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to Works, [p. xiv. Thus sayd one in a meeter of eleuen very harshly in mine eare, whether it be for lacke of good rime or of good reason, or of both, I wot not. Putten ham , Arte of Eng. Poesie, p. 59. reason ? Was there ever any man thus beaten out of season When in the why and the wherefore is neither thyme nor Shak ., C. of E., ii. 2. 49. These fellows of infinite tongue, that can rhyme themselves into ladies' favours, they do always reason themselves out again. Shak ., Hen. V., v. 2. 164. And every one super-a bound eth in his own humour, even to the annihilating of any other without rhyme or reason. G. Harvey, Four Letters. rimel (rīm), v .; pret. and pp. rimed , ppr. riming . [Also and more commonly rhyme (formerly also rhime ), an erroneous spelling as with the noun; early mod. E. rime , ryme, rim an , number, count, reckon, = D. rijmen , rime, = OHG. rim an , number, count, count up, MHG. rimen, rime, fig. bring together, unite, G. reimen , rime, = Sw. rimma = Dan. rime = OF. and F. rimer = Pr. Sp. Pg. rimar = It. rimare (ML. rimare ), rime; from the noun: see rime1 , n .] I. trans . 11. To number; count; reckon.-2. To compose in verse; treat in verse; versify. But alle shal pa en that men prose or ryme , Take every man hys turn as for his tyme.