 A honey tongue, a heart of gall, Is fancy's spring, but sorrow's fall. Thy gowns, thy shoes, thy beds of roses, Thy cap, thy kirtle, and thy posies, Soon break, soon wither, soon forgotten: In folly ripe, in reason rotten. Thy belt of straw and...  The Works of Shakespear: In Eight Volumes - Page 293by William Shakespeare - 1747Full view - About this book
 | Renfrew county - 1821 - 542 pages
...commentators. But time drives flocks from field to fold, When rivers rage, and rocks grow cold, And Philomel becometh dumb, And all complain of cares to come....heart of gall, Is fancy's spring, but sorrow's fall. In " The Passionate Klgrime and Sonnets to sundry netw of Musickc. by William Shakespeare, London,... | |
 | Izaak Walton, Sir John Hawkins, John Hawkins - 1822 - 494 pages
...fold; When rivers rage, and rocks grow cold ; Then Philomel berometh dumb ; And age complains of care to come. The flowers do fade, and wanton fields To...heart of gall, is fancy's spring but sorrow's fall. As to the song itself, though a beautiful one, ioisnot AS to the song itselr, though a beautiful one,... | |
 | Izaak Walton, John Hawkins - 1822 - 486 pages
...Philomel becometh dumb ; And age complains of care to come. The flowers dn fade, and wanton fields Tn wayward winter reckoning yields. A honey tongue, a...heart of gall, Is fancy's spring but sorrow's fall. (I) Dr. Warburton, in his Notes on The Merry Wives of Windsor, ascribes this song to Shakspeare : it... | |
 | 1823 - 772 pages
...fold, When rivers rage, and rocks grow cold, Then Philomel becometh dumb, And age complains of care to come. The flowers do fade, and wanton fields To...spring, but sorrow's fall. Thy gowns, thy shoes, thy beds of roses, Thy cap, thy kirtle, and thy posies, Soon break, soon wither, soon forgotten, In folly... | |
 | 1823 - 858 pages
...fold, When rivers rage, and rocks grow cold, Then Philomel becometh dumb, And age complains of care to come. The flowers do fade, and wanton fields To...spring, but sorrow's fall. Thy gowns, thy shoes, thy beds of roses, Thy cap, thy kirtle, and thy posies, Soon break, soon wither, soon forgotten, In folly... | |
 | 1823 - 406 pages
...profession of kindness, there is generally some motive for their use, which is wished to be concealed. " A honey tongue, a heart of gall, " Is fancy's spring, but sorrow's fall." " Mel in ore, verbe lactis, " Fel in corde, fraus in factis." These are monkish rhymes, describing... | |
 | Izaak Walton, Charles Cotton - 1824 - 512 pages
...fold, When rivers rage, and rocks grow cold, Then Philomel becometh dumb, And age complains of care to come. The flowers do fade, and wanton fields To...spring, but sorrow's fall. Thy gowns, thy shoes, thy beds of roses, Thy cap, thy kirtle, and thy posies, Soon break, soon wither, soon forgotten, In folly... | |
 | Izaak Walton - 1824 - 516 pages
...rage, and rocks grow cold, Then Philomel beconieth dumb, And age complains of care to come. Theflowers do fade, and wanton fields To wayward Winter reckoning...spring, but sorrow's fall. Thy gowns, thy shoes, thy beds of roses, Thy cap, thy kirtle, and thy posies, Soon break, soon wither, soon forgotten, In folly... | |
 | John Johnstone (of Edinburgh.) - 1828 - 600 pages
...love. But time drives flocks from field to fold, When rivers rage, and rocks grow cold ; And Philomel becometh dumb, And all complain of cares to come. The flowers do fade, and wanton fields To wayward winter's reckoning yield ; A honey tongue — a heart of gall, Is fancy's spring, but sorrow's fall.... | |
 | sir Walter Ralegh - 1829 - 806 pages
...flocks from field to fold, When rivers rage, and rocks grow cold; And Philomel hecometh dumb ; The rest complain of cares to come. The flowers do fade, and...spring, but sorrow's fall. Thy gowns, thy shoes, thy heds of roses, Thy cap, thy kirtle, and thy posies, Soon break, soon wither, soon forgotten, In folly... | |
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