"Unpensioned" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... took Another mistress—or new book: And then he gave prodigious fetes— All Warsaw gathered round his gates To gaze upon his splendid court, And dames, and chiefs, of princely port. He was the Polish Solomon, So sung his poets, all but one, Who, being unpensioned, made a satire, And boasted that he could not flatter. 150 It was a court of jousts and mimes, Where every courtier tried at rhymes; Even I for once produced some verses, And signed my odes 'Despairing Thyrsis.' There was a certain Palatine,[257] ...
— The Works of Lord Byron, Volume 4 • Lord Byron |
