Repentance.
Repentance makes two riuers of her eies, Her humble face dares scant behold the skies: Her broken breast is beaten blew and blacke,
Englands Parnassus: or the choysest flowers of our moderne poets, with their poeticall comparisons Descriptions of bewties, personages, castles, pallaces, mountaines, groues, seas, springs, riuers, &c. Whereunto are annexed other various discourses, both pleasaunt and profitable.
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- Englands Parnassus: or the choysest flowers of our moderne poets, with their poeticall comparisons Descriptions of bewties, personages, castles, pallaces, mountaines, groues, seas, springs, riuers, &c. Whereunto are annexed other various discourses, both pleasaunt and profitable.
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- Albott, Robert, fl. 1600.
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- 1600.
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"Englands Parnassus: or the choysest flowers of our moderne poets, with their poeticall comparisons Descriptions of bewties, personages, castles, pallaces, mountaines, groues, seas, springs, riuers, &c. Whereunto are annexed other various discourses, both pleasaunt and profitable." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A16884.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 1, 2024.
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Her tender fleshis rent wih rugged sacke, With sorrowes snowes her hoary waxen head, With ashes pale, and dust is ouerspread. I. Syluister.
Repentance, hope, and soft humilitie, Do flanke the wings of faiths triumphant carre, Idem.
Repentance, A salue, a comfort, and a cordiall, He that hath her, the keies of heauen hath, This is the guide, this is the port, the path. M. Drayton.
O happie they that keepe within their measure, To turne their course in time, and sound retreit, Before that wit which late Repentance tought, Were better neuer had then so deare bought. S. I. H.
Sinnes haue their salues, repentance can do much. R. Greene.
—To be penitent for faults, with it a paron beares. W. W.
Then hope we health when sinne is left repentantly in hart, Adde then new life, and we to God, God doth to vs conuart. Idem.
Yet stay thy feete in murders vgly gate, Ill comes to soone, repentance oft too late. M. Dr,
Their liues no man so setled in content, That hath not daily whereof to repent. D. Lodge.
We see what's good, and thereto we consent, But yet we chuse the worse and soone repent. S. Daniell.