The Choise of Valentines | Page 8

onelie ask't, onely moud.
33 it, yt.
34 com_, come; _give_, giue; _Jill, Gill.
35 "Why, Sir." quoth shee, "if that be your demande," "If that yt be,"
quoth she, "that you demaunde."
36 Com laye me a God's-pennie, then giue me first a godes peny.
"God's-pennie, an earnest-pennie."--Florio, p. 36.
37 oratorie siccarlie, oratory, siccarly. "Oratory," properly a private
chapel or closet for prayer; here a canting term for brothel: cf. abbess =
bawd; nun = whore, and so forth. "Siccarly," certainly, surely "Thou art
here, sykerlye, Thys churche to robb with felonye," MS. Cantab Ff. ii.,
38, f. 240.
38 heere_, in; _nicarie_, deuory. "Nick," female _pudendum: hence
nickery, copulation. Deuory may either be Fr. devoir, duty; or devoure,
to ravish, to deflower.
39 offertorie, affidavit.
40 wee'le, Ile.

41 hearing hir so ernest, seeing her soe earnest.
42 Gave hir hir_, I gaue her her; _and she the dore unlocks, and she
the doare vnlockes.
43 In am I entered_, Nowe I am entered; _venus, sweet Venus.
44 where's this female_, where's the female; _do this, do the.
45 By_, through; _meanders and by crankled, meander and through
crooked.
46 Shee leades_, Shee leads; _Aucthor saies, author sayes.
47 we came within_, I came vnto; _shadie, shady.
48 bounsing vestalls_, bouncing vestures; _skirmish, skyrmish; oft,
omitted.
49 shee_, she; _leather chaire, Lether chayre.
50 prettie Trulls, wenches straight.
51 To chuse of them_, And bad me choose; _myne, my.
52 hir_, she; _no where espie, noe waye espye.
53 them_, her; _them her.
54 Yet, But.
55 Bawde_, baud; _as daintie_, soe dainty; _bee, be.
56 forth to, vnto.
57 Halliedame_, Holy Dame; _she_, shee; _Gods oune, gods one.
58 wylie, wyly.

59 more, better.
60 You'l smell_, youle find; _nare so, now soe.
61 hir, her.
62 think_, look; _purse-strings_, purse-stringes; _abye it deare, abide
yt deere.
63 that will eate quailes_, whoole feed on quayles; _crounes, crownes.
64 Mistris Francis_, Mistres Fraunces; _veluett gounes, velvett
gownes.
65 And ruffs_, Her ruffe; _perwigs_, perriwigge; _as_, soe; _Maye,
May.
66 with half a croune, for half a crowne.
67 hostess_, hostes; _we, wee.
68 Though, although.
69 bonnie, bonny.
70 tenne_, tenn; _gobbs I will unto thee tell, goblets vnto thee Ile tell.
"Gob, a portion" (H).
71 lyke thee, like you.
72 doe I hir companie, I doe her company.
73 Awaie_, Awaye; _thing, worde.
74 _That (mauger) will inuade_, it makes invasion in.
75 Hey-ho_, Loe! here; _hearte_, harte; _keepe, keeping.
76 Lullabie_, lullaby; _and falle a sleepe, fall a sleeping.

77 coms_, comes; _ground, ground.
78 Hir_, her; _silkes_, silcke; _confound, Confound.
79 Oh_, Awaye; _rauisht_, ravisht; _voide_, voyd; _chamber, Chamber;
streight, straight.
80 For I must neede's be on hir, I must be straight vppon her.
81 smilde, smiled.
82 beguilde, beguiled.
83 With smiles, with flatt'ring wordes, and fained cheere, With sighes
and flattering woordes and teares.
84 their_, your; _their_, much; _doeth appeare, still apeares.
85 how_, How; _lambkin_, Tomalyn; _replide, replied.
86 dancing, dauncing.
87 it be_, be it; _this, thy.
88 camp, campe.
89 onelie_, only; _sweete heart_, sweete harte; _came, cam.
90 auoide_, avoyd; _troblous and stormie, troublesome, stormye.
91 But now_, And since; _coaste_, coast; _we wil, I will.
92 Since_, for; _louer, louers.
93 sprung_, sprunge; _lips, lippes.
94 And fast about the neck me colle's and clips, and about my neck she
hugges, she calles, she clippes. "Coll" or "cull," to kiss, to embrace; so
also "clip."

95 faints_, faynes; _vpon hir, vppon the.
96 tosseth_, tosses; _and fro hir, and froe her.
97 shutts hir eyes, shakes her feete.
98 who_, whoe; _abstaine_, forbeare; _long, longe.
99 I com, I com_, I come, I come; _lyning_, Ladye; _be, by.
100 Softlie my fingers up this curtaine heaue, softly my curtaines lett
my fingers heaue.
101 make_, send; _happie_, happye; _stealing_, sailing; _degreese,
degrees.
102 First bare hir leggs, then creepe up to hir kneese, First vnto the
feete, and then vnto the kneese.
103 From thence_, And soe; _unto_, vnto; _mannely, manly.
104 lingring_, lingering; _am so, come soe.
105 Smock_, Smocke; _climbe, clime.
106 Oh heaven and paradise are all, all earthly pleasures seeme to this.
107 Compar'd with this sight I now, Compard be these delightes which
I.
109 prettie rysing_, prettye rising; _weame, wenne. "Wem," spot or
blemish.
110 shone, shine(s); anie siluer streame, any christall gemme.
111 bare_, beares; _bending_, riseing; _an, a.
112 a fountaine dwelleth still, the(r) runnes a fountayne still.

113 his_, her; _uglie bryers, rugged briers.
114 duskie_, duskye; _wyres, wires.
115 loftie_, lusty; _veines, vaines.
116 comelie_, comely; _distreines, restraines. "Distreines," to seize, to
touch.
117 wanton_, harmles; _harmlesse stype, wanton gripe.
118 fruites of loue oftsoone, fruite thereof too soone
119 And_, A; _too tymelie_, to tymely; _the stemme,