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. 1870 Excerpt: ... so, And Thames had Swannes as well as euer Po. But here an end, I may no longer stay thee, I must returne t' attend at Stigian flood: Yet ere I go this one word more / pray thee, Tell Delia, now her sigh may doe me good, And will her note the frailtie of our blood. And if / passe vnto those happie banks, The she must ...
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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. 1870 Excerpt: ... so, And Thames had Swannes as well as euer Po. But here an end, I may no longer stay thee, I must returne t' attend at Stigian flood: Yet ere I go this one word more / pray thee, Tell Delia, now her sigh may doe me good, And will her note the frailtie of our blood. And if / passe vnto those happie banks, The she must haue her praise, thy pen her thanks. So vanquisht she, and left me to returne To prosecute the tenor of my woes: Eternall matter for my Muse to mourne, But (ah) the world hath heard too much of those, My youth such errors must no more disclose. He hide the rest, and grieue for what hath beene, Who made me known, must make me liue vnseene. FINIS. RICHARDS, PRINTER, 37, GREAT QUEEN STRRET, LONDON. Drayton suppressed this poem, but we know nothing of his reasons for doing so: it is in some respects like Marlowe's " Hero and Leander," but the last was not published (as far as we are aware) until 1598, when it first appeared with Chapman's Continuation: that Marlowe's and Chapman's separate portions came out together as one tract, in 1598, is a new fact in our bibliography; but Marlowe's commencement of the subject was also printed by itself in the same year; whereas Drayton's "Endimion and Ph be" came out several years earlier (1594), and could hardly have been an imitation of Marlowe, unless, as is not impossible, Drayton had seen "Hero and Leander" in manuscript. This imputation, however, may have led to the suppression of " Endimion and Ph be"; or it may have been in some way connected with the real, or supposed, difference between its author and Shakespeare: the subjects both of "Venus and Adonis" aud of "Endimion and Ph be" were purely mythological; but " Venus an...
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