From house to house they both did goe, Seeking where they that night might lie, But want of money was their woe, And still the babe with cold did crie; With capp and knee they courtsey make, 95 But none on them would pittie take.
And be assur'd before my last breath part, Ile make the Sunne, for pittie backe recoyle.
At the lamentations and shrikes that these miserable offenders doo giue, the iudges shewe no more signe of pittie then if they were stroken vppon a stone.
And is’t not pittie that this firebrand so Laies waste the trophes of Philippi fieldes?
Alas my heart doth cleaue, pittie me rackes, My breast doth pant to heare this dolefull tale.
Illustration: Page-105] He praised, he praied, hee desired and besought her to pittiehim that perisht for her.
The word, Nemo alius explicate No other man takes pittie vpon vs.
I pittie Nizolius that had nothing to doe, but picke thrids ends out of an olde ouerworne garment.
It is pittie posteritie shoulde bee depriued of such precious recordes, and yet there is no remedie, and yet there is to, for when all fayles, welfare a good memorie.
But I am in So farre in blood, that sinne will pluck on sinne, Teare-falling Pittie dwells not in this Eye.
Since that I my Selfe, Finde in my Selfe, no pittie to my Selfe.
I shall dispaire, there is no Creature loues me; And if I die, no soule shall pittie me.
Pittie me, though I be a farmers sonne, And measure not my riches, but my love.
For shame my Lord, make them your president, Were it not pittie that this goodlie boy, should lose his birth right through his fathers fault?
Bootlesse are plaintes, and curelesse are my woundes, No waie to flie, no strength to hold our flight, The foe is mercilesse and will not pittie me, And at their hands I haue deserude no pittie.
Were it not pittie they shoulde loose their fathers lands?
My Lord, this harmefullpittie makes your followers faint.
My gratious Lord, this too much lenitie, And harmefull pittie must be laid aside, To whom do Lyons cast their gentle lookes?
And we in pittieof the gentle king, Had slipt our claime vntill an other age.
I was the chiefe that raisde him to the crowne, And Ile be chiefe to bring him downe againe, Not that I pittie Henries miserie, But seeke reuenge on Edwards mockerie.
Vnbolt thy harts strong gate of hardest steele, O let him nowe the warmth of pittie feele.
Giue eare eternall wonder to a swaine, Twas writ in starres that I should see that face; And seeing loue, and in that loue be slaine, if beautiepittie not my wretched case.
This can be no tricke, the conference was sadly borne, they haue the truth of this from Hero, they seeme to pittie the Lady: it seemes her affections haue the full bent: loue me?
And besides all this crueltie and vituperie, they sende theyr officers and Serieantes to execute the premisses, who without eyther pittie or mercie many tymes suffereth them to sterue with hunger.
I pittie the foole yfaith, but the tother Horseleach I wish his blowes trebled.
Whie then belike you meane to do your charge, And feel no tast of pittie in your hart.
Ah my dread Lord, if any little sparke Of melting pittie doth remaine alive, And not extinguisht by my impious deedes, Oh kindle it unto a happie flame, To light Allenso from this miserie Which through dim death he's like to fall into.
What cruell hand hath done so foule a deede, Thus to bemangle a distressed youth Without all pittie or a due remorse!
They are lazie drones, 'tis pittie such should live.
Vermilion mistris, tis pittie the Vermilion Wormes shoulde eate thee, ile set it with pretious stones and ye will.
In such a course Alfred would wind with you; For though I counsail'd you to be more calme, Twas not in pittie of their povertie But to avoide their clamour.
Ile seeme to pittie them, and give them almes To blind the world; 'tis excellent policie To rid the land of such, by such device.
My sonne I leave unto the joyes of youth; Tis pittie that his minde should be opprest So soone with care of governments.
VIII Redounding teares did choke th' end of her plaint, Which softly ecchoed from the neighbour wood; 65 And sad to see her sorrowfull constraint The kingly beast upon her gazing stood; With pittie calmd, downe fell his angry mood.
Her feeling speeches some compassion moved In hart, and chaunge in that great mothers face: Yet pittie in her hart was never proved 215 Till then: for evermore she hated, never loved.
Then know that I, one Snug the Ioyner am A Lion fell, nor else no Lions dam: For if I should as Lion come in strife Into this place, 'twere pittie of my life Du.
This is the Epistle which he woonders at himselfe, and like an olde Ape, hugges the Vrchin so in his conceipt, as though it should shew vs some new tricks ouer the chaine, neuer wish it published Martin, we pittie it before it comes out.
Pittie weare it that poetrye should be displaced, full little could we want Buchanan's workes, and Boetius comfortes may not be banished.
Pittie were it that the memory of these valiant victours should be hidden, which have dyed in the behalfe of ther countryes: miserable were our state yf we wanted those worthy volumes of poetry.
But sure it were pittie to abolish yt which hath so great vertue in it, because it is abused.
Though it bepittie to see such a sight, it well becomes the ground Cel.
The more pittiethat fooles may not speak wisely, what Wisemen do foolishly Cel.
Sauing that I called deuoutly vppon the omnipotent God to haue pittie vppon mee, and that some good Angell might bee appointed to conduct mee out.
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