If I freely can discover

For the more countenance to my active Muse?Hercules? alas his bones are yet sore,With his old earthly labours. T’exact more,Of his dull god-head, were sinne. Ile implorePhoebus? No. tend thy cart still. Envious dayShall not give out, that I have made thee stay,And foundred thy hot teame, to tune my lay.Nor will I begge of…

Henceforth I quit thee from my thought,My part is ended on thy stage.Yes, threaten, do. Alas! I fearAs little as I hope from thee:I know thou canst not show nor bearMore hatred than thou hast to me.My tender, first, and simple yearsThou didst abuse and then betray;Since stir’d’st up jealousies and fears,When all the causes…

after the careful inanity of the staffat low tidethis was the placefor calm, for order of a kindthe relief of walking thereand the smell was acceptableperhaps even preferablethe objects to beseenfoundprincipally (I have it still)a short fat halfpound brass bolt and nutvirgin, unscrewedother things less permanentsodden grey bonesscratched glass, rubbed brick, rusted gatebuttsonce a chaffinch…

Still to be powdered, still perfumed:Lady, it is to be presumed,Though art’s hid causes are not found,All is not sweet, all is not sound.Give me a look, give me a face,That makes simplicity a grace;Robes loosely flowing, hair as free:Such sweet neglect more taketh meThan all the adulteries of art;They strike mine eyes, but not…

How wilful blind is he, then, that would stray,And hath it in his powers to make his way!This world death’s region is, the other life’s:And here it should be one of our first strifes,So to front death, as men might judge us past it:For good men but see death, the wicked taste it.

could well be controlled by playing tennis:and the game provided also ‘manyharmless opportunities for healthysocial intercourse between the sexes.’For weeks the drawings in the Guide misledme as to what went where, but nonethelessI booked the public courts and learnt the gamewith other curious youths of my age:and later joined a club, to lose six one,six…