The Belides or Eulogie and elegie, of that truly honourable John Lord Harrington Baron of Exton, who was elevated hence the 27th of Febr. 1613. vvanting then tvvo moneths of 22. yeares old. By G.T.
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- The Belides or Eulogie and elegie, of that truly honourable John Lord Harrington Baron of Exton, who was elevated hence the 27th of Febr. 1613. vvanting then tvvo moneths of 22. yeares old. By G.T.
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- G. T. (George Tooke), 1595-1675.
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- London :: [s.n.],
- printed 1647.
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- Harington of Exton, John Harington, -- Baron, d. 1613 -- Early works to 1800.
- Fairfax, William, d. 1621 -- Early works to 1800.
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"The Belides or Eulogie and elegie, of that truly honourable John Lord Harrington Baron of Exton, who was elevated hence the 27th of Febr. 1613. vvanting then tvvo moneths of 22. yeares old. By G.T." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A62938.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 20, 2024.
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TO THE READER.
I Must ingeniously profes that though our vulgar Poesie pretend so much to second causes, usually praying ayd of wine and oyle; yet are these insuing, meerely such night-peeces, as for the most part were drawn without either; their contexture succeding only to preoccupate, and forelay the mind from other prejudice; for, after a competence of rest and sweet repose, the Senses being then
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chained up in darknesse, the mind more intent; and through an aptitude, a brisk∣nesse of fancy interposing, the muse then and thus, has often kept me welcome com∣pany. On whose behalfe, if she sometime ruffe it higher, prove more airie; yet a Souldiers Tract may be buskin'd above or∣dinary, may with some proprietie demand it, and these words of Art, those military dresses here and there inserted. A Poet also has the prerogative freely to follow the propensitude of his Genius; and our lan∣guage as supplyed from abroad, is of richer variety for the cadence of either Prose or Verse. Verstegan will indeed upbraid Chau-with it as prejudiciall; and another Ne∣therlander, has objected our English to me, for made up of severall shreds like a Beg∣gars Cloake; yet will their own Killianus acknowledge the Teutonick also thus en∣nobled; and our language is rather by this assistance, a beautifull Mosaick-worke, or the Venus of Apelles, since to render it such a Non-pareille, we have thus enrich'd it, with
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severall Foreine Jem's and winning features. Briefly, where these may seeme difficult and un-usuall; behold the Margent a present Oe∣dipus for their decypher, and fitter is it that that the Page should suffer, than the Master.
G. T.