Michael Drayton

Arrive

How should I joy of thy arrive to hear!

Augury

From their flight strange auguries she drew.

Balk

Nor doth he any creature balk, But lays on all he meeteth.

Beck

The brooks, the becks, the rills.

Bent

His spear a bent, both stiff and strong.

Blotched

To give their blotched and blistered bodies ease.

Bolster

To bolster baseness.

Bolt

This Puck seems but a dreaming dolt, . . . And oft out of a bush doth bolt.

Bombast

Not bombasted with words vain ticklish ears to feed.

Breme

From the septentrion cold, in the breme freezing air.

Brownness

Now like I brown (O lovely brown thy hair); Only in brownness beauty dwelleth there.

Butt

And Barnsdale there doth butt on Don's well-watered ground.

Calf

Some silly, doting, brainless calf.

Cancelier

The fierce and eager hawks, down thrilling from the skies, Make sundry canceliers ere they the fowl can reach.

Cardinal

Impudence is now a cardinal virtue.

Cheveril

A cheveril conscience and a searching wit.

Churl

Like to some rich churl hoarding up his pelf.

Cop

Cop they used to call The tops of many hills.

Counterpane

On which a tissue counterpane was cast.

Crankle

Along the crankling path.

Crisp

The lover with the myrtle sprays Adorns his crisped tresses.

Curb

He that before ran in the pastures wild Felt the stiff curb control his angry jaws.

Dade

Little children when they learn to go By painful mothers daded to and fro.

No sooner taught to dade, but from their mother trip.

Decrease

The olive leaf, which certainly them told The flood decreased.

Delapse

Which Anne derived alone the right, before all other, Of the delapsed crown from Philip.

Detract

That calumnious critic . . . Detracting what laboriously we do.

Dilling

Whilst the birds billing, Each one with his dilling.

Distill

The dew which on the tender grass The evening had distilled.

Dizzy

Alas! his brain was dizzy.

dolt

This Puck seems but a dreaming dolt.

Downward

Their heads they downward bent.

Elegance

That grace that elegance affords.

Excruciate

Their thoughts, like devils, them excruciate.

Female

The male and female of each living thing.

Form

The melancholy hare is formed in brakes and briers.

gibberish

He, like a gypsy, oftentimes would go; All kinds of gibberish he had learnt to know.

Glutton

Whereon in Egypt gluttoning they fed.

Howl

And dogs in corners set them down to howl.

Hunt's-up

Time plays the hunt's-up to thy sleepy head.

Illustrious

Illustrious earls, renowened everywhere.

Ingirt

The wreath is ivy that ingirts our beams.

Insculp

Which he insculped in two likely stones.

Interlard

Whose grain doth rise in flakes, with fatness interlarded.

Knapsack

And each one fills his knapsack or his scrip With some rare thing that on the field is found.

Knot

The knot that called was Canutus' bird of old, Of that great king of Danes his name that still doth hold, His appetite to please that far and near was sought.

Lisp

Lest when my lisping, guilty tongue should halt.

Mazer

Their brimful mazers to the feasting bring.

Necromancy

This palace standeth in the air, By necromancy placèd there.

Oblique

The love we bear our friends . . . Hath in it certain oblique ends.

Oracle

Whatso'er she saith, for oracles must stand.

Orgy

As when, with crowned cups, unto the Elian god, Those priests high orgies held.

Overspread

Those nations of the North Which overspread the world.

Prolixity

Idly running on with vain prolixity.

Puck

He meeteth Puck, whom most men call Hobgoblin, and on him doth fall.

Purl

Whose stream an easy breath doth seem to blow, Which on the sparkling gravel runs in purles, As though the waves had been of silver curls.

Quiddit

By some strange quiddit or some wrested clause.

Rebec

He turn'd his rebec to a mournful note.

Scythe

The sharp-edged scythe shears up the spiring grass.

Shawm

Even from the shrillest shaum unto the cornamute.

Shoot

One underneath his horse to get a shoot doth stalk.

Sleeve

The Celtic Sea, called oftentimes the Sleeve.

Stalk

One underneath his horse, to get a shoot doth stalk.

Stickle

Which [question] violently they pursue, Nor stickled would they be.

Sup

Tom Thumb had got a little sup.

Synecdochical

Isis is used for Themesis by a synecdochical kind of speech, or by a poetical liberty, in using one for another.

Tawdry

Of which the Naiads and the blue Nereids make Them tawdries for their necks.

Tidy

The tidy for her notes as delicate as they.

Toy

Nor light and idle toys my lines may vainly swell.

Translunary

Marlowe, bathed in the Thespian springs, Had in him those brave, translunary things That the first poets had.

Trifle

With such poor trifles playing.

Truss

Puts off his palmer's weed unto his truss, which bore The stains of ancient arms.

Tufty

Both in the tufty frith and in the mossy fell.

Tune

Whilst tuning to the water's fall, The small birds sang to her.

Waftage

Boats prepared for waftage to and fro.

Wage

By Tom Thumb, a fairy page, He sent it, and doth him engage, By promise of a mighty wage, It secretly to carry.

Wake

And every village smokes at wakes with lusty cheer.

Warder

Wafting his warder thrice about his head, He cast it up with his auspicious hand, Which was the signal, through the English spread, This they should charge.

Yerk

They flirt, they yerk, they backward . . . fling.

Yule

And at each pause they kiss; was never seen such rule In any place but here, at bonfire, or at Yule.