 Seven years thou wert lent to me, and I thee pay, Exacted by thy fate, on the just day. O, could I lose all father, now! For why Will man lament the state he should envy? To have so soon 'scaped world's and flesh's rage, And, if no other misery, yet age!...  The Monthly Anthology, and Boston Review - Page 312edited by - 1808Full view - About this book
 | Henry Philip Dodd - Epigrams - 1875 - 768 pages
...F1BST-SOBN SON (Ep.45). Farewell, thou child of my right hand and joy ; My sin was too much hope of theo, lov'd boy ; Seven years thou wert lent to me, and I thee pay, Exacted by thy fate on the just day. 0, could I lose all father now ! For why Will man lament the state he should envy? To have so soon... | |
 | Ben Jonson, William Gifford - English drama - 1875 - 560 pages
...occasion— " Farewell, thou child of my right hand, and joy ; My sin was too much hope of thee, loved boy : Seven years thou wert lent to me, and I thee pay " As he was seven years old in 1603, he must have been bom in 1596, and if he had an elder sister (see... | |
 | Ben Jonson, William Gifford - 1875 - 558 pages
...occasion — " Farewell, thou child of my right hand, and joy ; My sin was too much hope of thee, loved boy : Seven years thou wert lent to me, and I thee pay " then [have] had their ears cut and noses. After their delivery, he banqueted all his friends ; there... | |
 | Robert Greene - 1876 - 576 pages
...FIRST SON.* Farewell, thou child of my right hand, and joy; My sin was too much hope of thee, loved boy; Seven years thou wert lent to me, and I thee pay, Exacted by thy fate, on the just day. Oh ! could I lose all father, now! for why, Will man lament the state he should envy? * The following... | |
 | Robert Greene, Christopher Marlowe, Ben Jonson - English poetry - 1878 - 576 pages
...FIRST SON.* Farewell, thou child of my right hand, and joy ; My sin was too much hope of thee, loved boy; Seven years thou wert lent to me, and I thee pay, Exacted by thy fate, on the just day. Oh ! could I lose all father, now ! for why, Will man lament the state he should envy? • The following... | |
 | William Shakespeare, Ben Jonson - English poetry - 1879 - 844 pages
...remarkable circumstance relating to the ileath of Jonson's son is related >iy Drunimond : " When the Seven years thou wert lent to me, and I thee pay Exacted by thy fate, on the just day. Oh ! could I lose all father, now ! for why AVill man lament the state he should env^ ? To have so... | |
 | Old favourites, Matilda Sharpe - 1881 - 438 pages
...FIRST SON. Farewell ! thou child of my right hand, and joy ; My sin was too much hope of thee, loved boy ; Seven years thou wert lent to me, and I thee pay, Exacted by thy fate, on the just day. Oh, could I lose all, Father, now ! For why, Will man lament the state he should envy ? To have so... | |
 | Ben Jonson, John Addington Symonds - Bookbinding - 1886 - 430 pages
...too much hope of thee, lov'd boy : FABEWELL, thon child of my right hand, and joy ; Seven years them wert lent to me, and I thee pay, Exacted by thy fate,...just day. O, could I lose all father, now ! for why, To have so soon 'scaped world's, and flush's rage, Will man lament the state he should envy ? And,... | |
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