Alas death, why dost thou not throwe against my hearte thy most pearcing dart, that I may goe waite vpon the shadowes of my thryce happy Parents, who knowing this my gryefe, wyll not be voide of passion to helpe me wayle my woefull state.
At what tyme Night approched, and theShadowes darkening the Earth, by reason of the Sunnes departure, began to Cloth the Heauens with a Browne and misty Mantell.
Ah me, how sweet is loue it selfe possest, When but loues shadowes are so rich in ioy.
Truely, and I hold Ambition of so ayry and light a quality, that it is but a shadowes shadow Ham.
Tis such as you That creepe likeshadowes by him, and do sighe At each his needlesse heauings: such as you Nourish the cause of his awaking.
If we shadowes haue offended, Thinke but this (and all is mended) That you haue but slumbred heere, While these Visions did appeare.
By the Apostle Paul, shadowes to night Haue stroke more terror to the soule of Richard, Then can the substance of ten thousand Souldiers Armed in proofe, and led by shallow Richmond.
Poore shadowes of Elizium, hence, and rest Vpon your neuer-withering bankes of Flowres.
The King himselfe: who Dowglas grieues at hart So many of hisshadowes thou hast met, And not the very King.
Shadow will serue for Summer: pricke him: For wee haue a number of shadowes to fill vppe the Muster-Booke Shal.
Shadowes and fond imaginations, Which now (you see) on earth but children feare.
Oh, I would it might, But shadowes want the power to do that right.
Let Eugenius And Bellizarius fright away these shadowes Rung from sharp tortures: drag them hither.
Vnder these shadowes shall my dwelling be, Till thou returne, sweet Ioculo, to me.
I, homely in her gowne, But looke vpon her face and that's set out With no small grace; no vayled shadowes helpe.
And since those shadowes which oppresse My sight begin To cleere, and show the shape of sinne, A Scorpion sooner be my guest, And warme his venome in my brest.
Wer't not fondnesse then T' embrace[26] the shadowes of true blisse?
If I should disclose my pretence in love, I would eyther make a strange discourse of some intollerable passion, or finde occasion to pleade by the example of some historie, or discover my disquiet in shadowes per Allegoriam.
The morning shadowes weare away, But these grow longer all the day, But oh, loves day is short, if love decay.
Except our loves at this noone stay, We shall newshadowes make the other way.
Tis like me now, but I dead, 'twill be more When wee are shadowes both, then'twas before.
What maner of pleasure make you that, doo you thinke it too bee godly, which is not of true & honest thynges, but of deceatfull: and coometh out of ye shadowes of good thynges?
But now tell me, whether you thynke thê sobre and wyse, which for playn vanities and shadowes of plesure, booth dispice the true and godlye pleasures of the mynde and chose for them selues suche thynges as bee but vexacion & sorowe.
The better hee shadowes her face, the more will he burne his owne heart.
Coller to see the traitors gree so well Made me[1358] thinke the shadowes substances.
All Sunn Dialls which stand on the superficies of the earth, doe as truely cast the shadowes of the houres, as if they stood in the Center.
They are your owne faint spirits that have forg'd The fearefull shadowes that your eyes deluded: The fiend was in you; cast him out, then, thus!
This must fall Past shadowes waights, and is most capitall.
Tyrants, being still more fearefull of the good Then of the bad, their subjects vertues ever Manag'd with curbs and dangers, and esteem'd 30 As shadowes and detractions to their owne.
And to his fayning fansie represent Sights never seene, and thousand shadowes vaine, 255 To breake his sleepe and waste his ydle braine: Thou that hast never lov'd canst not beleeve Least part of th'evils which poore lovers greeve.
Bold sure he was, and worthie spirite bore, That durst those lowest shadowes goe to see, And could beleeve that anie thing could please Fell Cerberus, or Stygian powres appease.
Ne ought I see, though in the clearest day, When others gaze upon theyr shadowes vayne, But th'only image of that heavenly ray Whereof some glance doth in mine eie remayne.
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