Specimens of the Early English Poets : to Which is Prefixed, An Historical Sketch of the Rise And Progress of the English Poetry And Language, 1
Specimens of the Early English Poets : to Which is Prefixed, An Historical Sketch of the Rise And Progress of the English Poetry And Language, 1
George Ellis
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And all alofte, as these poets tell/ Be doves white, fleeing, and eke sparrows, And her beside Cupyde with his arrows. (Cap«xvii. Ibid.) The foUowing particulars in the description of Fortune, at the beginning of the second book, are rather singular : And thus this lady, wilfiil and reckless, As she that is froward and perverse, Hath in her cellar drinkes full diverse. For she to some, of fraud and otfaUas^ Ministreth pimento batmnej and ypocras ; And suddenly, when the soote is past, She of cu...stome can give him a cast. For to conclude falsely in the 6ne, Of bitter eyseU ' and of eager wine ; ' AUxly old Fr. Tinesar fVide Treior de BoreL) VOL. I. T Digitized by VjOOQIC t MO ] And corrofihr^s that fret and pierce deep; And narcotics that cause men to sleep. (Cap.10.Qign.RiL) These, it is true» are not very poetical passages, nor are we to expect from Lydgate much livefi- nessoffancy or brilUancy of expression. Hisma- rit» such as it is» cannot easily be exemfdified in short extracts ; and is rather Wsdy to find fii- ▼our in the eyes of the antiquarian than of the poet.
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