 | Helen Gardner - 1967 - 340 ページ
...Lover ? Prithee why so pale ? Will, when looking well can't move her, Looking ill prevaile ? Primee why so pale ? Why so dull and mute young Sinner ?...Will, when speaking well can't win her, Saying nothing doo't ? Prithee why so mute ? Quit, quit, for shame, this will not move, This will not take her ; If... | |
 | Jon Stallworthy - 1986 - 422 ページ
...jealousy and doubt, The blaze grows greater, but 'tis sooner out. Sir "John Suckling SONG Why so pale and wan, fond lover ? Prithee, why so pale ? Will, when...move her, Looking ill prevail ? Prithee, why so pale? SUCKLING • CONNOR Why so dull and mute, young sinner? Prithee, why so mute ? Will, when speaking... | |
 | Edith P. Hazen - 1992 - 1172 ページ
...RHPC SIR JOHN SUCKLING (1609-1642) Aglaura \ Why so pale and wan, fond lover Prithee, why so pale? 2 f u v 3 Quit, quit, for shame; this will not move. This cannot take her. If of herself she will not love,... | |
 | Steven H. Gale - 1996 - 690 ページ
...Prithee, why so pale?" But the next lines turn to mockery, revealing an altogether different attitude: "Will, when looking well can't move her, / Looking ill prevail? / Prithee, why so pale?" By poem's end, the singer unleashes the full force of derision: Quit, quit, for shame; this will not... | |
 | William Gerber - 1998 - 148 ページ
...lover, which urges him to quit his futile attachment. The speech reads, in part: (127) Why so pale and wan, fond lover? Prithee, why so pale? Will, when...move her, Looking ill prevail? Prithee, why so pale? Quit, quit for shame! This will not move. This cannot take her; If of herself she will not love, Nothing... | |
 | William Harmon - 1998 - 386 ページ
...stanza from Sir John Suckling's "Why So Pale and Wan, Fond Lover?" is rhymed ababb: Why so pale and wan, fond lover? Prithee, why so pale? Will, when...move her, Looking ill prevail? Prithee, why so pale? Rhyme royal: Stanza of seven lines of iambic pentameter, rhyming ctbabbcc, as in Sir Thomas Wyatt's... | |
 | Merrill Markoe - 1998 - 192 ページ
...subject. For instance, when the poet Sir John Suckling (his real name; 1609-1642) wrote: Why so pale and wan, fond lover Prithee why so pale Will when looking well can't move her Looking ill prevail we hear a poet sharing the kind of brilliant strategy that could only have been devised by a man who,... | |
 | Joseph Twadell Shipley - 2001 - 688 ページ
...affectation of the time (see pela)- a song that advises a victim of the Platonic snub: Why so pale and wan, fond lover, Prithee, why so pale? Will, when...move her, Looking ill prevail? Prithee, why so pale? . . . Quit, quit for shame, this will not move; This cannot take her. If of herself she cannot love,... | |
 | Peter Wild, Donald A. Barclay, James H. Maguire - 2001 - 294 ページ
...melancholy. We tried to console him with some lines written 200 years ago, and offered them as a specific. Quit, Quit, for shame; this will not move This cannot take her If of herself she will not love Nothing will make her; — The devil take her! Now ordinarily, he was fond of both poetry and music, witness... | |
 | Theocritus Junior - 2003 - 281 ページ
...beautiful song descriptive of the waywardness and wilfulness of love. " Why so pale and wan, fond Lover ? Why so dull and mute, young Sinner ? Prithee why so...speaking well can't win her, Saying nothing do't? Quit, quit for shame, this will not move, This cannot take her; If of herself she will not love, Nothing... | |
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Why so pale and wan, fond lover? Prithee, why so pale? Will, when looking well can't move her, Looking ill prevail? Prithee, why so pale? 
