A Prologue To The Scholars. A Comaedy Presented At The White Fryers Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABBCCDEFF CCGGEEBB BBBBBBFBGGHHIJA gentleman to give us somewhat new | A |
Hath brought up OXFORD with him to show you | A |
Pray be not frighted Tho the scaene and gown's | B |
The Universities the wit's the town's | B |
The lines each honest Englishman may speake | C |
Yet not mistake his mother tongue for Greeke | C |
For stil 'twas part of his vow'd liturgie | D |
From learned comedies deliver me | E |
Wishing all those that lov'd 'em here asleepe | F |
Promising SCHOLARS but no SCHOLARSHIP | F |
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You'd smile to see how he do's vex and shake | C |
Speakes naught but if the PROLOGUE do's but take | C |
Or the first act were past the pikes once then | G |
Then hopes and joys then frowns and fears agen | G |
Then blushes like a virgin now to be | E |
Rob'd of his comicall virginity | E |
In presence of you all In short you'd say | B |
More hopes of mirth are in his looks then play | B |
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These feares are for the noble and the wise | B |
But if 'mongst you there are such fowle dead eyes | B |
As can damne unaraign'd cal law their pow'rs | B |
Judging it sin enough that it is ours | B |
And with the house shift their decreed desires | B |
FAIRE still to th' BLACKE BLACKE still to the WHITE FRYERS | B |
He do's protest he wil sit down and weep | F |
Castles and pyramids | B |
No he wil on | G |
Proud to be rais'd by such destruction | G |
So far from quarr'lling with himselfe and wit | H |
That he wil thank them for the benefit | H |
Since finding nothing worthy of their hate | I |
They reach him that themselves must envy at | J |
Richard Lovelace
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