st_ to say so!"

And in the prologue to [Peele's] "Araygnement of Paris," 1584--

"Done by the pleasure of the powers above,
Whose _hestes_ men must obey."

The word occurs again in act iv. sc. 2, act iv. sc. 4, and act v. sc. 1.

[9] The second and third sonnets are now given (_verbatim et literatim_)
in a note, as they stand in Lansdowne MS. 786. They will serve to show
how slight were Wilmot's improvements, and will leave it perhaps open to
doubt whether the changes made in 1591 were always changes for the
better.

_An other to the same_.

Flowers of prime, pearles couched in gold,
sonne of our day that gladdeneth the hart
of them that shall yo'r shining beames behold,
salue of eche sore, recure of euery smart,
in whome vertue and beautie striueth soe
that neither yeldes: loe here for you againe
Gismondes vnlucky loue, her fault, her woe,
and death at last, here fere and father slayen
through her missehap. And though ye could not see,
yet rede and rue their woefull destinie.
So Joue, as your hye vertues doen deserue,
geue you such feres as may yo'r vertues serue
w'th like vertues: and blissfull Venus send
Vnto your happy loue an happy end.

_An other to the same_.

Gismond, that whilom liued her fathers ioy,
and dyed his death, now dead doeth (as she may)
by vs pray you to pitie her anoye;
and, to reacquite the same, doeth humbly pray
Joue shield yo'r vertuous loues from like decay.
The faithfull earle, byside the like request,
doeth wish those wealfull wightes, whom ye embrace.
the constant truthe that liued within his brest;
his hearty loue, not his unhappy case
to fall to such as standen in your grace.
The king, prayes pardon of his cruel hest:
and for amendes desireth it may suffise,
that w'th his blood he teacheth now the rest
of fond fathers, that they in kinder wise
entreat the iewelles where their comfort lyes.
And we their messagers beseche ye all
on their behalfes, to pitie all their smartes:
and on our own, although the worth be small,
we pray ye to accept our simple hartes
auowed to serue, w'th prayer and w'th praise
your honors, as vnable otherwayes.

[10] The play, as written in 1568, and as altered by Wilmot in 1591,
differs so much throughout, that it has been found impracticable,
without giving the earlier production entire, t