 | Kate Wood - 1865 - 334 pages
...confident, at another she doubted, and trembled she scarce knew why. CHAPTER V. DOUBTS AND FEARS. '' Why so pale and wan, fond lover ? Prithee, why so...Prithee, why so pale ? Why so dull and mute, young sinner P Prithee, why so mute ? Will, when speaking well can't win her, Prithee, why so mute? " Saying nothing... | |
 | John Bartlett - Quotations - 1865 - 504 pages
...were red, and one was thin, Compared with that was next her chin ; Some bee had stung it newly. md Why so pale and wan, fond lover, Prithee, why so pale ? Will, when looking well can 't move her, Looking ill prevail ? Prithee, why so pale ? - Sang. "T is expectation makes ,a blessing... | |
 | Helen Gardner - Poetry - 1967 - 340 pages
...Lover ? Prithee why so pale ? Will, when looking well can't move her, Looking ill prevaile ? Primee why so pale ? Why so dull and mute young Sinner ?...Will, when speaking well can't win her, Saying nothing doo't ? Prithee why so mute ? Quit, quit, for shame, this will not move, This will not take her ; If... | |
 | Jon Stallworthy - Literary Criticism - 1986 - 422 pages
...storms of jealousy and doubt, The blaze grows greater, but 'tis sooner out. Sir "John Suckling SONG Why so pale and wan, fond lover ? Prithee, why so...move her, Looking ill prevail ? Prithee, why so pale? SUCKLING • CONNOR Why so dull and mute, young sinner? Prithee, why so mute ? Will, when speaking... | |
 | Peter Bridgmont - Performing Arts - 1992 - 168 pages
...these few words of explanation. Now let us speak a poem which bubbles with humour. WHY SO PALE AND WAN? Why so pale and wan, fond lover? Prithee, why so pale?...Prithee, why so mute? Quit, quit for shame! This will not move; This cannot take her. John Suckling, 1609-42 The first two verses fall forward from the lips... | |
 | Edith P. Hazen - Literary Criticism - 1992 - 1172 pages
...RHPC SIR JOHN SUCKLING (1609-1642) Aglaura \ Why so pale and wan, fond lover Prithee, why so pale? 2 f u v 3 Quit, quit, for shame; this will not move. This cannot take her. If of herself she will not love,... | |
 | Steven H. Gale - English wit and humor - 1996 - 690 pages
...Prithee, why so pale?" But the next lines turn to mockery, revealing an altogether different attitude: "Will, when looking well can't move her, / Looking ill prevail? / Prithee, why so pale?" By poem's end, the singer unleashes the full force of derision: Quit, quit, for shame; this will not... | |
 | William Gerber - Immortality in literature - 1998 - 148 pages
...disappointed lover, which urges him to quit his futile attachment. The speech reads, in part: (127) Why so pale and wan, fond lover? Prithee, why so pale?...move her, Looking ill prevail? Prithee, why so pale? Quit, quit for shame! This will not move. This cannot take her; If of herself she will not love, Nothing... | |
 | William Harmon - Literary Collections - 1998 - 386 pages
...efefgg. The following stanza from Sir John Suckling's "Why So Pale and Wan, Fond Lover?" is rhymed ababb: Why so pale and wan, fond lover? Prithee, why so pale?...move her, Looking ill prevail? Prithee, why so pale? Rhyme royal: Stanza of seven lines of iambic pentameter, rhyming ctbabbcc, as in Sir Thomas Wyatt's... | |
 | Merrill Markoe - Family & Relationships - 1998 - 192 pages
...takes on the subject. For instance, when the poet Sir John Suckling (his real name; 1609-1642) wrote: Why so pale and wan, fond lover Prithee why so pale...when looking well can't move her Looking ill prevail we hear a poet sharing the kind of brilliant strategy that could only have been devised by a man who,... | |
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Why so pale and wan, fond lover? Prithee, why so pale? Will, when looking well can't move her, Looking ill prevail? Prithee, why so pale? 
