[S]ome folke perhaps according to the forme by your ſelves preſcribed, doe ſometimes betrim you with ſuch ſtrange Titles, but are you ſo ſimple as to conceit that wiſe men do fancy them to belong unto you?

But when in honour'd Robes I ſee it put, / Betrim'd as if ſome thing of Worth it were, / Look big, and on the Stilts of Greatneſs ſtrut; / From ſcorning it I cannot then forbear.

I could not half the Pageant Ills o'ercall, / That garniſh and betrim the gloomy Wall.

Fair, fickle month, now peevish as a child / That frets in middle of the Pleasures' bowers; / Now winsome as a bride betrimmed with flowers, / Laughing like wit when exquisitely wild,— […]

I must betrim myself to-day in all / My rarest ornaments of royalty; […]

[T]he spring has set in with more than usual severity, the famous horse-chestnut tree of the Tuileries is covered with snow in place of leaves, and spongy April, instead of betrimming our "banks with peonied and lilied brims" has nipped the too early blossoms, frozen the bubbling brooks, and produced a fourth course of cough, catarrh, and cold, which have seized old and young, rich and poor, in their relentless grasp.

Mine eyes do light on a more beauteous mark: / That lady clad in blue betrimmed with gold, / Whose fair skin shows the blue meandering veins.

Now here are some new ideas for girls who like pretty handkerchiefs and yet do not care for those betrimmed with cheap lace and badly-done embroidery that are all too plentiful in the present day.

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