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" Tell me not, Sweet, I am unkind That from the nunnery Of thy chaste breast and quiet mind, To war and arms I fly. True, a new mistress now I chase, The first foe in the field; And with a stronger faith embrace A sword, a horse, a shield. Yet this inconstancy... "
Willis's Current Notes: A Series of Articles on Antiquities, Biography ... - Page 14
by George Willis - 1856
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Cassell's illustrated readings, Volume 1; Volume 66

Cassell, ltd - 1875 - 452 pages
...stronger faith embrace A sword, a horse, a shield. Yet this inconstancy is such As you, too, shall adore ; I could not love thee, dear, so much, Loved I not honour more. THE GREAT PLAGUE IN LONDON. 231 THE GREAT PLAGUE IN LONDON. [DANIEL DEFOE. See Page 111.] UCH about the...
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The Young Englishwoman

BEETON - 1875 - 696 pages
...stronger faith embrace Л sword, a horse, a shield. Yet this inconstancy is such As you, too, shall adore ; I could not love thee, dear, so much, Loved I not honour more." GITANA would feel much obliged if the kind Editor would tell her when a girl of fourteen and her father...
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The Living Age, Volume 127

1875 - 844 pages
...stronger faith embrace A sword, a horse, a shield : Yet this inconstancy is such As you, too, shall adore ; I could not love thee, dear, so much, Loved I not honour more. [It might seem to Lucasta a less adorable inconstancy when he went over to Althxa — but let that...
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Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 118

England - 1875 - 864 pages
...stronger faith embrace A sword, a horse, a shield : Yet this inconstancy is snch As you, too, shall adore ; I could not love thee, dear, so much, Loved I not honour more." [It might seem to Lucasta a less adorable inconstancy when ho went over to Althœa — but let that...
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Lectures, Addresses and Other Literary Remains

Frederick William Robertson - Criticism - 1876 - 368 pages
...a reproach on account of absence caused by duty : " Yet this inconstancy is such As you, too, shall adore ; I could not love thee, dear, so much, Loved I not honour more." Under the influence of imagination, selfishness became honour. Doubtless, the law of honour is only...
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Chambers's Cyclopædia of English Literature: A History, Critical ..., Volume 1

Robert Chambers, Robert Carruthers - Authors, English - 1876 - 870 pages
...a stronger faith embrace A sword, a horse, a shield. Yet this inconstancy is such As you too shall o say, of knowing good by evil. As therefore the state To Althea, from prison. When Love with unconfmed wings Hovers within my gates, And my divine Althea...
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Wine and walnuts

Literary curiosities - 1876 - 386 pages
...stronger faith embrace A sword, a horse, a shield. Yet this inconstancy is such, As you, too, shall adore ; I could not love thee, dear, so much, Loved I not honour more. — Richard Lovelace. CONSTANCY. OUT upon it ! I have loved Three whole days together ; And am like...
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A Poetry-book of Elder Poets: Consisting of Songs & Sonnets, Odes & Lyrics ...

Amelia B. Edwards - English poetry - 1878 - 332 pages
...stronger faith embrace A sword, a horse, a shield. Yet this inconstancy is such As you, too, shall adore ; I could not love thee, dear, so much, Loved I not Honour more. Colonel Lavelare. THE BATTLE OF AGINCOURT. FAIR stood the wind for France When we our sails advance,...
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A poetry-book of elder poets, selected and arranged by A. B. Edwards

Amelia Ann Blanford Edwards - 1879 - 318 pages
...stronger faith embrace A sword, a horse, a shield. Yet this inconstancy is such As you, too, shall adore; I could not love thee, dear, so much, Loved I not Honour more. Colonel Lovelace. THE BATTLE OF AG1NCOURT. 12Q THE BATTLE OF AGINCOURT. FAIR stood the wind for France...
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Ben Jonson to Dryden

Thomas Humphry Ward - English poetry - 1880 - 536 pages
...a stronger faith embrace A sword, a horse, a shield. Yet this inconstancy is such As you too shall adore,— I could not love thee, dear, so much, • Loved I not honour more. THE ROSE. Sweet, serene, sky-like flower, Haste to adorn her bower, From thy long cloudy bed Shoot forth...
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