Epistles
dc.contributor | Unknown, |
dc.contributor.author | Daniel, Samuel |
dc.coverage.placeName | Chicago/London |
dc.date.accessioned | 2018-07-27 |
dc.date.accessioned | 2019-07-04T09:55:14Z |
dc.date.available | 2019-07-04T09:55:14Z |
dc.date.created | 1603 |
dc.date.issued | 1993-06-10 |
dc.identifier | ota:1538 |
dc.identifier.citation | http://purl.ox.ac.uk/ota/1538 |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12024/1538 |
dc.description.abstract | SGML-tagged version of Text 1203 |
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dc.language | English |
dc.language.iso | eng |
dc.publisher | University of Oxford |
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dc.rights | Creative Commons - Attribution 3.0 Unported (CC BY 3.0) |
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dc.rights.label | PUB |
dc.title | Epistles |
dc.type | Text |
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files.count | 2 |
otaterms.date.range | 1600-1699 |
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<Text id=DanEpis>
<Author>Daniel, Samuel</Author>
<Title>Epistles</Title>
<Edition>Poems and A Defence of Ryme. Arthur Colby Sprague, ed. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 1965</Edition>
<Date>1603</Date>
<body>
<loc><locdoc>DanEpis101</locdoc><milestone n=101>
<div0 type=letter>
<l>TO</l>
<l>SIR THO: EGERTON KNIGHT,</l>
<l>LORD KEEPER OF THE GREAT</l>
<l>SEALE OF ENGLAND.</l>
<l>WEll hath the powreful hand of Maiestie,</l>
<l>Thy worthines, and <i>Englands</i> happe beside,</l>
<l>Set thee in th`aidfulst roome of dignitie,</l>
<l>As th`<i>Isthmus</i>, these two Oceans to divide</l>
<l>Of <i>Rigor</i> and confus'd <i>Uncertaintie</i>,</l>
<l n=10>To keepe out th'entercourse of wrong and pride, </l>
<l>By th'extreame current of licencious might.</l>
<l>Now when we see the most combining band,</l>
<l>The strongest fastning of societie</l>
<l><i>Law</i>, whereon all this frame of men doth stand,</l>
<l>Remaine concussed with uncertaintie,</l>
<l>And seeme t . . .