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You may copy it, give it away or -re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included -with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org/license - - -Title: The Complete Poems of Sir John Davies. Volume 1 of 2. - -Author: John Davies - -Editor: Alexander B. Grosart - -Release Date: February 22, 2014 [EBook #44977] - -Language: English - -Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 - -*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK POEMS OF SIR JOHN DAVIES (1/2) *** - - - - -Produced by Barbara Tozier, Bill Tozier and the Online -Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net - - - - - - -</pre> - - - - - +<div>*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK 44977 ***</div> <p class="ph2">Early English Poets.<br /><br /><br /> @@ -526,8 +483,8 @@ eighth,<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_xv" id="Page_xv">[Pg xv]</a></span> a He was of 'New Inn,' London; and thus, like his more famous son, was brought up to the study of the Law. This will appear authoritatively onward; but at this point it is needful to correct and explain a -long-continued error, originated by <span class="smcap">Anthony</span> ŕ-<span class="smcap">Wood</span> -"Athenć," by Dr. Bliss, Vol. ii., p. 400) apparently, viz. that the +long-continued error, originated by <span class="smcap">Anthony</span> Ă -<span class="smcap">Wood</span> +"Athenæ," by Dr. Bliss, Vol. ii., p. 400) apparently, viz. that the father was "a wealthy tanner," and so Sir John, of "low extraction," etc., etc. I do not know that there should have been reason for shame had the paternal Davies been a 'tanner,' wealthy or otherwise, if @@ -764,7 +721,7 @@ noble is this!</p> </div></div> <p>"Expelled" and "disbarred," he retired to Oxford and there "followed -his studies, although he wore a cloak." (Wood's <i>Athenć</i>, as before, +his studies, although he wore a cloak." (Wood's <i>Athenæ</i>, as before, ii. 401). To lighten severer studies he now leisurely composed that "Nosce Teipsum" from which has just been quoted the remarkable close. His vein must have been a "flowing" one; for it was published within @@ -790,7 +747,7 @@ was so well relisht y<sup>t</sup> y<sup>e</sup> Queen encouraged him in his stud promising him prefer<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_xxviii" id="Page_xxviii">[Pg xxviii]</a></span>ment, and had him sworn her servant in ordinary." "Nosce Teipsum" was not his "first essay" so that perchance the meaning is that its verse-dedication was his "first essay" in addressing the -Queen—his second being the Hymns to Astrća. The "Hymns to Astrća" +Queen—his second being the Hymns to Astræa. The "Hymns to Astræa" appeared in quick succession to "Nosce Teipsum" in the same year 1599. They are dainty trifles; but from all we know of Elizabeth would be received as "sweet incense." If they seem to us to-day flattering not @@ -1183,7 +1140,7 @@ Fortescue MSS, in the Bodleian,<a name="FNanchor_39_39" id="FNanchor_39_39"></a> <p><span class="inset">My most honored Lord,</span></p> -<p>I prćsent my most humble Thanks to y<sup>r</sup> L<sup>p</sup> for prćsenting mee +<p>I præsent my most humble Thanks to y<sup>r</sup> L<sup>p</sup> for præsenting mee to his Ma<sup>ty</sup> the last Day, at Wansted; & for y<sup>r</sup> noble favour in furthering the suit I then made, as well for mine owne stay in England, as for my recommending a fitt man to my place of service in @@ -1196,8 +1153,8 @@ degree & quality never any before<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_xlv" id that place), hee is of neere alliance vnto mee. So as, where there is concurrence of meritt & kinred, y<sup>r</sup> L<sup>p</sup> may conjecture that I deale w<sup>th</sup> him like a gentleman & a friend, & not like a marchent. -<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_xlvi" id="Page_xlvi">[Pg xlvi]</a></span>Albeit I wi<sup>ll</sup> leave a good place there, w<sup>th</sup>out any prćsent -prćferment heer (whereof none of my profession have failed at their +<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_xlvi" id="Page_xlvi">[Pg xlvi]</a></span>Albeit I wi<sup>ll</sup> leave a good place there, w<sup>th</sup>out any præsent +præferment heer (whereof none of my profession have failed at their return out of Ireland) I might, perhaps w<sup>th</sup> some reason expect some Retribution, to recompence the charge of Transporting my famely from thence, & of setling it heer in this Kingdome, where I am become @@ -1370,46 +1327,46 @@ follow:<a name="FNanchor_46_46" id="FNanchor_46_46"></a><a href="#Footnote_46_46 <p class="center"> Johannes Davys Equestris ordinis quondam Attornati<br /> - Regii Generalis amplissima prudentiâ in regno<br /> - Hybernić functus, inde in patriam revocatus<br /> + Regii Generalis amplissima prudentiâ in regno<br /> + Hyberniæ functus, inde in patriam revocatus<br /> inter servientes Domini Regis ad Legem primum<br /> - Locum obtinuit; post varia in utrone munere prć<br /> + Locum obtinuit; post varia in utrone munere præ<br /> clare gesta ad ampliora jam designatus, repente<br /> spem suorum destituit suam implevit ab humanis<br /> honoribus ad cœlestem gloriam evocatus<br /> - Ćtatis anno 57.o<br /> - Vir ingenio compto, rarâ facundiâ<br /> - Oratione cum solutâ tum numeris restrictâ<br /> + Ætatis anno 57.o<br /> + Vir ingenio compto, rarâ facundiâ<br /> + Oratione cum solutâ tum numeris restrictâ<br /> Felicissimus.<br /> - Juridicam severitatem morum elegantiâ et ameniore eruditione temperavit.<br /> + Juridicam severitatem morum elegantiâ et ameniore eruditione temperavit.<br /> Iudex incorruptus; Patronus fidus<br /> - Ingenuć pietatis amore et anxić superstitionis contemptu<br /> + Ingenuæ pietatis amore et anxiæ superstitionis contemptu<br /> Iuxta insignis.<br /> Plebeiarum animarum in religionis negotio<br /> Pervicacem μἱκροψυχιαν ex edito despiciebet<br /> Fastidium leniente miseratione.<br /> - Ipse magnanimč probus, religiosus, liber, et cœlo admotus<br /> + Ipse magnanimè probus, religiosus, liber, et cœlo admotus<br /> Uxorem habuit Dominam Eleanoram Honoratissimi<br /> Comitis de Castlehaven Baronis Audley filiam<br /> - Unicam ex eâ prolem superstitem hćredem reliquit<br /> + Unicam ex eâ prolem superstitem hæredem reliquit<br /> Luciam illustrissimo Ferdinando Baroni<br /> - Hastings Huntingdonić Comiti nuptam.<br /> + Hastings Huntingdoniæ Comiti nuptam.<br /> Diem Supremam obiit 8o idus Decembris<br /> Anno Domini 1626.<br /> Apud nos exemplum relinquens, hic resurrectionem justorum expectat.<br /> Accubat dignissimo marito incomparabilis uxor<br /> - Quć illustre genus<br /> + Quæ illustre genus<br /> Et generi pares animos<br /> - Christianâ mansuetudine temperavit<br /> + Christianâ mansuetudine temperavit<br /> Erudita super sexum<br /> Mitis infra sortem<br /> Plurimis Major<br /> Quia humilior<br /> - In eximiâ formâ sublime ingenium<br /> - In venustâ comitate singularem modestiam<br /> + In eximiâ formâ sublime ingenium<br /> + In venustâ comitate singularem modestiam<br /> In femineo corpore viriles animos<br /> In rebus adversissimis serenam mentem<br /> - In impio sćculo pietatem et rectitudinem inconcussam<br /> + In impio sæculo pietatem et rectitudinem inconcussam<br /> Possedit.<br /> Non illi robustam animam aut res lauta laxavit, aut<br /> Angusta contraxit, sed utramque sortem pari vultu<br /> @@ -1418,13 +1375,13 @@ follow:<a name="FNanchor_46_46" id="FNanchor_46_46"></a><a href="#Footnote_46_46 Mundus nec benignus addere<br /> Nec malignus detrahere potuisset<br /> Satis Deum jamdudum spirans et sursum aspirans sui<br /> - Ante et Reip. fati prćsaga, salutisque ćternć certissima<br /> + Ante et Reip. fati præsaga, salutisque æternæ certissima<br /> Ingente latoque ardore in Servatoris dilectissimi sinum<br /> Ipsius sanguine lotam animam efflavit<br /> Rebus humanis exempta immortalitatem induit<br /> III. Non. Quintilis Anno Salutis 1652.<br /> Ps. 16. 9.<br /> - Etiam caro mea habitat securč quŕ non es<br /> + Etiam caro mea habitat securè quĂ non es<br /> Derelicturus animam meam in sepulchro.</p> @@ -1556,7 +1513,7 @@ lesser will assuredly draw more and more homage, and abide the regalia of our Literature.</p> <p>It is different with Sir John Davies. His "Orchestra" and "Hymnes to -Astrća" and Minor Poems, preceded considerably his "Nosce Teipsum," but +Astræa" and Minor Poems, preceded considerably his "Nosce Teipsum," but it was his "Nosce Teipsum" that made King James I. prick up his ears on hearing his name, and it is "Nosce Teipsum" that is the poem that will secure immortality to Sir John Davies. His other poetry has special @@ -1616,7 +1573,7 @@ Esq., who is designated "the great hydrographer" to "Mr. Herbert" (the Bibliographer I opine) wherein he takes different ground. We must traverse his charge. He thus writes:—"Dear Sir, I have lately purchased the following old books" (he enumerates several).... "I have -also got 'Wither's translation of Nemesius de Naturâ hominis' by which +also got 'Wither's translation of Nemesius de Naturâ hominis' by which I find Sir John Davies's poem on the Immortality of the Soul is chiefly taken from Nemesius" ... "I have picked up a tract in 4to. by Thomas Jenner, with some very good plates, the marginal notes of which seem @@ -1684,7 +1641,7 @@ opinions of its 'nature' are thus summarized:</p> <span class="i2">Which doe by chance into our bodies flee." (p. 26.)<br /></span> </div></div> -<p>In Nemesius, c. 2. § I, the 'headings' are: "I. The severall and +<p>In Nemesius, c. 2. § I, the 'headings' are: "I. The severall and different Opinions of the Ancients concerning the Sovl, as whether it be a Substance; whether corporeall, or incoporeall, whether mortal or immortal P. II. The confutation of those who affirme in general @@ -1699,7 +1656,7 @@ the Reader.<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_lxv" id="Page_lxv">[Pg lxv]</a></ there comes proof "That the Soule is more than the Temperature of the humours of the Body;" and nowhere does Davies show a more cunning hand than in his statement of the 'false opinion.' Turning once more -to Nemesius c. II. § 3, these are its 'headings:'—"I. It is here +to Nemesius c. II. § 3, these are its 'headings:'—"I. It is here declared, that the Soul is not (as Galen implicitly affirmeth) a Temperature in general. II. It is here proved also, that the Soul is no particular temperature or quality. III. And it is likewise demonstrated @@ -1727,7 +1684,7 @@ Almost as at the opening of the book, take these uniting both:—</p> <div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> <span class="i0">"And yet alas, when all our lamps are burnd,<br /></span> <span class="i2">Our bodyes wasted, and our spirits spent;<br /></span> -<span class="i2">When we haue all the learnčd <i>Volumes</i> turn'd,<br /></span> +<span class="i2">When we haue all the learnèd <i>Volumes</i> turn'd,<br /></span> <span class="i2">Which yeeld mens wits both help and ornament:<br /></span> </div><div class="stanza"> <span class="i0">What can we know? or what can we discerne?<br /></span> @@ -1893,7 +1850,7 @@ Almost as at the opening of the book, take these uniting both:—</p> </div><div class="stanza"> <span class="i0">Therefore no heretikes desire to spread<br /></span> <span class="i2">Their light opinions, like these <i>Epicures</i>:<br /></span> -<span class="i2">For so the staggering thoughts are comfortčd,<br /></span> +<span class="i2">For so the staggering thoughts are comfortèd,<br /></span> <span class="i2">And other men's assent their doubt assures.<br /></span> </div><div class="stanza"> <span class="i0">Yet though these men against their conscience striue,<br /></span> @@ -2194,7 +2151,7 @@ surpassed." For 'felicity' I should have said 'flexibility.'<a name="FNanchor_50 brief; but take these:—</p> <div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">"Nor can her wide imbracements fillčd bee;<br /></span> +<span class="i0">"Nor can her wide imbracements fillèd bee;<br /></span> <span class="i2">For they that most, and greatest things embrace,<br /></span> <span class="i2">Inlarge thereby their minds' capacitie,<br /></span> <span class="i2">As streames inlarg'd, inlarge the channel's space.<br /></span> @@ -2465,7 +2422,7 @@ the 'Immortalitie of the Soule' (pp. 83-99) are not to be equalled anywhere.</p> <p>We may not linger over "Nosce Teipsum." Passing to the "Hymnes to -Astrća" and "Orchestra, or a Poeme of Dauncing" while they have the +Astræa" and "Orchestra, or a Poeme of Dauncing" while they have the same characteristics with "Nosce Teipsum," they yet suggest another characteristic in Davies as a Poet—<i>unexpectedness of brilliant and great things</i>. You count on the Lark's up-springing and the Lark's @@ -2475,13 +2432,13 @@ the inodorous slum. You look for the eagle when you have climbed <span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_xciii" id="Page_xciii">[Pg xciii]</a></span>Shehallion and other Highland mountain fastnesses; but suppose it were to flap out upon you as you paced into your semi-suburban villa. So in "Nosce Teipsum," as seen, deep thought perfectly worked is what -knowing the Poet you look for therein; but even in "Hymnes to Astrća" +knowing the Poet you look for therein; but even in "Hymnes to Astræa" and "Orchestra" you very soon discover that it is still the Poet of "Nosce Teipsum" who sings. The moods of thought are airier and more vivacious substantively, but the thinking and shaping and colouring of imagination is the same; and 'unexpected' is really <i>the</i> word that seems to me to express the out-flashing of the higher faculty. Turning -to the "Hymnes to Astrća," how exquisite are the fancy and the flattery +to the "Hymnes to Astræa," how exquisite are the fancy and the flattery of Hymne V., "To the Larke," as she is wooed by the Poet-Courtier to be his minstrel to 'sing' of Elizabeth. You do not for a moment feel the 'artificial restraint' of the margin-letters that go to form Elizabetha @@ -2499,10 +2456,10 @@ Regina:—</p> <span class="i0">To heau'n each morning beare it;<br /></span> <span class="i0">Haue it set to some sweet sphere,<br /></span> <span class="i0">And let the Angels heare it.<br /></span><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_xciv" id="Page_xciv">[Pg xciv]</a></span> -<span class="i0">Renownd Astrća, that great name,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Renownd Astræa, that great name,<br /></span> <span class="i0">Exceeding great in worth and fame,<br /></span> <span class="i0">Great worth hath so renownd it;<br /></span> -<span class="i0">It is Astrća's name I praise,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">It is Astræa's name I praise,<br /></span> <span class="i0">Now then, sweet Larke, do thou it raise,<br /></span> <span class="i0">And in high Heauen resound it. (p. 133.)</span> </div></div> @@ -2586,7 +2543,7 @@ point out—as thus of the antiquity yet vitality of 'Dauncing':—</p> <span class="i0">And yet in lustie youth for euer flowers;<br /></span> <span class="i0">Like loue his sire, whom Paynters make a boy,<br /></span> <span class="i0">Yet is the eldest of the heau'nly powers;<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Or like his brother Time, whose wingčd howers<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Or like his brother Time, whose wingèd howers<br /></span> <span class="i2">Going and comming will not let him dye,<br /></span> <span class="i2">But still preserve him in his infancie." (p. 169.)</span> </div></div> @@ -2599,7 +2556,7 @@ Sea:—</p> <span class="i0">And like a girdle clips her solide waist,<br /></span> <span class="i0">Musicke and measure both doth vnderstand;<br /></span> <span class="i0">For his great chrystall eye is always cast<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Vp to the Moone, and on her fixčd fast;<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Vp to the Moone, and on her fixèd fast;<br /></span> <span class="i2">And as she daunceth in her pallid spheere,<br /></span> <span class="i2">So daunceth he about her Center heere." (p. 179.)<br /></span> </div></div> @@ -2637,8 +2594,8 @@ to the Poet on the publication of 'Orchestra', thus:—</p> <span class="i0">To make all Saints after his pype to dance:<br /></span><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_xcviii" id="Page_xcviii">[Pg xcviii]</a></span> <span class="i0">It speaking, which as he himselfe aduances,<br /></span> <span class="i0">To act his speech with gestures, lo, it chances,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Downe fals the Pulpit, sore the man is brusčd,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Neuer was Fryer and Pulpit more abusčd.<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Downe fals the Pulpit, sore the man is brusèd,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Neuer was Fryer and Pulpit more abusèd.<br /></span> <span class="i0">Then beare with me, though yet to you a stranger,<br /></span> <span class="i0">To warne you of the like, nay greater danger.<br /></span> <span class="i0">For though none feare the falling of those sparkes,<br /></span> @@ -2881,7 +2838,7 @@ Derby.</p> <p>V. Marston and "Orchestra," &c.</p> -<p>VI. Hymnes to Astrća.</p></div> +<p>VI. Hymnes to Astræa.</p></div> <p><i>I. The Ten Sonnets to Philomel and Hymn to Music.</i> In my Fuller Worthies' Library edition of Davies, I admitted "Canzonet: a Hymne @@ -2903,7 +2860,7 @@ Dr. Brinsley Nicholson has satisfied me that Davison's List of MSS. to be received could not refer to his "Rhapsody," but to some other intended work or private collection; and so the one point in favour of Donne falls to the ground. The evidence as communicated to myself, -and since, in a lengthy communication to the <i>Athenćum</i> (January 22d, +and since, in a lengthy communication to the <i>Athenæum</i> (January 22d, 1876), may be thus summarized, (1) There is nothing in Davison's notings which even hints that he was thinking of the "Rhapsody." (2) The greater number of the MSS. mentioned never appeared even by a @@ -2967,7 +2924,7 @@ that it is clearly by the author of "Orchestra"; and that neither the "Hymne" nor the "Ten Sonnets" appear in any collection of Donne's poems printed or in MS. the external evidence in favour of Sir John Davies as author of the work is as strong as it well can be. Internally the -student of "Orchestra" and the "Hymnes to Astrća" will readily see the +student of "Orchestra" and the "Hymnes to Astræa" will readily see the "fine Roman hand" that wrote them in the "Hymne to<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_cx" id="Page_cx">[Pg cx]</a></span> Music" and related "Ten Sonnets to Philomel." There is none of the style, or conceits, or wording, or rhythm of Donne. I add finally (9) If the "Ten Sonnets to @@ -3063,7 +3020,7 @@ the Wonder of this time," &c. ("Entertainment," &c., Vol. II., pp. 249-50.) Cf. this with "Orchestra" st. 120, "wonder of posteritie" (i.e., of her own time): (2) "The Guest that wee are to entertaine doth fill all places with her divine vertues, as the Sunne fills the World -with the light of his beames." (<i>Ibid</i>, p. 250). Cf. Hymnes to Astrća, +with the light of his beames." (<i>Ibid</i>, p. 250). Cf. Hymnes to Astræa, XIV., stanza 2:—</p> <div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> @@ -3129,7 +3086,7 @@ myself with references. With the 1st stanza</p> <span class="i0">"Beauties rose, and vertues booke, &c."<br /></span> </div></div> <p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_cxvi" id="Page_cxvi">[Pg cxvi]</a></span></p> -<p>compare Hymnes to Astrća VII., st. 3: XVII., st. 2-3 and the +<p>compare Hymnes to Astræa VII., st. 3: XVII., st. 2-3 and the "Contention" (<i>ad. fin.</i>) and XIII. st. 2: XV. st. 2. Also IV. last 2 lines: VII. st. 3. ll. 1-3: X. last 4 lines. Similar results are found on a comparison of the "Entertainment" with the "Dialogue between a @@ -3306,7 +3263,7 @@ we have</p> <p>and st. 60,</p> <div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">"And imitate the starres cćlestiall."<br /></span> +<span class="i0">"And imitate the starres cælestiall."<br /></span> </div></div> <p>and st. 71, speaking of Castor and Pollux:</p> @@ -3334,9 +3291,9 @@ waggishly continues:</p> <span class="i0">All's spoilde if once yee fall to capering."<br /></span> </div></div> -<p>VI. <i>Hymnes to Astrća.</i> I adhere to Sir John Davies' own form of +<p>VI. <i>Hymnes to Astræa.</i> I adhere to Sir John Davies' own form of Astraea in the collective edition of 1621. Doubtless he and the Printer -meant it for "ć' not 'œ' inasmuch as besides Astraea's mythological +meant it for "æ' not 'œ' inasmuch as besides Astraea's mythological reign in the golden age over a people that became too wicked for her, she became the constellation Virgo, as celebrated, among others, by Barnfield in his <i>Cynthia</i>.<a name="FNanchor_54_54" id="FNanchor_54_54"></a><a href="#Footnote_54_54" class="fnanchor">[54]</a> The whole of Hy. I. shows this, where @@ -3455,7 +3412,7 @@ Collation same with the others, <i>supra</i>.<br /> <p>The next edition known to me, bears the date of 1618, along with -Orchestra and Hymnes to Astrća: and the last during the life-time of +Orchestra and Hymnes to Astræa: and the last during the life-time of the Author, was in the sm. 8vo of 1622, which volume contained the same Poems with that of 1618.</p> @@ -3480,7 +3437,7 @@ This Oracle expounded in two<br /> 2. Of the Soule of Man, and the immortalitie<br /> thereof.<br /> <br /> -Hymnes of <i>Astrća</i> in<br /> +Hymnes of <i>Astræa</i> in<br /> Acrosticke Verse.<br /> <br /> <span class="smcap">Orchestra</span>,<br /> @@ -3650,11 +3607,11 @@ Northumberland</i>:</p></div> <span class="i0">The strongest and the noblest argument<br /></span> <span class="i2">To proue the soule immortall, rests in this:<br /></span> <span class="i0">That in no mortall thing it finds content,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">But seekes an object that ćternall is.<br /></span> +<span class="i2">But seekes an object that æternall is.<br /></span> </div><div class="stanza"> <span class="i0">If any soule hath this immortall signe,<br /></span> <span class="i2">(As every soule doth show it, more or lesse),<br /></span> -<span class="i0">It is your spirit, heröick and diuine;<br /></span> +<span class="i0">It is your spirit, heröick and diuine;<br /></span> <span class="i2">Which this true noate most liuely doth expresse;<br /></span> </div><div class="stanza"> <span class="i0">For being a prince, and hauing princely blood,<br /></span> @@ -3665,11 +3622,11 @@ Northumberland</i>:</p></div> <span class="i0">Yet can you never fixe y<sup>r</sup> thoughts on these,<br /></span> <span class="i2">These cannot with your heavenly mind agree;<br /></span> <span class="i0">These momentary objects cannot please,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Your wingčd spirit, which more aloft doth flee.<br /></span> +<span class="i2">Your wingèd spirit, which more aloft doth flee.<br /></span> </div><div class="stanza"> <span class="i0">It only longs to learne and know the truth,<br /></span> <span class="i2">The truth of every thing, which never dies;<br /></span> -<span class="i0">The nectar which prćserves the soule in youth;<br /></span> +<span class="i0">The nectar which præserves the soule in youth;<br /></span> <span class="i2">The manna which doth minds immortalize.<br /></span> </div><div class="stanza"> <span class="i0">These noble studdies, more ennoble you,<br /></span> @@ -3762,7 +3719,7 @@ Northumberland</i>:</p></div> </div><div class="stanza"> <span class="i0">And yet alas, when all our lamps are burnd,<br /></span> <span class="i2">Our bodyes wasted, and our spirits spent;<br /></span> -<span class="i2">When we haue all the learnčd <i>Volumes</i> turn'd,<br /></span> +<span class="i2">When we haue all the learnèd <i>Volumes</i> turn'd,<br /></span> <span class="i2">Which yeeld mens wits both help and ornament:<br /></span> </div><div class="stanza"> <span class="i0">What can we know? or what can we discerne?<br /></span> @@ -3893,10 +3850,10 @@ Northumberland</i>:</p></div> </div><div class="stanza"> <span class="i0">So doe the <i>winds</i> and <i>thunders</i> cleanse the ayre;<br /></span> <span class="i2">So working lees<a name="FNanchor_84_84" id="FNanchor_84_84"></a><a href="#Footnote_84_84" class="fnanchor">[84]</a> settle and purge the wine;<br /></span> -<span class="i2">So lop't and prunčd trees doe flourish faire;<br /></span> +<span class="i2">So lop't and prunèd trees doe flourish faire;<br /></span> <span class="i2">So doth the fire the drossie gold refine.<br /></span> </div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">Neither <i>Minerua</i> nor the learnčd Muse,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Neither <i>Minerua</i> nor the learnèd Muse,<br /></span> <span class="i2">Nor rules of <i>Art</i>, not <i>precepts</i> of the wise;<br /></span> <span class="i2">Could in my braine those beames of skill infuse,<br /></span> <span class="i2">As but the glance of this <i>Dame's</i> angry eyes.<br /></span> @@ -3939,7 +3896,7 @@ Northumberland</i>:</p></div> <span class="i0">And yet the <i>lights</i> which in my <i>towre</i> do shine,<br /></span> <span class="i2">Mine <i>eyes</i> which view all obiects, nigh and farre;<br /></span> <span class="i2">Looke not into this little world of mine,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Nor see my face, wherein they fixčd are.<br /></span> +<span class="i2">Nor see my face, wherein they fixèd are.<br /></span> </div><div class="stanza"> <span class="i0">Since <i>Nature</i> failes vs in no needfull thing,<br /></span> <span class="i2">Why want I meanes my inward selfe to see?<br /></span> @@ -4378,7 +4335,7 @@ the Body.</span></p> <span class="i0">Were she a <i>body</i> how could she remaine<br /></span> <span class="i2">Within this body, which is lesse then she?<br /></span> <span class="i2">Or how could she the world's great shape contain,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">And in our narrow brests containčd bee?<br /></span> +<span class="i2">And in our narrow brests containèd bee?<br /></span> </div><div class="stanza"> <span class="i0">All <i>bodies</i> are confin'd within some place,<br /></span> <span class="i2">But <i>she</i> all place within her selfe confines;<br /></span> @@ -4395,7 +4352,7 @@ the Body.</span></p> <span class="i2">Nor are their formes by rash incounter spild,<br /></span> <span class="i2">For there they stand, and neither toucheth either.<br /></span> </div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">Nor can her wide imbracements fillčd bee;<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Nor can her wide imbracements fillèd bee;<br /></span> <span class="i2">For they that most, and greatest things embrace,<br /></span> <span class="i2">Inlarge thereby their minds' capacitie,<br /></span> <span class="i2">As streames inlarg'd, inlarge the channel's space.<a name="FNanchor_103_103" id="FNanchor_103_103"></a><a href="#Footnote_103_103" class="fnanchor">[103]</a><br /></span><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_43" id="Page_43">[Pg 43]</a></span> @@ -4503,7 +4460,7 @@ the Body.</span></p> <span class="i0">Nor did He first a certaine number make,<br /></span> <span class="i2">Infusing part in <i>beasts</i>, and part in <i>men</i>,<br /></span> <span class="i2">And, as vnwilling further paines to take,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Would make no more then those He framčd then.<br /></span> +<span class="i2">Would make no more then those He framèd then.<br /></span> </div><div class="stanza"> <span class="i0">So that the widow <i>Soule</i> her <i>body</i> dying,<br /></span> <span class="i2">Vnto the next-borne <i>body</i> married was;<br /></span> @@ -4518,7 +4475,7 @@ the Body.</span></p> <span class="i0">But as <i>God's handmaid</i>, <i>Nature</i>, doth create<br /></span> <span class="i2">Bodies in time distinct, and order due;<a name="FNanchor_105_105" id="FNanchor_105_105"></a><a href="#Footnote_105_105" class="fnanchor">[105]</a><br /></span> <span class="i2">So God giues <i>soules</i> the like successiue date,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Which <i>Himselfe</i> makes, in bodies formčd new:<br /></span> +<span class="i2">Which <i>Himselfe</i> makes, in bodies formèd new:<br /></span> </div><div class="stanza"> <span class="i0">Which <i>Him selfe</i> makes, of no materiall thing;<br /></span> <span class="i2">For vnto angels He no power hath giuen,<br /></span> @@ -4577,7 +4534,7 @@ the Body.</span></p> <span class="i2">By light of <i>Nature</i>, and by light <i>Diuine</i><br /></span> </div><div class="stanza"> <span class="i0">None are so grosse as to contend for this,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">That soules from bodies may traducčd bee;<br /></span> +<span class="i2">That soules from bodies may traducèd bee;<br /></span> <span class="i2">Betweene whose natures no proportion is,<br /></span> <span class="i2">When roote and branch in nature still agree.<br /></span> </div><div class="stanza"> @@ -4593,7 +4550,7 @@ the Body.</span></p> <div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> <span class="i0">For all things made, are either made of nought,<br /></span> <span class="i2">Or made of stuffe that ready made doth stand;<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Of nought no creature euer formčd ought,<br /></span> +<span class="i2">Of nought no creature euer formèd ought,<br /></span> <span class="i2">For that is proper to th' Almightie's hand.<br /></span> </div><div class="stanza"> <span class="i0">If then the <i>soule</i> another <i>soule</i> doe make,<br /></span> @@ -4657,7 +4614,7 @@ the Body.</span></p> <span class="i2">A citizen of Heauen to Earth confined.<br /></span> </div><div class="stanza"> <span class="i0">But now, I feele, they plucke me by the eare<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Whom my young <i>Muse</i> so boldly termčd blind;<br /></span> +<span class="i2">Whom my young <i>Muse</i> so boldly termèd blind;<br /></span> <span class="i2">And craue more heauenly light, that cloud to clear,<br /></span> <span class="i2">Which makes them think God doth not make the mind.<br /></span> </div></div> @@ -4780,7 +4737,7 @@ the Body.</span></p> <span class="i0">Is it then iust with vs, to dis-inherit<br /></span> <span class="i2">The vnborn nephewes for the father's fault?<br /></span> <span class="i2">And to aduance againe for one man's merit,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">A thousand heires, that have deservčd nought?<br /></span><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_57" id="Page_57">[Pg 57]</a></span> +<span class="i2">A thousand heires, that have deservèd nought?<br /></span><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_57" id="Page_57">[Pg 57]</a></span> </div><div class="stanza"> <span class="i0">And is not God's decree as iust as ours,<br /></span> <span class="i2">If He, for <i>Adam's</i> sinne, his sonnes depriue,<br /></span> @@ -4808,7 +4765,7 @@ the Body.</span></p> <span class="i2">Is euen that sinne that we are borne withall.<br /></span> </div><div class="stanza"> <span class="i0">Yet not alone the first good qualities,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Which in the first <i>soule</i> were, depriučd are;<br /></span><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_58" id="Page_58">[Pg 58]</a></span> +<span class="i2">Which in the first <i>soule</i> were, depriuèd are;<br /></span><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_58" id="Page_58">[Pg 58]</a></span> <span class="i2">But in their place the contrary doe rise,<br /></span> <span class="i2">And reall spots<a name="FNanchor_115_115" id="FNanchor_115_115"></a><a href="#Footnote_115_115" class="fnanchor">[115]</a> of sinne her beauty marre.<br /></span> </div><div class="stanza"> @@ -4977,7 +4934,7 @@ the Body.</span></p> <span class="i2">There she <i>distributes</i> it to euery vaine,<br /></span> <span class="i2">There she <i>expels</i> what she may fitly spare.<br /></span> </div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">This power to <i>Martha</i> may comparčd be,<a name="FNanchor_124_124" id="FNanchor_124_124"></a><a href="#Footnote_124_124" class="fnanchor">[124]</a><br /></span> +<span class="i0">This power to <i>Martha</i> may comparèd be,<a name="FNanchor_124_124" id="FNanchor_124_124"></a><a href="#Footnote_124_124" class="fnanchor">[124]</a><br /></span> <span class="i2">Which busie was, the <i>houshold-things</i> to doe;<br /></span> <span class="i2">Or to a <i>Dryas</i>, liuing in a tree:<a name="FNanchor_125_125" id="FNanchor_125_125"></a><a href="#Footnote_125_125" class="fnanchor">[125]</a><br /></span> <span class="i2">For euen to trees this power is proper too.<br /></span> @@ -5023,7 +4980,7 @@ the Body.</span></p> <span class="i0">These mirrors take into their little space<br /></span> <span class="i2">The formes of <i>moone</i> and <i>sun</i>, and euery <i>starre</i>;<br /></span> <span class="i2">Of euery body and of euery place,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Which with the World's wide armes embracčd are:<br /></span><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_66" id="Page_66">[Pg 66]</a></span> +<span class="i2">Which with the World's wide armes embracèd are:<br /></span><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_66" id="Page_66">[Pg 66]</a></span> </div><div class="stanza"> <span class="i0">Yet their best obiect, and their noblest vse,<br /></span> <span class="i2">Hereafter in another World will be;<br /></span> @@ -5045,7 +5002,7 @@ the Body.</span></p> <span class="i2">If they be neere, their rayes doe spread and fleet,<br /></span> <span class="i2">And make broad points, that things seeme great withall.<br /></span> </div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">Lastly, nine things to <i>Sight</i> requirčd are;<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Lastly, nine things to <i>Sight</i> requirèd are;<br /></span> <span class="i2">The <i>power</i> to see, the <i>light</i>, the <i>visible</i> thing,<br /></span> <span class="i2">Being not too <i>small</i>, too <i>thin</i>, too <i>nigh</i>, too <i>farre</i>,<br /></span> <span class="i2"><i>Cleare</i> space, and <i>time</i>, the forme distinct to bring.<br /></span> @@ -5090,9 +5047,9 @@ the Body.</span></p> <span class="i2">When their tongs vtter what His Spirit did pen.<br /></span> </div><div class="stanza"> <span class="i0">Our <i>Eyes</i> haue lids, our <i>Eares</i> still ope we see,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Quickly to heare how euery tale is prooučd;<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Our <i>Eyes</i> still moue, our <i>Eares</i> vnmoučd bee,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">That though we hear quick we be not quickly moučd.<br /></span> +<span class="i2">Quickly to heare how euery tale is proouèd;<br /></span> +<span class="i2">Our <i>Eyes</i> still moue, our <i>Eares</i> vnmouèd bee,<br /></span> +<span class="i2">That though we hear quick we be not quickly mouèd.<br /></span> </div><div class="stanza"> <span class="i0">Thus by the organs of the <i>Eye</i> and <i>Eare</i>,<br /></span> <span class="i2">The <i>Soule</i> with knowledge doth her selfe endue;<br /></span> @@ -5252,7 +5209,7 @@ the Body.</span></p> <span class="i2">Downe to the heart, where all affections dwell.<br /></span> </div><div class="stanza"> <span class="i0">If the report bee <i>good</i>, it causeth <i>loue</i>,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">And longing <i>hope</i>, and well-assurčd <i>ioy</i>:<br /></span> +<span class="i2">And longing <i>hope</i>, and well-assurèd <i>ioy</i>:<br /></span> <span class="i2">If it bee <i>ill</i>, then doth it <i>hatred</i> moue,<br /></span> <span class="i1">And trembling <i>feare</i>, and vexing <i>grief's</i> annoy.<br /></span> </div><div class="stanza"> @@ -5405,7 +5362,7 @@ the Body.</span></p> <span class="i0">To these high powers, a store-house doth pertaine,<br /></span> <span class="i2">Where they all arts and generall reasons lay;<br /></span> <span class="i2">Which in the <i>Soule</i>, euen after death, remaine<br /></span> -<span class="i2">And no <i>Lethćan</i><a name="FNanchor_141_141" id="FNanchor_141_141"></a><a href="#Footnote_141_141" class="fnanchor">[141]</a> flood can wash away.<br /></span> +<span class="i2">And no <i>Lethæan</i><a name="FNanchor_141_141" id="FNanchor_141_141"></a><a href="#Footnote_141_141" class="fnanchor">[141]</a> flood can wash away.<br /></span> </div><div class="stanza"> <span class="i0">This is the <i>Soule</i>, and these her vertues bee;<br /></span> <span class="i2">Which, though they haue their sundry proper ends,<br /></span> @@ -5502,7 +5459,7 @@ the Body.</span></p> </div><div class="stanza"> <span class="i0">Therefore no heretikes desire to spread<br /></span> <span class="i2">Their light opinions, like these <i>Epicures</i>:<a name="FNanchor_143_143" id="FNanchor_143_143"></a><a href="#Footnote_143_143" class="fnanchor">[143]</a><br /></span> -<span class="i2">For so the staggering thoughts are comfortčd,<br /></span> +<span class="i2">For so the staggering thoughts are comfortèd,<br /></span> <span class="i2">And other men's assent their doubt assures.<br /></span> </div><div class="stanza"> <span class="i0">Yet though these men against their conscience striue,<br /></span> @@ -5644,7 +5601,7 @@ the Body.</span></p> <span class="i0">And yet this <i>First True Cause</i>, and <i>Last Good End</i>,<br /></span> <span class="i2">Shee cannot heere so <i>well</i>, and <i>truely</i> see;<br /></span> <span class="i2">For this perfection shee must yet attend,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Till to her <i>Maker</i> shee espousčd bee.<br /></span> +<span class="i2">Till to her <i>Maker</i> shee espousèd bee.<br /></span> </div><div class="stanza"> <span class="i0">As a <i>king's</i> daughter, being in person sought<br /></span> <span class="i2">Of diuers princes, who doe neighbour neere;<br /></span> @@ -5712,7 +5669,7 @@ the Body.</span></p> <span class="i2">And though some things desire a change to see,<br /></span> <span class="i2">Yet neuer thing did long to turne to naught.<br /></span> </div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">If then by death the <i>soule</i> were quenchčd quite,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">If then by death the <i>soule</i> were quenchèd quite,<br /></span> <span class="i2">She could not thus against her nature runne;<br /></span><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_91" id="Page_91">[Pg 91]</a></span> <span class="i2">Since euery senselesse thing, by Nature's light,<br /></span> <span class="i2">Doth preservation seeke, destruction shunne.<br /></span> @@ -5770,10 +5727,10 @@ the Body.</span></p> <span class="i2">But heares them talking of Religion then,<br /></span> <span class="i2">And vowing of their <i>soules</i> to euery saint?<br /></span> </div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">When was there euer cursčd <i>atheist</i> brought<br /></span> +<span class="i0">When was there euer cursèd <i>atheist</i> brought<br /></span> <span class="i2">Vnto the <i>gibbet</i>,<a name="FNanchor_147_147" id="FNanchor_147_147"></a><a href="#Footnote_147_147" class="fnanchor">[147]</a> but he did adore<br /></span> <span class="i2">That blessed Power, which he had set at nought,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Scorn'd and blasphemčd all his life before?<br /></span> +<span class="i2">Scorn'd and blasphemèd all his life before?<br /></span> </div><div class="stanza"> <span class="i0">These light vaine persons still are drunke and mad,<br /></span> <span class="i2">With surfettings and pleasures of their youth;<br /></span> @@ -5979,7 +5936,7 @@ the Body.</span></p> <div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> <span class="i0">For what, say they, doth not the <i>Soule</i> waxe old?<br /></span> -<span class="i2">How comes it then that agčd men doe dote;<br /></span> +<span class="i2">How comes it then that agèd men doe dote;<br /></span> <span class="i2">And that their braines grow sottish, dull and cold,<br /></span> <span class="i2">Which were in youth the onely spirits of note?<br /></span> </div><div class="stanza"> @@ -6018,7 +5975,7 @@ the Body.</span></p> <span class="i2">The Prince's Counsel all awry doe goe.<br /></span> </div><div class="stanza"> <span class="i0">Euen so the <i>Soule</i> to such a body knit,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Whose inward senses vndisposčd be,<br /></span> +<span class="i2">Whose inward senses vndisposèd be,<br /></span> <span class="i2">And to receiue the formes of things vnfit;<br /></span> <span class="i2">Where nothing is brought in, can nothing see.<br /></span> </div><div class="stanza"> @@ -6069,7 +6026,7 @@ the Body.</span></p> </div><div class="stanza"> <span class="i0">For, giue her organs fit, and obiects faire;<br /></span> <span class="i2">Giue but the aged man, the young man's sense;<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Let but <i>Medea</i>, <i>Ćson's</i> youth repaire,<a name="FNanchor_152_152" id="FNanchor_152_152"></a><a href="#Footnote_152_152" class="fnanchor">[152]</a><br /></span> +<span class="i2">Let but <i>Medea</i>, <i>Æson's</i> youth repaire,<a name="FNanchor_152_152" id="FNanchor_152_152"></a><a href="#Footnote_152_152" class="fnanchor">[152]</a><br /></span> <span class="i2">And straight she shewes her wonted excellence.<br /></span> </div><div class="stanza"> <span class="i0">As a good harper stricken farre in yeares,<br /></span> @@ -6193,7 +6150,7 @@ the Body.</span></p> <span class="i0">This would<a name="FNanchor_156_156" id="FNanchor_156_156"></a><a href="#Footnote_156_156" class="fnanchor">[156]</a> they thinke a fable, euen as we<br /></span> <span class="i2">Doe thinke the <i>story</i> of the <i>Golden Age</i>;<br /></span><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_108" id="Page_108">[Pg 108]</a></span> <span class="i2">Or as some sensuall spirits amongst vs bee,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Which hold the <i>world to come, a fainčd stage</i>:<br /></span> +<span class="i2">Which hold the <i>world to come, a fainèd stage</i>:<br /></span> </div><div class="stanza"> <span class="i0">Yet shall these infants after find all true,<br /></span> <span class="i2">Though then thereof they nothing could conceiue;<br /></span> @@ -6273,7 +6230,7 @@ the Body.</span></p> <span class="i2">But you this lye must to the people tell,<br /></span> <span class="i2">That good <i>Soules</i> liue in ioy, and ill in paine?<br /></span><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_111" id="Page_111">[Pg 111]</a></span> </div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">Must <i>vertue</i> be preseručd by a <i>lye</i>?<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Must <i>vertue</i> be preseruèd by a <i>lye</i>?<br /></span> <span class="i2"><i>Vertue</i> and <i>Truth</i> do euer best agree;<br /></span> <span class="i2">By this it seemes to be a veritie,<br /></span> <span class="i2">Sith the effects so good and vertuous bee.<br /></span> @@ -6338,7 +6295,7 @@ the Body.</span></p> <div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> <span class="i0"><i>For</i> as the <i>soule's essentiall</i> powers are three,<br /></span> <span class="i2">The <i>quickning power</i>, the <i>power of sense</i> and <i>reason</i>;<br /></span> -<span class="i2">Three kinds of life to her designčd bee,<br /></span> +<span class="i2">Three kinds of life to her designèd bee,<br /></span> <span class="i2">Which perfect these three<a name="FNanchor_160_160" id="FNanchor_160_160"></a><a href="#Footnote_160_160" class="fnanchor">[160]</a> powers in their due season.<br /></span> </div><div class="stanza"> <span class="i0">The first life, in the mother's wombe is spent,<br /></span> @@ -6486,7 +6443,7 @@ himself; and by knowing himself thoroughly, he has arrived to know much; which appears in his admirable variety of well-chosen metaphors and similitudes that cannot be found within the compass of a narrow knowledge. For this reason the poem, on account of its intrinsic worth, -would be as lasting as the Iliad or the Ćneid, if the language 'tis +would be as lasting as the Iliad or the Æneid, if the language 'tis wrote in were as immutable as that of the Greeks and Romans.</p> @@ -6502,7 +6459,7 @@ the people were recommended to their gods in songs and hymns. Why may they not retain this priviledge? for if prose should contend with verse, it would be upon unequal terms, and (as it were) on foot against the wings of Pegasus. With what delight are we touched in hearing the -<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_121" id="Page_121">[Pg 121]</a></span>stories of Hercules, Achilles, Cyrus, and Ćneas? Because in their +<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_121" id="Page_121">[Pg 121]</a></span>stories of Hercules, Achilles, Cyrus, and Æneas? Because in their characters we have wisdom, honour, fortitude and justice, set before our eyes. It was Plato's opinion, that if a man could see virtue, he would be strangely enamoured on her person. Which is the reason why @@ -6580,7 +6537,7 @@ operations are performed. <p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_126" id="Page_126">[Pg 126]</a><br /><a name="Page_127" id="Page_127">[Pg 127]</a></span></p> -<h2>II. HYMNES OF ASTRĆA.</h2> +<h2>II. HYMNES OF ASTRÆA.</h2> <p class="center">The following is the original title-page of 'Astrœa':<br /><br /> @@ -6612,14 +6569,14 @@ first, as <i>supra</i>. Title-page in 1622 edition is as follows:</p> <p>With reference to Elizabeth who is so glorified in these 'Hymnes' as -'Astrća,' cf. the 'Conference between a Gentleman-Usher and a Post' in +'Astræa,' cf. the 'Conference between a Gentleman-Usher and a Post' in our Memorial-Intro<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_128" id="Page_128">[Pg 128]</a></span>duction. I have since found that another copy of this interesting MS. is preserved among the Harleian MSS.: No. cclxxxvi fol. 248. I would here call attention to the correspondence between the metaphor of the Senses serving the Intellect in 'Nosce Teipsum' and in the 'Conference' as flatteringly descriptive of the position held by her 'ministers' to the Queen. In Davison's 'Rhapsody' <i>the</i> name for -Elizabeth is Astrća. G.</p> +Elizabeth is Astræa. G.</p> <hr /> @@ -6661,7 +6618,7 @@ Elizabeth is Astrća. G.</p> <p class="ph3">HYMNE II.</p> -<p class="ph4"><span class="smcap">To Astrća.</span></p> +<p class="ph4"><span class="smcap">To Astræa.</span></p> <div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> <span class="i0"><span class="antiqua">E</span> ternall Virgin, <i>Goddesse</i> true,<br /></span> @@ -6670,7 +6627,7 @@ Elizabeth is Astrća. G.</p> <span class="i0"><span class="antiqua">S</span> ometimes to heare the vulgar crue,<br /></span> <span class="i0"><span class="antiqua">A</span> nd heares them oft with pleasure.<br /></span> </div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0"><span class="antiqua">B</span> lessčd <i>Astrća</i>, I in part<br /></span> +<span class="i0"><span class="antiqua">B</span> lessèd <i>Astræa</i>, I in part<br /></span> <span class="i0"><span class="antiqua">E</span> nioy the blessings you impart;<br /></span> <span class="i0"><span class="antiqua">T</span> he Peace, the milke and hony,<br /></span> <span class="i0"><span class="antiqua">H</span> umanitie, and civil <i>Art</i>,<br /></span> @@ -6695,7 +6652,7 @@ Elizabeth is Astrća. G.</p> <span class="i0"><span class="antiqua">L</span> iuely Spring which makes all new,<br /></span> <span class="i0"><span class="antiqua">I</span> olly Spring, doth enter;<br /></span> <span class="i0"><span class="antiqua">S</span> weete yong sun-beames doe subdue<br /></span> -<span class="i0"><span class="antiqua">A</span> ngry, agčd Winter.<br /></span> +<span class="i0"><span class="antiqua">A</span> ngry, agèd Winter.<br /></span> </div><div class="stanza"> <span class="i0"><span class="antiqua">B</span> lasts are milde, and seas are calme,<br /></span> <span class="i0"><span class="antiqua">E</span> uery meadow flowes with balme,<br /></span> @@ -6722,7 +6679,7 @@ Elizabeth is Astrća. G.</p> <span class="i0"><span class="antiqua">L</span> oue makes a solemne holy-day.<br /></span> <span class="i0"><span class="antiqua">I</span> will performe like duty,<br /></span> <span class="i0"><span class="antiqua">S</span> ith thou resemblest euery way<br /></span> -<span class="i0"><span class="antiqua">A</span> strća, Queen of beauty,<br /></span> +<span class="i0"><span class="antiqua">A</span> stræa, Queen of beauty,<br /></span> </div><div class="stanza"> <span class="i0"><span class="antiqua">B</span> oth you fresh beauties do pertake,<br /></span> <span class="i0"><span class="antiqua">E</span> ither's aspect doth Summer make,<br /></span> @@ -6757,10 +6714,10 @@ Elizabeth is Astrća. G.</p> <span class="i0"><span class="antiqua">H</span> aue it set to some sweet sphere,<br /></span> <span class="i0"><span class="antiqua">A</span> nd let the Angels heare it.<br /></span> </div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0"><span class="antiqua">R</span> enownd Astrća, that great name,<br /></span> +<span class="i0"><span class="antiqua">R</span> enownd Astræa, that great name,<br /></span> <span class="i0"><span class="antiqua">E</span> xceeding great in worth and fame,<br /></span> <span class="i0"><span class="antiqua">G</span> reat worth hath so renownd it;<br /></span> -<span class="i0"><span class="antiqua">I</span> t is Astrća's name I praise,<br /></span> +<span class="i0"><span class="antiqua">I</span> t is Astræa's name I praise,<br /></span> <span class="i0"><span class="antiqua">N</span> ow then, sweet Larke, do thou it raise,<br /></span> <span class="i0"><span class="antiqua">A</span> nd in high Heauen resound it.<br /></span> </div></div> @@ -6784,7 +6741,7 @@ Elizabeth is Astrća. G.</p> <span class="i0"><span class="antiqua">H</span> eauen neuer had a starre so bright,<br /></span> <span class="i0"><span class="antiqua">A</span> s now to Earth is giuen.<br /></span> </div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0"><span class="antiqua">R</span> oyall Astrća makes our day<br /></span> +<span class="i0"><span class="antiqua">R</span> oyall Astræa makes our day<br /></span> <span class="i0"><span class="antiqua">E</span> ternall with her beames, nor may<br /></span> <span class="i0"><span class="antiqua">G</span> rosse darknesse ouercome her;<br /></span> <span class="i0"><span class="antiqua">I</span> now perceiue why some doe write,<br /></span> @@ -6866,10 +6823,10 @@ Elizabeth is Astrća. G.</p> <span class="i0"><span class="antiqua">A</span> boue all other places.<br /></span> </div><div class="stanza"> <span class="i0"><span class="antiqua">R</span> oses and lillies did them draw,<br /></span> -<span class="i0"><span class="antiqua">E</span> re they diuine <i>Astrća</i> saw;<br /></span> +<span class="i0"><span class="antiqua">E</span> re they diuine <i>Astræa</i> saw;<br /></span> <span class="i0"><span class="antiqua">G</span> ay flowers they sought for pleasure:<br /></span> <span class="i0"><span class="antiqua">I</span> nstead of gathering crownes of flowers,<br /></span> -<span class="i0"><span class="antiqua">N</span> ow gather they Astrća's dowers,<br /></span> +<span class="i0"><span class="antiqua">N</span> ow gather they Astræa's dowers,<br /></span> <span class="i0"><span class="antiqua">A</span> nd beare to heauen that treasure,<br /></span> </div></div> @@ -6974,7 +6931,7 @@ Elizabeth is Astrća. G.</p> <span class="i0"><span class="antiqua">H</span> er cleare sweet spirit, which is refin'd<br /></span> <span class="i0"><span class="antiqua">A</span> boue humane <i>creation</i>.<br /></span> </div><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0"><span class="antiqua">R</span> ich sun-beame of th' Ćternall light,<br /></span> +<span class="i0"><span class="antiqua">R</span> ich sun-beame of th' Æternall light,<br /></span> <span class="i0"><span class="antiqua">E</span> xcellent <i>Soule</i>, how shall I wright?<a name="FNanchor_174_174" id="FNanchor_174_174"></a><a href="#Footnote_174_174" class="fnanchor">[174]</a><br /></span> <span class="i0"><span class="antiqua">G</span> ood angels make me able;<br /></span> <span class="i0"><span class="antiqua">I</span> cannot see but by your eye,<br /></span> @@ -7105,7 +7062,7 @@ Elizabeth is Astrća. G.</p> <span class="i0"><span class="antiqua">A</span> s this, will straight perceiue it.<br /></span> </div><div class="stanza"> <span class="i0"><span class="antiqua">B</span> ecause her temper is so fine,<br /></span> -<span class="i0"><span class="antiqua">E</span> ndewčd with harmonies diuine;<br /></span> +<span class="i0"><span class="antiqua">E</span> ndewèd with harmonies diuine;<br /></span> <span class="i0"><span class="antiqua">T</span> herefore if discord strike it,<br /></span> <span class="i0"><span class="antiqua">H</span> er true proportions doe repine,<br /></span> <span class="i0"><span class="antiqua">A</span> nd sadly do<a name="FNanchor_176_176" id="FNanchor_176_176"></a><a href="#Footnote_176_176" class="fnanchor">[176]</a> mislike it.<br /></span> @@ -7234,7 +7191,7 @@ Elizabeth is Astrća. G.</p> <p class="ph4"><span class="smcap">Of her Justice.</span></p> <div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0"><span class="antiqua">E</span> xil'd <i>Astrća</i> is come againe,<br /></span> +<span class="i0"><span class="antiqua">E</span> xil'd <i>Astræa</i> is come againe,<br /></span> <span class="i0"><span class="antiqua">L</span> o here she doth all things maintaine<br /></span> <span class="i0"><span class="antiqua">I</span> n <i>number</i>, <i>weight</i>, and <i>measure</i>:<br /></span> <span class="i0"><span class="antiqua">S</span> he rules vs with delightfull paine,<br /></span> @@ -7588,7 +7545,7 @@ omission: and for Sir John Harington's 'Epigram' on 'Orchestra.' G.</p> <span class="i0">When the great Torch-bearer of Heauen was gone<br /></span> <span class="i0">Downe in a maske vnto the Ocean's Court,<br /></span> <span class="i0">To reuell it with Thetis<a name="FNanchor_184_184" id="FNanchor_184_184"></a><a href="#Footnote_184_184" class="fnanchor">[184]</a> all alone;<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Antinous disguisčd and vnknowne,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Antinous disguisèd and vnknowne,<br /></span> <span class="i2">Like to the Spring in gaudie ornament,<br /></span> <span class="i2">Vnto the Castle of the Princesse went.<br /></span> </div></div> @@ -7625,10 +7582,10 @@ omission: and for Sir John Harington's 'Epigram' on 'Orchestra.' G.</p> <div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> <span class="i0"><i>Pallas</i> that houre with her sweet breath diuine<br /></span> <span class="i0">Inspir'd immortall beautie in her eyes;<br /></span> -<span class="i0">That with cćlestiall glory shee did shine,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">That with cælestiall glory shee did shine,<br /></span> <span class="i0">Brighter<a name="FNanchor_187_187" id="FNanchor_187_187"></a><a href="#Footnote_187_187" class="fnanchor">[187]</a> then <i>Venus</i> when shee doth arise<br /></span> <span class="i0">Out of the waters to adorne the skies;<br /></span> -<span class="i2">The Wooers all amazčd doe admire<br /></span> +<span class="i2">The Wooers all amazèd doe admire<br /></span> <span class="i2">And checke their owne presumptuous desire.<br /></span> </div></div> @@ -7741,9 +7698,9 @@ omission: and for Sir John Harington's 'Epigram' on 'Orchestra.' G.</p> <div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> <span class="i0">'Like this, he fram'd the gods' eternall Bower,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">'And of a shapelesse and confusčd masse,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">'And of a shapelesse and confusèd masse,<br /></span> <span class="i0">'By his through-piercing and digesting power,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">'The turning vault of heauen formčd was;<br /></span> +<span class="i0">'The turning vault of heauen formèd was;<br /></span> <span class="i0">'Whose starry wheeles he hath so made to passe,<br /></span><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_168" id="Page_168">[Pg 168]</a></span> <span class="i2">'As that their moouings do a musicke frame,<br /></span> <span class="i2">'And they themselues still daunce vnto the same.<br /></span> @@ -7779,7 +7736,7 @@ omission: and for Sir John Harington's 'Epigram' on 'Orchestra.' G.</p> <p class="inset">22.</p> <div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">'How iustly then is Dauncing tearmčd new,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">'How iustly then is Dauncing tearmèd new,<br /></span> <span class="i0">'Which with the World in point of time begun?<br /></span> <span class="i0">'Yea Time it selfe, (whose birth <i>Ioue</i> neuer knew,<br /></span><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_169" id="Page_169">[Pg 169]</a></span> <span class="i0">'And which indeed is elder then the sun)<a name="FNanchor_190_190" id="FNanchor_190_190"></a><a href="#Footnote_190_190" class="fnanchor">[190]</a><br /></span> @@ -7809,7 +7766,7 @@ omission: and for Sir John Harington's 'Epigram' on 'Orchestra.' G.</p> <span class="i0">'And yet in lustie youth for euer flowers;<br /></span> <span class="i0">'Like loue his sire, whom Paynters make a boy,<br /></span> <span class="i0">'Yet is the eldest of the heau'nly powers;<br /></span> -<span class="i0">'Or like his brother Time, whose wingčd howers<br /></span> +<span class="i0">'Or like his brother Time, whose wingèd howers<br /></span> <span class="i2">'Going and comming will not let him dye,<br /></span> <span class="i2">'But still preserve him in his infancie.'<br /></span> </div></div> @@ -7822,7 +7779,7 @@ omission: and for Sir John Harington's 'Epigram' on 'Orchestra.' G.</p> <span class="i0">Gently began to moue the subtile ayre,<br /></span> <span class="i0">Which gladly yeelding, did itselfe incline<br /></span> <span class="i0">To take a shape betweene those rubies fayre;<br /></span> -<span class="i0">And being formčd, softly did repayre<br /></span> +<span class="i0">And being formèd, softly did repayre<br /></span> <span class="i2">With twenty doublings in the emptie way,<br /></span> <span class="i2">Vnto <i>Antinous</i> eares, and thus did say:<br /></span> </div></div> @@ -7926,7 +7883,7 @@ omission: and for Sir John Harington's 'Epigram' on 'Orchestra.' G.</p> <span class="i0">'A comely moderation and discreet;<br /></span> <span class="i0">'That your assemblies may well ordered bee<br /></span> <span class="i0">'When my vniting power shall make you meet,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">'With heau'nly tunes it shall be temperčd sweet:<br /></span> +<span class="i0">'With heau'nly tunes it shall be temperèd sweet:<br /></span> <span class="i2">'And be the modell of the World's great frame,<br /></span> <span class="i2">'And you Earth's children, <i>Dauncing</i> shall it name.<br /></span> </div></div> @@ -7936,7 +7893,7 @@ omission: and for Sir John Harington's 'Epigram' on 'Orchestra.' G.</p> <div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> <span class="i0">'Behold the <i>World</i>, how it is <i>whirled round</i>,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">'And for it is so <i>whirl'd</i>, is namčd so;<br /></span> +<span class="i0">'And for it is so <i>whirl'd</i>, is namèd so;<br /></span> <span class="i0">'In whose large volume many rules are found<br /></span> <span class="i0">'Of this new Art, which it doth fairely show;<br /></span> <span class="i0">'For your quicke eyes in wandring too and fro<br /></span> @@ -8134,7 +8091,7 @@ omission: and for Sir John Harington's 'Epigram' on 'Orchestra.' G.</p> <span class="i0">'And like a girdle clips her solide waist,<br /></span> <span class="i0">'Musicke and measure both doth vnderstand;<br /></span> <span class="i0">'For his great chrystall eye is alwayes cast<br /></span> -<span class="i0">'Vp to the Moone, and on her fixčd fast;<br /></span> +<span class="i0">'Vp to the Moone, and on her fixèd fast;<br /></span> <span class="i2">'And as she daunceth in her pallid spheere,<br /></span> <span class="i2">'So daunceth he about his Center heere.<br /></span> </div></div> @@ -8182,7 +8139,7 @@ omission: and for Sir John Harington's 'Epigram' on 'Orchestra.' G.</p> <p class="inset">53.</p> <div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">'Of all their wayes I love <i>Mćander's</i> path,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">'Of all their wayes I love <i>Mæander's</i> path,<br /></span> <span class="i0">'Which to the tunes of dying swans doth daunce;<a name="FNanchor_215_215" id="FNanchor_215_215"></a><a href="#Footnote_215_215" class="fnanchor">[215]</a><br /></span> <span class="i0">'Such winding sleights, such turns and tricks he hath,<br /></span> <span class="i0">'Such creeks, such wrenches, and such daliaunce;<br /></span> @@ -8239,7 +8196,7 @@ omission: and for Sir John Harington's 'Epigram' on 'Orchestra.' G.</p> <span class="i0">'They lightly leape, and skip from bow to bow:<br /></span> <span class="i0">'Yet doe the cranes deserue a greater prayse<br /></span> <span class="i0">'Which keepe such measure in their ayrie wayes,<br /></span><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_183" id="Page_183">[Pg 183]</a></span> -<span class="i2">'As when they all in order rankčd are,<br /></span> +<span class="i2">'As when they all in order rankèd are,<br /></span> <span class="i2">'They make a perfect forme triangular.<br /></span> </div></div> @@ -8277,7 +8234,7 @@ omission: and for Sir John Harington's 'Epigram' on 'Orchestra.' G.</p> <span class="i0">'And lawfull lords of earthly creatures all;<br /></span><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_184" id="Page_184">[Pg 184]</a></span> <span class="i0">'Imitate them, and thereof take no scorne,<br /></span> <span class="i0">'For this new art to them is naturall—<br /></span> -<span class="i0">'And imitate the starres cćlestiall:<br /></span> +<span class="i0">'And imitate the starres cælestiall:<br /></span> <span class="i2">'For when pale Death your vital twist shall seuer,<br /></span> <span class="i2">'Your better parts must daunce, with them for euer.<br /></span> </div></div> @@ -8325,7 +8282,7 @@ omission: and for Sir John Harington's 'Epigram' on 'Orchestra.' G.</p> <p class="inset">64.</p> <div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">'Thus when at first Loue had them marshallčd,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">'Thus when at first Loue had them marshallèd,<br /></span> <span class="i0">'As earst he did the shapeless masse of things,<br /></span> <span class="i0">'He taught them <i>rounds</i> and <i>winding heyes</i> to tread,<br /></span> <span class="i0">'And about trees to cast themselues in rings:<br /></span> @@ -8343,7 +8300,7 @@ omission: and for Sir John Harington's 'Epigram' on 'Orchestra.' G.</p> <span class="i0">'With such faire order and proportion true,<a name="FNanchor_227_227" id="FNanchor_227_227"></a><a href="#Footnote_227_227" class="fnanchor">[227]</a><br /></span> <span class="i0">'And correspondence euery way the same,<br /></span> <span class="i0">'That no fault-finding eye did euer blame;<br /></span> -<span class="i2">'For euery eye was moučd at the sight<br /></span> +<span class="i2">'For euery eye was mouèd at the sight<br /></span> <span class="i2">'With sober wondring, and with sweet delight.<br /></span> </div></div> @@ -8416,7 +8373,7 @@ omission: and for Sir John Harington's 'Epigram' on 'Orchestra.' G.</p> <p class="inset">71.</p> <div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">'As the victorious <i>twinnes</i> of <i>Lćda</i> and <i>Ioue</i><br /></span> +<span class="i0">'As the victorious <i>twinnes</i> of <i>Læda</i> and <i>Ioue</i><br /></span> <span class="i0">'That taught the Spartans dauncing on the sands<br /></span> <span class="i0">'Of swift <i>Eurotas</i>, daunce in heaun aboue,<br /></span> <span class="i0">'Knit and vnited with eternall hands;<br /></span> @@ -8435,7 +8392,7 @@ omission: and for Sir John Harington's 'Epigram' on 'Orchestra.' G.</p> <span class="i0">'As each doth seeme the other to enfold;<br /></span> <span class="i0">'What if lewd wits another tale haue told<br /></span> <span class="i2">'Of iealous <i>Vulcan</i>, and of yron chaynes?<br /></span> -<span class="i2">'Yet this true sence that forgčd lye containes.<br /></span> +<span class="i2">'Yet this true sence that forgèd lye containes.<br /></span> </div></div> @@ -8499,7 +8456,7 @@ omission: and for Sir John Harington's 'Epigram' on 'Orchestra.' G.</p> <span class="i0">'All pomps, and triumphs, and solemnities,<br /></span> <span class="i0">'All funerals, nuptials, and like publike sights,<br /></span> <span class="i0">'All Parliaments of peace, and warlike fights,<br /></span> -<span class="i2">'All learnčd arts, and euery great affaire<br /></span> +<span class="i2">'All learnèd arts, and euery great affaire<br /></span> <span class="i2">'A liuely shape of dauncing seemes to beare.<a name="FNanchor_238_238" id="FNanchor_238_238"></a><a href="#Footnote_238_238" class="fnanchor">[238]</a><br /></span> </div></div> @@ -8520,10 +8477,10 @@ omission: and for Sir John Harington's 'Epigram' on 'Orchestra.' G.</p> <p class="inset">79.</p> <div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">'So did <i>Musćus</i>, so <i>Amphion</i> did,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">'So did <i>Musæus</i>, so <i>Amphion</i> did,<br /></span> <span class="i0">'And <i>Linus</i> with his sweet enchanting song;<br /></span> <span class="i0">'And he whose hand the Earth of monsters rid,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">'And had men's eares fast chaynčd to his tongue<br /></span> +<span class="i0">'And had men's eares fast chaynèd to his tongue<br /></span> <span class="i0">'And <i>Theseus</i> to his wood-borne slaues among,<br /></span> <span class="i2">'Vs'd dauncing as the finest policie<br /></span> <span class="i2">'To plant religion and societie.<br /></span> @@ -8559,7 +8516,7 @@ omission: and for Sir John Harington's 'Epigram' on 'Orchestra.' G.</p> <p class="inset">82.</p> <div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">'And how was <i>Cćneus</i><a name="FNanchor_240_240" id="FNanchor_240_240"></a><a href="#Footnote_240_240" class="fnanchor">[240]</a> made at first a man,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">'And how was <i>Cæneus</i><a name="FNanchor_240_240" id="FNanchor_240_240"></a><a href="#Footnote_240_240" class="fnanchor">[240]</a> made at first a man,<br /></span> <span class="i0">'And then a woman, then a man againe,<br /></span><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_193" id="Page_193">[Pg 193]</a></span> <span class="i0">'But in a daunce? which when he first began<br /></span> <span class="i0">'Hee the man's part in measure did sustaine:<br /></span> @@ -8589,7 +8546,7 @@ omission: and for Sir John Harington's 'Epigram' on 'Orchestra.' G.</p> <span class="i0">'And swimming through the soft and yeelding waue,<br /></span> <span class="i0">'With gentle motions did so smoothly range,<br /></span> <span class="i0">'As none might see where she the water draue;<br /></span> -<span class="i0">'But this plaine truth that falsčd fable gaue,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">'But this plaine truth that falsèd fable gaue,<br /></span> <span class="i2">'That she did daunce with slyding easines,<br /></span> <span class="i2">'Plyant and quick in wandring passages.<br /></span> </div></div> @@ -8925,7 +8882,7 @@ omission: and for Sir John Harington's 'Epigram' on 'Orchestra.' G.</p> <div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> <span class="i0">'Concord's true picture shineth in this art,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">'Where diuers men and women rankčd be,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">'Where diuers men and women rankèd be,<br /></span> <span class="i0">'And euery one doth daunce a seuerall part,<br /></span> <span class="i0">'Yet all as one, in measure doe agree,<br /></span> <span class="i0">'Obseruing perfect vniformitie;<br /></span> @@ -9106,7 +9063,7 @@ omission: and for Sir John Harington's 'Epigram' on 'Orchestra.' G.</p> <p class="inset">124.</p> <div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">Her wingčd thoughts bore vp her minde so hie,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Her wingèd thoughts bore vp her minde so hie,<br /></span> <span class="i0">As that she weend shee saw the glorious throne<br /></span> <span class="i0">Where the bright moone doth sit in maiesty:<br /></span> <span class="i0">A thousand sparkling starres about her shone,<br /></span> @@ -9168,7 +9125,7 @@ follow these.</i></p> <span class="i0">For of her barons braue, and ladies faire,—<br /></span> <span class="i0">Who had they been elsewhere, most faire had been;<br /></span> <span class="i0">Many an incomparable louely payre,<br /></span> -<span class="i0">With hand in hand were interlinkčd seene,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">With hand in hand were interlinkèd seene,<br /></span> <span class="i0">Making faire honour to their soueraigne Queene;<br /></span> <span class="i2">Forward they pac'd, and did their pace apply<br /></span> <span class="i2">To a most sweet and solemne melody.<br /></span> @@ -9244,7 +9201,7 @@ follow.</i></p> <div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> <span class="i0">O, that I had Homer's aboundant vaine,<br /></span> <span class="i0">I would hierof another Ilias make:<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Or els the man of Mantua's<a name="FNanchor_260_260" id="FNanchor_260_260"></a><a href="#Footnote_260_260" class="fnanchor">[260]</a> charmčd braine,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Or els the man of Mantua's<a name="FNanchor_260_260" id="FNanchor_260_260"></a><a href="#Footnote_260_260" class="fnanchor">[260]</a> charmèd braine,<br /></span> <span class="i0">In whose large throat great Joue the thunder spake.<br /></span> <span class="i0">O that I could old Gefferie's<a name="FNanchor_261_261" id="FNanchor_261_261"></a><a href="#Footnote_261_261" class="fnanchor">[261]</a> Muse awake,<br /></span> <span class="i2">Or borrow Colin's<a name="FNanchor_262_262" id="FNanchor_262_262"></a><a href="#Footnote_262_262" class="fnanchor">[262]</a> fayre heroike stile,<br /></span> @@ -9272,7 +9229,7 @@ follow.</i></p> <span class="i0">Whose supple Muse Camelion-like doth change<br /></span> <span class="i0">Into all formes of excellent deuise:<br /></span> <span class="i0">So might the Swallow,<a name="FNanchor_266_266" id="FNanchor_266_266"></a><a href="#Footnote_266_266" class="fnanchor">[266]</a> whose swift Muse doth range<br /></span> -<span class="i0">Through rare Idćas, and inuentions strange,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">Through rare Idæas, and inuentions strange,<br /></span> <span class="i2">And euer doth enioy her ioyfull Spring,<br /></span> <span class="i2">And sweeter then the Nightingale doth sing.<br /></span> </div></div> @@ -9433,7 +9390,7 @@ desires "the commendations of my dutiful respects." Among them occurs <div class="footnote"> <p><a name="Footnote_14_14" id="Footnote_14_14"></a><a href="#FNanchor_14_14"><span class="label">[14]</span></a> Lord Stowell wrote an elaborate Paper on the whole -matter, and the restoration of Davies. It appeared in "Archćologia," +matter, and the restoration of Davies. It appeared in "Archæologia," Vol. XXI. I propose to write the narrative <i>in extenso</i> in my fuller Life, as before.</p></div> @@ -9485,7 +9442,7 @@ Memorial-Introduction: Postscript.</p></div> <div class="footnote"> -<p><a name="Footnote_21_21" id="Footnote_21_21"></a><a href="#FNanchor_21_21"><span class="label">[21]</span></a> See Lord Stowell's Paper, in Archćlogia, Vol. XXI., pp. +<p><a name="Footnote_21_21" id="Footnote_21_21"></a><a href="#FNanchor_21_21"><span class="label">[21]</span></a> See Lord Stowell's Paper, in Archælogia, Vol. XXI., pp. 107-112, and our fuller Life, as before.</p></div> <div class="footnote"> @@ -9907,7 +9864,7 @@ malum.' G.</p></div> <div class="footnote"> -<p><a name="Footnote_67_67" id="Footnote_67_67"></a><a href="#FNanchor_67_67"><span class="label">[67]</span></a> Fable in Ćsop [Babrius]. G.</p></div> +<p><a name="Footnote_67_67" id="Footnote_67_67"></a><a href="#FNanchor_67_67"><span class="label">[67]</span></a> Fable in Æsop [Babrius]. G.</p></div> <div class="footnote"> @@ -10058,8 +10015,8 @@ prove his fortitude: Livy <span class="smcap">II</span>. 12. G.</p></div> <div class="footnote"> -<p><a name="Footnote_100_100" id="Footnote_100_100"></a><a href="#FNanchor_100_100"><span class="label">[100]</span></a> Pliny <span class="smcap">XXXV.</span> 36 § 3: told of a picture of -Zeuxis, as that of the horse neighing is of another by Apelles (<i>ib</i> § +<p><a name="Footnote_100_100" id="Footnote_100_100"></a><a href="#FNanchor_100_100"><span class="label">[100]</span></a> Pliny <span class="smcap">XXXV.</span> 36 § 3: told of a picture of +Zeuxis, as that of the horse neighing is of another by Apelles (<i>ib</i> § 17.) G.</p></div> <div class="footnote"> @@ -10187,7 +10144,7 @@ theological (Puritan) writings. G.</p></div> <div class="footnote"> -<p><a name="Footnote_125_125" id="Footnote_125_125"></a><a href="#FNanchor_125_125"><span class="label">[125]</span></a> On the Dryads Cf. Paus. viii. 4. § 2 Apollon. Rhod. ii. +<p><a name="Footnote_125_125" id="Footnote_125_125"></a><a href="#FNanchor_125_125"><span class="label">[125]</span></a> On the Dryads Cf. Paus. viii. 4. § 2 Apollon. Rhod. ii. 447, &c. G.</p></div> <div class="footnote"> @@ -10280,7 +10237,7 @@ the personification. G.</p></div> <div class="footnote"> -<p><a name="Footnote_146_146" id="Footnote_146_146"></a><a href="#FNanchor_146_146"><span class="label">[146]</span></a> Apollod <span class="smcap">I.</span>, 8, § 2, <i>et alibi</i>: Ovid, <i>Met.</i> +<p><a name="Footnote_146_146" id="Footnote_146_146"></a><a href="#FNanchor_146_146"><span class="label">[146]</span></a> Apollod <span class="smcap">I.</span>, 8, § 2, <i>et alibi</i>: Ovid, <i>Met.</i> viii., 450; <i>et seq</i>: 531: Diod. <span class="smcap">IV.</span>, 34. G.</p></div> <div class="footnote"> @@ -10392,7 +10349,7 @@ Sun against St. Dunstan's Church in Fleet street. 1697'—<span class="smcap informs us that the 'Remarks' were 'written by an ingenious and learned Divine'—It will be noticed that they finish somewhat abruptly: and while there is 'account' of the Poem, none of the Author.'—Dr. -<span class="smcap">Bliss</span>, in his edition of Anthony-a-Wood's <span class="smcap">Athenć</span>, +<span class="smcap">Bliss</span>, in his edition of Anthony-a-Wood's <span class="smcap">Athenæ</span>, describes above as containing only the second portion: but he is mistaken: the Poem is given completely.</p></div> @@ -10715,15 +10672,15 @@ sundry affaires of man's life.' G.</p></div> <div class="footnote"> -<p><a name="Footnote_239_239" id="Footnote_239_239"></a><a href="#FNanchor_239_239"><span class="label">[239]</span></a> Made stellć=stars or constellations. G.</p></div> +<p><a name="Footnote_239_239" id="Footnote_239_239"></a><a href="#FNanchor_239_239"><span class="label">[239]</span></a> Made stellæ=stars or constellations. G.</p></div> <div class="footnote"> -<p><a name="Footnote_240_240" id="Footnote_240_240"></a><a href="#FNanchor_240_240"><span class="label">[240]</span></a> Virgil, Ćneid <span class="smcap">VI.</span>, 448, calls him Cćnis: +<p><a name="Footnote_240_240" id="Footnote_240_240"></a><a href="#FNanchor_240_240"><span class="label">[240]</span></a> Virgil, Æneid <span class="smcap">VI.</span>, 448, calls him Cænis: </p> <div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0">.... 'et juvenis quondam, nunc femina, Cćnis,<br /></span> +<span class="i0">.... 'et juvenis quondam, nunc femina, Cænis,<br /></span> <span class="i0">Rursus et in veterem fato revoluta figuram.'<br /></span> </div></div> @@ -10849,387 +10806,6 @@ his mistress, named Mary, among others. See <i>Nicolas's</i> edition of the <p><a name="Footnote_267_267" id="Footnote_267_267"></a><a href="#FNanchor_267_267"><span class="label">[267]</span></a> Collier gives <i>supra</i> in his 'Bibliographical Account of Early English Literature,' <i>s.n.</i></p></div> - - - - - - - - -<pre> - - - - - -End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of The Complete Poems of Sir John Davies. -Volume 1 of 2., by John Davies - -*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK POEMS OF SIR JOHN DAVIES (1/2) *** - -***** This file should be named 44977-h.htm or 44977-h.zip ***** -This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: - http://www.gutenberg.org/4/4/9/7/44977/ - -Produced by Barbara Tozier, Bill Tozier and the Online -Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net - - -Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions -will be renamed. - -Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no -one owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation -(and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United States without -permission and without paying copyright royalties. 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