His helmet now shall make a hive for bees, My inerry, merry, merry roundelay Concludes with Cupid's curse: Cupid's Curse. SIR WALTER RALEIGH. 1552-1618. If all the world and love were young, The Nymph's Reply to the Passionate Shepherd. Fain would I, but I dare not; I dare, and yet I may not; I may, although I care not, for pleasure when I play not. Fain Would I Passions are likened best to floods and streams: The shallow murmur, but the deep are dumb.1 Silence in love bewrays more woe Fear not to touch the best, The truth shall be thy warrant : The Silent Lover. Ibid The Lie. 1 Altissima quæque flumina minimo sono labi (The deepest rivers flow with the least sound).-Q. CURTIUS, vii. 4. 13. Smooth runs the water where the brook is deep. - SHAKESPEARE: ? Henry VI. act iii. sc. i. Methought I saw the grave where Laura lay.1 Verses to Edmund Spenser. Cowards [may] fear to die; but courage stout, On the snuff of a candle the night before he died. — Raleigh's Even such is time, that takes in trust But from this earth, this grave, this dust, My God shall raise me up, I trust! Written the night before his death. — Found in his Fain would I climb, yet fear I to fall.3 [History] hath triumphed over time, which besides it nothing but eternity hath triumphed over. Historie of the World. Preface. O eloquent, just, and mightie Death! whom none could advise, thou hast perswaded; what none hath dared, thou hast done; and whom all the world hath flattered, 1 Methought I saw my late espoused saint. - MILTON: Sonnet xxiii. Methought I saw the footsteps of a throne. - WORDSWORTH: Sonnet. 2 If she be not so to me, What care I how fair she be? George Wither: The Shepherd's Resolution. 8 Written in a glass window obvious to the Queen's eye. "Her Majesty, either espying or being shown it, did under-write, 'If thy heart fails thee, climb not at all.'"- FULLER: Worthies of England, vol. i. p. 419. thou only hast cast out of the world and despised. Thou hast drawne together all the farre stretched greatnesse, all the pride, crueltie, and ambition of man, and covered it all over with these two narrow words, Hic jacet! O happy earth, Whereon thy innocent feet doe ever tread! A bold bad man.2 Her angels face, As the great eye of heaven, shyned bright, The righteous man, to make him daily fall!3 As when in Cymbrian plaine, St. 9. St.35. St. 37 Canto iii. St. 4. Canto viii. St. 1. An heard of bulles, whom kindly rage doth sting, Entire affection hateth nicer hands. St. 11. St. 40. And moralized his song.—POPE: Epistle to Arbuthnot. Line 340. 2 This bold bad man.— SHAKESPEARE: Henry VIII. act ii. sc. 2. MASSINGER: A New Way to Pay Old Debts, act iv. sc. 2. 8 Ay me! what perils do environ The man that meddles with cold iron! "Milky Mothers," SCOTT ` BUTLER: Hudibras, part i. canto iii. line 1 The Monastery, chap. xxviii. -POPE: The Dunciad, book ii. line 247. That darksome cave they enter, where they find Faerie Queene. Canto ix. St. 35. No daintie flowre or herbe that growes on grownd, And smelling sweete, but there it might be fownd To bud out faire, and throwe her sweete smels al arownd. Book ii. Canto vi. St. 12. And is there care in Heaven? And is there love Canto viii. St. 1. How oft do they their silver bowers leave St. 2. Canto xii. St. 70. Through thick and thin, both over bank and bush,1 Book iii. Canto i. St. 17. Her berth was of the wombe of morning dew,3 Canto vi. St. 3 Roses red and violets blew, And all the sweetest flowres that in the forrest grew. St. 6. Canto xi. St. 54. Be bolde, Be bolde, and everywhere, Be bold. Dan Chaucer, well of English undefyled, Book iv. Canto ii. St. 32. 1 Through thick and thin. - DRAYTON: Nymphidia. MIDDLETON: The Roaring Girl, act iv. sc. 2. KEMP: Nine Days' Wonder. BUTLER: Hudibras, part i. canto ii, line 370. DRYDEN: Absalom and Achitophel, part ii, line 414. POPE: Dunciad, book ii. CowPER: John Gilpin. 2 See Skelton, page 8. 3 The dew of thy birth is of the womb of the morning. - Psalm cx. 3, Book of Common Prayer. 4 De l'audace, encore de l'audace, et toujours de l'audace (Boldness, again boldness, and ever boldness). - DANTON: Speech in the Legislative Assembly, 1792. For all that Nature by her mother-wit1 Could frame in earth. Faerie Queene. Book iv. Canto x. St. 21. Ill can he rule the great that cannot reach the small. Book v. Canto ii. St. 43. Who will not mercie unto others show, The gentle minde by gentle deeds is knowne; St. 42. Book vi. Canto iii. St. 1. For we by conquest, of our soveraine might, Book vii. Canto vi. St. 33. For of the soule the bodie forme doth take; 8 For all that faire is, is by nature good; To kerke the narre from God more farre,* And he that strives to touche a starre Oft stombles at a strawe. Line 139. The Shepheardes Calender. July. Line 97. Full little knowest thou that hast not tride, What hell it is in suing long to bide: To loose good dayes, that might be better spent; To speed to-day, to be put back to-morrow; To feed on hope, to pine with feare and sorrow. ! Mother wit. -MARLOWE: Prologue to Tamberlaine the Great, part 1 MIDDLETON: Your Five Gallants, act i. sc. 1. SHAKESPEARE: Taming of the Shrew, act ii. sc. 1. 2 Blessed are the merciful, for they shall obtain mercy. Matthew v. 7. The hand that hath made you fair hath made you good. SHAKE SPEARE: Measure for Measure, act iii. sc. 1. 4 See Heywood, page 12. |