Forth irreturnable flyeth the spoken word,
Be hit in scoffe, in earnest, or in bourd:
Without retourne, and vnreceiued, hit hangs,
And at the taker’s mercie, or rigour, stands:
Which if he sowerly wrest with wrathful cheare,
The shiuering word turnes to the speaker’s feare:
If frendly curtesie do the word expound,[1463]
To the speaker’s comfort swetely it doth redound.[1464]
84.
Euen as the vapour which the fier repels,