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POETICAL RHAPSODY Francis 1575?-1619? Davison,Nicholas Harris Sir Nicolas, 1799-1848 No preview available - 2016 |
The Poetical Rhapsody: To Which Are Added, Several Other Pieces Volume 1 Nicholas Harris Nicolas,Francis Davison No preview available - 2016 |
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appointed ASTREA Bacon beauty breast brother Burleigh CHIG Christopher Davison Countess Countess of Pembroke Court cries dear death desire doth Dyer's Earl of Essex earth 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 King lament Lee Priory Edition Leicester letter live Lord Lord Leicester Lordship MAID Majesty manuscript married merit mind Muses never night nought pain Pembroke PERIN PIERS pipe poems poet POETICAL RHAPSODY poor praise Prince printed Queen Elizabeth Relatione 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 UNIV MIC UNIV UNIV 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.
Page 27 - And when they do reply, Straight give them both the lie. Tell physic of her boldness; Tell skill it is pretension; Tell charity of coldness; Tell law it is contention And as they do reply, So give them still the lie. Tell fortune of her blindness; Tell nature of decay; Tell friendship of unkindness; Tell justice of delay: And if they will reply, Then give them all the lie. Tell arts they have no soundness, But vary by esteeming; Tell schools they want profoundness, And stand too much on seeming:...
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 - Zeal — it lacks 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 she falters. And as they shall reply, Give every one 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 34 - Like the wiser sort, whose learning Hides their inward will of harming. "Well was I, while under shade Oaten reeds me music made, Striving with my mates in song ; Mixing mirth our songs among. Greater was the shepherd's treasure, Than this false, fine, courtly pleasure.
Page xcii - UNDERNEATH this sable hearse Lies the subject of all verse, Sydney's sister, — Pembroke's mother. Death, ere thou hast slain another Fair and wise and good as she, Time shall throw a dart at thee...
Page 27 - Tell favour how it falters : And as they shall reply, Give every one the lie. Tell wit how much it wrangles In tickle points of niceness; Tell wisdom she entangles Herself in over-wiseness : And when they do reply, Straight give them both the lie.