| English poets - 1801 - 382 pages
...this ditty, most sweet and sententious," &c. Puttenham, Ait of Poesy, 1589, p. 207. ADI TtT Y. J.HE doubt of future foes exiles my present joy, And wit me warns to shew such snares as threaten mine annoy. For falsehood now doth flow, and subject faith doth ebb ;... | |
| George Ellis - English poetry - 1803 - 468 pages
...ditty, most sweet and sententious," &c. Puttenham, " Arte of English Poesie," p. 207. A DITTY. J.HE doubt of future foes exiles my present joy, And wit...threaten mine annoy. For falsehood now doth flow, and subject faith doth ebb ; Which would not be if Reason rul'd, or Wisdom But clouds of toys untried do... | |
| George Ellis - English poetry - 1811 - 470 pages
...this ditty, most sweet and senten" lions," &c. Puttenham, " Arte of English Pdesie," p. 207. A DITTY. THE doubt of future foes exiles my present joy, And...threaten mine annoy. For falsehood now doth flow, and subject faith doth ebb ; Which would not be if Reason rul'd, or Wisdom But clouds of toys untried do... | |
| George Ellis - English poetry - 1811 - 472 pages
...ditty, most sweet and senten" dons," &c. Puttenham, " Arte of English Poesie," p. 207. A DITTY. J. HE doubt of future foes exiles my present joy, And wit...threaten mine annoy. For falsehood now doth flow, and subject faith doth ebb ; Which would not be if Reason rul'd, or Wisdom But clouds of toys untried do... | |
| George Ellis - English poetry - 1811 - 482 pages
...tious," &c. Puttenham, " Arte of English Poesie," p. 207. A DITTY. 1 HE doubt of future foes exile? my present joy, And wit me warns to shun such snares...threaten mine annoy. For falsehood now doth flow, and subject faith doth ebb ; Which would not be if Reason rul'd, or Wisdom weav'd the web. But clouds of... | |
| John Britton - Architecture - 1813 - 614 pages
...afflicted rival. The lines were printed not long after, if not before, the beheading of this queen : The doubt of future foes exiles my present joy, And Wit me learns to shun such snares as threaten my annoy ; For Falshood now doth Sow and subject Faith doth... | |
| Almanacs, English - 1816 - 420 pages
...' Arte of Poesie,' calls this a ' most sweet and sententious ditty.' The donbt of future woesexiles my present joy, And wit me warns to shun such snares as threaten mine For falsehood now doth flow, and subject faith doth ebb; Which would not be if Reason rul'd, or Wisdom... | |
| George Chalmers - 1818 - 540 pages
...scarcely, ever seen before, wrote the following verses on the then state of persons, and affairs :'* That doubt of future foes exiles my present joy ; And wit...warns to shun such snares, as threaten mine annoy: For falshood now doth flow, and subjects faith doth ebh, Which would not be, if reason rul'd, or wisdom... | |
| Lucy Aikin - Great Britain - 1818 - 544 pages
...its authenticity, its principal merit, has never been called in question. SONNET by Queen Elizabeth. The doubt of future foes exiles my present joy, And...warns, to shun such snares as threaten mine annoy. VOL. II, C 18 •" NORFOLK :BEHEADED. For falsehoodnow doth flow, and subjects' feith doth ebb ; Which... | |
| 1821 - 510 pages
...would not have deserved notice as the production of any inferior person. ' SONNET by Queen Elizabeth. ' The doubt of future foes exiles my present joy, And...ebb ; Which would not be if Reason ruled, or Wisdom weaved the web. But clouds of joys untried do cloak aspiring minds, Which turn to rain of late repent... | |
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