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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: VIII. To the 'well-deserving Mr. John Fletcher. Love lief a Heeding, if it should not prove Her utmost art to shew why it did love. Thou being the subject now it reigns upon, Reign'st in art, judgment, and invention: For this I love thee, and can do no less, For thine as fair, as faithful Shepherdess. To the wittily pleasant Sir J. H In Martial's time a pleasant poet liv'd, Height Canius, whose spirit doth haunt me still: If merry Martial be from death repriev'd By thy mad Muse, Canius, reprieve I will: If thou be Martial, and I Canius be, Then all the world will laugh at thee and me. To our English Terence, Mr. Jfdliam Shake-spere. Some say, good Will, which I in sport do sing, Hadst thou not play'd some Kingly parts in sport, Thou hadst been a companion for a King; And been a King among the meaner sort. Some others rail: but rail, as they think fit, Thou hast no railing, but a reigning wit, And honesty thou sow'st, which they do reap; So to increase their stock, which they do keep. Sir John Harington. To my well-accomplished friend Mr. Ben Jonson. I love thy parts; so, must I love thy whole; Then still be whole in thy beloved parts: Thou, art sound in body; but some say thy soul Envy doth ulcer; yet corrupted hearts Such censurers may have: but if thou be An envious soul, would thou couldst envy me But oh I fear my virtues are too dark, For Envy's shadow from so bright a spark. To my honoured friend, John Murray, Esq. brother to Sir- James, fs'c. Murray, I muse which colours I should use To paint thy nature out, and deck thy name: When I bethink me of thy Phoenix Muse, I fear all colours will be found to blame. She, like that rare Arabian Bird, is such, That richest words by rhetoricians us'd. Will be b...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217865173 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217865178 |
| Weight | 1.75 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 1.22 In |
| List Price | $26.34 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 546 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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