Quotes from The Chess Play — Nicholas Breton
1545–1625 England
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The Knight is knowledge how to fight
Against his Prince’s enemies.
He never makes his walk outright,
But leaps and skips, in wily wise,
To take by sleight a trait’rous foe
Might slily seek their overthrow.
The Chess Play (1593)
The Queen is quaint and quick conceit,
Which makes her walk which way she list,
And roots them up that lie in wait
To work her treason, ere she wist;
Her force is such against her foes
That whom she meets she overthrows.
The Chess Play (1593)
The King himself is haughty care,
Which overlooketh all his men,
And when he seeth how they fare,
He steps among them now and then;
Whom, when his foe presumes to check,
His servants stand to give the neck.
The Chess Play (1593)
The Bishop he is witty brain
That chooseth Crossest paths to pace,
And evermore he pries with pain
To see who seeks him most disgrace.
Such stragglers when he finds astray,
He takes them up, and throws away.
The Chess Play (1593)
The Rooks are reason on both sides,
Which keep the corner-houses still,
And warily stand to watch their tides,
By secret art to work their will,
To take sometime a thief unseen
Might mischief mean to King or Queen.
The Chess Play (1593)