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The praise he bestows upon their chastity strikes me as being exceedingly exaggerated. In the first place, the great majority are in the position of the ugly woman described by Ovid, "Casta quam nemo rogavit." As for the pretty ones, they are, like all Spanish women, very fastidious in choosing their lovers. Their fancy must be taken, and their favour must be earned. Mr.
in order to compare them with the use made of the same by Webster when he made Vittoria at her trial exclaim: Casta est quam nemo rogavit! a comparison which at once reveals the gulf fixed between the clairvoyant dramatist and the mere pedantic scholar. And yet the subsequent history of pastoral reminds us that it is quite possible to underestimate Guarini's merits as a playwright.
Cassalis to Cromwell: State Papers, Vol. VII. p. 604. State Papers, Vol. VII. p. 604. Pontifex me vehementer rogavit, ut vias omnes tentare velim, quibus apud Regiam Majestatem excusatam hanc rem faciam, unde se plurimum dolere dixit, cum præsertim ego affirmaverim rem esse ejusmodi ut excusationem non recipiat. Cassalis to Cromwell: Ibid. Ibid. p. 616. Historia Martyrum Anglorum.
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