Therewith she smil'd, she joy'd, she raught the cane, And with her own sweet hand she gave it me:

Therewith she raught from her alluring locks This golden tress, the favour of her grace, And with her own sweet hand she gave it me: O peerless queen, my joy, my heart's decree!

Raught is the ancient preterite of the word reach.

440 That same hath Iesus Christ now to him raught, [Raught, reached, taken.

440 That same hath Iesus Christ now to him raught, [Raught, reached, taken.

I saw her rise, and with a larger flight To pierce the cloudes, and with wide pinneons To measure the most haughtie* mountaines hight, Untill she raught** the gods owne mansions.

[** Raught, reached.

Madam, it so fell out, that certaine Players We ore-wrought on the way: of these we told him, [Sidenote: ore-raught]

Neither can it be denied that he raught true liberality, but overwent it.

Ful semëly after hire mete she raught.

"Ther com a ship of Norway, To Sir Rohandes hold, With haukes white and grey, And panes fair y-fold: Tristrem herd it say, On his playing he wold Tventi schilling to lay, Sir Rohand him told, And taught; For hauke silver he gold; The fairest men him raught.