This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1823 edition. Excerpt: ... you will? Pol. I may not, verily. Her. Verily! You put me off with limber vows: But I, Though you would seek t' unsphere the stars with oaths, Should yet say, Sir, no going. Verily, ou shall not go; a lady's verily is As potent as a lord's. Will you go yet? Force me to keep you as a prisoner, Not like a guest; so you shall pay your fees, When you depart, and save your thanks. How say you? My prisoner? or my guest? by your dread verily, One of them you shall be. Pol. Your guest then, madam: To be your prisoner, should import offending; Which is for me less easy to commit, Than you to punish-Her. Not your gaoler then, But your kind hostess. Come, I'll question you Of my lord's tricks, and yours, when you were boys; You were pretty lordlings then." Pol. We were, fair queen, Two lads, that thought there was no more behind, But such a day to-morrow as to-day, And to be boy eternal. Her. Was not my lord the verier wag o' th' two? Pol. We were as twinn'd lambs, that did frisk i' th 'sun. And bleat the one at th' other: what we chang'd, Was innocence for innocence; we knew not The doctrine of ill-doing, no, nor dream'd That any did: Had we pursued that life, And our weak spirits ne'er been higher rear'd 7 In the time of royal progresses the king's stages, as we may see by the jour mils of them in the herald's office, were called his gesti; from the old French wor! giste diversorlvm. WARBURTON. Oettt, or rather i/, from I he French gislc, (which signifies both a bed, anJ a lodging place, ) were the names of the houses or towns where the King or Price. intended to lie every night during his progress. MALONE. 8 Ajar is, I believe, a single repetition of the noise made by the pendulum of J clock; what children call the ticking of it. STEEVENS 9...