212. Stook. One of the old forms of struck. In the early eds. of Shakespeare, we find struck, stroke, and strook (or strooke) for the past tense, and all these, together with stricken, strucken, stroken, and strooken, for the participle. Cf. Milton, Hymn of Nativity, 95: "When such music sweet Their hearts and ears did greet As never was by mortal finger strook;" where, as here, it used for the sake of the rhyme.
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