LORD BROOKE. 1554-1628. O wearisome condition of humanity! Mustapha. Act v. Sc. 4. And out of mind as soon as out of sight.1 Sonnet lvi. MATHEW ROYDON. A sweet attractive kinde of grace, The lineaments of Gospell bookes. Was never eie did see that face, Was never eare did heare that tong, But eies, and eares, and ev'ry thought Ibid. 1 See Kempis, Imitation of Christ, Book i. Ch. 23. 2 This piece (ascribed to Spenser) was printed in The Phonix Nest, 4to, 1593, where it is anonymous. Tod has shown that it was written by Mathew Roydon. SIR PHILIP SIDNEY. 1554-1586. Sweet food of sweetly uttered knowledge. The Defence of Poesy. He cometh unto you with a tale which holdeth children from play, and old men from the chimney corner. Ibid. I never heard the old song of Percy and Douglass, that I found not my heart moved more than with a trumpet. Ibid. High erected thoughts seated in the heart of courtesy. Arcadia. Book i. They are never alone that are accompanied with noble thoughts. Ibid. Many-headed multitude.1 Ibid. Book ii. My dear, my better half. Ibid. Book iii. Have I caught my heav'nly jewel.2 Astrophel and Stella. Second Song. 1 Shakespeare, Coriolanus, Act ii. Sc. 3. Many-headed monster. - Daniel, Civil Wars, Book ii. Massinger, The Roman Actor, Act iii. Sc. ii. Voltaire, Merope, Act i. Sc. 4. Pope, Epist. i. Book ii. Line 305. Scott, Lady of the Lake, Canto v. St. 30. 2 Quoted by Shakespeare in Merry Wives of Windsor. CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE. 1565-1593. WORKS (ED. DYCE, 1862). Who ever loved that loved not at first sight? Come live with me, and be my love, The Passionate Shepherd to his Love. By shallow rivers, to whose falls And I will make thee beds of roses, Ibid. Ibid. When all the world dissolves, And every creature shall be purified, All places shall be hell that are not heaven. 1 Faustus. Was this the face that launch'd a thousand ships, Ibid. O, thou art fairer than the evening air, Ibid. Quoted by Shakespeare in As You Like It. Cut is the branch that might have grown full straight, And burned is Apollo's laurel bough,1 That sometime grew within this learned man. Infinite riches in a little room. Faustus. The Jew of Malta. Act i. Excess of wealth is cause of covetousness. Ibid. Acti. Now will I show myself to have more of the serpent than the dove; that is, more knave than fool. Ibid. Act ii. Love me little, love me long.2 Ibid. Act iv. RICHARD HOOKER. 1553-1600. Of Law there can be no less acknowledged, than that her seat is the bosom of God, her voice the harmony of the world: all things in heaven and earth do her homage, the very least as feeling her care, and the greatest as not exempted from her power. Ecclesiastical Polity. Book i. That to live by one man's will became the cause of all men's misery. Ibid. Book i. 1 O, withered is the garland of the war, The soldier's pole is fallen. Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra, Act iv. Sc. 13. ? Love me little, love me long. Herrick, Song. I, thus neglecting worldly ends, all dedicated To closeness, and the bettering of my mind. Like one, Who having, unto truth, by telling of it, Ibid. Come unto these yellow sands, And then take hands: Court'sied when you have, and kiss'd — The wild waves whist. Full fathom five thy father lies; Of his bones are coral made; 1 'spiriting,' Cambridge ed. Ibid. Toid |