Her merry lookes, her forhead high, Her hayre like golden-wyer, Her hand and foote, her lipe or eye, Would set a saint on fyre.

I vow'd not to doff mine Armour, tho my flesh were frozen too't and turn'd into Iron, nor to cut head nor beard till they yeelded; my hayres and oath are of one length, for (with Caesar) thus write I mine owne story, Veni, vidi, vici.

"He, noble bud, his grandsires livelie hayre, Under the shadow of thy countenaunce Now ginnes to shoote up fast, and flourish fayre In learned artes, and goodlie governaunce, 270 That him to highest honour shall advaunce.

"And afterwardes I handled her so fayre, 120 That though by kind shee stout and salvage were, For being borne an auncient lions hayre, And of the race that all wild beastes do feare, Yet I her fram'd, and wan so to my bent, That shee became so meeke and milde of cheare 125 As the least lamb in all my flock that went.

But the fayre tresses of your golden hayre,)

C.] From those high towers this noble lord issuing, Like radiant Hesper, when his golden hayre In th'ocean billowes he hath bathed fayre, 165 Descended to the rivers open vewing, With a great traine ensuing.

Come, dresse your hayre up & be wise at last: No more, I have done.

Man. Were you a stranger Armd in the middle of a great Battalion And thus should dare to taxe him, I would wave My weapon ore my head to waft you forth To single combatt: if you would not come, Had I as many lives as I have hayres, I'de shoot 'em all away to force my passage Through such an hoast untill I met the Traytour To my dear brother.

Erect that locke a little; theres a hayre Which, like a foreman of a shop, does strive To be above his fellowes.

Theise hayres are oth complexion of the skye, Not like the earthe blacke browne and sullyed.

Bellamira poysoned? Navarre, teare off these hayres and raging die.

Ere the least hayre fall from his kingly head, Rodorick, thy base trunck shall be butchered.

A] to make you blush, this is my owne hayre, and this face.

Rare, Mistris, heeres a cheeke like a Camelion or a blasing Star, you shall heere me blaze it; heere's two saucers sanguine in a sable field pomegranet, a pure pendat ready to drop out of the stable, a pin and web argent in hayre de Roy.

Here's none but only I' [sing]; Boy, how likest thou my head of hayre? Boy.

Your Glasse may flatter ye, but truely I will not; your head is not a hayre better than it should be.

Somewhat thin and yet there is more hayre than wit.

That you are wise in trimming your hayre, Maister? Phy.

Mistris Moe Monthes mind Mooncalf More hayre than wit Morglay Mosch Mother Motion ( = suggestion, proposal)

"More hayre than wit"a proverbial expression.

On the other (one?) side, it hath the visage of the sunne, like to the fashion of a young man's face, without a beard, with long locks of hayre, as here it is figured, and as poets have feigned.

The people are very blacke, but their hayre and beardes are not so much curled as the right Mores, nor their noses nor lippes so great nor flat.

A love as chaste as is Apolloes tree, As modest as a vestall Virgins eye, And yet as bright as Glow wormes in the night, With which the morning decks her lovers hayre; (IV. i.) or yet again: When will the sun go downe?

After telling how she was seized and carried to 'the middle of a desart wood,' Celia proceeds: There, to a sturdy oake, he bound me fast, Doubling my bonds with knots of mine own hayre; Ungratefull hayre, thou ill returnst my care.

After telling how she was seized and carried to 'the middle of a desart wood,' Celia proceeds: There, to a sturdy oake, he bound me fast, Doubling my bonds with knots of mine own hayre; Ungratefull hayre, thou ill returnst my care.