However, according to David Bevington, 'the attribution remains uncertain'. The Wonder of Shakespeare One who reads a few of Shakespeare's great plays and then the meager story of his life is generally filled with a vague wonder. Which their fond dotage ever more admires. Of what he was, then shall his virtues grow. ", And hope must in despite of fearful change. As he was both an husband and a father. As, had it chanced, thou mightst have done to me. A FUNERAL ELEGY Since Time, and his predestinated end, Abridg'd the circuit of his hopeful days, Whiles both his Youth and Virtue did intend The good endeavors of deserving praise, 5 What memorable monument can last Whereon to build his never-blemsh'd name But his own worth, wherein his life was grac'd-- His taintless goodness, his desertful merit. sake I will not forget to remember any friendly respects to you, or to any Those noble twins of heaven-infused races. . With joint assistance to grace one another, But since the sum of all that can be said, Can be but said that "He was good" (which wholly. Can merit praise, then justly may we say. privilege of truth, who can warrant more in his behalf than I undertook to Until which end, there is none rightly can. Look hither then, you that enjoy the youth, Of your best days, and see how unexpected. To give fit cause, ere love begin to end: His unfeigned friendship where it least was sought. When those weak houses of our brittle flesh. When sin shall tread on merit in the dust, Remembering what he was, with comfort then. Donald Foster. 0.4. Yet here on earth thy fame lives ever whole, In every heart sealed up, in every tongue, Fit matter to discourse, no day prevented. (1612) was. All to their joys in quiet on their beds, Of torture and affliction ere they gained. Do feel the greatest loss they could have had. “I have heard something about it,” Sherlock Holmes replied. Which, by a life well led, may honor have? Whence, when he falls, who did erewhile aspire, But virtues and perfections in our powers, Against th' assault of death, who to relieve him. TO MASTER JOHN PETER 0.1. of Bowhay in Devon, Esquire. (William Shakespeare?) So that he dies but once, but doubly lives. But his own worth, wherein his life was graced. This is Shakespeare for a funeral that reflects on facing death with courage. Then why should he, Those saints before the everlasting throne. While thou hadst life; I took this task upon me. . As they will all go weeping to their beds. And limn thee to the world but as thou wert. That gave peace to his bread, bread to his health; Which ever he maintained in sweet content, For in the vineyard of heaven-favored learning. To speak the language of a servile breath. His due deserts, this sentence on him gives, "He died in life, yet in his death he lives.". Cast down, and utterly decayed at length; When all shall turn to dust from whence we came. And right the hopes of my endangered youth. I am herein but a second to the privilege of truth, who can warrant more in his behalf than I undertook to deliver. For should he lie obscured without a tomb. Tributes to the great actor poured from the pens of good writers whose words he had made even better. Yet time, the father of unblushing truth. Whiles hope remains of gain (base fee of slaves). 1775] Salem Printed and sold by E. Russell Created / Published Boston, 1775. Of his short-lived deserts; but still they must, Claim fit respect, that they, in every limb, Remembering what he was, with comfort then. A Funeral Elegyliminally within a peculiarly Donnean moment, the creation of a new form of English elegy. Are in themselves but heathenish and profaned, And much more peaceful is a mean condition. deliver. My truth stole from my tongue into my heart. Though not in eminent courts or places great, Where he enjoyed his birth, life, death, and seat. Remembrance of their worth we may preserve. Of hell, even in the triumph that it stood: He thus, for that his guiltless life was spilt. W[illiam] S[hakespeare], "A Funeral Elegy for Master William Peter," That lives encompassed in a mortal frame. He well provided 'gainst the hand of need. Whereto the world and heat of sin entices. For when the world lies wintered in the storms. Excerpt from "A Funeral Elegy", lines 492-50 On January 25th, 1612 a certain William Peter is said to have been murdered by a stab in the (rear)head. His due deserts, this sentence on him gives, Those perfect graces which were ever wont, From which detained, and banished in th' exile. Pity it was that blood had not been prized. By vain conceit, to please such ones as know it. Shakespeare's only elegiac poem -- if A Funeral Elegyis indeed Shakespeare's -- is a work probably indebted to Donne's mourning poems, yet, more certainly, it is Which, underneath the roof of safe content, Feeds on the bread of rest, and takes delight. Their name by doing what they do not care). Drive me beyond myself, fast friend, soon lost. Where once it was protested, alway sound. Shall speak for him when he shall lie below; Of what he was, then shall his virtues grow. But death to such gives unremembered graves. It was, for a short time in the late 1990s, thought to have been written by Shakespeare. A life free from such stains as follies are, Nor can the tongue of him who loved him least, Of thankfulness and kindness: Truth doth leave, The curious eye of a quick-brained survey, Of his too-shortened days, or make a prey, Not that he was above the spleenful sense. Although I could not learn, whiles yet thou wert. 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