Renaissance Drama — Topics · seed 42

Il Pastor Fido, or The Faithful Shepherd

Dymoke, Tailboys / Guarini, Giovanni Battista, published 1602 · pastoral · Translation;Nonprofessional;Closet/Unacted

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TitleIl Pastor Fido, or The Faithful Shepherd
AuthorDymoke, Tailboys / Guarini, Giovanni Battista
Publication year (edition)1602
Genre (British Drama)pastoral
Genre group (comparison)pastoral — from the British Drama label · Annals: pastoral
Play typeTranslation;Nonprofessional;Closet/Unacted
Work / edition / TCP / DEEPwork 183 · edition 416 · TCP A02284 · DEEP 323
Edition roleRepresentative edition — used in the analysis
First performance / composition (Annals)1601
First performance (BritDrama)1601 [1590-1601]
PrinterCreede, Thomas
PublisherWaterson, Simon
FormatQuarto
STC12415
Greg183a
Genre (Annals)Pastoral
Genre (BritDrama)Pastoral
BritDrama no.1298
Title pageIL PASTOR FIDO: OR The faithfull Shepheard.
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10–69547unassignedGO you that have enclosed the dreadful beast, And give the sign that's usual to our hunting, Go swell your eye…
270–132521T4 Love-longing and the lover's complaint0.69Linco, I swear a thousand Nymphs I'll give For one poor beast that my Melampo kills: Let them that have a bett…
3133–195500T20 Hercules: labours, suffering and virtue0.82I am a man, and human me esteem, With thee a man, or rather shouldst be so, I speak of human things. Which if …
4196–261527unassignedLove (dear Mirtillo) 's like a fire enclosed, Which straightly kept, more fiercely flames at last, Thou should…
5262–329511unassignedFor that the heavens the health of Arcady Do promise at these nuptials. Know you not How we do still appease o…
6330–395505unassignedFalling a sacrifice upon the sacrifice. At such a strange and cruel spectacle, The Nymph amazed stand twixt li…
7396–458501T4 Love-longing and the lover's complaint0.84This cruel love (Mirtillo) feeds himself With tears, and grief, but's never satisfied. I promise thee to set m…
8459–521498T4 Love-longing and the lover's complaint0.73To mitigate this amorous furious rage? Whilst other women have a heap of loves, I have no other but Mirtillo o…
9522–582508unassignedSO help me Gods, I know I now do speak To one that understands more than I do. These Oracles are still more do…
10583–644507unassignedWho can guess otherwise? and I remember now, You told me of this your mishap before: A memorable misadventure …
11645–706512T4 Love-longing and the lover's complaint0.78To scorch her sides, and burn her dainty seat, Then ere Sunset, discoloured she falls, And nothing worth upon …
12707–767514unassignedHow ever love be in his nature good, With them his goodness suddenly he loseth. They never suffer him to touch…
13768–849557unassignedOh high and puissant law writ, rather borne Within loves mighty breast, Whose ever sweat and lovely loving for…
14850–911478T4 Love-longing and the lover's complaint0.70HOw I have searched alongst the rivers side, About the meadows, fountains, and the hills, To find thee out: wh…
15912–969464T11 Siblings, kin and confidants0.73Oh in our breasts what mighty power hath love? there's none can tell, save they the same which prove See how i…
16970–1031470T4 Love-longing and the lover's complaint0.71Yea sweet, But yet not gracious, for it wanted still The better part: love gave it, but love not Returned it b…
171032–1095466unassignedMy not-foreseene departure, and o'ercome With grief, fell sick nigh hand to death, Whereby I was constrained t…
181096–1158479unassignedI fair good Silvio? can you call me fair? That am not fair a whit unto your eyes. Or fair or soul, did you not…
191159–1230471T4 Love-longing and the lover's complaint0.74If in thy face I look (oh lovely boy) Then is this love a paradise of joy. But if I turn and view my spirit we…
201231–1287482unassignedMy cruel Silvio, I am that same Do Without pursuit or conquest taken so. Quick if thou pleasest to accept of m…
211288–1349477T37 Riches, poverty and covetousness0.82Dear blessed woods, and you the silent groves Of rest and peace, the harbour-houses true: How willingly I turn…
221350–1414482unassignedMost certain true. Do not you know thereof? I know I promised was, But know not that the marriage is so near. …
231415–1485502unassignedTrust me you cannot faithful Mirtillo. You know there is not at this day a swain For value, honest troth and b…
241486–1547484unassignedO I am dead, And I alive? Ah turn My Amarillis, turn again, I taken am. Tush Amarillis hears thee not, be quie…
251548–1619482unassignedThe wretch hath almost moved me, should I but trust Affection only I were overcome. But to be short, I will no…
261620–1683472T4 Love-longing and the lover's complaint0.76Great was her fault and error sure, That did occasion all our teen: Who loves great laws holy and pure (Breaki…
271684–1744477T4 Love-longing and the lover's complaint0.72The memory of any good that wastes, Consumes itself as th'other is consumed. But if my hopes be not as is thei…
281745–1807472unassignedBut ye play too far off, ye should touch me. O mighty Gods! what do I see? am I In heaven or earth? youhave no…
291808–1875497T4 Love-longing and the lover's complaint0.80So now I know Corisca are you not? 'tis so you are so great and have no hair, I could have wished no better ma…
301876–1934511unassignedAh Nymph that which I have already said, Is but a drop of that huge ample sea Of my complaints, if not for pit…
311935–1999521unassignedIf I as well to answer as to hear, You pronused had, just cause you might have found To have condemned my sile…
322000–2066522T4 Love-longing and the lover's complaint0.78I after love hath quite consumed my life. Why then your wounds will not be cured at all? Never till death. Til…
332067–2137548unassignedI all have heard, Be not afraid, did I not say I loved you, And yet you are afraid? and hides yourself From he…
342138–2203503unassignedThou speakest this (Corisca) me to try, Not as thou think'st I am sure. But be assured Except thou showest som…
352204–2267514T21 Cupid, Venus and the nymphs0.69What matter's that? Think you Montanus dare His private to a public good compare? Then closing up mine eyes, I…
362268–2327494unassignedEre I change will or thought, changed must my life Be into death, for though the beauteous Amarillis Be most c…
372328–2391537T4 Love-longing and the lover's complaint0.80For aught that I can see you never tried Love but in cruel moods, but in disdain. Oh if you had but proved him…
382392–2457544unassignedOh if I do, Straight shall you see my miserable end. Live wretched man, live and revenged be. Oh no it is not …
392458–2521537T1 Death, grief and revenge0.81Hath ta'ned away, and giu'ned an other man: Yet wretch thou liv'st, thou dost not die. O die Mirtillo, die to …
402522–2586522T1 Death, grief and revenge0.71DOth this man than believe Corisea, following her steps Into the Cave of Eri●●a●. Well, he's mad, He knows her…
412587–2651520unassignedIf it do sigh or speak, 'tis like the wrath Of an enraged Lion that would fight: And not the skies alone but e…
422652–2707468unassignedLInco, I am assured thou know'st me not. Who would have thought that in these rusty rags Gentle Dorinda had be…
432708–2770470unassignedOh desperate Silvio! Oh cruel Boy! What didst thou then? Disdaind'st thou not his deed? As if the heat of his …
442771–2836477unassignedI do not know, because I came away For fear of being seen: But I believe That solemnly they mean to carry it U…
452837–2906512unassignedThis day betime you know Montanus came, With th'hapless father of the wretched Nymph, Both by one self devotio…
462907–2974518unassignedNOw crown my temples with triumphant Bays, Victorious ten bless, this day happily I combated have in the field…
472975–3038501unassignedI have not broke The Law, and I am innocent. Thou hast not broke The law of Nature happily (Love if thou likes…
483039–3097484unassignedO cruel sentence, whether writ in heaven Or earth? In heaven it is not writ, For there mine innocency is known…
493098–3157473unassignedO glorious child, by whom the fertile plains, Deprived of till age, have their good regains: Now may the Ploug…
503158–3224534unassignedO Goddess, that no Goddess art, but of An idle people, blind and vain: who with Impurest minds and fond Religi…
513225–3293537T1 Death, grief and revenge0.84These marvels must be done: but where?— hear. O fool, and I am gone, how thou art loaden with Wit-robbing Grap…
523294–3355530T1 Death, grief and revenge0.78See where he is, with countenance him accusing. Now heavens be praised, you're at good pass, With this your bo…
533356–3419503unassignedSilvio, I wound that breast? thou hadst not need Let it be naked to mine eyes, if thou desirdst I should it wo…
543420–3492498T19 Virtue, Fortune and Vice as abstractions0.82Tell me Dorinda, doth thy wound still prick? It doth; but in thine arms my lovely treasure, I hold e'en pricki…
553493–3557519unassignedTrue (good Vranio) I by proof can tell, That young, did leave my father's house, and sought Strange places out…
563558–3625528T19 Virtue, Fortune and Vice as abstractions0.83Who would have thought t'have waxed poor in gold I thought t'have found in royal Paliaces People of more human…
573626–3686453unassignedIf dead he be not, or that through the air No winds have carried him, him might I find: But see him now, when …
583687–3749497unassignedNow hear a miracle: She that before so fearful was to die, Changed on the sudden by Mirtilloes words, Thus ans…
593750–3812493unassignedYea sacred Priests, the Altars ready make, shepherds devout, reiterate your sounds, And call upon the name of …
603813–3887512unassignedIf I be not deceived, I see a thing that by his back seemeth a man: He kneels: he is perhaps the holocaust. O …
613888–3952504unassignedIf thou a father wert? I am a father man, A tender father of an only son: Yet were this same, my Siluioes' hea…
623953–4026504unassignedIs he thy son? he is no Stranger then: If not, thou hast no part at all in him: Father or not, thus thou convi…
634027–4096501unassignedHim whom you talk withal he did not only seem, But 'tis the same, who though't be twenty years ago, Hath not a…
644097–4153472unassignedArt thou Mirtilloes father then? how lost you him? The deluge ravished him, whom when I lost, I left more safe…
654154–4214480unassignedWretched old man, as greater flames do dim The lesser lights, even so the sorrow I Do of thy grief conceive, h…
664215–4276473unassignedIs this the child the flood so bare away? The very same. And for this then dost thou Montanus call thyself a w…
674277–4342459unassignedTirenio hath waked such joy in me United yet with such a miracle As I scarce feel I joy, nor can my soul Confo…
684343–4405516T3 Sickness, physic and doctors0.68From top to toe i'll tell the wondrous cure. About the wounded Nymph stood men and women, Each with a ready ha…
694406–4473528unassignedNow Amarillis hath resigned her life, I will go see what dear Mirtillo doth. O day of wonders, day all love, a…
704474–4535484T4 Love-longing and the lover's complaint0.71Yes, yes, Argasto, see how glad I am. O hadst thou seen but Amarillis when She gave Mirtill her hand for pledg…
714536–4603486unassignedCome holy Hymeneus, etc. Why tris●est thou Coriscal? now's fit time impetrate, fear'st thou thy pain? Beheld, …