Crossword-Solution: YLIKE 5 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 12

And there about "the wasteful woods and forest wide"** he wandered, gathering new life and strength, taking all a poet's joy in the beauty and the freedom of a country life, "for ylike to me was liberty and life,"** he says.

XXVII And greedy Avarice by him did ride, 235 Upon a Camell° loaden all with gold; Two iron coffers hong on either side, With precious mettall full as they might hold; And in his lap an heape of coine he told; For of his wicked pelfe his God he made, 240 And unto hell him selfe for money sold; Accursed usurie was all his trade, And right and wrong ylike in equall ballaunce waide.

And greedy _Auarice_ by him did ride, xxvii Vpon a Camell loaden all with gold; Two iron coffers[149] hong on either side, With precious mettall full, as they might hold, And in his lap an heape of coine he told; For of his wicked pelfe[150] his God he made, And vnto hell him selfe for money sold; Accursed vsurie was all his trade, And right and wrong ylike in equall ballaunce waide.

Vnder thy mantle blacke there hidden lye, lviii Light-shonning theft, and traiterous intent, Abhorred bloudshed, and vile felony, Shamefull deceipt, and daunger imminent; Foule horror, and eke hellish dreriment: All these I wote in thy protection bee, And light doe shonne, for feare of being shent: For light ylike is loth’d of them and thee, And all that lewdnesse loue, doe hate the light to see.