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V.a.125
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A book of verses collected by me, R. Dungarvan [manuscript].
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A book of verses collected by me, R. Dungarvan [manuscript].
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Part II. When reading Part II, Part I is inverted and reversed.
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Part II. When reading Part II, Part I is inverted and reversed.
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Burlington, Richard Boyle, Earl of, 1612-1698, compiler.
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Burlington, Richard Boyle, Earl of, 1612-1698, compiler.
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Source Created or Published:
ca. 1630
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ca. 1630
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folio 18 verso || folio 19 recto
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folio 18 verso || folio 19 recto
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Transcription:
Pittie their dullnesse; wee that better know Will a more serious hower on thee bestow Why should not Beaumont in the morning please As well as Plaut us , Aristophanes . Who if my pen may as my thoughts bee free Were scurrill witts & Buffones both to thee Yet these our learned of seuerest brow Will dayne to looke on, & to note them to. That defye our owne, t'is English stuffe And th Author is not rotten long enough. Alas what fleame are they compard with thee In thy Philaster & Mayds Tragedie. Where's such an humor as thy Bessus? Nay Let them put all their Thrasoes in one play Hee shall out bid them: Their conceit was poore All in the circuit of a Bawd & whore. A cosening Danus, Take the foole away And not a good iust extant in the play Yet these are wits because they're old & now Being Greeke & Latine they are learned to. But these their owne time were content t'allow A thriftie fame, and thine is lowest now. But thou shalt liue & when thy name is growne Sixe ages old or shalt bee better knowne When th'art [of] with Chaucer s standing in the tombe Thou shalt not share but take vp all his roome dividing line I E. page break 19. On the Lady Markham You wormes my riuals while shee was aliue How many thousand were there that did striue To haue your freedome for their sakes forbeare Vnseemely holes in her soft soft skin to weare But if you must (as what worme can abstaine Tast of her tender body yet refraine W i th your disorder'd eatings to deface her And feed y ou r selues soe as you most may grace her First through her eare tips see you worke a paire Of holes which as the moist inclosed aire Turnes into water may the cold drops take And in her eares a paire of iewels make That done vpon her bosome make y ou r feast Where on a crosse carue Iesus on her breast Haue you not yet enough of that white skin The touch of which in times past might haue [ben] binne Enough t'haue ransom'd many a thousand soule Captiu'd to loue. then hence y ou r bodies rowle A little higher, where I wold you haue This Epitaph vpon her forehead graue Liuing shee was young faire & full of witt Dead all her faults are in hir forehead writt As vnthrifts mourne in strawe for their pawned beds As woemen weepe for their lost mayden heads When both are with out hope of remedy Such an vntimely greife haue I for thee
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Pittie their dullnesse; wee that better know Will a more serious hower on thee bestow Why should not Beaumont in the morning please As well as Plaut us , Aristophanes . Who if my pen may as my thoughts bee free Were scurrill witts & Buffones both to thee Yet these our learned of seuerest brow Will dayne to looke on, & to note them to. That defye our owne, t'is English stuffe And th Author is not rotten long enough. Alas what fleame are they compard with thee In thy Philaster & Mayds Tragedie. Where's such an humor as thy Bessus? Nay Let them put all their Thrasoes in one play Hee shall out bid them: Their conceit was poore All in the circuit of a Bawd & whore. A cosening Danus, Take the foole away And not a good iust extant in the play Yet these are wits because they're old & now Being Greeke & Latine they are learned to. But these their owne time were content t'allow A thriftie fame, and thine is lowest now. But thou shalt liue & when thy name is growne Sixe ages old or shalt bee better knowne When th'art [of] with Chaucer s standing in the tombe Thou shalt not share but take vp all his roome dividing line I E. page break 19. On the Lady Markham You wormes my riuals while shee was aliue How many thousand were there that did striue To haue your freedome for their sakes forbeare Vnseemely holes in her soft soft skin to weare But if you must (as what worme can abstaine Tast of her tender body yet refraine W i th your disorder'd eatings to deface her And feed y ou r selues soe as you most may grace her First through her eare tips see you worke a paire Of holes which as the moist inclosed aire Turnes into water may the cold drops take And in her eares a paire of iewels make That done vpon her bosome make y ou r feast Where on a crosse carue Iesus on her breast Haue you not yet enough of that white skin The touch of which in times past might haue [ben] binne Enough t'haue ransom'd many a thousand soule Captiu'd to loue. then hence y ou r bodies rowle A little higher, where I wold you haue This Epitaph vpon her forehead graue Liuing shee was young faire & full of witt Dead all her faults are in hir forehead writt As vnthrifts mourne in strawe for their pawned beds As woemen weepe for their lost mayden heads When both are with out hope of remedy Such an vntimely greife haue I for thee
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Credit:
Transcriptions made by Shakespeare's World volunteers (shakespearesworld.org), participants in EMROC classes and transcribathons (emroc.hypotheses.org), participants in Folger paleography classes and transcribathons, and Folger docents.