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 15, 2024.
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Humilitie.
He was an aged syre, hoary gray,With lookes full lowly cast, and gate full slowe,Wont on a staffe his feeble steps to stay,Hight Humilta: they passe in stouping lowe,For straight and narrow was the way that he did showe.Ed. Spencer.
Humilitie to heauen, the step, the staireIs, for deuotion, sacrifice, and praier.M. Drayton.
The bending knee in safetie still doth goe,When others stumble, as too stiffe to bowe.Idem.
As on the vnsauourie stocke, the Lillie is borne,And as the Rose growes on the pricking thorne,So modest life with sobs of grieuous smart,And cries deuout, comes from an humble hart.Th. Hudson. Transl,
More honour in Humilitie, then safetie in walles,Proud liuers proue not monuments, saue onely in their falles.VV. Warner.
Ah God shield man that I should clime,and learne to looke aloft:This reed is ripe, that oftentime:great climers fall vnsoft.In humble dale is footing fast,the trode is not so fickle:And though one fall through heedlesse haste,yet is his misse not mickle.Ed. Spencer.
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The lowly heart doth win the loue of all,But pride at last, is sure of shamefull fall.G. Tur.
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