But how, dear Creature, wert thou thus preserv'd? Phi.

This, if thou wert a Man, she bad thee do, Why dost thou shake? Fal.

The old play of Soliman and Perseda uses it in the same sense: "Wert thou my friend, thy mind would jump with mine.

" "Now, by my faith," cried the Cook, as he rattled the pottle against the sideboard, "I like that same song hugely, and eke the motive of it, which lieth like a sweet kernel in a hazelnut" "Now thou art a man of shrewd opinions," quoth Little John, "and I love thee truly as thou wert my brother.

When thou wert a child, Jacopo, tenderness for thee tempted me to acts of weakness: I trembled lest thy manhood might bring upon me pain and repentance.

In truth thou wert never the son of my uncle, the good Count Robert, who reared me and thee in his castle, and had us there taught the first lessons of morals and of learning."

For why ah overbold! didst thou follow the chase, and, being so fair, why wert thou thus over-hardy to fight with beasts?...

"Giles," said she, "thou wert true and faithful to my lord when his friends were few, so methinks thou should'st be faithful and true to thy sweet Genevraso will I make thee Steward and Bailiff of Mortain an my lord is in accord" "Lord," quoth Giles brokenly, "ere thou dost speak, beseech thee hear this.

I met the wench too, and she ask'd for thee, Saying 'twas thou that wert her love, her dear, And that Sir Ralph was not an honest knight To train her thither, and to use her so.

And amidst the fern we lay, Faint and foodless, sore with travel, Waiting for the streaks of day; When thou wert an angel to me, Watching my exhausted sleep Never didst thou hear me murmur Couldst thou see how now I weep!

Thou wert formerly the favourite charioteer of Arjuna, and it was with thee that that bull among the sons of Pandu had alone subjugated the whole earth.

IF I WERE A MONK, AND THOU WERT A NUN.

I would thou wert a man's tailor, that thou mightst mend him and make him fit to go.

"Marco, when thou wert a babe," she said, "there was little I would not give for thine asking.

Is it care For the provision of the unborn day, As if thou wert a God that must foresee, Lest his great sun should chance forget to rise?

"Thou wert my refuge, thou my friend and brother; Wise in thy counsel, gallant in the field, My monitor and guideand thou art gone!

I have sometimes fancied, by thy manner of starting, and the tones of thy voice, that thou wert thyself no less than the lieutenant-general of the galleys, a little disguised.

Thou wert a Rishi before.

Thou wert our conscript on whom the lot fell and, fighting our battles, wert so marred.

" "If thou wert not a coward, thou wouldst not try to intimidate me with a pistol," replied Isaac.

who wert my childhood's love, My boyhood's pure delight, A presence felt the livelong day, A welcome fear at night, "I know not what I thought of Thee; What picture I had made Of that Eternal Majesty To whom my childhood prayed.

Collect thy sences; when thou wert awake didst thou heare nothing? Buz.

Thou never yet wert disobedient, Unlesse I did commaund unlawfulnesse.

I know how great would be my loss, in losing such as thee; I know, if I e'er won thee, how great my gain would be: And wert thou dumb even from thy birth, and silent as the grave, Each woman might adore thee, and call herself thy slave.

There came to hand a letter from the Emperor Commanding us collectively, from thee All duties of obedience to withdraw, Because thou wert an enemy and traitor.