. Shakespeare's love story, 1580-1609. common lose their dear , like her, I sometime hold my tongueBecause I would not dull you with my song.[38] SHAKESPEARE S LOVE STORY But such reserve is not for long, noris the written word enough. Soonmeetings are planned; many a tryst isheld among the woodland paths of WeirBrake; many are the walks over BordenHill, where the wild thyme blows, oralong the banks of the Avon, wherewillows grow aslant the stream andwhere the level meadows are fringedwith purple loose-strife, yellow iris, andblue forget-me-not. More and more,feeling breaks th
. Shakespeare's love story, 1580-1609. common lose their dear , like her, I sometime hold my tongueBecause I would not dull you with my song.[38] SHAKESPEARE S LOVE STORY But such reserve is not for long, noris the written word enough. Soonmeetings are planned; many a tryst isheld among the woodland paths of WeirBrake; many are the walks over BordenHill, where the wild thyme blows, oralong the banks of the Avon, wherewillows grow aslant the stream andwhere the level meadows are fringedwith purple loose-strife, yellow iris, andblue forget-me-not. More and more,feeling breaks through reserve; theyouth pours into sympathetic ears thestory of his hopes, his fears, his dis-couragements, his ambitions. He con-fesses his longing to travel to the greatcity of London, there to try his fortuneas poet; his hope some day to becomea part of the great world with its witand wisdom, its big events and heroicactions; his intention to compose a longpoem in a new manner, reading nowand then a stanza from that Venus and [39 J. Adonis which, years afterward, he is topublish as the first heir of his in-vention. Never durst poet touch a pen to writeUntil his ink were temperd with loves sighs is a truth born of the writers own ex-perience. More and more impassionedbecomes his utterance: Those lines that I before have writ do lie,Even those that said I could not love you dearer;Yet then my judgment knew no reason why [4o]
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