Crops of the grey coral moss, and hoary thyme, Or laps with rosy tongue the melting rime, Eyes with mute tenderness her distant dam, Or seems to bleat a vegetable lamb.

[* I.e. Hesiod] In such delights whilst thus his carelesse time This shepheard drives, upleaning on his batt*, And on shrill reedes chaunting his rustick rime, 155 Hyperion, throwing foorth his beames full hott, Into the highest top of heaven gan clime, And the world parting by an equall lott, Did shed his whirling flames on either side, As the great Ocean doth himselfe divide.

He dropped rime more and more in his later plays, and his blank verse grew freer and more varied in its pauses and the number of its feet.

This scheme is followed with great precision throughout the poem, which employs neither rime nor regular alliteration.

Thus we twice find Gynetia addressed as 'Queen,' while elsewhere 'Duke' rimes with 'spring,' and 'Duchess' with 'spleen.'

The Captain's fingers are loaded with cameos, his tongue runs over with virtù, and that both may contribute to the improvement of their own country, they have introduced bouts-rimes as a new discovery.

ADUMBLA, a cow, in old Norse mythology, that grazes on hoar-frost, "licking the rime from the rocksa Hindu cow transported north," surmises Carlyle. ADVOCATE, LORD, chief counsel for the Crown in Scotland, public prosecutor of crimes, and a member of the administration in power.

"Miserly, indeed!" said he; "not that: he married three rimes, and he was not a man who restricted his official business to too few handshow could he be miserly?"

Dante himself prized this Canzone, and represents Buonagiunta da Lucca in Purgatory as addressing him, "Ma di s' io veggio qui colui che fuore Trasse le nuove rime, cominciando: Donne, ch' avete intelletto d'Amore.

Each best day of our life at first doth goe, To them succeeds diseased age and woe; Now die your pleasures, and the dayes you pray Your rimes and loves and jests will take away.

In Italian very often the natural harmony of the language and the music of the sound conceal the poverty of the thought; besides Italian poetry has innumerable licenses which make it easy to figure in the Tuscan Parnassus, and where anyone who can string together rime or versi sciolti is dignified with the appellation of a poet; whereas from French poetry, a mediocrity is and must be of necessity banished.

Davenant made new versions of Macbeth and Julius Cæsar, substituting rime for blank verse.

This last arrangement tended to make the poem a more organic whole than was possible in the first two cases; in these, stanzas might be omitted without necessarily impairing the general effect, but, when coblas estrampas were employed, the ear of the auditor, attentive for the [30] answering rimes, would not be satisfied before the conclusion of the second stanza.

The other two ships did so; but after waiting a reasonable rime for Michael Cortereal, it was concluded that he was also lost, on which the other two ships returned to Lisbon, and no news was ever afterwards heard of the two brothers; but the country where they were lost is still called the land of Cortereal.