By the welkin, I gave him not a foule word; first he calles me foole, then he makes a full blowe at my body, and if, by good chance, I had not warded it with my head, he might have spoild me.

Oh sir, the originall efficient cause,you understand me? for suspition whispers he had given her a foule blow and would have left her.

I am thy Fathers Spirit, Doom'd for a certaine terme to walke the night; And for the day confin'd to fast in Fiers, Till the foule crimes done in my dayes of Nature Are burnt and purg'd away?

Better you gave me death and buriall, Then such foule deeds should overthrow us all.

But like the Owner of a foule disease, [Sidenote: 176] To keepe it from divulging, let's it feede

That modestie is a foule fault.

"The seven-fold yron gates of grislie Hell, And horrid house of sad Proserpina, They able are with power of mightie spell To breake, and thence the soules to bring awaie 375 Out of dread darkenesse to eternall day, And them immortall make which els would die In foule forgetfulnesse, and nameles lie.

How can I choose, And such a foule Erynnis gase on me, Such furious legions circle me about, And my slaine Sonne and Daughters fire brands

And tys thy last foule languadge.

I doubt some foule play: would the Night were come; Till then sit still my soule; foule deeds will rise, [Sidenote: fonde deedes]

Well straind; what a foule stomack he has!

Loath that foule blot, that hellish fiërbrand, Disloiall lust, fair Beauties foulest blame, 170 That base affections, which your eares would bland*, Commend to you by loves abused name, But is indeede the bondslave of defame; Which will the garland of your glorie marre, And quench the light of your brightshyning starre.

So in Churchyard's "Challenge," 1593, p. 251 "Away foule workes, that fil'd my face with blurs!" Again, "Macbeth," act iii.