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Even as spoke that last Oracle which murmured forth, the latest and the only true voice from Delphi, even so 'the fair-wrought court divine hath fallen; no more hath Phoebus his home, no more his laurel-bough, nor the singing well of water; nay, the sweet-voiced water is silent. The fane is ruinous, and the images of men's idolatry are dust.
Shakespeare had at that age not produced his greatest plays. Marlowe unwittingly wrote his own epitaph in that of Dr. Faustus: "Cut is the branch that might have grown full straight, And burned is Apollo's laurel-bough." Works. Marlowe's great tragedies are four in number Timberline, Dr.
I heartily grant my consent thereto, but will not give her leave to flay it all. Nay, truly will I not, my noble king. Yea but, quoth Epistemon, you say nothing of her most dreadful cries and exclamations when she and we both saw the laurel-bough burn without yielding any noise or crackling.
In this time, the wife of a farmer not far from the city dreams a marvelous dream of bringing forth a laurel-bough, and in due time bears into the world the chiefest of all Mantuans, with a smile upon his face. This is a poet, and they call his name Virgil.
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