Time shall make the bushes green;
Time dissolve the winter’s snow;
Winds be soft, and skies serene;
Linnets sing their wonted strain:
But again
Blighted love shall never blow.
“Blighted Love” (trans., Lord Strangford), st. 3,—Luiz de Camoëns.
Luiz de Camoëns, Portugal’s greatest poet, was born at Lisbon, in 1524 or 1525, and died June 10, 1580. He is best known by “The Lusiads,” which is considered the national epic of Portugal.
The stone that is rolling, can gather no moss,
Who often removeth is sure of loss.
“Five Hundred Points of Good Husbandry Lessons,” St. 46,—Tusser.
Thomas Tusser, a noted English poet was born at Rivenhall, Essex, in 1527, and died in London about 1580. He was the author of “Five Hundred Points of Good Husbandry, United to as Many of Good Housewifery,” etc.
I cannot eat but little meat,
My stomach is not good;
But sure I think that I can drink
With him that wears a hood.
“Gammer Gurton’s Needle,” Act. II,—Bishop Still.
Bishop John Still, a celebrated English writer of comedy, was born at Grantham, in Lincolnshire, in 1543, and died February 26, 1607. He is reputed to be the author of “A Ryght Pithy Pleasant, and Merrie Comedy, Intytuled Gammer Gurton’s Needle.”
I was so free with him as not to mince the matter.