Poems: Viz.: -- The [Ekatompathia (romanized Form)] Or Passionate Centurie of Love 1582 ; Meliboeus, Sivè Ecloga Inobitum, &c. 1590 ; An Eglogue Upon the Death of Right Honorable Sir Francis Walsingham. 1590 ; The Teares of Fancy, Or Love Disdained. Posthumously Published in 1593, from the Unique Copy in the Collection of S. Christie-Miller, Esq1870 - 208 עמודים |
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Abraham Fraunce againſt Amor Amyntas Antigone Authour beginneth beſt breft breſt cauſe ceaſe Corydon Cupid death defire delight Diana diem Melibus obiuit diem proh fata difdaine diſpaire doth eaſe eies eſtate eu'ry euery fame felfe ferue fighes fince firſt fome fong foone forrow ftill fuch griefe hart haue heart heau'ns himſelfe honour hurt Ioue ioyes J. P. COLLIER laſt Latin leaue liue Loue Louers LOVE IS PAST malè Melibaus mifery Miftres mihi minde moſt muſt neuer Numina paine Paſsion paſt Petrarch pleaſe pleaſure Poets pofie praiſe proue quæ quid reaſon reſt ſay ſee ſelfe ſenſe ſet ſhall ſhe ſhee ſhine ſhould ſmart ſome Sonnet Sophocles ſpent ſpring ſtaffe ſtand ſtill Strozza ſuch Sunne ſweete teares thee theſe Thomas Thomas Watson thoſe thou Tityrus vaine Venus verſes vertue vnder vnto vpon warre Watson wherein whofe whome whoſe wound yeeld
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עמוד 16 - Helpe, O ye shepheards, helpe ye all in this, Helpe Amaryllis this her losse to mourne : Her losse is yours, your losse Amyntas is, Amyntas, floure of shepheards pride forlorne: He whilest he lived was the noblest swaine, That ever piped in an oaten quill: Both did he other, which could pipe, maintaine, And eke could pipe himselfe with passing skill.
עמוד 11 - The Lamentations of Amyntas for the death of Phillis, paraphrastically translated out of Latine into English Hexameters by Abraham Fraunce.
עמוד 12 - The first sett, Of Italian Madrigalls Englished, Not to the sense of the original! dittie, but after the affection of the Noate. By Thomas Watson Gentleman. There are also heere inserted two excellent Madrigalls of Master William Byrds, composed after the Italian vaine, at the request of the sayd Thomas Watson.
עמוד 17 - A man he was that I dearely lov'd and honor'd, and for all things hath left few his equalls in England...
עמוד 3 - Watson, in fact, was a purely literary poet. At Oxford, says Antony Wood, he spent his time 'not in logic and philosophy, as he ought to have done, but in the smooth and pleasant studies of poetry and romance.
עמוד 106 - Permitting flill, to thy no fmall difgrace, A virgin to defpife thy felfe, and me, Whofe heart is hers, where ere my body be. The Authour writeth this Sonnet vnto his very friend, in excufe of his late change of ftudy, manners, and delights, all happening through the default of Loue. And here by examples he proueth vnto him, (calling him by the name of Titus, as if him felfe were...
עמוד 17 - And make this our checfe holy-day. For though this clime were blest of yore ; Yet was it neuer proud before. O beauteous Queene of second Troy : Accept of our vnfayned ioy. Now th...
עמוד 9 - So that, as these four works fully show, he is one of the purest as he is one of the sweetest of our Poets. Though there is no date in it, the 'E/caro^Tra^ia was published in 1582.
עמוד 113 - tis honourable shame. If not, I live disgrac'd, yet thought the same. 2 Watson makes this comment on his poem or passion on Time (No. Ixxvii.) : ' The chiefe contentes of this Passion are taken out of Seraphine [ie Serafino], Sonnet 132: Col tempo passa gli anni, i mesi, e 1'hore, Col tempo le richeze, imperio. e regno, Col tempo fama, honor, fortezza, e ingegno, Col tempo giouentu, con belta more, &c.' he dedicated ' Venus and Adonis ' to him in colder language a year before. 'The love I dedicate...
עמוד 180 - Sorrowes which my poore hart haue welnigh choked. Death well might haue beene moued when I lamented, But cruell death was deafe when I complained : Death, loue, and fortune all might haue relented, But fortune, loue, and death, and all difdained.