The Complete Works of Michael Drayton: PolyolbionJ.R. Smith, 1876 - English poetry |
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Page 222 - Short Hazel, Maple plain, light Aspe, the bending Wych, Tough Holly, and smooth Birch, must altogether burn : What should the builder serve, supplies the forger's turn When under public good, base private gain takes hold, And we poor woeful Woods, to ruin lastly sold.
Page 144 - And as their cruel fangs on his harsh skin they lay, "With his sharp-pointed head he dealeth deadly wounds. The hunter, coming in to help his wearied hounds, He desp'rately assails; until oppress'd by force, He who the mourner is to his own dying corse,
Page 197 - manchet can so well the courtly palate please, As that made of the meal fetch'd from my fertile leaze. 230 Their finest of that kind, compared with my wheat, For whiteness of the bread, doth look like common cheat. What barley is there found, whose fair and bearded ear Makes stouter English ale, or stronger English
Page 221 - These iron times breed none, that mind posterity. Tis but in vain to tell, what we before have been, Or changes of the world, that we in time have seen ; When, not devising how to spend our wealth with waste, We to the savage swine let fall our larding mast.
Page 221 - When labouring carts they saw to hold their daily trade, Where they in summer wont to sport them in the shade. Could we, say they, suppose, that any would us cherish, Which suffer (every day) the holiest things to perish ? Or to our daily want to minister supply
Page 243 - Of these two factions styl'd, of York and Lancaster. Briefly their beginning was thus. Edward the III. had seven sons, Edward the Black Prince, William of Hatfield, Lionel Duke of Clarence, John of Gaunt Duke of Lancaster, Edmund of Langley Duke of York, Thomas of
Page 140 - tis alone That gives our kind the place : else were there many a one For pleasantness of shade that far doth me excel! But, of our Forests' kind the quality to tell, We equally partake with wood-land as with plain, Alike with hill and dale ; and every day maintain * The ancient Coat of that Earldom.
Page 142 - The Bucks and lusty Stags amongst the Rascalls strew'd, As sometime gallant spirits amongst the multitude. Of all the beasts which we for our venerial name,* The Hart amongst the rest, the hunter's noblest game : Of which most princely chase sith none did e'er report,
Page 142 - That moduleth her tunes so admirably rare, As man to set in parts, at first had learn'd of her. To Philomell the next, the Linnet we prefer ; And by that warbling bird, the
Page 142 - Or by description touch, t' express that wond'rous sport (Yet might have well beseem'd th' ancients' nobler songs) To our old Arden here, most fitly it belongs : Yet shall she not invoke the Muses to her aid ; But thee Diana bright, a Goddess and a maid