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Thomas Carew (pg 1672):
"And so our souls that cannot be embraced/
Shall the embraces of our bodies taste."
"Thou like a sea of milk shalt lie displayed,/
Whilst I the smooth, calm ocean invade"
"All things are lawful there that may delight/
Nature or unrestrained appetite./
Like and enjoy, to will and act is one;/
We only sin when love's rites are not done."
"This goblin Honor which the world adores/
Should make men atheists and not women whores." |
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Ben Jonson (pg 1428):
"Here lies, to each her parents' ruth,
Mary, the daughter of their youth;
Yet all heaven's gifts being heaven's due,
It makes the father less to rue.
At six months' end, she parted hence
With safety of her innocence;
Whose soul heaven's queen, whose name she bears,
In comfort of her mother's tears,
Hath placed amongst her virgin-train:
Where, while that severed doth remain,
This grave partakes the fleshly birth;
Which cover lightly, gentle earth! " |
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Ben Jonson (pg 1429):
"DONNE, the delight of Phoebus, and each Muse,
Who, to thy one, all other braines refuse ;
Whose every work, of thy most early wit,
Came forth example, and remaines so, yet ;
Longer a knowing, than most wits do live ;
And which no affection praise enough can give !
To it, thy language, letters, arts, best life,
Which might with halfe mankinde maintaine a strife ;
All which I meant to praise, and, yet, I would ;
But leave, because I cannot as I should ! " |
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Ben Jonson (pg 1430):
"Farewell, thou child of my right hand, and joy ;
My sin was too much hope of thee, lov'd boy.
Seven years thou wert lent to me, and I thee pay,
Exacted by thy fate, on the just day.
Oh, could I lose all father now ! For why
Will man lament the state he should envy?
To have so soon 'scaped world's and flesh's rage,
And if no other misery, yet age !
Rest in soft peace, and, asked, say, Here doth lie
Ben Jonson his best piece of poetry.
For whose sake henceforth all his vows be such
As what he loves may never like too much." |
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"And if the high-swollen Medway fail thy dish,/ Thou hast thy ponds, that pay thee tribute fish:/ Fat aged carps that run into thy net,/ And pikes, now weary their own kind to eat,/ As loath the second draft or cast to stay,"
"The need of such? whose liberal board doth flow/ With all that hospitality doth know;/ Where comes no guest but is allowed to eat,/ Without his fear, and of they lord's own meat;/ Where the same beer and bread, and selfsame wine,/ That is his lordship's shall be also mine"
"Thy lady's noble, fruitful, chaste withal./ His children thy great lord may call his own,/ A fortune in this age but rarely known./ They are, and have been, taught religion; thence/ Their gentler spirits have sucked innocence" |
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Ben Jonson (pg 1436):
"Drink to me, only with thine eyes,
And I will pledge with mine ;
Or leave a kiss but in the cup,
And I'll not look for wine.
The thirst, that from the soul doth rise,
Doth ask a drink divine :
But might I of Jove's nectar sup,
I would not change for thine.
I sent thee late a rosy wreath,
Not so much honoring thee,
As giving it a hope, that there
It could not wither'd be.
But thou thereon didst only breathe,
And sent'st it back to me :
Since when it grows, and smells, I swear,
Not of itself, but thee." |
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| "To the Memory of My Beloved, The Author, Mr. William Shakespeare, and What He Hath Left Us" |
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Ben Jonson (pg 1444):
"While I confess thy writings to be such/ As neither man nor muse can praise too much"
"I therefore will begin. Soul of the age!/ The applause! Delight! The wonder of our stage!/... I will not lodge thee by/ Chaucer or Spenser... Thou art a monument without a tomb"
"He was not of an age, but for all time!"
"Nature herself was proud of his designs" |
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| "The Passionate Shepherd to His Love" |
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Christopher Marlowe-
"Come live with me and be my love,"
"And I will make thee beds of roses/ And a thousand fragrant posies,/ A cap of flowers, and a kirtle/ Embroidered all with leaves of myrtle;" |
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| "Corinna's Going A-Maying" |
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| Robert Herrick (pg 1658): Pastoral Poem |
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| "To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time" |
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Robert Herrick (pg 1659):
"GATHER ye rosebuds while ye may,
Old time is still a-flying :
And this same flower that smiles to-day
To-morrow will be dying.
The glorious lamp of heaven, the sun,
The higher he's a-getting,
The sooner will his race be run,
And nearer he's to setting.
That age is best which is the first,
When youth and blood are warmer ;
But being spent, the worse, and worst
Times still succeed the former.
Then be not coy, but use your time,
And while ye may go marry :
For having lost but once your prime
You may for ever tarry." |
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| "Upon the Nipples of Julia's Breast" |
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Robert Herrick (pg 1661):
"HAVE ye beheld (with much delight)
A red rose peeping through a white ?
Or else a cherry, double grac'd,
Within a lily centre plac'd ?
Or ever mark'd the pretty beam
A strawberry shows half-drown'd in cream ?
Or seen rich rubies blushing through
A pure smooth pearl and orient too ?
So like to this, nay all the rest,
Is each neat niplet of her breast." |
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Robert Herrick (pg 1664):
"WHENAS in silks my Julia goes,
Then, then, methinks, how sweetly flows
That liquefaction of her clothes.
Next, when I cast mine eyes and see
That brave vibration each way free ;
O how that glittering taketh me !" |
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