"But come, thou goddess fair and free,
In heaven yclep'd Euphrosyne."
[430] Colling is embracing round the neck. Dare Brachia cervici, as Baret explains it in his "Alvearie," voce colle. The word is frequently to be found in ancient writers. So in Erasmus' "Praise of Follie," 1549, sig. B 2: "For els, what is it in younge babes that we dooe kysse go, we doe colle so; we do cheryshe so, that a very enemie is moved to spare and succour this age." In "Wily Beguiled," 1606: "I'll clasp thee, and clip thee; coll thee, and kiss thee, till I be better than nought, and worse than nothing." In "The Witch," by Middleton—
"When hundred leagues in aire we feast and sing,
Daunce, kysse, and coll, use everything."
And in Breton's "Woorkes of a Young Wit," 1577, p. 37—
"Then for God's sake, let young folkes coll and kisse,
When oldest folkes will thinke it not amisse."
[431] Old copy, upon.
[432] So in Ben Jonson's "Catiline," act iv. sc. 3—
"I have those eyes and ears shall still keep guard
And spial on thee, as they've ever done,
And thou not feel it."
And in Ascham's "Report and Discourse of the State of Germany," p. 31: "He went into France secretly, and was there with Shirtly as a common launce knight, and named hymselfe Captaine Paul, lest the Emperours spials should get out hys doynges."
[433] In the county of Essex, the mother-church of Harwich. "In the same yeare of our Lord 1582 there was an Idoll named The Roode of Dovercourt, whereunto was much and great resort of people. For at that time there was a great rumour blown abroad amongst the ignorant sort, that the power of The Idoll of Dovercourt was so great that no man had power to shut the church doore where he stood, and therefore they let the church dore, both night and day, continually stand open, for the more credit unto the blinde rumour."—Fox's "Martyrs," ii. 302. This is the account given by Fox of this celebrated image; who adds that four men, determining to destroy it, travelled ten miles from Dedham, where they resided, took away the Rood and burnt it, for which act three of them afterwards suffered death.