| George Ellis - English poetry - 1803 - 468 pages
...boasts and brags in vain! My lady's beauty passeth more The best of yours, I dare well sayne, Than doth the sun the candle light, Or brightest day the darkest night: 1 Equal. • So ed. I.—Ed. 1567, " Content And thereto hath a troth as just, As had Penelope the... | |
| George Ellis - English poetry - 1811 - 470 pages
...boasts and brags in vain ! My lady's beauty passeth more The best of yours, I dare well sayne^ Than doth the sun the candle light, Or brightest day the darkest night: ■ Equal. * go ed. I.—£d. 1567, " Content And thereto hath a troth as just, As had Penelope the... | |
| Henry Schultes - 1829 - 340 pages
...SURPASS her as greatest does the least. Shakespear. My lady's beauty 'passeth more the best of yours than doth the sun the candle light, or brightest day the darkest night. Henry Earl of Surrey. She 'pass'd the rest as far as doth the sun another little star. Harington. Surpass... | |
| Henry Howard Earl of Surrey - 1831 - 308 pages
...boasts and brags in vain; My Lady's beauty passeth more The best of yours, I dare well sayen, Than doth the sun the candle light, Or brightest day the darkest night. And thereto hath a troth as just As had Penelope the fair; 1 For what she saith, ye may it trust, As it by writing sealed... | |
| James Bird - 1831 - 202 pages
...boasts and brags in vain : My Lady's beauty passeth more The best of yours, I dare well sayne, Than doth the sun the candle light, Or brightest day the darkest night. And thereto hath a troth as just As had Penelope the fair : For what she saith ye may it trust, As it by writing sealed... | |
| Henry Howard Earl of Surrey - Poets, English - 1831 - 280 pages
...boasts and brags in vain; My Lady's beauty passeth more The best of yours, I dare well sayen, Than doth the sun the candle light, Or brightest day the darkest night. For what she saith, ye may it trust, As it by writing sealed were : And virtues hath she many mo' Than... | |
| Garland - English poetry - 1836 - 250 pages
...bostes and bragges in vain ; My ladies bewty passeth more The best of yours, I dare well sayen, Than doth the sun the candle light, Or brightest day the darkest night. And therto hath a troth as just As had Penelope the faire ; For what she sayth, ye may it trust As by it... | |
| Garland - English poetry - 1836 - 246 pages
...bostes and bragges in vain ; My ladies bewty passeth more The best of yours, I dare well sayen, Than doth the sun the candle light, Or brightest day the darkest night. And therto hath a troth as just As had Penelope the faire; For what she sayth, ye may it trust As by it... | |
| Samuel Carter Hall - English poetry - 1836 - 390 pages
...HIS. GIVE place ye lovers here before, That spent your boastes and bragges in vain ! My ladies beuty passeth more, The best of yours I dare well sayne, Then doth the sunne the caundle-lyght, Or bryghtest day the darkest nyght. And thereto hath a troth as just As had... | |
| Robert Folkestone Williams - 1839 - 946 pages
...boasts and brags in vain; My lady's beauty passeth more The best of yours, I dare well faine, Than doth the sun the candle light, Or brightest day the darkest night. LORD SURREY. Art thou my son, that miracle of wit, Who once, within these three months, wert esteemed... | |
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