Samuel Daniel

Poet and historian, 1562-1619

Cited as Daniel. — 49 quotations

Advisement

And mused awhile, waking advisement takes of what had passed in sleep.

Cloister

Fitter for a cloister than a crown.

Cloistral

Best become a cloistral exercise.

Complain

They might the grievance inwardly complain.

Comport

The malcontented sort That never can the present state comport.

Concussion

Then concussion, rapine, pilleries, Their catalogue of accusations fill.

Confederate

With these the Piercies them confederate.

Confiner

Happy confiners you of other lands, That shift your soil, and oft 'scape tyrants' hands.

Creditor

The easy creditors of novelties.

Disarray

Disrank the troops, set all in disarray.

Discontinue

Taught the Greek tongue, discontinued before in these parts the space of seven hundred years.

Effect

So great a body such exploits to effect.

Erect

That didst his state above his hopes erect.

Expilation

This ravenous expilation of the state.

Foretoken

Whilst strange prodigious signs foretoken blood.

Give

Now back he gives, then rushes on amain.

Incorporate

He never suffers wrong so long to grow, And to incorporate with right so far As it might come to seem the same in show.

Indebt

Thy fortune hath indebted thee to none.

Infection

It was her chance to light Amidst the gross infections of those times.

Ingrain

Our fields ingrained with blood.

Insult

The lion being dead, even hares insult.

Interpoint

Her sighs should interpoint her words.

Main

That current with main fury ran.

Mercenary

For God forbid I should my papers blot With mercenary lines, with servile pen.

Penetrate

The sweet of life that penetrates so near.

Populace

To . . . calm the peers and please the populace.

Quit

Never worthy prince a day did quit With greater hazard and with more renown.

Rhetoric

Sweet, silent rhetoric of persuading eyes.

Riot

Now he exact of all, wastes in delight, Riots in pleasure, and neglects the law.

Rout

thy army . . . Dispersed in rout, betook them all to fly.

Same

Do but think how well the same he spends, Who spends his blood his country to relieve.

Sisterhood

She . . . abhorr'd Her proper blood, and left to do the part Of sisterhood, to do that of a wife.

Some

Some to the shores do fly, Some to the woods, or whither fear advised.

Stand

Father, since your fortune did attain So high a stand, I mean not to descend.

Stop

A fatal stop traversed their headlong course.
The organ sound a time survives the stop.

Stout

The lords all stand To clear their cause, most resolutely stout.

Such

In rushed one and tells him such a knight Is new arrived.

Temporize

They might their grievance inwardly complain, But outwardly they needs must temporize.

Throng

So, with this bold opposer rushes on This many-headed monster, multitude.

Underworld

That overspreads (with such a reverence) This underworld.

Versify

I'll versify the truth, not poetize.

War

To war the Scot, and borders to defend.

Ward

Now wards a felling blow, now strikes again.

Warder

When, lo! the king suddenly changed his mind, Casts down his warder to arrest them there.

When

Kings may Take their advantage when and how they list.

Who

There thou tell'st of kings, and who aspire; Who fall, who rise, who triumph, who do moan.

Woeful

How many woeful widows left to bow To sad disgrace!

Wreck

Weak and envied, if they should conspire, They wreck themselves.