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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 inconstancy... "
Reuben Apsley. By the author of Brambletye house - Page 182
by Horace Smith - 1827
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The Classic Hundred Poems: All-time Favorites

William Harmon - Literary Collections - 1998 - 386 pages
...Press, 1970. Weidhorn, Manfred. Richard Lovelace. New York: Twayne, 1970. To Lucasta, Going to the Wars Tell me not, Sweet, I am unkind That from the nunnery...now I chase, The first foe in the field; And with a stronger faith embrace A sword, a horse, a shield. Yet this inconstancy is such As you too shall...
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The Wordsworth Dictionary of Quotations

Connie Robertson - Reference - 1998 - 686 pages
...Lucasta might I crave Pity from blust'ring wind, or swallowing wave. 6544 To Lucastu. Going to the Wars' ty is the best policy; but he who is governed by that maxim is not an a stronger faith embrace A sword, a horse, a shield. Yet this inconstancy is such, As you too shall...
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Practice what You Preach: Virtues, Ethics, and Power in the Lives of ...

James F. Keenan, Joseph J. Kotva - Religion - 1999 - 352 pages
...context of going into battle) essentially the same relation between passionate devotion and its limit: Tell me not, sweet, I am unkind, that from the nunnery...now I chase, The first foe in the field; And with a stronger faith embrace A sword, a horse, a shield. Yet this inconstancy is such As you too shall...
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The Gospel of Matthew

William Barclay - Bible - 1968 - 492 pages
...to immobilize them. Richard Lovelace, the Cavalier poet, writes to his Lucasta, 'Going to the War': Tell me not (Sweet) I am unkind, That from the nunnery...now I chase, The first foe in the field; And with a stronger faith embrace A sword, a horse, a shield. Yet this inconstancy is such, As you too shall...
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Songs of Ourselves

Cambridge International Examinations - Juvenile Nonfiction - 2005 - 272 pages
...eminence] elevated ground (hence lofty status) 58 Song: To Lucosfa, Going to The Wars RICHARD LOVELACE Tell me not, sweet, I am unkind, That from the nunnery...now I chase. The first foe in the field; And with a stronger faith embrace A sword, a horse, a shield. Yet this inconstancy is such As you too shall...
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Poemas y poetas clásicos ingleses. De Geoffrey Chaucer a Dylan Thomas ...

2005 - 334 pages
...arte consigue demasiada precisión en cada parte. RICHARD LOVELACE "To Lucasta, going to the Wars" Tell me not, Sweet, I am unkind, That from the nunnery...now I chase, The first foe in the field; And with a stronger faith embrace A sword, a horse, a shield. Yet this inconstancy is such As thou too shalt...
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This Everlasting Silence: The Love Letters of Paquita Delprat and Sir ...

Nancy Robinson Flannery - Literary Collections - 2005 - 194 pages
...looking rather shaggy. We have managed to keep the dogs alive so far. From Lovelace/ little transposed: Tell me not; sweet/ I am unkind That from the nunnery Of thy chaste breast and quiet mind To Antarctica I fly. Yet this inconstancy is such As you too shall adore/ [22] / could not love thee/...
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The English Civil War: Papists, Gentlewomen, Soldiers, and Witchfinders in ...

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...now I chase, The first foe in the field; And with a stronger faith embrace A sword, a horse, a shield. Yet this inconstancy is such As thou too shall...
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Teaching Hamlet and Henry IV, Part 1: Shakespeare Set Free, Volume 2

Peggy O'Brien - Drama - 2006 - 244 pages
...should give you some idea of their comprehension level. HANDOUT 11 TO LUCASTA, ON GOING TO THE WARS" Tell me not, sweet, I am unkind, That from the nunnery...now I chase, The first foe in the field; And with a stronger faith embrace A sword, a horse, a shield. Yet this inconstancy is such As thou too shalt...
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The Giant Book of Poetry

William Roetzheim - Poetry - 2006 - 760 pages
...Poems Richard Lovelace, William Walsh Richard Lovelace (1618 - 1658) To Lucasta, On Going to the Wars' Tell me not, Sweet, I am unkind, that from the nunnery...now I chase, the first foe in the field; and with a stronger faith embrace a sword, a horse, a shield. Yet this inconstancy is such as thou, too, shalt...
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