The Lives of the Most Famous English Poets (1687) by William Winstanley
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The God's did guide his Sail and Course, the Winds were at command,
And _Totness_ was the happy shore where first he came on land. The other out of Mr. _Weever_ his Funeral Monuments in the Parish of St. _Aldermanbury_ in _London_, speaking of _Cornwal_. There Gyants whilome dwelt, whose Clothes were skins of Beasts; Whose Drink was Blood; Whose Cups, to serve for use at Feasts, Were made of hollow Wood; Whose Beds were bushy Thorns; And Lodgings rocky Caves, to shelter them from Storms; Their Chambers craggy Rocks; their Hunting found them Meat. To vanquish and to kill, to them was pleasure great. Their violence was rule; with rage and fury led, They rusht into the fight, and fought hand over head. Their Bodies were interr'd behind some bush or brake, To bear such monstrous Wights, the earth did grone and quake. These pestred most the Western Tract; more fear made thee agast, O _Cornwall_, utmost door that art to let in _Zephyrus_ blast. * * * * * _JOHN GOWER_. _John Gower_, whom some make to be a Knight, though _Stow_, in his _survey of London_, unknighteth him, and saith he was only an Esquire; however he was born of a knightly Family, at _Stitenham_ in the |
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