...Penelope from ancient Greece to shape one of Surrey's most musical and popular rexts: Give place, you lovers, here before That spent your boasts and brags...of yours, I dare well sayn, Than doth the sun, the candle light, Or brightest day, the darkest night. Probably adapted from a poem by his court acquaintance...

...those sudden turns from wealth, That doubtful hope, that certain woe, and sure despair of health. 50 16 Give place, ye lovers, here before That spent your...vain; My lady's beauty passeth more The best of yours, 1 dare well sayen, Than doth the sun the candle light, 5 Or brightest day the darkest night. And therefore...

...contemporaries had a singular failing. Another sort of ballad metre Surrey employs very neatly. The stanza, " Give place, ye lovers, here before That spent your...best of yours I dare well say'n Than doth the sun the candle light Or brightest day the darkest night," is no unworthy forerunner of Spenser's " Ye dainty...

...printed book without a blot ! All beauty ! — and without a spot. BEN JONSON. GIVE PLACE, YE LOVERS. ving ye < 3 sayen, Than doth the sun the candle-light, Or brightest day the darkest night. And thereto hath a troth...

...deem in thinking spent. THOMAS LORD VAUX From Tottel's Songs and Sonnets, 1557 A praise of his love Give place, ye lovers, here before That spent your...beauty passeth more The best of yours, I dare well sayen, Than doth the sun the candle light, Or brightest day the darkest night. And thereto hath a troth...

...secretly ; And nourished his secret flame, From whence no blazing sparks do fly. A PKAISE OF HIS LOVE. GIVE place, ye lovers, here before That spent your boasts and brags in vain j My lady's beauty passeth more The best of yours, I dare well sayen, Than doth the sun the candle...