Christopher Marlowe and George Chapman

Name: Hero and Leander — Postscript
Author: Christopher Marlowe and George Chapman

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Christopher Marlowe and George Chapman published works such as Hero and Leander — Third Sestyad and Hero and Leander — Postscript. These writings evoke love, devours and wane.

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Christopher Marlowe and George Chapman, Hero and Leander — Third Sestyad (1821)

“ Leander being myself, I still retain it:
We break chaste vows when we live loosely ever,
But bound as we are, we live loosely never.
Two constant lovers being join'd in one,
Yielding to one another, yield to none.
We know not how to vow, till love unblind us,
And vows made ignorantly never bind us;—
Too true it is, that when 'tis gone men hate
The joys as vain they took in love's estate:
But that's, since they have lost the heavenly light
Should show them way to judge of all things right.
When life is gone, death must implant his terror,
As death is foe to life, so love to error. ”

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Christopher Marlowe and George Chapman, Hero and Leander — Third Sestyad (1821)

“ But with her love and woman wit
She argues, and approveth it.
HERO AND LEANDER.
THE THIRD SESTYAD.
New light gives new directions, fortunes new,
To fashion our endeavours that ensue.
More harsh, at least more hard, more grave and high
Our subject runs, and our stern Muse must fly.
Love's edge is taken off, and that light flame,
Those thoughts, joys, longings, that before became
High unexperienc'd blood, and maids' sharp plights,
Must now grow staid, and censure the delights,
That being enjoy'd ask judgment; now we praise,
As having parted: evenings crown the days. ”

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Christopher Marlowe and George Chapman, Hero and Leander — Third Sestyad (1821)

“ Beyond our free humanity's delight:
Now with ambition climbing falling towers,
Whose hope to scale, our fear to fall devours:
Now rapt with pastimes, pomp, all joys impure;
In things without us, no delight is sure.
But love, with all joys crown'd, within doth sit;
O Goddess, pity love, and pardon it!"
Thus spake she weeping: but her Goddess' ear
Burn'd with too stern a heat, and would not hear.
Aye me! hath Heaven's straight fingers no more graces,
For such a Hero, than for homeliest faces? ”

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Christopher Marlowe and George Chapman, Hero and Leander — Third Sestyad (1821)

“ Which for Lust's plague doth perish with possessing.
Joy graven in sense, like snow in water wastes;
Without preserve of virtue, nothing lasts.
What man is he, that with a wealthy eye,
Enjoys a beauty richer than the sky,
Through whose white skin, softer than soundest sleep,
With damask eyes, the ruby blood doth peep,
And runs in branches through her azure veins,
Whose mixture and first fire his love attains;
Whose both hands limit both love's deities,
And sweeten human thoughts like Paradise ”

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Christopher Marlowe and George Chapman, Hero and Leander — Postscript (1821)

“ Had these accurate gentlemen ventured a step out of the bibliographer's strong hold, (the title page and colophon) and cast a glance on any one argument of the various "Sestyads," they might have felt some compunction in their papery hearts for the slight put on the illustrious manes of
C. Marlowe and G. Chapman. ”

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Christopher Marlowe and George Chapman, Hero and Leander — Third Sestyad (1821)

“ She was a mother straight, and bore with pain
Thoughts that spake straight, and wish'd their mother slain;
She hates their lives, and they their own and hers;
Such strife still grows where sin the race prefers.
Love is a golden bubble, full of dreams,
That waking breaks, and fills us with extremes. ”

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Christopher Marlowe and George Chapman, Hero and Leander — Third Sestyad (1821)

“ Beauty's true heaven, at full still in their wane;
Those be the lapwing faces that still cry,
"Here 'tis!" when that they vow is nothing nigh.
Base fools! when every Moorish fool can teach
That which men think the height of human reach. ”

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Christopher Marlowe and George Chapman, Hero and Leander — Third Sestyad (1821)

“ Mine, and Leander's mine, Leander's mine.
O, see what wealth it yields me, nay, yields him:
For I am in it, he for me doth swim.
Rich, fruitful love, that doubling self estates
Elixir-like contracts, though separates.
Dear place! I kiss thee, and do welcome thee,
As from Leander ever sent to me."
The End of the Third Sestyad.
↑ A conceited playing on words, very characteristic of the age. ↑ the, edit. 1637. ↑ Warton judged Chapman's part to commence here; but I should rather point out the address to Marlow's shade, as the commencement of his labours. ↑ She, i.e. his sister, edit. ”

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