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" The doubt of future foes exiles my present joy, And wit me warns to shun such snares as threaten mine annoy. For falsehood now doth flow, and subject faith doth ebb, Which would not be if reason ruled or wisdom weaved the web. "
Specimens of British Poetesses: Selected and Chronologically Arranged - Page 17
by Alexander Dyce - 1825 - 446 pages
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Chambers's Cyclopaedia of English Literature: A History Critical ..., Volume 1

Robert Chambers, David Patrick - 1901 - 862 pages
...thinks it must have been written soon after Norfolk's execution. Here we follow Puttenham's version : n world his visage hide, Stealing unseen to west with this warnes to shun such snares as threaten mine annoy. For falshood now doth flow, and subject faith doth...
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Chamber's Cyclopædia of English Literature, Volume 1

Robert Chambers - 1902 - 868 pages
...thinks it must have been written soon after Norfolk's execution. Here we follow Puttenham's version : so much as read any letter I write to my father, without warnes to shun such snares as threaten mine annoy. For falshood now doth flow, and subject faith doth...
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The Book Lover: A Magazine of Book Lore, Volume 5

1904 - 1136 pages
...poem refers to her alarm at the intrigues of her prisoner, Mary Stuart (the "Daughter of Debate ") : The doubt of future foes exiles my present joy> And...ebb, Which would not be, if reason rul'd or wisdom wev'd the webbe. But clowdes of tois untried do cloake aspiring mindes, Which turne to raigne of late...
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Irish Literature, Volume 4

Justin McCarthy, Maurice Francis Egan, Charles Welsh, Douglas Hyde, Lady Gregory, James Jeffrey Roche - 1904 - 520 pages
...court. It is curious to see the Irish alliteration still influential in the verses attributed to her : " The doubt of future foes exiles my present joy, And...subject faith doth ebb, Which would not be if reason ruled or wisdom weaved the web." It is most interesting to observe that Shakespeare himself employs...
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The Works of Donald G. Mitchell: English lands, letters and kings, from Celt ...

Donald Grant Mitchell - 1907 - 376 pages
...see some portion of this :— "The doubt of future foes, exiles my present joy, And with me warnes to shun such snares as threaten mine annoy, For falsehood now doth flow, and subject faith doth ebbe, Which would not be, if reason rul'd, or wisdome wev'd the webbe." 1 George Puttenham, b. about...
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The Book of Elizabethan Verse

William Stanley Braithwaite - 1908 - 944 pages
...counsel and encouragement was always generously given. WSB Boston, August 17, 1906, The Doubt <JJHE doubt of future foes Exiles my present joy, And wit...subject faith doth ebb, Which would not be if reason ruled, Or wisdom weaved the web. But clouds of toys untried Do cloak aspiring minds, Which turn to...
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Political Satire in English Poetry

Charles William Previté-Orton - 1910 - 264 pages
...Elizabeth wrote her political verses. They must be cited in full if only for their authoress : The dread of future foes exiles my present joy, And wit me warns...threaten mine annoy. For falsehood now doth flow and subjects' faith doth ebb; Which would not be if Reason ruled, or Wisdom weaved the web. But clouds...
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A First Sketch of English Literature

Henry Morley - 1912 - 1416 pages
...hiding from all such aspiring minds the daungcr of their ambition and disloyaltie:" " The doubt ol future foes exiles my present joy. And wit me warns to shun such snare* as threaten mill* annoy. J'nr falsehood now doth flow, and subject faith doth et>t>, Which would...
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An Anthology of the Poetry of the Age of Shakespeare

William Thomas Young - 1923 - 328 pages
...assured be ; Both I of you, and you of me. G. TURBERVILLE From Puttenham's Art of English Poesy, 1589 The doubt of future foes exiles my present joy, And...subject faith doth ebb, Which would not be if reason ruled or wisdom weaved the web. But clouds of toys untried do cloak aspiring minds Which turn to rain...
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The Life of Queen Elizabeth

Agnes Strickland - 1924 - 746 pages
...became malignly poetical on the occasion, and perpetrated the following sonnet, as it is styled : — " The doubt of future foes exiles my present joy, And...threaten mine annoy. For falsehood now doth flow, and subjects' faith doth ebb, Which would not be if Reason ruled, or Wisdom wove the web : But clouds of...
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