The Works of William Fowler Secretary to Queen Anne, Wife of James VI. Edited with introduction, appendix, notes and glossary by Henry W. Meikle |
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X. [ON THOMAS CORYATE THE TRAVELLER.]
Thou ass-Vlisses lyke, Ass far from home,
ass-painful on thy leggs as he on foote,
and thou on foote asslyke from thy Odeomme
hathe circueted soyles with a clouted boote,
contemning toyle with resolut advyse,
for to susteane the bytes of fleas and lyce.
ass-painful on thy leggs as he on foote,
and thou on foote asslyke from thy Odeomme
hathe circueted soyles with a clouted boote,
contemning toyle with resolut advyse,
for to susteane the bytes of fleas and lyce.
But to what end? but for thy contryies good:
thy painful penn vnto our eyes layth oppen
the travells of fyve monnths with litill food,
who hathe suche seaes orsaylde and lands orloppen:
Cæsar did wryte, he camm, he veued, he wan,
but thow In the hathe playd a brauer man.
thy painful penn vnto our eyes layth oppen
the travells of fyve monnths with litill food,
who hathe suche seaes orsaylde and lands orloppen:
Cæsar did wryte, he camm, he veued, he wan,
but thow In the hathe playd a brauer man.
Sicilien wonders and Cyanez Rockes,
caribdis suelling waues and Scyllas Sees,
the siren songs and Lestrigoniem knocks
thow hast escapd (not veued by thy eyes);
pheacien feeldes thou left (as yet vntraced)
for tymes to come to mak the more then graced.
caribdis suelling waues and Scyllas Sees,
the siren songs and Lestrigoniem knocks
thow hast escapd (not veued by thy eyes);
pheacien feeldes thou left (as yet vntraced)
for tymes to come to mak the more then graced.
Lex hæc lineis imposita est Iocosis
Vt nisi pruriant non possint Valere.
Vt nisi pruriant non possint Valere.
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