On A Good Legg And Foot
On A Good Legg And Foot If Hercules tall stature might bee guest But by his thumbe, wherby to make the rest In due proportion; the […]
READ MOREOn A Great Hollow Tree
On A Great Hollow Tree Preethee stand still awhile, and view this tree Renown’d and honour’d for antiquitie By all the neighbour twiggs; for such are […]
READ MOREOn A Register For A Bible
On A Register For A Bible I am the faythfull deputy Unto your fading memory. Your Index long in search doth hold; Your folded wrinkles make […]
READ MOREOn A Watch Made By A Blacksmith
On A Watch Made By A Blacksmith A Vulcan and a Venus seldom part. A blacksmith never us’d to filinge art Beyond a lock and key, […]
READ MOREOn Chloris Standing By The Fire
On Chloris Standing By The Fire Faire Chloris, standing by the Fire, An amorous coale with hot desire Leapt on her breast, but could not melt […]
READ MOREOn Chloris Walking in the Snow
On Chloris Walking in the Snow I saw fair Chloris walk alone, Whilst feather’d rain came softly down, And Jove descended from his tower To court […]
READ MOREOn Fayrford Windowes
On Fayrford Windowes I know no paynt of poetry Can mend such colourd Imag’ry In sullen inke: yet Fayrford, I May relish thy fayre memory. Such […]
READ MOREOn Gray Eyes
On Gray Eyes Looke how the russet morne exceeds the night, How sleekest Jett yields to the di’monds light, So farr the glory of the gray-bright […]
READ MOREOn His Lady Denys
On His Lady Denys Denys hath merited no slender praise, In that She well supplied the Formers daies. Conceive how Good she was, whose very worst […]
READ MOREOn His Lady Marie
On His Lady Marie Marie, Incarnate Virtue, Soule and Skin Both pure, whom Death not Life convincd of Sin, Had Daughters like seven Pleiades; but She […]
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