The Famous Historie: Cap. VI (Patrick Gordon Poems)
The Argument.By Fortune Valor and aduentrous chanceThe Douglas doth releiue thrie Scottish DamesIn Arrans Ile and doth from thence aduanceWhill ...
The Argument.By Fortune Valor and aduentrous chanceThe Douglas doth releiue thrie Scottish DamesIn Arrans Ile and doth from thence aduanceWhill ...
SCEN. 1.Acanthus, Anthophotus.An. Thou speak'st of things beyond beleefe, Acanthus.Ac. Too true it is, I shrewdly feare, For every circumstance makes it appeare That Rhodon ...
The Argument.An English visard with great arte foreshowesThe Douglas of spring great to these our daiesAnd how that happie famelie ...
The Argument.The south and North crownes ioynd by that great KingWho of all Kinges hea'uns blissinges most embraceHis works his ...
AIR.Daughter of Paeon, queen of every joy,Hygeia; whose indulgent smile sustainsThe various race luxuriant nature pours,And on th' immortal essences ...
But this sad melancholick disquisition,Did not befit our jovial disposition,In these our days; therefore when we had mournedFor this good ...
Therefore, when thirtie two were come and gone,Years of her raigne, daies of her countries peace,Elizabeth great Empresse of the ...
The Argument.Scotlands great King from treasone ill contriuedBy heauens and his oune valour is relieuedInspight of twyce two hundreth he ...
The Argument.Hells damnd fiends finds Scots renouned KingAnd by three theeues works him a niew dispight,To God he praies who ...
Bright Arts, abus'd, like Gems, receive their Flaws;Physick has Quacks, and Quirks obscure the Laws.Fables to shade Historic Truths combine,And ...
In the dark Backward of six thousand Years,(So Moses writes and all our Christian Seers)The World, a rude, unfashion'd Embryo ...
Had I, O had I all the tuneful ArtsOf lofty Verse; did ev'ry Muse inspireMy flowing Numbers, and adorn my ...
When the proud Philistines for War declar'd,And Israel's Sons for Battle had prepar'd,Before the Heathen Camp a Monster stalk'd,And awful ...
My soul exalt the Lord with Hymns of praise:O Lord my God, how boundless is thy might?Whose Throne of State ...
New formed Adam of the reddish earth, Exilde from Eden, Paradice of pleasure By Gods decree cast down to woes ...
THE VANITIE OF THE VVORLD. The Abnegation.ARGUMENT. What's potent Opulencie? What's remiss Voluptuousness? World, what's All This, To That the ...
Carm. Lib. . Ode . Paraphrased.I. Ah! dearest Friend, the Years are flying; They flie alass! they pass away (Like ...
In court whoso demaundesWhat dame doth most excell;For my conceit I must needes say,Faire Bridges beares the bel. Upon whose ...
CANTO IIII To sinfull house of Pride, Duessa guides the faithfull knight, Where brothers death to wreak Sansjoy doth chalenge ...
SWeet smile, the daughter of the Queene of loue, Expressing all thy mothers powrefull art: with which she wonts to ...
Like the vain Curlings of the Watry maze, Which in smooth streams a sinking Weight does raise; So Man, declining ...
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