Davison's Poetical rhapsody. With a preface by E. Brydges. To which are added several other pieces, with memoirs and notes by N.H. Nicolas, Том 1

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Стр. 27 - Tell zeal it wants devotion, Tell love it is but lust, Tell time it is but motion, Tell flesh it is but dust ; And wish them not reply, For thou must give the lie. Tell age it daily wasteth ; Tell honour how it alters ; Tell beauty how she blasteth ; Tell favour how it falters : And as they shall reply, Give every one the lie.
Стр. 28 - Tell arts they have no soundness, But vary by esteeming ; Tell schools they want profoundness, And stand too much on seeming : If arts and schools reply, Give arts and schools the lie. Tell faith it's fled the city; Tell how the...
Стр. 25 - Fear not to touch the best; The truth shall be thy warrant Go, since I needs must die, And give the world the lie. Say to the court, it glows, And shines like rotten wood; Say to the church, it shows What's good, and doth no good. If church and court reply, Then give them both the lie. Tell potentates they live Acting by others' action; Not loved unless they give, Not strong but by a faction.
Стр. 37 - When chance, or else perhaps his will, Did guide the God of Love that way. The crafty boy that sees her sleep, Whom if she wak'd, he durst not see, Behind her closely seeks to creep, Before her nap should ended be.
Стр. 26 - Tell Zeal it wants devotion ; tell Love it is but lust ; Tell Time it is but motion ; tell Flesh it is but dust ; And wish them not reply, for thou must give the lie.
Стр. 26 - Their purpose is ambition, Their practice only hate ; And if they once reply, Then give them all the lie. Tell...
Стр. xc - But the sharpness of the satire is said to have stung the man so severely, that he never forgave it. He died in the fifty-third year of his age, and was buried on the north side of the chancel, in the great church at Stratford, where a monument is placed in the wall. On his grave-stone underneath is, " Good friend, for Jesus' sake forbear " To dig the dust inclosed here.
Стр. 21 - Wedlock indeed hath oft compared been To public feasts, where meet a public rout, Where they that are without would fain go in, And they that are within would fain go out.
Стр. 26 - Church it shows what's good, and doth no good; If Church and Court reply, then give them both the lie. Tell Potentates they live acting by others' action, Not loved unless they give, not strong but by affection; If Potentates reply give Potentates the lie.
Стр. 34 - Like the wiser sort, whose learning Hides their inward will of harming. " Well was I, while under shade Oaten reeds me music made, Striving with my mates in song ; Mixing mirth our songs among. Greater was the shepherd's treasure, Than this false, fine, courtly pleasure.

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