Remains, Historical and Literary, Connected with the Palatine Counties of Lancaster and Chester, Volume 55

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Chetham Society., 1861
 

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Page 257 - Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him. For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world. And the world passeth away, and the lust thereof: but he that doeth the will of God abideth for ever.
Page 330 - Several Poems, compiled with great variety of wit and learning, full of delight; wherein especially is contained a complete discourse and description of the four elements, constitutions, ages of man, seasons of the year; together with an exact epitome of the...
Page 272 - Yea, for thy sake are we killed all the day long; we are counted as sheep for the slaughter.
Page 335 - Fish which in this liquid region 'bide, That for each season have your habitation, Now salt, now fresh, where you think best to glide, To unknown coasts to give a visitation, In lakes and ponds, you leave your numerous fry, So nature taught, and yet you know not why, You...
Page 335 - I once that lov'd the shady woods so well, Now thought the rivers did the trees excel, And if the sun would ever shine, there would I dwell.
Page 335 - O happy flood, quoth I, that holds thy race Till thou arrive at thy beloved place, Nor is it rocks or shoals that can obstruct thy pace. Nor is't enough, that thou alone may'st slide, But hundred brooks in thy clear waves do meet, So hand in hand along with thee they glide To Thetis' house, where all embrace and greet.
Page 335 - Eye, No wonder, some made thee a Deity; Had I not better known, (alas) the same had I.
Page 425 - Journal, Under the Names of Mirtilus and Faustulus shadowed : for the Travellers Solace lately published, to most apt numbers reduced, and to the old Tune of Barnabe commonly chanted. By Corymbaeus. The oyle of Malt and juyce of spritely nectar Have made my Muse more valiant than Hector.
Page 226 - London Printed for Tho. Parkhurst, at the Bible and Three Crowns, at the lower end of Cheapside near Mercers Chappel.
Page 330 - Epitomie of the four Monarchies, viz. The Assyrian, Persian, Grecian, Roman. Also a Dialogue between Old England and New, concerning the late troubles. With divers other pleasant and serious Poems. By a Gentlewoman in those parts.

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