"Sister, awake! close not your eyes!
The day its light discloses:
And the bright Morning doth arise
Out of her bed of roses.
See! the clear Sun, the world's bright eye,
In at our window peeping!
Lo, how he blusheth to espy
Us idle wenches sleeping.
Therefore, awake, make haste, I say,
And let us without staying,
All in our gowns of green so gay
Into the park a-maying."
[263] "A sort of game played with cards or dice. Silence seems to have been essential at it; whence its name. Used in later times as a kind of proverbial term for being silent."—Nares.
[264] Embrace.
[265] Cf. Titus Andronicus, v. 1, "As true a dog as ever fought at head." In bear-bating dogs were incited by the cry To head, to head! See my edition of Marlowe, iii. 241.
[266] Artery.
[267] The sword of Sir Bevis of Southampton; hence a general term for a sword.
[268] Lint applied to wounds.
[269] The mixture of muscadine and eggs was esteemed a powerful provocative.