Shakespeare Identified in Edward De Vere the Seventeenth Earl of Oxford
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The matter is there- fore of extreme importance as a question of Elizabethan literature quite apart from the Shakespeare problem, and will necessitate a somewhat exhaustive statement. The fol- lowing are the most important stanzas in the set: — Digitized by Google MANHOOD OF DE VERB: MIDDLE PERIOD 285 ''All these, and all that else the Comic Stage, With seasoned wit and goodly pleasance graced. By which man's life in his likest image Was limned forth, are wholly now defaced; And those sweet wit...s which wont the like to frame Are now despised and made a laughing game. ''And he the man whom Nature's self had made To mock herself and truth to imitate^ With kindly counter under Mimic shade. Our pleasant Willie, ah I is dead of late. With whom all joy and jolly merriment Is also deaded and in doleur drent. "But that same gentle spirit from whose pen Large streams of honey and sweet nectar flow, Scorning the boldness of such base-bom men. Which dare their follies forth so rashly throw. Doth rather choose to sit in idle cell, Than so himself to mockery to selL" First of all the expression "dead of late," it has been remarked by others, means, ''not that he is literally dead but that he is in retirement." This reading is not only necessary to make it fit in with what ^^Sue/'^ follows — "to sit in idle cell" — ^but is also sup- ported by other passages in the same writer.
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