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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1889 Excerpt: ...prelate lies?' ' John Sheffield, Duke of Buckingham, died 24 February, 1731. His epitaph in Westminster Abbey, beginning--' Dubius, sed non improbus vixi, Incertus morior--" was judiciously edited by Bishop Atterbury. DAPHNE AND APOLLO: IMITATED FROM THE FIRST BOOK OF OVID'S METAMORPHOSES.1 "Nympha, precor, Penei, mane."--APOLLO. ABATE, fair fugitive, abate thy speed, Dismiss thy fears, and turn thy beauteous head; With kind regard a panting lover view; Less swiftly fly, less swiftly I'll pursue: Pathless, alas! and rugged is the ground, Some stone may hurt thee, or some thorn may wound. Daphne. (Aside.) This care is for himself, as sure as death! One mile has put the fellow out of breath; He'll never do, I'll lead him t'other round; Washy he is, perhaps not over sound. 1 Pope much admired this. Speaking to Spence of Prior's unpublished MSS. in the hands of his secretary, Adrian Drift, he said, "I remember there was a dialogue of about two hundred verses, between Apollo and Daphne, which pleased me as much as anything of his I ever read." (Spence by Singer, 1858, pp. 36-7.) APOLLO. You fly, alas! not knowing whom you fly; Nor ill-bred swain, nor rusty clown, am I: I Claros isle and Tenedos command DAPHNE. Thank you: I would not leave my native land. APOLLO. What is to come, by certain arts I know. DAPHNE. Pish! Partridge1 has as fair pretence as you. APOLLO. Behold the beauties of my locks DAPHNE. A fig! That may be counterfeit, a Spanish wig. Who cares for all that bush of curling hair, Whilst your smooth chin is so extremely bare?APOLLO. I sing DAPHNE. That never shall be Daphne's choice: Syphacio had an admirable voice. P John Partridge, the "cobbler, starmonger and quack" who afforded so much amusement to Swift and the...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1889 Excerpt: ...prelate lies?' ' John Sheffield, Duke of Buckingham, died 24 February, 1731. His epitaph in Westminster Abbey, beginning--' Dubius, sed non improbus vixi, Incertus morior--" was judiciously edited by Bishop Atterbury. DAPHNE AND APOLLO: IMITATED FROM THE FIRST BOOK OF OVID'S METAMORPHOSES.1 "Nympha, precor, Penei, mane."--APOLLO. ABATE, fair fugitive, abate thy speed, Dismiss thy fears, and turn thy beauteous head; With kind regard a panting lover view; Less swiftly fly, less swiftly I'll pursue: Pathless, alas! and rugged is the ground, Some stone may hurt thee, or some thorn may wound. Daphne. (Aside.) This care is for himself, as sure as death! One mile has put the fellow out of breath; He'll never do, I'll lead him t'other round; Washy he is, perhaps not over sound. 1 Pope much admired this. Speaking to Spence of Prior's unpublished MSS. in the hands of his secretary, Adrian Drift, he said, "I remember there was a dialogue of about two hundred verses, between Apollo and Daphne, which pleased me as much as anything of his I ever read." (Spence by Singer, 1858, pp. 36-7.) APOLLO. You fly, alas! not knowing whom you fly; Nor ill-bred swain, nor rusty clown, am I: I Claros isle and Tenedos command DAPHNE. Thank you: I would not leave my native land. APOLLO. What is to come, by certain arts I know. DAPHNE. Pish! Partridge1 has as fair pretence as you. APOLLO. Behold the beauties of my locks DAPHNE. A fig! That may be counterfeit, a Spanish wig. Who cares for all that bush of curling hair, Whilst your smooth chin is so extremely bare?APOLLO. I sing DAPHNE. That never shall be Daphne's choice: Syphacio had an admirable voice. P John Partridge, the "cobbler, starmonger and quack" who afforded so much amusement to Swift and the...
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