Souls of poets dead and gone,
What Elysium have ye known,
Happy field or mossy cavern,
Choicer than the Mermaid Tavern?
Lines on the Mermaid Tavern. J. KEATS.
Now spurs the lated traveller apace
To gain the timely inn.
Macbeth, Act iii. Sc. 3. SHAKESPEARE.
Whoe'er has travelled life's dull round,
Where'er his stages may have been,
May sigh to think he still has found
The warmest welcome at an inn.
Written on a Window of an Inn. W. SHENSTONE.
INNOCENCE.
Hence, bashful cunning!
And prompt me, plain and holy innocence!
Tempest, Act iii. Sc. 1. SHAKESPEARE.
O, white innocence,
That thou shouldst wear the mask of guilt to hide
Thine awful and serenest countenance
From those who know thee not!
The Cenci, Act v. Sc. 3. P.B. SHELLEY.
I never tempted her with word too large;
But, as a brother to his sister, showed
Bashful sincerity, and comely love.
Much Ado about Nothing, Act iv. Sc. 1. SHAKESPEARE.
And dallies with the innocence of love.
Twelfth Night, Act ii. Sc. 4. SHAKESPEARE.
Zealous, yet modest; innocent, though free;
Patient of toil; serene amidst alarms;
Inflexible in faith; invincible in arms.
The Minstrel, Bk. I. J. BEATTIE.
True, conscious honor is to feel no sin;
He's armed without that's innocent within.
Imitation of Horace, Epistle 1. Bk. I. A. POPE.