The Works in Verse and Prose (including hitherto unpublished Mss.) of Sir John Davies: for the first time collected and edited: With memorial-introductions and notes: By the Rev. Alexander B. Grosart. In three volumes |
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HYMNE XXIV. Of her Magnanimitie.
Euen as her State, so is her mind,
Lifted aboue the vulgar kind:
It treades proud Fortune vnder;
Sun-like it sits aboue the wind,
Aboue the stormes and thunder.
Lifted aboue the vulgar kind:
It treades proud Fortune vnder;
Sun-like it sits aboue the wind,
Aboue the stormes and thunder.
Braue spirit, large heart, admiring nought,
Esteeming each thing as it ought,
That swelleth not, nor shrinketh:
Honour is alwayes in her thought,
And of great things she thinketh
Esteeming each thing as it ought,
That swelleth not, nor shrinketh:
Honour is alwayes in her thought,
And of great things she thinketh
Rocks, pillars, and heauen's axel tree,
Exemplifie her constancy;
Great changes neuer change her:
In her sexe, feares are wont to rise,
Nature permits, Vertue denies,
And scornes the face of Daunger.
Exemplifie her constancy;
Great changes neuer change her:
In her sexe, feares are wont to rise,
Nature permits, Vertue denies,
And scornes the face of Daunger.
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