"Death! Plop. The barges down in the river flop. Flop, plop, Above, beneath. From the slimy branches the grey drips dr…"

"I have read a rondeau or rondel by Marzials in the Athenaeum beginning and ending "When I see you": it was very grace…"

"And also there’s a little star So white a virgin’s it must be:— Perhaps the lamp my love in heaven Hangs out to light…"

"[T]he handsomest, the wittiest, the most brilliant and the most charming of poets. On the last occasion when I happen…"

""Lest that by any means When I have preached to others I myself Should be a castaway." If some one now Would take tha…"

"Auribus immensis quondam donatus asellus institit ut caudam posset habere parem. cauda suo capiti quia se conferre ne…"

"You are, and haue beene feared ouer all, England's an Ile, of stoute and hardie men: Be stronge in faith, your foes d…"

"Anglia cui mater fuerat, cui Gallia nutrix, Matri nutricem praefero mente meam. Six utriusque tamen meritis praeconia…"

"O are you the boy Who would wait on the quay With the silver penny And the apricot tree?"

"Henry is thinking of his lute and of backgammon, Elizabeth follows the waving song, the mystery, Proud in her red wig…"