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Page 26 - Do, pious marble, let thy readers know What they, and what their children owe To Drayton's name: whose sacred dust We recommend unto thy trust. Protect his memory, and preserve 'his story, Remain a lasting monument of his glory. And when thy ruins shall disclaim To be the treasurer of his name; His name, that cannot die, shall be An everlasting monument to thee.
Page 358 - The utmost power it hath it then doth spend When to the world a poet it doth intend; That little difference 'twixt the gods and us, By them confirmed, distinguished only thus: Whom they, in birth, ordain to happy days, The gods commit their glory to our praise; T' eternal life when they dissolve their breath, We likewise share a second power by death.
Page 373 - twas they which did rebell, (Not our offence) but in their fall we fell; They which a crowne would to my Lord have...
Page 361 - ... rock the senses, whilst the small birds sing, Lulled asleep with gentle murmuring; Where light-foot fairies sport at prison-base (No doubt there is some power frequents the place): There the soft poplar and smooth beech do bear Our names together carved everywhere, And gordian knots do curiously entwine The names of Henry and of Geraldine. O ! let this grove in happy times to come Be called the lovers' blest Elysium; Whither my mistress wonted to resort, In summer's heat in those sweet shades...
Page 339 - Her stature was meane, her haire of a dark yellow, her face round and full, her eye gray, delicate harmony being betwixt each part's proportion, and each proportion's colour, her body fat, white and smooth, her countenance cheerfull and like to her condition.
Page 358 - Care draws on care, woe comforts woe again, Sorrow breeds sorrow, one grief brings forth twain; If live or die, as thou dost so do I, If live, I live, and if thou die, I die: ^ One heart, one love, one joy, one grief, one troth, One good, one ill, one life, one death to both.
Page 16 - One wore his mistress' garter, one her glove ; And he a lock of his dear lady's hair : And he her colours, whom he...
Page 223 - ... forsaken, and afflicted. Of all relief hath Fortune quite bereft me, Only my love yet to my comfort left me? And is one beauty thought so great a thing, To mitigate the sorrows of a king? Barred of that choice the vulgar often prove, Have we, than they, less privilege in love? Is it a king the woeful widow hears ? Is it a king dries up the orphans' tears ? Is it a king regards the client's cry?
Page 140 - Thou idol, Honour, which we fools adore, How many plagues do rest in thee to grieve us! Which when we have, we find there is much more Than that which only is a name can give us ; Of real comforts thou dost leave us poor, And of those joys thou often dost deprive us, That with ourselves doth set us at debate, And makes us beggars in our greatest state.
Page 336 - Yet rather let me die the vilest death, Then live to draw that sinne-polluted breath. But our kind hearts, mens teares cannot abide, And we least angry oft, when most we chide. Too well know men what our creation made us, And nature too well taught them to invade us : They know but too well, how, what, when, and where, To write, to speake, to sue, and to forbeare. By...