Albertus
Refers to Albertus Magnus, aka. Albert the Great, was one of the most universal thinkers to appear during the Middle Ages. Even more so than his most famous student, St. Thomas of Aquinas, Albert’s interests ranged from natural science all the way to theology. He made contributions to logic, psychology, metaphysics, meteorology, mineralogy, and zoology. He was an avid commentator on nearly all the great authorities read during the 13th Century.
This night I’ll conjure, though I die therefore.
Frustus recognizes the danger in his actions. This ending of Scene 1 seems to be foreshadowing his tragic end.
bill
writing, deed
slop
wide breeches
resolve
satisfy, inform
thorough
through
country
land
desir’d
desire
by’r lady
by our Lady
nly to wonder at unlawful things, Whose deepness doth entice such forward wits
Faustus wasn't saved and didn't repent in time.
Curs’d be the parents that engender’d me! No, Faustu
Faustus isn't blaming anyone, but himself and Lucifer.
ALL. God forbid!
So no one else has sworn their soul.
vain pleasure of twenty-four years hath Faustus lost eternal joy
Kind of a lesson where you shouldn't give up a life long opportunity for a little pleasure.
surfeit
When someone doesn't desire anything else because they consumed too much in excess. https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/surfeit
Come, Helen, come, give me my soul again.
Like the Faerie Queen- the women gives strength to the man.
I do repent
He has finally repented for his sins.
And Faustus’ custom is not to deny The just requests of those that wish him well,
I know Faustus is using dark magic from the devil, but in some instances he almost feels like he's doing something good for someone else.
silk
skill
Resolve
satisfy, inform
Come, madam, let us in, where you must well reward this learned man for the great kindness he hath shewed to you.
Faustus is using his dark magic to get things to please other people or does e just know it will get him a favor later on?
cunning
knowledge
Whereas
where
mate
confound, defeat
The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus
Frontispiece to a 1620 printing of Doctor Faustus showing Faustus conjuring Mephistophilis. The spelling "Histoy" is agreed to be a typographical error.
Christopher Marlowe
Christopher Marlowe, also known as Kit Marlowe (baptised 26 February 1564 – 30 May 1593), was an English playwright, poet and translator of the Elizabethan era. Marlowe was the foremost Elizabethan tragedian of his day. He greatly influenced William Shakespeare, who was born in the same year as Marlowe and who rose to become the pre-eminent Elizabethan playwright after Marlowe's mysterious early death. Marlowe's plays are known for the use of blank verse and their overreaching protagonists.
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I'm wondering when someone will play a prank on Faustus.
if my horse be sick or ill at ease, if I bring his water to you, you’ll tell me what it is?
I think this is foreshadowing trouble with the horse and water...
remembered how you crossed me in my conference with the Emperor? I think I have met with you for
Faustus has punished the knight since he was rude to him, Faustus seem obsessed with his reputation now.
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The emperor wants Faustus to summon the riches from Alexander the Great.
Now is his fame spread forth in every land:
Faustus has what he initially wanted.
Here’s thy goblet, good Vintner.
So Faustus wanted riches for his own gain. Ralph summons the goblet to give it to someone else, and makeup for what he has done wrong? Since he stole it.
our horses shall eat no hay as long as this lasts.
What's the point of not letting the horses eat hay?
My lord, it may be some ghost, newly crept out of Purgatory, come to beg a pardon of your Holiness.
Is Faustus going to repent in front of the pope?
Fall to, and the devil choke you, an you spare!
I'm sure scaring the pope with mentions of the devil is a good idea.
Pope and manner of his court, And take some part of holy Peter’s feast,
I'm assuming all of the religious references are intentional?
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Can he actually do this or does he have to commit his soul to the devil like Faustus did?
I am like to Ovid’s flea
A very nice simile.
Never too late, if Faustus can repent.
This reminds me a lot of Everyman, where God forgives anyone as long as they confess their sins.
I will not. FAUSTUS. Sweet Mephistophilis, tell me.
Is he trying to force him to say the name of God?
Alexander’s
Reference to Alexander the Great.
Faustus, Thinkest thou heaven is such a glorious thing?
Faustus seems to be contradicting himself. Before he didn't want to think of heaven any more, he is clearly doing that and almost desiring heaven?
I prithee, Faustus, talk not of a wife.
Will his wife have to commit her soul to the devil as well? Why is it so problematic that he wants a wife?
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Is this a way of saying that hell is somewhat on earth?
FAUSTUS. [Stabbing his arm] Lo, Mephistophilis, for love of thee, I cut mine arm, and with my proper blood
I think it's interesting how stories at these times showed physical wounds/pain to bond to either side. Julian of Norwich lives in pain to be faithful to God. Here, even the devil makes someone suffer physical pain to bind them together.
And offer lukewarm blood of new-born babes.
A very vivid description.
What boots it, then, to think of God or heaven? Away with such vain fancies, and despair;
He's not even going to bother thinking of heaven or God ( I feel like in a sense this could be a greater sin, because knowing right from wrong can determine our humanity).
she-devil
This is the first time in the story that a female is mentioned.
gridirons
A grate for boiling food. https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/gridiron
pickadevaunts
A beard, well cut to a sharp point. https://www.definition-of.com/pickadevaunt
Had I as many souls as there be stars, I’d give them all for Mephistophilis.
He's making a bold comment here. He'd give all of his souls to the devil if he could.
This word “damnation” terrifies not him,
He is not afraid of hell.
To do whatever Faustus shall command,
He wants him to be his servant.
laureat
A prizewinner https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/laur%C3%A9at
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They're kind of blaming his two friends for going down that path, but everyone isn't acknowledging the fact that Faustus made the decision himself and not with their influence.
dunces
A person who is slow at learning. He basically just called the two scholars stupid. https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/dunce
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I wonder if this will end up being problematic and become a power war between the three of them. Or Fautus will go to far and these two will try to stop him but fail because they taught him too much?
Delphian oracle
A oracle in Greek mythology, who sometimes could predict the future.
canonize
To treat as sacred. https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/canonize
fly to India for gold, Ransack the ocean for orient pearl,
He seems to do everything for power and wealth and all of his own personal gain.
GOOD ANGEL. O, Faustus, lay that damned book aside, And gaze not on it, lest it tempt thy soul, And heap God’s heavy wrath upon thy head! Read, read the Scriptures:–that is blasphemy. EVIL ANGE
This reminds me of those scenes that you see in movies, where the angel and the devil are both on someone's shoulder, and they are interfering with their decision.
And necromantic books are heavenly;
Interesting phrase- The necromantic books (book of dark/ satanic magic) are heavenly? This reminds me of the debate over whether or not all sins are just sins or if they have levels of severity.
Physic, farewell!
He seems like the kind of person who will never be satisfied.
shew,
A word used in old english that means show. https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/shew
waxen wings did mount above his reach, And, melting,
His wax-like wings melted. Reminds me of the Greek mythology character Icarus.
Carthaginians;
A Phoenician state. Where the punic wars was occurred. https://www.mrdowling.com/609-carthage.html
[Exit.]
Moral of the story, don't trade your soul for forbidden knowledge
Let Faustus live in hell a thousand years, A hundred thousand, and at last be sav’d!
Faustus begs God to reduce his time in hell just as long as he is saved eventually
That time may cease, and midnight never come; Fair Nature’s eye, rise, rise again, and make Perpetual day; or let this hour be but A year, a month, a week, a natural day, That Faustus may repent and save his soul!
He's trying to buy him some time so that he can repent
And with my blood again I will confirm My former vow I made to Lucifer.
Faustus has upset Mephist and feels that Faustus has betrayed him. Faustus vows to Mephist again by stabbing him arm and uses his blood
OLD MAN
The old man tells Faustus to repent the Mephist gives him a dagger but the old man is able to get Faustus to beg for mercy
What, is he gone? farewell he! Faustus has his leg again, and the Horse-courser, I take it, a bottle of hay for his labour: well, this trick shall cost him forty dollars more.
Faustus had played yet another trick and pretended the horse-courser took his leg but as soon as he took off with it, Faustus' leg is immediately restored
I was no sooner in the middle of the pond, but my horse vanished away, and I sat upon a bottle of hay, never so near drowning in my life.
The horse-courser didn't listen and took the horse into the water and it turned into straw
I am content to release him of his horns:–and, sir knight, hereafter speak well of scholars.
Faustus is willing to get rid of the horns as long as from here on out he will not speak ill of the scholars
returned home;
Faustus has returned to Germany and has gained fame
Well, villains, for your presumption, I transform thee into an ape, and thee into a dog; and so be gone!
He is mad and wants to turn them into an ape and a dog for having him be summoned for a stupid prank
The POPE crosses himself again
I guess the pope feels a evil presence and does the sign of the cross. I think he knows they're there
Well, I’m content to compass then some sport, And by their folly make us merriment.
He's wanting to play some tricks on the pope
hat book! why, the most intolerable book for conjuring that e’er was invented by any brimstone devil.
They've found Faustus' conjuring book
Ah, Christ, my Saviour, Seek to save[104] distressed Faustus’ soul!
He's begging for mercy but in comes Lucifer... YIKES
Ay, go, accursed spirit, to ugly hell! ‘Tis thou hast damn’d distressed Faustus’ soul. Is’t not too late?
He is having doubts and is wondering if it's too late to repent. Too late bud, should of thought about that sooner!
Come, I think hell’s a fable.
Faustus thinks hell is a myth. Haha well I'm sure he's going to find out real soon!
Then write again, FAUSTUS GIVES TO THEE HIS SOUL.
Wonders if it is a sign that he shouldn't sell his soul to the devil
That I shall wait on Faustus whilst he lives,[78] So he will buy my service with his soul.
Lucifer has accepted Faustus offer
GOOD ANGEL and EVIL ANGEL.
So are these angels his self conscious ?
if I should serve you, would you teach me to raise up Banios and Belcheos?
Scared out of his mind, he agrees to be his servant and ask Wagner to teach him his ways
Say, he surrenders up to him his soul, So he will spare him four and twenty[60] years, Letting him live in all voluptuousness; Having thee ever to attend on me, To give me whatsoever I shall ask, To tell me whatsoever I demand, To slay mine enemies, and aid my friends, And always be obedient to my will.
Faustus will surrender his soul to Lucifer in return for 24 years of service under Mephist
Unhappy spirits that fell with Lucifer, Conspir’d against our God with Lucifer, And are for ever damn’d with Lucifer. FAUSTUS. Where are you damn’d? MEPHIST. In hell.
Faustus finds out that they were once angels but rebelled against God and in turn have been damned to hell
By which the spirits are enforc’d to rise: Then fear not, Faustus, but be resolute, And try the uttermost magic can perform.–
Faustus swears allegiance to hell
O, but I fear me nothing can reclaim him!
Knowing about Valdes and Cornelius's involvement in dark magic, they fear that Faustus is headed down the same dark path.
First I’ll instruct thee in the rudiments, And then wilt thou be perfecter than I.
So they agree to help him learn magic and teach him to even be better at it than themselves
And reign sole king of all the[28] provinces;
Faustus has his mind set on magic and that power that will come with it. He imagines sending spirits to fetch him whatever he desires and wants to use magic to make himself king of all of Germany
Go forward, Faustus, in that famous art
The evil angel wants him to of course go forward and pursue this dark magic
Read, read the Scriptures:–that is blasphemy.
This good angel wants him to forget about magic and focus on God and reading the Scriptures
A sound magician is a mighty god: Here, Faustus, tire[21] thy brains to gain a deity.
He consider magic and believes it will make him a mighty god
The reward of sin is death: that’s hard.
He considers divinity but quotes the Bible that states that sin is death which he finds it to be unacceptable because all men sin
And universal body of the law:
He considers law but this also isn't a good fit
medicus: Be a physician, Faustus; heap up gold, And be eterniz’d for some wondrous cure: Summum bonum medicinae sanitas, The end of physic is our body’s health. Why, Faustus, hast thou not attain’d that end?
He considers medicine and notes that with medicine one has the possibility to achieve a miraculous cure, but he has already achieved this. He has already pursued being a doctor and found no satisfaction in it so on to the next
Bene disserere est finis logices. Is, to dispute well, logic’s chiefest end? Affords this art no greater miracle? Then read no more; thou hast attain’d that[9] end:
Faustus picks logic, but the only goal of logic is to dispute well. Knowing he is already good at debating, he rules out logic.
ERCHANCE he for whom this bell tolls may be so ill, as that he knows not it tolls for him;
bell signifying a funeral and obviously, if someone is dead, he does not know and it is too late for him to meditate upon it.
That I may rise, and stand, o’erthrow me and bend Your force, to break, blow, burn and make me new.
asking God to use force to be able to re-create him.
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now he's brave and tells Death not to feel too proud because in fact he not scary or as powerful as most people think. Death is just a short sleep that one will wake to eternity and death will then die
Thou hast made me, and shall thy work decay? Repair me now, for now mine end doth haste, I run to death, and death meets me as fast,
he knows he is aging and is nearing death. he asks his creator to make him whole again
If our loves faint, and westerwardly decline, To me thou, falsely, thine And I to thee mine actions shall disguise.
theyre keeping secrets from each other
These three hours that we have spent, Walking here, two shadows went Along with us, which we ourselves produced. But, now the sun is just above our head, We do those shadows tread, And to brave clearness all things are reduced. So whilst our infant loves did grow, Disguises did, and shadows, flow From us and our cares ; but now ’tis not so.
the shadows are their secrets but during the day the go away
But, O alas ! so long, so far, Our bodies why do we forbear?
he doesn't want their souls to do the talking he wants action....literally
So to engraft our hands, as yet Was all the means to make us one
so they are sitting by a river bank starring into each others eyes and holding hands
So let us melt, and make no noise, No tear-floods, nor sigh-tempests move ; ‘Twere profanation of our joys To tell the laity our love.
when they depart they should keep quiet and not tell the laity of their love
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she scorned him and he says when he dies he will com back to haunt her and when she tries to ask her new lover for help, he will turn away leaving her to face the ghost alone. He hints that he will say something to her, but refuses to tell her ahead of time. He urges her to repent now rather than face his wrath later.
For thee, thou need’st no such deceit, For thou thyself art thine own bait : That fish, that is not catch’d thereby, Alas ! is wiser far than I.
she doesn't need to deceive the fish because she is her "own bait" attracting other to her. any fish that can resist her charms is wiser than himself.
I should not find that hidden mystery. O ! ’tis imposture all ;
love is mysterious and those who claim to understand it are all impostures
Since thou and I sigh one another’s breath, Whoe’er sighs most is cruellest, and hastes the other’s death.
When they sigh together, their breaths and sighs mixed together to become more destructive. the one who sighs more violently does more harm ultimately leading to ones death
So doth each tear, Which thee doth wear, A globe, yea world, by that impression grow,
compares the tears to a globe as they both are shaped round
Since you will be true, You shall be true to them who’re false to you.’ ”
in summary, basically everyone cheats
hen you have done a braver thing Than all the Worthies did ; And a braver thence will spring, Which is, to keep that hid.
love is perish and shouldn't be wasted because it is rare and because it is rare it should be hidden from those that misuse it
I HAVE done one braver thing Than all the Worthies did ; And yet a braver thence doth spring, Which is, to keep that hid.
he feels he has done something great but doesn't want anyone to know
Yet she Will be False, ere I come, to two, or three.
if you do find a woman who is faithful and beautiful it would be worth the travel but by the time he were to get to her she would already have been unfaithful to several men. wow how misogynistic !
Lives a woman true and fair.
basically saying all beautiful women shouldn't be trusted. He tells the reader to do all these impossible tasks and when you return you'll tell of all the strange things you encountered and be able to swear that no such woman exists.
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basically saying what did they do before they got together? Too young or obsessed with sex compared to how they are now. Before was that puppy dog love and now it's the real deal. Two hemispheres making a whole world. They're are all each other needs.
ust so much honour, when thou yield’st to me, Will waste, as this flea’s death took life from thee.
she killed the flea and he asks what was the flea guilty of but sucking a drop of their blood. He tells her if she were to sleep with him, would she lose any more honor just as she lost when she killed the flea?
Let not to that self-murder added be, And sacrilege, three sins in killing three
their parents grudge their relationship but here in this flea they are united so he asks her not to kill herself by killing the flea. It would be a sin to kill three lives, again his, hers, and the fleas
three lives in one flea spare, Where we almost, yea, more than married are. This flea is you and I, and this
asking to spare it's life since in this flea are three lives: his, hers, and the fleas own life.
A sin, nor shame
mingling cannot be called a sin or shame
It suck’d me first, and now sucks thee, And in this flea our two bloods mingled be.
sucks both of their blood now they are mingled. The flea has "joined" them
And so he opened window hastily, And put his arse out thereat, quietly, 695 Over the buttocks, showing the whole bum; And thereto said this clerk, this Absalom, “O speak, sweet bird, I know not where thou art.”
I dont understand how this story is going to end. This entire section is just weird and almost unnecessary it seems.
smithy
What does this mean?
Until the bells for lauds began to ring And friars to the chancel went to sing.
Does this mean that they were getting it in all night?
And shall she drown? Alas, my Alison!” For grief of this he almost fell
This is really sweet. The readers can really tell that the love John has for his wife is deep.
This Nicholas replied: “Go fetch me drink;
This section of the story turned from serious to nonchalant in a matter of seconds. It seems kind of weird that Nicholas was out of it for so long and the carpenter is crying and he just says go get me a drink.
self-same man.
what does self- same man mean?
That she would be at his command, content,
This totally took a shift. The way that she is easily going to obey him now just seems off. I wonder why
Men should not be too serious at a game.
I can't seem to understand why the author is stating all of this stuff? Yes the readers already know that this is just a story not to be taken too seriously but I have never before read in a story where the author tells his readers not to take it too seriously.
Therefore, who likes not this, let him, in fine, Turn over page and choose another tale:
Wow, the attitude of the author in this story compared to all the other tales is so different. This makes me so curious to know why the tone in this story is so different compared to the other ones. But it seems that the author is going to be very blunt throughout the story.
Worthy to be kept in memory; 5 And specially the gentle folk, each one.
I wonder why the author would state this in the this story and not the other ones
I’ll satisfy your worldly appetite.
"worldly appetite" this is a strong and non passive way of saying sexual desire
That woman was the ruin of mankind.
I think he may be referring got Eve and how she bit the forbidden fruit causing God to change the world to be make it less than what it should have been.
After your text and after your rubric I will not follow more than would a gnat.
She is saying that she would not listen to how a man would tell her to dress.
I bear no malice to virginity;
it is good that she stated that she still respects women who are virgins because then it gives her more credibility knowing that she isn't one sided and biased. She knows she has an opinion and that just the way she is.
And for no other cause – ah, say you no?
I am already starting to like her a lot because the is very passive about the strong arguments that she is making. Yes, obviously we the readers know that there are more reasons god gave us genitals but she wants to prove her point about sex being seen as a sin for women.
I understand he had more wives than one; And now would God it were permitted me To be refreshed one half as oft as he!
This statement is very powerful because it highlights the different gender roles and expectations and what men can get away with that women are usually shamed for for the rest of their lives.
I was twelve years of age, 5 Thanks be to God who is forever alive, Of husbands at church door have I had five;
This is crazy, she married when she was only twelve and had five husbands. Does she currently have five husbands and is married to them all at the same time or did she have five husbands whom she married and divorced one at a time? just curious
For Christ will be your champion and knight. And pray that all these summoners repent 400 Of their misdeeds, before th
This story really emphasis the bad in the world and it is important to have strong faith and not let people such as the summoner take advantage of you. One must remember that the church is run my man and the Bible states not to ever put your trust in man and only put your trust in God.
Never was I, till now, widow or wife, Summoned unto your court in all my life; Nor ever of my body was I untrue! Unto the Devil rough and black of hue Give I your body and my pan also!”
The summoner is so relentless in making the woman think that she actually owes him something. I can't believe that he would go as far as to continuously bothering this old lady.
More trouble you’ve caused me than can be told!
The demon it seems has altered the well being of this man, I wonder if it was due to his influence or something that he has done.
And if that either of us gets more than other, 270 Let him be true and share it with his brother.”
How can you except the demon and the summoner who is theft and steals from the poor to keep a promise and be loyal?
And was a thief, just such a thief was he. His master got but half of every fee.
Okay, so my thought about him earlier were correct. He really is up to no good.
Yet would he summon, on pain of Christ’s curse, Those who were glad enough to fill his purse 85 And feast him greatly at the taverns all.
This statement does not seem right to me. It seems that summoner is up to no good. And Gods curse? Usually in most British literature that we have read so far, it does not seem that god ever curses anyone. I wonder what made the author write something like this.
In company here we will have no debate.
So they dont want any confrontation because there are people around them?
fornication known, And he is beaten well at each town’s end.”
Back in the day men would get stoned or beat up by others in the town if they had committed any adultery or had sex before marriage (fortification)
God grant you a good life
Right off the bat it seems that he is an optimistic man and lets people know what they should be appreciative of.
Death is the end of every worldly sore
its crazy how the message of the entire section below is listed in the title of the section. Well at least the reader doesn't have to think hard about what the meaning is lol
That, at the last, and certainly, they die.
This a very short and sweet sentence, when it said they die, it seemed kind of like a rough end to a sentence. I dont know, it could just be me.
Was gone out, now, and he was lost, at length. 1945 Only the intellect, and nothing more. Which dwelt within his heart so sick and sore, Began to fail now, when the heart felt death, And his eyes darkened, and he failed of breath.
This is a very powerful and strong section. Very descriptive, paints an image in the readers mind
bequeath
leave (a personal estate or one's body) to a person or other beneficiary by a will.
purport
appear or claim to be or do something, especially falsely; profess.
You know right well that every lusty knight Who loves the ladies fair and keeps his might,
This is making a general statement about the knights but why? Do all knight portray lust and desire for fair women? and do they all keep their might?
cuckoo
What does this word even mean?
That I’ll die gladly here within her sigh!
Is he saying that he is okay dying for her?
Into a study fell he, suddenly, As do these lovers in their strange desires, Now in the trees, now down among the briers,
Lust and desire are very powerful feelings that can alter ones character and that is seen here.
And make this lamentation to be known, All we have lost our husbands at that town During the siege that round about it lay.
There are a lot of men who died. This hit me hard because when you think of any type of war you dont always associate the person or the men who have served with having a family and their wives now being widowed and their children without fathers.
I have, God knows, a large field for my share,
It seems that this man has a lot to offer. I don't know if this is actually talking about land when it says "large field" or its talking about money or any type of service
hell:
Hell was sometimes used as slang for vagina.
hours
whore
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Oh I must say I love these sonnets way more than our previous reading, "The Faerie Queene." These sonnets are romantic, witty, and imaginative. They are full of striking similes and metaphors, tons of imagery, great variety of tone, interesting puns, and beautiful rhyme scheme. The themes are universal and timeless. I like those addressed to the young man more than those addressed to the dark lady, because they are much more straightforward and passionate, although I love Sonnet 130 as well, which was what I chose to analyze for my writing project. :)
But why of two oaths’ breach do I accuse thee, When I break twenty?
So the poet is a bigger liar as he has broken twenty oaths (I guess it's a hyperbole?) while his lover breaks two.
In act thy bed-vow broke, and new faith torn
In reality she had broken her marriage-vow.
Who art as black as hell, as dark as night.
Addressing to the dark lady
My love is as a fever longing still
Describing love as sickness seems to be the main theme of this sonnet.
Within be fed, without be rich no more:
Interesting... he is saying feed your inner self and let your body be poor.
Therefore I lie with her, and she with me, And in our faults by lies we flatter’d be
Does it mean the speaker tells lies or he lies in bed with the dark lady?
Till my bad angel fire my good one out.
He is saying his mistress will give his male lover the 'fire," which refers to venereal disease, which is contracted and transmitted by sexual contact.
unjust
The dark lady is untruthful and the speaker suspects adultery.
untutor’d
naive
Thus vainly thinking that she thinks me young,
ha, he's so insecure about their relationship.
Let no unkind ‘No’ fair beseechers kill; Think all but one, and me in that one ‘Will.’
So this dark lady has lots of lovers and he is asking her to accept him also?
Wilt thou, whose will is large and spacious, Not once vouchsafe to hide my will in thine?
WOW.. obvious sexual implication here.
with false compare
by unbelievable, ridiculous comparisons
And yet by heaven, I think my love as rare, As any she belied with false compare.
He ends the poem with praise, calling his love “as rare” as any of the women falsely described in sonnets of others.
My mistress’ eyes are nothing like the sun; Coral is far more red, than her lips red: If snow be white, why then her breasts are dun; If hairs be wires, black wires grow on her head. I have seen roses damask’d, red and white, But no such roses see I in her cheeks; And in some perfumes is there more delight Than in the breath that from my mistress reeks. I love to hear her speak, yet well I know That music hath a far more pleasing sound:
Shakespeare mocks the typical Petrarchan poetry's blazon, which glorifies a woman by comparing each of her body parts to something beautiful or precious. He is saying all the opposites to describe his mistress.
All this the world well knows; yet none knows well To shun the heaven that leads men to this hell.
Everyone knows what lust does to him, yet no one knows it well enough to avoid the heaven that leads men to this hell (no one can resist lust.)
Enjoy’d no sooner but despised straight
As soon as they commit a lustful act, they despise it.
Savage, extreme, rude, cruel
Lust makes people “savage, extreme, rude, cruel.”
dancing chips
Keys that play the notes
bower
A woman's bedroom
Fairing the foul with Art’s false borrowed face
Haha, he's saying even unattractive people can make themselves beautiful with makeup.
Or if it were, it bore not beauty’s name
Nobody would say dark complexion was beautiful even they thought so.
127
Sonnet 127 begins the "Dark Lady" series.
Thy lovers withering, as thy sweet self grow’st.
He's saying he's getting old but his lover stays young.
my lovely boy
Sonnet 126 is the last sonnet addressed to the young man Mr. W. H.
It is the star to every wandering bark
This is beautiful... Love is the guiding north star to every lost ship.
Love’s not Time’s fool
Love does not change over time.
Then give me welcome, next my heaven the best, Even to thy pure and most most loving breast.
So welcome me, my next best thing to heaven, back into your pure and most loving heart.
I have look’d on truth Askance and strangely
He's viewed fidelity disdainfully and strangely.
Incertainties now crown themselves assur’d, And peace proclaims olives of endless age.
Things that were once uncertainties have now come to pass and peace is here to stay.
And thou in this shalt find thy monument, When tyrants’ crests and tombs of brass are spent.
And you will find your monument in this poem when tyrants reigns and their brass tombs have disappeared.
Can yet the lease of my true love control
Can control how long my true love will last
THE FIRST
This helped me while reading this story https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Faerie_Queene/Book_I/Glossary
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Since this entire story was an allegory it was very hard to follow along. The language was also very difficult to grasp. But made it through and it was a great read overall, but probably one of my least favorite. The latin/older language is harder to read. Had a mix of all the themes, romance, action, etc.
Who streight him rent in thousand peeces small, And quite dismembred hath: the thirstie land Drunke vp his life; his corse left on the strand.
Well thats harsh for sure
auale,
Aualé is a graphical user interface for the popular Oware Abapa board game. It may be used to analyze, record and share your own mancala games or to play against the computer.
traine.
Train in French