...civility ; to allay the perturbation of the mind, and set the affections in right tune — * * * * a work not to be raised from the heat of youth or the vapours of wine, like that which flows at waste from the pen of some vulgar amourist, or the trencher...

...extend. Neither do I think k ahaan* ••> covenant with any knowing reader, tlinl for suiur few yean » I may go on trust with him toward the payment of what I is. now indebted, M being a work not to ba raised from UK he*: . youth or the vapours of wine : like...

...took to poetry as the business of his .life, and certainly he was not slothful in the business." " Neither do I think it shame to covenant with any knowing...work not to be raised from the heat of youth or the vapours of wine, like that which flows at waste from the pen of some vulgar amourist, or the trencher...

...reader, that for * /'. c. conduct, dt'iiicnir Pr., tUnifintre It. t Alluding a^ain to the Book of Sports. some few years yet I may go on trust with him toward...work, not to be raised from the heat of youth, or the vapours of wine, — like that which flows at waste from the pen of some vulgar amourist, or the trencher-fury...

...thus expresses himself in his second book of the " Reformation of Church Government," in 1641 :— "Neither do I think it shame to covenant with any...for some few years yet I may go on trust with him towards the payment of what I am now indebted, as being a work not to bo raised from tho heat of youth,...

...the taste of virtuous documents harsh and sour. * * Neither do I think it shame to covenant with my knowing reader, that for some few years yet, I may...work not to be raised from the heat of youth, or the vapours of wine, like that which flows at waste from the pen of some vulgar amorist, or the trencher...

...of prelacy, under whose inquisitorious and tyrannical duncery no free and splendid wit can flourish. Neither do I think it shame to covenant with any knowing...yet I may go on trust with him toward the payment of whom I am now indebted, 'as being a work not to be raised from the heat of youth, or the vapours of...

...were written is shown by his words in the Reason of Church Government urged against Prelatry, 1641: Neither do I think it shame to covenant with any knowing reader that, for some years yet I may go on trust with him toward the payment of what I am now indebted, as being a work...

...prelaty, under whose inquisitorious and tyrannical duneery, no free and splendid wit can flourish. Neither do I think it shame to covenant with any knowing...work not to be raised from the heat of youth, or the vapours of wine; like that which flows at waste from the pen of some vulgar amourist, or the trencher...

...Aldhelm (TLS, 24th Sept.), who points out that the famous promise in The Reason of Church Government of a ' work not to be raised from the heat of youth, or the vapours of wine ' which ' for some few years yet ' Milton might delay is closely parallel to a passage...