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THE PHOENIX AND TURTLE.

Every one that flatters thee
Is no friend in misery.
Words are easy, like the wind;
Faithful friends are hard to find:
Every man will be thy friend,

Whilst thou hast wherewith to spend ;
But if store of crowns be scant,
No man will supply thy want.
If that one be prodigal,
Bountiful they will him call:
And with such-like flattering,
Pity but he were a king.
If he be addict to vice,

Quickly him they will entice;

If to women he be bent,

They have him at commandement ;
But if fortune once do frown,
Then farewell his great renown;
They that fawn'd on him before,
Use his company no more.
He that is thy friend indeed,
He will help thee in thy need;
If thou sorrow, he will weep;
If thou wake, he cannot sleep:
Thus of every grief in heart
He with thee doth bear a part.
These are certain signs to knew
Faithful friend from flattering foe.

THE PHENIX AND TURTLE.

(FROM THE ADDITIONAL POEMS TO CHESTER'S

Love's Martyr, or Rosalin's Complaint, 1601.)

LET the bird of loudest lay,"

On the sole Arabian tree,

Herald sad and trumpet be,

To whose sound chaste wings obey.

But thou shrieking harbinger,
Foul pre-currer of the fiend,
Augur of the fever's end,b

To this troop come thou not near!

From this session interdict
Every fowl of tyrant wing,
Save the eagle, feather'd king:
Keep the obsequy so strict.

Let the priest in surplice white,
That defunctive music can,°
Be the death-divining swan,
Lest the requiem lack his right.

And thou, treble-dated crow,
That thy sable gender mak'st

With the breath thou giv'st and tak'st,
'Mongst our mourners shalt thou go.

a Let the bird of loudest lay,-] "In 1601 a book was published, entitled Loves Martyr, or Rosalins Complaint, Allegorically shadowing the Truth of Love, in the constant Fate of the Phoenix and Turtle. A Poem enterlaced with much Varietie and Raritie; now first translated out of the venerable Italian Torquato Cæliano by Robert Chester. With the true Legend of famous King Arthur, the last of the nine Worthies; being the first Essay of a new British Poet: collected out of diverse authentical Records. "To these are added some new Compositions of several modern Writers, whose names are subscribed to their several Workes; upon the first Subject, viz. the Phoenix and Turtle.'

Among these new compositions is the following poem, subscribed with our poet's name. The second title prefixed to these verses, is yet more full. Hereafter follow diverse Poetical Essaies on the former Subject, viz. the Turtle and Phoenix. Done by the best and chiefest of our modern Writers, with their Names subscribed to their particular Workes. Never before extant.

"And now first consecrated by them all generally to the Love and Merit of the true-noble knight, Sir John Salisburie.'

Here the anthem doth commence :-
Love and constancy is dead;
Phoenix and the turtle fled

In a mutual flame from hence.

So they lov'd, as love in twain Had the essence but in one; Two distincts, division none: Number there in love was slain.

Hearts remote, yet not asunder; Distance, and no space was seen "Twixt the turtle and his queen : But in them it were a wonder.

So between them love did shine, That the turtle saw his right Flaming in the phoenix' sight; Either was the other's mine.

Property was thus appall'd, That the self was not the same Single nature's double name

Neither two nor one was call'd.

"The principal writers associated with Shakspeare in this collection are Ben Jonson, Marston, and Chapman. The above very particular account of these verses leaves us, I think, no room to doubt of the genuineness of this little poem."-MALONE. b Augur of the fever's end,-] Compare, "A Midsummer Night's Dream," Act V. Sc. 2,

"Now the wasted brands do glow,
Whilst the scritch-owl, scritching loud,
Puts the wretch that lies in woe,

In remembrance of a shroud."

c That defunctive music can,-] That funereal music knows. d But in them--] Except in them.

e Property was thus appall d,-] "Property" means here propriety. The sense of fitness was appall'd.

f Single nature's double name-] This may be right, though we have sometimes thought the genuine reading was,Single natures, double name," &c.

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Reason, in itself confounded,
Saw division grow together;
To themselves yet either-neither,
Simple were so well compounded;

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GLOSSARIAL INDEX.

GLOSSARIAL INDEX.

ABATE, to blunt, ii. 575.

Abated, subdued, depressed, iii. 164.

Abhominable, antiquated spelling of abominable, i. 83.

Abide, to pay the penalty, iii. 435.

Abide, sojourn, iii. 227.

Abjects, things thrown away as worthless, iii. 445.

Able, to qualify, iii. 103.

Aboding, foreboding, ii. 449.

Abram Cupid, i. 173.

Abridgment, pastime, i. 375, iii. 354.

Abroad, disbursed, expended, ii. 737.

Absey-book, A, B, C, book, catechism, i. 288.

Absolute, complete, iii. 530.

Abuse, delusion, deception, ii. 632.

Aby, to pay dear for, i. 364.

Accidence, i. 688.

Accite, to summon, iii. 598.

Accordingly, conformably, proportionately, ii. 26.

Accost, approach, i. 705.

Account of, to value, to appreciate, i. 11.

Ache (a noun), pronounced ache, and forming a riddle with

the letter H, i. 721, iii. 570.

Ache (a verb), pronounced ake, iii. 14.

Acknown, known, iii. 680.

Acquaintance, amity, iii 773.

Across, to break, a tilt-yard technical, i. 732, ii. 17.

Acture, action, iii. 786.

Adamant, loadstone, i. 353.

Adam Bel, the Archer, i. 741.

Adam, old, a serjeant, i. 136.

Addiction, inclination, iii. 666.

Additions, qualities, titles, characteristics, ii. 22, iii. 266, 340.
Address, to prepare, to make ready, i. 60, 376, 412, 609, 671,

ii. 169, iii. 434, 754.

Admittance, vogue, fashion, i. 658, 688.

Advice, consideration, representation, i. 431, ii. 76.

Advised, assured, aware, persuaded, i. 299, 574, 648, 727.
Affect, to love, i. 58.

Affect the letter, to use alliteration, i. 72.

Affection, affectation, imagination, i. 82, ii. 249, iii. 201.

Affectioned, affected, ii. 249.

Affeer, to assess, or confirm, iii. 505.

Affined, bound, iii. 648, 669.

Affray, to frighten, i. 194.

Affront, to confront, to encounter, iii. 358.

Affy, betroth, ii. 374.

Affy, to confide, iii. 598.

After-supper, a rere-supper, a second

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Against the hair, against the grain, iii. 266.

Aglet-baby, a diminutive figure carved on a jewel, i. 237,

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Aim, to give, to direct, i. 39, 130.

Ajax, a jakes, i. 93.

Albany, an ancient name for Scotland, iii. 57
Alder-liefest, all-dearest, dearest of all, ii. 342.

Ales, rustic festivities, i. 43.

A'life, as life, iii. 234.

All at once, a trite phrase, ii. 65, 440.
Alliterative examples, i. 386.
Allons! let us go, i. 81, 84.

Allow, to approve, iii. 80, 757.
Allowed, licensed, i. 92.

Allowing, allowed, lawful, iii. 202.
All-thing, every way, iii. 490.

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Anthropophagi, Scythian savages, cannibals, iii. 709.

Ape-bearer, an instructor and exhibitor of apes, iii. 254.
Appaid, pleased, satisfied, iii. 747.

Apparent, nearest, iii. 202.

Apparent, manifest, iii. 426.

Apparitor, an officer of the spiritual court, i. 67.

Apperil, danger, peril, ii. 467.

Apple-John, i. 588.

Apply, to ply, i. 232.

Apprehension, conceit, sarcasm, ii. 301.

Approbation, proof, ii. 67, 716.

Approve, to justify, to confirm, i. 417, iii. 330.

Araise, to raise, to upraise, ii. 17.

Argosy, a large vessel, i. 217, 394.

Argument, conversation, i. 714.

Arm-gaunt, iii. 537.

Aroint begone! avaunt! iii. 474.

A-row, one after another, successively, i. 143.

Arras, chamber-hangings, iii. 402.

Arrive, to arrive at, iii. 415.

Arthur's Show, Sir Dagonet in, i. 628.

Articulate, to enter into articles, iii. 140.

Articulated, circumstantially drawn out, i. 554.

Artificial, ingenious, i. 364.

Artist, a scholar, iii. 270.

Aspersion, sprinkling, iii. 35.

Assinego, an ass, iii. 278.

Assured, affianced, i. 131, 298.

Astonished, thunderstruck, iii. 755, 778.

Astringer, a falconer, ii. 56.

At friend, on terms of friendship, iii. 244.
Atomies, mites, i. 168.

Atomies, atoms, ii. 150, 156.

Atone, to reconcile, i. 450, ii. 715.

Attasked, taxed, charged, iii. 71.

Attorney, advocate, pleader, iii. 725.

Aunts, wenches, iii. 227.

Awful, authorised, lawful, i. 604.

Awful men, men of worth and authority, i. 28.

Awkward, distorted, contrary, ii. 80, 367.

BACCARE, stand back, i. 242.

Baffled, treated with ignominy, i. 450.

Baldrick, a belt, i. 699.

Bale, injury, iii. 129.

Balked, ridged, heaped up, i. 510.

Balk logic, to dispute, to wrangle, i. 233.

Baliow, a pole or staff, iii. 104.

Ban, to curse, iii. 725.

Banbury cheese, a thin cheese, i. 641.

Band, a bond, i. 136, iii. 553.

Ban-dog, perhaps a dog chained or banded, ii. 849.

Bankes's horse, i. 100.

Banquet, a dessert, i. 270.

Barbason, a fiend, i. 658, ii. 74.

Barbed, caparisoned, iii. 514.

Barbers' forfeits, ii. 638.

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