Laocoon by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing & Ellen Frothingham

Author:Gotthold Ephraim Lessing & Ellen Frothingham [Lessing, Gotthold]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780486170381
Publisher: Dover Publications
Published: 2012-10-14T16:00:00+00:00

I hear a devil speaking, but in the form of an angel of light.

When, on the contrary, the Earl of Gloucester says,149—

But I,—that am not shaped for sportive tricks,

Nor made to court an amorous looking-glass;

I, that am rudely stamped, and want love’s majesty;

To strut before a wanton, ambling nymph;

I, that am curtailed of this fair proportion,

Cheated of feature by dissembling nature,

Deformed, unfinished, sent before my time

Into this breathing world, scarce half made up,

And that so lamely and unfashionably,

That dogs bark at me as I halt by them;

Why I, in this weak piping time of peace,

Have no delight to pass away the time;

Unless to spy my shadow in the sun,

And descant on mine own deformity;

And, therefore, since I cannot prove a lover,

To entertain these fair, well-spoken days,

I am determined to prove a villain.

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