First Exam (pt 2)

Question 1

I never rested on the muses bed
nor dipt my quill in the thessalian fauntaine
my rustick muse was rudely fostered
and flies too low to reach the double mountain

Answer 1

Mary Oxlie

Question 2

then do not sparkes with your bright suns compare
perfection in a womans worke is rare
from an untroublesd mind should verses flow
my discontents makes mine to muddy show
and hoarse encumbrances of houshold care
where these remaine the muses ne’re repaire

Answer 2

Mary Oxlie

Question 3

if thou dost extoll her haire
or her ivory forehead faire
or those stars whose bright reflection
thralls my heart in sweet subjection

Answer 3

Mary Oxlie

Question 4

or when to display thou seekes
to snow mixt roses on her cheekes
or those rubies soft and sweet
over those pretty rows that meet

Answer 4

Mary Oxlie

Question 5

the chain painter as asham’d
hides his picture so far fam’d
and the queen he carv’d it by
with a blush on her face doth dye

Answer 5

Mary Oxlie

Question 6

since those lines do limne a creature
that so far surpast her feature
when thou shows’t how fairest flora
prankt with pride the banks of ora

Answer 6

Mary Oxlie

Question 7

so thy verse her streames doth honor
strangers grow enamour
d on her
all the wans that swim in po
would their native brooks frogo

Answer 7

Mary Oxlie

Question 8

and as loathing phoebus beames
long to turn bath in cooler streames
tree-turn’d daphne would be seen
in her groves to flourish green

Answer 8

Mary Oxlie

Question 9

and her boughs would gladly spare
to frame a garland for thy haire
that fairest nymphs with finest fingers
may thee crown the best of singers

Answer 9

Mary Oxlie

Question 10

but when the muse dissolv’d in show;rs
wailes that peerlesse prince of ours
cropt by too untimely fate
her morning doth exasperate

Answer 10

Mary Oxlie

Question 11

senselesse thingsgs to see thee moane
stones do weep and trees do groane
birds in aire fishes in flood
beasts in field forsake their food

Answer 11

Mary Oxlie

Question 12

the nymphs forgoing all their bow’rs
teare their chaplets deckt with flow’rs
sol himselfe with misty vapor
hides from earth his glorious tapor
and as mov’d to heare the plaine shwews his griefe in show’rs of rain

Answer 12

Mary Oxlie

Question 13

lucy you brightnesse of our spheare who are
life of the muses day their morning-starre

Answer 13

Ben Johnson

Question 14

if workes (not th’authors) their owne grace should looke
whose poemns would not wish to be your book

Answer 14

Ben Johnson

Question 15

but these desir’d by you the makers end
crowne with their own rare poems aske rare friends

Answer 15

Ben Johnson

Question 16

yet satyres since the most of mankind bee
their un-avoided subject fewest see

Answer 16

Ben Johnson

Question 17

for none ere tooke that pleasure in sinnes sense
but when thye heard it tax’d took more offence

Answer 17

Ben Johnson

Question 18

thye then that living where the matter is bred
dare for these poems yet both aske and read

Answer 18

Ben Johnson

Question 19

and like themj too must needfully though few
be of the best and ‘mongst those best are you

Answer 19

Ben Johnson

Question 20

lucy you bringhtness of our speare who are
the muses evening as their morning starre

Answer 20

Ben Johnson

Question 21

Darest thou my muse present thy battlike winge
before the eyes of brittanes mighty kinge
hee that all other states exceedes as farre
as doth the sunne a little glimmering starre

Answer 21

Lady Anne Southwell

Question 22

to whose blest birth the cherubins did tender
all the endowments for a princely splendor
you lines excuse my boldness in this matter
and tell the truth my harts too big to flatter

Answer 22

Lady Anne Southwell

Question 23

yf in the search of this world i could find
one to exceed the vertues of thy minde
the height of my ambition would aspire
to offer up these sparckles to that fire

Answer 23

Lady Anne Southwell

Question 24

since all fall shorte of thy souldes qualitie
more short then of thy states abilitie
tis thy attractive goodness gives mee scope
to come (dread soveraigne) on the armes of hope

Answer 24

Lady Anne Southwell

Question 25

and offer up this tribute to thy merrit this sacrifice to thy devinest spiritt i know in god there doth noe ill abiede nor in his true epitome noe pride

Answer 25

Lady Anne Southwell

Question 26

thou art the nursing father of all pietye the mightye champion for the deitye this of the high jehovah i doe singe to whome doth this belonge but to the kinge great god of heaven thankes for thy gracious favours great king on earth accept the poor endeavours

Answer 26

Lady Anne Southwell

Question 27

come my lucasia since we see that miracles mens faith do move by wonder and by prodigy to the dull angry world lets prove theres a religion in our love

Answer 27

Katherine Phillips

Question 28

for though we were designd t'agree that fate no liberty destroyes but our election is as free as angels who with greedy choice are yet determin'd to their joyes

Answer 28

Katherine Phillips

Question 29

our hearts are doubled by the loss here mixture is addition grown we both diffuse and both ingross and we whose minds are so much one never yet ever are alone

Answer 29

Katherine Phillips

Question 30

we court our own captivity than thrones more great an innocent twere banishment to be set free since we wear fetters whose intent not bondage is but ornament

Answer 30

Katherine Phillips

Question 31

divided joyes are tedious found and griefs united easier grow we are our selves bu by rebound and all our titles shuffled so both princes and both subjects too

Answer 31

Katherine Phillips

Question 32

our hearts are mutual victims laid while they (such power in friendship lies) are altars priests and offrings made and each heart which thus kindly dies grows deathless by the sacrifice

Answer 32

Katherine Phillips

Question 33

I did not live until this time crownd my felicity when i could say without a crime i am not thine but thee

Answer 33

Katherine Phillips

Question 34

this carcass breath'd and walkt and slept so that the world believd there was a soul the motions kept but they were all deceivd

Answer 34

Katherine Phillips

Question 35

for as a watch by art is wound to motion such was mine but never had orinda found a soul till she found thine

Answer 35

Katherine Phillips

Question 36

which now inspires cures and supplies and guides my darkned breast for thou art all that i can prize my joy my life my rest

Answer 36

Katherine Phillips

Question 37

no bridegrooms nor crown-conquerors mirth to mine compard can be they have but pieces of this earth ive all the world in thee

Answer 37

Katherine Phillips

Question 38

then let our flames still light and shine and no false fear controul as innocent as our design immortal as our soul

Answer 38

Katherine Phillips

Question 39

Though i seeme struange sweete freende be thou not so do not annoy thy selfe with sullen will myne harte hathe voude although my tongue saye noe to be thyne owne in freendly liking styll

Answer 39

Anne Field

Question 40

thou seeste me live amongest the lynxes eyes that pryes into each privy thought of mynde thou knowest ryght well what sorrows may aryse ife once they chaunce my setled lookes to fynde

Answer 40

Anne Field

Question 41

content thy selfe that once i made an othe to sheylde my selfe in shrowde of honest shame and when thou lyst make tryall of my trouth so that thou save the honor of my name

Answer 41

Anne Field

Question 42

and let me seme although i be not coy to cloak my sadd conceyts with smylinge cheere let not my jestures showe wehrin to joye nor by my lookes let not my love appeare

Answer 42

Anne Field

Question 43

we seely dames that falles suspecte do feare and live ithin the moughte of envyes lake must in our hearts a secrete meaning bear far from the rest which outwardly we maek

Answer 43

Anne Field

Question 44

go where i like i like not want my love where i desire there most i fayne debate one hath my hand an other hathe my glove but he my harte whom i seeme most to hate

Answer 44

Anne Field

Question 45

then farewell friend i will continue strange thou shalt not hear by word or writing oughte let it suffice my vowe shall never change as for the rest i leave yt to thy thought

Answer 45

Anne Field

Question 46

If i had as fair a face as john williams his daughter elzabeth has then i would i were a taudrie lace as goodman bolts daughter marie does

Answer 46

Anne Wrigglesworth

Question 47

and if i had as much money in my purse as cadmans daughter margaret has then would i have a bastard less than butlers maid helen has

Answer 47

Anne Wrigglesworth

Question 48

Tis not your faire outside (though famous greece whose beauties ruin'd kingdomes never saw a face that could like yours affections draw)

Answer 48

Elizabeth Cary

Question 49

fits you for the protection of this piece it is your heart (your pious zealous heart) that by attractive force brings great perroone

Answer 49

Elizabeth Cary

Question 50

to leave his seyne his loyre and his garroone and to your handmaid thames his gifts impart but stay you have a brother his king borne

Answer 50

Elizabeth Cary

Question 51

(whose worth draws men from the remotest parts to offer up themselves to his desartes) to whom he hath his allegiance sworne

Answer 51

Elizabeth Cary

Question 52

yet for your sake he proves ubiquitarie and comes to england though in france he tarry

Answer 52

Elizabeth Cary

Question 53

Who so list to hount i knowe where is an hynde but as for me helas i may no more the vayne travaill hath werried me so sore i am of theim that farthest cometh behinde yet may i by no means of my werried myne drawe from the deere but as she fleeth afore faynting I folowe i leve of therefor sethens in a nett i seke to hold the wynde

Answer 53

Sir Thomas Wyatt

Question 54

who list her hount i put him out of doubt as well as i may spend his time in vain and graven with diamondes in letters plain

Answer 54

Sir Thomas Wyatt

Question 55

there is written her fairer neck rounde about noli me tangere for cesars i am and wyld for to hold though i seme tame

Answer 55

Sir Thomas Wyatt

Question 56

Come live with me and be my love and we will all the pleasures prove that valleyes groves hills and fields woods or steepie mountain yeelds

Answer 56

Christopher Marlowe

Question 57

and we will sit upon the rocks seeing the shepheards feed their flocks by shallow rivers to whose falls melodious byrds sing madrigalls

Answer 57

Christopher Marlowe

Question 58

and i will make thee beds of roses and a thousand fragrant poesises a cap of flowers and a kirtle embroidered all with leaves of mirtle

Answer 58

Christopher Marlowe

Question 59

a gown made of the finest wool which from our pretty lambs we pull fair lined slippers for the cold with buckles of the purest gold

Answer 59

Christopher Marlowe

Question 60

a belt of straw and ivie buds with coral clasps and amber studs and if these pleasures may thee move come live with me and be my love

Answer 60

Christopher Marlowe

Question 61

the shepheards swains shall dance and sing for thy delight each may morning if these delights thy mind may move then live with me and be my love

Answer 61

Christopher Marlowe

Question 62

Forbear bold youth alls heaven here and what you do aver to others coutship may appear tis sacriledge to her

Answer 62

Katherine Philips

Question 63

She is a public deity and were't not very odd she should depose her self to be a petty household god

Answer 63

Katherine Philips

Question 64

first make the sun in private shine and bid the world adieu that so he may his beams confine in compliment to you

Answer 64

Katherine Philips

Question 65

but if of that you do despair think how you did amiss to strive to fix her beams which are more bright and large than his

Answer 65

Katherine Philips

Question 66

Would god that death with cruel dart and fatal sesters three before had perste my virgins harte or i did fancye thee

Answer 66

Ellin Thorne

Question 67

Cupido then his force had bent and golden bowe in vaine my womans harte had not been rent with this most rewfull paine

Answer 67

Ellin Thorne

Question 68

his denting darte no sooner flew from sounding silver stringe but pinchinge paines eke dolores newe within my brest did springe

Answer 68

Ellin Thorne

Question 69

o luckless happ unhappy luck some lionse me feed some savage tiger gave me suck un thankfulness me brede

Answer 69

Ellin Thorne

Question 70

els i not once had fended thee whos shynning comely graice constraines me nowe to rune i see a captives ruefull rayce

Answer 70

Ellin Thorne

Question 71

o splie me not but spedely thie mercy here extende and i will serve thee faithfully unto my latter end

Answer 71

Ellin Thorne

Question 72

As loving hind that (hartless) wants her deer scuds throught he woods and fern with harkning ear perplext in every bush and nook doth pry her dearest deer might answer ear or eye

Answer 72

Anne Bradstreet

Question 73

so doth my anxious soul which now doth miss a dearer Dear (far dearer heart) than this still waiting with doubts and hopes and failing eye his voice to hear or person to discry

Answer 73

Anne Bradstreet

Question 74

or as the pensive dove doth all alone (on withered bough) most uncouthly bemoan the absence of her love and loving mate whose loss hath made her so unfortunate

Answer 74

Anne Bradstreet

Question 75

ev'n thus doe i with many a deep sad groan bewail my turtle true who now is gone his presence and his safe return still wooes with thousand doelfull sighs and mournfull cooes

Answer 75

Anne Bradstreet

Question 76

or as the loving mullet that true fish her fellow lost nor joy nor life do wish but lanches on that shore there for to dye where she her captive husband doth espy

Answer 76

Anne Bradstreet

Question 77

mine being gone i lead a joyless life i have a loving phere, yet seem no wife but worst of all to him can't steer my course i here he there alas both kept by force

Answer 77

Anne Bradstreet

Question 78

return my dear my joy my only love unto thy hinde thy mullet and thy dove who neither joyes in pature house nor streams the substance gone o me these are but dreams

Answer 78

Anne Bradstreet

Question 79

together at one tree oh let us browse and like to turltes roost within one house and like the mulletts in one river glide lets still remain but one till death divide

Answer 79

Anne Bradstreet

Question 80

Happy who near you sigh for you alone who hears you speak or whom you smile upon you well for this might scorn a starry throne

Answer 80

A Lady of Quality

Question 81

to this compard the heavnly bliss they prove no envy raises for the powers a love ne'er tasted joys compar'd to such above

Answer 81

A Lady of Quality

Question 82

when ere I look on you through every vein subtil as lighting flies the nimble flame i'm all o'er rapture while all over pain

Answer 82

A Lady of Quality

Question 83

and while my soul does in these transports stray my voice deisdains to teach my tongue its way each faculty does not its trust betray

Answer 83

A Lady of Quality

Question 84

a cloud of wild confusion veils my sight sounds vainly strike my ears my eyes the light sof languishment my senses disunite

Answer 84

A Lady of Quality

Question 85

swift trembling straightn o'er all my body flies life frightened thense love dos his place supply disorder'd breathless pale and cold i die

Answer 85

A Lady of Quality