The Teares of
Peace, &c., 1609, sig. E 4.

But we not unfrequently find "hild" employed when no rhyme is in question:

e. g.,

I hild such valiantnes but vaine."

Warner's Albions England, p. 83, ed. 1596.

"Some hild with Phoebus, some with her," &c.

P. 571. (6)

66

so beguil'd," &c.

Id. p. 151.

Malone's alteration; which the context seems to confirm.-The old eds. have "to beguild," &c.

SONNETS.

TO THE ONLY BEGETTER

OF THESE ENSUING SONNETS,

MR. W. H.

ALL HAPPINESS,

AND THAT ETERNITY PROMISED

BY OUR EVER-LIVING POET,

WISHETH

THE WELL-WISHING ADVENTURER

IN SETTING FORTH,

T. T.(1)