I am reminded of Horatio's lines to Hamlet in the graveyard scene: "'Twere to consider too curiously to consider so."
And to complicate the paroxisms of irony, take a look at Worsdsworth's imitation of this poem. Very different. tpr
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Date: Monday, November 28, 2005 1:31 pm
Subject: Do they call virtue there ungratefulness?
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> How gloss ye this line, Sidneians? Is it bawdy and bitter? Or
> innocent
> and just obscure?
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