Specimens of English literature from the 'Ploughmans crede' to the ...

—400 yoTEs.1 8. Out! alas! a common exclamation ; so in Romeo and Juliet, iv.5- 25.To-da:bt, dashed herself down severely. The preceding all stillfurther strengthens the intensive prefix to-, which is very common (bothwith and without all) in Early English.Eft, again, in my turn.19. Auale, become low, decrease, diminish.Her, viz. Sorrow.Allfordone, observe how all is used with the prefix /or-, as well aswith the prefix to-; in st. 21, it occurs before be-.2 1 . Spoken of a stike, spoken as much as a stich. A stich is here astanza ; we still use the compound distich for a couple of verses. Naresobser\-es that Sackville had exactly spoken a stanza ' (st. 20) before hesays this.' Compare the phrase to sing a stave.lyen, eyes.All bedreynt, completely drenched.2 3. Overtbroive. overthrown ; so we find be for been, do for done, &c.23. Wbile-eare, a while before, formerly.Telde, told ; ungrammatical, but it secures a rime.Wun, dwelling.24. Glas, mirror; cf. Gascoigne's Steel Glas.Tbat erst, that which beforehand.Rolde, meditated.26. ' Sorrow then conducts the poet to the classical hell, to the placeof torments and the place of happiness.'—Warton. So the Sibyl in\'irgil conducted iEneas, and Virgil in La Divina Commedia con-