 | Philip Sidney - History - 1983 - 580 pages
...praise. 3 daintier — finer. 4 sleight — dexterity. Some lucky wits impute it but to chance; Otheis, because of both sides I do take My blood from them who did excell in this,0 10 Think Nature me a man of arms did make. How far they shoot awry! The true cause... | |
 | Philip Sidney - 1991 - 258 pages
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 | Patricia Fumerton - History - 1993 - 300 pages
...wrong guesses is that of a "daintier judge": "Horsemen my skill in horsmanship advaunce; / Towne-folkes my strength; a daintier judge applies / His praise to sleight, which from good use doth rise." The "daintier judge" rejects the indelicate reasons for victory — "skill in horsmanship" and brute... | |
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Townsfolk my strength ; a daintier judge applies His praise to sleight, which from good use doth rise ; Some lucky wits impute it but to chance ; Others, because of both sides I do take My blood from them, who did excel in this, Think Nature me a man... 
