Vail

My house is as t’were the Caue, where the yong Out-lawe hoords the stolne vayles of his occupation […]

Do you remember, how many Rich Gowns and Petticoats, how many lac’d Pinners, Hoods, Scarfs, and Nightrails, I have given you, since the three Years you have serv’d me, together with many other Vails, Perquisites, and Profits you have enjoy’d in my Service?

[…] it is a maxim among the gentlemen of our cloth, that those masters who promise the most, perform the least; and I have often heard them say, they have found the largest vails in those families where they were not promised any.

Then let them vale a bonet of their proud ſayle,

[…] when he shall know it lies in vs, To banish him, and then to call him home, Twill make him vaile the topflag of his pride, And feare to offend the meanest noble man.

[…] Vail your regard Upon a wrong’d, I would fain have said, a maid!

Both we will walke vpon the loftie cliffes, And Chriſtian Merchants that with Ruſſian ſtems Plow vp huge furrowes in the Caſpian ſea, Shall vaile to vs, as Lords of al the Lake.

[…] Now the time is come That France must vail her lofty-plumed crest And let her head fall into England’s lap.

[…] the Templar […], without vailing his bonnet, or testifying any reverence for the alleged sanctity of the relic, took from his neck a gold chain, which he flung on the board […]

She would with rich and constant pen Vail to her mistress Dian;