bastard

For which my song I raise;

But even the bastard good of intermittent ease

How greatly doth it please!

The sorrel runs in ragged flame,

The daisy stands, a bastard flower,

Like flowers that bear an honest name.

most Englishmen regard Queen Bess; for, in the pamphlets of the

Romanists, she is branded as "a known bastard, who raised this prelatic

protestancy, called the church of England, as a prop to supply the

"John the Pannonian, groundedly believed

A blacksmith's bastard, whose hard hand reprieved

The Empire from its fate the year before,

free to think of the writing as verse, or sliced prose,

or as a bastard offspring of the two’, has to be placed,

for truth’s sake, against poetically charged passages in

Where, then is hell?

Show me some bastard mushrooms

Sprung from a pollution of blood.

If my dear love were but the child of state,

It might for Fortune's bastard be unfather'd,

As subject to Time's love or to Time's hate,

But now is black beauty's successive heir,

And beauty slander'd with a bastard shame:

For since each hand hath put on Nature's power,