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Call unto his funeral dole

The Ant, the Field-mouse, and the Mole,

To raise him hillocks that shall keep him warm,
And (when gay tombs are robb'd) sustain no harm;
But keep the wolf far thence, that's foe to men,
For with his nails he'll dig them up again.*

Folded Thoughts.

Come, come, my Lord, unite your folded thoughts, And let them dangle loose as a bride's hair.

Your sister's poison'd.

Dying Princes.

To see what solitariness is about dying Princes! As heretofore they have unpeopled towns, divorced friends, and made great houses unhospitable! so now, O justice! where are their flatterers now ? flatterers are but the shadows of princes' bodies, the least thick cloud makes them invisible.

Natural Death.

O thou soft natural death! that art joint twin
To sweetest slumber!—no rough-bearded Comet
Stares on thy mild departure; the dull Owl
Beats not against thy casement; the hoarse Wolf
Scents not thy carrion. Pity winds thy corse,
Whilst horror waits on princes'

Vow of Murder rebuked.

Miserable creature,

If thou persist in this 'tis damnable.

Dost thou imagine thou canst slide on blood,
And not be tainted with a shameful fall?

Or like the black and melancholio yew-tree,
Dost think to root thyself in dead men's graves
And yet to prosper!

⚫ I never saw anything like this Dirge, except the Ditty which reminds Ferdinand of his drowned father in the Tempest. As that is of the water, watery; so this is of the earth, earthy. Both have that intenseness of feeling, which seems to resolve itself into the elements which it contemplates.

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Which doth present us with all other sins

Thrice candied o'er; despair, with gall and stibium, Yet we carouse it off.

END OF PART 1.

WILEY AND PUTNAM'S

LIBRARY OF

CHOICE READING.

SPECIMENS

or

ENGLISH DRAMATIC POETS.

PART II.

or

ENGLISH DRAMATIC POETS,

WHO LIVED

ABOUT THE TIME OF SHAKSPEARE.

WITH NOTES.

BY CHARLES LAMB.

PART II.

NEW YORK:

WILEY & PUTNAM, 161 BROADWAY.

1845.

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