And he, the man whom Nature selfe had made To mock her selfe, and truth to imitate, With kindly counter under mimick shade, Our pleasant Willy, ah! is dead of late: With whom all joy and jolly meriment Is also deaded, and in dolour drent. The Complete Works of John Lyly - Page 60by John Lyly - 1902Full view - About this book
| Edmund Spenser - English poetry - 1862 - 496 pages
...made zo5 To mock her felfe, and Truth to imitate, With kindly counter under Mimick made, Our pleafant Willy,' ah ! is dead of late : With whom all joy and jolly meriment Is alfo deaded, and in dolour drent. no In ftead thereof fcoffing Scurrilitie, And fcornfull Follie with... | |
| Edmund Spenser - English poetry - 1862 - 494 pages
...made 2O5 To mock her felfe, and Truth to imitate, With kindly counter under Mimick made, Our pleafant Willy,' ah ! is dead of late : With whom all joy and jolly meriment Is alfo deaded, and in dolour drent. »io In ftead thereof fcoffing Scurrilitie, And fcornfull Follie... | |
| Edmund Spenser - English poetry - 1862 - 492 pages
...To mock her felfe, and Truth to imitate, With kindly counter under Mimick made, Our pleafant Willy,1 ah ! is dead of late : With whom all joy and jolly meriment Is alfo deaded, and in dolour drent. no In ftead thereof fcoffing Scurrilitie, And fcornfull Follie with... | |
| Richard Grant White - Dramatists, English - 1865 - 454 pages
...establish. In Spenser's Teares of the Muses, printed in 1591, a passage beginning with the lines, — "And he, the man whom Nature selfe had made To mock...mimick shade, Our pleasant Willy, ah, is dead of late," — has been held to refer to Shakespeare ; chiefly, it would seem, because of the name, Willy. But... | |
| Richard Grant White - Dramatists, English - 1865 - 450 pages
...Spenser's Teares of the Muses, printed in 1591, a passage beginning with the lines, — "And he,the man whom Nature selfe had made To mock her selfe,...mimick shade, Our pleasant Willy, ah, is dead of late," — has been held to refer to Shakespeare; chiefly, it would seem, because of the name, Willy. But... | |
| William Shakespeare, Richard Grant White - 1868 - 626 pages
...establish. In Spenser's Tsares of the Muses, printed in 1591. a passage beginning with the lines — *' And he the man whom Nature selfe had made To mock her selfe, and Truth to.iimtate, With kindly counter under minrick shade, Our pleasant Willy, ah, is dead of late" — has... | |
| William Robson Arrowsmith - 1865 - 376 pages
...whom Nature's self had made To mock herself, and Truth to imitate, With kindly counter, under mimic shade, Our pleasant Willy, ah ! is dead of late ; With whom all joy and pleasant merriment Is also deaded, and in dolour drent." In 1592, he is alluded to in Robert Green's... | |
| H. T. HALL - 1865 - 48 pages
...whom Nature's self had made To mock herself, and Truth to imitate, With kindly counter, under mimic shade, Our pleasant Willy, ah! is dead of late; With whom all joy and pleasant merriment Is also deaded, and in dolour drent." In 1592, he is alluded to in Robert Greene's... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1865 - 624 pages
...establish, ID Spooser's Tsaret of the Musts, printed in 1591. a passage beginning with the Hoes — " And he the man whom Nature selfe had made To mock her selfe, and Trnth to imitate, With kindly counter under mimick shade. Our pleasant Willy, ah, is dead of late"... | |
| Edmund Spenser - 1866 - 378 pages
...defaced ; And those sweete wits, which wont the like to frame, Are now despizd, and made a laughing game. And he, the man whom Nature selfe had made To mock...jolly meriment Is also deaded, and in dolour drent. zio In stead thereof scoffing Scurrilitie, And scornfull Follie with Contempt is crept, Rolling in... | |
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