 I must have wanton poets, pleasant wits, Musicians, that with touching of a string May draw the pliant king which way I please: Music and poetry is his delight; Therefore I'll have Italian masks by night, Sweet speeches, comedies, and pleasing shows...  A School History of English Literature - Page 193by Elizabeth Lee - 1896 - 206 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Leigh Hunt - English poetry - 1846 - 402 pages
...string May draw the pliant king which way I please. Music and poetry are his delight : Therefore I 'll have Italian masks by night; Sweet speeches, comedies,...and pleasing shows ; And in the day, when he shall walk abroad, Like sylvan nymphs my pages shall be clad : My men, like satyrs grazing on the lawns,... | |
 | Christopher Marlowe, Alexander Dyce - English drama - 1850 - 460 pages
...myself. ALL. We will wait here about the court. GAV. Do. [Exeunt POOR MEN. These are not men for me ; I must have wanton poets, pleasant wits, Musicians,...poetry is his delight ; Therefore I'll have Italian masques by night, Sweet speeches, comedies, and pleasing shows ; And in the day, when he shall walk... | |
 | Bernard Burke - Heraldry - 1850 - 630 pages
...Gaveston to bring together for the amusement of royalty, the highest entertainment then in fashion. " I must have wanton poets, pleasant wits, Musicians that with touching of a string May drawe the pliant King which way I please. Music and poetry are his delight; Therefore I'll have Italian... | |
 | Literature - 1865 - 740 pages
...poetical description is all that we can find space for here. QAVISTON. I must have wanton poets, pleasant Musicians, that with touching of a string May draw...: Music and poetry is his delight : Therefore I'll hare Italian masks by night, Sweet speeches, comedies, and pleasing shows ; And in the day, when ho... | |
 | Charles Lamb - English drama - 1854 - 572 pages
...string May draw the pliant king which way I please. Music and poetry are his delight ; Therefore I 'll have Italian masks by night, Sweet speeches, comedies,...and pleasing shows; And in the day, when he shall walk abroad, Like sylvan nymphs my pages shall be clad ; My men, like satyrs grazing on the lawns,... | |
 | Dr. Doran (John) - Knights and knighthood - 1856 - 532 pages
...well catalogued in one of Gaveston's speeches in Marlowe's tragedy, called by this king's name : " I must have wanton poets, pleasant wits, Musicians,...pliant king which way I please ; Music and poetry are his delight, Therefore I'll have Italian masks by night, Sweet speeches, comedies, and pleasing... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1857 - 468 pages
...CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE. Gaveston shows what pleasures those are which the King chiefly ac~ lights in. Gav. 1 must have wanton poets, pleasant wits, Musicians,...the pliant King which way I please. Music and poetry are his delight • Therefore I'll have Italian masks by night, Sweet speeches, comedies, and pleasing... | |
 | Beautiful poetry - 1859 - 420 pages
...into love. Our own heart, and not other men's opinions, Forms our true honour. COLERIDGE. PLEASURES. I must have wanton poets, pleasant wits, Musicians,...the pliant king which way I please. Music and poetry are his delight; Therefore I'll have Italian masks by night, Sweet speeches, comedies, and pleasing... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1859 - 550 pages
...lingering modulation. MYTHOLOGY AND COURT AMUSEMENTS. ffaciston meditates hate to govern Edward the Second I must have wanton poets, pleasant wits, Musicians, that with touching of a tiring May draw the pliant king which way I please. Music and poetry are his delight : Therefore I'll... | |
 | Christopher Marlowe, Alexander Dyce - 1865 - 476 pages
...myself. AU. We will wait here about the court. Qav. Do. [Exeunt Poor Men. These are not men for me ; I must have wanton poets, pleasant wits, Musicians,...draw the pliant king which way I please : Music and poeti-y* U his delight; • M-ufie and pofiry, &c ] "How exactly the author, as ;he learned Ur. Hurd... | |
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