[New-Poetry] Aphorisms

[Robin Hamilton]

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There you have An Aphorism -- "Whoever loved ..." -- used in a narrative 
poem (Hero and Lander), then recycled in a play.
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Mind you, as Pip Sidney was *already deconstructing this particular Aphorism in the second sonnet of _Astrophil and Stella_ in 1588:

Astrophil and Stella: 2
by Sir Philip Sidney 

Not at first sight, nor with a dribbèd shot,
    Love gave the wound, which, while I breathe will bleed;
    But known worth did in mine of time proceed,
Till by degrees it had full conquest got.

... by the time Phoebe gets into the act in AYLI in 1598, there's a hell of a lot of previous around this.

        <g>

Robin
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