Ye woot your forward, and it yow recorde If even-song and morwe-song acorde, Lat see now who shal telle the firste tale....

Within one tombe shall rest Her earle and she, her epitaph withall Graved thereon shal be.

Adorned with the presence of my loue The woods, I feare, such secret power shal proue As they'll shut vp each path, hide euery way, Because they still would haue her go astray, And in that place would alwaies haue her seene Only because they would be euer greene, And keepe the wingged Quiristers still there To banish winter cleane out of the yeare.

And, as ye her array, still throw betweene Some graces to be scene; And, as ye use to Venus, to her sing, The whiles the woods shal answer, and your eccho ring.

Then I thy soverayne prayses loud wil sing, That all the woods shal answer, and theyr eccho ring.

[Sidenote: answere] shal command: or rather you say, my Mother: [Sidenote: rather as you] therfore no more but to the matter.

These two gallions are laden for the king, neither doe they carie any particular mans goods, sauing the portage of the Mariners and souldiers, and for this cause they are not voiages for marchants, because that going thither, they shal not haue where to lade their goods of returne; and besides this, the captaine wil not cary any marchants for either of these two places.

And how needfull is it to be aduertized, when they wil recouer their paiments, in what order they shal receiue their Ganza?

to such there shal neuer want helpe to doe wel, but he that is vicious, let him tary at home and not go thither, because he shall alwayes be a beggar, and die a poore man.

On it was inscribed in old English characters of unknown date the words: 'Shulde this Ston stalen bee, Or shuld it chaunges dre, The Houss of Sawl and hys Hed anoon shal de.'

This shall be a great Whale, Mistris, at all his bignesse spouting huge Hils of salt-water afore him, like a little water squirt, but you shall not neede to feare him Mistris, for he shal be silke, and gould, he shall doe you noe harme, and he be nere so lively.

We plead with him to leave us not, But Zi-Gab-ri him led away, When our great Shal-man joy us brought, And Elam fled to the blue sea.

[Footnote 14: "Shal-man," deliverer.]

What, shal's close with them?

Gentlemen, I hope we are all friends: sol, sol, shal's have a catch? Grac.

Cit. W. Alas, we shal see nothing; would I were neere; now hee stands forwards.

Goe and for voice sake yee shall sing Ballads in the suburbes, and if ever heereafter ye chance to purchase a suite, by what your friends shal leave ye, or the credit of your friend, be not drunk again, & give him hard words for his labour.

now we shal see them unmaskt.

Wiche thinge I thinke and beleve you shal never by report knowe, unless by your selfe you hire.

As early as 1645 George Downing, then a young Puritan preacher recently graduated from Harvard College but later a distinguished English diplomat, wrote to his cousin John Winthrop, Jr., after a voyage in the West Indies: "If you go to Barbados, you shal see a flourishing Iland, many able men.

The vse hereof is suche for anye one that liketh to haue prayse for tellynge his tale in open assemblie, that hauing a good tongue, and a comelye countenaunce, he shal be thought to passe all other that haue not the like vtteraunce: thoughe they have muche better learning.

"I shal, with cheerfulness, resign my other papers to oblivion.

"Say my annual profit on money loaned shal be six per cent."Ib., p. 308.

"Then it may please the Lord, they shal find it to be a restorative."Ib., p. 420.

XIX "'Oh Gawd, our halp in a-ages paasst, Our 'awp in yeears ter coom, Our shal-ter from ther storm-ee blaasst, And our ee-tarnal 'oam!'" "'Ark at 'im!