Nesbit, Wilbur D. (Wilbur Dick), 1871-1927, Young, Ellsworth, [from old catalog] illus · San Francisco, P. Elder and company · leaf 25
set down by Quint., And so must he who risesTo heights of glowing fame by dint Of the justly famous to be or not to be, centerof the stage, two spotlights sizzling, whenhe as Hamlet soliloquizes. Quintilian, we are fain to say. Was It on oratory.And even in this later day Receives his share of… … ALEIGH Sir Walter Raleigh was a man Of excellent deportment;He could advise a King or KhanWhat going into court meant;When Spenser wrote his Faerie Queene Sir Walter Raleigh said itBetrayed a wit both sharp and clean(We wonder if he read it,). Good Queen Elizabeth one day Was out (perhaps for…
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