From: "Peter Cudmore" <[log in to unmask]>
> Why Google when we can Rodent?
>
>> Greene later apologised (or someone apologised for him).
>> Don't remember the details off-hand but I'm sure it's googleable.
>>
>> R.
You mean why keep a dog and bark yourself?
There's apparently an entire website devoted to this:
http://www.william-shakespeare.org.uk/william-shakespeare-upstart-crow.htm
Cool!! Learn something new every day.
A Newly-Enlightened Thingumyjig
(Henry Chettle, see bottom of URL, who issued the apology, is the author of
an [unintentionally] hysterically funny play called _The Tragedy of
Hoffman_. It begins:
The Tragedy of Hoffman.
Enter Hoffman. I. i
Hoffman.
Hence Clouds of melancholy
Ile be no longer subiect to your schismes,
But thou deare soule, whose nerues and artires
In dead resoundings summon vp reuenge,
And thou shalt hate, be but appeas'd sweete hearse,
The dead remembrance of my liuing father, strikes ope a curtaine
And with a hart as aire, swift as thought where appeares a body.
I'le execute iustly in such a cause. 10
Where truth leadeth, what coward would not fight?
Ill acts moue some, but myne's a cause that's right.
thunder and lightning.
See the powers of heauen in apparitions,
And frightfull aspects as insenced,
That I thus tardy am to doe an act
Which iustice and a fathers death excites;
Like threatening methors antedates destruction. thunder
Againe I come, I come, I come.
Bee silent thou effigies of faire virtue 20
That like a goodly syen wear't pluckt vp
By murderous, winds, infectious blasts and gusts ...
Dunno if there's a FOE webcopy, but it is included in the Questia texts.
The *really* funny bit is at the end when the villain, about to gleefully
chop-off Hoffman's head, accidentally brains himself with the executioner's
axe. But Questia is a pig to use for full-length texts
A Thoroughly Helpful Rodehog
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