Greene in Conceipt New raised from his graue to write the Tragique Historie of faire Valeria of London. Wherein is Trvly Discovered the rare and lamentable issue of a Husbands dotage, a wiues leudnesse, & childrens disobedience. Receiued and reported by I. D. [i.e. John Dickenson] |
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[Waue-tossing windes characterizing feare]
Waue-tossing windes characterizing feare
On marble furrowes of the threatfull deepe,
Rousde from their caues the lowring aire to teare,
And force the welken floods of showers to weepe:
(Though stormie blastes doe scatter common fire)
Burne midst their stormie blastes in hote desire.
On marble furrowes of the threatfull deepe,
Rousde from their caues the lowring aire to teare,
And force the welken floods of showers to weepe:
(Though stormie blastes doe scatter common fire)
Burne midst their stormie blastes in hote desire.
Wind-tossed waues which with a gyring course
Circle the Centers ouerpeering maine,
And dare heau'ns star-bright turrets in their source,
Can yet not ease their finnie regents paine:
But though the floud, the fire in nature quench,
They burne amidst the flouds which them do drench.
Circle the Centers ouerpeering maine,
And dare heau'ns star-bright turrets in their source,
Can yet not ease their finnie regents paine:
But though the floud, the fire in nature quench,
They burne amidst the flouds which them do drench.
Oh whereto then in drooping hearts distresse,
Shall I a silly man my thoughts conforme,
Which can no more themselues, themselues redresse,
Then may some guidelesse Pinnace in a storme
Encounter safely barking Scillas rocke,
And safely dare Charibdis to the shocke.
Shall I a silly man my thoughts conforme,
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Then may some guidelesse Pinnace in a storme
Encounter safely barking Scillas rocke,
And safely dare Charibdis to the shocke.
Where force doth faile, the weaker needs must yeeld,
Seing submissiue that his smart may cease:
Yet maist thou gaine a farre more glorious field,
Deigning to graunt my care-fraught hearts release.
The conquest this, t'excell in sauing one,
Loues irrelenting God, which saueth none.
Seing submissiue that his smart may cease:
Yet maist thou gaine a farre more glorious field,
Deigning to graunt my care-fraught hearts release.
The conquest this, t'excell in sauing one,
Loues irrelenting God, which saueth none.
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