 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 182by Horace Smith - 1827Full view - About this book
 | Horace Smith - 1827 - 356 pages
...the country ? But after all, Reuben, this is much better than a Popish plot, hem !" K 2 CHAPTER VII. Tell me not, sweet, I am unkind, That from the nunnery...arms I fly. — True, a new mistress now I chase, The fii-st foe in the field ; And with a stronger faith embrace A sword, a horse, a shield. — Yet this... | |
 | Ancient ballads - 1827 - 270 pages
...Expressions delicate and luxurious. Works numerous, and chiefly upon religious subjects. TO LUCASTA. TELL me not, sweet, I am unkind, That from the nunnery Of thy chaste breast, and quiet mind, True, a new mistress now I chase, The first foe in the field ; And with a stronger faith embrace, A... | |
 | John Johnstone (of Edinburgh.) - English poetry - 1828 - 600 pages
...'gainst winter, rain, and poize Their floods with an o'erflowing glass. TO LUCASTA, GOING TO THE WARS. Of thy chaste breast and quiet mind To war and arms...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... | |
 | Edward Trevor Anwyl - 1829 - 1138 pages
...That from the nunnery Ol.thy chiisio breast, anil quiet uiiml, To war and arms 1 fly. •' True : & new mistress now I chase, The first foe in the field ; • And with a stronger faith embrace A swunl , a horse, a shield. " Yet this inconstancy is such. As yon, too,... | |
 | Charlotte Fiske Bates - American poetry - 1832 - 1022 pages
...spirits unconfined In heaven, their earthly bodies left behind. TO LUCASTA, ON GOING TO THE WARS. TET.I. 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 yon, too. shall... | |
 | Mrs. S. C. Hall - Crime - 1833 - 246 pages
...most sweetly. You too, had you heard him, would have listened a second tune;— THE BUCCANEER. 41 i '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 is such As you, too,... | |
 | English literature - 1833 - 388 pages
...Suckling less, or less deservedly known. Let one from Lovelace for the present suffice. TO LUCASTA. Tell me not, sweet, I am unkind, That from the nunnery Of thy chaste heart and quiet mind. To war and arms I fly. True, a new mistress now I chase, The first foe in the... | |
 | Edinburgh (Scotland) - 1836 - 436 pages
...modern verse. Another specimen, and let it be from Lovelace— like Carew, a courtier and cavalier — Tell me not, sweet, I am unkind, That, from the nunnery...I fly. True, a new mistress now I chase, The first fu* in the field ; And with a stronger f.iith embrace A sword, a horse, a shield. Yet this inconstancy... | |
 | Robert Chambers - English language - 1837 - 342 pages
...tender, — as, for instance, in his doubly gallant little epigram — 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 you, too, shall... | |
 | Mrs. Jameson (Anna) - Women in literature - 1837 - 382 pages
...joining the army, he wrote that beautiful song to his mistress, which has been so often quoted, — 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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