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Updated: May 21, 2025
And the "Clerk" follows the spirit of the injunction both by omitting, as impertinent, a proeme in which his original, Petrarch, gives a great deal of valuable, but not in its connexion interesting, geographical information, and by adding a facetious moral to what he calls the "unrestful matter" of his story.
Let not your sorow die, you that haue read the proeme and narration of this elegiacal history. Shew you haue quick wits in sharpe conceit of compassion.
"How shall I write," I said, "who am not meet One word of that sweet speaking to repeat?" "It shall be given unto thee! Do this thing!" Answered the voice: "Wash thy lips clean, and sing!" This "proeme" is, to say the least of it, peculiar. The "sovereign voice" can hardly be the Queen's. It must be God Almighty's. Sir Edwin Arnold is therefore inspired. He writes as it is "given unto" him.
So far the plan was reasonable; but the pastorals are introduced by a Proeme, written with such imitation as they could attain of obsolete language, and, by consequence, in a style that was never spoken nor written in any language or in any place. But the effect of reality and truth became conspicuous, even when the intention was to show them grovelling and degraded.
We also presume it will help the sale and promote his chance of the poet-laureateship. After the dedication comes the "Proeme" of eight couplets, occupying a separate page, faced and backed with virgin paper. The sovereign voice spake, once more, in mine ear: "Write, now, a song unstained by any tear!" "What shall I write?" I said: the voice replied: "Write what we tell thee of the crucified!"
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