Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1885 edition. Excerpt: ...is evident it must belong to Holtfrmtt. The curate is employed in reading the letter to himself; and while he is doing so, that the stage may not stand still, Holofcrnes either pulls out a book, or, repeating some verse by heart from Mantuanus, comments upon the characterof that poet. Baptista Spagnolus, sirnamed Mantuanus from the place of his birth, was a writer of poems, who flourished towards the latter end of the 15th century. THEO. Vot. II. 23 Though to myself forsworn, to thee I'll faithful prove; Those thoughts to me were oaks, to thee like osiers bowed. Stud) his bias leaves, and makes his book thine eyes; Where all those pleasures live, that art would comprehend: If knowledge be the mark, to know thee shall suffice; Well learned is that tongue, that well can thee commend: All ignorant that soul, that sees thee without wonder; (Which is to me some praise, that I thy parts admire;) Thy eye Jove's lightning bears, thy voice his dreadful thunder, Which, not to anger bent, is music, and sweet fire. Celestial as thou art, oh pardon, this wrong, That sings heaven's praise with such an earthly tongue f Hoi. You find not the apostrophes, and so miss the acT cent: let me supervise the canzonet. Here are onlj numbers ratified; but, for the elegancy, facility, and golden cadence of poesy, caret. Ovidius Naso was the man: and why, indeed, Naso; but for smelling out the odoriferous flowers of fancy, the jerks of invention? Im-ttari, is nothing: so doth the hound his master, the ape his keeper, the tired horse his rider.--But damosella virgin, was this directed to you? Jaq. Ay, sir, from one monsieur Biron, one of the strange queen's lords.1 Hoi. I will overglance the superscript. To the snow-white hand of the most beauteous Lady Rosaline. I will look...
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