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... . A small edition of twenty - five copies was lately printed for private circulation , and from it the present reprint has been taken . ELEGIES . AMORUM , LIB . I. ELEGIA 1 . Certaine of Ovid's Elegies, by C. Marlowe. At ...
... . A small edition of twenty - five copies was lately printed for private circulation , and from it the present reprint has been taken . ELEGIES . AMORUM , LIB . I. ELEGIA 1 . Certaine of Ovid's Elegies, by C. Marlowe. At ...
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... ELEGIA 1 . Quemadmodum a Cupidine , pro bellis amoris scribere coactus sit . WE which were Ovid's five books , now are three , For these before the rest preferreth he : If reading five thou ' plain'st of tediousness , Two ta'en away ...
... ELEGIA 1 . Quemadmodum a Cupidine , pro bellis amoris scribere coactus sit . WE which were Ovid's five books , now are three , For these before the rest preferreth he : If reading five thou ' plain'st of tediousness , Two ta'en away ...
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... ELEGIA 3 . Ad amicum . I ask but right , let her that conqu'd me late , Either love , or cause that I may hate ; I crave too much - would she but let me love her ; Love knows with such like prayers I daily move her . Accept him that ...
... ELEGIA 3 . Ad amicum . I ask but right , let her that conqu'd me late , Either love , or cause that I may hate ; I crave too much - would she but let me love her ; Love knows with such like prayers I daily move her . Accept him that ...
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... ELEGIA 5 . Corinnæ concubitus . In summer's heat , and mid - time of the day , To rest my limbs , upon a bed I lay ; One window shut , the other open stood , Which gave such light , as twinkles in a wood , Like twilight glimpse at ...
... ELEGIA 5 . Corinnæ concubitus . In summer's heat , and mid - time of the day , To rest my limbs , upon a bed I lay ; One window shut , the other open stood , Which gave such light , as twinkles in a wood , Like twilight glimpse at ...
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... ELEGIA 14 . Ad amicum si peccatura est , ut occulte peccet . Seeing thou art fair , I bar not thy false playing , But let not me poor soul wit of thy straying . Nor do I give thee counsel to live chaste , But that thou would'st ...
... ELEGIA 14 . Ad amicum si peccatura est , ut occulte peccet . Seeing thou art fair , I bar not thy false playing , But let not me poor soul wit of thy straying . Nor do I give thee counsel to live chaste , But that thou would'st ...
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Abydos Alvero arms BALT Baltazar bastard beauty blood bosom breast Cæsar CARD cardinal Ceres chaste cheeks COLE CRAB crown damn'd dare dead dear death devil dost doth earth ELEAZ Eleazar ELEGIA Exeunt eyes face fair fear fire flame friars give goddess gods grace hair hand hast hate hath head hear heart heaven hell Hellespont here's HERO AND LEANDER Hero's honour HORTEN Hortenzo Hymen is't Jove king kiss live look lord lov'd Love's lovers lust LUST'S DOMINION maid MARIA Marlowe Mendoza mistress Moor mother muse naked night nymph Ovid peace PHIL Philip Prince Philip queen rage Rome SESTYAD shame shine sing slave soldiers soul Spain stand stay STINKARD sweet sword tears tell thee thine thou art thought thyself Tibullus tongue turn'd unto Venus verse wench Zarack Zounds
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Page 322 - Which, lightened by her neck, like diamonds shone. She ware no gloves; for neither sun nor wind Would burn or parch her hands, but, to her mind, Or warm or cool them, for they took delight To play upon those hands, they were so white.
Page 321 - Her wide sleeves green, and bordered with a grove, Where Venus in her naked glory strove To please the careless and disdainful eyes Of proud Adonis, that before her lies ; Her kirtle blue, whereon was many a stain, Made with the blood of wretched lovers slain.
Page 345 - Which made his love through Sestos to be known, And thence unto Abydos sooner blown Than he could sail, for incorporeal Fame, Whose weight consists in nothing but her name, Is swifter than the wind, whose tardy plumes Are reeking water and dull earthly fumes.
Page 326 - Blood-quaffing Mars heaving the iron net, Which limping Vulcan and his Cyclops set; Love kindling fire, to burn such towns as Troy...
Page 352 - One half appear'd the other half was hid. Thus near the bed she blushing stood upright, And from her countenance behold ye might A kind of twilight break, which through the air, As from an orient cloud, glimps'd here and there ; And round about the chamber this false morn Brought forth the day before the day was born.
Page 402 - Come, naked Virtue's only tire, The reaped harvest of the light, Bound up in sheaves of sacred fire. Love calls to war; Sighs his alarms, Lips his swords are, The field his arms.
Page 328 - And I in duty will excel all other, As thou in beauty dost exceed Love's mother. Nor heaven, nor thou, were made to gaze upon, As heaven preserves all things, so save thou one. A stately builded ship, well rigged and tall, The ocean maketh more majestical.
Page 324 - A pleasant smiling cheek, a speaking eye, A brow for love to banquet royally; And such as knew he was a man would say, Leander, thou art made for amorous play: Why arc thou not in love, and loved of all? Though thou be fair, yet be not thine own thrall.
Page 341 - Yet as she went, full often look'd behind, And many poor excuses did she find To linger by the way, and once she stay'd, And would have turn'd again, but was afraid, In offering parley, to be counted light.
Page 326 - Venus' glass. There might you see the gods in sundry shapes, Committing heady riots, incest, rapes: For know, that underneath this radiant...