 | Ben Jonson - Love poetry - 1640 - 190 pages
...the Lande an Heire ! The People her doe call! And Charles a Caroline. An Epigram, To the House-hold*. Are they so scanted in their store ? or driven For want of knowing the Poet, to say him nay ? WHAT can the cause be, when the K. hath given His Poet Sack, the House-hold will not pay ? * 1630.... | |
 | Robert Anderson - English poetry - 1795 - 912 pages
...king but grant His poet leave to fing his houfehold true ; He'ld frame fuch ditties of their ftore and want, Would make the very green-cloth to look blue: And rather wifh in their expence of fack, So the allowance from the king to ufe, A: the old bard Ihould no canary... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1810 - 728 pages
...WHAT can the cause be, when the king hath given His poet sack, the house-hold will not pay ? Are I'M v so scanted in their store ' or driven For want of...nay ? Well, they should know him, would the king but His poet leave to sing his house-hold true ; [grant I le'ld frame such ditties of their store, and... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 746 pages
...the king hath given His poet sack, the house-hold will not pay? Are they so scanted in their Btore ? or driven For want of knowing the poet, to say him...nay ? Well, they should know him, would the king but Hii poet leave to sing his house-hold true; [grant He'ld frame such ditties of their store, and want,... | |
 | Ben Jonson, William Gifford - Dramatists, English - 1816 - 482 pages
...MDCXXX. What can the cause be, when the king hath given His poet sack, the Household will not pay ? Are they so scanted in their store ? or driven For...look blue: And rather wish in their expense of sack, So the allowance from the king to use, x It is said by the anonymous author of a little collection... | |
 | Edinburgh (Scotland) - 1836 - 436 pages
...What can the caune be, when. the king hath cfren> Ilia poet sack, the household will not pay ? Arn they so scanted in their store, or driven' For want of knowing the poet to say him nay7 Well they should know him, would the king but grant His poet leave to sing his household true... | |
 | Isaac Jack Reeve - 1866 - 332 pages
...HOUSEHOLD. WHAT can the cause be, when the king hath given His poet sack, the household will not pay? Are they so scanted in their store, or driven For...To the allowance from the king to use, As the old bard should no canary lack, 'Twere better spare a butt than spoil his muse. For in the genius of a... | |
 | Leigh Hunt, Samuel Adams Lee - Sonnets, American - 1867 - 372 pages
...SACK.* WHAT can the cause be, when the King hath given His poet sack, the Household will not pay ? Are they so scanted in their store ? or driven, For...but grant His poet leave to sing his Household true : He 'd frame such ditties of their store and want, Would make the very Greencloth to look blue, And... | |
 | Rosaline Orme Masson - English poetry - 1876 - 454 pages
...1630. What can the cause be, when the King hath given His poet sack,1 the Household will not pay ? Are they so scanted in their store ? or driven, For...look blue, And rather wish, in their expense of sack, So the allowance from the King to use As the old Bard should no canary lack : 'Twere better spare a... | |
 | Rosaline Orme Masson - English poetry - 1876 - 454 pages
...I., 1630. What can the cause be, when the King hath given His poet sack,1 the Household will not pay? Are they so scanted in their store ? or driven, For...look blue, And rather wish, in their expense of sack, So the allowance from the King to use As the old Bard should no canary lack : 'Twere better spare a... | |
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What can the cause be, when the king hath given His poet sack, the household will not pay? Are they so scanted in their store? — or driven For want of knowing the poet, to say him nay? Well, they should know him, would the king but grant His poet leave... 
