Nor for thy love will I once gnash a brick,

Or some pied colours in my bonnet stick:[575]

But, by the chaps of hell, to do thee good,

I'll freely spend my thrice-decocted blood.

FOOTNOTES:

[570] This sonnet and the two following pieces are only found in Isham copy and ed. A.

[571] So Isham copy.—Ed. A "fill."

[572] Tippling.

[573] "Bouse" was a cant term for "drink."

[574] See note [v]. p. 226.