Sapho and Phao
Sapho and Phao is an Elizabethan era stage play, a comedy written by John Lyly. One of Lyly's earliest dramas, it was likely the first that the playwright devoted to the allegorical idealisation of Queen Elizabeth I that became the predominating feature of Lyly's dramatic canon.
Quotes
edit- VULCAN:
My shag-haire Cyclops, come, lets ply
Our Lemnion hammers lustily;
By my wifes sparrowes,
I sweare these arrowes
Shall singing fly
Through many a wantons Eye.These headed are with golden Blisses,
These silver-ones featherd with Kisses,
But this of Lead
Strikes a Clowne Dead,
When in a Dance
Hee fals in a Trance,
To se his black-brow Lasse not busse him,
And then whines out for death t’ untrusse him.
So, so, our worke being don lets play,
Holliday (Boyes) cry Holliday.- Act IV, scene iv, "The Song, in making of the Arrowes"