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" Tell me not, Sweet, I am unkind That from the nunnery Of thy chaste breast and quiet mind, To war and arms I fly. True, a new mistress now I chase, The first foe in the field; And with a stronger faith embrace A sword, a horse, a shield. Yet this inconstancy... "
Willis's Current Notes: A Series of Articles on Antiquities, Biography ... - Page 14
by George Willis - 1856
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Liber Fluviorum: Or, River Scenery of France

Leitch Ritchie - Engraving - 1857 - 660 pages
...honour!" There is something akin to this sentiment in that glorious stanza of one of our old poets : "Yet this inconstancy is such As you too shall adore ; I could not IOTB thee, dear, so mnch, Loved I not honour more !" Agnes Sorel is described by the chroniclers of...
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Lectures and Addresses on Literary and Social Topics

Frederick William Robertson - 1858 - 384 pages
...those glorious lines of Lovelace in reply to a reproach on account of absence caused by duty : " Yet this inconstancy is such As you, too, shall adore...love thee, dear, so much, Loved I not honour more." Under the influence of imagination, selfishness became honour. Doubtless, the law of honour is only...
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The Literature and the Literary Men of Great Britain and Ireland, Volume 1

Abraham Mills - English literature - 1858 - 594 pages
...chase, The first foe in the field ; And with a stronger faith embrace A sword, a horse, a shield. Yet this inconstancy is such, As you, too, shall adore; I could not love thee, dear, so much, l.ov ,1 I not honour more. TO ALTHEA, FROM PRISON. When love with unconfined wings Hovers within...
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Lectures and Addresses on Literary and Social Topics

Frederick William Robertson - 1859 - 366 pages
...a reproach on account of absence caused by duty i u Yet this inconstancy is such As you, too, snail adore ; I could not love thee, dear, so much, Loved I not honour more." Under the influence of imagination, selfishness became honour. Doubtless, the law of honour is only...
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Rob of the Bowl: A Legend of St. Inigoe's

John Pendleton Kennedy - Maryland - 1860 - 452 pages
...chase, The first foe in the field; And with a stronger faith embrace A sword, a horse, a shield. 4 Tet this inconstancy is such As you too shall adore : I could not love thoe, dear, so much, Loved I not honor more/ " " Well done ! Well touched lute— well trolled ditty...
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The Loves and Heroines of the Poets

Richard Henry Stoddard - Love poetry - 1861 - 526 pages
...chase, The first foe in the field ; And with a stronger faith embrace A sword, a horse, a shield. Yet this inconstancy is such As you, too, shall adore...thee, dear, so much, Loved I not honour more. THE SCRUTINY. "Why should you say I am forsworn. Since thine I vowed to be? Lady, it is already morn, And...
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The Golden Treasury of the Best Songs and Lyrical Poems in the English ...

Francis Turner Palgrave - English poetry - 1861 - 356 pages
...chase, The first foe in the field ; And with a stronger faith embrace A sword, a horse, a shield. Yet this inconstancy is such As you too shall adore ;...love thee, Dear, so much, Loved I not Honour more. Colonel Lovelace LXXXIV ELIZABETH OF BOHEMIA You meaner beauties of the night, Which poorly satisfy...
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The Loves and Heroines of the Poets

Richard Henry Stoddard - Love poetry - 1861 - 552 pages
...chase, The first foe in the field ; And with a stronger faith embrace A sword, a horse, a shield. Yet this inconstancy is such As you, too, shall adore...love thee, dear, so much, Loved I not honour more. THK SCRt'TINT. Why should you say I am forsworn. Since thine I vowed to be? Lady, it is already morn,...
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History of the English language and literature

English language - 1861 - 312 pages
...chase, The first foe in the field j And with a stronger faith embrace A sword, a horse, a shield. Yet this inconstancy is such As you, too, shall adore ; I could not love thee, dear, so much, Lov'd I not honour more. SIR WILLIAM DAVENANT (1605-1668), considered as a writer of miscellaneous...
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Folk Songs

John Williamson Palmer - Folk songs - 1861 - 540 pages
...chase, The first foe in the field ; And with a stronger faith imbraee A sword, a horse, a shield. Yet this inconstancy is such As you, too, shall adore ; I could not love thee, deare, so much, Loved I not honor more. RlCHARD LOVELACE. TUP: SHEPHERD TO HIS LOVE. COME live with...
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