Thomas Carew

Poet, 1595-1640

Cited as Carew. — 21 quotations

There were many bowssening places, for curing of mad men. . . . If there appeared small amendment he was bowssened again and again.

His father, a younger branch of the ancient stock.

In the midst was placed a large compartment composed of grotesque work.

The embargo with Spain foreclosed this trade.

Hurling taketh its denomination from throwing the ball.

Ruins yet resting in the wild moors testify a former inhabitance.

In her girlish age, she kept sheep on the moor.

The charge amounteth very high for any one man's purse, except lined beyond ordinary, to reach unto.

She employed the residue of her life to repairing of highways, building of bridges, and endowing of maidens.

In her girlish age she kept sheep on the moor.

When I saw her die, I then did think on your mortality.

This treatise plotteth down Cornwall as it now standeth.

Causes and effects which I thus raff up together.

The tillable fields are in some places . . . so shelfy that the corn hath much ado to fasten its root.

He was spare, but discreet of speech.

It is sundered from the main land by a sandy plain.

When the price of corn falleth, men give over surplus tillage, and break no more ground.

In packing, they keep a just tale of the number.

Equity, the true touch of all laws.

With bended knees I daily worship her.

Wise poets that wrap truth in tales.