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    Quaint Gleanings from Ancient Poetry A Collection of Curious Poetical Compositions of the XVIth, XVIIth, and XVIIIth Centuries
    Quaint Gleanings from Ancient Poetry A Collection of Curious Poetical Compositions of the XVIth, XVIIth, and XVIIIth Centuries
    Quaint Gleanings from Ancient Poetry A Collection of Curious Poetical Compositions of the XVIth, XVIIth, and XVIIIth Centuries
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    Quaint Gleanings from Ancient Poetry A Collection of Curious Poetical Compositions of the XVIth, XVIIth, and XVIIIth Centuries

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      Quaint Gleanings from Ancient Poetry A Collection of Curious Poetical Compositions of the XVIth, XVIIth, and XVIIIth Centuries - Edmund Goldsmid

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      Title: Quaint Gleanings from Ancient Poetry

      Author: Edmund Goldsmid

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      Quaint Gleanings From Ancient Poetry:

      A COLLECTION OF CURIOUS POETICAL COMPOSITIONS

      OF THE XVIth, XVIIth, AND XVIIIth CENTURIES.

      EDITED From MSS. and Rare Printed Originals

      BY EDMUND GOLDSMID, F.R.H.S.

      INTRODUCTION.

      The following curious collection I have gathered together during several years' reading in out-of-the-way corners. Manuscripts, in public and private libraries; old books picked up on dusty bookstalls, or carried away as prizes from the battlefield of the auction-room; even pencillings on the inside of tattered bindings,—all have been laid under contribution. I trust this medley, or pot-pourri, of snatches of song, grave and gay, will prove as interesting to my readers as they have been to myself. They claim attention on various grounds: some are the works of well-known men, such as Anthony Munday and Warren Hastings; some are bitter political squibs—such, for instance, as the Satyre against the Scots, page 47; some, again, are exquisitely beautiful, as The Dirge, page 53. A few have appeared in different collections: but none of my readers, I will undertake to say, have seen more than a half-dozen or so.

      With these few words I beg to introduce Volume One of the "Collectanea

      Adamantaea."

      EDMUND GOLDSMID.

      Edinburgh, March 6th, 1884.

      CONTENTS.

      I. BEAUTIES FORT

      II. MY BONNY LASS, THINE EYE

      III. ANTHONY MUNDAY'S POEM ON THE CAPTIVITY OF JOHN FOX

      IV. CARE FOR THY SOUL

      V. MEGLIORA SPERO

      VI. A LETTER FROM THE DUKE OF MONMOUTH TO THE KING

      VII. THE KING'S ANSWER

      VIII. AN EPITAPH ON DUNDEE

      IX. THE ROBBER ROBB'D

      X. AH! THE SHEPHERD'S MOURNFUL FATE

      XI. VERSES TO A FRIEND

      XII. A PANYGYRICK UPON OATES

      XIII. THE MIRACLE

      XIV. THE PATRIOTS

      XV. JUSTICE IN MASQUERADE

      XVI. THE BRAWNY BISHOP'S LAMENT

      XVII. THE POOR BLIND BOY

      XVIII. THE INISKILLING REGIMENT

      XIX. A BALLAD ON THE FLEET

      XX. ON MR. FOX AND MR. HASTINGS

      XXI. AN IMITATION OF HORACE, BK. II, ODE 16

      XXII. EPITAPH ON DR. JOHNSON

      XXIII. VERSES UPON THE ROAD

      XXIV. SATYR ON THE SCOTS

      XXV. THE MARSEILLAISE

      XXVI. A DIRGE

      BEAUTIES FORT.

      FROM AN ANONYMOUS MS., LATELY IN POSSESSION OF J. P. COLLIER, ESQ., F.S.A.

      When raging Love, with fierce assault,

        Strikes at fair Beauties gate,

      What army hath she to resist

        And keepe her court and state?

      She calleth first on Chastitie

        To lende her help in time;

      And Prudence no lesse summons shee

        To meet her foe so trim.

      And female Courage she alwaye

        Doth bring unto the walle,

      To blowe the trump in her dismaye,

        Fearing her fort may falle.

      On force of wordes she much relies

        Her foe without to keepe,

      And parleyeth with her two bright eyes

        When they her dyke would leape.

      Yet natheless the more she strives,

        The lesse she keepes him out,

      For she hath traitors in her camp

        That keepe her still in doubt.

      The first and worst of these the Fleshe,

        Then womans Vanitie

      That still is caughte within the meshe

        Of guilefull Flatterie.

      These traitors ope the gate at length;

        And in, with sword in hande,

      Came raging Love, and all

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