The Complete Poems by R. Rebholz

Author:R. Rebholz
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780141969169
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Published: 2013-04-07T16:00:00+00:00

1 slipper: slippery.

3 use me quiet without let or stop: comport myself quietly without hindrance or impediment from others.

4 brackish: being spoiled to the point of being nauseous by the mixture of the salty with the fresh.

that hath such brackish joys. Wyatt’s addition to the Latin.

7 after the common trace: 1) on the common way or path; 2) like other people. The Latin has ‘a common man’.

8 For] T; From A

crop: 1) bird’s neck; 2) throat.

For him death grip’th right hard by the crop. The Latin has ‘Death lies heavy on him’.

10 dazed: 1) bewildered, stupefied; 2) benumbed with cold.

dazed, with dreadful face. Wyatt’s addition to the Latin.

L. D, T.

In Wyatt sections of T and D.

This epigram translates a strambotto by Serafino (M & T 421). T, whose ‘look’ in l. 1 changes the meaning, entitles the epigram: ‘To his lover to look upon him.’

1 sight] look T.

thy sight: the sight of you (O).

2 hidest. Probably monosyllabic (hid’st).

4 stick: hesitate.

madest. Probably monosyllabic (mad’st).

Why dost thou stick to heal that thou madest sore? The Italian has: ‘Why do you nevertheless flee, flee one who adores you?’

7 the heart] ed.; thy heart D.

8 thou] T; then D.

6–8 For if I die, … /Since t’one by t’other … thou also with my smart] And if I die thy life may last no more,/For each by other doth live and have relief,/I in thy look, and thou most in my grief T.

LI. T.

In Wyatt section of T.

This epigram probably imitates a four-line Latin epigram by Ausonius (M & T 435). The latter was derived ultimately from a couplet ascribed to Plato which Coleridge translates:

Tom, finding some gold, left a rope on the ground.

Jack, missing his gold, used the rope which he found. (F II, 74–5).

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