Oberon's Vision in the Midsummer-Night's Dream, Illustrated By a Comparison With Lylie's Endymion
Oberon's Vision in the Midsummer-Night's Dream, Illustrated By a Comparison With Lylie's Endymion
Nicholas John Halpin
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Her evil arts had estranged her husband from her ; and, while she continues to haunt the court of Cynthia, he is compelled to absent himself, and wander in the desert for fifty years. Now the celebrated Earl of Shrewsbury (in whose custody the unhappy Queen of Scots was imprisoned) and his Countess lived for many years on terms precisely similar to those of Geron and Dipsas, and for the same miserable cause. Lady Shrewsbury was a thorough shrew : her temper and her tongue were equally ungoverna...ble ; and her occasional access to th^ court — from which, on pretence of the vigilance requisite to secure his prisoner, he was sedulously debarred — gave her fre- quent opportunities of making mischief by her tongue amongst all parties, not sparing the Queen, much less her unfortunate hus- band. In his letters to Leicester,* Shrewsbury complains of " his i Lodge's Illustrations, ii., 293-309. /A /% Digitized by VjOOQ IC lylie's endymion. 69 wyked and malysyous wyfe^s ^^ sowing dissentions between him- self and his children ; and laments her Majesty^s having taken part with his lady against him, without having " thorowly weyed of it.'*'' Writing to Lord Burghley,^ he complains that, " since his cominge into the countrie, his wief and her children hath not ceased to informe her Ma**® most sclanderouslie of him, that he hath broken her Highnes'' ordre;**' and, on the whole, concludes, " it were better they lyved as they doe,*" i.
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