Bodleian Library MS English poetry d. 3 - Results found: 309
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hee will think & speak his thought, both
freely but as distant from deprauing any other mans merit, as proclayming his owne: hee hath a most ingenious & sweet spirit, a sha
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& seasond witt, a straight iudgm
t & a strong mynde, he counts it his
pleasure to despise pleasures, & is more delighted w
th good deeds theē goods.
By Mercury,
in Cynthia's Revels (2.3.101-107),
Ben Jonson
in Bodleian Library MS English poetry d. 3, f. 40r
Against Baldness
the 4 elem
ts (to proue y
e excellencie of it take pryde in y
e fashion of it: when y
e Fyreburnesmost bright y
e flames are lyke golden locks. When y
e Wat
rs hurles her lasciuious armes About y
e shores wast, head she curles: And rorid cloudsbeing suckt into ye
ayre Ayre, When y
e melt down, hangs lyke siluer hayre hanfs. the Earth (whos head so oft is shorne) Frighted w
th y
e rude tearing of her locks her hair stands an end, & thorough fear eu
r y hair is turned to a greene naked blade. Besidesin o
r greatest griefe wee wee rend y
t of w
ch doth most beautifye y
e head tyre.
By Horace,
in Satiro-mastix: or, The Untrussing of the humorous poet (TLN 1474-1486),
Thomas Dekker
in Bodleian Library MS English poetry d. 3, f. 42v