Category: Poetry
I had the honour to place in your hands the complete Poems of SIR JOHN DAVIES in the Fuller Worthies' Library. In now publishing these Poems for a wider circle of readers and students, I re-dedicate them to you.
I had the honour to place in your hands the complete Poems of SIR JOHN DAVIES in the Fuller Worthies' Library. In now publishing these Poems for a wider circle of readers and st...
2. Part 2In 1590 the saddest of all human losses came on the young law-student by the death of his mother, who was buried at Tisbury "XXVth of Marche, 1590." In this year he is again at...
3. Part 3I know no more noble story than the Work of Sir John Davies in and for Ireland. Our collection of his Prose Works, wherein his State Papers and Correspondence will appear _in ex...
4. Part 4This historically-memorable treatise has already been reproduced in the Prose Works.[43] Elsewhere I examine it critically.[44] It must suffice here to state that later the King...
5. Part 5We study _Speech_ but others we perswade; We _leech-craft_ learne, but others cure with it; We interpret _lawes_, which other men haue made, But reade not those which in our hea...
6. Part 6I know my bodie's of so fraile a kind, As force without, feauers within can kill; I know the heauenly nature of my minde, But 'tis corrupted both in wit and will:
7. Part 7_I. The Ten Sonnets to Philomel and Hymn to Music._ In my Fuller Worthies' Library edition of Davies, I admitted "Canzonet: a Hymne in praise of Musick" among his Poems (pp. 297...
8. Part 8Title-page--Dedication pp. 2--Of humane Knowledge pp. 1-8--Of the soule of man and the immortalitie thereof pp. 9-101. A second edition appeared in 1602, whereof the following a...
9. Part 9This Lampe through all the regions of my braine, Where my _soule_ sits, doth spread such beames of grace, As now, me thinks, I do distinguish plain, Each subtill line of her imm...
10. Part 10Therefore the angels, sonnes of God are nam'd, And marry not, nor are in marriage giuen; Their spirits and ours are of one _substance_ fram'd, And haue one Father, euen the _Lor...
11. Part 11These passions haue a free commanding might, And diuers actions in our life doe breed; For, all acts done without true Reason's light, Doe from the passion of the _Sense_ proceed.
12. Part 12So, when we God and angels do conceiue, And thinke of _truth_, which is eternall too; Then doe our minds immortall formes receiue, Which if they mortall were, they could not doo:
13. Part 13Among many others, the author of this poem merits a lasting honour; for, as he was a most eloquent lawyer, so, in the composition of this piece, we admire him for a good poet an...
14. Part 14$B$ y this straight rule she rectifies $E$ ach thought that in [her] heart doth rise: $T$ his is her cleane true mirror, $H$ er _looking-glasse_, wherein she spies $A$ [ll] form...
15. Part 15'Hence is her pratling daughter _Eccho_ borne, 'That daunces to all voyces she can heare; 'There is no sound so harsh that shee doth scorne, 'Nor any time wherein shee will forb...
16. Part 16'This _is true Loue_, by that true _Cupid_ got, 'Which daunceth galliards in your amorous eyes, 'But to your frozen hart approcheth not-- 'Onely your hart he dares not enterpris...