 | Diane Purkiss - History - 2009 - 677 pages
...Richard Lovelace, in his famous lyric that captures both human plangency and very Royalist playfulness: Tell me not, sweet, I am unkind, That from the nunnery...To war and arms I fly. True, a new mistress now I chase, The first foe in the field; And with a stronger faith embrace A sword, a horse, a shield. Yet... | |
 | Charles Mackay - 1860 - 332 pages
...SWEET. By EICHABD LOVELACB, born 1618, died 1668. TELL me not sweet, I am unkind, That from the nuunery Of thy chaste breast and quiet mind, To war and arms I fly. True, a new mistress now I chase, The first foe in the field ; And with a stronger faith embrace A sword, a horse, a shield. Yet... | |
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TELL me not, sweet, I am unkind, — That from the nunnery Of thy chaste breast and quiet mind To war and arms I fly. True, a new mistress now I chase, The first foe in the field ; And with a stronger faith embrace A sword, a horse, a shield. Yet this... 
