of wind_, and figuratively sudden gusts of passion, or fitful and
impetuous action, is evident from the following passages:--

"Like a red morn, that ever yet betoken'd
Wreck to the seamen, tempest to the field,
Sorrow to shepherds, woe unto the birds,
_Gust_ and foul _flaws_ to herdsmen and to herds."
_Venus and Adonis._

"Like a great sea-mark standing every _flaw_."
_Coriolanus_, act v. sc. iii.

"--patch a wall to expel the winter's _flaw_."
_Hamlet_, act v. sc. i.

"Like to the glorious sun's transparent beams
Do calm the fury of this mad-bred _flaw_."
_3d Pt. Henry VI._, act iii. sc. i.

"--these _flaws_ and starts (impostors to true
fear)."
_Macbeth_, act iv. sc. iv.

"Falling in the _flaws_ of her own youth, hath
blistered her report."
_Meas. for Meas._, act ii. sc. iii.

So far for the poet's acceptation of its meaning.

Thus also Lord Surrey:--