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Richard Lovelace

Richard Lovelace

De Scaevola.

DE SCAEVOLA.
 
Lictorem pro rege necans nunc mutius ultro
 Sacrifico propriam concremat igne manum:
Miratur Porsenna virum, paenamque relaxans
 Maxima cum obscessis faedera a victor init,
Plus flammis patriae confert quam fortibus armis,
 Una domans bellum funere dextra sua.
 
                 ENGLISHED.
 
The hand, by which no king but serjeant dies,
Mutius in fire doth freely sacrifice;
The prince admires the Hero, quits his pains,
And Victor from the seige peace entertains;
Rome’s more oblig’d to flames than arms or pow’r,
When one burnt hand shall the whole war devour.

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Otras obras de Richard Lovelace...
Lucasta Weeping

Lucasta wept, and still the bright Inamour’d God of Day, With his soft Handkercher of Ligh… Kist the wet Pearles away. II
To His Deare Brother Colonel F. L. Immoderately Mourning my Brothers Untimely Death at Carmarthen

If teares could wash the ill away, A pearle for each wet bead I’d pa… But as dew’d corne the fuller grow… So water’d eyes but swell our woes… II.
The Vintage to the Dungeon. a Song

Sing out, pent soules, sing cheere… Care shackles you in liberty: Mirth frees you in captivity. Would you double fetters adde? Else why so sadde?
Lucasta's World. Epode

Cold as the breath of winds that b… To silver shot descending snow, Lucasta sighed, when she did close The world in frosty chains! And then a frown to rubies froze
To Lucasta Ode Lyrick

Ah LUCASTA, why so bright? Spread with early streaked light! If still vailed from our sight, What is’t but eternall night? II.
Ausonius Lib. Epig.

AUSONIUS LIB. EPIG. Trinarii quodam currentem in litto… Ante canes leporem caeruleus rapui… At lepus: in me omnis terrae pelag… Forsitan et coeli, si canis astra…
Quinti Catuli.

QUINTI CATULI. Constiteram exorientem Auroram fo… Cum subito a laeva Roscius exorit… Pace mihi liceat, coelestes, dicer… Mortalis visu pulchrior esse deo.
Upon the Curtain of Lucasta’s Picture, It Was Thus Wrought

Oh, stay that covetous hand; first… All depth and minde; then mystical… Her soul’s faire picture, her fair… So truely copied from th’ original… That you will sweare her body by t…
An Elegie. on the Death of Mrs. Cassandra Cotton, Only Sist

Hither with hallowed steps as is t… That must enshrine this saint with… And sad aspects as the dark vails… Virgins opprest, draw gently, gent… Enter the dismall chancell of this…
Advice to my Best Brother, Coll: Francis Lovelace.

Frank, wil’t live unhandsomely? tr… Thy self to waving seas: for what… Calculated by sure event, must be, Look in the glassy-epithete, and s… Yet settle here your rest, and tak…
Sonnet: Depose your finger of that Ring

Depose your finger of that Ring, And Crowne mine with’t awhile Now I restor’t.—Pray, do’s it bri… Back with it more of soile? Or shines it not as innocent,
To my Worthy Friend Mr. Peter Lilly: on That Excellent Picture of His Majesty and the Duke of York, Drawne by Him at Hampton– Court

See! what a clouded majesty, and e… Whose glory through their mist dot… See! what an humble bravery doth s… And griefe triumphant breaking thr… How it commands the face! so sweet…
Ad Sylonem. Ep. 104.

AD SYLONEM. EP. 104. Aut sodes mihi redde decem sestert… Deindo esto quam vis saevus et ind… Aut si te nummi delectant, desine,… Leno esse, atque idem saevus et in…
Ausonius Lib. I. Epig.

AUSONIUS LIB. I. EPIG. Thesauro invento qui limina mortis… Liquit ovans laqueum, quo perituru… At qui, quod terrae abdiderat, non… Quem laqueum invenit nexuit, et pe…
To Althea, from Prison

When Love with unconfinèd wings Hovers within my Gates, And my divine Althea brings To whisper at the Grates; When I lie tangled in her hair,



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