“And with uncomely weeds the gentle wave accloyes.”
And in the same author’s “Shepheard’s Calendar” (February,
135)—
“The mouldie mosse which thee accloyeth.”
It is clear, therefore, that the word occurring in the fourth scene of the fifth act of Cymbeline, should be written cleys, and not cloys.
EAGLE’S EGGS.
But to return from this digression; there is a passage in the first act of Henry V. Sc. 2, which seems to deserve some notice while on the subject of eagles, i.e.:—
“For once the eagle England being in prey,
To her unguarded nest the weasel Scot
Comes sneaking, and so sucks her princely eggs.”