• EUPHUES SHADOW

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    • [T]homas [LODGE] – “Rosalynde: Euphues Golden Legacy, Found After
    .. His Death In His Cell At *SILEXEDRA*” (based on As You Like It).
    .<<Lodge would later reminisce about the Silexedra years in his novel
    . EUPHUES *SHADOW*. In a prefatory epistle to the book, Lodge noted
    . how “Euphues repent the prime of his youth misspent in *FOLLY*
    . and virtuously end the winter of his age in *SILEXEDRA*.>>
    . . . . . . . . . - Mark Anderson -------------------------------------------------­-------- https://quod.lib.umich.edu/e/eebo/A06165.0001.001/1:2?rgn=div1;view=fulltext

    EUPHUES SHADOW, THE Battaile of the Sences.

    Wherein youthfull folly is set downe in his right figure, and vaine fancies are prooued to produce many offences.

    Hereunto is annexed the Deafe mans Dialogue, contayning Phi∣lamis Athanatos: fit for all sortes to peruse, and the better sorte to practise.

    By T. L. Gent. LONDON

    Printed by Abell Ieffes, for Iohn Busbie, and are to be sould at his shop in Paules Churchyard, neere to the West doore of Paules. 1592.
    ..........................................................
    To the right Honourable, Robert Ratcliffe, Viscount Fitzwaters:
    Robert Greene; wisheth increase of honour and vertue.

    EVer desirous (right honorable) to shew my affectionate duty to your Lordship, as well for the generall report of your vertue vniuersal∣ly conceipted in the opinion of all men, as for the natiue place o•… my birth, whereby I am bounde to affect
    your honourable father and you for him aboue others, in suspence of this dutifull desire, it fortuned that one M. Thomas Lodge, who nowe is gone to sea with Mayster Candish, had bestowed some serious labour, in penning of a booke called Euphues Shadowe:
    and by his last letters gaue straight charge, that I should not onely haue the care for his sake of the impression thereof, but also in his absence to bes•…owe it on some man of Honor, whose worthye vertues might bee apatronage to his worke, where
    vpon taking aduice with my selfe, I thought none more fit then your Honour, seeing your Lordships dis∣position was wholy giuen to the studie of good letters, to be a Mecenas to the well imployed laboures of the
    absent Gentleman: may therfore your lordship fauou∣rably censure of my good meaning, in presenting your honour with this Pamphlet, and courteouslye graunt acceptance of his workes and my good will, his labour hath his end, and my desire in dutie rests
    satisfied, and so humbly praying for your Lordships health and wel∣fare I take my leaue.

    Your honors humbly to commaund.
    Rob. Greene. Norfolciensis. -------------------------------------------------­--------
    Horace: We are but *DUST* and *SHADOW*. -------------------------------------------------­--------
    . . . http://tinyurl.com/yafpyqk
    .
    The KJV (1611) frontispiece: at the top center,
    is: a grotesque *St.THOMAS* with a
    *MASONic CARPENTER's SQUARE* in *SHADOW* -----------------------------------------------------------
    One should note Doubting Thomas's attributes:
    .
    1) SPEAR (means of his Christian martyrdom),
    2) *MASONic CARPENTER's SQUARE* (his profession, a builder) --------------------------------------------------------------
    The KJV (1611) Epistle Dedicatory http://www.hilltopbaptistnewport.net/images/DedicatoryCover.jpg .......................................................
    . TO THE MOST HIGH AND MIGHTIE
    . (P)rince, (I)AMES by the grace of (G)od
    . King of Great Britaine,{FRANC}e, and Irela[n]d,
    . Defender [o]f the Faith, &[c].
    . THE TRANSL[A]TORS OF THE [B]IBLE,
    . wish Grace, Mercie, and Peace, through IESVS
    . Christ our Lord.
    ............................................
    *MASONic CARPENTER's SQUARE* :
    .
    . . . . <= 10 =>
    .
    .. {F R A N C.} E A N D I
    .. R E L A [N]. D,D E F E
    .. N D E R [O]. F T H E F
    .. A I T H [C]. T h e T r
    .. a n s l [A]. t o r s o
    .. f t h e [B]. i b l e w
    .. i s h G. r . a c e,M e
    .. r c i e, a . n d P e a
    .. c e,t h. r . o u g h I
    .. E S V S. C . h r i s t
    .. o u r L. o . r d.
    .
    [BACON] -10 : Prob. ~ 1 in 750 ------------------------------------------------------
    (1593, Ad Maecenatum Prologus)

    The Honour of the Garter. Displaied in a Poeme Gratulatorie:
    Entitled to the worthie and renowned Earle of *NORTHUMBERLAND*.
    Created Knight of that Order, and installd at Windsore.
    Anno Regni Elizabethae. 35. Die Junii. 26.
    By [G]eorge [PEELE], Maister of Artes in Oxenforde. ...........................................
    Plaine is my coate, and humble is my gate:
    Thrice-noble Earle, behold with gentle eyes
    My wits poore worth: even for your noblesse,
    (Renowmed lord, Northumberlands fayre flower)
    The Muses love, Patrone, and favouret,
    That artizans and schollers doest embrace,
    And clothest Mathesis in rich ornaments,
    That admirable mathematique skill,
    Familiar with the starres and Zodiack.
    (To whom the heaven lyes open as her booke)
    By whose directions undeceivable,
    (Leaving our Schoolemens vulgar trodden pathes)
    ...
    And following the auncient *rEVEREnD* steps
    Of *Trismegistus* and *PYTHAGORAS* ,

    Why thither post not all good wits from hence,
    To Chaucer, Gower, and to the fayrest Phaer
    That *EVER VEntured on great VIRGILS works?
    *To WATSON*, worthy many Epitaphes
    ...
    Why hie they not, unhappy in thine end,
    {MARLEY} , the Muses darling for thy verse; -------------------------------------------------------
    . Venus and Adonis (Quarto 1, *1593*)
    . Lines 151 - 155
    .
    Witnesse this Primros[E] banke whereon I [L]ie,
    These forcel[E]sse flowers lik[E] sturdy trees su[P]port me:
    Two stre[G]thles doues will draw me through the skie,
    From morne till night, euen where I list to sport me. ..............................................................
    . <= 14 =>
    .
    . W i t n e. s .s e t h i s P r
    . i m r o s [E] b a n k e w h e
    . r e o n I [L] i e,T h e s e f
    . o r c e l [E] s s e f l o w e
    . r s l i k [E] s t u r d y t r
    . e e s s u [P] p o r t m e:T w
    . o s t r e [G] t h l e s d o u
    . e s w i l l d r a w m e


    [G.PEELE] -14
    .......................................................
    Is loue so light sweet boy, and may it be,
    That thou should thinke it heauie vnto thee?
    Is thine owne heart to thine owne face affected?
    Can thy right hand ceaze loue vpon thy left?
    Then woo thy selfe, be of thy selfe reiected:
    Steale thine own freedome, and complaine on theft.
    Narcissus so him selfe him selfe forsooke,
    And died to kisse his *SHADOW* in the brooke.
    Torches are made to light, iewels to weare,
    Dainties to tast, fresh beautie for the vse,
    Herbes for their smell, and sappie plants to beare.
    Things growing to them selues, are growths abuse,
    Seeds spring fro seeds, & beauty breedeth beauty,
    Thou wast begot, to get it is thy duty.
    Vpon the earths increase why shouldst thou feed,
    Vnlesse the earth with thy increase be fed? ..............................................................
    . Lines 171 - 180
    .
    . By law of nature thou art bound to breed,
    . Tha(T) thine {M}AY liue, when thou (T)hy selfe art dead:
    . {A}nd so (I)n spite of death thou does(T) su{R}uiue,
    . (I)n that thy li(K)enesse still is {L}eft aliue.
    . By this the loue-s(I)c(K)e Que{E}ne began to sweate,
    . For where they la{Y} the *SHADOW* had forsoo(K)e them,
    . And Titan tired in the midday heate,
    . Wi(T)h burning eye did hotly ouer-looke them,
    . Wish(I)ng Adonis had his teame to guide,
    . So he were li(K)e him, and by Venus side. ..............................................................
    . . . . . . . . . . . <= 30 =>
    .
    . .B y l a w o f n a t u. r .e t h o u a r t b o u n d t o b r e
    . .e d,T h a(T)t h i n e {M} A Y l i u e,w h e n t h o u(T)h y s
    . .e l f e a r t d e a d {A} n d s o(I)n s p i t e o f d e a t h
    . .t h o u d o e s(T)s u {R} u i u e(I)n t h a t t h y l i(K)e n
    . .e s s e s t i l l i s {L} e f t a l i u e.B y t h i s t h e l
    . .o u e-s(I)c(K)e Q u e {E} n e b e g a n t o s w e a t e,F o r
    . .w h e r e(T)h e y l a {Y} t h e*S H A D O W*h a d f o r s o o
    . (K)e t h e m,A n d T i. t .a n t i r e d i n t h e m i d d a y
    . .h e a t e,W i(T)h b u. r .n(I)n g e y e d i d h o t l y o u e
    . .r-l o o k e t h e m,W. i .s h(I)n g A d o n i s h a d h i s t
    . .e a m e t o g u i d e, S .o h e w e r e l i(K)e h i m,a n d b
    . .y V e n u s s i d e.

    {MARLEY} 30 : died in his 30th year on 30 May *1593*
    (KIT) -37,-41,-50,-56,-68 : Prob. less than 1 in 7 -------------------------------------------------------
    Start of last 13 couplets
    of {MARLEY} & Chapman's _Hero and Leander_

    . . . . . . <= 20 =>

    . B u r s t, d {Y} e,b l e e d e,A n d l e a
    . v e p o o .r {E} p l a i n t s t o u s t h
    . a t s h a (L){L} s u c c e e d e.S h e f e
    . l l o n h (E){R} l o v e s b o s o m e,h u
    . g g'd i t (F){A} s t,A n d w i t h L e a n
    . d e r s n .a {M} e s h e b r e a t h'd h e
    . r l a s t.
    .
    {MARLEY} -20 : Prob. [near end of either part] ~1 in 10,000 ---------------------------------------------------- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Marlowe

    <<Within weeks of his [30 May *1593*] death:

    [G]eorge [PEELE] remembered him as
    "{MARLEY}, the Muses' darling";

    Michael Drayton noted that he
    "Had in him those brave translunary things
    That the first poets had"

    and Ben Jonson wrote of "Marlowe's mighty line". ...................................................
    [T]homas [NASHE] wrote warmly of his friend,
    "poor deceased (KIT) Marlowe,"

    as did the publisher Edward Blount in his dedication
    of Hero and Leander to Sir Thomas Walsingham.>> ---------------------------------------------------- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hero_and_Leander_(poem)

    <<Two editions of Christopher Marlowe's _Hero and Leander_ were issued in quarto in 1598; one, printed by Adam Islip for the bookseller Edward Blount, contained only Marlowe's original, while the other, printed by Felix Kingston for Paul Linley, included
    both the original and Chapman's continuation. In Bartholomew Fair, Ben Jonson lampoons the poem in the fair's puppet show; his Hellespont is the Thames, and his Leander is a DYER's son in Puddle-wharf. Hero and Leander is also the only identifiable work
    of a contemporary writer quoted in any of the plays of William Shakespeare, specifically in As You Like It.>>
    ...........................................................
    . As You Like It Act 4, Scene 1
    .
    ROSALIND: No faith, die by Attorney: the poore world is
    . almost six thousand yeeres old, and in all this time there
    . was not anie man died in his owne person (videlicet) in
    . a loue cause: Troilous had his braines dash'd out with a
    . Grecian club, yet he did what hee could to die before,
    . and he is one of the patternes of loue. Leander, he would
    . haue liu'd manie a faire yeere though (HERO) had turn'd
    . Nun; if it had not bin for a hot Midsomer-night, for
    . (good youth) he went but forth to wash him in the Hel-
    . lespont, and being taken with the crampe, was droun'd,
    . and the foolish Chronoclers of that age, found it was
    . Hero of Cestos. But these are all lies, men haue died
    . from time to time, and wormes haue eaten them,
    . but not for loue. -------------------------------------------------------------
    . Venus and Adonis (Quarto 1, *1593*)
    . Lines 1171 - 1180
    .
    . She bowes her head, the new-sprong floure to smel,
    . Comparing it to her Adonis breath,
    . And saies within her bosome it shall dwell,
    . Since he himselfe is reft from h[E]r by death;
    . She crop's the stalke, and in the breac[H] appeares,
    . Green-dropping sap, which she copare[S] to teares.
    . Poore floure (quoth she) this was thy f[A]thers guise,
    . Sweet issue of a more sweet smelli[N]g sire,
    . For euerie little griefe to wet his eies,
    .[T]o grow vnto himselfe was his desire;
    . And so tis thine, but know it is as good,
    . To wither in my brest, as in his blood. ...............................................
    . . . . . . <= 39 =>
    .
    . Shebowesher .h. eadthenewsprongflouretosmel
    . Comparingit .t. oherAdonisbreathAndsaieswit
    . hinherbosom .e. itshalldwellSincehehimselfe
    . isreftfromh [E] rbydeathShecropsthestalkean
    . dinthebreac [H] appearesGreendroppingsapwhi
    . chshecopare [S] totearesPooreflourequothshe
    . thiswasthyf [A] thersguiseSweetissueofamore
    . sweetsmelli [N] gsireForeuerielittlegriefet
    . owethiseies [T] ogrowvntohimselfewashisdesi
    . reAndsotist .h. inebutknowitisasgoodTowithe
    . rinmybresta .s. inhisblood

    [T.NASHE] -39
    ...............................................
    Here was thy fathers bed, here in my brest,
    Thou art the next of blood, and tis thy right.
    Lo in this hollow cradle take thy rest,
    My throbbing hart shall rock thee day and night;
    There shall not be one minute in an houre,
    Wherein I wil not kisse my sweet loues floure.
    Thus weary of the world, away she hies,
    And yokes her siluer doues, by whose swift aide,
    Their mistresse mounted through the emptie skies,
    In her light chariot, quickly is conuaide,
    Holding their course to Paphos, where their queen,
    Meanes to immure her selfe, and not beseen.

    FINIS
    --------------------------------------------------
    HERO AND LEANDER:

    Begun by Christopher Marloe;
    and finished by George Chapman.

    Vt Nectar, Ingenium.

    Printed by Felix Kingston, for Paule Linley,
    and are to be solde in Paules Church-yard,
    at the signe of the Blacke-beare. 1598. -----------------------------------------------------
    She saw him, and the sight was much much more,
    Then might haue seru'd to kill her; should her store
    Of giant sorrowes speake? Burst, d{Y}e, bleede,
    And leaue poor{E} plaints to vs that sha(L|L} succeede.
    She fell on h(E|R} loues bosome, hugg'd it (F|A}st,
    And with Leanders *NA{M}E* she breath'd her last. -------------------------------------------------------
    Start of last 13 couplets of Chapman's _Hero and Leander_
    .
    . . . . . . <= 20 =>
    .
    . B u r s t, d {Y} e,b l e e d e,A n d l e a
    . v e p o o .r {E} p l a i n t s t o u s t h
    . a t s h a (L){L} s u c c e e d e.S h e f e
    . l l o n h (E){R} l o v e s b o s o m e,h u
    . g g'd i t (F){A} s t,A n d w i t h L e a n
    . d e r s n .a {M} e s h e b r e a t h'd h e
    . r l a s t.
    .
    {MARLEY} -20 : Prob. [near end of either part] ~1 in 10,000 ------------------------------------------------------------
    Neptune for pittie in his armes did take them,
    Flung them into the ayre, and did awake them.
    Like two sweet birds surnam'd th'Acanthides,
    Which we call Thistle-warps, that neere no Seas
    Dare euer come, but still in couples flie,
    And feede on Thistle tops, to testifie
    The hardnes of their first life in their last:
    The first in thornes of loue, and sorrowes past,
    And so most beautifull their colours show,
    As none (so little) like them: her sad brow
    A sable veluet feather couers quite,
    Euen like the forehead cloths that in the night,
    Or when they sorrow, Ladies vse to weare:
    Their wings, blew, red and yellow mixt appeare,
    Colours, that as we construe colours paint
    Their states to life; the yellow shewes their saint,
    The deuill Venus left them; blew their truth,
    The red and black, ensignes of death and ruth.
    And this true honor from their loue-deaths sprung,
    They were the first that euer Poet sung.

    FINIS.
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    Art Neuendorffer

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