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Plunderers: Quotations from Shakespearian Quotations

Hear me, you wrangling pirates, that fall out In sharing that which you have pill'd from me. R. III. i. 3. POETRY. POET (See also BALLAD-MONGER, RHYMSTER). Our poesy is a gum, which oozes From whence 'tis nourish'd: the fire i'the flint Shows not, till it be struck; our gentle flame Provokes itself, and, like the current, flies— T. A. i. 1

Each bound it chafes. Own'st thou the heavenly influence of the muse, Spend not thy fury on some worthless song; Dark'ning thy power to lend base subjects light. Poems