Can silent glens have charms for thee, The lowly cot and russet gown? No longer drest in silken sheen, No longer deck'd with jewels rare, Say, can'st thou quit each courtly scene, Where thou wert fairest of the fair?

For when thou wert athirst, I let thee drink; and now that I am athirst, thou deniest me to quench my thirst.

Thou wert better dally with a lioness than with Elizabeth!" Urged to this extremity, Amy at length uttered in despair: "The Earl of Leicester knows it all!"

quoth Duke Beltane feebly, "faithful wert thou to the last!

Albert, thou wert kind

As to this strangerquickly, thy mask and cloakdepart as if thou wert merely a friend bent on some of the idle pleasantries of the hour.

Mightier thou wert and art!

Thou warmst the Lover; how severely just Thou wert to punish, if he burnt to lust.

Groping for expression, he declared, "If thou wert sickly or blind, I would be just as good to thee as when thou wert a bride.

The last will and testament of Sir John Penwick bequeathing to my father a priceless property,Thou wert slow, Christopher, but I forgive thee."

Thou didst his gracious reign prolong, Even in thy saints' and angels' wrong, His fellow-citizens of immortality: For twelve long years of exile borne, Twice twelve we number'd since his blest return: So strictly wert thou just to pay, Even to the driblet of a day.

I am thy love, Whom sweetly thou wert wont to entertaine With lookes, with vowes of love, with amorous kisses.

"Vainly wert thou wed."Ib., st. 169. OBS.

she sighed, "but indeed it wrung my heart to see thy woeful face when I did tell thee Fidelis was lost to theeNay, Beltane, stayO prithee let me speak" Quoth Beltane 'twixt his kisses: "Wherefore wert so cold and strange to me but yesterday?" "Dear my heart," she murmured, "I needs must make thee suffer a little just a very little, for that I had known so much of pain and heartache because of thee.

Thou wert a fisher's child, alack, born to a fisher's fate; Would'st lay thy beauty 'neath the yokewould'st be a fisher's mate?"

Go, thou art a pretty forehanded fellow, would thou wert wiser.