Nero regned after this Claudius, of alle menwrechidhest, redy to alle maner vices.—Capgrave,Chronicle of England, p. 62.To do evil gratis, to do evil for good, is thewretchedestwickedness that can be.—Andrewes,Of the Conspiracy of the Gowries, serm. 4.
Nero regned after this Claudius, of alle menwrechidhest, redy to alle maner vices.—Capgrave,Chronicle of England, p. 62.
To do evil gratis, to do evil for good, is thewretchedestwickedness that can be.—Andrewes,Of the Conspiracy of the Gowries, serm. 4.
Younker.Now, as far as it is used at all, equivalent to ‘youngster;’ but the ‘younker’ of our Elizabethan and earlier literature was much more nearly the German ‘junker,’ or Jung Herr, the young lord,—or perhaps ‘squire’ would be nearer the mark,—or youthful gallant. [We borrowed the word from the Dutch ‘jonker’ or ‘jonkheer’ (= ‘jong’ young + ‘heer’ gentleman). See Skeat’sDictionary.]
Yf some of them can get a fox tale or two, or that he may have a capons feder or a goose feder, or any long feder on his cap, than he is called ayonker.—Boorde,The Boke of the Introduction of Knowledge, 1547.How like ayounkeror a prodigalThe scarfèd bark puts from her native bay,Hugged and embracèd by the strumpet wind.Shakespeare,Merchant of Venice, act ii. sc. 6.See how the morning opes her golden gates,And takes her farewell of the glorious sun!How well resembles it the prime of youth,Trimmed like ayounker, prancing to his love.Id.,3 Henry VI., act ii. sc. 1.Venus loved theyounkerAdonis better than the warrior Mars.—Dodoen,History of Plants, p. 656.As Rehoboam’syonkerscarried that weighty business of his kingdom and overthrew it, so do the unruly and rebellious humours of most youth miscarry this.—Rogers,Matrimonial Honour, p. 31.
Yf some of them can get a fox tale or two, or that he may have a capons feder or a goose feder, or any long feder on his cap, than he is called ayonker.—Boorde,The Boke of the Introduction of Knowledge, 1547.
How like ayounkeror a prodigalThe scarfèd bark puts from her native bay,Hugged and embracèd by the strumpet wind.
How like ayounkeror a prodigalThe scarfèd bark puts from her native bay,Hugged and embracèd by the strumpet wind.
How like ayounkeror a prodigalThe scarfèd bark puts from her native bay,Hugged and embracèd by the strumpet wind.
How like ayounkeror a prodigal
The scarfèd bark puts from her native bay,
Hugged and embracèd by the strumpet wind.
Shakespeare,Merchant of Venice, act ii. sc. 6.
See how the morning opes her golden gates,And takes her farewell of the glorious sun!How well resembles it the prime of youth,Trimmed like ayounker, prancing to his love.
See how the morning opes her golden gates,And takes her farewell of the glorious sun!How well resembles it the prime of youth,Trimmed like ayounker, prancing to his love.
See how the morning opes her golden gates,And takes her farewell of the glorious sun!How well resembles it the prime of youth,Trimmed like ayounker, prancing to his love.
See how the morning opes her golden gates,
And takes her farewell of the glorious sun!
How well resembles it the prime of youth,
Trimmed like ayounker, prancing to his love.
Id.,3 Henry VI., act ii. sc. 1.
Venus loved theyounkerAdonis better than the warrior Mars.—Dodoen,History of Plants, p. 656.
As Rehoboam’syonkerscarried that weighty business of his kingdom and overthrew it, so do the unruly and rebellious humours of most youth miscarry this.—Rogers,Matrimonial Honour, p. 31.
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