Spencer Farm, with Some Account of Its Owners; With Some Account of Its Owners (Paperback)

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: SONNET TO G. ELLIS. (Who contributed the Preface and many of the Notes to Mr. Way's translation of the Fabliaux.) Thou, gentle friend, hast spied me how I pac'd Through strange delightful realms of Fairy-land, And tangled arbours trimm'd with rustick hand, And alleys green, for lack of tread grown waste: Then be the labour thine, for thy command Hath wray'd my homely deeds to nicer eyes, Noting these scenes in long past ages plann'd To teach our courtly throng their brave device. The mickle toil be thine, and thine the price; So I may roam, as likes my wandering vein, To other bowers nigh lost in time's disguise, And muse of loyal knights' and ladies' pain; And, as I search each desert dark recess, Lament such change of fortune favourless. G. L. W. SONNET TO THE KEV. H. T. PAYNE. (On receiving from Mm some Transcripts,