Thomas Lodge
Who is Thomas Lodge
Thomas Lodge (c. 1558 – September 1625) was an English writer and medical practitioner whose life spanned the Elizabethan and Jacobean periods.
Biography
Thomas Lodge was born about 1558 in West Ham, the second son of Sir Thomas Lodge, Lord Mayor of London, by his third wife Anne (1528–1579), daughter of Henry Luddington (died 1531), a London grocer. He was educated at Merchant Taylors' School and Trinity College, Oxford; taking his BA in 1577 and MA in 1581. In 1578 he entered Lincoln's Inn, where, as in the other Inns of Court, a love of letters and a crop of debts were common.Lodge, disregarding the wishes of his family, took up literature. When the penitent Stephen Gosson had (in 1579) published his Schoole of Abuse, Lodge responded with Defence of Poetry, ...
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Thomas Lodge Poems
- The Earth, Late Chok'd With Showers
The earth, late chok'd with showers,
Is now array'd in green,
Her bosom springs with flowers,
The air dissolves her teen;
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- Phillis 1
MY Phillis hath the morning sun
At first to look upon her;
And Phillis hath morn-waking birds
Her risings still to honour.
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- Phillis 2
LOVE guards the roses of thy lips
And flies about them like a bee;
If I approach he forward skips,
And if I kiss he stingeth me.
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- Phillis 02
LOVE guards the roses of thy lips
And flies about them like a bee;
If I approach he forward skips,
And if I kiss he stingeth me.
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- Like To The Clear In Highest Sphere
Like to the clear in highest sphere
Where all imperial glory shines,
Of selfsame colour is her hair,
Whether unfolded or in twines:...
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- Pagrandlodge: phoenix lodge no. 75 and grand lodge officers with ddgm and rwpgm thomas gamon, iv. photo courtesy of brother john denoma, senior warden, phoenix lodge no. 75
- Maritochez: had to fall in love
moody blues
justin hayward
john lodge
ray thomas
graeme edge
- Lovecorbyuk: thomas tresham inherited great wealth from his father john, and became a powerful local landowner, responsible for the building of various houses near to corby
including the stunning triangular lodge in the grounds of his family home rushton hall. the building is 3-sided, each...
- Prateekdg1: practical tips for avoiding the plague in the 17th century: keep a goat in your house!
source: a treatise of the plague by thomas lodge
- Lovecorbyuk: thomas tresham inherited great wealth from his father john, and became a powerful local landowner, responsible for the building of various houses near to corby
including the stunning triangular lodge in the grounds of his family home rushton hall. the building is 3-sided, each...
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