"Translunary" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... friend, some passages there be In him, which I protest haue taken me, With almost wonder, so fine, cleere, and new As yet they haue bin equalled by few. Neat Marlow bathed in the Thespian springs Had in him those braue translunary things, That the first Poets had, his raptures were, All ayre, and fire, which made his verses cleere, For that fine madnes still he did retaine, Which rightly should possesse a Poets braine. 110 And surely Nashe, though he a Proser were A branch of Lawrell yet deserues to beare, Sharply Satirick ...
— Minor Poems of Michael Drayton • Michael Drayton |
