 | Henry Troth Coates - 1881 - 1138 pages
...world the lie. Go, tell the court it glows And shines like rotten wood ; Go, tell the Church it shows abound ? Or, while the wings aspire, are heart and eye Both with thy nest upon t lie. Tell potentates they live Acting by others' action, Not loved unless they give, Not strong but... | |
 | George Gilfillan - 1881 - 744 pages
...world the lie. 2 Go tell the Court it glows, And shines like rotten wood; Go, tell the Church it shows What's good and doth no good; If Church and Court reply, Then give them both the lie. 3 Tell potentates they live, Acting by others' actions, Not loved, unless they give, Not strong,... | |
 | Epes Sargent - 1881 - 1000 pages
...world the lie. Say to the court, it glows And shines like rotten wood; Say to the church, it shows : SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIVGE. 311 Whiles all the night, through fog-smoke white, Gl lie. Tell potentates, they live Acting by others' fiction; Not loved unless they give, Not strong,... | |
 | James Baldwin - 1882 - 632 pages
...Soul's Errand and The Lye. We quote two stanzas from the latter: Goe, soule, the bodies guest, Goe, tell the court it glowes And shines like rotten wood;...church and court reply, Then give them both the lye. Another short poem, very similar in character, written as early as 1588 by one William Byrd, chaplain... | |
 | Charles Anderson Dana - 1882 - 906 pages
...must dye, And give the world the lye. Qoe tell the court it glowes And shines like rotten wood ; Qoe tell the church it showes What's good, and doth no...Tell potentates they live Acting by others' actions — If potentates reply, Give potentates the lye. Tell men of high condition, That rule affairs of... | |
 | Epes Sargent - 1882 - 1002 pages
...world the Ho. Say to the court, it glows And shiues like rotten \vood ; Say to the church, it shows lie. Tell potentates, they live Acting by others' action ; Not loved unless they give, Not strong,... | |
 | 460 pages
...the world the lie. 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 potentate thsy lir? Acting by others' action; Not loved unless they give, Not strong but... | |
 | Kenneth John Emerson Graham - 1994 - 260 pages
...the good: Say to the Court it glowes, and shines like rotten wood, Say to the Church it showes whats good, and doth no good. If Church and Court reply, then give them both the lie. (7-12) He also aims here at two traditional sources of corruption, the 19 Sir Walter Ralegh, "The... | |
 | Charles Nicholl - 1995 - 440 pages
...contemptus mundi: 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. It is certain that Marlowe and Ralegh knew one another, but how well we do not know. They are... | |
 | Charles R. Bambach - 1995 - 316 pages
...the good: Say to the Court it glowes, and shines like rotten wood, Say to the Church it showes whats good, and doth no good. If Church and Court reply, then give them both the lie. (7-12) He also aims here at two traditional sources of corruption, the 19 Sir Walter Ralegh, "The... | |
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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,... 
