The Poems of Richard Corbet, late bishop of Oxford and of Norwich 4th edition

Foure clerkes of Oxford, doctours two, and two That would be doctors, having lesse to do With Augustine then with Galen in vacation, Chang’d studyes, and turn’d bookes to recrea...

I’ve read of ilands floating and remov’d In Ovids time, but never heard it prov’d Till now: that fable, by the prince and you, By your transporting England, is made true. Wee ar...

The public interest has been of late years so strongly manifested in favour of the poets of the seventeenth century, that little apology appears necessary for the republication...

Who can doubt, Rice, but to th’ eternall place Thy soule is fledd, that did but know thy face? Whose body was soe light, it might have gone To heav’ne without a resurrection. In...

Come all yee Muses and rejoice At your Apolloe’s happy choice; Phœbus has conquer’d Cupid’s charme; Fair Daphne flys into his arm. If Daphne be a tree, then mark, Apollo is beco...

are familiar to every reader of biographical history. In Lodge’s Illustrations of British History are some letters which convey an exalted idea of her mental abilities; and the...

When I sack’d the Seaven-hill’d Citty I mett the great redd Dragon: I kept him aloofe With the armour of proofe, Though here I have never a rag on. Boldly I preach, &c.

And here I might a just digression make, Whilst of some foure particular knightes I spake, To whome I owe my thankes; but twere not best, By praysing two or three, t’ accuse the...

While, under the direction of the Archbishop, he was thus severe with the heterodox, he was equally zealous in supporting the establishment of which he was a dignitary: exertion...

[57] Henry Garnet, provincial of the order of Jesuits in England, who was arraigned and executed at the west end of St. Paul’s, for his connivance at, rather than for any active...

The mighty zeale which thou hast new put on, Neither by prophet nor by prophetts sonne As yet prevented, doth transport mee so Beyond my selfe, that, though I ne’re could go Far...

With sir Fulk Greville they found a prelate of the church, an archdeacon, whom a note in the old editions calls archdeacon Burton. This, I presume, was Samuel Burton, A. M. of C...