pliant

Whether in its northern or southern home, the black-throated blue warbler builds its nest of bark, roots, and other pliant material, loose and rather bulky, in a variety of saplings, bushes, and weeds, but always a few inches or a few feet from the ground.

I must haue wanton Poets, pleasant wits,

Musitians, that with touching of a string

May draw the pliant king which way I please: