The Famous Historie: Cap. XV (Patrick Gordon Poems)
The Argument.A messinger vnto the King doth schoSad news that doth incense his wrathfull IreFrom Roxbrughs tours braue Douglas beats ...
The Argument.A messinger vnto the King doth schoSad news that doth incense his wrathfull IreFrom Roxbrughs tours braue Douglas beats ...
The Argument.The south and North crownes ioynd by that great KingWho of all Kinges hea'uns blissinges most embraceHis works his ...
Written three hundred years since.Be it right or wrong, these men amongOn women do complayne;Affyrmynge this, how that it isA ...
A Renaissance Woman'sAutobiographical PoemNouember the 10th 1632The Memorandum of Martha MoulsworthWiddoweThe tenth day of the winter month NouemberA day which ...
The suereste state and beste degree Is to possesse mediocritye. By proofe we finde in everye storme The hier tree the sorer torne: The ...
Calleinge to mynde my wyfe moste dere Howe ofte you have in sorrowes sadde With wordes full wyse and pleasante chere My dropeinge ...
This worldes madde maskerye I intende to disgrace Pluckeinge of the viser and the disguiseinge gere From this merye maskers soe as ...
CHORVS O gratyous Lorde, ohe sauyor dere, Our onelye hope and all our chere, Our presente ayde in euerye woe, Our hole defence agaynste ...
Lorde for my slepe and reste this nighte And for this grace preserueinge mee In bodye sounde in mynde vprighte, Honor and prayse ...
Like as the tree of frute moste puer To save from spoyle requires moste cuer, And as the grape of sweteste taste The ...
Pardon, _sweete flower of Matchles poetrie,And fairest bud the red rose euer bare;Although my Muse, devorst from deeper care,Presents thee ...
As tree by frute and goulde by fyer, Soe shewed by talke is hartes desyer: Thye nature aye is knowen alsoe By choyse ...
A wanton wenche vppon a colde daye With Snowe balles prouoked me to playe: But theis snowe balles soe hette my desyer That ...
A corrupte Judge sayde to an arrante theefe, Whye shouldeste thou not dye by lawe of the lande, Beinge caste by twelue ...
To man lewde luste bringethe theis ylles, Councell it damnes, his mynde it kylles, Vertue it voydes, manners it marres, Vice it nursethe, ...
Lyberalitye in Nobles, in Lawyers eloquence, Scyence in spirituall menn, in Marchantes credence, Comelynes in womenn, in husbandemenn frugalitye, Thus to eache of ...
These veines are nature's nett, These cords by art are sett. If love himselfe flye here, Love is intangled here. ...
Dürer would have seen a reason for living in a town like this, with eight stranded whales to look at; ...
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