. Old love stories retold. ne speech two negatives affirme! Sir Philip Sid?iey & Lady Devereux The reference is perhaps to an occasion still more poignantly celebrated in one of the songs, which the reader may care to find for himself — with the refrain: Take me to thee, and thee to me:No, no, no, no, my Deare, let be. It is evident that when Sidney deter-mined to be Penelopes lover in earnest,he was impatient with half-measures, andit may well have seemed to his soldierlysense of action that such a husband asLord Rich was a man to fight, and ifnecessary kill, for the release of such awife. Bu
. Old love stories retold. ne speech two negatives affirme! Sir Philip Sid?iey & Lady Devereux The reference is perhaps to an occasion still more poignantly celebrated in one of the songs, which the reader may care to find for himself — with the refrain: Take me to thee, and thee to me:No, no, no, no, my Deare, let be. It is evident that when Sidney deter-mined to be Penelopes lover in earnest,he was impatient with half-measures, andit may well have seemed to his soldierlysense of action that such a husband asLord Rich was a man to fight, and ifnecessary kill, for the release of such awife. But Penelope, though later in lifeshe was to take short cuts to a happinessperhaps less worthy than Sidney offeredher, would give no ear to his desperateproposals. Once, we read, she was angrywith him for some time because, havingcome upon her while she dozed, he hadstolen a kiss. She seems to have for-given him the theft, and afterwards, onrare occasions, to have saved him frombeing again a thief by a timely gift. But. Old Love Stories Retoldthe ardours and hopes which even such a guardedgraeiousness aroused in Sidney appear to havegrown too perilous for her conscience, and in oneof the sweetest reproofs in poetry — a reproofwhose very tenderness means the very gift that isdenied — she begs Sidney to desist: for her andhonours sake. I quote only a few verses, theartificial pastoral style of which must not dis-guise for the reader the vital significance beneath: In a grove most rich of shade,Where birds wanton musicke made,May, then yong, his pide weedes showing,New-perfumed with flowers fresh growing: Astrophel with Stella sweeteDid for mutual comfort meete,Both within themselves oppressed,But each in the other blessed. Him great harmes had taught much care,Her faire necke a foule yoke bare;But her sight his cares did banish,In his sight her yoke did vanish. Astrophel growing too eager in his love, Stellathus admonishes him: Astrophel, sayd she, my love,Cease, in these eff
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