General Introduction: “Chamelion like” England
Yee sonnes of craft bearing as many faces,As Proteus, takes among the marine places,And force your natures all the best you can,To counterfeit the grace of some great manChamelion like, who takes him in each hew,Of blacke or white, or yellow, greene, or blew,That comes him next, […].Th. Hudson. Tra...
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E-rea
2015
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| Sumari: | Yee sonnes of craft bearing as many faces,As Proteus, takes among the marine places,And force your natures all the best you can,To counterfeit the grace of some great manChamelion like, who takes him in each hew,Of blacke or white, or yellow, greene, or blew,That comes him next, […].Th. Hudson. Transl.(Robert Allott, Englands Parnassus, 1600, “Flatterer”, 95)Englands Parnassus is a vast compilation whose merits do not simply consist in “redirecting texts that normally circulated in manuscrip... |
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