The sea,
With his proud mountain-waters envying heaven,
When I say 'still!' run into crystal mirrors.
Valentinian, iv. 1.
Of others' voices, that my adder's sense,
To critic and to flatterer stopped are.
Shakespeare, Son. cxii.
This last is the error of the poet, who probably had ears in his mind; yet sense may be a collective: all the others are perhaps to be ascribed to the original printers.
The intensive particle be was prefixed to verbs much more frequently than at present. There was also a frequent ellipsis of the first personal pronoun before such verbs as cry, beseech, beshrew, &c.; and finally the habit—still retained by the vulgar—of cutting away the first syllable of a word prevailed to some extent.