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I quoted several instances of the insufficiency of a first perusal. "That's true," said he; "but as for your Merlin, I will read him no more. I have put him beside Chapelain's 'Pucelle'." "Which pleases all the critics, in spite of its bad versification, for it is a good poem, and Chapelain was a real poet though he wrote bad verses. I cannot overlook his genius."
"How," said he, "dare you leave your mother and sister alone in a house where some brutal creditor may come in at any moment?" "I was wrong," said Maxence, who preferred to plead guilty rather than attempt an explanation. "Don't do it again then," resumed M. Chapelain.
M. Favoral was about to administer a sound reprimand to his son, when dinner was announced. "Come," exclaimed M. Chapelain, the old lawyer, the conciliating man par excellence, "come, let us to the table." They sat down. But Mme. Favoral had scarcely helped the soup, when the bell rang violently. Almost at the same moment the servant appeared, and announced: "The Baron de Thaller!"
At nine in the morning the duke and cardinal, followed by their gentlemen, who remained in the hall, entered the king's bedroom, the captain on duty having informed them that Ambroise Pare had arrived, together with Chapelain and three other physicians, who hated Pare and were all in the queen-mother's interests.
In France, Malherbe before Chapelain, Chapelain before Corneille; in ancient Greece, Orpheus before Homer, Homer before Æschylus; in the first of all books, Genesis before Kings, Kings before Job; or to come back to that monumental scale of all ages of poetry, which we ran over a moment since, The Bible before the Iliad, the Iliad before Shakespeare.
Thou hast not encountered, Master, in the Paradise of Poets, Messieurs Malherbe, De Balzac, and Boileau Boileau who spoke of thee as Ce poete orgueilleux trebuche de si haut! These gallant gentlemen, I make no doubt, are happy after their own fashion, backbiting each other and thee in the Paradise of Critics. What said M. de Balzac to M. Chapelain?
'Moliere, said you, 'understands the nature of comedy, and presents it in a natural style. The plot of his best pieces is borrowed, but not without judgment; his morale is fair, and he has only to avoid scurrility. Excellent, unconscious, popular Chapelain!
It was not so, however; he contradicted me sharply, and I closed with him. "Chapelain," said I, "has the merit of having rendered his subject-matter pleasant, without pandering to the tastes of his readers by saying things shocking to modesty and piety. So thinks my master Crebillon:" "Crebillon! You cite a weighty authority. But how is my friend Crebillon your master, may I ask?"
She found the flattering verses of Voiture more to her taste than the stately epic of Chapelain, took his side warmly against Benserade in the famous dispute as to the merits of their two sonnets, "Job" and "Urania," and won him a doubtful victory.
He will tell you what to do, and will write to me, so that I can do here whatever may be best. Dionysia is right. Jacques must be the victim of some abominable intrigue. Nevertheless, we shall save him; but we must keep cool, perfectly cool." And as he said this he rang the bell so violently, that a number of servants came rushing in at once. "Quick," he said; "send for my lawyer, Mr. Chapelain.
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