sweetness (swetnes)

[ sense. Where the new-born brier Breathes forth the sweetne that her April yields. Quarles, Emblems, iv. 7. Be a prince In sweetne as in blood; give him his doom, Or raise him up to comfort. Ford, Broken Heart, iii. 5. We [the bees] have rather chose to fill our hives with honey and wax, thus furnishing mankind with the two noblest of things, which are sweetne and light. Swift , Battle of the Books. The charm of a yew bow is what archers call its sweet ne -that is, its softne of flexure and recoil. Tribune Book of Sports , p. 18.