Gossip in a Library by Edmund Gosse

Author:Edmund Gosse [Gosse, Edmund]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Literary Criticism, European, English; Irish; Scottish; Welsh, English literature -- History and criticism
ISBN: 9782819900634
Google: RJOp8mw6FJsC
Publisher: pubOne.Info
Published: 2010-09-14T18:30:00+00:00

Much better than these is the sonnet on the cat of the Duchess of

Lesdiguières, with its admirable line:

Chatte pour tout le monde, et pour les chats tigresse.

A fugitive epistle by Scarron, delightfully turned, is too long to be quoted here, nor can I pause to cite the rondeau which the Duchess of Maine addressed to her favourite. But she supplemented it as follows:

My pretty puss, my solace and delight,

To celebrate thy loveliness aright

I ought to call to life the bard who sung

Of Lesbia's sparrow with so sweet a tongue;

But 'tis in vain to summon here to me

So famous a dead personage as he,

And you must take contentedly to-day

This poor rondeau that Cupid wafts your way.

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