This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1904 edition. Excerpt: ...a wandering spirit, When he saw ships sail two ways with one wind, Of sailors' trade he hell did disinherit--The Devil himself loves not a half-fast mind. The satyr, when he saw the shepherd blow To warm his hands and make his pottage cool, Manhood forswore and, half a beast, did know Nature with double breath is put to school. Cupid doth head his shafts in women's faces, Where smiles and tears dwell ever near together, Where all the arts of change give passion graces; While these clouds threaten, who fears not the weather? Sailors and satyrs, Cupid's knights, and I Fear women that swear " Nay! " and know they lie. A poetical oddity of much voluble talent was John Taylor (1580-1653), called " The Water Poet," because he was a Thames waterman by profession; he was patronised by Ben Jonson and by the Court, and arranged the aquatic pageants which was a picturesque feature of the age. In the course of his life, the Water Poet issued nearly one hundred and thirty separate publications. He was a sort of public jester, and in 1620 was received in that capacity by the Queen of Bohemia, who entertained him at Prague. Taylor collected his queer doggerel into his " Works " in 1630. A certain interest, not wholly literary, attaches also to the poetry of Master Patrick Hannay, who was drowned at sea about 1629. His books were collected in 1622. But a poet was in the field who was to sweep the pleasant flowers of the disciples of Spenser before him as ruthlessly as a mower cuts down the daisies with his scythe. In this age of mighty wits and luminous imaginations, the most robust and the most elaborately trained intellect was surely that of John Donne. Born as early as 1573, and associated with many of the purely...