. Shakespeare's love story, 1580-1609. When in the chronicle of wasted timeI see descriptions of the fairest wights,And beauty making beautiful old rhymeIn praise of ladies dead and lovely knights ;Then, in the blazon of sweet beautys best,Of hand, of foot, of lip, of eye, of brow,I see their antique pen would have expressdEven such a beauty as you master all their praises are but propheciesOf this our time, all you prefiguring,And, for they lookd but with divining eyes,They had not skill enough your worth to we, which now behold these present days,Have eyes to wonder, but lack
. Shakespeare's love story, 1580-1609. When in the chronicle of wasted timeI see descriptions of the fairest wights,And beauty making beautiful old rhymeIn praise of ladies dead and lovely knights ;Then, in the blazon of sweet beautys best,Of hand, of foot, of lip, of eye, of brow,I see their antique pen would have expressdEven such a beauty as you master all their praises are but propheciesOf this our time, all you prefiguring,And, for they lookd but with divining eyes,They had not skill enough your worth to we, which now behold these present days,Have eyes to wonder, but lack tongues topraise. [32]. Of the thoughts of the village maiden,of her dreams that night, who shall tell?But that, hencrforth, she too abides inthe ideal world, who shall doubt ? Forthose who once enter therein there areno surprises, nothing is too strange ortoo glorious for belief. Days follow,but how different from all former days!Spinning, weaving, baking, malting,brewing — each prosaic task is glorifiedby the little paper worn next her when night falls, every duty done, [33] Shakespeares love story the five younger children snugly tuckedaway in bed, conies at last the quiethour which Anne may claim as her veryown—hour set apart and sacred to thehopes, the dreams, the visions whichwill not bear the light of day. Thisglowing verse — is it truly written forher, and her alone, or is it perchance(cruel thought!) merely a poetic fancyborn of books and not of feeling? Willthe handsome youth, already a man inlooks though not in years, put thesethoughts into speech at their next meet-ing? Not yet; b
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