I was doing some research for this weekend - editing Davies' "Orchestra - a poem of Dauncing". When I cam across this verse:
Thys was the Picture of her wondrous thought,
But who can wonder that her thought was so,
Sith Vulcan King of Fire, that Mirrour wrought,
(Who things to come, present, and past doth know)
And there did represent in lively show
Our glorious English Courts divine Image,
As it should be in this our *golden age.*
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I added the asterisks. But pretty cool still!
(www.luminarium.org/renlit/daviebib.htm)
Thys was the Picture of her wondrous thought,
But who can wonder that her thought was so,
Sith Vulcan King of Fire, that Mirrour wrought,
(Who things to come, present, and past doth know)
And there did represent in lively show
Our glorious English Courts divine Image,
As it should be in this our *golden age.*
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I added the asterisks. But pretty cool still!
(www.luminarium.org/renlit/daviebib.htm)
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Re: The Golden Age
Fri, May 9, 2008 - 7:33 PMLuminarium is an excellent site, and has very scholarly credentials. (It's been recommended by professors at the University of California in the English Department for Medieval Studies, so it's not just someone's compilations of ideas about the Renaissance, and it's substantially more authoritative than Wikipedia! It shows its sources, better, too.)
