Lines from “Eclog. V. Nicaea”

Resource added
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.

Full description

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.”

Download image “Lines from “Eclog. V. Nicaea””
  • type
    Image
  • created on
  • file format
    jpg
  • file size
    56 KB
  • container title
    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)
  • copyright status
    Public Domain
  • creator
    Phineas Fletcher
  • credit
    Digitized from the original at Wellcome Library and accessed via Internet Archive.
  • original publisher
    University of Cambridge Press
  • original publisher place
    Cambridge
  • rights
    CC0
  • rights territory
    Worldwide