But found a friend whose dearest blood and life Shal be as readie as thine owne for thee; In place of wife such friend thou hast of mee.

] Others the utmost boughs of trees doe crop, And brouze the woodbine twigges that freshly bud; This with full bit* doth catch the utmost top Of some soft willow, or new growen stud**; This with sharpe teeth the bramble leaves doth lop, 85 And chaw the tender prickles in her cud; The whiles another high doth overlooke Her owne like image in a christall brooke.

Spenser, too, uses the phrase figuratively in another sense, in the following passage,which may be one of those which Chalmers had in his eye, when, according to Lord Campbell, he "first suggested" that Shakespeare was once an attorney's clerk: "She gladly did of that same Babe accept, As of her owne by liverey and seisin; And having over it a litle wept, She bore it thence, and ever as her owne it kept.

These crowns Are all your owne in your possession, So are the maydes.

A] no owne of.

Had he required life for us againe, Had it beene wrong to ask his owne with gaine?