steedes

Updated: May 27, 2025

The unsatisfactory nature of the verse, however, for dramatic purposes becomes evident in passages of rapid dialogue; for example, where Daphne tells the careless nymph of Amyntas' resolve to die. a passage in translating which Fraunce cannot resist the application of a homely proverb, and writes: When steedes are stollen, then Phillis looks to the stable.

Walter W. Greg - Pastoral Poetry and Pastoral Drama: A Literary Inquiry, with Special Reference to the Pre-Restoration: Stage in England