Lodge and other writers not unfrequently use the adjective for the substantive: thus, in "The Discontented Satyre:" "Blush, daies eternal lampe, to see thy lot, Since that thy cleere with cloudy darkes is scar'd.

The whiles an hundred little winged Loves, Like divers-fethered doves, Shall fly and flutter round about the bed, And in the secret darke, that none reproves, 360

So ugly darke, so dampie and so steepe, As for his life the sunne durst never peepe Into the entrance: which doth so afright The very day, that halfe the world is night.

Within this ore-growne Forrest there is found A duskie Caue[106], thrust lowe into the ground, So vgly darke, so dampie and