wonderous ... 1820.]

The driven snow, the rose so rare, The glorious sunne above thee, Can not with my Ginnee compare, She was so wonderous lovely.

Upon his head, his glistering burganet*, The which was wrought by wonderous device And curiously engraven, he did set: 75 The mettall was of rare and passing price; Not Bilbo** steele, nor brasse from Corinth fet, Nor costly oricalche from strange Phoenice; But such as could both Phoebus arrowes ward, And th'hayling darts of heaven beating hard.

[Footnote A: Here in the Quarto; the next more easie: For vse almost can change the stamp of nature, And either the deuill, or throwe him out With wonderous potency:]

By no meanes; the author has sworne to the contrary, least it should grow so wonderous old and turne a Ballad.

and from what region far? This wonderous form, majestic to behold? Unclothed, yet armed offensive for the war, In hoary age, and wise experience old? His limbs inured to hardiness and toil, His strong large limbs, what mighty sinews brace!

'Tis wonderous strange.

A diadem worn by a headlesse King wold be wonderous, Phylaster is too weake in power.

Al. Devour'd by Rats, in strange and wonderous sort. Duke.

Crosses at the button holes, and bits of ribbon on the shoulders are unnecessary; they throw an apple of discord between the young creatures, who have sense enough to see that these things are frequently given away with a wonderous lack of discrimination, and sometimes to please parents more than reward merit.

"My ranks are wonderous scant," returned Milo Fitzwalter, "I may not reckon twenty men at arms in the whole train, and varlets have I none; but it boots not to number spears when danger presses; so to horse and away.

The neighbors stared and sighed, yet blessed the lad; Some deemed him wonderous wise, and some believed him mad.

From Him ... we roam unconscious, or with hearts Unfeeling of our universal Sire, and the greatest thing we can achieve, "our noon-tide majesty," is to know ourselves Parts and proportions of one wonderous whole!