The standard edition of the pictorial Shakspere . ACT I. Enter Gower. Before the Palace of Antioch. To sing a song of* old was sung, From ashes ancient Gower is come ; Assuming mans infirmities, To glad your ear, and please your eyes. It hath been sung, at festivals, On ember-eves, and holy-ales ; And lords and ladies, in ^ their lives, Have read it for restoratives. The purpose < is to make men glorious; Et honum, quo antiquius, eo melius. ?* Of. The early editions, that. b The early copies, holy-days. Farmer suggested Iwly-les. <^ In their lives, in all the copies. During their lives.
The standard edition of the pictorial Shakspere . ACT I. Enter Gower. Before the Palace of Antioch. To sing a song of* old was sung, From ashes ancient Gower is come ; Assuming mans infirmities, To glad your ear, and please your eyes. It hath been sung, at festivals, On ember-eves, and holy-ales ; And lords and ladies, in ^ their lives, Have read it for restoratives. The purpose < is to make men glorious; Et honum, quo antiquius, eo melius. ?* Of. The early editions, that. b The early copies, holy-days. Farmer suggested Iwly-les. <^ In their lives, in all the copies. During their lives. Purpose. In the originals, Vol. L If you, born in these latter times, When wits more ripe, accept my rhymes, And that to hear an old man sing. May to your wishes pleasure bring, I life would wish, and that I might Waste it for you, like taper-light. This Antioch then, Antiochus the Great Built up, this city, for his chiefest seat; The fairest in all Syria; (I tell you what mine authors say:) This king unto him took a pheere, Who
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