The heart beats, the blood circulates, the lungs play. Even as the waving sedges play with wind. The setting sun Plays on their shining arms and burnished helmets. All fame is foreign but of true desert, Plays round the head, but comes not to the heart. A lord will hear your play to-night.
Courts are theaters where some men play.
To play into a person's hands, to act, or to manage matters, to his advantage or benefit. Or is it fantasy that plays upon our eyesight. Play, v. t. 1. First Peace and Silence all disputes control, Then Order plays the soul. Nature here Wantoned as in her prime, and played at will Her virgin fancies.