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Remembering how his first appearance had fluttered this dovecote and awakened a severe suspicion in the minds of the two principals, he had discarded his usual fashionable attire and elegantly fitting garments for a rough, homespun suit, supposed to represent a homely agriculturist, but which had the effect of transforming him into an adorable Strephon, infinitely more dangerous in his rustic shepherd-like simplicity.
His wonder seems very unseasonable; there had never, from the time of Spenser, wanted writers to talk occasionally of Arcadia and Strephon, and half the book, in which he first tried his powers, consists of dialogues on Queen Mary's death, between Tityrus and Corydon, or Mopsus and Menalcas. A series or book of pastorals, however, I know not that anyone had then lately published.
Yet this hybrid creature is one of the many zoological monsters to whom the Pastorals introduce us: "I know thee. love! on foreign mountains born. Wolves gave thee suck, and savage tigers fed. Thou wert from Aetna's burning entrails torn. Got by fierce whirlwinds, and in thunder born." But the very names "Damon" and "Strephon," "Phillis" and "Delia," are rank with childishness.
Every morning I have come back here with greater and greater reluctance; and I know that the time will soon come perhaps it has come already when I shall not come back at all. STREPHON. How horribly cold and uncomfortable! THE MAIDEN. Oh, don't talk to me of comfort! Life is not worth living if you have to bother about comfort.
At last the red-faced young farmer led off with 'The Rose and the Thorn. In that day Chloe still lived; nor were the amorous transports of Strephon quenched. Mountainous inflation mouse-like issue characterized the young farmer's first verse.
But these be mere externals. The true harbinger is the heart. When Strephon seeks his Chloe and Mike his Maggie, then only is spring arrived and the newspaper report of the five-foot rattler killed in Squire Pettigrew's pasture confirmed. Ere the first violet blew, Mr. Peters, Mr. Ragsdale and Mr. Kidd sat together on a bench in Union Square and conspired. Mr.
I will ask you, then, to convey my request to Evelyn to honour me with a last and parting interview." Vargrave flung himself on his chair, and Aubrey left him. THUS airy Strephon tuned his lyre. IN his meeting with Evelyn, Vargrave certainly exerted to the utmost all his ability and all his art.
MARTELLUS. He made them in his laboratory. I moulded their limbs. I am sorry. I was thoughtless: I did not foresee that they would kill and pretend to be persons they were not, and declare things that were false, and wish evil. I thought they would be merely mechanical fools. ARJILLAX. They are mad as well as mischievous. May we not destroy them? STREPHON. We abhor them.
I shall kill myself when I am four years old. What do you live for? THE HE-ANCIENT. You will find out when you grow up. You will not kill yourself. STREPHON. If you make me believe that, I shall kill myself now. THE NEWLY BORN. Oh no. I want you. I love you. STREPHON. I love someone else. And she has gone old, old. Lost to me for ever. THE HE-ANCIENT. How old?
All their tunes were gay and lively ones, and the younger men moved their feet to the music, while a Strephon at the lower end of the lists seized upon a blooming Chloe, and the two began to dance "as if," quoth the Colonel, "the musicians were so many tarantula doctors."
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