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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: And if thou canst not thine high flight remit, So as it mought a lowly satyre fit, Let lowly satyres rise aloft to thee: Truth be thy speede, and truth thy patron bee. SAT. I. Nor ladies wanton loue, nor wandring knight, Legend I out in rimes all richly dight; Nor fright the reader with the pagan vaunt Of mightie Mahound, and great Termagaunt. Nor list I sonnet of my mistresse face, 5 To paint some Blowesse with a borrowed grace; Nor can I bide to pen some hungrie scene For thick-skin eares, and vndescerning eyne. Nor euer could my scornfull Muse abide With tragick shooes her ankles for to hide. 10 Nor can I crouch, and writhe my fauning tayle To some greate patron, for my best auayle. Such hunger-stamen trencher poetrie, Or let it neuer liue, or timely die; Nor vnder euerie bank, and euerie tree, 15 Speake rymes vnto my oten minstralsie; Nor caroll out so pleasing liuely laies, As mought the Graces moue my mirth to praise. Trumpet, and reeds, and socks, and buskins fine, I them bequeath, whose statues wandring twine 20 Of yuy, mixt with bayes, circlen around Their liuing temples likewise laurell-bound. Rather had I, albee in carelessc rymes, Check the mis-ordered world, and lawlesse times, Nor need I craue the Muses mid-wifry 25 To bring to light so worth-lesse poetry; Or, if we list, what baser Muse can bide To sit and sing by Grantaes naked side ? They haunt the tyded Thames and salt Medway, Ere since the fame of their late bridall day. 30 Nought haue we here but willow-shaded shore, To tell our Grant his banks are left for lore. SAT. II. Wiiilome the sisters nine were vestall maides, And held their temple in the secret shades Of faire Parnassus, that two-headed ...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217415675 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217415679 |
| Weight | 0.43 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.29 In |
| List Price | $14.14 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 124 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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