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If Wordsworth’s balladry depends on the language really used by real men, his Preface and his poetics increasingly agrees with the Nut-browne maid poet, that men’s complaint that to love a woman is "A labour spent in vayne" because "yf a newe [love] do them persue,

Wordsworth’s Balladry: Real Men Wanted 1999

Such questioning would be "vayne" in the double sense of being futile and presumptuous, and Moulsworth underscores the point by rhyming "vayne" with "prophane" to suggest a pride that is also impious or irreverent.

My Name Was Martha: A Renaissance Woman's Autobiographical Poem 1993

September 11, 2009 at 2:39 pm o ai hayte taht! puleez juz fynd teh vayne an get it obbur wif!

DRUG-RELATED - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2009

But he/she? still needs teh CHRGwdoi – or yur gud werk will haz been in vayne.

i big scary monster - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008

It r combed up frum teh syde ob teh hed ober teh bawld Pate,in a vayne attempt tew cubber sed bawldness.:lol:

Impressionable Cat - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008

For dittie and amourous _Ode_ I finde Sir _Walter Rawleyghs_ vayne most loftie, insolent, and passionate.

The Arte of English Poesie George Puttenham

_Gascon_ for a good meeter and for a plentifull vayne.

The Arte of English Poesie George Puttenham

Than thynke of the tyme [that] [thou] lesest in vayne ydelnes/& thynke [that] they that ben in helle wolde gyue all the worlde for so moche tyme to redeme theyr synnes yf they myght haue it.

A Ryght Profytable Treatyse Compendiously Drawen Out Of Many and Dyvers Wrytynges Of Holy Men Thomas Betson

_In vayne mine eyes in vaine you wast your teares,

The Arte of English Poesie George Puttenham

_How Poesie should not be imployed vpon vayne conceits or vicious or infamous.

The Arte of English Poesie George Puttenham