 | Abraham Mills - 1851 - 594 էջ
...the court it glows, And shines like rotten wood; Go, tell the church it shows What's good, and dotb no good : If church and court reply, Then give them both the lie. Tell potentates, they live Acting by others' actions, Not loved unless they give, Not strong but by... | |
 | Clara Lucas Balfour - 1852 - 458 էջ
...the world the lie. The Church. " Go, tell the court it glows And shines like rotten wood ; Go, tell the church it shows What's good, and doth no good...church and court reply, Then give them both the lie. " Tell potentates, they lire Acting by others' actions, Not lov'd unless they give, Not strong but... | |
 | 1852 - 838 էջ
...lie. " Go tell the court it glows, And shines like rotten wood ; Go tell the church it shows Men^K good, and doth no good : If church and court reply, Then give them both the lie." And so it goes on through thirteen wrangling, jangling verses. In some of them this virtuous soul makes... | |
 | Oskar Ludwig Bernhard Wolff - 1852 - 438 էջ
...the lye. Goe, tell the conrt it glowes And shines like rotten wood ; Goe, tell the church it showes What's good, and doth no good; If church and court reply, Then give them both the lye. Tell potentates they live Acting by others actions ; Not lov'd unlesse they give, Not strong but... | |
 | Mary Russell Mitford - 1852 - 344 էջ
...the lie. Go tell the Court it glows And shines like rotten wood ; Go tell the Church it shows Men's good, and doth no good : If Church and Court reply, Then give them both the lie. Tell potentates they live Acting by others' actions, Not loved unless they give, Not strong but by... | |
 | Beautiful poetry - 1853 - 740 էջ
...world the lie. BEAUTIFUL POETBY. Go, tell the Court it glows And shines like rotten wood ; Go, tell the Church it shows What's good and doth no good ;...Church and Court reply, Then give them both the lie. Tell potentates they live Acting by others actions, Not loved unless they give, Not strong bat by their... | |
 | F. S., Frederick Saunders - 1853 - 306 էջ
...world the he. Go, tell the Court it glows And shines like soften wood ; Go, tell the Church it sAotoj What's good, and doth no good. If Church and Court reply, Then give them both the lie." 'When on the scaffold, he desired to see the axe ; and feeling the edge of it, said to the sheriff,... | |
 | English poetry - 1853 - 552 էջ
...die, And give the world the lie. Go, tell the court it glows, And shines like rotten wood, Go, tell the church it shows What's good, and doth no good : If Church ar.d Court reply, Then give them both the lie. Tell zeal it lacks devotion, Tell love it is but lust,... | |
 | Francis Lister Hawks - 1857 - 274 էջ
...And give the world the lie. " Go, tell the Court it glows And shines like rotten wood — Go, tell the Church it shows What's good and doth no good....Church and Court reply, Then give them both the lie. " Tell potentates they live Acting by others' actions, Not loved unless they give, Not strong, but... | |
 | Aubrey Thomas De Vere - 1858 - 298 էջ
...die, And give the world the lie. Go, tell the Court it glows And shines like rotten wood ; Go, tell the Church it shows What's good and doth no good ;...Church and Court reply, Then give them both the lie. Tell potentates they live, Acting by others' actions, Not loved unless they give, Not strong but by... | |
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Fear not to touch the best; The truth shall be thy warrant: Go, since I needs must die, And give the world the lie. Say to the court, it glows And shines like rotten wood; Say to the church, it shows What's good, and doth no good: If church and court... 
