This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1888 Excerpt: ... dares not come; His frown would school a tyrant to be meek; Love's chronicle is painted on his cheek, Where lilies and fresh roses spread so high As death himself to see them fade would die. Stupr. For this you love him?Riv. For all this I do, Yet 'tis a wonder that I should do so, Except induced by some strange ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1888 Excerpt: ... dares not come; His frown would school a tyrant to be meek; Love's chronicle is painted on his cheek, Where lilies and fresh roses spread so high As death himself to see them fade would die. Stupr. For this you love him?Riv. For all this I do, Yet 'tis a wonder that I should do so, Except induced by some strange fallacy, For neither upland fly nor meadow bee That traffic daily on this flowery plain, &c. Nero R Has hummed sweet canzons both in verse and prose, Which I ne'er minded. Astrophel, a bee (Although not so poetical as he) Yet in his full invention quick and ripe, In summer evenings on his well-tuned pipe, Upon a woodbine blossom in the sun (Our hive being clean swept and our day's work done) Would play me twenty several tunes; yet I Nor minded Astrophel nor his melody. Then there's Aminter,1 for whose love fair Lede (That pretty bee) flies up and down the mead With rivers in her eyes, without deserving Sent me trim acorn cups,2 of his own carving, To drink May dew and mead in. Yet none of these, My hive-born playfellows and neighbour bees, Could I affect, until this strange bee came; And him I love with such an ardent flame Discretion cannot quench. Are. Alas, good heart! What pains she has ta'en to study o'er my part.3 How doth he spend his time?Ula. Labours and toils, Extracts more honey out of barren soils Than twenty lazy drones. I have heard my father, Steward of the hive, profess that he had rather Lose half the swarm than him. If a bee poor or weak Grow faint on's way, or by misfortune break A wing or leg against a twig; alive Or dead he'll bring into the master's hive 1 Reading of the MS.; the quarto has "Amniter." 2 MS. reading, adopted by Mr. Bullen; the quarto has "trim acorn boughs." 3 So in MS. The quarto reads: ...
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