solemne feasts prepar'd, While all the Court with God-give-you-Ioy sounds?

Gosson writes: The right use of auncient poetrie was to have the notable exploytes of worthy captaines, the holesome councels of good fathers and vertuous lives of predecessors set down in numbers, and sung to the instrument at solemne feastes, that the sound of the one might draw the hearers from kissing the cup too often, and the sense of the other put them in minde of things past, and chaulke out the way to do the like.

is still preserved, proposing that a solemn dirge, and masses should be said for the soul of the late Queen Jane, in St. Paul's, in presence of the Mayor, Alderman, and Commoners, which were accordingly performed, as appears from the following passage in Holinshed:"There was a solemne hearse made for her in Paule's Church, and funerall exequies celebrated, as well as in all other churches within the Citie of London.

How will those solemne lookes appeare to me; And that severe face, that speak chaines and shackles?

As might euen grieue the rude vnciuilst men: When here vpon to weane his fixed heart From such dishonour to his high desert The Duke had labourd but in vaine did striue, Thus he began his purpose to contriue: Two of his seruants, of vndoubted trvth, He bound by vertue of a solemne oath To traine the silly damzel out of sight

En el cuarto acto, que parece un acto de otra comedia, Matilde se halla el día de tornaboda en una miserable boardilla, pero en compañía de su constante esposo; no han comido la víspera, no se han desayunado aquel día: medios, Dios los dé; dinero, por las nubes: en una palabra, pobres de solemnidad y solemnes pobres; la infeliz Matilde tendrá que levantar