...the eyes. A term of falconry, the eyes of л wild or haggard hawk being for a time seeled or closed. H 6ۖ ad N R _ 7 Du i _W߻ | jw VJ R t Wu8Un ($ Nh_ strave. Sidney. Mine eyes no more on vanity shall feed, But Keled up with death shall have their deadly...

...principem.' Erasmus, Apophthegmata, sub tit. Dionysius. 1. 14. a seeled dove] Conf. 'Now she brought him to see a seeled Dove, who the blinder she was, the higher she strave.' Sidney's Arcadia, lib. ip 55 (4th ed. 1613). The process of seeling is fully described in...

...Ambition, like a seeled dove, mounts upward. Higher and higher still, &c.] To seel is to blind by sewing-up the eyelids. There is a similar allusion to that in...piece of cruelty is sometimes resorted to for sport I The poor dove, in the agonies of pain, soars, like the lark, as soon as dismissed from the hand,...

...so available, we'll write to Athens Higtur and higher still, &c.] To seel is to blind by sewing-up the eyelids. There is a similar allusion to that in...the Arcadia; "Now she brought them to see a seeled d1me, who the blinder she was the higher she strove to reach." It is told in the Gentleman's Recreation...

...uses. Among amusements provided by Zelmane (Sidney's Arcadia, bk. i. ed. 1725, p. 99) this figures : " Now she brought them to see a seeled dove, who, the blinder she was, the higher she strove." 113. In . . . judgements] Probability and Steevens's illustration from Henry V. 1n. v. 59 : " He '11...

...To "seel" was to close the eyelids partially or entirely with fine thread. Cf. " Now she brought him to see a seeled dove, who the blinder she was, the higher she strave." Sidney, Arcadia, i. 4 Macro: Dion Cassius, Iviii, 9. When Tiberius was ready to deal a final...

...uses. Among amusements provided by Zelmane (Sidney's Arcadia, bk. i. ed. 1725, p. 99) this figures : " Now she brought them to see a seeled dove, who, the blinder she was, the higher she strove." 113. In . . . judgements] Probability and Steevens's illustration from Henry V. in. v. 59 : " He '11...

...harmless doves for the mere sport of witnessing their frantic and helpless misery. We are told in Sidney's 'Arcadia, " Now she brought them to see a seeled dove,...blinder she was, the higher she strove to reach." In an explanatory note to a passage in Ford's The Broken Heart, Gifford says : " It is told in The...

...would be the cooke him selfe of what was so caught, & Gynecia sit stil, but with no stil pensifnesse. Now she brought them to see a seeled Dove, who the blinder she was, the higher she strave. Another j time a Kite, which having a gut cunningly pulled out of her,j and so let flie, called...

...the mere sport of witnessing their frantic and helpless efforts in misery. We are told in Sidney's Arcadia, " Now she brought them to see a seeled dove,...blinder she was, the higher she strove to reach." We have, however, not exhausted the allusions to falconry in Petruchio's speech. " I have a way to...