The Tragedy of Richard the Third; With the Landing of Earle Richmond, and the Battell at Bosworth Field (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1908 Excerpt: ... burthen of it all, on thee. Farwell Yorkes wife, and Queene of fad mifchance, Thefe Englifh woes, fhall make me fmile in France. Qu. O thou well skill'd in Curies, ftay a-while, 119 109. thee me Q7Q, . 114. burthen'dburthenedQ1. bur 110. waft wertQQ, Pope, +, Cap. dened Q, . Varr. Mai. Steev. Varr. Sta. Cam., 115. wearied head weary necke Q, Dyce ii, iii, Huds. art Qj. Sta. Cam.+. wearied necke QM. 112. not now Han. 118. woes wars X Jhall will Qq, Cam. +. countenanced by: '--thus the whirligig of time brings in his revenges.'--Twelfth Night, V, i, 385. But wheel'd seems much more suitable to this place. Barnard compares, more appositely, I think, '--justice always whirls in equal measure.'--Lovefs Labour's, IV, iii, 384.--Ed. no, in. what thou wast... what thou art Compare: 'No greater grief than to remember days Of joy when misery is at hand.'--Dante, Injerno, canto v, 11 118, 119, Cary's translation, where there is the following note: 'Imitated by Chaucer: "For of Fortunes sharp adversite The worste kind of infortune is this, A man to have been in prosperite, And it remembir when it passid is."--Troilus and Cresseide, bk. iii, 1. 1625. By Marino: "Che non ha doglia il misero maggiore, Che ricordar la gioia entro il dolore."--Adone, canto xiv, st. 100. And by Fortiguerra: "Rimembrare il ben perduto Fa piu meschino lo presente stato."--Ricciardetto, canto xi, st. 83. The original, perhaps, was in Boetius: "In omni adversitate fortunae infelicissimum genus est infortunii fuisse felicem et non esse." De Consol. Philosophy lib. ii, par. 4.'--It seems, perhaps, superfluous to call attention to Tennyson's reference to Dante: 'This is truth the poet sings, That a sorrows crown of sorrow is remembering happier things.'--Lock...