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Sicelides (The Sicilians)

Fletcher, Phineas, published 1631 · pastoral · University/Inns of Court;Nonprofessional

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TitleSicelides (The Sicilians)
AuthorFletcher, Phineas
Publication year (edition)1631
Genre (British Drama)pastoral
Genre group (comparison)pastoral — from the British Drama label · Annals: piscatory
Play typeUniversity/Inns of Court;Nonprofessional
Work / edition / TCP / DEEPwork 443 · edition 957 · TCP A00979 · DEEP 768
Edition roleRepresentative edition — used in the analysis
First performance / composition (Annals)1615 [Mar 13]
First performance (BritDrama)1615 [Mar]
Theaterat University;
PrinterNorton, John (2)
PublisherSheares, William (1)
FormatQuarto
STC11083
Greg443a
Genre (Annals)Piscatory
Genre (BritDrama)Pastoral
BritDrama no.1771
Title pageSICELIDES A PISCATORY,
Title-page performance noteAs it hath beene Acted in Kings Colledge, in Cambridge.
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10–60496unassignedBEgin, thou royal Muse, Envy ne'er uses, o dwell in gentle Courts, or sacred Muses: To beg of them that common…
261–132534unassignedVain fear when th' Oracle doth promise good; The heaven's decrees by chance were near withstood. You fear with…
3133–202515unassignedThou counselst well, Grief weary of itself, all sense depriving. Felt neither sense, nor grief, by overgrievin…
4203–266516unassignedAh my Olinda who can pity thee That wouldst not pity th' excellent Thalander. 'Tis just ye seas well doth impa…
5267–324475unassignedThe fruit of jealousy is ever cursed, But when 'tis grafted in a crab 'tis worst. Bad in a man, but monstrous …
6325–385473unassignedShortly to come toth' height of all their wrong, So could this Mago fill his smoothest tongue, That she Thalan…
7386–439467T4 Love-longing and the lover's complaint0.73Some for their bashfulness, more for their boldness, The wiseman for his silence, the fool for his bibble babb…
8440–498484T4 Love-longing and the lover's complaint0.63ay, I am silver white so is thy check Yet who for whiteness will condemn it? If wrinkled, of thy forehead is n…
9499–561480T20 Hercules: labours, suffering and virtue0.79Is't good ah tell me, yet my grounded fear Pleads hope impossible. Were you away To the Echo I had told it, as…
10562–609548T4 Love-longing and the lover's complaint0.76Perindus then mightst thou have seen how love Is not more bold than fearful, he that strove And conquered such…
11610–651534unassigneday but I wonder that in all thy Poems thou never mad'st an Epitaph for thy grandsire that was eaten up by the …
12652–698532unassignedO the ork the huge huntie-puntie. Up cancrone I tell thee we have scaped him. I tell thee Sirocca we have not …
13699–770525unassignedWhen the seas and tempest roar You either sleep or pipe or play And dance along the golden shore Thus you spen…
14771–838504T4 Love-longing and the lover's complaint0.78Fa, la, la, fa, la, la, lah. Ah me most miserable. Ah me most miserable Wretched Glaucilla, where hast thou se…
15839–898493unassignedYet happier he that's slain by loves defying Then she in fate that lives yet ever dying But soon as love he na…
16899–961507T4 Love-longing and the lover's complaint0.87Olinda, know'st not yet the treachery Of Cosma, she thy greatest enemy? Prithee let me see't: shouldst thou th…
17962–1018509unassignedFail not within this hour: I know not what this old man's like, unless Our hill of Sicily the flaming AEtna: W…
181019–1055501unassignedHow canst thou assure it? Trust me I'll procure it; Else never more let me see golden stars. I'll try thee boy…
191056–1086500T21 Cupid, Venus and the nymphs0.87O doughty loves! here's more game for my mistress's net, or rather for mine. Nothing but Venus' smock or Cupid…
201087–1130494T4 Love-longing and the lover's complaint0.71First you must anagrammatise her name, then sympathize your own. Tize, zize, thize. I shall ne'er hit that. Fo…
211131–1187472T4 Love-longing and the lover's complaint0.82I can but smile to think how foolish wise Those women are, that choose their loves for wisdom. Wisdom in men's…
221188–1255513unassignedIf thou seest Atyches, send him hither friend; Of all the plagues that torture souls in hell, Tantal, thy puni…
231256–1318516unassignedSo thou art well, but still my better part, Perindus, sinks all loaden with his smart: So thou my finger cut's…
241319–1378478unassignedHa: this is he, I'll stand and overhear him. So: I am alone, there's none but I, My grief, my love, my wonted …
251379–1453502T4 Love-longing and the lover's complaint0.79Love is the fire, dam, nurse, and seed Of all that air, earth, waters breed. All these earth, water, air, fire…
261454–1514510T4 Love-longing and the lover's complaint0.87Thou violat'st thy love in thy mistaking, And clean forsakest thy friend, in not forsaking Olinda: I cannot co…
271515–1583505T4 Love-longing and the lover's complaint0.78If I could scold, sir you might be chidden, For coming to my thoughts before y'are bidden. Blame me not (Sweet…
281584–1622500T4 Love-longing and the lover's complaint0.86Do you not blush to cast your love upon a man, Whose love is as himself an alien? to thine own Thou mak'st the…
291623–1652504T4 Love-longing and the lover's complaint0.81Thou speakest of thy Rimbombo, that myrtle groves which love the winding shores, deserve to be to Venus consec…
301653–1674504unassignedWhen thou hast done, prithee come kiss me, Cosma, I see thou art a pure virgin, thou never didst this office b…
311675–1698503unassignedWhy valorous Cancrone, view thyself and me thy captive Cosma, we are conquerors, behold our enemies in fetters…
321699–1771517unassignedThis his wives quick fate lamenting, Orpheus sat his soul tormenting: While the speedy wood came running, And …
331772–1835521unassignedI will retire, not leave him: well, I fear, When two such flood-streams meet, love and despair. Thou blessed A…
341836–1897520unassignedNay whither flies Thalander? here's Olinda: Tell me why waked the substance thou eschewest Whose shadow in a d…
351898–1967521unassignedThis half persuades me to become a lover. Where better could her love then here have nested? Or he his thought…
361968–2037507unassignedWith the last sun she fell. Sure heavens, ye mock me: alas, what victory? What triumph in an old man's misery?…
372038–2070505unassignedWhat chances happen in an hour? By this he may be dead and buried. But yet Perindus, if thou living be, My hal…
382071–2110507unassignedShe who most strove to hinder and dissuade him. What had he done? That which deserves all life and love. How f…
392111–2179551unassignedAfter that hapless Nymph had heard her doom, As she was led toth' rock, i'th' middle way, Perindus flying fast…
402180–2240469unassignedO lawless love! this soul offence, Which when it prospered, pleased my ravished sense: With what a dry aspect,…
412241–2298480T9 Theatre talk: prologues, poets and playe0.82Now is the time of pardon. Ye happy maids, Your love in spite of all tempestuous seas, Is safe arrived, and ha…