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Do they hear their prince, or a king commended? they make no more of him, than of a shepherd, goatherd, or neatherd: a lazy Coridon, occupied in milking and shearing his herds and flocks, but more rudely and harshly than the herd or shepherd himself.
'A truce, dear Fergus! spare us those most tedious and insipid persons of all Arcadia. Do not, for Heaven's sake, bring down Coridon and Lindor upon us. 'Nay, if you cannot relish la houlette et le chalumeau, have with you in heroic strains. 'Dear Fergus, you have certainly partaken of the inspiration of Mac-Murrough's cup rather than of mine.
The interlocutors in these three poems are Coridon, a young shepherd anxious to seek his fortune at court, and the old Cornix, for whom the great world has long lost its glamour. The fourth eclogue, 'treating of the behavour of Rich men against Poets, is similarly 'taken out of' Mantuan. In it Barclay is supposed to have directed a not very individual but pretty lusty satire against Skelton.
Thus Corin is Chapman; Musaeus, of course Marlowe; English Horace, no doubt Jonson; Melicert, Shakespeare; Coridon, Drayton; Anti-Horace, most likely Dekker, and Moelibee, mentioned with him, possibly Marston. Throughout Chettle assumes to himself Spenser's pastoral title.
'A truce, dear Fergus! spare us those most tedious and insipid persons of all Arcadia. Do not, for Heaven's sake, bring down Coridon and Lindor upon us. 'Nay, if you cannot relish LA HOULETTE ET LE CHALUMEAU, have with you in heroic strains. 'Dear Fergus, you have certainly partaken of the inspiration of Mac-Murrough's cup, rather than of mine.
'A truce, dear Fergus! spare us those most tedious and insipid persons of all Arcadia. Do not, for Heaven's sake, bring down Coridon and Lindor upon us. 'Nay, if you cannot relish la houlette et le chalumeau, have with you in heroic strains. 'Dear Fergus, you have certainly partaken of the inspiration of Mac-Murrough's cup rather than of mine.
'A truce, dear Fergus! spare us those most tedious and insipid persons of all Arcadia. Do not, for Heaven's sake, bring down Coridon and Lindor upon us. 'Nay, if you cannot relish la houlette et le chalumeau, have with you in heroic strains. 'Dear Fergus, you have certainly partaken of the inspiration of Mac-Murrough's cup rather than of mine.
His shepherds, whether genuine, as Coridon and Phoebe, or assumed, as Rosalynde and Rosader, are all alike Italian Arcadians, equally polished and poetical. Montanus, a shepherd corresponding to Shakespeare's Silvius, is a dainty rimester, and is not only well posted in the loves of Polyphemus and Galatea, but can rail on blind boy Cupid in good French, and on his mistress too
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