Restituta: Or, Titles, Extracts, and Characters of Old Books in English Literature, Reviewed, Volume 4

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Page 10 - Elizabeth by the Grace of God Queen of England France and Ireland Defender of the Faith &c.
Page 494 - Remember your poor child for his father's sake, who loved you in his happiest estate. I sued for my life, but (God knows) it was for you and yours that I desired it: for know it (my dear wife) your child is the child of a true man, who, in his own respect, despiseth death, and his mis-shapen and ugly forms.
Page 491 - If music and sweet poetry agree, As they must needs, the sister and the brother, Then must the love be great "twixt thee and me, Because thou lov'st the one, and I the other. Dowland to thee is dear, whose heavenly touch Upon the lute doth ravish human sense ; Spenser to me, whose deep conceit is such As, passing all conceit, needs no defence. Thou lov'st to hear the sweet melodious sound That Phoebus...
Page 32 - The whole head is sick and the whole heart is faint; from the sole of the foot to the crown of the head there is no soundness in it, but wounds and bruises and putrefying sores.
Page 494 - ... yours with extreme poverty. To what friend to direct you i know not, for all mine have left me in the true time of trial.
Page 161 - Prince of Wales, Duke of Cornewaile and Rothsay, Count Palatine of Chester, Earle of Carick, and late Knight of the most Noble Order of the Garter. Which Noble Prince deceased at St. James, the sixt day of...
Page 126 - Eriefe and pleasant Meditations of Gods Providence to his Chosen, of the Education of Children, and of the vertue of Love ; with other Poems. By Edw: Browne.
Page 60 - ... where not only the whole bodie but also al the sences and spirits are tormented, the which is commonly practised, not only betwixt those which are either in sect or Nation contrary, but also even amongst those that are all of one sect and nation...
Page 446 - Yea, for thy sake are we killed all the day long; we are counted as sheep for the slaughter.
Page 124 - The Copie of a Letter Sent from the Roaring Boyes in Elizium ; To the two arrant Knights of the Grape, in Limbo, Alderman Abel and M. Kilvert, the two great Projectors for wine : And to the rest of the worshipfull Brotherhood of that Patent.

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