neeld （
“needle,”
Cambridge
), a needle, RICHARD II., v. 5.
17; PERICLES, iv. Gower,
23; v. Gower, 5; THE RAPE OF LUCRECE, 319;
“neelds”
A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM, iii. 2.
204
(
“needles,”
Cambridge
); KING JOHN, v. 2. 157.
(This contracted form is common enough in our early poets; e.g.
“for thee fit weapons weare [that is, were]
Thy neeld and spindle, not a sword and speare.”
Fairfax's Tasso's Gerusalemme, B. xx. 95. ) We also find “nylde;”
“Without sweard and buckler, without speare or shylde,
With an houndred poundes, as safe as with a nylde.”
O maruelous tydynges, etc.—Seventy-nine Black-letter
Ballads, etc., 1867, p. 211.
“for thee fit weapons weare [that is, were]
Thy neeld and spindle, not a sword and speare.”
Fairfax's Tasso's Gerusalemme, B. xx. 95. ) We also find “nylde;”
“Without sweard and buckler, without speare or shylde,
With an houndred poundes, as safe as with a nylde.”
O maruelous tydynges, etc.—Seventy-nine Black-letter
Ballads, etc., 1867, p. 211.
