THEOPHILE BEING DENY'D HIS ADDRESSES TO KING JAMES, <br /> TURNED THE AFFRONT TO HIS OWN GLORY IN THIS EPIGRAM. <br /> <br /> Si Jaques, le Roy du scavior, <br /> Ne trouue bon de me voir, <br /> Voila la cause infallible! <br /> Car, ravy de mon escrit, <br /> Il creut, que j'estois tout esprit <br /> Et par consequent invisible. <br /> <br /> LINEALLY TRANSLATED OUT OF THE FRENCH. <br /> <br /> If James, the king of wit, <br /> To see me thought not fit, <br /> Sure this the cause hath been, <br /> That, ravish'd with my merit, <br /> He thought I was all spirit, <br /> And so not to be seen.<br /><br />Richard Lovelace<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/theophile-being-deny-d-his-addresses-to-king-jam/
