Sir John Davies

Accord

Those sweet accords are even the angels' lays.

Amplification

I shall summarily, without any amplification at all, show in what manner defects have been supplied.

Attend

For this perfection she must yet attend, Till to her Maker she espoused be.

Civility

Monarchies have risen from barbarrism to civility, and fallen again to ruin.

Comeliness

Comeliness is a disposing fair Of things and actions in fit time and place.

Compass

In two hundred years before (I speak within compass), no such commission had been executed.

Compaternity

The relation of gossipred or compaternity by the canon law is a spiritual affinity.

Concurrent

I join with these laws the personal presence of the kings' son, as a concurrent cause of this reformation.

Consequent

They were ill-governed, which is always a consequent of ill payment.

Defection

The general defection of the whole realm.

Dimensive

Who can draw the soul's dimensive lines?

Distaste

He thought in no policy to distaste the English or Irish by a course of reformation, but sought to please them.

Dower

How great, how plentiful, how rich a dower!

Drown

Most men being in sensual pleasures drowned.

Economic

And doth employ her economic art And busy care, her household to preserve.

Entertainment

The entertainment of the general upon his first arrival was but six shillings and eight pence.

Faint

The faint prosecution of the war.

Fall

The greatness of these Irish lords suddenly fell and vanished.

Fastness

All . . . places of fastness [are] laid open.

Finally

Not any house of noble English in Ireland was utterly destroyed or finally rooted out.

Humility

With these humilities they satisfied the young king.

Impeach

These ungracious practices of his sons did impeach his journey to the Holy Land.

Incorrupted

Breathed into their incorrupted breasts.

Liberty

His majesty gave not an entire county to any; much less did he grant . . . any extraordinary liberties.

Lighten

Lighten my spirit with one clear heavenly ray.

Mass

He had spent a huge mass of treasure.

Memorable

Surviving fame to gain, Buy tombs, by books, by memorable deeds.

Middle

Will, seeking good, finds many middle ends.

Needs

He would needs know the cause of his repulse.

Neutral

Some things good, and some things ill, do seem, And neutral some, in her fantastic eye.

Obscure

The obscure corners of the earth.

Party

If the jury found that the party slain was of English race, it had been adjudged felony.

Passage

The conduct and passage of affairs.

Point

When time's first point begun Made he all souls.

Ransom

His captivity in Austria, and the heavy ransom he paid for his liberty.

Relinquish

They placed Irish tenants upon the lands relinquished by the English.

Retire

As when the sun is present all the year, And never doth retire his golden ray.

The mind contracts herself, and shrinketh in, And to herself she gladly doth retire.

Roll

The roll and list of that army doth remain.

Sort

She sorts things present with things past.

Stir

Being advertised of some stirs raised by his unnatural sons in England.

Strange

So she, impatient her own faults to see, Turns from herself, and in strange things delights.

Stuff

The workman on his stuff his skill doth show, And yet the stuff gives not the man his skill.

Subtile

I do distinguish plain Each subtile line of her immortal face.

Suppress

Every rebellion, when it is suppressed, doth make the subject weaker, and the prince stronger.

Vanity

Here I may well show the vanity of that which is reported in the story of Walsingham.

Whereof

I do not find the certain numbers whereof their armies did consist.

Wit

Will puts in practice what wit deviseth.

Work

Whether we work or play, or sleep or wake, Our life doth pass.

Worthy

This worthy mind should worthy things embrace.