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Quotes from Poetical Quotations from Chaucer to Tennyson — John Dryden

1631–1700 England

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This advantage youth from age hath won,
As not to be outridden though outrun.

Disputed Poetical Quotations from Chaucer to Tennyson (1880)

Now leave these joys, unsuiting to thy age,
To a fresh comer, and resign the stage.

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Just in the gate
Dwelt pale diseases and repining age.

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Beroe but now I left; whom, pined with pain,
Her age and anguish from these rites detain.

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Jove, grant me length of life, and years good store
Heap on my bended back.

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A look so pale no quartane ever gave;
My dwindled legs seem crawling to a grave.

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These are the effects of doting age,
Vain doubts, and idle cares, and over caution.

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No fences parted fields, nor marks nor bounds
Distinguish’d acres of litigious grounds.

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Apulian farms, for the rich soil admired,
And thy large fields, where falcons may be tired.

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Of the same soil their nursery prepare
With that of their plantation, lest the tree
Translated should not with the soil agree.

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Next, fenced with hedges and deep ditches round,
Exclude th’ encroaching cattle from the ground.

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The crooked plough, the share, the tow’ ring height
Of wagons, and the cart’s unwieldy weight;
These all must be prepared.

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Pales no longer swell’d the teeming grain,
Nor Phœbus fed his oxen on the plain.

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From ploughs and harrows sent to seek renown,
They fight in fields, and storm the shaken town.

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The field is spacious I design to sow,
With oxen far unfit to draw the plough.

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The sweating steers unharness’d from the yoke
Bring back the crooked plough.

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An ox that waits the coming blow,
Old and unprofitable to the plough.

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Who can cease to admire
The ploughman consul in his coarse attire?

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The lab’ring swain
Scratch’d with a rake a furrow for his grain,
And cover’d with his hand the shallow seed again.

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Thou king of horned floods, whose plenteous urn
Suffices fatness to the fruitful corn,
Shalt share my morning song and evening vows.

Disputed Poetical Quotations from Chaucer to Tennyson (1880)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: John Dryden (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.