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.
Author
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 April 30, 2024.
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Simoniake and vnlearned Ministers.
Such men are like our curtaines at their best,To make vs sleepe, or hinder vs from light:Troublers of nature, children of the West,Haters of sence, adopted sonnes of night,In whom the wise both sorrow and delight.Yet were there not such Vegetalls the while,What had the wiser sort whereat to smile?Th. Storer.
Renowmed Picus of Mirandula,Hated the substance of a Clergy manThat was vnlettered, and made a lawe,An ignorant which neuer had began
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To seeke, or after seeking neuer scan.Some part of somewhat that might wisedome bring,Should be accounted but a liuing thing.Idem.
The noble Tichobraghe for whose deare sakeAll Denmarke is in admirations loue:In deepe regard such difference doth makeBetweene those men whose spirits soare aboue,And those base essents which only moue.That in his Iles Horizon he admitsNo cloudy Meteors of such foggy wits.Idem.
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