THE FAREWELL.

Line 2. _Chiere lie._ "Happy countenance." _Chiere_ here is the

substantive, _lie_=_laeta_, is the adjective. _Bonne chère_ means "a

good time" where _chère_ is an old word for "head" (Greek: kara).

Line 5. _Baillie_=Bailliwick, "For Age that has me now within her

bounds."

Line 7. _Mye._ "Crumb". "I am not a whit (not a crumb) with her (_Joie_)

to-day."

Line 15. "Well braced," literally "well girthed" (as a horse is).

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