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ANON. The fragment, of a single leaf only, in the Bodleian Library, of Christmas Carols, 1521. Cull to me the rushes green!. ANON. MS. Reg., Appendix 58. (M.)

Each beast can choose his fere

H. HOWARD, Earl of SURREY. In TOTTELL'S Miscellany, 2nd Ed., July 31, 1557

Every thing of my coming is

ANON. The Debate and Strife between Summer and Winter [1530], in the British Museum.

For Age is a Page

Rev. J. SKELTON. Why come ye not to Court? KELE's undated Ed. [? 1550], and SKELTON's Works, 1568. Forget not yet the tried intent

Sir T. WYATT. Reprinted by Dr. G. F. NOTT from the Devonshire MS. For my pastime, upon a day,... ANON. MS. Reg., Appendix 58. (M.) Fortune! O, mighty and variable! Sir T. MORE. Lady Fortune. From the unique copy in Lambeth Palace Library, London.

From Tuscan came my Lady's....
H. HOWARD, Earl of SURREY. In
TOTTELL'S Miscellany, 2nd Ed., July
31, 1557-
Fy, flattering Fortune! look thou.
Sir T. MORE. Works, p. 1432, 1557.

Give place, ye Lovers! here before H. HOWARD, Earl of SURREY. In TOTTELL'S Miscellany, 2nd Ed., July 31, 1557

Go, burning sighs! unto the frozen Sir T. WYATT. Egerton MS. 2,711. A Rondeau, imitated from PETRARCH'S 120th Sonnet.

Good Ladies! ye that have your.. H. HOWARD, Earl of SURREY. In TOTTELL'S Miscellany, 2nd Ed., July 31, 1557.

Heaven, and Earth, and all that.. Sir T. WYATT. Egerton MS. 2,711. Help me to seek! for I lost it there Sir T. WYATT. Egerton MS. 2,711. A Rondeau.

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I am an Englishman; and naked Į 284
A. BOORDE, Doctor of Physic. The
First Book of The Introduction to
Knowledge [1547].

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of Music, III, 1776.

I heard, lately, to a Lady

G. F. Ashm. MS. 48, in the Bodleian
Library.

I loathe that I did love!..

T. VAUX, Lord VAUX. In TOTTELL'S
Miscellany, 2nd Ed., July 31, 1557.
This is the Poem that is misquoted by
the Gravedigger in Hamlet.

In Cyprus, springs (where as Dame
H. HOWARD, Earl of SURREY. In
TOTTELL'S Miscellany, 2nd Ed., July
31, 1557.
Is it possible..

Sir T. WYATT. Reprinted by Dr. G.
F. NOTT from the Devonshire MS.

King Heart, into his comely Castle G. DOUGLAS, Bishop of DUNKELD. King Heart. In the Maitland MS. in the Pepysian Library at Cambridge.

Laid in my quiet bed, in study as I H. HOWARD, Earl of SURREY. In TOTTELL'S Miscellany, 2nd Ed., July 31, 1557

Like to these unmeasurable

Sir T. WYATT. Egerton MS. 2,711. ?From (MELLIN DE) SAINT GELAIS. Long was I, Lady Luck! your Sir T. MORE. Works, p. 1433, 1557.

Martial! the things that do attain. H. HOWARD, Earl of SURREY. In TOTTELL'S Miscellany, 2nd Ed., July 31, 1557. A translation of MARTIAL'S Epigram, X, 47.

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'Mine high Estate, power, and .... 114 Sir T. MORE. Lady Fortune. From the unique copy in Lambeth Palace Library, London.

Mine old dear Enemy, my froward

Sir T. WYATT. Egerton MS. 2,711;
and TOTTELL's Miscellany, 2nd Ed.,
July 31, 1557. A translation of PE-
TRARCH'S 48th Canzone.

Mine own John Poyntz! Since ye
Sir T. WYATT. The leaf of Egerton
MS. 2,711, containing the first 51 lines,
is torn out. These lines are therefore
given from TOTTELL's Miscellany, 2nd
Ed., July 31, 1557. The remaining
lines, beginning with Praise him for

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counsel, &c., are from the Egerton MS. In Terza Rima. This Poem is an imitation of the 10th Satire of LUIGI ALAMANNI the Elder.

Morning! Morning!..

ANON. Harl. MS. 2,252. My Galley, charged with

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Sir T. WYATT. Egerton MS. 2,711.
From PETRARCH's 156th Sonnet.
My heart's lust and all my pleasure 104
ANON. In Sir J. HAWKINS' History
of Music, III, 1776.

My Lute, awake! Perform the last
Šir T. WYATT. Egerton MS. 2,711.
My mother's maids, when they did
Šir T. WYATT. Egerton MS. 2,711.
In Terza Rima. Suggested by Ho-
RACE's story of The Town and
Country Mouse.

My Pen! take pain, a little space..
Sir T. WYATT. Reprinted by Dr. G.
F. NOTT from the Devonshire MS.
My Ratcliff! when thy retchless..
H. HOWARD, Earl of SURREY. In
TOTTELL'S Miscellany, 2nd Ed., July
31, 1557.

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Never was I less alone, than being 129
H. PARKER, Lord MORLEY. Ashm.
MS. 48, in the Bodleian Library.
Norfolk sprang thee! Lambeth....
H. HOWARD, Earl of SURREY. It is
among the Epitaphs in M. N. [W.
CAMDEN]'s Remaines, &c., 1605.
Nowell! Nowell! Nowell! Nowell! 13
ANON. Add. MS. 5,665. (M.)
Now, Robin! lend to me thy bow!. 111
ANON. In T. R. [T. RAVENSCROFT]'s
Pammelia, 1609. (M.)

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O, my heart! and O, my heart
King HENRY VIII. Add. MS. 31,922.
(M.)
Once, as methought, Fortune me..
Sir T. WYATT. Egerton MS. 2,711.

Pass forth, my wonted cries!..... Sir T. WYATT. In TOTTELL'S Miscellany, 2nd Ed., July 31, 1557. The third stanza is from SERAPHINUS [i. e. SERAFINO CIMINO] Aquilano's Strambotti, fol. 116b, Firenze, 1516. Pastime with good company

King HENRY VIII. Add. MS. 31,922. (M.) Patience! Though I have not

....

Sir T. WYATT. Egerton MS. 2,711. Perdy! I said it not..

Sir T. WYATT. IN TOTTELL's Miscellany, 2nd Ed., July 31, 1557. From PETRARCH'S 34th Canzone. Phillida was a fair Maid

This Poem is included among Uncertain Authors in TOTTELL's Miscellany, 2nd Ed., July 31, 1557: but it is reprinted, and attributed to the Earl of SURREY, in J. B. [J. BODENHAM]'s England's Helicon, 1600. Placebo...

Rev. J. SKELTON. Philip Sparrow. KELE'S undated Ed. [1550], and SKELTON'S Works, 1568.

Resound my voice, ye woods! that Sir T. WYATT. Egerton MS. 2,711.

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Set me where as the sun do[th].... 87 H. HOWARD, Earl of SURREY. In TOTTELL'S Miscellany, 2nd Ed., July

31, 1557

She is so proper and pure

ANON. In Sir J. HAWKINS' History of Music, III, 1776.

She sat and sewed, that hath done
Sir T. WYATT. Egerton MS. 2,711.
Sighs are my food: my drink is
Sir T. WYATT. Harl. MS. 78.
So cruel prison how could betide
H. HOWARD, Earl of SURREY. In
TOTTELL'S Miscellany, 2nd Ed., July
31, 1557-
So well is me begun!

ANON. In J. RITSON'S Ancient Songs, 1792, from Sloane MS. 1,584. (M.) Sufficed not, Madam! that you.... Sir T. WYATT. In TOTTELL's Mis cellany, 2nd Ed., July 31, 1557.

Tagus, farewell! that westward..
Sir T. WYATT. Egerton MS. 2,711;
and TOTTELL'S Miscellany, 2nd Ed.,
July 31, 1557.
Take in your Ancients, and your.

ANON. In Bishop T. PERCY's Folio
MS. (now Add. MS. 27,879, in the

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The Boar's Head, that we bring.. 131
ANON. Add. MS. 5,665. (M.)
The fifteenth Kalends of November
ANON. From the unique copy of The
Passion of the Fox, 1530, in Cam-
bridge University Library.
The golden gift that Nature did..
H. HOWARD, Earl of SURREY. In
TOTTELL'S Miscellany, 2nd Ed., July
31, 1557.

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The Hunt is up! The Hunt is up! 105
W. GRAY. As printed in W. CHAP-
PELL's Popular Music of the Olden
Time. (M.)

The more health he hath, the more
ANON. The Debate, &c., of Summer
and Winter [1530], in the British
Museum.

There was never nothing more me
Sir T. WYATT. Egerton MS. 2,711.
There were three ravens sat on a.
ANON. In T. R. [T. RAVENSCROFT]'s
Melismata, 1611. (M.)
These women all.

ANON. In J. RITSON's Ancient Songs,
1792, from Harl. MS. 7,578. (M.))]
The soote season, that bud and..
H. HOWARD, Earl of SURREY. In
TOTTELL'S Miscellany, 2nd Ed., July
31, 1557.
Thestilis, a silly man, when love..
This Poem is included among Un-
certain Authors in TOTTELL'S Mis-
cellany, 2nd Ed., July 31, 1557: but
it is reprinted and attributed to the
Earl of SURREY, in J. B. [J. BODEN-
HAM]'s England's Helicon, 1600.
The sun hath twice brought forth
H. HOWARD, Earl of SURREY. In
TOTTELL'S Miscellany, 2nd Ed., July
31, 1557. In Terza Rima.
The sun, when he hath spread his
This Poem is included among Un-
certain Authors in TOTTELL'S Mis-
cellany, 2nd Ed., July 31, 1557: but it
is attributed to the Earl of SURREY, by
G.TURBERVILE, in the following stanza
in his Epitaphs, &c., 2nd Ed., 1570:
Though noble SURREY said,

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That Absence wonders frame, [see p. 73] And makes things out of sight forgot; And thereof takes his name. They flee from me, that sometime. Sir T. WYATT. Egerton MS. 2,711. Thou, that art proud of honour .. Sir T. MORE. Lady Fortune. From the unique copy in Lambeth Palace Library, London.

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To rise betimes, himself to
ANON. The Debate, &c., of Summer
and Winter [1530], in the British
Museum.

Vulcan begat me. Minerva me.... Sir T. WYATT. IN TOTTELL'S Miscellany, 2nd Ed., July 31, 1557. Ex PANDULPHO: i. e. a translation from the Latin of PANDOLFO COLLINUTIO, which may be found in Harl. MS. 78.

What meaneth this? When I lie.. Sir T. WYATT. Reprinted by Dr. G. F. NOTT from the Devonshire MS. ?From SAPPHO, or CATULLUS. What should I say?

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Sir T. WYATT. Reprinted by Dr. G. F. NOTT from the Devonshire MS. When Cupid scaled first the Fort.. 246 T. VAUX, Lord VAUX. Among Uncertain Authors in TOTTELL'S Miscellany, 2nd Ed., July 31, 1557. Authorship fixed by G. PUTTENHAM, in his Art of English Poesy, 1589. When raging love, with extreme.. H. HOWARD, Earl of SURREY. In TOTTELL'S Miscellany, 2nd Ed., July 31, 1557 When Windsor walls sustained... H. HOWARD, Earl of SURREY. In TOTTELL'S Miscellany, 2nd Ed., July 31, 1557: Where shall I have, at mine own.. Sir T. WYATT. Egerton MS. 2,711. Whereto should I express King HENRY VIII. Add. MS. 31,922. (M.) Who climbeth too high, perforce.. 290 Sir D. LYNDESAY. The Testament and Complaint of our Sovereign Lord's Papingo, Paris, 1558. Who hath heard of such cruelty.. Sir T. WYATT. Egerton MS. 2,711. Who is at ease, when both are.... G. DOUGLAS, Bishop of DUNKELD. King Heart. In the Maitland MS. in the Pepysian Library at Cambridge. Whoso list to hunt, I know where Sir T. WYATT. Egerton MS. 2,711. Dr. G. F. NOTT thought that this Poem was a translation of a Sonnet by GIOVANNI ANTONIO ROMANELLO; which Sonnet was based on PETRARCH'S 157th Sonnet. He also thought that the Hind was ANNE BOLEYN.

Wrapped in my careless cloak, as
H. HOWARD, Earl of SURREY. In
TOTTELL'S Miscellany, 2nd Ed., July
31, 1557.
Wyatt resteth here, that quick....
H. HOWARD, Earl of SURREY. In
TOTTELL'S Miscellany, 2nd Ed., July
31, 1557.

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GLOSSARY AND INDEX.

Abone, 221, 226, above.
Accited, 38, summoned.
Ace in the face, 190.
Acherontes', 134, Acheron's.
Acisiam, 176, mental blind-

ness.

Acon, 184, Aix-la-Chapelle.
Ado, 236, to do.

Adread, Adred, 229, 235,
afraid.

Adversair, 40, adversary.
Adversity (Bishop G. Doug.
las), 238.
Afore, 235, before.
Aforrow, 291, before.
Afterclaps, 121, unexpected
strokes after the event.
Agazed, 53, at a gaze.
Age(Bp.G. Douglas), 226–229.
Ahasuerus, 155.
Airt, 213, quarter of the
heavens.

Alate, 268, 273, of late.
The Duke of Albany-see
Stewart, J.
Albumazar, 148, 178.
Alcumin [= alchemy], 191,
imitation gold.
Alderbest [=aller-best], 201,
the best of all.
Alexander the Great, 19, 113,

119, 155, 179.
All and some, 7, one and all.
All-out, 227, at all.
Allen, Doctor, 264.
The Almain, 211, the Ger-

man.

Als, 212, 222, 238, 240, &c.,
also; 224, as.
Amalek [ Cardinal T. Wol-
sey] (Rev. J. Skelton), 176.
Amamelek, 176, a Mama-
luke.
Amazonia, 271, Scythia.
Amices, 150, 280, kerchiefs
worn by Priests.
Amisse-see Amices.
Among, 238, with
you.
An, 218, if.
Ancients, 96, 97, flags, en-
signs.

And, 121, 143, 170, 226, &c., if.
Andrew, 164, the name for
a Scotchman in 1522.
Andromach, 135, Andro-

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Well apaid! 76, satisfied.
To appal, 160, to impair.
Appetite (Bishop G. Doug.
las), 228, 229, 240.
Applesit, 292, pleased.
Apport-see High-Apport.
Araby [= Arabia], 148, 201.
Arcady [= Arcadia], 142.
Arcite, 151.

Arden, The forest of, 152.
Aristippus, 119.
In armis, 223, arms.
Armony, 140, Armenia.
Armour of proof, 99, 100,
impenetrable.

The Arms, 246, coat-armour.
In arms across, 83, em-
bracing.

Arraced, 38, erased.
Arthur, King, 152.
Askance, 5, aside.
Askry [ascry], 190, out-
cry, shout.

Aslake, 270, diminish, abate.
Assesit, 292, seated.
At all, 241, anyhow.
At large, 87, in freedom.
Atride, 41, Agamemnon.
Attour, 236, out over.
Atwixt, 85, betwixt.
Reins availed [= avaled],
79, loosened.
By Avise, 216, fashion.
Axe, 124, ask.
Aye, 229, ever.

Tower of Babel, 259.

The Barnacle, 146, a wild
goose.
Barnehead, 240, childhood.
Barton, Sir A., 90-103.
Barton, John of, 100.
Basit, 217, abashed.
Basse her sweet sweet, 161,
kiss.

Bayard [of] Mount-albon,
152, a fabulous horse.
Bead-rolls, 132, 139, 144;
lists of persons to be prayed
for.

Broad beak, 145, broad bill.
Beams [of timber], 95, 98, 99.

What these were, has not
been explained.

A bearing arrow, 99, a
driving arrow.

Bears me in hand, 77, per-
suades me.

Beauty (Bishop G. Douglas),
215-221, 225, 234, 240.
Beauty (T.Vaux, Lord Vaux),
247, 248, 251.
A beck, 65, a bow.
Becketh, 116, noddeth.
Beforne, 221, before.
Begouth, 223, 231, began.
Behove, 74, be due, incum-
bent.

Beir, 236, cry; 241, bear.
Bitter beir, 215, sharp palis-
sade.

Belyve, 218, 229, quickly.
Softly bemole, 149, a nonce
word rhyming with soul,
The sense requires bemoan.

Bag and baggage, 248, all Bent [=grass], 216, field.
one's belongings.
Baith, 239, both.
Gibbet of Baldock, 193.
Bale, 77, sorrow, grief.
Balthasar, 200, 201, Bal-
thasar de Guercis.
Balua, Cardinal J., 185.
Bamborough, 165,

The bernis, 217, nobles.
Besprent, 246, besprinkled.
Betake from me, 44, depart.
Betrasit, 214, betrayed."
Bias, 120.

Bam-

burgh, in Northumberland.
Band, 248, 251, an indefinite
number of soldiers. It might
mean a Troop, a Regiment,
or a Brigade.
Bannockburn, 169, the battle

there.

Bapst, Mons. E., 51, 82.
Hold up their hand at the Bar,
170, as criminals did. See
Vol. III, p. 130.
Barlow, Friar J., 159, 252-
265.

Barmekin, 239, Barbican.

To bide, 218, abide, stand.
Bigget, 218, caused.
Bills, 153, love-letters.
Thou bird'st, 230, it behoves
thee.

Blait [=bleat], 291, grunt.
Blate, 238, diffident, shy.
Bliss (Bp. G. Douglas), 215.
Blithness (Bishop G. Doug-

las), 215, 225.
Blo, 110, blackish-blue.
Blonkis, 217, white horses.
The board, 166, the table.
Under board, 205, under the
decks.

Father's Boat, 140, Noah's
Ark.

Bodward [= bodeword], 217,

220, 225, message.

Bohyde, 205, Bude, in Corn-
wall.

Boorde, Doctor of Physic;
A., 284, 285.
Boot, 240, remedy.
Had booted, 62, availed.
It boots me not, 67, profits.
In bord, 187, in jest.
Bordeaux Voyage,
94, the annual voyage for
French wines.
Bordes, 34, jests.
Boskage

90,

boscage], 162,
groves, wooded landscape.
Bote, 142, bit.
Bote [boot] them, 67, avail
them.

Botham Bar, 165, a Gate of
the city of York.
Boulogne, France, 62.
Boune, 219, ready.
Bour, 241, chamber.
Bownit, 235, made ready.
Brag, 219, 223, defiance.
At a braid, 148, at a push.
A brake, 193, a rack.
In brake, 64, in a thicket.
Brand, 240, sword.
Brathit, 219, unfurled.
Could them bre [= bree],
218, made them scared.
The brenning hill, 142, burn-
ing hill, volcano.
Brent, 163, burnt.
Brikand, 222, breaking.
Britain, 49, 54.
Broad arrow, 99, having a
broad head.

Broad Seal-see Great Seal.
Brotell, 118, 120, brittle.
Brothle men, 116, fickle.
Brotill, 266, brittle, fickle.
Broudin, 222, embroidered.
Brount, 219, brunt of battle
Browdin, 217, embroidered.
Browne, Sir A., 51.
Brutus, 48, the imagined
founder of Britain.
Bryan, Sir F., 25.
Buckingham, the Duke of
-see Stafford, E.
Buckram, 191, coarse linen.
Buirtlie, 219, stately.
Buller, 291, roar.
Bull under lead, 187, with a
leaden seal.

Burde, 225, friendly contest.
Burding, 229, jesting.
Burgonions-see Burgun-

dians.
Burgundians, 172, 192, 211.
Business (Bishop G. Doug-
las), 221, 223, 224, 242.
Busteousness (Bishop G.
Douglas), 224, Violence.

But, 214, 215, 220, 221, 223,
&c., without; 224, except.
The Butcher's Dog, 170,
Cardinal T. Wolsey.
Buxom, 235, pliant, flexible.

Cacodemonial, 188, pertain-
ing to an evil spirit.
Caen, France, 191.
Cæsar, C. J., 19, 119, 152.
Cæsar, 3, ? Henry VIII. See
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Chastity (Bishop G. Doug-
las), 221, 225, 241.
Chaucer, G., 49, 157.
'Chequer, 171, the Court of
the Exchequer.

Dented chewes, 55, jaws.
Chief Counsellor, 163, Car.
dinal T. Wolsey.
Chop and change, 55, bar-
ter, exchange.
Cicero, M. T., 178.
Cimirise [= Cimmerians],
271, the inhabitants of the
Crimea.

Calais, 159, 162.
Th'[Encountering at Calais,
162, the Field of the Cloth
of Gold, in 1520.
Calodemonial, 188, pertain-
ing to beautiful or good
spirits. A nonce word.
A sour calstock, 172, the
stalk of a cabbage.
Cam, 140, I9i, Hãm.
Camber [=Cambria], 54, Cleremont, 62.
Wales.
Cambridge, 212.
As right as a cammock
crooked, 164, as straight
as a crooked piece of wood.
Can (Scotch) [=gan], 214, 217,

Clarè, 209, Claret wine.
He clasped me, 94, fastened,
chained, me.

A clattering Knight, 40, chat-

tering, babbling, rattling.
Cleanly, 212, altogether.
Cleikit, 217, seized, laid hold.
The cleir, 235, the Beauty.
Clere, T., 62.

218, 220, &c., went, began.
That can [= ken], 96, know.
Cankered knaves, 171, ma-
lignant rascals.

My Lord of Canterbury, 198,
Archbishop W. Warham.
Carects Caracts], 184,
signs, like those of the
Zodiac.

Carl, 263, fellow, churl.
Carls, 235, churls, boors.
Carnarvon,North Wales, 169.
Keenly carpand, 219, boldly
talking.

Carrow, Norwich, 132, 141.
Carven, 215, carved.
Cass [= case], 223, chance.
Cast, 212, 214, purposed.
A cast, 223, turn, stratagem.
Cast, 239, threw.

She castis, 219, purposes.
Dame Castrimärgia (Rev.
J. Skelton), 167.
Cater, 5, caterer.
Catines, 269.
The Chamber of Stars, 166,
171,the Star ChamberCourt.
Chamberer, 221, chamber-
maid.

The Court of Chancery, 171.
The Chantry, 280, Priests
endowed to sing the Mass
daily.
Toothless chaps, 55, jaws.
Chark-board, 95.
Charlemagne, the Em-
peror, 152, 184, 185.

Her clergions, 68, young
songsters.

Clinton, E., Countess of-
see Fitz Gerald, Lady E.
Clinton, Earl of Lincoln;
E., 51.

The Close, 229, the Enclosure.
Coar[c]ted, 175, coerced,
constrained, controlled.
A cockly fose, 169, wrinkled,
puckered.

Cock-sure, 169, absolutely
certain.

Coe [co], 147, jackdaw.
Serjeants of the Coif, 170,
Serjeants at Law.

Cole Crafter (Rev. J. Skel-
ton), 163.

A cole-rake, 193, a rake for
raking cinders out of a
furnace.

A College, 258, 259, Christ
Church, Oxford.

Comfort (Bishop G. Douglas),

223, 224, 240.

The Common Place, 170,
the Court of Common Pleas.
Comptis cast, 237, make my

accounts.

Confortation, 268, comfort.
Conies, 7, rabbits.
Conjunit, 292, conjoined.
Conscience (Bishop G.Doug-
las), 228-232, 234, 235, 240.
Constancy (Bishop G.
Douglas), 215.
Mad coot, 145, 183, like the
Guillemot.

Cope, 217, divide, share.
Corin (H. Howard, Earl of
Surrey), 58, 60, 61.
Corinna (Rev. J. Skelton),
158.

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