recreance

His own recreance too, there was something to regret about that.

No, I have not your backward faith to shrink Lone-faring from the doorway of God's home To find Him in the names of buried men; Nor your ingenious recreance to think We cherish, in the life that is to come, The scattered features of dead friends again.

Which thing our Author marking well, when wearied was his mind From reading grave and ancient works, yet loth his time to lose, Bethought himself, to ease his heart, some recreance to find, And as he mused in his mind, immediately arose A strange example done of late, which might, as he suppose, Stir up their minds to godliness, which should it see or hear, And therefore humbly doth you pray to give attentive ear.

He smiled to see her grieving at this recreance of her memory to her conscience.

He was, in fact, not the least curious for the sight, and the only thing that really troubled him was the question of how he should justify his recreance to his wife.