Lines from “Eclog. V. Nicaea”

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Cropped close-up of a photograph of lines printed in the fifth eclogue of Piscatorie Eclogs, in *The Purple Island* (1633).
Phineas Fletcher, lines 5-9, “Eclog. 5. Nicaea,” in Piscatorie Eclogs and other Poetical Miscellanies, part of The Purple Island (Cambridge, 1633), STC 11082.

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Lines by Phineas Fletcher, close to lines used on Benlowes’s emblem. The relevant lines read: “Which ‘mongst those violets sheds his golden hair, / Seems the sunnes little sonne, fixt in his azure spheare.”

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    Phineas Fletcher, The Purple Island, or the Isle of Man: Together with Piscatorie Eclogs and other Poeticall Miscellanies (Cambridge: Printers to the University of Cambridge, 1633)
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  • creator
    Phineas Fletcher
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    Digitized from the original at Wellcome Library and accessed via Internet Archive.
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    University of Cambridge Press
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    Cambridge
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