This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1906 edition. Excerpt: ...the authorship of these songs, though it has never been serionsly questioned, rests on very uncertain evidence. I may refer to an article on the subject in the Modern Language Review for October, 1905, i. p. 43. Q a The Boy in Pieces--Let her come Hither, and lay on him her doome. O yes, O yes, has any lost A ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1906 edition. Excerpt: ...the authorship of these songs, though it has never been serionsly questioned, rests on very uncertain evidence. I may refer to an article on the subject in the Modern Language Review for October, 1905, i. p. 43. Q a The Boy in Pieces--Let her come Hither, and lay on him her doome. O yes, O yes, has any lost A Heart, which many a sigh hath cost; Is any cozened of a teare, Which (as a Pearle) disdaine does weare?--Here stands the Thiefe, let her but come Hither, and lay on him her doome. Is any one undone by fire, And Turn'd to ashes through desire? Did ever any Lady weepe, Being cheated of her golden sleepe, Stolne by sicke thoughts?--The pirats found, And in her teares hee shalbe drownd. Reade his Inditement, let him heare What hees to trust to: Boy, give eare! This is the position of affairs when Venus appears in search of her wanton, and is shortly followed by the irate Neptune. After some disputing, Neptune, to quiet the strife between the goddesses, proposes that Diana shall restore the runaway to his mother, in return for which he will release the land for ever from its virgin tribute. This happily agreed upon, the only difficulty remaining is the strange passion between, the two girls. Venus, however, proves equal to the occasion, and solves the situation by transforming one of them into a man. An allusion to the story of Iphis and lanthe told in the ninth book of the Metamorphoses suggests the source of the incidentl. Otherwise the play appears to be in th main original. The exposing of a maiden to the rage of a sea-monster has been, of course, no novelty since the days of Andromeda, but it is unnecessary to seek a more immediate source2; while the intrusion of Cupid in disguise among the nymphs was doubtless suggested by the...
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