...64 [SATIRE TO KING JAMES. The challenge which Bishop Hall put forth in his Virgidemiarum, Book I., " I first adventure with fool-hardy might To tread the steps of perilous despight ; I first adventure, follow me who list, , And be the second English Satirist" — may, with...

...SENECA. Critic, Orator, are not yet explained, according to their new interpretations, though we have " I first adventure, follow me who list, And be the second English Satyrist." This assertion of the Poet is not strictly true ; for there were various satyrical writings...

...Oxford, in 1753, 8vo. In the prologue he calls himself the first satirist in the English language. " I first adventure, follow me who list, And be the second English satirist." The work is divided into six books, the first three called toothless satires ; practical academical,...

...I. » PROLOGUE. I FIRST adventure1, with fool-hardy might, To tread the steps of perilous despight : I first adventure, follow me who list, And be the second English Satyrist. Envy wayts on my backe, Truth on my side : Envy will be my page, and truth my guide. Envy...

...new undertaking. The laurel which he sought had been unworn, and it was not to be won without hazard. I first adventure, with fool-hardy might, To tread the steps of perilous despight : I first adventure, follow me who list, And be the second English satirist. Hisjirst book,...

...English Satyrist: In the first adventure, with fool-hardy might, To tread the steps of perilous despight, I first adventure, follow me who list, / And be the second English satyrist. For as Scotland had its Lindsay, so had England its Pierce Ploughman, whose Visions are certainly...

...satires in six books:" And calls himself in the prologue, the first satirist in the English language: " I first adventure, follow me who list, " And be the second English satirist." The three first books are called Toothless Satires: poetical, academical, moral. The three last, Biting...

...satires in six books:" And calls himself in the prologue, the first satirist in the English language : " I first adventure, follow me who list, " And be the second English satirist." The three first books are called Toothless Satires : poetical, academical, moral. The three last, Biting...

...unknown to Bishop Hall, who publishing his Satires fifty years afterwards, ventured roundly to assert, " I first adventure, follow me who list And be the second English satirist." which is the more extraordinary, as it is evident that Hall had paid particular attention to the poems...

...Satires he says — I first adventure with fool hardy might, To thread the steps of perilous despight : I first adventure, follow me who list, And be the second English Satyrist. Hall's Prologue to Book 3, implies his knowledge of former Satirists. " Some say my Satyrs...