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" Without a tomb for after memory dwell by the grave, and teach all those that pass to imitate, by showing who it was"
William Browne's chief literary work is a long poem "Britannia's Pastorals" (1613/14?). The Shepherd's Pipe
It was never finished. In his lifetime Books I & II were published successively in 1613 and 1616. The manuscript of the unfinished Book III was not published until 1852. Consider that »Brittania's Pastorals" was written and printed in the year 1616 when William of Stratford died. - The author tells us »if thou see fair honour careless lie, without a tomb for after memory« ...»Dwell by the grave, and teach all those that pass »To imitate, by showing who it was«).
Book III, (First song) contains the following lines [numerated] :
▷l. 00 Now a dead soul entomb'd within a living grave.
▷l.217 Or, if thou see fair honour careless lie,
Without a tomb for after memory,
Dwell by the grave, and teach all those that pass
To imitate, by showing who it was.
This way, Remembrance, thou may’st do some good
▷l.400 if thou hear me speak. take thy home
receive into this dismal living tomb
▷l.578 Let my unblemished name meet with a tomb
Deservedly unspurn’d, and at home
▷l.628..........................there can nought come
From them to mee, unless it be a tomb,
And that I hold already
▷l.648… .............................and by it I am come
To find a living man within a tomb.
▷l.137(Elegy) But to sit weeping on a senseless tomb
That hides not dust enough to count the tears«
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Will anybody make us believe, that in the year of William Shakspere’s death in Stratford (1616) there was an unknown writer William Browne who complained in his seemingly first poetical invention (-- please study contents and quality ) about !!! his strange personal situation of a „living dead“!!!
Consider ! If somebody is dead it‘s not easy to write in advance about his own entombment, unless it corresponds to a concealed metaphor, the Marlowe/Shakspere &Aliases deception!
The melancholy of William Browne’s „The Shepherds Pipe“ can and must be read as late emotional residues of Marlowe’s disappearance: heroic ambition transmuted into withdrawal, erotic excess into permanent longing, and dangerous speech into communal pastoral lament—song surviving where action and risk have become impossible. ——————————— VIDEOS – Complete Video Archive: OPEN —> Heading--> Home -->Videos -- Shorts -- Posts ->Popular |
