 | Thomas Percy - Ballads, English - 1860 - 578 pages
...the nunnerie Of thy chaste breast and quiet minde To warre and armes I flie. True, a new mistresse now I chase, The first foe in the field ; And with a stronger faith imbrace A sword, a horse, a shield. Yet this inconstancy is such, As you too shall adore ; I could... | |
 | Francis Turner Palgrave - English poetry - 1861 - 356 pages
...I am unkind That from the nunnery Of thy chaste breast and quiet mind. To war and arms I fly. True, a new mistress now I chase, The first foe in the field...too shall adore ; I could not love thee, Dear, so much, Loved I not Honour more. Colonel Lovelace LXXXIV ELIZABETH OF BOHEMIA You meaner beauties of... | |
 | Richard Henry Stoddard - Love poetry - 1861 - 552 pages
...am unkind, That from the nunnery Of thy chaste breast and quiet mind, To war and arms I fly. True, a new mistress now I chase, The first foe in the field...too, shall adore ; I could not love thee, dear, so much, Loved I not honour more. THK SCRt'TINT. Why should you say I am forsworn. Since thine I vowed... | |
 | Richard Henry Stoddard - Love poetry - 1861 - 526 pages
...am unkind, That from the nunnery Of thy chaste breast and quiet mind, To war and arms I fly. True, a new mistress now I chase, The first foe in the field...too, shall adore ; I could not love thee, dear, so much, Loved I not honour more. THE SCRUTINY. "Why should you say I am forsworn. Since thine I vowed... | |
 | English language - 1861 - 312 pages
...and quiet mind To war and arms I fly. True, a new mistress now I chase, The first foe in the field j And with a stronger faith embrace A sword, a horse,...too, shall adore ; I could not love thee, dear, so much, Lov'd I not honour more. SIR WILLIAM DAVENANT (1605-1668), considered as a writer of miscellaneous... | |
 | Mervyn Evans James - History - 1986 - 496 pages
...in the thick of battle with the Puritan foe, as in Lovelace's well-known poem: "... a new Mistresse now I chase/ The first Foe in the Field/ And with a stronger Faith imbrace/ A Sword, a Horse, a Shield". The attitude contrasts with the Puritan military stress on disciplined... | |
 | Evan Smith - Drama - 1987 - 44 pages
...I am unkind That from the nunnery Of thy chaste breast and quiet mind, To war and arms I fly. True, a new mistress now I chase, The first foe in the field;...love thee, Dear, so much, Loved I not honor more. This poem always gets on my nerves... (Rob starts to write this down.) No, no, you don't have to write... | |
 | Michael Harrison, Christopher Stuart-Clark - Poetry - 1989 - 216 pages
...I am unkind, That from the nunnery Of thy chaste breast and quiet mind To war and arms I fly. True, a new mistress now I chase, The first foe in the field;...you too shall adore; I could not love thee, dear, so much. Loved I not honour more. Richard Lovelace Demetrius fled the fight in fear. And lost his weapons.... | |
 | Edith P. Hazen - Literary Criticism - 1992 - 1172 pages
...unkind. That from the nunnery Of thy chaste breast and quiet mind To war and arms I fly. (1. 1—4) 9 2 . (1. 9—12) AWP; CaPo; ELP; EnLoPo; FaBV; FaFP; FF; FPL; GBL; GTBS; GTBS-P; HAP; HelP; HoPM; InPK;... | |
 | Thomas N. Corns - Literary Criticism - 1993 - 340 pages
...the military conflict is accommodated and, in some ways, set aside by Lovelace: True; a new Mistresse now I chase, The first Foe in the Field; And with a stronger Faith imbrace A Sword, a Horse, a Shield. Carew at the end of 'To my friend GN from Wrest', as we have seen,... | |
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GOING TO THE WARS Tell me not, Sweet, I am unkind That from the nunnery Of thy chaste breast and quiet mind, To war and arms I fly. True, a new mistress now I chase, The first foe in the field; And with a stronger faith embrace A sword, a horse, a shield.... 
