...love are roots and ever green. His helmet now shall make a hive for bees, And, lover's sonnets turned to holy psalms, A man-at-arms must now serve on his knees, And feed on prayers, which are age's alms. But though from court to cottage he depart, His saint is sure of his unspotted heart. And...

...of the old poet' (from Peele's The Aged Man-at-Arms') suited to the occasion (p. 966): A man at arms must now serve on his knees, And feed on prayers, which are old age's alms. As such quotations are apt intertexts, they are also social signifiers, indications...

...poet George Peele in which he bemoans that age has deprived him of his skills as soldier and lover: "His helmet now shall make a hive for bees; /And, lovers' sonnets turn'd to holy psalms . . ." See Oxford Book of English Verse, p. 151. 6. Film versions were made in 1932 and 1957. WJ Frohock...

...permanently on the premises. Many a hoary veteran found his way into the quiet precincts of a nunnery: His helmet now shall make a hive for bees; And, lovers'...now serve on his knees, And feed on prayers, which axe Age his alms. In the intervals between feeding on prayers he must have been vastly disturbing and...

...(4th S. xii. 168.) — " His helmet now shall make a hive for bees," [" And loTers' songs be turned to holy psalms ; A man-at-arms must now serve on his knees, And feed on prayers, which are old age's alms."] These lines are by the old dramatist George Peele, from a sonnet ad fin., Polyhymnia....

...Beauty, strength, youth, are flowers but fading seen ; Duty, faith, love, are roots, and ever green. His helmet now shall make a hive for bees, And, lovers' sonnets turned to holy psalms, A man-at-arms must now serve on his knees, And feed on prayers, which are age...

...His helmet now shall make a hive for bees, And lovurs' songs be turned to holy psalms; A man at arms must now serve on his knees, And feed on prayers, which are old age's alms : But though from court to cottage he depart, His saint is sure of his unspotted heart....