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.

Feare.

—Feare all arm'd from top to toe, Yet thought himselfe not safe enough thereby, But fear'd each shadow mouing too and fro, And his owne armes whom glistering he did spie, Or clashing heard, he fast away did flie As ashes pale of hew, and winghie heeld, And euermore on danger fixt his eie, Gainst whom he alwaies bent a brazen sheeld, Which his right hand vnarmed faithfully did weeld. Ed. Spencer.

Who so for fickle feare from vertue shrinkes, Shall in his life imbrace no worthy thing, No mortall man the cup of suretie drinkes. S. Phil. Sid.

Feare is more paine then is the paine it feares, Disarming humane minds of natiue might: Where each conceit an vgly figure beares, Which were not euil, well viewd in reasons light. Idem.

The gift being great, the feare doth still exceed, And extreame feare can neither fight nor flie, But cowardlike with trembling terror die. W. Shakespeare.

The feare of ill, exceeds the ill we feare. Ed. Fairfax. Transl.

Feare lendeth wings to aged folke to flie, And made them mount to places that were hie. Feare made the wofull child to waile and weepe, For want of speed, on foote and hands to creepe. Th. Hudson. Transl.

Feare in a fearefull heart, frets more then plagues that he feareth. A. Fraunce.

Feare that is wiser then the truth doth ill. S. D.

Feare casts too deepe, and neuer is too wise. Idem.

In vaine with terror is he fortified, That is not guarded with firme loue beside. Idem.

A fearefull thing to tumble from a throne. M. Drayton.

Where crowned might, & crossed right so near togither dwel Behoues that forrest flying feare whereof the Foxe doth tel, Our factious Lancaster & Yorke, thereof could witnes wel. VV. Warner.

Thunder affrights the Infants in the schooles, And threatnings are the conquerors of fooles. I. Markham.

Whom feare constraines to praise their Princes deeds,

That feare eternall, hatted in them feeds. R. Greene.

Feare misinterprets things, each angury The worser way he fondly doth imply. Weaknes is false, and faith in cowards rare, Feare findes our shifts, timitidie is subtill. S. Daniell.

Tis incident to those whom many feare, Many to them more greeuous hate to beare. M. Drayton.

—He whom all men feare, Feareth all men euery where: (Hate inforcing them thereto) Maketh many vndertake Many things they would not do. Th. Kyd.

The only good that growes of passed feare, Is to be wise, and ware of like againe. Ed. Spencer.

A man to feare a womans moodie eire, Makes reason lie a slaue to seruile feare. S. Ph. Sydney.

Nothing seene fearefull, we the most should feare, Great amistes rise before the greatest raine: The water deep'st, where we least murmure heare, In fairest Cups men temper deadliest baine. The nearer night, the ayre more cleare and still, The nearer to one deaths, least fearing ill. M. Drayton.

— Bloodlesse, trustlesse, witlesse feare, That like an Aspen tree, trembles each where, She leads blacke terror, and blacke clownish shame,

And drowsie sloth that counterfeiteth lame, With snailelike motion measuring the ground. Foule sluggish drone, barren (but sinne to breed) Diseased begger, steru'd with wilfull need. I. S. Transl.

The feare of euill doth affright vs more, Then th' euill it selfe, though it seeme nere so sore.