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 June 1, 2024.
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The diuision of the day naturall. Mediae noctis inclinatio.
Night was farre spent, and now in Ocean deepe,Orion flying fast from hissing snake,His flaming head did hasten for to steepe.Ed. Sp.
By this th'eternall lamps wherewith high Ioue,Doth light the lower world, were halfe yspent,And the moyst daughters of huge Atlas stroueInto th'ocean deep to driue their wearie droue.Idē.
— The gentle humorous night,Implyes her middle course, and the sharpe east,Breathes on my spirit with his fierie steedes.G. Chapman.
The silent night that long had soiourned,Now gan to cast her sable mantle off,And now the sleepie waine-man softly droue
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His slow-pac't teeme that long had trauailed.Th. Kyd.
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