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Though during the past year they had seen each other constantly, and their literary occupations had produced many sympathies between them though he had intimated that many of his most eloquent love-poems were inspired by her though he had asserted in prose, very pretty prose too, that she was all that youthful poets dream of, yet she had hitherto treated such declarations with a playful laugh, accepting them as elegant compliments inspired by Parisian gallantry; and he felt an angry and sore foreboding that if he were to insist too seriously on the earnestness of their import and ask her plainly to be his wife, her refusal would be certain, and his visits to her house might be interdicted.
The airiest and most fugitive among Petrarch's love-poems, so far as I know, showing least of that air of earnestness which he has contrived to impart to almost all, is this little ode or madrigal.
Their loves are only half real, a vain effort to prolong the imaginative loves of the middle age beyond their natural lifetime. They write love-poems for hire. Like that party of people who tell the tales in Boccaccio's Decameron, they form a circle which in an age of great troubles, losses, anxieties, amuses itself with art, poetry, intrigue.
How would she have fared had that changeable firebrand Romeo taken to wandering once more? It is a grievously flippant question to ask when the most glorious of all love-poems is in question; yet I ask it very seriously, and merely in a symbolic way. Romeo is a shadow, the adored Juliet is a shadow; but the two immortal shades represent for all time the mad lovers whose lives end in bitterness.
I saw, as plain as I see you, her name and her writing in the book that she gave to Ford her copying out of his love-poems, my Lord, in the blank pages, if I had wanted any proof of what he alleged. And he had nearly thrown the letter into the Pacific; but Louis caught his arm. 'Did you ever read Cymbeline, Tom? 'Yes, to be sure I have, growled Tom, in surprise.
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