...glorious by his manly chivalry, With bruised arms and wreaths of victory.' Rape of Ijucrece. 3 Dances. He capers nimbly in a lady's chamber, To the lascivious pleasing of a lute5. But I, — that am not shap'd for sportive tricks, Nor made to court an amorous looking-glass...

...monuments2; Our stern alarums chang'd to merry meetings, Our dreadful marches to delightful measures 3. Grim-visag'd war hath smooth'd his wrinkled front ; And now, — instead of mounting barbed4 steeds, To fright the souls of fearful adversaries, — 1 The cognizance of Edward IV. was...

...— instead of mounting barbed steeds,3 To fright the souls of fearful adversaries, — He capers4 nimbly in a lady's chamber, To the lascivious pleasing of a lute. But I, — that am not shap'd for sportive tricks, Nor made to court an amorous looking-glass ; I,...

...service, who would be more in their element, and, in the event of another war, would prefer " Capering nimbly in a lady's chamber, To the lascivious pleasing of a lute," far before " Frightening the souls of fearful adversaries;" Now, if there be any one means of degrading...

...marches to delightful measures. Grim-visag'd war hath smooth'd his wrinkled wreaths; And now,—-instead of mounting barbed steeds, To fright the souls of...lady's chamber, To the lascivious pleasing of a lute. But I,—that am not shap'd for sportive tricks, Nor made to court an amorous looking-glass ; I, that...

...monuments ; Our stern alarums chang'd to merry meetings. Our dreadful marches to delightful measures. ' Grim-visag'd War hath smooth'd his wrinkled front;...lady's chamber, To the lascivious pleasing' of a lute. But I, — that am not shap'd for sportive tricks, Nor made to court an amorous looking-glass ; I,...

...among men The Holy War is o'er, and the strife of the Roses ended. The grim-visaged god " Hath smoothed his wrinkled front : And now, instead of mounting...steeds To fright the souls of fearful adversaries " Taste is seen caparisoned for the turf ; and in 1683, two years before he parted with his head upon...

...wee sma' hour ayont the twa'l" in the early spring, was a matter somewhat different from capering " nimbly in a lady's chamber, to the lascivious pleasing of a lute." ON GETTING UP A HEAD OF GAME. Among the various topics which are discussed in your interesting publication,...

...now,— instead of mounting barbed4 steeds, TV fright the souls of fearful adversaries,— He e&(«ra nimbly in a lady's chamber, To the lascivious pleasing of a lute.' But I, — that am not shapM for sportive tricks, Nor made to court an amorous looking-glass ; I, that...

...monuments ; Our stem alarums chang'd to merry meetings, Our dreadful marches to delightful measures. ' Grim-visag'd War hath smooth'd his wrinkled front ; And now, — instead of mounting barbed2 steeds, To fright the souls of fearful adversaries,— He capers nimbly in a lady's chamber,...