Fancies Chaste and Noble Author:John Ford 1638. My Lord, Princes and worthy personages of eminence have entertained poems of this nature with a serious welcome. The desert of their authors might transcend that of Mr. Ford, not their study of service. A practice of courtship to greatness, hath not hitherto in him, aimed at any thrift, yet he ever honored virtue as the richest ornament to... more » the noblest titles. Due to the age and scarcity of the original we reproduced, some pages may be spotty, faded or difficult to read. Written in Old English.« less