[Rarebooks] FS: William Wordsworth Framed SIGNED MANUSCRIPT QUOTATION

[Charles Agvent]

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)        $4,000

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