WorksFor the first time collected and edited: with memorial-introduction: essay, critical and elucidatory; and notes and facsimiles by the RevAlexander BGrosart . EEES. Amid their owne desires still raising feares ; * Vnwise, as all distracted powers be ; * Strangers to God, fooles in humanitie. 67. Too good for great things, and too great for good ;Their princes serue their priest, yet that priest isGrowne king, euen by the arts of flesh and blood ;Blind Superstition hauing built vp this, * As knowing no more than it selfe can doe ; Which shop—for words—sels God and Empiretoo.^ 68. Thus wane
WorksFor the first time collected and edited: with memorial-introduction: essay, critical and elucidatory; and notes and facsimiles by the RevAlexander BGrosart . EEES. Amid their owne desires still raising feares ; * Vnwise, as all distracted powers be ; * Strangers to God, fooles in humanitie. 67. Too good for great things, and too great for good ;Their princes serue their priest, yet that priest isGrowne king, euen by the arts of flesh and blood ;Blind Superstition hauing built vp this, * As knowing no more than it selfe can doe ; Which shop—for words—sels God and Empiretoo.^ 68. Thus wane we Christians still betwixt two aires,Nor leaue the world for God, nor God for it;While these Turkes climing vp vnitcd staires,Aboue the superstitions double wit ;Leaue vs as to the Jewish bondage heires, ^ In Coleridges Aids to Eeflection he quotes thisstanza, evidently from memory. He has oddly interwovenlines from Shakespeare with Brookes and his own. SeeEssay in the present volume for the passage. G. OF WAREES. 129 A Saboth rest for selfe confusion fit : Since States will then leaue Warre, when men beginFor Gods sake to abhorre this world of IHirtor Hoems. I. The Shephtards sorrow for his Phoebes disdaine. II. Olde ^elibeus Song, courting his Ximph. III. Another of his Cinthia. IV. Another to his Cinthia. V. Hauing marryed a worthy Lady and taken away by death, he complaineth hismishap. VI. On Sir Philip Sidney. Aotc. Of these Poems, Nos. I to III, from Englands Heli-con, (1600|are authenticated as Lord Brookes by HarleianMS. 280. (See also Halliwells Songs and roemsfrom the Holicoa of 1600, connected with Shakespeare:186-3, 4o). No. IV. is assigned to him by Mr. J. PayneCollier (Bib. Catal. ) on the authority of DowlandsFirst Book of Songs: but this is a mistake, as thefollowing Note in Englands Helicon shews : Thesethree ditties were taken out of Maister John Dowlandsbook of tableture for the Lute, the Authors names notthere set downe, and therefore left t
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