The complete works in verse and prose of Samuel Daniel Edited with memorial-introduction and a glossarial index embracing notes and illustrations. By the Rev. Alexander B. Grosart |
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Concerning the honor of bookes.
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The complete works in verse and prose of Samuel Daniel | ||
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Concerning the honor of bookes.
Since Honor from the Honorer proceeds,How well do they deserue that memorie
And leaue in bookes for all posterities
The names of worthyes, and their vertuous deedes
When all their glorie els, like water weedes
Without their element, presently dyes,
And all their greatnes quite forgotten lyes:
And when, and how they florisht no man heedes.
How poore remembrances, are statutes, Toomes
And other monuments that men erect
To Princes, which remaine in closed roomes
Where but a few behold them; in respect
Of Bookes, that to the vniuersall eye
Shew how they liu'd, the other where they lye.
The complete works in verse and prose of Samuel Daniel | ||