The Poetical Decameron, Or, Ten Conversations on English Poets and Poetry: Particularly of the Reigns of Elizabeth and James I. |
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... loue and deuellish discourses of fancies fittes , " some allusion may be intended to such books as A. Copley's " Wits Fittes and Fancies , " & c . the earliest edition of which , however , yet discovered is in 1595. The reference may ...
... loue and deuellish discourses of fancies fittes , " some allusion may be intended to such books as A. Copley's " Wits Fittes and Fancies , " & c . the earliest edition of which , however , yet discovered is in 1595. The reference may ...
Page 56
... Loue for Armes , girt to your blades my boyes , Your Rests and Muskets take , take Helme and Targe , And let God Mars his consort make you mirth . The roring Cannon and the brazen Trumpe , The angry sounding Drum , the whistling Fife ...
... Loue for Armes , girt to your blades my boyes , Your Rests and Muskets take , take Helme and Targe , And let God Mars his consort make you mirth . The roring Cannon and the brazen Trumpe , The angry sounding Drum , the whistling Fife ...
Page 83
... loue ( as sayd is ) were sore oppressed . On her ryght hand there fyrst in my syght Was Cesar and Scipion , that honorable knyghte ; But which of them twayne next to fame was I do not remember , but there they both dyd pas : The tone in ...
... loue ( as sayd is ) were sore oppressed . On her ryght hand there fyrst in my syght Was Cesar and Scipion , that honorable knyghte ; But which of them twayne next to fame was I do not remember , but there they both dyd pas : The tone in ...
Page 108
... loue faire Amaryll . " MORTON . That is the most barbarous trash I ever heard . The first line is only of twelve syllables , and unless a pause be made upon the first syllable of the word under , it is not readable . BOURNE . Sometimes ...
... loue faire Amaryll . " MORTON . That is the most barbarous trash I ever heard . The first line is only of twelve syllables , and unless a pause be made upon the first syllable of the word under , it is not readable . BOURNE . Sometimes ...
Page 110
... loue of praises is so great and victories care so great . " MORTON . The original passage is just ten verses , which are spun out into fifteen fourteen - syllable lines . BOURNE . By means partly of the sagacious ad- ditions between ...
... loue of praises is so great and victories care so great . " MORTON . The original passage is just ten verses , which are spun out into fifteen fourteen - syllable lines . BOURNE . By means partly of the sagacious ad- ditions between ...
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