. William Shakespere : a biography. perished untimely—is to make sport ot their liomely joys before their Queen. There was, perhaps, one in the crowd on that Sunday afternoon who was to see tlie very heaven of poetry in such simple rites—who was to picture the shepherd thus addressing his mistress in the solemnity of the troth-plight:— I take thy hand; this handAs soft as doves down, and as white as it;Or Ethiopians tooth, or the fanud snowThats bolted by the northern blasts twice oer. * He would agree not with Master Laneham— By my troth t was a lively pas-time : I believe it would have moved
. William Shakespere : a biography. perished untimely—is to make sport ot their liomely joys before their Queen. There was, perhaps, one in the crowd on that Sunday afternoon who was to see tlie very heaven of poetry in such simple rites—who was to picture the shepherd thus addressing his mistress in the solemnity of the troth-plight:— I take thy hand; this handAs soft as doves down, and as white as it;Or Ethiopians tooth, or the fanud snowThats bolted by the northern blasts twice oer. * He would agree not with Master Laneham— By my troth t was a lively pas-time : I believe it would have moved a man to a right merry mood, though ithad been told him that his wife lay dying. Leicester, as we have seen, hadprocured abundance of the occasional rhymes of flattery to propitiate was enough. Poor Gascoigne had prepared an elaborate masque, in twoacts, of Diana and her Nymphs, which for the time is a remarkable show, says the poet, was devised and penned by Master Gascoigne,and being prepar
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