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_Scar_. Well, well, dispute no more this clear Case, but let’s hasten to
your Mistresses.
_Cin_. I’m asham’d to appear before _Elaria_.
_Char_. And I to _Bellemante_.
_Scar_. Come, come, take Heart of Grace; pull your Hats down over your
Eyes; put your Arms across; sigh and look scurvily; your simple Looks
are ever a ... | The Works of Aphra Behn, Volume III | Behn, Aphra | 1640 | 1689 | ['en'] | 82 | {'English drama -- 17th century'} | PG10039 | |
[_Takes him up_.
_Char_. Let it suffice, I’m satisfy’d, my _Bellemante_.
_Ela_. Pray know my Cousin _Florinda_.
[_They salute the Lady_.
_Bell_. Come, let us not lose time, since we are all Friends.
_Char_. The best use we can make of it, is to talk of Love.... | The Works of Aphra Behn, Volume III | Behn, Aphra | 1640 | 1689 | ['en'] | 82 | {'English drama -- 17th century'} | PG10039 | |
_Doct. [Within.] Scaramouch_, Knave, where are you?
_Scar_. ‘Tis he, ‘tis he, follow me all--
[_He goes with all the Company behind the Front Curtain_.
_Doct. [Within.]_ I tell you, Sirrah, I heard the noise of Fiddles.
_Peter. [_Within.]_ No surely, Sir, ‘twas a Mistake.
[_Knocking at the Door_.
[... | The Works of Aphra Behn, Volume III | Behn, Aphra | 1640 | 1689 | ['en'] | 82 | {'English drama -- 17th century'} | PG10039 | |
_Scar_. ‘Twas sent your Reverence from the _Virtuoso_, or some of the
Cabalists.
_Doct_. I must confess, the Workmanship is excellent;--but still I do
insist I heard the Musick.
_Scar_. ‘Twas then the tuning of the Spheres, some Serenade, Sir, from
the Inhabitants of the Moon.
_Doct_. Hum, from the Moon,--and that may... | The Works of Aphra Behn, Volume III | Behn, Aphra | 1640 | 1689 | ['en'] | 82 | {'English drama -- 17th century'} | PG10039 | |
_Enter the_ Doctor _with Pistols, and_ Peter.
_Doct_. What, by dark? that shall not save you, Villains, Traitors to my
Glory and Repose.--_Peter_, hold fast the Door, let none ‘scape.
[_They all slip out_.
_Pet_. I’ll warrant you, Sir.
... | The Works of Aphra Behn, Volume III | Behn, Aphra | 1640 | 1689 | ['en'] | 82 | {'English drama -- 17th century'} | PG10039 | |
[_This while the_ Doctor _lessens his signs of Rage by degrees,
and at last stands in deep Contemplation_.
_Doct_. May I credit this?
_Scar_. Credit it! By all the Honour of your House, by my unseparable
Veneration for the Mathematicks, ‘tis true, Sir.
_Doct_. That famous _Rosycrusian_, who yesterday visited m... | The Works of Aphra Behn, Volume III | Behn, Aphra | 1640 | 1689 | ['en'] | 82 | {'English drama -- 17th century'} | PG10039 | |
[_They put themselves in Postures of Sleeping, leaning on the
Table_, Mopsophil _lying at their Feet. Enter_ Doctor _softly_.
_Doct_. Ha, not in Bed! this gives me mortal Fears.
_Bell_. Ah, Prince-- [_She speaks as in her Sleep_.
_Doct_. Ha, Prince! [_Goes nearer, and listens_.
_Bell_. How little Faith I... | The Works of Aphra Behn, Volume III | Behn, Aphra | 1640 | 1689 | ['en'] | 82 | {'English drama -- 17th century'} | PG10039 | |
I’ll to my Study,--for I cannot rest,
Till I this weighty Mystery have discuss’d.
[_Ex. very gravely_.
SCENE V. _The Garden_.
_Enter_ Scaramouch _with a Ladder_.
_Scar_. Though I am come off _en Cavalier_ with my Master, I am not with
my Mistress, whom I promised to cons... | The Works of Aphra Behn, Volume III | Behn, Aphra | 1640 | 1689 | ['en'] | 82 | {'English drama -- 17th century'} | PG10039 | |
_Mop_. You’ll be sure to keep it from _Harlequin_.
_Har_. Ah yes, he, hang him, Fool, he takes you for a Saint.
_Scar. Harlequin_! Hang him, shotten Herring.
_Har_. Ay, a Cully, a Noddy.
_Mop_. A meer Zany.
_Har_. Ah, hard-hearted _Turk_.
_Mop_. Fit for nothing but a Cuckold.
_Har_. Monster of Ingratitude! How shall I... | The Works of Aphra Behn, Volume III | Behn, Aphra | 1640 | 1689 | ['en'] | 82 | {'English drama -- 17th century'} | PG10039 | |
_Doct_. A _Fille de Chambre_! ‘tis so, a she Pimp.
_Har_. Ah, Seignior--
[_Makes his little dapper Leg, instead of a Curt’sy_.
_Doct_. How now, what, do you mock me?
_Har_. Oh Seignior! [_Gets nearer the Door_.
_Mop_. Stay, stay, Mistress; and what Service are you able to do the
Seignior’s Daughters?
_... | The Works of Aphra Behn, Volume III | Behn, Aphra | 1640 | 1689 | ['en'] | 82 | {'English drama -- 17th century'} | PG10039 | |
_Scar_. For once, Sirrah, I’ll bring you off, and deliver your Letters.
--Sir, do you not know who this is? Why, ‘tis a Rival of mine, who put
on this Disguise to cheat me of Mistress _Mopsophil_.--See, here’s a
Billet to her.
_Doct_. What is he?
_Scar_. A Mungrel Dancing-Master; therefore, Sir, since all the Injury’s... | The Works of Aphra Behn, Volume III | Behn, Aphra | 1640 | 1689 | ['en'] | 82 | {'English drama -- 17th century'} | PG10039 | |
_Doct_. And will his Grace--be here in Person, Sir? [_Joyful_.
_Char_. In Person--and with him, a Man of mighty Quality, Sir, ‘tis
thought, the Prince of _Thunderland_--but that’s but whisper’d, Sir, in
the Cabal, and that he loves your Niece.
_Doct_. Miraculous! how this agrees with all I’ve seen and heard
--To Ni... | The Works of Aphra Behn, Volume III | Behn, Aphra | 1640 | 1689 | ['en'] | 82 | {'English drama -- 17th century'} | PG10039 | |
[_Brings_ Char. _to the Door bare. Exeunt_.
_Enter_ Scaramouch, _peeping at the other Door_.
_Scar_. So, so, all things go gloriously forward, but my own Amour, and
there is no convincing this obstinate Woman, that ‘twas that Rogue
_Harlequin_ in Disguise, claim’d me; so that I cannot so... | The Works of Aphra Behn, Volume III | Behn, Aphra | 1640 | 1689 | ['en'] | 82 | {'English drama -- 17th century'} | PG10039 | |
[_Goes to the Entrance to call the_ Clerk, _the mean time_ Har.
_whips a Frock over himself, and puts down the hind part of the
Chariot, and then ‘tis a Cart.
Enter_ Clerk.
_Cler_. What’s the matter here?
_Off_. Here’s a Fellow, Sir, will persuade me, his Calash is a Cart, and
refuses the Customs f... | The Works of Aphra Behn, Volume III | Behn, Aphra | 1640 | 1689 | ['en'] | 82 | {'English drama -- 17th century'} | PG10039 | |
[_The_ Clerk _goes out_.
[Har. _puts up his Calash again, and pulls off his Frock
and drives out_.
--Well, now to my thinking, ‘tis as plain a Calash again as ever I saw
in my Life, and yet I’m satisfy’d ‘tis nothing but a Cart.
... | The Works of Aphra Behn, Volume III | Behn, Aphra | 1640 | 1689 | ['en'] | 82 | {'English drama -- 17th century'} | PG10039 | |
_Doct_. Seignior--
_Scar_.--Besides a violent Inclination, Sir, of being initiated into the
Denomination of your learned Family, by the Conjugal Circumference of a
Matrimonial Tye, with that singularly accomplish’d Person--Madam, the
Governante of your Hostel--
_Doct_. Hum--A Sweet-heart for _Mopsophil_! [_Aside_.
... | The Works of Aphra Behn, Volume III | Behn, Aphra | 1640 | 1689 | ['en'] | 82 | {'English drama -- 17th century'} | PG10039 | |
_Scar_. Omitted nothing, Seignior, no City, Town, Village, or Villa;
no Castle, River, Bridge, Lake, Spring, or Mineral.
_Doct_. Are any, Sir, of those admirable Mineral Waters there, so
frequent in our World?
_Scar_. In abundance, Sir: the Famous _Garamanteen_, a young _Italian_,
Sir, lately come from thence, gives a... | The Works of Aphra Behn, Volume III | Behn, Aphra | 1640 | 1689 | ['en'] | 82 | {'English drama -- 17th century'} | PG10039 | |
_Doct_. How, Sir! did you drink of it?
_Scar_. I only speak the words of _Garamanteen_, Sir.
--Pox on him, I shall be trapt. [_Aside_.
_Doct_. Cry Mercy, Sir.-- [_Bows_.
_Scar_. The Lunary Physicians, Sir, call it _Urinam Vulcani_, it
calybeates every ones Excrements more or less according to the Gradus
of the n... | The Works of Aphra Behn, Volume III | Behn, Aphra | 1640 | 1689 | ['en'] | 82 | {'English drama -- 17th century'} | PG10039 | |
_Har_. It may be I have, it may be I have not. What then, Sir?
_While they seem in angry Dispute, enter_ Mopsophil.
_Mop_. Seignior Doctor tells me I have a Lover waits me, sure it must be
the Farmer or the Apothecary. No matter which, so a Lover that welcomest
Man alive. I am resolv’d to take the first good Offer... | The Works of Aphra Behn, Volume III | Behn, Aphra | 1640 | 1689 | ['en'] | 82 | {'English drama -- 17th century'} | PG10039 | |
_Mop_. A City Apothecary, a most genteel Calling--Which shall I chuse?
--Seignior Apothecary, I’ll not expostulate the circumstantial Reasons
that have occasion’d me this Honour.
_Scar_. Incomparable Lady, the Elegancy of your Repartees most
excellently denotes the Profundity of your Capacity.
_Har_. What the Devil’s ... | The Works of Aphra Behn, Volume III | Behn, Aphra | 1640 | 1689 | ['en'] | 82 | {'English drama -- 17th century'} | PG10039 | |
_Har_. Ha, ha, ha, you have your Answer, Seignior Friskin--and may shut
up your Shop and be gone.--Ha, ha, ha.
_Scar_. Hum, sure the Jade knows me. [_Aside_.
_Mop_. And as for you, Seignior--
_Har_. Ha, Madam. [_Bowing and smiling_.
_Mop_. Those Lanthorn Jaws of yours, with that most villanous Sneer and
Grin, an... | The Works of Aphra Behn, Volume III | Behn, Aphra | 1640 | 1689 | ['en'] | 82 | {'English drama -- 17th century'} | PG10039 | |
[_The_ Doctor _comes to appease_ Scaramouch.
_Har_. Shou’d I discover this Rascal, he wou’d tell the old Gentleman I
was the same that attempted his House to day in Woman’s Clothes, and I
should be kick’d and beaten most insatiably.
_Scar_. What, Seignior, for a Man of Parts to be impos’d u... | The Works of Aphra Behn, Volume III | Behn, Aphra | 1640 | 1689 | ['en'] | 82 | {'English drama -- 17th century'} | PG10039 | |
_Doct_. It must be so, for how shou’d either of these know I expected
that Honour?
[_He addresses him with profound Civility to_ Har.
Sir, if the Figure you make, approaching so near ours of this World,
have made us commit any undecent Indignity to your high Character, you
ought to pardon the Frail... | The Works of Aphra Behn, Volume III | Behn, Aphra | 1640 | 1689 | ['en'] | 82 | {'English drama -- 17th century'} | PG10039 | |
_Doct_. Good lack! just as ‘tis here.
_Har_.--Where, if she chance to lose her Money, rather than give out,
she borrows of the next amorous Coxcomb, who, from that Minute, hopes,
and is sure to be paid again one way or other, the next kind
Opportunity.
_Doct_.--Just as ‘tis here.
_Har_. As for the young Fellows that h... | The Works of Aphra Behn, Volume III | Behn, Aphra | 1640 | 1689 | ['en'] | 82 | {'English drama -- 17th century'} | PG10039 | |
_Doct_. How, Sir, into the Sea?
_Har_. The Sea, Sir, where the Emperor’s Fisherman casting his Nets,
drew me up, and took me for a strange and monstrous Fish, Sir,--and as
such, presented me to his Mightiness,--who going to have me Spitchcock’d
for his own eating--
_Doct_. How, Sir, eating?
_Har_. What did me I, Sir (... | The Works of Aphra Behn, Volume III | Behn, Aphra | 1640 | 1689 | ['en'] | 82 | {'English drama -- 17th century'} | PG10039 | |
_Scar_. How, Sir, no marvel then, that looking towards the South, I saw
such splendid Glories in the Air.
_Doct_. Ha, saw’st thou ought descending in the Air?
_Scar_. Oh, yes, Sir, Wonders! haste to the old Gallery, whence, with
the help of your Telescope, you may discover all.
_Doct_. I would not lose a moment for th... | The Works of Aphra Behn, Volume III | Behn, Aphra | 1640 | 1689 | ['en'] | 82 | {'English drama -- 17th century'} | PG10039 | |
_Bell_. Whence comes this charming Sound, Sir?
_Doct_. From the Spheres--it is familiar to me.
[_The Scene in the Front draws off, and shews the Hill of_
Parnassus; _a noble large Walk of Trees leading to it, with
eight or ten Negroes upon Pedestals, ranged on each side of
the Walks. Next_ Keplair _and... | The Works of Aphra Behn, Volume III | Behn, Aphra | 1640 | 1689 | ['en'] | 82 | {'English drama -- 17th century'} | PG10039 | |
A Song for the Zodiack.
_Let murmuring Lovers no longer repine,
But their Hearts and their Voices advance;
Let the Nymphs and the Swains in the kind Chorus join,
And the Satyrs and Fauns in a Dance.
Let Nature put on her Beauty of May,
And the Fields and the Meadows adorn;
Let the Woods and the M... | The Works of Aphra Behn, Volume III | Behn, Aphra | 1640 | 1689 | ['en'] | 82 | {'English drama -- 17th century'} | PG10039 | |
Chorus.
_For since Love wore his Darts,
And Virgins grew coy;
Since these wounded Hearts,
And those you’d destroy,
There ne’er was more Cause for Triumphs and Joy_.
--See how she turns, and sends her Signs to Earth.--Behold the Ram,
_Aries_--see _Taurus_ next des... | The Works of Aphra Behn, Volume III | Behn, Aphra | 1640 | 1689 | ['en'] | 82 | {'English drama -- 17th century'} | PG10039 | |
[_A Chariot appears, made like a Half Moon, in which is_ Cinthio
_for the Emperor, richly dressed, and_ Charmante _for the Prince,
rich, with a good many Heroes attending_. Cinthio’s _Train born by
four Cupids. The Song continues while they descend and land. They
address themselves to_ Elaria _and_... | The Works of Aphra Behn, Volume III | Behn, Aphra | 1640 | 1689 | ['en'] | 82 | {'English drama -- 17th century'} | PG10039 | |
_Doct_. The Glory is too great for Mortal Wife.
[_Kneels with Transport_.
_Sten_. What then remains, but that we consummate
This happy Marriage in our splendid State?
_Doct_. Thus low I kneel, in thanks for this great Blessing.
[Cinthio _takes_ Elaria _by the Hand_; Charmante, Bell... | The Works of Aphra Behn, Volume III | Behn, Aphra | 1640 | 1689 | ['en'] | 82 | {'English drama -- 17th century'} | PG10039 | |
_Doct_. Ha,--_Scaramouch_!
[_Bawls out, and falls in a Chair. They all go to him_.
My Heart misgives me--Oh, I am undone and cheated every way.
[_Bawling out_.
_Kep_. Be patient, Sir, and call up all your Virtue,
You’re only cur’d, Sir, of a Disease
That long has r... | The Works of Aphra Behn, Volume III | Behn, Aphra | 1640 | 1689 | ['en'] | 82 | {'English drama -- 17th century'} | PG10039 | |
“He that knew all that ever Learning writ,
Knew only this--that he knew nothing yet.”
[_Exeunt_.
EPILOGUE,
To be spoken by _Mrs. Cooke_.
_With our old Plays, as with dull Wife it fares,
To whom you have been marry’d tedious Years.
You cry--She’s wondrous good, it is confesse... | The Works of Aphra Behn, Volume III | Behn, Aphra | 1640 | 1689 | ['en'] | 82 | {'English drama -- 17th century'} | PG10039 | |
NOTES ON THE TEXT.
THE TOWN FOP.
p. 7 _Dramatis Personae_. I have added ‘Page to _Bellmour_; Page to Lord
_Plotwell_; Sir _Timothy’s_ Page; Guests; Fiddlers; Ladies.’
p. 12, l. 36 _honoured_. 1724 ‘honourable’.
p. 13, l. 2 _answered the Civility_. 1724 ‘answered her the Civility’.
p. 13, l. 23 _whats_. 1724 ‘what’.
... | The Works of Aphra Behn, Volume III | Behn, Aphra | 1640 | 1689 | ['en'] | 82 | {'English drama -- 17th century'} | PG10039 | |
p. 28, l. 12 _that I am_. 4to 1677 omits ‘that’.
p. 28, l. 28 _--and where--and where_. 1724 reads ‘--and where--’ once.
p. 29, l. 25 _Fortunes_. 1724 ‘Fortune’.
p. 30, l. 32 _Exeunt_. 4to 1677 ‘Ex.’ 1724 ‘Exit.’
p. 30, l. 33 _Scene IV. Lord Plotwell’s House_. I have added the locale.
The former editions, regarding Sc... | The Works of Aphra Behn, Volume III | Behn, Aphra | 1640 | 1689 | ['en'] | 82 | {'English drama -- 17th century'} | PG10039 | |
p. 64, l. 1 _Scene III_. I have numbered the scene. Former editions all
read ‘Scene a Chamber, a Table with Box and Dice.’
p. 72, l. 20 _Ex. severally_. 4to 1677 adds ‘The End of the Fourth Act.’
p. 72, l. 22 _Scene I_. I have numbered this scene.
p. 76, l. 14 _Scene II. Lord Plotwell’s House_. There is no scene
divis... | The Works of Aphra Behn, Volume III | Behn, Aphra | 1640 | 1689 | ['en'] | 82 | {'English drama -- 17th century'} | PG10039 | |
p. 156, l. 29 _glout_. 1724 ‘glut’.
p. 158, l. 6 _Mahometan_. 1724 repeats ‘Mahometan’.
p. 158, l. 33 _And wou’d not break_. These two lines, which are
obviously metrical, all former editions print as prose.
p. 163, l. 19 _and Mutes attending_. I have added these words as Carlos
addresses the mutes a little later in t... | The Works of Aphra Behn, Volume III | Behn, Aphra | 1640 | 1689 | ['en'] | 82 | {'English drama -- 17th century'} | PG10039 | |
p. 218, l. 9 _Let. But how_. I have arranged these lines metrically. 4to
1687 and 1724 print as prose.
p. 221, l. 1 _Seraglio_. 4to 1687 ‘Seraglia’.
p. 222, l. 31 _Quonundrum_. 4to 1687 ‘Qunnumdrum’.
p. 224, l. 17 _Exit_. I have supplied this. 1724 gives no direction. 4to
1687 has ‘The End of the Second Act.’
p. 225, ... | The Works of Aphra Behn, Volume III | Behn, Aphra | 1640 | 1689 | ['en'] | 82 | {'English drama -- 17th century'} | PG10039 | |
p. 246, l. 2 _Ladles_. 1724 misprints ‘Ladies’,
p. 248, l. 31 _amended_. 1724 ‘mended’.
p. 249, l. 2 _Dinner in_. 1724 ‘Dinner at’.
p. 255, l. 27 _wou’d but stand_. 1724 omits ‘but’.
p. 259, l. 13 _Exit_. I have added this stage direction. 4to 1687 reads
’.he End of the Fourth Act.’
p. 260, l. 17 _Scene II_. I have nu... | The Works of Aphra Behn, Volume III | Behn, Aphra | 1640 | 1689 | ['en'] | 82 | {'English drama -- 17th century'} | PG10039 | |
p. 288, l. 2 _The Palace_. I have added the locale.
p. 289, l. 5 _Bravery_. 4to 1671. 4to 1690 and 1724 ‘Virtue’.
p. 289, l. 11 _Alcippus_. 4to 1671 prints ‘Alcip.’ as a speech-prefix.
An obvious blunder.
p. 289, l. 18 _Gift_. 4to 1671 misreads ‘Guilt’.
p. 290, l. 11 _added little_. 1724 ‘added a little’.
p. 290, l. 1... | The Works of Aphra Behn, Volume III | Behn, Aphra | 1640 | 1689 | ['en'] | 82 | {'English drama -- 17th century'} | PG10039 | |
p. 312, l. 9 _Ex_. 4to 1671 ‘goes out.’
p. 312, l. 13 _Exeunt_. 4to 1671 ‘go out.’
p. 312, l, 14 _’.is the most_. I have followed the two quartos in
their arrangement of these lines, which, none the less, seems far
from satisfactory. 1724 prints as prose.
p. 313, l. 10 _Erminia_. 4to 1671 omits.
p. 313, l. 28 _She wee... | The Works of Aphra Behn, Volume III | Behn, Aphra | 1640 | 1689 | ['en'] | 82 | {'English drama -- 17th century'} | PG10039 | |
p. 334, l. 25 _Farewell_. 4tos and 1724 all print ‘For well’.
p. 334, l. 34 _Sees Pisaro_. 1724 omitting ‘sees’ makes a poor
alteration in the conduct of this business.
p. 335, l. 20 _Exit Pis_. Former editions simply ‘Exit.’ This confuses
the scene.
p. 335, l. 21 _Re-enter Falatius_. The 4tos omit this stage directio... | The Works of Aphra Behn, Volume III | Behn, Aphra | 1640 | 1689 | ['en'] | 82 | {'English drama -- 17th century'} | PG10039 | |
p. 358, l. 7 _Tiffany_. 4to 1690 and 1724 ‘Taffety.’
p. 358, l. 22 _Philander’s Apartments_. I have supplied this locale.
p. 359, l. 29 _Within_. I have added this stage direction.
p. 360, l. 27--_Gods_--. I follow 4tos. 1724 prints these two lines as
prose.
p. 361, l. 36 _the World_. 1724 ‘that World’.
p. 362, l. 6 _... | The Works of Aphra Behn, Volume III | Behn, Aphra | 1640 | 1689 | ['en'] | 82 | {'English drama -- 17th century'} | PG10039 | |
p,400, l. 27 _tout autour_. 4to 1687 ‘tout au toore.’ 4to 1688 ‘tout au
tour.’
p.400, l. 30 _sighing_. 1724 misprints ‘fighting’.
p.400, l. 9 _Cheveux blonds_. 4tos ‘Chevave Blond’.
p. 403, l. 30 _Sylphs_. 4to 1687 ‘Silfs.’
p. 409, l. 13 _Scene III_. All the former editions have Scene II.
p. 412, l. 21 _Enter Doctor_.... | The Works of Aphra Behn, Volume III | Behn, Aphra | 1640 | 1689 | ['en'] | 82 | {'English drama -- 17th century'} | PG10039 | |
p. 15 _Mrs. Celinda Dresswell_. Dresswell was obviously the original
name of Friendlove, and Mrs. Behn forgot to alter her MS. at this
passage. The same oversight occurs later in the act when Bellmour says
’. must rely on Dresswell’s friendship,’ (p. 20).
p. 18 _Glass Coach_. Coaches with glasses were a recent invent... | The Works of Aphra Behn, Volume III | Behn, Aphra | 1640 | 1689 | ['en'] | 82 | {'English drama -- 17th century'} | PG10039 | |
Tom Dove has been wrongly described as ‘a bearward.’
p. 22 _Southampton House_. Southampton House, Bloomsbury, occupied the
whole of the north side of the present Bloomsbury Square. It had ‘a
curious garden behind, which lieth open to the fields,’--_Strype_. A
great rendezvous for duellists, cf. Epilogue to Mountfort’... | The Works of Aphra Behn, Volume III | Behn, Aphra | 1640 | 1689 | ['en'] | 82 | {'English drama -- 17th century'} | PG10039 | |
In Post-Restoration days a ballad sung in the streets by two persons was
frequently called a Jig, presumably because it was a ‘song in dialogue’.
Numerous examples are to be found amongst the Roxburgh Ballads.
The Jig introduced in _Sir Timothy Tawdrey_ would seem to have been the
simple dance although not improbably ... | The Works of Aphra Behn, Volume III | Behn, Aphra | 1640 | 1689 | ['en'] | 82 | {'English drama -- 17th century'} | PG10039 | |
But all the Parish see it plain,
Since thou art in this pickle,
Thou art an Independent quean,
And lov’st a conventicle.
p. 99 _Christian Suckling_. The charge of murdering young Christian
boys, especially at Passover time, and eating their flesh was
continually brought against the Jews. Little St.... | The Works of Aphra Behn, Volume III | Behn, Aphra | 1640 | 1689 | ['en'] | 82 | {'English drama -- 17th century'} | PG10039 | |
What e’er base metal come
You coin as fast as groats at Bromingam.
A panegyric on the return of the Duke and Duchess of York from Scotland
says of Shaftesbury’s medal that
‘Twas coined by stealth, like groats at Birmingham.
For Birmingham = Whig we have _Old Jemmy, an Excellent New Ballad_:
L... | The Works of Aphra Behn, Volume III | Behn, Aphra | 1640 | 1689 | ['en'] | 82 | {'English drama -- 17th century'} | PG10039 | |
p. 113 _gives Julia the Letter_. Mrs. Behn took the hint for this device
from _L’Ecole des Maris_, ii, XIV, where Isabella feigning to embrace
Sganarelle gives her hand to Valère to kiss.
p. 116 _Just-au-corps_. ‘A sort of jacket called a _justacorps_ came
into fashion in Paris about 1650. M. Quicherat informs us that... | The Works of Aphra Behn, Volume III | Behn, Aphra | 1640 | 1689 | ['en'] | 82 | {'English drama -- 17th century'} | PG10039 | |
p. 122 _Docity_. Gumption, cf. note (p. 340), Vol. II, p. 441, _The
Feign’d Curtezans_.
p. 123 _Don Del Phobos_. The adventures of the Knight of the Sun and his
brother Rosiclair belong to the Amadis school of romance. They were
published in two volumes, folio, at Saragossa, 1580, under the title
_Espejo de principes ... | The Works of Aphra Behn, Volume III | Behn, Aphra | 1640 | 1689 | ['en'] | 82 | {'English drama -- 17th century'} | PG10039 | |
p. 175 _Bantring and Shamming_. Banter = to chaff or make fun of, at
this time a new slang word. It is almost certain that the verb, which
came into use about 1670, was a full decade earlier than the noun. In
1688 the substantive ‘Banter’ was up-to-date slang. For the verb _vide_
D’Urfey’s _Madam Fickle_ (1676), Act v... | The Works of Aphra Behn, Volume III | Behn, Aphra | 1640 | 1689 | ['en'] | 82 | {'English drama -- 17th century'} | PG10039 | |
p. 176 _Grisons_. A ‘grison’ is a servant employed on some private
business and so dressed in gray (gris) or a dark colour not to attract
notice. cf. Shadwell’s _The Volunteers_ (1693), Act ii, sc. I: ‘_Sir
Nich_. I keep grisons, fellows out of livery, privately for nothing but
to carry answers.’
THE LUCKY CHANCE.
p.... | The Works of Aphra Behn, Volume III | Behn, Aphra | 1640 | 1689 | ['en'] | 82 | {'English drama -- 17th century'} | PG10039 | |
p. 186 _Mr. Leigh_. Antony Leigh, the famous comedian, who created Sir
Feeble Fainwood. The scene referred to is Act iii, sc. II, where it must
be confessed that, in spite of her protestation, Mrs. Behn gives the
stage direction--Sir Feeble ‘throws open his Gown, they run all away, he
locks the Door.’
p. 186 _Oedipus_... | The Works of Aphra Behn, Volume III | Behn, Aphra | 1640 | 1689 | ['en'] | 82 | {'English drama -- 17th century'} | PG10039 | |
p. 186 _Valentinian_. The reference is to the Earl of Rochester’s
_Valentinian_, altered from Fletcher, which was produced with great
applause at the Theatre Royal in 1684. The Court Bawds, Balbus,
Proculus, Chylax, Lycinius, with the ‘lewd women belonging to the
court’, Ardelia and Phorba, are important characters in... | The Works of Aphra Behn, Volume III | Behn, Aphra | 1640 | 1689 | ['en'] | 82 | {'English drama -- 17th century'} | PG10039 | |
p. 187 _write for a Third day only_. The whole profits of the third
day’s performance went to the author of the play; and upon these
occasions his friends and patrons would naturally rally to support him.
There are numberless allusions to this custom, especially in Prefaces,
Prologues and Epilogues.
p. 189 _the Mall_.... | The Works of Aphra Behn, Volume III | Behn, Aphra | 1640 | 1689 | ['en'] | 82 | {'English drama -- 17th century'} | PG10039 | |
p. 196 _Mr. Barnardine_. This allusion must almost certainly be to a
recent revival of _Measure for Measure_, which particular play had been
amongst those set aside by the regulation of 12 December, 1660, as the
special property of Davenant’s theatre. After the amalgamation of the
two companies in November, 1682, a la... | The Works of Aphra Behn, Volume III | Behn, Aphra | 1640 | 1689 | ['en'] | 82 | {'English drama -- 17th century'} | PG10039 | |
And when poor Duns, quite weary, will not stay;
The hopeless Squire’s into _Alsatia_ driven.
Otway’s comedy, _The Soldiers Fortune_ (4to, 1681), where Courtine
says: ‘I shall be ere long as greasy as an Alsatian bully,’ comes third;
and Mrs. Behn’s reference to Alsatia in this play, which is often
ignored, cla... | The Works of Aphra Behn, Volume III | Behn, Aphra | 1640 | 1689 | ['en'] | 82 | {'English drama -- 17th century'} | PG10039 | |
p. 203 _Joan Sanderson_. See note Vol. I, p. 456: _Joan Sanderson. The
Roundheads_, Act iv, IV (p. 402).
p. 204 _Haunce in Kelder_. Literally Jack-in-the-Cellar, i.e. the unborn
babe in the womb. cf. Davenant and Dryden’s alteration of _The Tempest_,
Act iv, sc. II. ‘_Stephano_, I long to have a Rowse to her Grace’s
H... | The Works of Aphra Behn, Volume III | Behn, Aphra | 1640 | 1689 | ['en'] | 82 | {'English drama -- 17th century'} | PG10039 | |
p. 210 _Enter Rag and Landlady_. Mrs. Behn remembered how Don John
treated Dame Gillian, his landlady. _The Chances_, i, IX.
p. 211 _Judas_. cf. Note, Vol. I, p. 457. _The Roundheads_. v, II
(p. 413).
p. 211 _flabber_. Fat; puffed out. A very rare adjective, perhaps only
here. The _N.E.D_. quotes this passage with a r... | The Works of Aphra Behn, Volume III | Behn, Aphra | 1640 | 1689 | ['en'] | 82 | {'English drama -- 17th century'} | PG10039 | |
p. 222 _the Gad-Bee’s in his Quonundrum_. _Gad-Bee_, vide supra. _The
False Count_, Act ii, II (p. 129), note, p. 481. _Quonundrum_ or
Conundrum. A whim; crotchet; maggot; conceit. The _N.E.D_. quotes this
passage, cf. Jonson’s _Volpone_, Act v, sc. II: ‘I must ha’ my
crotchets! And my conundrums!’ _Dic. Cant. Crew_ (... | The Works of Aphra Behn, Volume III | Behn, Aphra | 1640 | 1689 | ['en'] | 82 | {'English drama -- 17th century'} | PG10039 | |
p. 225 _Bandstrings_. Strings for fastening his bands or collar which
were in the seventeenth century frequently ornamented with tassels, cf.
Selden, Table-Talk (1689): ‘If a man twirls his Bandstrings’. and Wood,
_Ath. Oxon_. (1691): ‘He [wore] snakebone bandstrings (or bandstrings
with huge tassels).’
p. 225 _yare_.... | The Works of Aphra Behn, Volume III | Behn, Aphra | 1640 | 1689 | ['en'] | 82 | {'English drama -- 17th century'} | PG10039 | |
p. 234 _half Pike_. ‘Now _Hist_. A small pike having a shaft of one half
the length of the full-sized one. There were two kinds; one, also called
a _spontoon_, formerly carried by infantry officers; the other, used on
ships for repelling boarders, a boarding-pike,’--_N.E.D_. which quotes
(inter alia) Massinger, &c., _... | The Works of Aphra Behn, Volume III | Behn, Aphra | 1640 | 1689 | ['en'] | 82 | {'English drama -- 17th century'} | PG10039 | |
p. 249 _he pads_. The substantive ‘pad’ = a path or highway. Bailey
(1730-6) has ‘to Pad ... to rob on the road on foot.’ cf. Ford’s _The
Lady’s Trial_ (1639), v, I: ‘One can ... pick a pocket, Pad for a cloak
or hat’. and also Cotton Mather’s _Discourse on Witchcraft_ (1689),
chap, vii: ‘As if you or I should say: We... | The Works of Aphra Behn, Volume III | Behn, Aphra | 1640 | 1689 | ['en'] | 82 | {'English drama -- 17th century'} | PG10039 | |
And again, in his Prologue to Southerne’s _The Disappointment_ (1684),
he has:--
Last there are some, who take their first degrees
Of lewdness in our middle galleries:
The doughty bullies enter bloody drunk,
Invade and grabble one another’s punk.
p. 257 _Hortensius_. Cato Uticensis is said in 56 B.C. t... | The Works of Aphra Behn, Volume III | Behn, Aphra | 1640 | 1689 | ['en'] | 82 | {'English drama -- 17th century'} | PG10039 | |
p. 278 _shatterhead_. A rare word for shatter-(scatter) brained. cf.
The Countess of Winchilsea, _Miscellany Poems_ (1713), ‘Pri’thee
shatter-headed Fop’.
p. 278 _Craffey_. Craffy is the foolish son of the Podesta in Crowne’s
_City Politicks_ (1683). He is described as ‘an impudent, amorous,
pragmatical fop, that pret... | The Works of Aphra Behn, Volume III | Behn, Aphra | 1640 | 1689 | ['en'] | 82 | {'English drama -- 17th century'} | PG10039 | |
THE FORC’D MARRIAGE.
p. 286 _The Nursery_. Vide note, _little Mrs. Ariell_, Vol. II,
p. 430-1.
p. 287 _King. Mr. Westwood_. It has been quite mistakenly suggested that
Westwood was Otway’s theatrical name. Westwood was a professional actor
of mediocre though useful attainments. He is cast for such rôles as Tom
Faithf... | The Works of Aphra Behn, Volume III | Behn, Aphra | 1640 | 1689 | ['en'] | 82 | {'English drama -- 17th century'} | PG10039 | |
p. 330 _Campania_. The operations of an army in the field during a
season. cf. Edmund Everard’s _Discourses on the Present State of the
Protestant Princes of Europe_ (1679): ‘Since the last campania the
Three ... have entred into the entanglement of a War.’
p. 331 _Pattacoon_. A Spanish dollar value 4s. 8d; vide supra... | The Works of Aphra Behn, Volume III | Behn, Aphra | 1640 | 1689 | ['en'] | 82 | {'English drama -- 17th century'} | PG10039 | |
THE EMPEROR OF THE MOON.
p. 390 _Lord Marquess of Worcester_. Charles, Marquis of Worcester
(1661-1698), father of Henry Somerset, second Duke of Beaufort, was the
second son [Henry, his elder brother, died young] of Henry Somerset,
first Duke of Beaufort (1629-1700), by Mary, eldest daughter of Arthur,
first Lord Ca... | The Works of Aphra Behn, Volume III | Behn, Aphra | 1640 | 1689 | ['en'] | 82 | {'English drama -- 17th century'} | PG10039 | |
Sawney was tall and of noble race
And lov’d me better than any eane
But now he ligs by another lass
And Sawney will ne’er be my true love agen.
Ravenscroft, in _The London Cuckolds_ (1682), Act iii, introduces a
link-boy singing this verse as he passes down the street.
p. 394 _There’s nothing lasti... | The Works of Aphra Behn, Volume III | Behn, Aphra | 1640 | 1689 | ['en'] | 82 | {'English drama -- 17th century'} | PG10039 | |
Colombine (Mopsophil) in 1683 wore a traditional costume: ‘Casaquin
rouge bordé de noir. Jupe gris-perle. Souliers rouges bordés de noir.
Manches et collerette de mousseline. Rayon de dentelle et touffe de
rubans rose vif. Tablier blanc garni de dentelles.’
p. 397 _your trusty Roger_. cf. John Weever’s _Ancient funera... | The Works of Aphra Behn, Volume III | Behn, Aphra | 1640 | 1689 | ['en'] | 82 | {'English drama -- 17th century'} | PG10039 | |
Que les plumets seraient aimables
Si leurs feux etaient plus constants!
p. 401 _Cannons_. Canons were the immense and exaggerated breeches,
adorned with ribbons and richest lace, which were worn by the fops of
the court of Louis XIV. There is more than one reference to them in
Molière. Ozell, in his translatio... | The Works of Aphra Behn, Volume III | Behn, Aphra | 1640 | 1689 | ['en'] | 82 | {'English drama -- 17th century'} | PG10039 | |
p. 408 _a Man that laugh’d to death_. This is the traditional end of
l’unico Aretino. On hearing some ribald jest he is said to have flung
himself back in a chair and expired of sheer merriment. Later days
elucidate his fate by declaring that overbalancing himself he broke
his neck on the marble pavement. Sir Thomas U... | The Works of Aphra Behn, Volume III | Behn, Aphra | 1640 | 1689 | ['en'] | 82 | {'English drama -- 17th century'} | PG10039 | |
The Divine Comedy
of Dante Alighieri
Translated by
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW
PARADISO
Contents
I. The Ascent to the First Heaven. The Sphere of Fire.
II. The First Heaven, the Moon: Spirits who, having taken Sacred Vows, were forced to violate them. The Lunar Spots.
III. Piccarda Donati and the Empress Constance.
IV... | Divine Comedy, Longfellow's Translation, Paradise | Dante Alighieri | 1265 | 1321 | ['en'] | 121 | {'Epic poetry, Italian -- Translations into English', 'Italian poetry -- To 1400 -- Translations into English'} | PG1003 | |
Paradiso: Canto I
The glory of Him who moveth everything
Doth penetrate the universe, and shine
In one part more and in another less.
Within that heaven which most his light receives
Was I, and things beheld which to repeat
Nor knows, nor can, who from above descends;
Because in drawing near to its d... | Divine Comedy, Longfellow's Translation, Paradise | Dante Alighieri | 1265 | 1321 | ['en'] | 121 | {'Epic poetry, Italian -- Translations into English', 'Italian poetry -- To 1400 -- Translations into English'} | PG1003 | |
And even as a second ray is wont
To issue from the first and reascend,
Like to a pilgrim who would fain return,
Thus of her action, through the eyes infused
In my imagination, mine I made,
And sunward fixed mine eyes beyond our wont.
There much is lawful which is here unlawful
Unto our powers, by v... | Divine Comedy, Longfellow's Translation, Paradise | Dante Alighieri | 1265 | 1321 | ['en'] | 121 | {'Epic poetry, Italian -- Translations into English', 'Italian poetry -- To 1400 -- Translations into English'} | PG1003 | |
And said: “Already did I rest content
From great amazement; but am now amazed
In what way I transcend these bodies light.”
Whereupon she, after a pitying sigh,
Her eyes directed tow’rds me with that look
A mother casts on a delirious child;
And she began: “All things whate’er they be
Have order amo... | Divine Comedy, Longfellow's Translation, Paradise | Dante Alighieri | 1265 | 1321 | ['en'] | 121 | {'Epic poetry, Italian -- Translations into English', 'Italian poetry -- To 1400 -- Translations into English'} | PG1003 | |
Paradiso: Canto II
O Ye, who in some pretty little boat,
Eager to listen, have been following
Behind my ship, that singing sails along,
Turn back to look again upon your shores;
Do not put out to sea, lest peradventure,
In losing me, you might yourselves be lost.
The sea I sail has never yet been pas... | Divine Comedy, Longfellow's Translation, Paradise | Dante Alighieri | 1265 | 1321 | ['en'] | 121 | {'Epic poetry, Italian -- Translations into English', 'Italian poetry -- To 1400 -- Translations into English'} | PG1003 | |
But tell me what the dusky spots may be
Upon this body, which below on earth
Make people tell that fabulous tale of Cain?”
Somewhat she smiled; and then, “If the opinion
Of mortals be erroneous,” she said,
“Where’er the key of sense doth not unlock,
Certes, the shafts of wonder should not pierce thee
... | Divine Comedy, Longfellow's Translation, Paradise | Dante Alighieri | 1265 | 1321 | ['en'] | 121 | {'Epic poetry, Italian -- Translations into English', 'Italian poetry -- To 1400 -- Translations into English'} | PG1003 | |
Three mirrors shalt thou take, and two remove
Alike from thee, the other more remote
Between the former two shall meet thine eyes.
Turned towards these, cause that behind thy back
Be placed a light, illuming the three mirrors
And coming back to thee by all reflected.
Though in its quantity be not so am... | Divine Comedy, Longfellow's Translation, Paradise | Dante Alighieri | 1265 | 1321 | ['en'] | 121 | {'Epic poetry, Italian -- Translations into English', 'Italian poetry -- To 1400 -- Translations into English'} | PG1003 | |
From this proceeds whate’er from light to light
Appeareth different, not from dense and rare:
This is the formal principle that produces,
According to its goodness, dark and bright.”
Paradiso: Canto III
That Sun, which erst with love my bosom warmed,
Of beauteous truth had unto me discovered,
By prov... | Divine Comedy, Longfellow's Translation, Paradise | Dante Alighieri | 1265 | 1321 | ['en'] | 121 | {'Epic poetry, Italian -- Translations into English', 'Italian poetry -- To 1400 -- Translations into English'} | PG1003 | |
“Our charity doth never shut the doors
Against a just desire, except as one
Who wills that all her court be like herself.
I was a virgin sister in the world;
And if thy mind doth contemplate me well,
The being more fair will not conceal me from thee,
But thou shalt recognise I am Piccarda,
Who, sta... | Divine Comedy, Longfellow's Translation, Paradise | Dante Alighieri | 1265 | 1321 | ['en'] | 121 | {'Epic poetry, Italian -- Translations into English', 'Italian poetry -- To 1400 -- Translations into English'} | PG1003 | |
But as it comes to pass, if one food sates,
And for another still remains the longing,
We ask for this, and that decline with thanks,
E’en thus did I; with gesture and with word,
To learn from her what was the web wherein
She did not ply the shuttle to the end.
“A perfect life and merit high in-heaven
... | Divine Comedy, Longfellow's Translation, Paradise | Dante Alighieri | 1265 | 1321 | ['en'] | 121 | {'Epic poetry, Italian -- Translations into English', 'Italian poetry -- To 1400 -- Translations into English'} | PG1003 | |
Hence, if I held my peace, myself I blame not,
Impelled in equal measure by my doubts,
Since it must be so, nor do I commend.
I held my peace; but my desire was painted
Upon my face, and questioning with that
More fervent far than by articulate speech.
Beatrice did as Daniel had done
Relieving Nebu... | Divine Comedy, Longfellow's Translation, Paradise | Dante Alighieri | 1265 | 1321 | ['en'] | 121 | {'Epic poetry, Italian -- Translations into English', 'Italian poetry -- To 1400 -- Translations into English'} | PG1003 | |
Perhaps his doctrine is of other guise
Than the words sound, and possibly may be
With meaning that is not to be derided.
If he doth mean that to these wheels return
The honour of their influence and the blame,
Perhaps his bow doth hit upon some truth.
This principle ill understood once warped
The w... | Divine Comedy, Longfellow's Translation, Paradise | Dante Alighieri | 1265 | 1321 | ['en'] | 121 | {'Epic poetry, Italian -- Translations into English', 'Italian poetry -- To 1400 -- Translations into English'} | PG1003 | |
E’en as Alcmaeon (who, being by his father
Thereto entreated, his own mother slew)
Not to lose pity pitiless became.
At this point I desire thee to remember
That force with will commingles, and they cause
That the offences cannot be excused.
Will absolute consenteth not to evil;
But in so far conse... | Divine Comedy, Longfellow's Translation, Paradise | Dante Alighieri | 1265 | 1321 | ['en'] | 121 | {'Epic poetry, Italian -- Translations into English', 'Italian poetry -- To 1400 -- Translations into English'} | PG1003 | |
Well I perceive how is already shining
Into thine intellect the eternal light,
That only seen enkindles always love;
And if some other thing your love seduce,
’Tis nothing but a vestige of the same,
Ill understood, which there is shining through.
Thou fain wouldst know if with another service
For b... | Divine Comedy, Longfellow's Translation, Paradise | Dante Alighieri | 1265 | 1321 | ['en'] | 121 | {'Epic poetry, Italian -- Translations into English', 'Italian poetry -- To 1400 -- Translations into English'} | PG1003 | |
The other, which is known to thee as matter,
May well indeed be such that one errs not
If it for other matter be exchanged.
But let none shift the burden on his shoulder
At his arbitrament, without the turning
Both of the white and of the yellow key;
And every permutation deem as foolish,
If in the... | Divine Comedy, Longfellow's Translation, Paradise | Dante Alighieri | 1265 | 1321 | ['en'] | 121 | {'Epic poetry, Italian -- Translations into English', 'Italian poetry -- To 1400 -- Translations into English'} | PG1003 | |
As, in a fish-pond which is pure and tranquil,
The fishes draw to that which from without
Comes in such fashion that their food they deem it;
So I beheld more than a thousand splendours
Drawing towards us, and in each was heard:
“Lo, this is she who shall increase our love.”
And as each one was coming ... | Divine Comedy, Longfellow's Translation, Paradise | Dante Alighieri | 1265 | 1321 | ['en'] | 121 | {'Epic poetry, Italian -- Translations into English', 'Italian poetry -- To 1400 -- Translations into English'} | PG1003 | |
And under shadow of the sacred plumes
It governed there the world from hand to hand,
And, changing thus, upon mine own alighted.
Caesar I was, and am Justinian,
Who, by the will of primal Love I feel,
Took from the laws the useless and redundant;
And ere unto the work I was attent,
One nature to ex... | Divine Comedy, Longfellow's Translation, Paradise | Dante Alighieri | 1265 | 1321 | ['en'] | 121 | {'Epic poetry, Italian -- Translations into English', 'Italian poetry -- To 1400 -- Translations into English'} | PG1003 | |
Then, near unto the time when heaven had willed
To bring the whole world to its mood serene,
Did Caesar by the will of Rome assume it.
What it achieved from Var unto the Rhine,
Isere beheld and Saone, beheld the Seine,
And every valley whence the Rhone is filled;
What it achieved when it had left Raven... | Divine Comedy, Longfellow's Translation, Paradise | Dante Alighieri | 1265 | 1321 | ['en'] | 121 | {'Epic poetry, Italian -- Translations into English', 'Italian poetry -- To 1400 -- Translations into English'} | PG1003 | |
Let, let the Ghibellines ply their handicraft
Beneath some other standard; for this ever
Ill follows he who it and justice parts.
And let not this new Charles e’er strike it down,
He and his Guelfs, but let him fear the talons
That from a nobler lion stripped the fell.
Already oftentimes the sons have ... | Divine Comedy, Longfellow's Translation, Paradise | Dante Alighieri | 1265 | 1321 | ['en'] | 121 | {'Epic poetry, Italian -- Translations into English', 'Italian poetry -- To 1400 -- Translations into English'} | PG1003 | |
Doubting was I, and saying, “Tell her, tell her,”
Within me, “tell her,” saying, “tell my Lady,”
Who slakes my thirst with her sweet effluences;
And yet that reverence which doth lord it over
The whole of me only by B and ICE,
Bowed me again like unto one who drowses.
Short while did Beatrice endure me... | Divine Comedy, Longfellow's Translation, Paradise | Dante Alighieri | 1265 | 1321 | ['en'] | 121 | {'Epic poetry, Italian -- Translations into English', 'Italian poetry -- To 1400 -- Translations into English'} | PG1003 | |
Buried remaineth, brother, this decree
Unto the eyes of every one whose nature
Is in the flame of love not yet adult.
Verily, inasmuch as at this mark
One gazes long and little is discerned,
Wherefore this mode was worthiest will I say.
Goodness Divine, which from itself doth spurn
All envy, burnin... | Divine Comedy, Longfellow's Translation, Paradise | Dante Alighieri | 1265 | 1321 | ['en'] | 121 | {'Epic poetry, Italian -- Translations into English', 'Italian poetry -- To 1400 -- Translations into English'} | PG1003 | |
But since the action of the doer is
So much more grateful, as it more presents
The goodness of the heart from which it issues,
Goodness Divine, that doth imprint the world,
Has been contented to proceed by each
And all its ways to lift you up again;
Nor ’twixt the first day and the final night
Such... | Divine Comedy, Longfellow's Translation, Paradise | Dante Alighieri | 1265 | 1321 | ['en'] | 121 | {'Epic poetry, Italian -- Translations into English', 'Italian poetry -- To 1400 -- Translations into English'} | PG1003 | |
Wherefore not only unto her paid honour
Of sacrifices and of votive cry
The ancient nations in the ancient error,
But both Dione honoured they and Cupid,
That as her mother, this one as her son,
And said that he had sat in Dido’s lap;
And they from her, whence I beginning take,
Took the denominatio... | Divine Comedy, Longfellow's Translation, Paradise | Dante Alighieri | 1265 | 1321 | ['en'] | 121 | {'Epic poetry, Italian -- Translations into English', 'Italian poetry -- To 1400 -- Translations into English'} | PG1003 | |
My gladness keepeth me concealed from thee,
Which rayeth round about me, and doth hide me
Like as a creature swathed in its own silk.
Much didst thou love me, and thou hadst good reason;
For had I been below, I should have shown thee
Somewhat beyond the foliage of my love.
That left-hand margin, which ... | Divine Comedy, Longfellow's Translation, Paradise | Dante Alighieri | 1265 | 1321 | ['en'] | 121 | {'Epic poetry, Italian -- Translations into English', 'Italian poetry -- To 1400 -- Translations into English'} | PG1003 | |
And not alone the natures are foreseen
Within the mind that in itself is perfect,
But they together with their preservation.
For whatsoever thing this bow shoots forth
Falls foreordained unto an end foreseen,
Even as a shaft directed to its mark.
If that were not, the heaven which thou dost walk
Wo... | Divine Comedy, Longfellow's Translation, Paradise | Dante Alighieri | 1265 | 1321 | ['en'] | 121 | {'Epic poetry, Italian -- Translations into English', 'Italian poetry -- To 1400 -- Translations into English'} | PG1003 | |
Therefore your footsteps wander from the road.”
Paradiso: Canto IX
Beautiful Clemence, after that thy Charles
Had me enlightened, he narrated to me
The treacheries his seed should undergo;
But said: “Be still and let the years roll round;”
So I can only say, that lamentation
Legitimate shall follow o... | Divine Comedy, Longfellow's Translation, Paradise | Dante Alighieri | 1265 | 1321 | ['en'] | 121 | {'Epic poetry, Italian -- Translations into English', 'Italian poetry -- To 1400 -- Translations into English'} | PG1003 | |
But soon ’twill be that Padua in the marsh
Will change the water that Vicenza bathes,
Because the folk are stubborn against duty;
And where the Sile and Cagnano join
One lordeth it, and goes with lofty head,
For catching whom e’en now the net is making.
Feltro moreover of her impious pastor
Shall w... | Divine Comedy, Longfellow's Translation, Paradise | Dante Alighieri | 1265 | 1321 | ['en'] | 121 | {'Epic poetry, Italian -- Translations into English', 'Italian poetry -- To 1400 -- Translations into English'} | PG1003 |
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