420 "I hate all men, and shun all womankinde; The one, because as I they wretched are; The other, for because I doo not finde My love with them, that wont to be their starre.

"And ever as I see the starre to fall, And under ground to goe to give them light Which dwell in darknesse, I to mind will call How my faire starre, that shind on me so bright,

"And ever as I see the starre to fall, And under ground to goe to give them light Which dwell in darknesse, I to mind will call How my faire starre, that shind on me so bright,

480 Fell sodainly and faded under ground; Since whose departure, day is turnd to night, And night without a Venus starre is found.

105 For when the soule, the which derived was, At first, out of that great immortall Spright, By whom all live to love, whilome did pas Down from the top of purest heavens hight To be embodied here, it then tooke light 110 And lively spirits from that fayrest starre Which lights the world forth from his firie carre.

Loath that foule blot, that hellish fiërbrand, Disloiall lust, fair Beauties foulest blame, 170 That base affections, which your eares would bland*, Commend to you by loves abused name, But is indeede the bondslave of defame; Which will the garland of your glorie marre, And quench the light of your brightshyning starre.

O glorious Morning-Starre!

By their ore-grow'th of some complextion[10] Oft breaking downe the pales and forts of reason Or by some habit, that too much ore-leauens The forme of plausiue manners, that these men Carrying I say the stamp of one defect Being Natures liuery, or Fortunes starre, His vertues els be they as pure as grace, As infinite as man may vndergoe, Shall in the generall censure take corruption From that particuler fault: the dram of eale[20]

thus I did bespeake Lord Hamlet is a Prince out of thy Starre, This must not be: and then, I Precepts gaue her,

Ile be your foile Laertes, in mine ignorance, [Sidenote: 218] Your Skill shall like a Starre i'th'darkest night, Sticke fiery off indeede.

What thinke you of the blazeing starre in Germany?

Moreouer the Captaine hath for his guide eight pilots, the office of whom is alwayes stable and firme from heire to heire, and these goe before guiding the Carouan, and shewing the way, as being well experienced in the place, and in the night they gouerne them as the mariners, by the starre.

Twixt whom and me, and every worldly fortune There fights such sowre, and curst Antipathy, So waspish and so petulant a Starre, That all things tending to my grace or good Are ravisht from their object, as I were A thing created for a wildernes, And must not thinke of any place with men.

To her I write; my friend, the starre of friends Will needs have my strange lines greet her strange eies

Noble Orlando, what omynous fatell starre Ruld thy nativitie that fire must be Strooke out of Ice to ruyne all thy hopes: This marriage is their grave.

Oh Mistris, your scantling, most sweete mistriss, most derydent starre.

Then most rydent starre, faire fall ye. Grac.

A flat gravestone in the churchyard has the following curious inscription: JOHN STARRE Starre on Hie Where should a Starre be

A flat gravestone in the churchyard has the following curious inscription: JOHN STARRE Starre on Hie Where should a Starre be

A flat gravestone in the churchyard has the following curious inscription: JOHN STARRE Starre on Hie Where should a Starre be

we saw the Polle-starre.

The twenty one, we saw the North starre.

Say Cynthia, shall Pandora rule thy starre, And wilt thou play Diana in the woods, Or Hecate in Plutos regiment? Luna.

when the yeares at hottest, And that the Dog-starre fomes, and the streame boiles, And curles, and workes, and swells ready to sparkle; To fling a fellow with a Fever in, To set it all on fire, till it burne, Blew as Scamander, 'fore the walls of Troy, When Vulcan leap'd in to him, to consume him.

that since, No Sun, or Moone, or other cheerfull Starre Look'd out of heaven!