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 June 16, 2024.

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Audacitie.

What need we creepe the crosse to giue vnto a begging saint, Tush, tush, a fig for booke loue, none be fortunate, that faint. W. Warner.
Things out of hope are compast oft with ventering, Chiefly in loue, whose leaue exceeds commission: Affection faints not like a pale fac'd coward, But then woes best, when most his choice is froward. W. Shakespeare.
Blushing and sighing Theseus neuer stroue To wooe and winne Antiope his loue. I. Weeuer.
—VVhen all is done that do we may, Labour we sorrowing all the night, and suing all the day,

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The female faultie custome yeelds lesse merit, greatest pay: And ventrous more then vertuous means doth bear the bel away. W. Warner.
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