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england_n	french_a	king_n	prisoner_n	2,998	5	8.6314	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A58022	A short view of tragedy it's original, excellency and corruption : with some reflections on Shakespear and other practitioners for the stage / by Mr. Rymer ...	Rymer, Thomas, 1641-1713.	1693 (1693)	Wing R2429; ESTC R17017	76,381	200

d'autre amour non janziray s'yeu nen jau dest ' amour de luench q'una plus bella non en sa en luec que sia ny pres ny luench Sad and heavy should I part but for this Love so far away not knowing what my ways may thwart my Native Land so far away Thou that of all things Maker art and form'st this Love so far away give body's strength then shan't I start from seeing her so far away How true a Love to pure desert my Love to her so far away eas'd once a thousand times I smart whilst ah she is so far away None other Love none other Dart I feel but hers so far away but fairer never touch'd a●… heart than hers that is so far away CHAP. VII Savery de Mauleon a Provencial Poet. Testimony of him King R. I. His Verses when Prisoner in Austria The Emperor Frederick Barbarossa His Poetry Ramond Beringhier Four Daughters four Queens Rob. Grosthead His Provencial Poetry Other Languages stubborn Chaucer refin'd our English Which in perfection by Waller His Poem on the Navy Royal beyond all Modern Poetry in any Language Besore him our Poets better expressed their thoughts in Latin Whence Hoveden might mistake and his Malice A Translation from Grosthead The Harp a Musick then in fashion Five Tragedies from Joan Queen of Naples Forreigners all call'd French Plays by the Parish-Clerks of London What under H. VIII flourish under Queen Elizab●…th The Gorboduck French much behind-hand with us Tragedy with us but a shadow SAvery de Mauleon mentioned in our English Histories is reckoned another of these Provencial Poets of him an old Bard amongst them gave this Testimony Dousfament fait motz sos ab amor que ' m' a vencut Sweetly could he say and sing of Love that me hath vanquished And the same Author says of King Richard Coblas a teira faire adroitement pou vos oillez enten dompna gentilz Stanza's he triml●… could invent upon the Eyes of Lady gent. One Stanza of a Song made by him when a Prisoner in Austria may serve for a taste Or ●…achan ben mos homs e mos Barons Anglez Normans Peytavins e Gascons qu'yeu non ay ja si paure Compagnon que per aver lou laissess en preson Know ye my Men my Barons all In England and in Normandy In Poicters and in Gascony I no Companion held so small To let him thus in durance lie Our King Richard had not the Expedient of the French King St. Lewis who taken Prisoner by the Sarazens pawn'd the Eucharist body for body to the Insidels for his Ransom Signior Redi now with the great Duke of Tuscany tells us the Mss. with King Richard's Poetry and many other of the P●…ovencial Poets are in his keeping This of the Emperor Frederick I. is currant every where Plas my Cavallier Francez e la donna Catallana e l'ourar Gynoez e la Cour de Kastellana lou Kantar Provensales e la dansa Trivyzana e la corps Arrogonez e la perla Julliana les mans e Kara d'Angles e lou donzel de Thus●…ana I like in France the Chivalry The Catalonian Lass for me The Genoes for working well But for a Court commend Castile For Song no Countrey to Provance And Treves must carry 't for a dance The finest shapes in Arragon In Juliers they speak in Tune The English ●…or an hand and face ●…or Boys troth Tuscany's the place They who have written the lives of the Provencial Poets with King Richard and the Emperor Frederick Barbarossa give us also the life of Ramond Count of Provence memorable for his four Daughters married to so many Kings Margaret to Lewis King of France Elionor to our H. III. Sance to Richard King of the Romans Beatrice to Charles King of Naples and Sicily On this occasion thus Dante Quattro figlie hebbe Ciascuna reina Ramondo Beringhieri Four lovely Daughters each of them a Queen Had Ramond Beringher Neither were the Churchmen all of the same Kidney with the Monks as may be gather'd from the famous Bishop of Lincoln Rob. Grosthead the most eminent in his time for Piety and Learning and the Man of greatest Authority who when living made the old Gentleman in St. Peters Chair tremble and the bare Ghost of him afterwards so thumpt off the Pope that he died of the contusion He compos'd several treatises in this Provencial Ryme and Language One of them in Bodleys Library bears this title Tractatus in lingua Romana secundum Dom. Rob. Grosseteste Lincoln Ep. de Principio Creationis Mundi The beginning is this Ki pense ben ben peut dire Sanz penser ne poet sofsire De nul bon oure Comencer Deu nos doint de li penser De ki par ki en ki sont Toz les bens ki font el mond He that thinks well well can say Without thinking nought he may Not a good work once begin God wou'd have us think of him From whom by whom in whom are all The good things which the World we call This Provencial was the first of the modern languages that yielded and chim'd in with the musick and sweetness of ryme which making its way by Savoy to Monserat The Italians thence began to file their volgare And to set their verses all after the Chimes of Provence Our Intermarriages and our Dominions thereabouts brought us much sooner acquainted with their Tongue and Poetry And they wit●… us that would write verse as King Richard Savery de Mauleon and Rob. Grostead finding the English stubborn and unweildy fell readily to that of Prove●…ce as more glib and lighter on the Tongue But they who attempted verse in English down till Chaucers time made an heavy pudder and are always miserably put to 't for a word to clink which commonly fall so awkard and unexpectedly as dropping from the Clouds by some Machi●…e or Miracle Chaucer found an Herculean labour on his Hands And did perform to Admiration He seizes all Provencal French or Latin that came in his way gives them a new garb and livery and mingles them amongst our English turns out English gowty or superannuated to place in their room the foreigners fit for service train'd and accustomed to Poetical Discipline But tho' the Italian reformation was begun and finished well nigh at the same time by Bocc●…ce Dan●…e and Petrarch Our language retain'd something of the churl something of the Stiff and Gothish did stick upon it till long after Chaucer Chaucer threw in Latin French Provenci●…l and other Languages like new Stum to raise a Fermentation In Queen Elizabeth's time it grew fine but came not to an Head and Spirit did not shine and sparkle till Mr. Waller set it a running And one may observe by his Poem on the Navy An. 1632. that No●… the language only but His Poetry then distinguish'd him from all his contemporaries both in England and in other Nations And from all before him