The daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1848-1851, 1851-02-04
: An Hours Chat with the Old Poets.

A CASE FOR ANTIQUARIEs.-Shaks says
Hamiet Thrift ah HGsa 4, the funeral baked meats
Middleton says:
mary that for the funeral will for the weddng
1t is extremely difficult to determine the dates Of
the plays of Shakespeare and his contemporaries
but the better opinion is, that Middletons "Game at
Chess" was acted before "Hamlet" So too, with the
witch scenes in Macbeth, and "The WITCH the
weight Of testimony is in favor of Middleton. At
that PERIOD the poets do not seem to have been so
tenacious Of their rights as in later times. There
existed almost community Of goods. Spenser
borrowed from Chaucer, and Fletcher from Spen-
ser.
"And many foite and lyetlins horne.
As have these little herd gromes.
That kepen bests in the bromes.
"Soloytering live you, little herd grooms
Keeping your beasts In the budded brooms.'
Spens1.
"s9r all your shepherd. from the lazy clowns.
That feed their heiers in the budded brooms''
Fletcher. |
They were in the habit of composing plays to- |
gether; Beaumont IL Fletcher was the most ex- |
tensive partnership, but Massinger and Fletcher
wrote in company, and were buried in the same
grave. There seems to have been no boarding OF |
honors Some critic has said of Coleridge that he
treated his thoughts ostrich does its eggs, |
leaving them to the care of chance. The same re- |
mark may well be applied to the Elizabethean
poets. Milton did not hesitate TO borrow from his
elders Middleton says:
Ss SsS Oss s lips the If .esh buds Of YOUTH
brept TOM he sys vel q . as' morn.
Upon the bashiul rose."
Milton copies:
| Together both, ere the high lawns appeared
Under the opening eyelids Of the morn.''
The Game at Cheese from which the lines are
.noitiGal south. in the form Of an ale:
| eli issued their commands, for time prohibiting
Inc performances of all plays by the company. But
| aiter some weeks, the King graciously permitted
| them to reopen. But as for this of the Game AT
chesse' That It be not only antquated and sylenced
out the players bound as formerly they were, and
IN that point onely never to act it agayne" II was
performed just after the return of Prince Cbarles
from his unsuccessful wooing of the Infanta. wber
the popular feeling was aroused against Snain |
1t had great run for that time, Q623) being ner-
formed "nyne dayse," and brought in fiveteene
hundred pounde." 1t has been "antiouaed and
sylenced" by a fiat more powerful than the Star
Chamber decree. 1t is difficult 10 conceive how
such piece could ever have been tolerated for a
single night. Patience, however, is virtue cult
waited by "a game at cheese" even now. 1t is
mortlfylng fact, that the most famous satires of
ther DAY. have either been forgotten, or at least
nave lost their point. Rabelais is still read. but
intquaries dispute to the persons intended to be
III. Swift's satires are now read by children.
without the slightest idea Of the authors intention.
IND the :" Game at Chesse," which disturbed the .
ropriety OF the naughty and proud Court of Spain
nd even brought down reproach and scandal on d
,ngand, is too dull for any body to read. a
We must close this hasty visit, with the Gnas CO a
fian alIndad tn 6 T | II
avaler in the true sense of the word-nohls IL
andsome, accomplished, brave. He was as a
sariessy brave as knight Grant SO handsome p
person, that he could not appear without in. a
piring admiration polished courtier; an ella. n
ami scholar; and, to crown all, a lover and 4
oet." . C
When the civil wars broke out, he ioined tho e
rmy of the King. The lines he wrote his he. tt
hrothed are those referred to-: b
TO LUCAsTA. p
Tel me not, sweet am unkind a
M F ,hn rom from ne nunneIy
To war and arms fy. sN''' '''"u
T1ne, new mistress now chase b.
The first foe in the field; d
Ard with a stronger faith embrace hi
"A s"oru' a horse a shield
Yet, this Inconsistency is such lg'
could could not love thee. dear, 30 much, s.
1t might be we'll supposed that his MISTRESS would
ave proved constant. But at the siege Of nun- "a
ifk he was severely wounded, and his death was IN
eported IN England. The young lady, with most
wicked haste, married another. Lovelace returned ly
London with the remains of fortune expended ci
Of the King, and wandered about the ci,u tn
penury and obscurity, dissipatng his scan,v "a OF
puiees IN riot with his brother cavaliers. In Nj
!, Time this idol of women and envy of mem al
no oeuu''iui' brave, high born and ACCOMPLISHED re
worst ROOM" '''' ihh =,
poc's VI 'na' age are comparatively but little | W
shu OF inns country. Hazltt and el
",,'O anu oiioro nave done much to restore them
: N' sene,a' circulation The Retrospective Re. ~
e"' winch reached some sixteen volumes. was -,
" 'ne restoration OF the decayed monu. T,
neh's Oh oid English worthless. This work is sol -
% met win IN TINS sountry. The folio editions l.
tue Dfamausts, with their obsolete orthograpbv Il
re heia at high price But recently Moxon. of h,
'ondon' has published handsome, yet cheap editions -
'hich are to be met with in the bookstores Sev IL
raj years since the Harpers commenced sers. II
'iied the Family Dramatic Library, which ceased q,
18th the works of Massinger and of Ford Tbs /,
ork should be continued. If Putnam would EN-. :,
oy suitable editor and primer, and publish the N
d English Dramatists in his usual style, we are
'nndent he would find it good speculation, and at
Ne same time open to large class of readers, books
ow excluded by their occasional Questionable c.
Genes and language.
/, ne fARiFF.-Some of our democratic readers %
~. ~ ouf advocacy Of the proposed change,
a ~. oy oan q wing measure. Whitfield adapt
M ~" hymns TO the popular airs of the day. T
M eoho Vi MS more strict and formal diec;pIss FIR,