不死鳥と雉鳩

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The Phoenix and the Turtle1[1][2]

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1601Robert ChesterLove's Martyr

Love's Martyr: or Rosalins Complaint. Allegorically shadowing the truth of Loue, in the constant Fate of the Phoenix and Turtle. A Poeme enterlaced with much varietie and raritie; now first translated out of the venerable Italian Torquato Caeliano, by Robert Chester. With the true legend of famous King Arthur the last of the nine Worthies, being the first Essay of a new Brytish Poet: collected out of diuerse Authenticall Records. To these are added some new compositions of seuerall moderne Writers whose names are subscribed to their seuerall workes, vpon the first subiect viz. the Phoenix and Turtle.  Torquato CaelianoNine Worthies

turtle

Phoenix of beautie, beauteous, Bird of any
To thee I do entitle all my labour,
More precious in mine eye by far then many
That feedst all earthly sences with thy savour:
Accept my home-writ praises of thy loue,
And kind acceptance of thy Turtle-doue


George ChapmanJohn MarstonVatum ChorusIgnoto使

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The Phoenix and the Turtle

Let the bird of loudest lay,
On the sole Arabian tree,
Herald sad and trumpet be,
To whose sound chaste wings obey.

But thou, shrieking harbinger,
Foul pre-currer of the fiend,
Augur of the fever's end,
To this troop come thou not near.

From this session interdict
Every fowl of tyrant wing,
Save the eagle, feather'd king:
Keep the obsequy so strict.

Let the priest in surplice white,
That defunctive music can,
Be the death-divining swan,
Lest the requiem lack his right.

And thou, treble-dated crow,
That thy sable gender mak'st
With the breath thou giv'st and tak'st,
'Mongst our mourners shalt thou go.

Here the anthem doth commence:
Love and constancy is dead;
Phoenix and the turtle fled
In a mutual flame from hence.

So they lov'd, as love in twain
Had the essence but in one;
Two distincts, division none:
Number there in love was slain.

Hearts remote, yet not asunder;
Distance, and no space was seen
'Twixt the turtle and his queen;
But in them it were a wonder.

So between them love did shine,
That the turtle saw his right
Flaming in the phoenix' sight:
Either was the other's mine.

Property was thus appall'd,
That the self was not the same;
Single nature's double name
Neither two nor one was call'd.

Reason, in itself confounded,
Saw division grow together;
To themselves yet either-neither,
Simple were so well compounded

That it cried how true a twain
Seemeth this concordant one!
Love hath reason, reason none
If what parts can so remain.

Whereupon it made this threne
To the phoenix and the dove,
Co-supreme and stars of love;
As chorus to their tragic scene.

THRENOS.

Beauty, truth, and rarity.
Grace in all simplicity,
Here enclos'd in cinders lie.

Death is now the phoenix' nest;
And the turtle's loyal breast
To eternity doth rest,

Leaving no posterity:--
'Twas not their infirmity,
It was married chastity.

Truth may seem, but cannot be:
Beauty brag, but 'tis not she;
Truth and beauty buried be.

To this urn let those repair
That are either true or fair;
For these dead birds sigh a prayer.

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[3]Parlement of Foules


John and Ursula Salusbury[]


Sir John SalusburyUrsula StanleySalusbury1Salusbury family10Salusbury1913[4]

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121878AB1965[5]11601[6]

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Clare AsquithRobert SouthwellHenry Walpole[7]

1601Anne Line[8][9]

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Anthony Shirley11[10]bird of loudest layHenry Garnet

脚注[編集]

  1. ^ Oxford Anthology of Literature of Renaissance England, J. Holander, F. Kermode (eds), OUP, 1973, p.424.
  2. ^ Cheney, Patrick Gerard The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare's Poetry, Cambridge University Press, 2007, p117
  3. ^ Zezmer, D.M., Guide to Shakespeare, 1976, New York, p.88
  4. ^ Poems by Sir John Salusbury and Robert Chester by Carleton Brown.
  5. ^ "The Phoenix and the Turtle: Shakespeare's Poem and Chester's Loues Martyr" by William H. Matchett; reviewed by Thomas P. Harrison, Modern Philology, Vol. 64, No. 2 (Nov., 1966), pp. 155-157.
  6. ^ John Finnis and Patrick Martin, "Another turn for the Turtle", The Times, April 18, 2003
  7. ^ Asquith, Clare, Shakespeare Newsletter, 50, 2001.
  8. ^ Times Literary Supplement, April 18, 2003, p.12-14
  9. ^ BBC page: Shakespeare and Anne Line
  10. ^ Hildegard Hammerschmidt-Hummel, William Shakespeare—Seine Zeit—Sein Leben—Sein Werk (Mainz: von Zabern, 2003

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