"To quench thy learned thirst I meant to draine / The Hippocrenian Fountaine of my braine."
— Walkington, Thomas (b. c. 1575, d. 1621)
Work Title
Place of Publication
London
Publisher
Imprinted by John Windet for Martin Clerke
Date
1607
Metaphor
"To quench thy learned thirst I meant to draine / The Hippocrenian Fountaine of my braine."
Metaphor in Context
Blast not with a critick breath my tender bud.
My vulgare Muse respects a common good:
For thee my pen strouts on this paper stage,
Though it do act withouten aequipage:
To quench thy learned thirst I meant to draine
The Hippocrenian Fountaine of my braine.
My wish is good, my act I know is ill,
The first's a mountaine; this, a lowly hill.
With carping fingers let me not be scand,
Poize not the gift, but waigh the giuers hand.
(To the Reader)
My vulgare Muse respects a common good:
For thee my pen strouts on this paper stage,
Though it do act withouten aequipage:
To quench thy learned thirst I meant to draine
The Hippocrenian Fountaine of my braine.
My wish is good, my act I know is ill,
The first's a mountaine; this, a lowly hill.
With carping fingers let me not be scand,
Poize not the gift, but waigh the giuers hand.
(To the Reader)
Categories
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Reading
Citation
Reading 1664 edition at the Folger, text from EEBO-TCP <Link>
Walkington, Thomas, The Optick Glasse of Humors. Or The Touchstone of a Golden Temperature, or the Philosophers Stone to Make a Golden Temper Wherein the Foure Complections Sanguine, Cholericke, Phlegmaticke, Melancholicke are Succinctly Painted Forth, and their Axternall Intimates Laide Open to the Purblind Eye of Ignorance It Selfe, by which Euery One May Iudge of What Complection he is, and Answerably Learne What is Most Sutable to his Nature. Lately Pend by T.W. Master of Artes. (London: Imprinted by Iohn Windet for Martin Clerke, and are to be sold at his shop without Aldersgate, 1607)
Walkington, Thomas, The Optick Glasse of Humors. Or The Touchstone of a Golden Temperature, or the Philosophers Stone to Make a Golden Temper Wherein the Foure Complections Sanguine, Cholericke, Phlegmaticke, Melancholicke are Succinctly Painted Forth, and their Axternall Intimates Laide Open to the Purblind Eye of Ignorance It Selfe, by which Euery One May Iudge of What Complection he is, and Answerably Learne What is Most Sutable to his Nature. Lately Pend by T.W. Master of Artes. (London: Imprinted by Iohn Windet for Martin Clerke, and are to be sold at his shop without Aldersgate, 1607)
Date of Entry
05/16/2013
