 | Thomas Humphry Ward - English poetry - 1905 - 524 pages
...joyed to wear the dressing of his lines, 1 In allusion to W. Basse's elegy on Shakspeare, beginning — 'Renowned Spenser, lie a thought more nigh To learned...Beaumont, lie A little nearer Spenser, to make room For Shakespear in your threefold, fourfold tomb.' * Seneca. Which were so richly spun, and woven so fit,... | |
 | Latham Davis - 1905 - 476 pages
...1 What is Truth? said jesting Pilate; and would not stay for an answer.—Of Truth, Franc1s Bacon. Renowned Spenser, lie a thought more nigh To learned...Beaumont, lie A little nearer Spenser, to make room For Shakspeare in your threefold, fourfold tomb. To lodge all lour in one bed make a shift, For, until... | |
 | Sandford Arthur Strong - Art - 1905 - 442 pages
...Shakespeare died in the following year it was expected that he would be gathered to his brethren : Rare Beaumont, lie A little nearer Spenser, to make room For Shakespeare in your threefold fourfold tomb. However, he lies at Stratford undisturbed. Ben Jonson was buried in... | |
 | Robert Maynard Leonard - English poetry - 1909 - 636 pages
...Sweet moon, the messenger vrom my lost day, Thy looks be always dear to me. W. BARNES. 32. AN EPITAPH RENOWNED Spenser, lie a thought more nigh To learned...little nearer Spenser ; to make room For Shakespeare in your three-fold four-fold tomb. To lodgo all four in one bed make a shift Until Doomsday ; for hardly... | |
 | Walter Cochrane Bronson - English poetry - 1909 - 572 pages
...HIS wrrx. — Inscription on the tablet to Shakspere in the Stratford church, between 1617 and 1622. Renowned Spenser, lie a thought more nigh To learned...little nearer Spenser, to make room For Shakespeare in your threefold, fourfold tomb. To lodge all four in one bed make a shift Until Doomsday, for hardly... | |
 | Alphonso Gerald Newcomer, Alice Ebba Andrews - English literature - 1910 - 778 pages
...the following "Epitaph on Shakespeare" which was written by William Basse : "Itenowned Spenser. He wn, and drive, as we" substance, how endued, and what their power, And where their in your threefold, fourfold tomb. To lodge all four In one bed make a shift. For until doomsday hardly... | |
 | Alphonso Gerald Newcomer - English literature - 1910 - 776 pages
...the following "Epitaph on Shakespeare" which was written by William Basse : Itenowned Spenser. He n s it haunted and haunted me; and though I did not...to heart as some do, and as I think he would have d In your threefold, fourfold tomb. To lodge all four In one bed make a shift, For until doomsday hardly... | |
 | Charles Wells Moulton - American literature - 1910 - 812 pages
...generous yee are in minde and mootle. — DAVIES, JOHN, OF HEREFORD, 1603, Microcosmos, ed. Grosart. Renowned Spenser, lie a thought more nigh To learned Chaucer; and rare Beaumont, lie A little nearer Si*niser ; to make room For Shakespeare in your three-fold four-fold tomb : To lodge all four hi one... | |
 | Edmund Spenser - Barcelona (Spain) - 1915 - 342 pages
...expenses of the funeral. Referring to the death of Spenser's great contemporary, Basse wrote : — " Renowned Spenser, lie a thought more nigh To learned...little nearer Spenser, to make room For Shakespeare in your threefold, fourfold tomb." " Thus," says Mr. Stopford Brooke, appropriately, " London, ' his... | |
 | Albert Hatton Gilmer - 1916 - 20 pages
...your purses. Well 1 It is now public, and you will stand for your privileges we [7] KING SHAKESPEARE " Renowned Spenser, lie a thought more nigh To learned...little nearer Spenser, to make room For Shakespeare in your threefold, fourfold tomb. To lodge all four in one bed make a shift Until Doom'sday, for hardly... | |
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Renowned Spenser, lie a thought more nigh To learned Chaucer ; and, rare Beaumont, lie A little nearer Spenser ; to make room For Shakespeare in your threefold fourfold tomb... 
