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Minor Poets of the Caroline Period, Vol. III

Minor Poets of the Caroline Period, Vol. III

Saintsbury

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Preface试读
NATHANIEL WHITING
20 Old dormant windows must confess
70 When bodies join and victory hovers
30 Makes pearls and planets humble heraldry.
50 Unites all senses in each action.
90 Hyperboles are here but sacrilege.
10 Are you Sir Thomas and Sir Martin too?
30 Subscribed two consuls with one Julius.
10 His death the ocean might turn Helicon.
40 His shipwreck now more than his merchandise.
40 Thy sweetness with a double tongue)
60 Changes gender but thy heart.
10 Slice one in two to keep her number just.
40 The lawful issue of his ashes swear.
10 You grow inspired by th' oracle of the glass;
20 And why may not we in their imitation?
30 Then falls he to use and application next;
Preface
40 Room but to peep with half an eye;
30 Killing a sheep thought Agamemnon slain;
50 But we subscribe neither to Scot nor Jew.
80 Throughout all Ovid's Metamorphoses.]
Act V.
20 First cast thy hieroglyphic skin.
50 The penance of the Alps in snow;
50 But means to speak the rest by signs.
10 The moonshine of your light can clear.
30 Than wash thy Ethiopian skin.
10 Fell presently to cudgels with the Oath.
40 By all the Father Garnets that stand by it;
70 Whose lungs pay use on use to half a score.
90 The groom is rampant but the bride displayed.
80 But in obedience to the ordinance.
Preface
10 His ruins prove him a religious house!
50 That checks his rays to this apostasy?
90 Riddles inhabited; the like is here.
30 With all the scorpions that should whip this age.
80 Who use to hang their teeth upon their belt.
30 Parched to a drought beyond the Lybian sand!
60 By your own sword our just revenge be wrought.
20 The literal and equitable sense
70 By which that vast triumvirate is spanned.
10 The People's violent love and hate;
10 From a Geneva jig up to the spheres.
40 Shines in his showers as if he wept his beams.
40 When the thick shell of his Welsh pedigree
10 Dallied more wantonly
30 My stical grammar of amorous glances;
10 Touch such a filthy sus
40 As this foul gypsy quean.
10 They'll now in their wives' stammel petticoats vapour
40 And at the next bear-baiting (full of his sack)
10 In a box-knot cut by the Directory:
40 The same the Scotch executor rebounds;
60 His finger 's thicker than the prelates' loins.'
20 No more of your calcining flame!
20 That alm'ner of transpiring balm;
40 Like a thick-branching pedigree.
70 Ravaillac to my Queen of Love!
30 The world thy worth; they kenned thee well.
30 And then my lips shall kiss them dry;
Preface
20 Nature's commendam must be likewise nursed.
40 She that 's now seated on Mount Ararat.
30 This profound Vulcan 'bove that Wagoner.
70 Made not to ruin but enrich our Troy.
50 Weapon yet left to guard him to his throne.
80 This our Josias had a Jeremy.
INTRODUCTION TO THOMAS STANLEY
THOMAS STANLEY
10 Whose constancy disdains t' allow
10 Look in my heart where Love thy picture drew;
10 To parallel my Chariessa's cheek;
10 As to become in love a reprobate?
10 Since thou (Love's votary before
10 Doth th' obsequious iron move;
20 And thus united be by death's divorce.
20 All those cunning charms avoid;
THE DEDICATION
20 And the day disclose its name.
50 To blot my name
10 Make far more noise than Celia's breath in sleep.
10 To feed a new disease?
20 And not confin'd thine eye?
10 Why first my own redress do I not crave?
10 The re is more liberty in Death than Love.
30 Have equal power to love or animate.]
10 As like thyself no crime hath known;
20 Oh tak't again!
10 With that triumphant spoil adorns his brow.
10 From the whiter of thy hand.
20 With their youthful sweetness take me;
40 Or who forceth me to love:
20 Even in divorce united.
Preface
10 Methought this rival did possess:
10 I back again
20 And I in death shall be delighted.
10 Now the rubies doth impair
10 Than his on me should be?
10 Yet bleed within.
10 And each is two in skill;
10 Thousands of lovers from the grave:
10 Me from my Fair dost thou detain?
20 Forsaken cypress and sad yew;
10 That all her curious labours thou
10 Thou in like flames mayst burn;
10 Or these my soul ensnare;
20 As now thou sufferest mine.
10 Must meet my flames with equal fires.
10 Must meet it with no less disdain;
10 A higher praise to crown thee;
10 Perfections earlier ages call
20 Nor longer at my destiny repine:
Preface
10 The very act did expiate what was done.
20 Can only overtake and stop the last)
10 For praise is bounded when the theme is not:
50 Who did the soul with fourfold power invest.
70 Abstain from; thy mind's reins let reason guide:
Chapter
20 Let me no more these fetters wear!
Preface
10 Dig our Loves Tombe.
20 The murmur of the purling brook my knell;
10 Enjoy thy dearest wish: but see
10 When Love in Beauty buried is!
10 Whose soft spells charm a troubled breast:
10 No husband but a ravisher is found:
10 Which yet unthaw'd does on her bosom grow;
10 Like that the sooty Indian turns.
10 Prolong my winter all the year:
10 Thy beauty withers too. And swift decay
10 Faster than all the leaden chains of night.
20 Which may expound and construe ev'ry Act:
30 Than all the nard fragrant Arabia bears.
60 Am both testator thus and legacy.
20 Or suffer by your own prerogative.
20 To mar it through my incapacity.
20 I could not choose but blab it? swear how much
60 And for thy sake fall out with all the sex.
40 Than is that She with whom he acted it.
20 A richer beauty in her mind;
10 Of a new star risen and seen at Court;
30 And change his royal palace for a tomb.
70 MS.
10 The warmth and virtue of his flaming wheel.
30 To crown Your fame and memory in death.
50 Whose softest accents will out-tongue my verse.
20 Conspire to make the treach'rous sands thy grave:
30 My love and fortune first did run;
90 To meet thee in that hollow vale:
20 And I must slowly waste; I then of force
20 By taking this inheritance of dust.
20 Acquaintance: Like such as are only paid
60 He that mankind's extraction shall look
Preface
10 Should let so dear an obligation die
50 Yet Death shall fix and anchor Me with You.
10 When greater the unable debtor break.
40 As prisoners at the bar their doom receive.
60 The force or merit of Your marriage-vow;
90 Empty and angry at the night's mistake.
20 Thou'lt rhyme me back again into my wits.
80 Thus strive to canonize thy memory.
48 MS.
10 And mix'd the guilty channel with her blood.
30 Which more renowned is than all thy race;
20 Is weak and dull to strike us with amaze
20 The groaning bosom of the patient ground:
50 Than with embased coin those rites defray.
30 No lower centre now than Sweden's grave.
50 Alas! they could not: Destiny gives place
90 Needs borrow no addition from him.
90 To inoffensive travellers they be:
10 Only with custom's eye upon your book;
50 Which in God's City the blest centre hath:
70 They now become a perfect harmony.
90 An old ill practice for a better lose.
10 The ground they sow shall not return the seed.
70 They are but fools in a sublime degree:
90 Let It and Him with speed together come.
50 Were sure in change to gain a monarchy?
80 Doth them and me alike to nothing turn.
Preface
10 The Spring entomb'd in Autumn lies;
10 Covers alike deceased day and thee.
30 Before I fall into the silent grave.
50 And without labour not be nourished:
80 Which often reels and falls before his set;
35 MS.
10 Which to thy precious memory are due.
30 Maim'd in her noblest patterns through thy fail;
20 Should we not fall in equal obsequies?
40 All graces of your sex concentred were.
40 Contracted be into a span of dust.
80 Henceforth no more usurp the soldier's name:
Preface
20 Charles with the best of Judah's Kings compare:
40 Though not (like him) so facile to reveal
90 Did suit the then too powerful faction's ends:
10 In sending Virtue to her place of rest;
Preface
10 His dart of lead.
40 So thou giv'st him greeting.
70 A she-friend and an honour
30 May'st thou attain John the Divine
10 Nor think of such a thing.
TO HIS
10 That till this time the over-teeming press
80 Which is indeed but the reverse of it;
Preface
30 Next unto his immortally shall shine.
10 How much I value what is writ so well;
30 And renders Death desirable as Sleep.
10 The Trojan chief
60 Oft to their outmost reach She will extend
40 Then I resolv'd
Preface
30 Which kept the world in awe:
70 Your bleeding wounds who shall hereafter dress
30 Together blended in the general lot!
50 Disorders Nature like an hurricane.
80 Verse that from wind articulates a name;
20 His powerful numbers might have done you right;
60 He seem'd as if at Gath he still had bin
80 And put their willing necks under his yoke.
40 Which gave me breath;
70 Stoops yet once more to a new conqueror:
Preface
20 But fancies that he sees him come.
20 That lies on th' other side Death's Rubicon.
10 His best estate is altogether vain.
20 Like incense or the morning sacrifice.
10 Than this Divine Epitome of woe.
40 Or breathe a wish that I might thither go:
40 But the Grand Gaol-Delivery?
70 Irrevocable words shall pass on men;
20 Ingreditur Popularis Aura.
10 Fears not the dreadful precipice below.
40 The eyes of Heaven close in eternal sleep;
10 Or dust and ashes into Judgement bring?
10 Thy glorious valour is a theme too high
Preface
40 The traitors now in triumph ride
60 Now like a little negro's bought and sold.
10 They'll find their flames vanish on this side the grave;
10 What vigour absence adds to love.
30 And then eternally farewell.
20 As much as me thy ruin'd face.
10 Only fools that dread the night;
10 Since all my heart is out of frame?
10 His mistress' mercy to implore;
10 Or after shipwreck do the ocean prove;
20 It fetters Kings in charming bands;
20 Loosen its roots to caper; come let's see
10 That newly has receiv'd his mortal wound.
10 And leave him but an aëry name;
Preface
10 As easily as he may;
10 Or trumpets woo away our breath!
20 From mortals in a peevish fancy fled:
10 How they droop and hang their wings!
40 You merit more than our praise: as for us
30 Regardless of Eternity.
10 In subterranean cosmography.
10 Which make men swell too big for the strait gate.
Preface
10 Fidem veriloquo adhibete
90 Great is his prowess and his fortune too;
20 Sui saeculi
30 Only the brave despise their destiny.
70 Shall matter of eternal wonder find;
90 One cheerful hour!
13 Him
10 And with his fellow Wanderers agrees
20 And deep devotion shall attend his urn;
10 For every Sea-nymph of the glittering crowd
40 Has my ador'd Menalcas left behind
8 Et quod excurrit
20 Vestrum undequaquam Inopes
20 Should be submitted to my theme?
80 And seem'd its dear Anointed to disown;
20 The mati meo prostitueretur?
90 Nam retrocedens pugnasti more Parthico
20 Should to our primitive dust repair;
40 And make babes learn in after days
Book II. Ode XIX.
20 In tune and time stagger and dance.
Book III. Ode XII.
Book III. Ode XVII.
Book III. Ode XIX.
Book III. Ode III.
20 And be the trumpet of thy fame:
Book IV. Ode XI.
30 Happy that couple that in years agree!
20 Himself scarce free from fear:
10 Now fie upon me! all about the town
30 Thou bad'st me home to bed:
50 Struck her defaming poet blind;
20 And Sisyphus stop his rolling stone:
60 I'd ne'er believe so bright a star could fall.
70 As Orpheus did Eurydice from hell.
20 None so sublime as sympathy.
40 But in the sentiments of a wellpleas'd Breast.
Preface
20 And pity what my duty prompts me to.
70 And may thy sacred ashes smile to see
HISTORIE OF
THE PLEASING HISTORY OF ALBINO AND BELLAMA
10 Minos and others strike the selfsame string.
40 A man—a knight—the best that ever was.
20 Some will be apt to think my pen rehearses
Preface
30 On their knee
90 But from such things his genius him deliver!
10 In mirthful lays we now admire thy quill.
THE PLEASING HISTORY OF
70 With [this] fair lady curtain-war to wage;
90 Could not have oped her breast or pierced her marrow.
Chapter
To his Bellama slighting him.
Preface
Preface
70 Which made Jove call for some nectarean ale
80 This is a borrowed line"—"she knows 't by th' touch;

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