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Miscellanies of the Fuller Worthies' Library; Tuke's 'holy Evcharist' (1625)
Miscellanies of the Fuller Worthies' Library Tuke's 'holy Evcharist' - 1625 Author:Alexander Balloch Grosart General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1872 Original Publisher: s.n. Subjects: English literature English poetry Literary Criticism / General Literary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh Literary Criticism / Poetry Poetry / Anthologies Poetry / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh Note... more »s: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: That neither power may foree, nor art surprise So bounded by no shore, graspes all the maine, And farre as Neptune claimes, extends his reigne; Found still some time to heare and to admire The happy sounds of his harmonious lire, And oft hath left his bright exalted throne, And to his Muse's feet combined his own : As did his Queen,1 whose person so diselosed, A brighter nimph than any part imposed,1 When she did joine by an harmonious choise Her gracefull motions to his powrfull voice ; How above all the rest was Phoebus fir'd With love of arts, which he himselfe inspir'd, Nor oftner by his light our sence was cheer'd Than he in person to his sight appeard ;2 Nor did he write a line but to supply With sacred flame the radiant God was by. Hi/I. Though none I ever heard this last rehearse I saw as much when I did see his verse. JL:l. Since he when living did such honors have, 1 In his Maskes. F. 2 Mr. Mitford makes sad havoc of this couplet by misprinting ' diselosed ' (twice) as the final word of each line. G. What now will piety pay to his grave ? Shall of the rich (whose lives were low and vile, And searee deserve a grave, much less a pile) The monuments possesse an ample roome, And such a wonder lye without a tombe ? Raise thou him one in verse, and there relate His worth, thy griefe, and our depl...« less