...our dainty age Cannot indure reproof, Make not thyself a page, To that strumpet the stage, But sing high and aloof, Safe from the wolf's black jaw, and the dull ass's hoof. Ode to Himself. [c. 1629 COME leave the loathed stage, And the more loathsome age ; Where pride and...

...our dainty age Cannot endure reproof, Make not thyself a page To that strumpet the stage ; But sing high and aloof, Safe from the wolf's black jaw, and the dull ass's hoof. To THE MEMORY OF MY BELOVED MASTER WILLIAM SHAKSPEARE, AND WHAT HE HATH LEFT us. [Printed by Gifford...

...Hath proved so ominous to me, I will try If TRAGEDY have a more kind aspect. . . . Leave me! there's something come into my thought, That must and shall be sung high and aloof, Safe from the wolfs black jaw and the dull ass's hoof." Accordingly, " Sejanus: His Fall" was brought out at the...

...Hath proved so ominous to me, I will try If TRAGEDY have a more kind aspect. . . . Leave me I there's something come into my thought, That must and shall be sung high and aloof, Safe from the wolfs black jaw and the dull ass's hoof." Accordingly, " Sejanus : His Fall " was brought out at the...

...our dainty age Cannot endure reproof, Make not thyself a page To that strumpet the stage ; But sing high and aloof, Safe from the wolf's black jaw, and the dull ass's hoof. To THE MEMORY OF MY BELOVED MASTER WILLIAM SHAKSPEARE, AND WHAT HE HATH LEFT us. [Printed by Gifford...

...our dainty age Cannot endure reproof, Make not thyself a page To that strumpet the stage, But sing high and aloof, Safe from the wolf's black jaw and the dull ass's hoof. It should be remarked that the last two lines of this ode are borrowed from the close of the ' Apologetical...

...our dainty age Cannot indure reproof, Make not thyself a page To that strumpet, the stage; But sing of the heart In which the answering heart would speak. Thought, word, t BEX Joxsox. Ox HIS BEINH ARRIVED TO THE AGE OF TWENTY-THREE. How soon hath Time, the subtle thief of...

...our dainty age Cannot endure reproof, Make not thyself a page To that strumpet the stage ; But sing high and aloof, Safe from the wolf's black jaw, and the dull ass's hoof. To THE MEMORY OF MY BELOVED MASTER WILLIAM SHAKSPEARE, AND WHAT HE HATH LEFT us. [Printed by Gifford...

...our dainty age, Cannot endure reproof, Make not thyself a page. To that strumpet the stage, But sing high and aloof. Safe from the wolf's black jaw, and the dull ass's hoof. The principal! Comoedians. For Cynthia's Revels, acted in 1600, we have given in folio 1616 the names...

...come forth worth the iuy, or the bayes, 35oo And in this age can hope no other grace Leaue me. There's something come into my thought, That must, and shall be sung, high, and aloofe, Safe from the wolues black iaw,and the dull asses hoofe. NASV. I reuerence these raptures,...