The non-dramatic works of Thomas DekkerIn five volumes . h a contemplation : For when the Paue-ments of fuch Places are at the beft but Marble, yet(he vpper feelings are like Firmaments of Starres: THE EPISTLE DEDICA TORIE. g There you fee the golden Embofments and curiousEnchafings : The true brauery is aboue. jln excellent Dinner was that in France, whenthe King and Queen fate at Table, and with them,Thomas Aquinas and Bonauentura (the two greatSchoolemen): whiljl the others were feeding, one ofthefe caft an earneji and fixed eye vpon the beauty ofthe Queene: at which the King wondring, afke
The non-dramatic works of Thomas DekkerIn five volumes . h a contemplation : For when the Paue-ments of fuch Places are at the beft but Marble, yet(he vpper feelings are like Firmaments of Starres: THE EPISTLE DEDICA TORIE. g There you fee the golden Embofments and curiousEnchafings : The true brauery is aboue. jln excellent Dinner was that in France, whenthe King and Queen fate at Table, and with them,Thomas Aquinas and Bonauentura (the two greatSchoolemen): whiljl the others were feeding, one ofthefe caft an earneji and fixed eye vpon the beauty ofthe Queene: at which the King wondring, afked,why hee did fo ? 0 (quoth he), if the greatJVorke-maifter, out of a peece of clay, can mould andfafhion fo admirable a creature as your Queen is ;I am rapt into an aftonijhable amazemet to thinke,how glorious thofe Bodyes are, who are Courtiersattending vpon his Maiejlicall Throne. If I holdthe Pen longer in my hand, I fliall fall afleepe againe:But howfoeuer I wake, or haue mine eyes clofed, / reft, Euer ready to do you feruice, Tho. Dekker. D. TO THE READER. ^pv^aVT of a long Sleepe, which for almoftfeuen yeares together, seized al myfences, drowning them in a deepeLethe of forgetfulnefTe, and buryingmee to the World, in the loweft graue ofObliuion / : Meeting in that drouzy voyage withnothing but frightfull Apparitions, by reafon (asnow I guefTe) of the place in which I lay, beinga Caue ftrongly fhut vp by moft Diuellifh anddreadfull Enchantments ; I did at laft fall into aDreame, which prefented to my waking Souleinfinite Pleafures, commixd with In-vtterableHorrors. More did I behold thus Sleeping, theneuer I could before, when my eies were wide climbed to the tops of all the trees in Paradife,and eate fweeter Apples then Adam euer went into the Star-Chamber of Heauen, whereKings and Princes were fet to the Barre, and whenthe Court arofe, I fed vpon manna, at a table withAngels. Ierufalem was the Pallace I liued in, andMount Sion the hil, from whofe
Size: 3189px × 784px
Photo credit: © The Reading Room / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bookauthordekkerthomasca15721632, bookauthorwilkinsgeorgefl1607
