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remaine

vb. (obsolete spelling of remain English)

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Then answered Ceres, Verely Psyches, I am greatly moved by thy prayers and teares, and desire with all my heart to aide thee, but if I should suffer thee to be hidden here, I should increase the displeasure of my Cosin, with whom I have made a treatie of peace, and an ancient promise of amity : wherefore I advise thee to depart hence and take it not in evil part in that I will not suffer thee to abide and remaine here within my temple.

In which amazement, when the MiscreantPerceiued him to wauer weake and fraile,Whiles trembling horror did his conscience dant,And hellish anguish did his soule assaile,To driue him to despaire, and quite to quaile,He shew'd him painted in a table plaine,The damned ghosts, that doe in torments waile,And thousand feends that doe them endlesse paineWith fire and brimstone, which for euer shall remaine.

Behold with this woman was I appointed to have to doe before the face of the people, but I being wrapped in great anguish, and envying the day of the triumph, when we two should so abandon our selves together, devised rather to sley my selfe, then to pollute my body with this mischievous harlot, and so for ever to remaine defamed: but it was impossible for me so to doe, considering that I lacked hands, and was not able to hold a knife in my hoofes: howbeit standing in a pretty cabin, I rejoyced in my selfe to see that spring time was come, and that all things flourished, and that I was in good hope to find some Roses, to render me my humane shape.

There he him found enuironed aboutWith slaughtred bodies, which his hand had slaine,And laying yet a fresh with courage stoutVpon the rest, that did aliue remaine.