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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Imprinted at London :: For N. L[ing,] C. B[urby] and T. H[ayes],
1600.
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English poetry -- Early modern, 1500-1700.
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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 May 15, 2024.

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Thoughts.

Thoughts are the slaues of life, and life times foole, And time that takes suruey of all the world Must haue a stop. W. Shakespeare.
Thoughts are but dreames, till their effects be tried. Idem.
Who so thinkes many things, brings few to a fortunate ending. A. Fraunce.
The feeble eyes of our aspring thoughts, Behold things present, and record things past,

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But things to come exceede our humane reach. G. Peele.
Vnfained thoughts do seldome dreame on euil. Birdes neuer limde no secret bushes feare. W. Sh.
If all mens thoughts were written in their face, Some one that now the rest doth ouercrow, Some others ebbe that wants his soueraignes grace, VVhen as the Prince their inwarde thoughts should know The meaner then should take the better place, The greatest man might stoope and sit below. S. I. Harrington.
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