• he laid his hands upon the *KNEES* of {ARETE} (2/2)

    From Arthur Neuendorffer@21:1/5 to All on Tue Jan 11 17:30:00 2022
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    -------------------------------------------------------------------- http://sicttasd.tripod.com/trimcopy.html ...............................................................
    . THE TRIMMING
    . of Thomas Nashe, Gentleman,
    . by the high-tituled patron Don
    . Richardo de Medico campo, Barber
    . Chirurgion to Trinitie Col-
    . ledge in Cambridge.
    .
    . Faber quas fecit compedes ipse gestat.
    . LONDON, Printed for Philip Scarlet. 1597
    .
    . To the Learned.
    . Eme, perlege, nec te precii pænitebit.
    .
    . To the simple
    . Buy mee, read me through and thou wilt not repente thee of thy cost. ...................................................................
    . Final 'R. Lamb' Note:
    ..........................
    It was Carey who got him out of Newgate back in 1593, and Carey's man
    William Co{T}ton was still Nashe's friend i{N} the summer of 1596.
    Lichfield perh{A}ps hoped after The Isle of Dog{S} Sir George might
    finally was{H} his hands of his disreputabl{E} little protegé?} ............................................................
    . . . . . . . . . <= 25 =>
    .
    . W i l l i a m C o {T} t o n w a s s t i l l N a s h
    . e's f r i e n d i {N} t h e s u m m e r o f.L i c h
    . f i e l d p e r h {A} p s h o p e d a f t e r T h e
    . I s l e o f D o g {S} S i r G e o r g e m i g h t f
    . i n a l l y w a s {H} h i s h a n d s o f h i s d i
    . s r e p u t a b l {E} l i t t l e p r o t e g é?}
    .
    {T.NASHE} 25 : Prob. in last sentence ~ 1 in 33,600 -------------------------------------------------------------------------
    The Arte of English Poesie (1589) https://www.bartleby.com/359/19.html
    . . . The First Booke. Of Poets and Poesie: Last Chapter:

    CHAP. XXXI. Who in Any Age Haue Bene the Most Commended Writers
    . in Our English Poesie, and the Authors Censure Giuen Vpon Them.

    And in her Mai{E}sties time that now is are sprong vp an othe{R} crew of Courtly makers, Noble men and Gentl{E}men of her Maiesties owne seruantes, who ha{VE} written excellently well as it would app{E}are if their doings could be found ou[T] and made
    publicke with the rest; of which [N]umber is first that noble Gentlema{N} *EDW[A]RD EARLE of OXFORD*, Thom{A}s Lord of Bukhur[S]t, when he wa{S} young, Henry Lord Paget, Sir P[H]ilip Sydney, Sir Walter Rawl{E}igh, Master [E]dward Dyar, Maister Fulke
    Greuell, Gascon, Britton, Turberuillem and a great many other learned Gentlemen, whose names I do not omit for enuie, but to auoyde tediousnesse, and who haue deserued no little commendation.
    .......................................................................
    . . . . . . . . . . <= 35 =>
    .
    . A n d i n h e r M a i{E}s t i e s t i m e t h a t n o w i s a r e s p
    . r o n g v p a n o t h e{R}c r e w o f C o u r t l y m a k e r s,N o b
    . l e m e n a n d G e n t l{E}m e n o f h e r M a i e s t i e s o w n e
    . s e r u a n t e s,w h o h{A|V E}w r i t t e n e x c e l l e n t l y w
    . e l l a s i t w o u l d{A}p p{E}a r e i f t h e i r d o i n g s c o u
    . l d b e f o u n d o u[T]a n d m a d e p u b l i c k e w i t h t h e r
    . e s t;o f w h i c h[N]u m b e r i s f i r s t t h a t n o b l e G e n
    . t l e*m a{N}E D W[A]R D E A R L E o f O X F O R D*T h o m{A}s L o r d
    . o f B u k h u r[S]t,w h e n h e w a{S}y o u n g,H e n r y L o r d P a
    . g e t,S i r P[H]i l i p S y d n e y,S i r W a l t e r R a w l{E}i g h,
    . M a s t e r[E]d w a r d D y a r,M a i s t e r F u l k e G r e u e l l ......................
    {E.VERE} -36 : Prob. in Oxford sentence ~ 1 in 10
    {NASHE} 24 : Prob. of 2{NASHE}s in Oxford sentence ~ 1 in 2,230
    [{AA}T.NASHE] 34
    ------------------------------------------------------- http://www.luminarium.org/renlit/nashebio.htm

    The details surrounding [T]homas [NASHE]'s death are uncertain. He died in 1601, aged 34, and various causes ranging from the plague to food poisoning to a stroke have been suggested. In Thomas Dekker's A Knight's Conjuring (2nd ed. revised of his News
    from Hell), he described Nashe in Elysium "still haunted with the sharp and satirical spirit that followed him here upon earth."

    An anonymous contemporary tribute to Nashe said: .............................................................
    . Let all his faults sleep with his mournful chest,
    . And there for ever with his ashes rest.
    . His style was witty, though it had some gall,
    . Some things he might have mended, so may all.
    . Yet this I say, that for a mother wit,
    . Few men have ever seen the like of it. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ http://www.members.tripod.com/sicttasd/death.html

    <<On June 1, 1599 a rather edgy government began a crackdown on satire. In particular it issued a sweeping ban on all Nashe's works, past and to come, ordering the printers to burn existing stocks. From that time on, as Nashe's biographer Charles Nicholl
    puts it, "Amid the smoke of the Elizabethan police state, Nashe begins to fade from view." The next mentions of him make it clear that he is dead.

    In a play produced in 1601 at his old university, Cambridge, comes a valedictory comment.
    ----------------------------------------------------
    . The Returne from Parnassus, Part I (1599) Act III Scene I ..............................................
    GULLIO. He that esteems me of less worth than a k{N}ight is a peasant, and
    . a gull [simpleton, f{O}ol]! Give me a new knight of them all, in fen{C}e
    . school at a Nimbrocado [imbroccata] or {A}t a Stoccado. Sir Oliver,
    . Sir Randal - {B}ase, base chamber-terms! I am saluted every morning
    . by the name of, Good morrow captain, my sword is at your service!

    {BACON} -33
    ..............................................
    . . . . . Act V, Scene I

    GULLIO. Have I a rival? by Bellona my goddess, he should die, could I meet
    with any such audacious (P)uny long cloak! I w(O)uld make him not r(E)fuse
    the humbles(T) vassalage to the (S)ole of my boots. But I warrant my
    Mistress mistook! Indeed, I use not to send on such messages such
    unmannerly knaves as thyself. Thou shouldst, according to thy portion
    of wit, have described unto her the perfections of my mind and body.

    (POETS) 15
    ----------------------------------------------------
    The Return from Parnassus, Part II (1601) Act I Scene II

    INGENIOSO. Christopher Marlowe.

    IUDICIO. Marlowe was happy in his buskined muse,
    . Alas! unhappy in his life and end;
    . Pity it is that wit so ill should dwell,
    . Wit lent from heaven, but vices sent from hell.

    INGENIOSO. Our Theatre hath lost, Pluto hath got,
    . A tragic penman for a dreary plot.

    Benjamin Ionson.

    IUDICIO. The wittiest fellow of a Bricklayer in England.

    INGENIOSO. A mere Empiric, one that gets what he hath by observation, and
    . makes only nature privy to what he endites; so slow an inventor, that
    . he were better betake himself, to his old trade of Bricklaying; a bold
    . whoreson, as confident now in making of a book, as he was in times past
    . in laying of a brick.

    William Shakespeare.

    IUDICIO. W[H]o loves not Adon’s lov[E], or Lucrece’ rape;
    . His s[W]eeter verse contain[S] heart-robbing life,
    . Could but a graver subject him content,
    . Without love’s foolish lazy languishment.
    .............................
    [HEWS] 18
    .............................
    INGENIOSO. Churchyard.
    . Hath not Shore’s wife [a ballad], although a light-skirts she,
    . Given him a chaste long-lasting memory?

    IUDICIO. No, all light pamphlets once, aye, finden shall,
    . A Church-yard and a grave to bury all.

    INGENIOSO. Thomas Nash.
    . Ay! here is a fellow, Iudicio, that carried the deadly
    . Stockado in his pen, whose muse was armed with a gagtooth,
    . and his pen possessed with Hercules’ furies.

    IUDICIO. Let all his faults sleep with his mournful chest,
    . And then for ever with his ashes rest.
    . His style was witty, though he had some gall.
    . Some things he might have mended, so may all.
    . Yet this I say, that for a mother wit,
    . Few men have ever seen the like of it.

    Ingenioso reads the rest of the names.

    IUDICIO. As for these, they have some of them been the old hedgestakes
    . of the press, and some of them are at this instant the bots and
    . glanders of the printing house. Fellows that stand only upon terms
    . to serve the turn, with their blotted papers, write as men go to
    . stool, for needs, and when they write, they write as a bear pisses,
    . now and then drop a pamphlet. -------------------------------------------­--------
    . . . http://tinyurl.com/yafpyqk
    .
    The KJV (1611) frontispiece: at the top center,
    . . is: a grotesque *St.THOMAS* with a
    . *MASONic CARPENTER's SQUARE* in *SHADOW* --------------------------------------------------------
    One should note Doubting Thomas's attributes:
    .
    1) . SPEAR (means of his Christian martyrdom),
    2) *MASONic CARPENTER's SQUARE* (his profession, a builder) --------------------------------------------------------------
    The KJV (1611) Epistle Dedicatory http://www.hilltopbaptistnewport.net/images/DedicatoryCover.jpg .......................................................
    . TO THE MOST HIGH AND MIGHTIE
    . (P)rince, (I)AMES by the grace of (G)od
    . King of Great Britaine,{FRANC}e, and Irela[n]d,
    . Defender [o]f the Faith, &[c].
    . THE TRANSL[A]TORS OF THE [B]IBLE,
    . wish Grace, Mercie, and Peace, through IESVS
    . Christ our Lord.
    ............................................
    *MASONic CARPENTER's SQUARE* :
    .
    . . . . <= 10 =>
    .
    .. {F R A N C.} E A N D I
    .. R E L A [N]. D,D E F E
    .. N D E R [O]. F T H E F
    .. A I T H [C]. T h e T r
    .. a n s l [A]. t o r s o
    .. f t h e [B]. i b l e w
    .. i s h G. r . a c e,M e
    .. r c i e, a . n d P e a
    .. c e,t h. r . o u g h I
    .. E S V S. C . h r i s t
    .. o u r L. o . r d.
    .
    [BACON] -10 : Prob. ~ 1 in 750 -------------------------­---------------------------- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_the_Apostle

    <<John 20:24–29 tells how *DOUBTING THOMAS* was skeptical
    at first when he *HEARD* that Jesus had risen from the dead
    and appeared to the other apostles, saying, "Except I shall
    *SEE* on his hands the print of the nails... I will not
    believe."[20:25] Jesus then said, "*THOMAS*, because
    thou hast *SEEN* me, thou hast believed: blessed [are]
    they that have not *SEEN*, and [yet] have believed.">> .......................................................... http://www.philological.bham.ac.uk/anagrams/text.html
    .
    ____ . *EDOUARUS VEIERUS*
    ____ . . per anagramma
    ____ . *AURE SURDUS VIDEO*
    .
    _______ *EDWARD VERE*
    ______ . by an anagram
    ____ *DEAFE IN MY (EARE), I SEE*>> ------------------------------------------­--------
    Horace: We are but *DUST* and *SHADOW* -------------------------------------------­--------
    . . *EUPHUES SHADOW*, THE Battaile of the Sences.
    .
    Wherein youthfull folly is set downe in his right figur[E], and
    vaine fancies a[R]e prooue{D} to (P)roduc[E] many off{E}nc(E)s.
    Hereunto is an{N}ex(E)d *th[E DE]AFE* mans Dia(L)ogue,
    contayning Philamis Athanatos: fit for all sortes
    to peruse, and the better sorte to practise. .............................................
    . . . . . . . . . <= 17 =>
    .
    . . W h e .r. e i .n. y. o u t h .f. u l .l
    . f o l l .y. i s .s. e. t d o w .n. e i .n
    . h i s r .i. g h .t. f. i g u r [E] a n .d
    . v a i n .e. f a .n. c. i e s a [R] e p .r
    . o o u e {D} t o (P) r. o d u c [E] m a .n
    . y o f f {E} n c (E) s. H e r e [U] n t {O}
    . i s a n {N} e x (E) d *t h [E D E] A F {E}*
    . m a n s .D. i a (L) o. g u e
    .
    [E DE/UERE] -17 : Prob. any skip ~ 1 in 300
    {NED} . . . -17
    {E.O.}. . . -17
    .............................................
    By T. L. Gent. LONDON 1592.

    Printed by Abell Ieffes, for Iohn Busbie, and are to be sould at
    his shop in Paules Churchyard, neere to the West doore of Paules. --------------------------------------------------------------
    • [T]homas [LODGE] – “Rosalynde: Euphues Golden Legacy, Found After
    .. His Death In His Cell At *SILEXEDRA*” (based on As You Like It).
    .
    <<[LODGE] would later reminisce about the Silexedra years in his novel
    . EUPHUES *SHADOW*. In a prefatory epistle to the book, [LODGE] noted
    . how “Euphues repent the prime of his youth misspent in *FOLLY*
    . and virtuously end the winter of his age in *SILEXEDRA*.>>
    . . . . . . . . . - Mark Anderson ------------------------------------------------------
    . . . (1593, Ad Maecenatum Prologus)

    The Honour of the Garter. Displaied in a Poeme Gratulatorie:
    Entitled to the worthie and renowned Earle of *NORTHUMBERLAND*.
    Created Knight of that Order, and installd at Windsore.
    Anno Regni Elizabethae. 35. Die Junii. 26.
    By [G]eorge [PEELE], Maister of Artes in Oxenforde. ...........................................
    Plaine is my coate, and humble is my gate:
    Thrice-noble Earle, behold with gentle eyes
    My wits poore worth: even for your noblesse,
    (Renowmed lord, Northumberlands fayre flower)
    The Muses love, Patrone, and favouret,
    That artizans and schollers doest embrace,
    And clothest Mathesis in rich ornaments,
    That admirable mathematique skill,
    Familiar with the starres and Zodiack.
    (To whom the heaven lyes open as her booke)
    By whose directions undeceivable,
    (Leaving our Schoolemens vulgar trodden pathes)
    ...
    And following the auncient *rEVEREnD* steps
    Of *Trismegistus* and *PYTHAGORAS* ,

    Why thither post not all good wits from hence,
    To Chaucer, Gower, and to the fayrest Phaer
    That *EVER VEntured on great VIRGILS works?
    *To WATSON*, worthy many Epitaphes
    ...
    Why hie they not, unhappy in thine end,
    {MARLEY} , the Muses darling for thy verse; -------------------------------------------------------
    . Venus and Adonis (Quarto 1, *1593*) Lines 151 - 155
    .
    Witnesse this Primros[E] banke whereon I [L]ie,
    These forcel[E]sse flowers lik[E] sturdy trees su[P]port me:
    Two stre[G]thles doues will draw me through the skie,
    From morne till night, euen where I list to sport me. ..............................................................
    . . . . .<= 14 =>
    .
    . W i t n e. s .s e t h i s P r
    . i m r o s [E] b a n k e w h e
    . r e o n I [L] i e,T h e s e f
    . o r c e l [E] s s e f l o w e
    . r s l i k [E] s t u r d y t r
    . e e s s u [P] p o r t m e:T w
    . o s t r e [G] t h l e s d o u
    . e s w i l. l .d r a w m e


    [G.PEELE] -14
    .......................................................
    . Is loue so light sweet boy, and may it be,
    . That thou should thinke it heauie vnto thee?
    . Is thine owne heart to thine owne face affected?
    . Can thy right hand ceaze loue vpon thy left?
    . Then woo thy selfe, be of thy selfe reiected:
    . Steale thine own freedome, and complaine on theft.
    . Narcissus so him selfe him selfe forsooke,
    . And died to kisse his *SHADOW* in the brooke.
    . Torches are made to light, iewels to weare,
    . Dainties to tast, fresh beautie for the vse,
    . Herbes f{O}r their smell, and sappie plants to beare.
    . Things growing to the{M} selues, are growths abuse,
    . Seeds spring fro seeds, & beauty breed{E}th beauty,
    . Thou wast begot, to get it is thy duty.
    . Vpon the earths i{N}crease why shouldst thou feed,
    . Vnlesse the earth with thy increase be fed? ..............................................
    {NEMO} -52
    ..............................................
    . By law of nature thou art bound to breed,
    . Tha(T) thine {M}AY liue, when thou (T)hy selfe art dead:
    . {A}nd so (I)n spite of death th[O]u does(T) s[O|R}uiue,
    . (I)n [T]hat thy l[I|K)enesse [S]till is {L}eft aliue.
    . By this the loue-s(I)c(K)e Que{E}ne began to sweate,
    . For where they la{Y} the *SHADOW* had forsoo(K)e them,
    . And Titan tired in the midday heate,
    . Wi(T)h burning eye did hotly ouer-looke them,
    . Wish(I)ng Adonis had his teame to guide,
    . So he were li(K)e him, and by Venus side. ..............................................................
    . . . . . . . . . . .<= 30 =>
    .
    . B y l a w o f n a t u. r .e t h o u a r t b o u n d t o b r e
    . e d,T h a(T)t h i n e {M} A Y l i u e,w h e n t h o u(T)h y s
    . e l f e a r t d e a d {A} n d s o(I)n s p i t e o f d e a t h
    . t h[O]u d o e s(T)s[U]{R} u i u e(I)n[T]h a t t h y l[I|K)e n
    . e s s e[S]t i l l i s {L} e f t a l i u e.B y t h i s t h e l
    . o u e-s(I)c(K)e Q u e {E} n e b e g a n t o s w e a t e,F o r
    . w h e r e(T)h e y l a {Y} t h e*S H A D O W*h a d f o r s o o
    .(K)e t h e m,A n d T i. t .a n t i r e d i n t h e m i d d a y
    . h e a t e,W i(T)h b u. r .n(I)n g e y e d i d h o t l y o u e
    . r-l o o k e t h e m,W. i .s h(I)n g A d o n i s h a d h i s t
    . e a m e t o g u i d e, S .o h e w e r e l i(K)e h i m,a n d b
    . y V e n u s s i d e.

    {MARLEY} 30 : died in his 30th year on 30 May *1593*
    (KIT) -37,-41,-50,-56,-68 : Prob. less than 1 in 7
    [OUTIS] 8
    -------------------------------------------------------
    . . . Start of last 13 couplets of
    . {MARLEY} & Chapman's _Hero and Leander_

    . . . . . . <= 20 =>

    . B u r s t, d {Y} e,b l e e d e,A n d l e a
    . v e p o o .r {E} p l a i n t s t o u s t h
    . a t s h a (L){L} s u c c e e d e.S h e f e
    . l l o n h (E){R} l o v e s b o s o m e,h u
    . g g'd i t (F){A} s t,A n d w i t h L e a n
    . d e r s n .a {M} e s h e b r e a t h'd h e
    . r l a s t.
    .
    {MARLEY} -20 : Prob. [near end of either part] ~1 in 10,000 ---------------------------------------------------- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Marlowe

    <<Within weeks of his [30 May *1593*] death:

    . [G]eorge [PEELE] remembered Marlowe
    . . as "{MARLEY}, the Muses' darling";
    .
    . . Michael Drayton noted that Marlowe
    ."Had in him those brave translunary
    . . things That the first poets had"

    and Ben Jonson wrote of "Marlowe's mighty line". ...................................................
    [T]homas [NASHE] wrote warmly of his friend,
    . . . "poor deceased (KIT) Marlowe,"

    as did the publisher Edward Blount in his dedication
    . of Hero and Leander to Sir Thomas Walsingham.>> ---------------------------------------------------- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hero_and_Leander_(poem)

    <<Two editions of Christopher Marlowe's _Hero and Leander_ were issued in quarto in 1598; one, printed by Adam Islip for the bookseller Edward Blount, contained only Marlowe's original, while the other, printed by Felix Kingston for Paul Linley, included
    both the original and Chapman's continuation. In Bartholomew Fair, Ben Jonson lampoons the poem in the fair's puppet show; his Hellespont is the Thames, and his Leander is a DYER's son in Puddle-wharf. Hero and Leander is also the only identifiable work
    of a contemporary writer quoted in any of the plays of William Shakespeare, specifically in As You Like It.>>
    ...........................................................
    . . . As You Like It Act 4, Scene 1
    .
    ROSALIND: No faith, die by Attorney: the poore world is
    . almost six thousand yeeres old, and in all this time there
    . was not anie man died in his owne person (videlicet) in
    . a loue cause: Troilous had his braines dash'd out with a
    . Grecian club, yet he did what hee could to die before,
    . and he is one of the patternes of loue. Leander, he would
    . haue liu'd manie a faire yeere though (HERO) had turn'd
    . Nun; if it had not bin for a hot Midsomer-night, for
    . (good youth) he went but forth to wash him in the Hel-
    . lespont, and being taken with the crampe, was droun'd,
    . and the foolish Chronoclers of that age, found it was
    . Hero of Cestos. But these are all lies, men haue died
    . from time to time, and wormes haue eaten them,
    . but not for loue. -------------------------------------------------------------
    . Venus and Adonis (Quarto 1, *1593*) Lines 1171 - 1180
    .
    . She bowes her head, the new-sprong floure to smel,
    . Comparing it to her Adonis breath,
    . And saies within her bosome it shall dwell,
    . Since he himselfe is reft from h[E]r by death;
    . She crop's the stalke, and in the breac[H] appeares,
    . Green-dropping sap, which she copare[S] to teares.
    . Poore floure (quoth she) this was thy f[A]thers guise,
    . Sweet issue of a more sweet smelli[N]g sire,
    . For euerie little griefe to wet his eies,
    .[T]o grow vnto himselfe was his desire;
    . And so tis thine, but know it is as good,
    . To wither in my brest, as in his blood. ...............................................
    . . . . . . <= 39 =>
    .
    . Shebowesher .h. eadthenewsprongflouretosmel
    . Comparingit .t. oherAdonisbreathAndsaieswit
    . hinherbosom .e. itshalldwellSincehehimselfe
    . isreftfromh [E] rbydeathShecropsthestalkean
    . dinthebreac [H] appearesGreendroppingsapwhi
    . chshecopare [S] totearesPooreflourequothshe
    . thiswasthyf [A] thersguiseSweetissueofamore
    . sweetsmelli [N] gsireForeuerielittlegriefet
    . owethiseies [T] ogrowvntohimselfewashisdesi
    . reAndsotist .h. inebutknowitisasgoodTowithe
    . rinmybresta .s. inhisblood

    [T.NASHE] -39
    ...............................................
    . Here was thy fathers bed, here in my brest,
    . Thou art the next of blood, and tis thy right.
    . Lo in this hollow cradle take thy rest,
    . My throbbing hart shall rock thee day and night;
    . There shall not be one minute in an houre,
    . Wherein I wil not kisse my sweet loues floure.
    . Thus weary of the world, away she hies,
    . And yokes her siluer doues, by whose swift aide,
    . Their mistresse mounted through the emptie skies,
    . In her light chariot, quickly is conuaide,
    . Holding their course to Paphos, where their queen,
    . Meanes to immure her selfe, and not beseen.
    .
    . . . . . . . FINIS
    --------------------------------------------------
    . . . HERO AND LEANDER:

    Begun by Christopher Marloe;
    and finished by George Chapman.

    Vt Nectar, Ingenium.

    Printed by Felix Kingston, for Paule Linley,
    and are to be solde in Paules Church-yard,
    at the signe of the Blacke-beare. 1598. -----------------------------------------------------
    She saw him, and the sight was much much more,
    Then might haue seru'd to kill her; should her store
    Of giant sorrowes speake? Burst, d{Y}e, bleede,
    And leaue poor{E} plaints to vs that sha(L|L} succeede.
    She fell on h(E|R} loues bosome, hugg'd it (F|A}st,
    And with Leanders *NA{M}E* she breath'd her last. -------------------------------------------------------
    Start of last 13 couplets of Chapman's _Hero and Leander_
    .
    . . . . . . <= 20 =>
    .
    . B u r s t, d {Y} e,b l e e d e,A n d l e a
    . v e p o o .r {E} p l a i n t s t o u s t h
    . a t s h a (L){L} s u c c e e d e.S h e f e
    . l l o n h (E){R} l o v e s b o s o m e,h u
    . g g'd i t (F){A} s t,A n d w i t h L e a n
    . d e r s n .a {M} e s h e b r e a t h'd h e
    . r l a s t.
    .
    {MARLEY} -20 : Prob. [near end of either part] ~1 in 10,000 ------------------------------------------------------------
    Neptune for pittie in his armes did take them,
    Flung them into the ayre, and did awake them.
    Like two sweet birds surnam'd th'Acanthides,
    Which we call Thistle-warps, that neere no Seas
    Dare euer come, but still in couples flie,
    And feede on Thistle tops, to testifie
    The hardnes of their first life in their last:
    The first in thornes of loue, and sorrowes past,
    And so most beautifull their colours show,
    As none (so little) like them: her sad brow
    A sable veluet feather couers quite,
    Euen like the forehead cloths that in the night,
    Or when they sorrow, Ladies vse to weare:
    Their wings, blew, red and yellow mixt appeare,
    Colours, that as we construe colours paint
    Their states to life; the yellow shewes their saint,
    The deuill Venus left them; blew their truth,
    The red and black, ensignes of death and ruth.
    And this true honor from their loue-deaths sprung,
    They were the first that euer Poet sung.

    FINIS.
    ------------------------------------------------------------ http://www.luminarium.org/sevenlit/marvell/appleton.htm

    Upon Appleton House, to my Lord Fairfax
    by Andrew Marvell
    .....................................................
    . But can he such a Rival seem
    . For who[M] you Heav'n should disesteem?
    .[A]h, no! and 'twould more Honour p[R]ove
    . He your Devoto were, than [L]ove.
    . Here live beloved, and ob[E]y'd:
    . Each one your Sister, each [Y]our Maid.
    . And, if our Rule seem [S]trictly pend,
    . The Rule it self to you shall bend. .....................................................
    . . . . .<= 24 =>
    .
    . B u t c .a. n h e s u c h a R i v a l s e e m F o
    . r w h o [M] y o u H e a v'n s h o u l d d i s e s
    . t e e m?[A] h,n o!a n d't w o u l d m o r e H o n
    . o u r p [R] o v e H e y o u r D e v o t o w e r e,
    . t h a n [L] o v e.H e r e l i v e b e l o v e d,a
    . n d o b [E] y'd:E a c h o n e y o u r S i s t e r,
    . e a c h [Y] o u r M a i d.A n d,i f o u r R u l e
    . s e e m [S] t r i c t l y p e n d,T h e R u l e i
    . t s e l .f. t o y o u s h a l l b e n d.
    .
    [MARLEY'S] 24
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    Art Neuendorffer

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