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Page 4 - If other matter it may yeelden thee, As morall counsel, whereby thou may lerne What thinges are good to folowe, what to flee, Then thanke me when we meeten at the terme. And pray God blesse our Queene and Countrey, And graunt her long to raigne and prosperous ; And to us all, after this journey, In heaven with him selfe a dwelling house.
Page 67 - For who so shal esteeme his labour lost, That shal it reade, he may think therewithal, I lost more manifold, both paine and cost, Yet never greeved me ne never shal. For while I wrote this I dyd nothyng els, Save that I kept [my] mynd from idlenesse, The cause of harlottry, as Ovid tels : So wyl it them that read it, as I gesse, Better, I wys, then Amadis de Gaule, Or els the Pallas forced with Pleasure, Who though they promise honny yelden gale, And unto coales do turne theyr fained treasure. Or...
Page 19 - His doublet was of sattin very fine, And it was cut and stitched very thick : Of silke it had a costly enterlyne ; His shirt had bands and ruffe of pure cambrick. " ' His upper stockes of sylken...
Page iii - DYCE, REV. ALEXANDER. HALLIWELL, JO, ESQ., FRSFSA, &C. HARNESS, REV. WILLIAM. JERROLD, DOUGLAS, ESQ. KENNEY, JAMES, ESQ. KNIGHT, CHARLES, ESQ. MACREADY, WILLIAM C., ESQ. MADDEN, SIR F., FRS, FSA, KEEPER OF THE MSS. IN THE BRITISH MUSEUM. MILMAN, REV. HENRY HART. TALFOURD, MR. SERGEANT. THOMS, WILLIAM J., ESQ. TOMLINS, F. GUEST, ESQ., SECRETARY. WRIGHT, THOMAS, ESQ., FSA YOUNG, CHARLES M., ESQ. INTRODUCTION.
Page 35 - Yea, twoo or three thereto wyll scant suffice To judge of them and theyr indifference ; For secreete cause of favour maye arise, Which must be searched with great advertence, By such as have experience therein, And of adversitye have had theyr part : For who so beaten in the world hath bene, No further neede he take degree of art. With that they were content, and dyd agree To chose them tryers as I had thought meet. I asked them how many ? they sayde, three : In the name of God (quod I) so be it....
Page 85 - Or thoe" is ere then. Page 10, line 8. " But nold" is But ne wold, or Would not. Page 12, line 4. Possibly misprinted in the original for " masters or misters woorship." Page 12, line 25. For " I let him in," we ought perhaps to read " I letten in." Page 13, line 24. " Mickle deere," is much hurt or injury. Page 14, line 25. " And I my selfe, for better was in place," may mean " I myself, for want of a better in place.
Page 29 - ... shall doo God high service, as I gesse, And to your countrey men no litle boote. The knight, as he that gentle was of cheere, Ne answeared his learning was but small ; But els herein his good wyll should appeere : Then afterward I up and tolde him all. Howe that he should not been alone him selve, Ne should above his learning have in charge ; For he should be the foreman of the twelve, And of their matter should enquire at large : And of such thinges as are in their knowledge, And of which no...
Page xiv - His upper stockes of sylken Grogerane, And to his hyppes they sate full close and trym, And laced very costly every pane : Their lyning was of Satten, as I wyn. " His neather stockes of silke accordingly: A velvet gyrdle rounde about his wast. This knight or squyre, what so he be, (quoth I) We wyll empannell : let him not goe past.
Page ix - Epigrames," a 4to MS. of 71 leaves, with the motto " Psal : Quum defecerit virtus mea, ne derelinquas, domine," and in his Dedication he says that " some of them are composed of thinges donn and sayed by such as were well knowne to your Lordshipp and to my self, in those yonger yeares when Lincolns Inn societie did linke vs all in one cheyne of Amitie ; and some of them are of other persons yet living, wAich of yowr Lordship are both loved & liked.
Page ix - In whome the Muses harbor and delighte, Gracing thy verse with immortalitie, Crowning thy Fayrie Queene with deitie ; The famous Chaucer yealds his lawrell crowne Unto thy sugred penn for thy renowne. " Noe cankred envie cann thy fame deface, Nor...