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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
VIRGIDEMIAE: BOOK 2: PROLOGUE, by JOSEPH HALL Poet's Biography
First Line: Or bene the manes of that cynic spright
Last Line: And wound, and strike, and pardon whom she list.
Subject(s): Enemies; Hearts
First Line: Or bene the manes of that cynic spright
Last Line: And wound, and strike, and pardon whom she list.
Subject(s): Enemies; Hearts
Or bene the Manes of that Cynick spright,
Cloth'd with some stubburn clay & led to light?
Or do the relique ashes of his graue
Reuiue and rise from their forsaken caue?
That so with gall-weet words and speeches rude,
Controls the maners of the multitude.
Enuie belike incites his pining heart,
And bids it sate it selfe with others smart.
Nay, no dispight: but angry Nemesis,
Whose scourge doth follow all that done amisse:
That scourge I beare, albe in ruder fist,
And wound, and strike, and pardon whom she list.
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