The little ones, enrobed, with sceptres play; Their infant cries are loud as stern behest; Their knees the vermeil covers shall display.

ODE ON THE PLEASURE ARISING FROM VICISSITUDE Now the golden Morn aloft Waves her dew-bespangled wing; With vermeil cheek and whisper soft

The king's seneschal, hight Sir Kay, served Arthur's table, clad in a fair dalmatic of vermeil silk.

Of every sort which in that meadow grew They gathered some; the violet, pallid blew, 30 The little dazie, that at evening closes, The virgin lillie, and the primrose trew, With store of vermeil roses, To deck their bridegroomes posies Against the brydale day, which was not long: 35 Sweet Themmes!

"Then, to satisfy the envious birdlings of the moor, the pomegranate slowly half-opens its fruit; the thousand vermeil seeds glitter in the sun; the thousand timorous sisters with rosy cheeks peep through the arched window: and the roguish birds come in flocks and feast at ease on the beautiful coral-grains; the roguish lovers devour with kisses the fair blushing sisters.

Entering then, Right o'er a mount of newly-fallen stones, The dusky-rafter'd many-cobweb'd hall, He found an ancient dame in dim brocade; And near her, like a blossom vermeil-white, That lightly breaks a faded flower-sheath, Moved the fair Enid, all in faded silk, Her daughter.

He marvelled greatly, for he saw her, vermeil and white, as he had known her in life.

She went forth from the chapel, and hastened to the wood, from whence she returned quickly, bearing a vermeil flower beneath her teeth.

Within the mouth of the maiden, she set a flower that was more vermeil still.

This knight wore harness of a fair vermeil colour, and bestrode a horse white of body, save for his two ears, which were red as the rider's mail.

She was richly dressed in a kirtle of vermeil silk, broidered with gold, and her mantle was worth the spoil of a king's castle.

Agavè of the vermeil-tinted cheek

Coarse complexions And cheeks of every grain will serve to ply The sampler, and to teaze the housewife's wool; What need a vermeil, tinctured lip for that, Love-darting eyes, and tresses like the morn?

SEE Vermeil, Madeleine Michel.

VERMEIL, EDMOND.

Edmond Vermeil, nee Madeleine Michel (W); 4May67; R409557.

SEE Vermeil, Madeleine Michel.

VERMEIL, MADELEINE MICHEL.

SEE Vermeil, Edmond.

Les deux tombeaux sont couleur de jaspre sur le vermeil, comme une brique (de jaspe rouge).

"On a pour sa nuque Et son front vermeil Fait une perruque Avec le soleil.

The leaves upon the self-same bough did hide, Beside the young, the old and ripened fig, Here fruit was green, there ripe with vermeil side; The apples new and old grew on one twig, The fruitful vine her arms spread high and wide, That bended underneath their clusters big;

He rose and pensively opened a little box of vermeil with a lid of aventurine.

The servant interrupted the charitable reflections of Des Esseintes, who received the slice of bread on a plate of vermeil.

"But she was strange to me: I could not speak For glad amazement, mixed with some dark fear; I saw her stand no longer pale and weak, But a proud maiden, queenly and most clear, With flashing eyes and vermeil in her cheek: And on the little table, set anear, I marked two goblets of rare workmanship With some strange liquor crownèd to the lip.