...bubbling pride doth lie So in my swelling breast that only If Fawn on myself, and others do despise: Yet pride I think doth not my soul possess, Which looks too oft in his unflatt'ring glass: But one worse fault, ambition, I confess, That makes me oft my best friends overpass,...

...a symbol of moral selfexamination; see, for example Sidney's Astrophil and Stella 27, 10-1 1 ; "Yet pride, I think, doth not my soul possess, / Which looks too oft in his unflatt'ring glass" (quoted from Duncan-Jones' edition). The example of George Pettie is addressed...

...bubbling pride doth lie So in my swelling breast that only I Fawn on myself, and others do despise: Yet pride I think doth not my soul possess, Which looks too oft in his unflatt'ring glass: But one worse fault, ambition, I confess, That makes me oft my best friends overpass,...

...bubbling pride doth lie So in my swelling breast, that only I Fawn on myself, and others do despise. Yet pride, I think, doth not my soul possess, Which looks...place Bends all his powers, even unto Stella's grace. How others censured him he tells us, at the beginning of this attachment, and how little he was satisfied...

...So in my swelling breast, that only I Fawn on myself, and others do despise ; Yet Pride, I thirik, doth not my Soul possess, Which looks too oft in his...place Bends all his powers, even unto STELLA'S grace. Haying this day, my horse, my hand, my lance, Guided so well that I obtained the prize, Both by the...

...glasse): But one worse fault, ambition, I confesse That makes me oft my best friends overpasse, Unseene, unheard, while thought to highest place Bends all his powers, even unto Stella's grace.' From Shrewsbury he went in 1568 when 14 years old to Christchurch, Oxford, where he stayed till 1571;...