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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
TO HIS INGENUOUS FRIEND, THE AUTHOR, CONCERNING HIS COMEDY, by JAMES DUPORT First Line: The muses, tom, thy jealous lovers be Last Line: Will find sufficient welcome, credit, fame. Subject(s): Plays & Playwrights ; Randolph, Thomas (1605-1634); Dramatists | |||
THE Muses, Tom, thy Jealous Lovers be, Striving which has the greatest share in thee. Euterpe calls thee hers; such is thy skill In pastoral sonnets and in rural quill. Melpomene claims thee for her own, and cries, Thou hast an excellent vein for elegies. 'Tis true; but then Calliope disdains, Urging thy fancy in heroic strains, Thus all the Nine: Apollo by his laws Sits judge, in person to decide the cause: Beholds thy comedy, approves thy art, And so gives sentence on Thalia's part. To her he dooms thee only of the Nine; What though the rest with jealousy repine? Then let thy comedy, Thalia's daughter, Begin to know her mother Muse by laughter, Out with't, I say, smother not this thy birth, But publish to the world thy harmless mirth. No fretting frontispiece, nor biting satire [nature. Needs usher't forth: born tooth'd? fie! 'tis 'gainst Thou hast th' applause of all: king, queen, and Court, And University, all lik'd thy sport. No blunt preamble in a cynic humour Need quarrel at dislike, and (spite of rumour) Force a more candid censure, and extort An approbation, maugre all the Court. Such rude and snarling prefaces suit not thee; They are superfluous: for thy comedy, Back't with its own worth and the author's name, Will find sufficient welcome, credit, fame. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...ENDING WITH A LINE FROM LEAR by MARVIN BELL ENDING WITH A LINE FROM LEAR by MARVIN BELL SOUNDS OF THE RESURRECTED DEAD MAN'S FOOTSTEPS (#20): 1. SHAKESPEARE by MARVIN BELL SOUNDS OF THE RESURRECTED DEAD MAN'S FOOTSTEPS (#20): 1. SHAKESPEARE by MARVIN BELL SOUNDS OF THE RESURRECTED DEAD MAN'S FOOTSTEPS (#20): 2. SHAKESPEARE by MARVIN BELL SOUNDS OF THE RESURRECTED DEAD MAN'S FOOTSTEPS (#20): 2. SHAKESPEARE by MARVIN BELL YOUR SHAKESPEARE by MARVIN BELL YOUR SHAKESPEARE by MARVIN BELL SONNET TO A FRIEND WHO ASKED, HOW I FELT ... MY INFANT TO ME by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE |
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