The Poetical Rhapsody: To which are Added, Several Other Pieces, Volume 1W. Pickering, 1826 |
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appear appointed ASTREA Bacon beauty breast brother Burleigh Christopher Davison Countess Court cries dear death desire died doth Dyer's Earl of Essex earth ECLOGUE England erst eyes fair father favour flock Fortune Francis Davison friends Fulke Greville give grace grant Gray's Inn grief hands Harl hath Hatton heart Henry Constable honor hope JOHN DONNE King lament Lee Priory Edition Leicester letter live Lord Lord Leicester Lordship MAID Majesty manuscript married merit mind Muses never night nought P.W. Relatione pain Pembroke PERIN PIERS pipe poems poet POETICAL RHAPSODY poor praise Prince printed Queen Elizabeth RHAPSODY Secretary Davison shepherds sighs sight sing Sir Edward Dyer Sir Egerton Brydges Sir John Sir Philip Sydney Sir Walter Raleigh song Sonnets soon Spenser spring sweet tears Tell thee THENOT thine thou unto virtue WALTER DAVISON WIDOW wife William Davison woes wont words wretched write written
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Page 25 - Say to the court, it glows, And shines like rotten wood; Say to the church, it shows What's good, and doth no good. If church and court reply, Then give them both the lie. Tell potentates they live Acting by others' action; Not loved unless they give, Not strong but by a faction.
Page 27 - Tell zeal it wants devotion, Tell love it is but lust, Tell time it is but motion, Tell flesh it is but dust ; And wish them not reply, For thou must give the lie. Tell age it daily wasteth ; Tell honour how it alters ; Tell beauty how she blasteth ; Tell favour how it falters : And as they shall reply, Give every one the lie.
Page 28 - Tell arts they have no soundness, But vary by esteeming ; Tell schools they want profoundness, And stand too much on seeming : If arts and schools reply, Give arts and schools the lie.
Page 21 - Wedlock indeed hath oft compared been To public feasts, where meet a public rout, Where they that are without would fain go in, And they that are within would fain go out. Or to the jewel which this virtue had, That men were mad till they might it obtain ; But when they had it, they were twice as mad Till they were dispossessed of it again.
Page 26 - Their purpose is ambition, Their practice only hate. And if they once reply, Then give them all the lie. Tell...
Page xc - tis my John-a-Combe." But the sharpness of the satire is said to have stung the man so severely, that he never forgave it. He died in the fifty-third year of his age, and was buried on the north side of the chancel, in the great church at Stratford, where a monument is placed in the wall. On his grave-stone underneath is, " Good friend, for Jesus' sake forbear " To dig the dust inclosed here.
Page 26 - Who, in their greatest cost, seek nothing but commending ; And if they make reply, then give them all the lie. Tell Zeal it wants devotion ; tell Love it is but lust ; Tell Time it is but motion ; tell Flesh it is but dust ; And wish them not reply, for thou must give the lie.
Page 37 - Forth flew the shaft, and pierc'd his heart, '^ That to the ground he fell with pain : Yet up again forthwith he start, And to the nymph he ran amain.
Page 100 - Exspuit una duos tussis, et una duos. Jam secura potes totis tussire diebus, Nil istic quod agat tertia tussis babel.
Page 37 - There come, he steals her shafts away, And puts his own into their place ; Nor dares he any longer stay, But, ere she wakes, hies thence apace. Scarce was he...