The Patient Countess. – extracted from Albion’s England (William Warner Poems)
Impatience chaungeth smoke to flame, but jealousie is hell;Some wives by patience have reduc'd ill husbands to live well:As did ...
Impatience chaungeth smoke to flame, but jealousie is hell;Some wives by patience have reduc'd ill husbands to live well:As did ...
Wee heare of dire portents, and Prodigies, Sad meteours of bloud, and fire, The signes of heavenly ire, Forewarners of the Earths calamityes, Summons ...
A feruent supplication,Tending to mortification,And new regeneration,That leadeth to saluation.Most louing Lord, and Father deere,I humbly sue vnto thy grace,That ...
Hee that seekes gold, or pearle, must delve, or dive, And descend toward Hell: Thus things, for which the world doth chiefely ...
Mankinds lamentation,Of their miserable condition,By naturall corruption,Through Adams inclination,Vnto his wiues perswasion,By Serpents first suggestion,Through Sathans instigation.All Adams heyres in ...
Though volumes great and learned workes, Of famous men hereof be ryfe VVherby both Papistes, Iewes and Turkes Haue deadly woundes, for all ...
Some, sermons preache, as if they yet had not That old Comedians Aphorisme forgott, Which they in unripe yeares at schoole did ...
I want a volubility of tongue, To trafficke for applause; Although I know the lawes And rights of rhetoricke: I am not strung For ...
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