The musick playes, vouchsafe some motion to it: Our eares vouchsafe it Kin.
Which his faire tongue (conceits expositor) Deliuers in such apt and gracious words, That aged eares play treuant at his tales, And yonger hearings are quite rauished.
And in another yle are wild men with hanging eares unto their shoulders.
Oft to Thy easy eareshath this shrill tongue Trembled, and sung.
Pardon (bright Excellence,) an untun'd string, 155 That in thy eares thus keeps a murmuring.
Our murmurs haue their musick too, 100 Ye mighty Orbes, as well as you; Nor yeilds the noblest nest Of warbling Seraphim to the eares of Loue, A choicer lesson then the ioyfull brest Of a poor panting turtle-doue.
Mean while we bear High as the brow of Heaven, the noble noise 95 And name of these our just and righteous joyes, Where Envie shall not reach them, nor those eares Whose tune keeps time to ought below the spheres.
And if mens eares were not perchaunce to daintie, or their iudgementes ouer partiall, would peraduenture nothing at all misbecome our arte, but make in our meetres a more pleasant numerositie then now is.
I hold my peace and will not say for shame, The much vntruth of that vnciuill dame: For if I should her coullours kindly blaze, It would so make the chast eares amaze, &c.
So as the Ladies and gentlewomen should haue their eares so occupied what with Musicke, and what with their handes wantonly scambling and catching after the nuttes, that they could not intend to harken after any other thing.
And till oureares Reach that cælestiall musique, which thine now So cheerefully receive, we must allow No comfort to our griefes: from which to be Exempted, is in death to follow thee.
But unquiet love [5]To make thy passions so uncourtly prove, As if all eares should heare her praise alone.
My eares shut up that easie dore Which did proud fallacies admit: And vow to heare no follies more; Deafe to the charmes of sinne and wit.
Did not the pittious night, whose eares Have oft beene conscious of my feares Distill you from her eyes as teares?
I heare some noyse, O tis Titinnius, No tis not hee, for hee doth feare to wound, My greeued eares with that hearts-thrilling sound.
The people haue eares which be marueilous great of a span long, which they draw out in length by deuises when they be yong.
Their eares are very large; for the greater they are, the more honourable they are accounted.
They haue large blew gownes, their wiues eares and noses are ringed very full of rings of copper and siluer, and they weare rings of copper about their legs.
Their eares with the weight of theie [sic--KTH] iewels be worne so wide, that a man may thrust three of his fingers into them.
The Bramanes marke themselues in the foreheads, eares and throates with a kind of yellow geare which they grind, and euery morning they doe it.
For who wolde not iudge that bodie to be a monstre, where there was no head eminent aboue the rest, but that the eyes were in the handes, the tonge and mouth beneth in the belie, and the eares in the feet.
To such as thinke that it will be long before such doctrine come to the eares of the chief offenders, I answer that the veritie of God is of that nature, that at one time or at other, it will pourchace to it selfe audience.
Suspitious boldnesse to this place belongs, And to'have as many eares as all have tongues; Tender to know, tough to acknowledge wrongs.
Corrupted nature sorrow'd when she stood So neare the danger of becomming good, And wish'd our so inconstant eares exempt 35 From piety that had such power to tempt: Did not his sacred flattery beguile Man to amendment?
It is a hard and nice Subject for a man to write of himself, it grates his own heart to say any thing of disparagement, and the Readers Eares to hear any thing of praise from him.
Wee may streatche our eares to catch a word nowe and then, but he will not be at the paynes to strayne his voyce, that wee might gaine one sentence.
Manie trespasses also are punished by the cutting of one or both eares from the head of the offendor, as the vtterance of seditious words against the magistrates, fraimakers, petie robbers, &c.
The brute of such an heinous act was streightwaies blowne ouer all, and brought with speed to the eares of the noble men and peeres of the realme, which were not farre off the place where this slaughter had béene committed.
But whilest outward wars ceassed among the Britains, they exercised ciuill battell, falling togither by the eares among themselues, one striuing against another.
I will saie nothing of our heads, which sometimes are polled, sometimes curled, or suffered to grow at length like womans lockes, manie times cut off aboue or vnder the eares round as by a woodden dish.
With eares also much lyke vnto an elephant, but not soo open nor soo much hangying downe: yet much wyder then the eares of any other beaste.
A head comes up with eares of corne, and she combes them in her lap.
If I remember you not both alyke I wolde ye were over the eares in the dyke.
By my first wife, whose tongue wearied me alive, and sounded in my eares like the clapper of a great bell, whose talke was a continuall torment to all that dwelt by her, or lived nigh her, you have heard me say I had a handsome daughter.
We heare nothing of our embassage,--a colour[927] belike to bleare our eyes or tickle our eares or inflame our hearts.
Doest thou preferre--but stay, utter not that in wordes which maketh thine earesto glow with thoughts.
What cracker is this same that deafes oureares With this abundance of superfluous breath?
They haue holes bored in their nostrels whereat certaine pendents hang: and others weare shelles, and their eares are full of holes, whereon they hang bones and shelles.
The Islands are three, and may be knowen as you come from the sea by two poynts, which shew like the eares of a conie: you may ride betweene them and the maine.
The shreekes of women and children were so great, that they made the eares deafe of those that followed them.
Basilisco oaths, that would have torne a roring-boyes earesin a thousand shatters.
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