[Rarebooks] FS: Fine Framed Handwritten Quote by William Wordsworth

[Charles Agvent]

One of the many fine items we will have in our booth (525) at the Boston 
Antiquarian Book Fair this weekend at the Hynes Convention Center on 
Boylston St.

WORDSWORTH, William. AUTOGRAPH QUOTATION SIGNED (AQS). A one-page (8" x 
10") lengthy AUTOGRAPH QUOTATION SIGNED by Wordsworth from a poem by 
Fulke Greville (Lord Brooke), a contemporary and friend of poet Philip 
Sidney. In full:

"The chief use, then in Man of that he knows
Is his painstaking for the good of all;
Not fleshly weeping for our own made woes,
Not laughing from a melancholy gall,
Not hating from a Soul that overflows
In bitterness, breathed forth from inward thrall;
But sweetly rather to ease, loose, or bind,
As need requires, this frail, fallen human kind.
Lord Brooke./Peter House July 5th 1815/Wm Wordsworth."
It is clear why Wordsworth might have chosen these words of 
Brooke's--"Man's Service" from A TREATISE OF HUMANE LEARNING--to write 
as the two shared the notion that while knowledge might bring happiness, 
it also increases susceptibility to suffering and self-torment. Matted 
and framed with an engraved portrait of Wordsworth to an overall size of 
22" x 18". Not examined out of the frame but appears to be Fine.

Fulke Greville (1554-1628) was a close friend of Sir Philip Sidney and a 
great patron of letters. Most of his works were not published until 
after his murder by a servant who thought he had been omitted from his 
master’s will. Some believe Greville is the true author of several plays 
attributed to William Shakespeare. (#015523) $4,500.00

http://www.charlesagvent.com/shop/agvent/015523.html?id=kgYIuzFh

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