Date:1600
Description:‘Quotations’ from Shakespeare and Christopher Marlowe. This anonymous collection of quotations includes the work of popular playwrights of the day including Christopher Marlowe, Thomas Dekker and William Shakespeare, as well as their contemporary poets from Edmund Spenser to Samuel Daniel. Page 182 of this volume reads: [modern spelling] THE CHOICEST FLOWERS Love deeply grounded, hardly is dissembled Ch.[ristopher] Marlowe. O bold believing love, how hot it seems Not to believe, and yet too credulous Thy weale [well-being] and woe are both of them extremes Despair and hope make thee ridiculous The one doth flatter thee in thoughts unlikely The likely thoughts the other kills quickly W[illiam] Sha[kespeare] Love goes towards love, as schoolboys from their books But love from love toward school with heavy looks Idem [i.e.the same = W[illiam] Sha[kespeare] Love can comment upon every woe. Idem [i.e.the same = W[illiam] Sha[kespeare] Cupid’s deep rivers have their shallow fords His grief bring joys, his loss recompenses, He breeds the sore and cures us of the pain, Achilles’ lance, that wounds and heals again. Ed. [Edmund] Fairfax Wonder it is to see in divers minds How diversely love doth his pageants play And shows his power in variable kinds The baser wit whose idle thoughts always Are wont to cleave unto the lowly clay It stirs up to sensual desire And in leaden sloth to waste his careless day, But in brave spirits it kindles goodly fire, That to all his desert and honour doth aspire. Ed[mund] Spenser [followed by 2 lines which continue a quotation onto the next page.] Full title:England's Parnassus: the choysest flowers of our moderne poets [compiled by Robert Allott]. Imprinted at London for N. L[ing], C.B[urby] and Th[omas]. Hayes, 1600.
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