...as well. In the first scene of the play, talking to Constance her attendant, Rosamond says : — ' I whose curled hair was as a strong staked net To...lips And turned large. England to a little kiss.' Again, in special reference to the King : — ' Would you be wiser than I was with him ? A king to...

...them." And this : — " I that have roses in my name, and make All flowers glad to set their color by ; I that have held a land between twin lips And...little kiss ; God thinks not of me as contemptible." " The Queen Mother " (time : the massacre of St. Bartholomew) is a longer and more complex tragedy...

...The play is curiously uneven. At first Rosamund is represented as a somewhat proud type of beauty. ' I that have held a land between twin lips And turned large England to a little kiss . . . Yea, I am found the woman in all tales, The face caught always in the story's face; I, Helen,...

...The play is curiously uneven. At first Rosamund is represented as a somewhat proud type of beauty. ' I that have held a land between twin lips And turned large England to a little kiss . . . Yea, I am found the woman in all tales, The face caught always in the story's face ; I, Helen,...

...the tawny-lidded lions fell, Broken at ankle. . . . And, again, in words full of colour and melody : I that have roses in my name, and make All flowers...little kiss; God thinks not of me as contemptible. . . , To read such lines as these is to remember them with joy for ever. It is customary to dismiss...

...had not much to learn technically who could write lines like those of Rosamund's speech, beginning I that have held a land between twin lips And turned large England to a little kiss . . . A certain rigid formality in the verse of both plays seems to me an oddly attractive grace as...

...his Elizabethans, and seeking for a mode suited to his own imaginative conceit and sense of words. I that have held a land between twin lips And turned...little kiss; God thinks not of me as contemptible. But it is clear, as one looks back, that the writer of these ardent plays, although he confessed that...

...world... I that hâve rosés in my name and make Ail flowers glad to set their colour by ; I that hâve held a land between twin lips And turned large England...little kiss ; God thinks not of me as contemptible... En présence d'une telle maîtrise nous ne pouvons que conclure avec DG Rossetti : « No one bas more...