"Yet at my parting sweetly did she smile,
In scorn or friendship, nill I construe whether."
and Skelton, _Prol. to B. of C._:
"Smylynge half in scorne
At our foly."
107. _Woeful-wan_. Mitford says: "_Woeful-wan_ is not a legitimate
compound, and must be divided into two separate words, for such they
are, when released from the _handcuffs_ of the hyphen." The hyphen is
not in the edition of 1768, and we should omit it if it were not
found in the Pembroke MS.
Wakefield quotes Spenser, _Shep. Kal._ Jan.:
"For pale and wanne he was (alas the while!)
May seeme he lovd, or els some care he tooke."
108. "_Hopeless_ is here used in a proleptic or anticipatory way"
(Hales).
109. _Custom'd_ is Gray's word, not _'custom'd_, as usually printed.
See either Wb. or Worc. s. v. Cf. Milton, _Ep. Damonis_: "Simul
assueta seditque sub ulmo."