Quoth Sir Pertolepe, seated upon the bench and smiling upon Beltane's grim figure: "He groweth fat to the killing, seest thou, my Beda, a young man and hearty, very hale and strongand therefore meet for death.

"And," quoth frowning Walkyn, "I would that Pertolepe's rank carcass smoked with thee!" "Content you, my gentle Walkyn," nodded the archer, "hell-fire shall have him yet, and groweth ever hotter against the daycontent you.

"But for our tall brother now, he is changed these latter days: he groweth harsh, methinks, and something ungentle at times."

He groweth pale-cheeked and careworn, harsh of speech and swift to anger.

This offence also proportionably groweth more criminal as it presumeth to reach persons eminent in dignity or worth, unto whom special veneration is appropriate.

The roots of it, He assureth us, are evil, and therefore the fruit cannot be good: it is no grape which groweth from thorns, or fig from thistles.

Earth groweth little in our eyes, but fair, Fair as though sin had never enter'd there Earth groweth little as Heaven draweth near.

Earth groweth little in our eyes, but fair, Fair as though sin had never enter'd there Earth groweth little as Heaven draweth near.

Drunk is each ridge of thy cup drinking; Each clod relenteth at thy dressing; groweth soft.

The Cuckoo Song, which is perhaps older than any of these, is the best known of all the early lyrics: "Sumer is i-cumen in Lhude sing cuccu Groweth sed and

" Summer is a-coming in, Loud sing cuckoo, Groweth seed and bloometh mead, And springeth the wood now.

and yet there is none that groweth in the Iland.]

In this Iland there groweth fine Sinamom, great store of Pepper, great store of Nuttes and Arochoe: there they make great store of Cairo [Footnote: Cairo is a stuffe that they make rope with, the which is the barke of a tree.]

but agaynst the next yeere it will haue a new barke, and that which is gathered euery yeere is the best Sinamome: for that which groweth two or three yeares is great, and not so good as the other is; and in these woods groweth much Pepper.

but agaynst the next yeere it will haue a new barke, and that which is gathered euery yeere is the best Sinamome: for that which groweth two or three yeares is great, and not so good as the other is; and in these woods groweth much Pepper.

In his kingdom groweth great store of Pepper, Ginger, Beniamin: he is an vtter enemy to the Portugals, and hath diuers times bene at Malacca to fight against it, and hath done great harme to the boroughes thereof, but the citie alway withstood him valiantly, and with their ordinance did great spoile to his campe.

Canfora being compound commeth all from China, and all that which groweth in canes commeth from Borneo, and I thinke that this Canfora commeth not into these parts: for that in India they consume great store, and that is very deare.

In a little moment groweth up the delight of men; yea and in like sort falleth it to the ground, when a doom adverse hath shaken it.

"Scundoo groweth old, and we stand in need of a new shaman.

" "Ha, Tristram," said Sir Lamorack, "I would rather live in brotherhood with thee than with any man whom I know, for I find that the longer I am with thee, the greater and the stronger my love groweth for thee.

For even so true and noble a gentleman as Sir Tristram, when he groweth great and famous, is like to have as many enemies as friends.

He hath set his brother upon that which the god Shu beareth up (i.e., the heavens), to stretch out the waters over the mountains, and to make to spring up that which groweth upon the hills, and the grain (?) which shooteth upon the earth, and he giveth increase by water and by land.

"Summer is ycomen in, Loude singe cucku; Groweth seede, Bloweth meade, And springeth the weede newe.

Then, if thou sayest that the flesh and blood of Christ, that is to say, his manhood, is made more, or increased by so much as the ministration of bread and wine is, the which ye ministerif ye say it is sothen thou must needs consent that the thing which is not God today shall be God tomorrow; yea, and that the thing which is without spirit of life, but groweth in the field by kind, shall be God at another time.

If one grow not, as he supposeth, in the knowledge of God, and of the mysteries of the gospel; yet if he grow in the discovery of the treachery and wickedness of his own heart, he cannot say that he groweth not in knowledge.