Volume 2 / Part 1 — THE MAD LOVER.
Reading edition
Act IV. Masque of beasts:—
—This goodly tree, An usher that still grew before his lady, Wither'd at root: this, for he could not wooe, A grumbling lawyer: &c.
Here must have been omitted a line rhyming to 'tree;' and the words of the next line have been transposed:—
—This goodly tree, Which leafless, and obscur'd with moss you see, An usher this, that 'fore his lady grew, Wither'd at root: this, for he could not wooe, &c.