Crossword-Solution: AYRE 4 letters, 18 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 7

For instance, if only You were the Empress of Ayre and Skye, And I were Ahkond of Kong, We could dine every day on apple-pie, And peddle potatoes, and sleep in a sty, And people would say when we came to die, 'They _never_ did anything wrong.' But, as it is, our epitaphs will probably be nothing of the sort.

Under no other conditions could _ice_ have been converted into _ye_, _air_ into _time_, _home_ into _honey_, _attain_ into _at any_, _sun_ into _sinner_, _stone_ into _story_, _deem_ into _deny_, _dire_ into _dry_, the old spellings of the italicised words being respectively, yce, yee, ayre, tyme, home, honie, attaine, att anie, sunne, sinner, stone, storie, deeme, denie, dire, drie.

Through foul we follow faire, For had the world one face, And earth been bright as ayre, We had knowne neither place.

Here she her deeper senses blest; Admires great Nature in this pile, Floor'd with greene-velvet Camomile, Garnisht with gems of unset fruit, Supply'd still with a self recruit; Her bosom wrought with pretty eyes Of never-planted Strawberries; Where th' winged musick of the ayre Do richly feast, and for their fare, Each evening in a silent shade, Bestow a gratefull serenade.

THESEUS return'd invokes the Ayre And windes, then wafts his faire; Whilst ARIADNE ravish't stood Half in his armes, halfe in the flood.