Appollo hence a great suspition growes: Yeare not so pleasaunt now as earst in companie; Ye walke alone and wander solitarie; The pleasaunt toyes we did frequent sometime Are worne away and growne out of prime; Your Instrument hath lost his siluer sound, That rang of late through all this grouie ground; Your bowe, wherwith the chace you did frequent, Is closde in case and long hath been unbent.

Who but beleeves That Doublets with stuft bellies and big sleeves And those Trunk-hose which now our life doth scorne Were all in fashion and with custome worne?

If I were fit to be your Counsellor Thus would I speake: feigne that you are with childe, The mother of the Maids, and some worne Ladies

There's but two parts to play: shame has done hers But execution must close up the Scaene, And for that cause these sprigs are worne by all, Badges of Mariage, now of Funerall, For death this day turns Courtier.

"And in his hand his portesse still he bare That much was worne," &c. See also note to "New Custom" [iii. 24].Collier.

In autumne, whan the sunne in vyrgyne, By radyante hete, enryped hath our corne, When Luna, full of mucabylyte, As Emperes the dyademe hath worne Of our Pole artyke, smylynge half in scorne, At our foly, and our unstedfastnesse, The tyme

65 What of the Persian Beares outragiousnesse, Whose memorie is quite worne out with yeares?

His name is worne alreadie out of thought, Ne anie poet seekes him to revive; Yet manie poets honourd him alive.

But th'altare on the which this image staid Was (O great pitie!) built of brickle* clay, That shortly the foundation decaid, 500 With showres of heaven and tempests worne away; Then downe it fell, and low in ashes lay, Scorned of everie one which by it went; That I, it seing, dearelie did lament.

Thus manie yeares I now have spent and worne, In meane regard, and basest fortunes scorne, 60 Dooing my countrey service as I might, No lesse I dare saie than the prowdest wight; And still I hoped to be up advaunced For my good parts; but still it hath mischaunced.

Richer then that, which foure successiue Kings In Denmarkes Crowne haue worne.

No Worthies form'd by any Muse but thine Could purchase Robes to make themselves so fine: What brave Commander is not proud to see Thy brave Melantius in his Gallantry, Our greatest Ladyes love to see their scorne Out done by Thine, in what themselves have worne: Th'impatient Widow ere the yeare be done Sees thy Aspasia weeping in her Gowne: I never yet the Tragick straine assay'd Deterr'd by that inimitable Maid:

Not that I remember: Ile sweare (& my eyes should come out as 2 witnesses) that I nere slept worse; for what with ycur Spanish flyes (the pocky, stinging musquitoes) & what with your skip Jacke fleas, the nap of my sleepe was worne off.

I have worne better Spanish gaiters: thus rewarded for my service!

A paire of gray stockins, thick dapple gray stockins, with a belt, to be worne either about my shoulder or about my wast.

This rocke is now almost worne away.

That part of the country next the sea is very barren and full of mountains, yet found we there an olde tombe of marble, with an epitaph of an ancient Greeke caracter, by antiquity neere worne out and past reading; which to the beholders seemed a monument of the greatnesse of the Grecian monarchy.

Here, thou contemptyble thynge that never werte So free as to put on thyne owne ill hatt; Thou that hast worne thy selfe and a blewe coate To equall thryddbareness and never hadst Vertue inough to make thee [be] preferrd Before aught but a cloak bagge,what to me? Fue.

Above, the clothes in which I fyrst was swathde, The linnen fyrst worne in myne infancy.

I sawe Fryar Jhon, arm'd dreadfully with weapons Not to be worne in peace, pursue his lyfe; All which I'l tell the abbott.

[sicKTH] iewels be worne so wide, that a man may thrust three of his fingers into them.

the palme of. l. 13. ore worne.

I nere tri'd this, Yet I have worne as faire as any man, I'me sure I've made my Cutler rich, and paid For several weapons, Turkish and Toledo's, Two thousand Crownes, and yet could never light Upon a fighting one.

In 1603 appeared a curious compilation, the work of Henry Chettle, bearing the title: 'Englandes Mourning Garment: Worne here by plaine Shepheardes; in memorie of their sacred Mistresse, Elizabeth, Queene of Vertue while shee lived, and Theame of Sorrow, being dead.

or in the lines with which Callidora prepares to meet death from her brother's sword: As sick men doe their beds, so have I yet Injoy'd my selfe, with little rest, much trouble: I have beene made the Ball of Love and Fortune, And am almost worne out with often playing; And therefore I would entertaine my death As some good friend whose comming I expected.