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... unto whom these posies shall happen to be presented , George Gascoigne , Esquire , professing armes in defence of God's trueth , wisheth quiet in conscience , and all consolation in Christ Jesus . " The religious poems of Gascoigne were ...
... unto whom these posies shall happen to be presented , George Gascoigne , Esquire , professing armes in defence of God's trueth , wisheth quiet in conscience , and all consolation in Christ Jesus . " The religious poems of Gascoigne were ...
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... unto the Jewes which were led away prisoners by the king of Babilon , wherein he certifyeth them of the thinges which was commanded him of God ; " being a paraphrase of the sixth chapter of the apocryphal book of Baruch . At the end is ...
... unto the Jewes which were led away prisoners by the king of Babilon , wherein he certifyeth them of the thinges which was commanded him of God ; " being a paraphrase of the sixth chapter of the apocryphal book of Baruch . At the end is ...
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... unto thy heaven's hight Where I may see those admirable things Which there thou workest by thy soveraine might Farre above feeble reach of earthly sight , That I thereof an heavenly hymne may sing Unto the God of Love , high heaven's ...
... unto thy heaven's hight Where I may see those admirable things Which there thou workest by thy soveraine might Farre above feeble reach of earthly sight , That I thereof an heavenly hymne may sing Unto the God of Love , high heaven's ...
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... unto my thought , To tell the marveiles by thy mercie wrought . Yet being pregnant still with powrefull grace , And full of fruitfull Love , that loves to get Things like himselfe , and to enlarge his race , His second brood , though ...
... unto my thought , To tell the marveiles by thy mercie wrought . Yet being pregnant still with powrefull grace , And full of fruitfull Love , that loves to get Things like himselfe , and to enlarge his race , His second brood , though ...
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... unto them all one ; For He His beames doth unto them extend , That darknesse there appeareth never none ; Ne hath their day , ne hath their blisse , an end , But there their termelesse time in pleasure spend : Ne ever should their ...
... unto them all one ; For He His beames doth unto them extend , That darknesse there appeareth never none ; Ne hath their day , ne hath their blisse , an end , But there their termelesse time in pleasure spend : Ne ever should their ...
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angels ANTHONY MUNDAY behold blessed blisse bloud bounty endeth never brest Christ comfort Countess of Pembroke dayes Dayntie Deuises didst diuine dooth doth DUDLEY FENNER earth ELIZ eternall euen euery eyes farre feare flesh foes FRANCIS DAVISON George Gascoigne giue glorious glory God's godly grace hand hart hast hath haue heauen heavenly holy HUMPHREY GIFFORD infinite ioyes Jehova kindnesse lasteth King light liue Lord Lord Vaux loue mightie minde moue mynd neuer NICHOLAS BRETON nought Old Version paine Paradise of Dayntie poems POETS powre praise Psalms published put to death Queen Elizabeth raigne rest sacred shal shee shew sight sinfull sing sinne Sinner Sir Philip Sidney Sith song Sonne SONNET soule soule's sunne sweete thee thine things thou thought thy mercie truth unto vaine vertue vnto vpon wicked wisedome wishte wrote wyll wyshte
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Page 32 - Being with thy deare blood clene washt from sin, May live for ever in felicity: And that thy love we weighing worthily, May likewise love thee...
Page 30 - And is there care in Heaven ? and is there love In heavenly spirits to these creatures base, That may compassion of their evils move ? There is...
Page 18 - His grace, his doome, his mercy, and his might, By which he lends us of himselfe a sight! Those unto all he daily doth display, And shew himselfe in th...
Page xlvii - Hymns, is set forth, and allowed to be sung in all congregations of the said church, before and after Morning and Evening Prayer, and also before and after Sermons, at the discretion of the minister.
Page xxiii - ... he goes twitching and hopping in our language like a man running upon quagmires, up the hill in one syllable, and down the dale in another, retaining no part of that stately smooth gait which he vaunts himself with among the Greeks and Latins.
Page 30 - O ! th" exceeding grace Of highest God that loves his creatures so, And all his works with mercy doth embrace, That blessed Angels he sends to and fro, To serve to wicked man, to serve his wicked foe...
Page 19 - The meanes, therefore, which unto us is lent Him to behold, is on his workes to looke, Which he hath made in beauty excellent, And in the same, as in a brasen booke, lag To read enregistred in every nooke His goodnesse, which his beautie doth declare ; For all thats good is beautifull and faire.
Page 24 - And looke at last up to that Soveraine Light, From whose pure beams al perfect beauty springs, That kindleth love in every godly spright Even the love of God; which loathing brings Of this vile world and these gay-seeming things; With whose sweete pleasures being so possest, Thy straying thoughts henceforth for ever rest.
Page 30 - How oft do they with golden pinions cleave The flitting skies, like flying pursuivant, Against foul fiends to aid us militant ! They for us fight, they watch and duly ward, And their bright squadrons round about us plant, And all for love, and nothing for reward : Oh, why should heavenly God to men have such regard ?1 This agrees with what is recorded of St.
Page 12 - Him first to love that was so dearly bought, And next our brethren to his image wrought. Him first to love great right and reason is, Who first to us our life and being gave, And after, when we fared had...