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The Works in Verse and Prose Complete of the Right Honourable Fulke Greville, Lord Brooke (3)
The Works in Verse and Prose Complete of the Right Honourable Fulke Greville Lord Brooke - 3 Author:Fulke Greville Title: The Works in Verse and Prose Complete of the Right Honourable Fulke Greville, Lord Brooke ...: Cælica in Ox. Sonnets. the Poem Plays: Alaham; Mustapha. With Additions and Various Readings Volume: 3 General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1870 Original Publisher: Printed for private circulation [by C. Tiplady an... more »d son] Subjects: Literary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh Notes: 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: Yet vnto Thee Lord -- mirrour of transgression -- "Wee who for earthly idols haue forsaken, Thy heauenly image -- sinlesse, pure impression -- And so in nets of vanity lye taken, All desolate implore that to Thine owne, Lord, Thou no longer Hue a God vnknowne. Yet Lord let Israel's plagues not be eternall, Nor sinne for euer cloud Thy sacred mountaines, Nor with false flames spirituall but infernall, Dry up Thy Mercie's euer springing fountaines : Bather, sweet lesus, fill up time and come, To yeeld the sinne her euerlasting doome. I. A FANCY.1 (BY SIE EDWABD DYEE.) HE that his mirth hath lost, Whose comfort is dismayed, "Whose hope is vain, whose faith is scorned, Whose trust is all betrayed, If he have held them dear, And cannot cease to moan, Come, let him take his place by me ; He shall not rue alone. But if the smallest sweet Be mixed with all his sour: If in the day, the month, the year, He feel one lightening hour, 1 MS. Eawl. Poet. 85, fol. 109, signed as below ; MS. Tann. 306, fol. 173, with the same signature; MS. Ashm. 781, p. HO, signed " Sr Ed. Dyer: " and Harl. MS. 6910, fol. 159. Authenticated by Dyer himself through the secret signature near the end, and ascribed to him by K. Southwell in t...« less