Category: Poetry
Not dim and shadowy, like a world of dreams, We summon back the past Cromwellian time, Raised from the dead by invocative rhyme, Albeit this no Booke of Magick seems:
Not dim and shadowy, like a world of dreams, We summon back the past Cromwellian time, Raised from the dead by invocative rhyme, Albeit this no Booke of Magick seems:
10. iv. 92 of print); wrongly supposed to be otherwise lost, but imperfectthere, our fourth and fifth verses being absent. We cannot accept “_if that I may thy favour haue, thy bewtye to behold_,” as the true reading; while we find “_If that thy favou...
2. Act iii. sc. 1, produced about 1616, and written by JOHN FLETCHER, BenJonson, and Thomas Middleton. The song bears trace of Fletcher’s hand (more, we believe, than of Jonson’s). It has a rollicking freedom that made it a favourite. We meet it in _...
6. Part II., page 89. _Cheer up, my mates, &c.(See Appendix to _Westm. Droll_., p. lxii.) The author of this frollicsome ditty was no other than ABRAHAM COWLEY (1618-67), dear to all who know his choice “Essays in Prose and...
8. Part II., pp. 120, 123 (App. p. lxxii.)_O Love if e’er, &c._ There is a parody or “Mock” to this, beginning “O _Mars_, if e’er thoult ease a blade,” and entitled “The Martial Lad,” in Wm. Hicks’ _London Drollery_, 16...
9. Part I., p. 2 [our p. 195.] _A Puritan of late.Compare John Cleveland’s “Zealous Discourse between the Independent-Parson and Tabitha,” “Hail Sister,” &c. (_J. C. Revived_, 1662, p. 108); and also the superior piece of humou...
7. Part II., 100, Appendix, p. lxviii.Being an Account of nine or ten fair Maidens, who went one Evening lately, to wash themselves in a pleasant River, where they were discovered by several Young Men being their fa...
5. Part II., p. 74 (App. p. lv.) _As ~Moss~ caught his Mare.Not having had space at command, when giving a short Addit. Note on p. 408 of _M. D. C._, we now add a nursery rhyme (we should gladly have given another, which mentions catchin...
3. Part I., p. 105. _Hic jacet, ~John Shorthose~.4. Part I., p. 106. _There is not half so warm, &c.