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" My Poins, I cannot frame my tune to feign, To cloak the truth, for praise without desert Of them that list all vice for to retain. "
The Poetical Works of Sir Thomas Wyatt: With a Memoir - Page 191
by Sir Thomas Wyatt - 1854 - 244 pages
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Satires

Juvenal - 1802 - 574 pages
...his friend Poines, there are several passages which shew that he had this Satire before him : •• But how may I this honour now attain, " That cannot dye the colour black a lyar ? " My Poines, I cannot frame my lips to feigne, " To cloke the truth," &c. In consequence of...
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The Satires of Decimus Junius Juvenalis, Volume 1

Juvenal - Latin poetry - 1803 - 354 pages
...to his friend Poines, there are several passages which shew that he had this Satire before him : " But how may I this honour now attain, " That cannot dye the colour black a lyar ? " My Poines, I cannot frame my lips to feigne, " To cloke the truth," &c. Nor when I heard a...
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The Satires of Decimus Junius Juvenalis

Juvenal - Satire, Latin - 1806 - 586 pages
...That cannot dye the colour blacke a Iyer ? " My Poynes, I cannot frame my tune to fayn, " To cloke the truth, for praise without desert, '• Of them that list all vice for to retayne." In consequence of this attachment to truth, he protests (among other things) that he c,annot...
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Select Beauties of Ancient English Poetry, Volume 2

Henry Headley - English poetry - 1810 - 236 pages
...some time of Glory that the fire Doth touch my heart, me list not to report : Blame by honour, and honour to desire. But how may I this honour now attain, That cannot die the colour black a liar*? My Poins, I cannot frame my tune to feign, To cloak the truth, for praise,...
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The Satires of Decimus Junius Juvenalis and of Aulus Persius Flaccus

Perse, Juvénal - Latin poetry - 1817 - 596 pages
...That cannot dye the colour blacke a Iyer ? " My Poynes, I cannot frame my tune to fayn, " To cloke the truth, for praise without desert, " Of them that list all vice for to retayne." * In consequence of this attachment to truth, he protests (among other things) that he cannot...
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Kentish Poets: A Series of Writers in English Poetry, Natives ..., Volumes 1-2

Rowland Freeman - Authors, English - 1821 - 846 pages
...honour now attain. What cannot dye the colour of black a liar ? My Poynz, I cannot frame my tongue to feign ; To cloak the truth for praise, without desert, Of them, that lust all vices to retain. I cannot honour them that set their part With Venus or Bacchus all their...
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Specimens of the Lyrical, Descriptive, and Narrative Poets of Great Britain ...

John Johnstone (of Edinburgh.) - English poetry - 1828 - 600 pages
...attaine, That cannot dye the colour blacke a lier ? My Poins, I cannot frame my tune to faine, To cloke the truth, for praise without desert Of them that list all vice for to retaine. I cannot honour them, that set their part With Venus and Bacchus all theyr life long. Nor...
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The Satires of Juvenal and Persius: From the Texts of Ruperti and Orellius ...

Juvenal - Verse satire, Latin - 1839 - 570 pages
...Mart. IV. v. Wyatt, in his Epistle to his friend Poynes, shows that he had this Satire before him : " But how may I this honour now attain?. That cannot dye the colour black a Iyer 1 My Poynes, I cannot frame my tune to fayn. To clolte the truth, for praise without desert, Of...
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The Thames and Its Tributaries: Or, Rambles Among the Rivers, Volume 2

Charles Mackay - England, Southern - 1840 - 438 pages
...grant, sometime of glory that the fire Doth touch my heart. Me list not to report Blame by honour, and honour to desire. But how may I this honour now attain, That cannot dye the colour black a liar ? My Poyntz, I cannot frame my tongue to feign, To cloak the truth, for praise without desert Of them that...
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The Town: Its Memorable Characters and Events. St. Paul's to St ..., Volume 2

Leigh Hunt - London (England) - 1848 - 334 pages
...outward thinges that judge in their entent ; * * * * My Poynes, I cannot frame my tong to fayn, To cloke the truth, for praise, without desert, Of them that list all vice for to retayne ; I cannot honour them that set theyr part With Venus and with Bacchus their life long, Nor...
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