A Bibliographical and Critical Account of the Rarest Books in the English Language: Alphabetically Arranged, which During the Last Fifty Years Have Come Under the Observation of J. Payne Collier ...Joseph Lilly, 1865 |
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Page 25 - Jog on, jog on, the foot-path way, And merrily hent the stile-a : A merry heart goes all the day, Your sad tires in a mile-a.
Page 506 - Which is the holy scripture, con-/teyning the old and new testament,/ translated into English, and newly/ recognised with great diligence/ after most faythful exem-/plars, by Rychard/Taverner./ ®° Harken thou heuen, and thou earth gyue/ eare : for the Lorde speaketh.
Page 158 - Crudities Hastily gobled up in five Moneths travells in France, Savoy, Italy, Rhetia commonly called the Grisons country, Helvetia alias Switzerland, some parts of high Germany and the Netherlands ; Newly digested in the hungry aire of Odcombe in the County of Somerset, and now dispersed to the nourishment of the travelling Members of this Kingdome...
Page 369 - I SING of brooks, of blossoms, birds and bowers, Of April, May, of June and July-flowers ; I sing of May-poles, hock-carts wassails, wakes, Of bridegrooms, brides and of their...
Page 177 - Certaine small Poems lately printed. With the Tragedie of Philotas. Written by Samuel Daniel. Carmen amat quisquis carmine digna gerit. At London, Printed by G. Eld for Simon Waterson. 6) 1607, 12° : Certaine Small Workes Heretofore Divulged by Samuel Daniel, one of the Groomes of the Queenes Maicsties priuie Chamber & now againe by him corrected and augmented.
Page xxxiv - Though I saw the same argument lately set foorth on stage with more commendation, then I can looke for : (being there much better set forth then I have or can dooe) yet the same matter penned as it is, may serve to lyke good effect...
Page 91 - To him that impt my fame with Clio's quill, Whose magick rais'd me from oblivion's den, That writ my storie on the Muses' hill, And with my actions dignifi'd his pen ; He that from Helicon sends many a rill, Whose nectared veines are drunke by thirstie men ; Crown'd be his stile with fame, his head with bayes, And none detract, but gratulate his praise.
Page 503 - PAPPE with an hatchet, alias, a figge for my God Sonne, or Cracke me this nut, or a Countrie cuffe, that is, a sound boxe of the eare, for the idiot Martin to hold his peace, seeing the patch will take no warning. Written by one that dares call a dog, a dog, and made to prevent Martins dog dales.
Page 504 - Wit followeth in his youth, by the pleasantnesse of loue, and the happinesse he reapeth in age by the perfectnesse of Wisedome.
Page 369 - I sing of times trans-shifting, and I write How roses first came red and lilies white; I write of groves, of twilights, and I sing The Court of Mab, and of the Fairy King; I write of hell ; I sing (and ever shall) Of heaven, and hope to have it after all.