Ere the unwelcome season do begin,

Good victuals get, and frolic friends together,

Armour of proof against ill weather.

xvii. 2 'Do shine' is probably a misprint, due to the contiguous s's, for 'does' or 'do's shine'. So below in l. 6, 'reach' should probably be 'reacht' An apparent but not real false concord between plural nouns and singular verb was common in the seventeenth century.


Book III. Ode XIX. To Telephus.

I.

Thou por'st on Helvicus, and studiest in vain,

How many years pass'd betwixt King and King's reign,