The Poetical Works of William Strode (1600-1645): Now First Collected from Manuscript and Printed Sources: to which is Added The Floating Island, a Tragi-comedy, Now First Reprinted from the Original Edition of 1655editor, 1907 - 269 pages |
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Page 20 - Of wave-swolne earth did lend such grace, As shadowings in Imag'ry Which both deceive and please the eye. The sheepe sometymes did tread the maze By often wynding in and in, And sometymes round about they trace Which milkmayds call a Fairie ring: Such semicircles have they runne, Such lynes acrosse so trymly spunne That sheppeards learne whenere they please A new Geometry with ease. The slender food upon the downe Is allwayes even, allwayes bare, Which neither spring nor winter's frowne Can ought...
Page 14 - Hence, all you vain delights, As short as are the nights, Wherein you spend your folly : There's nought in this life sweet If man were wise to see't, But only melancholy, O sweetest Melancholy...
Page 41 - Jove descended from his tower To court her in a silver shower; The wanton snow flew to her breast Like little...
Page 247 - Once all their joyes, now all their tears, He's now past sence, past fear of paine, 'Twere sin to wish him here againe. Had it liv'd to have been a Man, This Inch had grown but to a Span ; And now he takes up the lesse room, Rock'd from his Cradle to his Tomb. Tis better dye a child, at four, Than live and dye so at fourscore. View but the way by which we come, Thou'lt say, he's best, that's first at home.
Page 108 - ... wrought with silk, Is like repentant, white as milk ; When hats in church drop off in haste, This cap ne'er leaves the head uncaste.* The sick man's cap, if wrought, can tell, Though he be ill, his state is welLf So any cap, whate're it bee, Is still the signe of some degree. The fuddling cap, by Bacchus...
Page 266 - Illa autem, quamquam vox dudum exercita fauces Asperat, impatiens vinci simul aduocat omnes Nequidquam vires, nam dum discrimina tanta Reddere tot fidium natiua et simplice tentat Voce, canaliculisque imitari grandia paruis ; Impar magnanimis ausis, imparque dolori Deficit, et vitam summo in certamine linquens Victoris cadit in plectrum, par nacta sepulcrum. Vsque adeo et tenues animas ferit semula Virtus.
Page 218 - Six penyworth of Thoughts untold, " The jelly of a Star before it be cold ; '' One ounce of Courtship from a country-Daughter, " A grain of Wit, and a quart of Laughter. *' Boyle these on the Fire of Zeal or of Lust, "With some beech Coales, least the Vessel burst. If you can get these Ingredients, He compound them for you.
Page 103 - Preferment, like a game at boules, To feede our hope hath divers play : Heere quick it runns, there soft it roules ; The betters make and shew the way On upper ground, so great allies Doe many cast on their desire ; Some up are thrust and forc'd to rise, When those are stopt that would aspire. Some, whose heate and zeal exceed, Thrive well by rubbs that curb their haste, And some that languish in their speed Are cherished by some favour's blaste ; Some rest in other's...
Page 107 - Grandos can proceede So farre in sinne that this they neede Before theyr Prince, which covered are, And only to themselves goe bare : This Cappe of all the Capps that bee Is now the signe of high degree. [The above is from one of my MS. volumes. Collier printed the poem in his " Book of Roxburgh Ballads " 1847; and it was also printed in " Satirical Songs and Poems on Costume," edited by FW Fairholt, for the Percy Society.
Page 260 - This line as it stands seems to be meaningless, having no relation to what goes before or follows it. ' Peculiar ' is defined in the NED as ' A parish or church exempt from the jurisdiction of the ordinary or bishop in whose diocese it lies.' Page 200. Line 17. 'But to a woman,