Lanterna Rally

Author: Guillaume De Salluste Du Bartas

Publisher: Theclassics.Us

Published: 2013-09

Total Pages: 108

ISBN-13: 9781230248219

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1908 edition. Excerpt: ... APPENDIX EPISTLE TO ROBERT NICOLSON Though providence all prudent have decreed To hold me still under the tyrant, Need; So hard and scant that scarce a breathing while My care-full life hath had just cause to smile, Of all the wants I feel, of all the woes-- Witness Heart-Searcher which all secrets knows-- None woundeth deeper my distressful breast Than want of power to parallel the least Of thousand favors, of a thousand kinds Vouchsafed me from many noble minds, Among which number, neither least nor last In my memorial is your merit placed; The constant kindness of whose cordial love From my best thought shall never aught remove. For though, alas, my fates no means afford To quit good turns, my faith shall them record, And sue with sighs unto th' eternal Throne, My friends may reap what they have kindly sowni; So that for one they may have seven times seven In earth of grace, of glory more in heaven. Hereby in part you may perceive, report Hath bruited false my fortunes in the court. The King indeed, whose bounty is renowned, Now five years since gave me five hundred pound Of debts long due to our late royal maid1 Which never were nor never will be paid, Because Prince Henry, who devised the plot, Died suddenly ere anything was got; Nor could I since have light of anything, Wherein to seek the favor of the King. My gracious Prince! O how his name doth pierce My grieved soul, and sables all my verse! Henry, my whole and sole Macaenas late, With princely pension did relieve my state; With princely purpose to have deigned me room Of grace and gain--his privy chamber-groom. But he is dead, alas, and with him died My present help and future hope beside; So that, with Job, I murmur not, but mourn, "Naked I came, and naked shall return." His...