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Met we on hill, in dale, forest or mead, By paved fountain or by rushy brook, Or in the beached margent of the sea or this, the last I will quote: The moon shines bright. In such a night as this, When the sweet wind did gently kiss the trees, And they did make no noise, in such a night Troilus, methinks, mounted the Trojan walls . . . in such a night Did Thisbe fearfully o'ertrip the dew
And a little of that more studious kind of reading which he himself so significantly solicited, and in so many passages, will inevitably tend to the elucidation of them. 'The secrets of nature have not more gift in taciturnity. Troilus and Cressida. 'I did not think that Mr. Silence had been a man of this mettle. Falstaff. O'er whom I give thee power, here, to this place. Tempest.
"Troilus loved and was fooled," said the more manly chaplain. "A man may love and yet not be a Troilus. All women are not Cressidas." "No, all women are not Cressidas. The falsehood is not always on the woman's side. Imogen was true, but how was she rewarded? Her lord believed her to be the paramour of the first he who came near her in his absence. Desdemona was true and was smothered.
My life is spanned already; Go with me, like good angels, to my end. "Henry VIII." Danger, like an ague, subtly taints Even then when we sit idly in the sun. "Troilus and Cressida." I had never been able to regain the confidence and esteem of the first lieutenant since the unfortunate affair of the mast-head.
Perseverance, dear my lord, Keeps honour bright." Troilus and Cressida. I have, not sought as would have been easy, by a little ingenuity in the earlier portion of this narrative whatever source of vulgar interest might be derived from the mystery of names and persons. In truth, Philip de Vaudemont was scarcely the same being as Philip Morton.
Again, in "Troilus and Cressid," the earlier and cheerful part of the love-story is that which he developes with unmistakeable sympathy and enjoyment, and in his hands this part of the poem becomes one of the most charming poetic narratives of the birth and growth of young love, which our literature possesses a soft and sweet counterpart to the consuming heat of Marlowe's unrivalled "Hero and Leander."
The manner in which this treacherous beauty excites while she refuses, and converts the virgin modesty which she pretends, into a means of seductive allurement, is portrayed in colours extremely elegant, though certainly somewhat voluptuous. Troilus, the pattern of lovers, looks patiently on, while his mistress enters into an intrigue with Diomed.
A licence to print a Troilus and Cressida was obtained in 1602-3, but the quarto of our play, the Shakespearean play, is of 1609, "as it is acted by my Lord Chamberlain's men," that is, by Shakespeare's Company. Now Dekker and Chettle wrote, apparently, for Lord Nottingham's Company. "When he is gone, and his comedies out of sale, you will scramble for them, and set up a new English Inquisition."
As to detail upon this subject, I shall only notice one point. Now in "Troilus and Cressida" these abound. It contains more of them than any other play, except one or two of the very earliest. The important point, however, is that these rhymes appear no less in the Ulysses and Ajax scenes of the play than in the others a sufficient warning against putting absolute trust in such evidence.
The piece before us is entitled the Vision of Piers the Plowman, and I shall quote that particular part which seems to have furnished a hint to Milton in his Paradise Lost, b. 2. 1. 475. Flourished in the reign of Edward III, and Richard II. He was cotemporary with Chaucer and much esteemed and honoured by him, as appears by his submitting his Troilus and Cressida to his censure.
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