"At the present time, only a very small fraction of motor fuels produced for domestic use in the United States contain any alcohol in their blends. Soma foreign markets, notably the Philippine Islands and South American Countries use high proportions of alcohol in their motor fuel blends. Special purpose fuels in the United States which have alcohol blended with other compounds, have been used for engines from which maximum horsepower output is imperative. An example of this type of motor fuel blend might be found in the competitive motor sports involving motorcycles, stock automotive equipment, and special racing equipment.
An extensive survey of literature brought to light the lack of scientific information and basis for proper blending of alcohol blend fuel mixtures. The most apparent information in the literature was the lack of any scientific approach to the compounding of these fuels. The author considers that this lack of scientific background is due to the difficulty of providing a satisfactory testing procedure to follow in making such an evaluation.
This thesis reports the work involved in (a) preparing a suitable test engine for use in fuel research, (b) calibrating the associated equipment, (c) taking data, and (d) evaluating the resultant data in the light of the objective of the tests.
A standard ASTM-CFR single cylinder fuel research engine was used as the basic engine, with necessary modifications to achieve as near actual operating conditions as possible and still allow maximum control over all the variables. These modifications and the reasons for them are described in detail in the discussion section under the preparation of the test engine.
A piezoelectric crystal pickup was used to determine the cylinder pressures of the engine by electrically amplifying its output and using this output to drive an oscilloscope. The amplifier contained a special pressure evaluating device, and it, along with the pickup were calibrated as described in the discussion under the calibration of associated equipment.
Once the engine was prepared and the associated equipment calibrated, the taking of data was begun in a relatively straight forward manner. However, since the data was taken over a period of time but was evaluated all at one time, it was necessary to maintain rigid control over the variables and the calibrations as the data was taken. The necessary steps and precautions are described in the discussion under the section of operation and data taking"--Introduction, pages 1-2.
Miles, Aaron J.
Remington, Charles R., 1924-2013
Troutner, David E.
Erkiletian, Dickran Hagop, Jr.
Schowalter, Ralph E., 1923-2001
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
M.S. in Mechanical Engineering
Missouri School of Mines and Metallurgy
v, 56 pages
© 1960 George R. Baumgartner, All rights reserved.
Thesis - Open Access
Motor fuels -- Testing
Motor fuels -- Additives -- Testing
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Baumgartner, George R., "A method of fuel testing in a CFR engine" (1960). Masters Theses. 5575.


“Municipal agencies, businesses and inventors must keep themselves apprised of the increasingly complex regulatory environment around facial recognition technology to ensure compliance.”
News coverage abounds about the latest breakthroughs in facial recognition technology. But, while this technology is an amazing technical achievement, it is not without potential drawbacks to privacy for those unwittingly subject to facial recognition in public. This includes the recent emergence of facial recognition technology paired with the large amounts of data available on the internet and social media through the scraping of images from numerous internet sources to provide an unusually powerful tool for uncovering the identity – including name, address and interests – of an individual through the use of just a single photograph. In response to these burgeoning technological advances in the field, cities and states have begun developing an array of legal approaches to regulate facial recognition technology, some scrambling to limit or prohibit its use, others enthusiastically embracing it. In this patchwork legal landscape, it can be challenging to know where and when the technology can be used – and for what purposes.
Facial Recognition and Privacy Concerns
At its core, facial recognition technology consists of computer programs that analyze images of human faces and compare them against other images of human faces for the purpose of identifying or verifying the identity of the individuals in the images. The technology can be used for a myriad of purposes, such as identifying a smartphone user in order to unlock her phone, streamlining the check-in process at a hotel or rental car facility, enabling a customer to try out makeup virtually or sending a parent images of his / her child at school or day camp. The technology also has obvious surveillance and law enforcement uses, and concern about the privacy implications for use in these contexts has driven many jurisdictions to place limits on the use of facial recognition technology.
San Francisco and Oakland, California, Brookline, Cambridge, Northampton and Somerville, Massachusetts have all banned the use of facial recognition technology by city agencies. The city council in Portland, Oregon has proposed going a step farther, banning use of the technology in both the public and private sector to the extent the technology is or might be used for security purposes.
Law enforcement agencies in many other cities have also taken stances on the technology. Some, like the Seattle Police Department, have ceased to use facial recognition technology amid concerns about biased and inaccurate results. The Plano, Texas Police Department touts the benefits they reap from use of the technology, which they credit with solving numerous cases. Others, like the Detroit Police Department, permit the use of facial recognition technology only under certain conditions, such as when the technology seems reasonably likely to aid the investigation into violent crimes. At the state level, three states have banned facial recognition technology in police body cameras: Oregon, New Hampshire and, most recently, California.
Laws regarding the use of facial recognition technology are not limited to the public sector. Several states have worked biometric information into their existing data privacy laws – or created new laws specifically geared toward biometric data collection. Illinois was the first state to address collection of biometric data by private businesses. Its Biometric Information Privacy Act (BIPA), passed in 2008, places significant limitations on how private entities can collect and use a person’s biometric data. It requires that a business obtain informed consent prior to the collection of biometric data. It also prohibits profiting off biometric data, allows only a limited right to disclose collected data, sets forth data protection obligations for business and creates a private right of action for individuals whose data has been collected or used in violation of the law — even if the individual is unable to show that he or she suffered actual harm from the violation. Illinois has seen numerous class actions premised on this law in the decade since the law has been in effect.
Texas law, like Illinois, requires individuals or companies who collect biometric data to inform individuals before capturing the biometric identifier and to receive the individual’s consent. But unlike the Illinois law, the Texas biometric privacy statute does not require a written release. The Texas law, like the Illinois law, does prohibit the sale of biometric information, and it likewise sets restrictions on how such information is stored.
Washington state’s biometric privacy statute took effect in 2017. Like the Texas law, it does not specify that consent to collection of biometric data be in writing, nor does it create a private cause of action against violators. Unlike its Illinois and Texas counterparts however, the Washington state law carves out an exemption to biometric data collection and storage; businesses may collect and store such information without providing notice and obtaining consent so long as the information is collection for “security purposes.” defined to include collection, storage and use of the information for purposes of preventing shoplifting, fraud and theft. The Washington state law also permits companies to sell biometric information under limited circumstances.
Most recently, California’s law applies on a somewhat more limited scale than the Illinois, Texas and Washington laws. The California law targets any company that both (1) operates in California and (2) either makes at least $25 million in annual revenue, gathers data on more than 50,000 users or makes more than half its money off of user data. The law treats biometric information, including images of ones face, as personal information, and provides rights to consumers to protect their personal information, such as by allowing consumers to obtain information about the collection and sale of their personal information and by allowing consumers to opt out of the sale of their personal information. Although California lawmakers contemplated requiring businesses to disclose their use of facial recognition technology by conspicuously posting physical signs at every entrance to any facility that uses facial recognition technology, the proposed legislation requiring such disclosure failed to garner sufficient interest to pass and has been ordered inactive.
Lawmakers in cities and states around the country continue to explore options to limit how the public and private sector utilize facial recognition technology. Municipal agencies, businesses and inventors must keep themselves apprised of this increasingly complex regulatory environment. If you live in an area considering such a law, you should participate in the process. If you operate a business in a state or city with such laws or collect data on individuals living in any of those areas, you must keep abreast of the changes in this field if you also collect biometric data. This might require any single company to carefully comply with a patchwork of different laws. It is an ever expanding and changing area of law and what might have been acceptable and legal previously could prove problematic or illegal in the future.
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AnonJanuary 28, 2020 05:08 pm
For consideration: a machine that is capable of facial recognition (and acting on such) does NOT “capture your face,” but instead generates a logical construct based on gathered inputs.
Once the logical construct is obtained, then THAT logical construct (and not your actual face) is what is used to “open doors” as such.
How should such a logical construct be treated any differently — under the law — than any other construct for opening doors?


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One big discovery, unlimited hope. Parents biggest fear has always been their offspring’s well-being. The panic after the discovery of their offspring being diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) has always been a shocking news. Parents tend to fall in the state of misery along with the stress caused physically, mentally, emotionally, and financially. The burden on families creates unimaginable lifelong obstacles for them to hurdle.
The future is here! Novel Biomarkers for Autism Early Diagnosis & Treatment
To date, the causes of ASD are not yet known, there is no single cause that contributed to the development of ASD. Yet, scientists believe that both genetic and environmental factors may play a role in ASD. But little did you know, the recent novel discovery of gut microbiota also has influence on ASD.
At the HATCH 2023 Child Health Forum, one of the keynote speaker, Professor Siew Ng from the Department of Medicine and Therapeutics, Faculty of Medicine, The Chinese University of Hong Kong highlighted the potential of novel biomarkers in the microbiome to facilitate earlier diagnoses and improve treatments for children with ASD.
“Within 1 teaspoon of stool would help risk prediction in the near future”, Professor Ng said.
This innovation would not only facilitate the accuracy of diagnosis but also shorten the time of making formal diagnosis given there is lack of definitive diagnostic medical test and child with suspected ASD could only be diagnosed at the age of three currently.
Collective Wisdom of Health Experts at Child Health Forum
After uncovering the remarkable potential of gut microbiota's influence on autism development, many are left wondering what else ASD entails and what immediate steps can be taken to help children with ASD.
Our second keynote speaker, Doctor Oscar Wong from the Department of Psychiatry, The Chinese University of Hong Kong shared his clinical observation and research on psychological conditions of children with ASD. He found that high anxiety level is commonly seen among children with ASD when compared with their normally developing counterparts, and the elevated level of anxiety in ASD with Functional Gastrointestinal Disorder (FGID) was found from his research.
The gastrointestinal complains are often related to dietary habit. And it is known to be crucial for children’s brain development to consume enough nutrients. Our third keynote speaker, Miss Winsy Leung who is a registered dietitian emphasized the importance of balanced diet and shared her experiences working with autistic children for their picky eating behaviours and recommended 10 tips to overcome mealtime challenges to parents.
The second part of the forum invited five panellists – scientists, psychiatrists, dietitians, social workers, and parents – to share their expertise and insights on how to best support children with ASD. Professor Sandra Chan from the Department of Psychiatry, the Chinese University of Hong Kong was the moderator of the panel discussion to facilitate the fluid discussion among panellists.
Ms Daisy Yiew, the representative from The Boys' and Girls' Clubs Association of Hong Kong mentioned the need of early diagnosis and how desperate parents felt when they could do nothing without a proper diagnosis. “I encountered a case who have seen over 11 clinical psychologists with 4 of them making diagnosis on the kid with ASD while the other 4 denied. The parent came to me with sense of helplessness for the unclear result”, Daisy said.
The father of an autistic kid continued to share how despair he felt at the time he knew his kid was diagnosed with ASD and the importance of early diagnosis.
“If the diagnosis can be made earlier, perhaps we can have more time for early intervention to enhance the treatment outcome” father said.
New discovery on the potential faecal bacteria biomarkers creates new hope for children with ASD and their families. Yet, there is still more work to be done to expedite the development of microbiome modulation services for better treatment outcome and to launch a risk prediction test for early ASD detection.
(HATCH - 2023 Child Health Forum co Opening Ceremony, Feb 3, 2023)

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The abundance of positive reviews for caramel popcorn recipes and caramel popcorn products indicates that caramel popcorn tastes good to many people. However, due to the likelihood that caramel popcorn contains ingredients that are high in sugar and fat, it is not so good from a nutritional perspective.
A popular caramel popcorn recipe on Food Network involves stirring a liquid mixture of butter, brown sugar, salt, corn syrup and baking soda through popped popcorn. This recipe receives many good reviews, but individuals seeking slightly healthier alternatives may want to consider recipes with a lighter approach. Overall, it is reasonable to conclude that caramel popcorn is a well-liked snack, but one should consume it in moderation.

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I actually like this song a lot, the different aspects of the song bled rather well and make the piece and overall interesting as well as enjoyable listening experience.
The Bass solo was done very well, as well as the overall 'heart beat' of the song. It doesn't bore you. How it starts off with a simple progression and the the other elements of the song come in piece by piece as if telling a story. The harmony that comes in at 1:21 further enforces the foundation that the song is balanced on. I rather enjoy the breakdowns, even as subtle as they are they quite simply fit.
Over all the song to me at least shows the passion and dedication for music that you must have.
Oh and btw in my opinion this is a rather emotional piece and to me at lease you can feel it in the air while your listening.
<3 I loved this review.
Sounds like something that would be good in a game, but as for emotional expression, it could still use some work. I know how difficult it is to get what you feel into music, I'm still trying to get it right. Keep on! I like your mixing, and you have unique progressions.
You pair a 6 with that review? Hmmm, whatever....LMAO. Thanks for the review! I guess you really need to have my vision to understand the emotional part of the song. Unfortunately, that doesn't matter if I can't portray that to other people.

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Since 2006 it has been called Level 2 Food Safety, but I still get asked for Basic Food Hygiene. The question is do we go back and call it Basic Food Hygiene or Food Safety
Does level 4 Food Safety need to be more related to different sectors?
Food businesses guilty of sub-standard food safety practices will be named and shamed by the Food Standards Agency (FSA) in new reports to be launched next year Is this right? what is your view.

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Dutch retail group Ahold said it plans to expand its Giant chain in the U.S. with the launch of Giant and Go convenience stores, Just-Food reported.
A spokesperson for the company told a Just-Food reporter that the new format, which will be launched in Lancaster, Pa., will feature eight fuel pumps and a selection of products for immediate consumption and "take-home" inside.
“This new Lancaster location is a natural extension of our success with offering gas to our customers. Giant successfully operates 63 fueling stations across the chain," the spokesperson told just-food.
The company said the Giant and Go outlet was being run on a trial basis, and added that it currently has no plans to open further stores. But the spokesperson added: "We will evaluate the success of our Lancaster County location and make a determination on our future plans from there.”
Ahold’s U.S. operations include Stop & Shop, Giant-Landover, Giant-Carlisle and Tops food companies.

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Palo Duro Canyon Panorama
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Well, if you’re tired of the flower and creature photos I’ve been posting lately, hopefully you’ll be relieved to see this landscape panorama! As with the last couple of posts, this was taken at (or, in this case, above) Palo Duro Canyon, the second largest canyon in the US (behind the Grand Canyon).
This is a composite of four images taken just after sunset on a clear evening. I missed getting the tripod and camera set up when I really wanted—with the red rocks afire with the setting sun—about ten minutes before this was taken. But this was still a great time to capture the canyon without the glaring highlights and dark shadows that taking it midday would have produced.
Open the panorama in a new window so you can really explore the layers of erosion and the folds of the canyon wall. And I recommend seeing the canyon in person if you ever get the chance! It is truly a geological wonder.

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Objective The goal is to test whether large-scale machine learning techniques can accurately estimate the specific star formation rate (sSFR) from colours of low-redshift galaxies.
Nearest neighbor density ratio estimation for large-scale applications in astronomy. Natural metrics and least-committed priors for articulated tracking.
A texture descriptor based on the shape index and the accompanying curvedness measure is proposed, and it is evaluated for the automated analysis of astronomical image data. A representative sample of images of low-redshift galaxies from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) serves as a testbed. The goal of applying texture descriptors to these data is to… (More)
Objective The aim is to test whether texture descriptors can extract novel information about physical quantities of galaxies, which normally require spectroscopy to determine. The specific star formation rate (sSFR) is chosen as the quantity in question. Methods We use three sets of features: • Colours from five bandpass filters (no texture information). •… (More)


Do you know my sister? Do you have a library? What if you don't want fruit? Why are the lockers so tiny? Do you know MY sister?
Here are some of the answers, not necessarily in order: "Yes, I do." "We have a lot of students who [need locker space], but we've never had a student who didn't have enough room for their books." "Yes, it's called the media center; you'll see that on your tour." "Yes, but let's save those questions; if we name every student we know, we're not going to get to other questions." "Please. Just take the fruit."
— News reporter Mark Newman is on Twitter @couriermark


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View our Lucippe, and remaine
In her, these beauties o’re againe.
Amazement! Noble Clitophon
Ev’n now lookt somewhat colder on
His cooler mistresse, and she too
Smil’d not as she us’d to do.
See! the individuall payre
Are at sad oddes, and parted are;
They quarrell, aemulate, and stand
At strife, who first shal kisse your hand.
A new dispute there lately rose
Betwixt the Greekes and Latines, whose Temples should be bound with glory,
In best languaging this story;<61.5>
Yee heyres of love, that with one SMILE A ten-yeeres war can reconcile;
Peacefull Hellens! Vertuous! See:
The jarring languages agree!
And here, all armes layd by, they doe In English meet to wayt on you.
<61.1> Achillis Tatii Alexandrini DE LUCIPPES ET CLITOPHONTIS AMORIBUS LIBRI OCTO. The translation of this celebrated work, to which Lovelace contributed the commendatory verses here republished, was executed by his friend Anthony Hodges, A.M., of New College, Oxford, and was printed at Oxford in 1638, 8vo. There had been already a translation by W. Burton, purporting to be done from the Greek, in 1597, 4to. The text of 1649 and that of 1638 exhibit so many variations, that the reader may be glad to have the opportunity of comparison:–
“TO THE LADIES.
“Fair ones, breathe: a while lay by Blessed Sidney’s ARCADY:
Here’s a story that will make
You not repent HIM to forsake;
And with your dissolving looke
Vntie the contents of this booke; To which nought (except your sight)
Can give a worthie epithite.
‘Tis an abstract of all volumes, A pillaster of all columnes
Fancie e’re rear’d to wit, to be Little LOVE’S epitome,
And compactedly expresse
All lovers happy wretchednesse.
“Brave PAMELA’S majestie
And her sweet sister’s modestie
Are fixt in each of you, you are Alone, what these together were
Divinest, that are really
What Cariclea’s feign’d to be;
That are every one, the Nine;
And on earth Astraeas shine;
Be our LEUCIPPE, and remaine
In HER, all these o’re againe.
“Wonder! Noble CLITOPHON
Me thinkes lookes somewhat colder on His beauteous mistresse, and she too
Smiles not as she us’d to doe.
See! the individuall payre
Are at oddes and parted are;
Quarrel, emulate, and stand
At strife, who first shall kisse your hand.
“A new warre e’re while arose
‘Twixt the GREEKES and LATINES, whose Temples should be bound with glory
In best languaging this story:
You, that with one lovely smile
A ten-yeares warre can reconcile; Peacefull Hellens awfull see
The jarring languages agree,
And here all armes laid by, they doe Meet in English to court you.”
Rich. Lovelace, Ma: Ar: A: Glou: Eq: Aur: Fil: Nat: Max.
See Halliwell’s DICTIONARY OF OLD PLAYS, 1860, art. CLYTOPHON.
<61.2> There can be no doubt that Sidney’s ARCADIA was formerly as popular in its way among the readers of both sexes as Sir Richard Baker’s CHRONICLE appears to have been. The former was especially recommended to those who sought occasional relaxation from severer studies. See Higford’s INSTITUTIONS, 1658, 8vo, p. 46-7. In his poem of THE SURPRIZE, Cotton describes his nymph as reading the ARCADIA on the bank of a river–
“The happy OBJECT of her eye
Was SIDNEY’S living ARCADY:
Whose amorous tale had so betrai’d Desire in this all-lovely maid;
That, whilst her check a blush did warm, I read LOVES story in her form.”
POEMS ON SEVERAL OCCASIONS.
By Charles Cotton, Esq. Lond. 1689, 8vo, p. 392.
<61.3> The Pamela of Sydney’s ARCADIA
<61.4> The allusion is to the celebrated story of THEAGENES AND CHARICLEA, which was popular in this country at an early period. A drama on the subject was performed before Court in 1574.
<61.5> Lovelace refers, it may be presumed, to an edition of ACHILLES TATIUS, in which the Greek text was printed with a Latin translation.
TO MY TRUELY VALIANT, LEARNED FRIEND; WHO IN HIS BOOKE<62.1>
RESOLV’D THE ART GLADIATORY INTO THE MATHEMATICKS.
Hearke, reader! wilt be learn’d ith’ warres? A gen’rall in a gowne?
Strike a league with arts and scarres, And snatch from each a crowne?
Wouldst be a wonder? Such a one,
As should win with a looke?
A bishop in a garison,
And conquer by the booke?
Take then this mathematick shield,
And henceforth by its rules
Be able to dispute ith’ field,
And combate in the schooles.
Whilst peaceful learning once againe And the souldier so concord,
As that he fights now with her penne, And she writes with his sword.
<62.1> “PALLAS ARMATA. The Gentlemen’s Armorie. Wherein the right and genuine use of the Rapier and of the Sword, as well against the right handed as against the left handed man ‘is displayed.’ [By G. A.] London, 1639, 8vo. With several illustrative woodcuts.” The lines, as originally printed in PALLAS ARMATA, vary from those subsequently admitted into LUCASTA. They are as follow:–
TO THE READER.
Harke, reader, would’st be learn’d ith’ warres, A CAPTAINE in a gowne?
Strike a league with bookes and starres, And weave of both the crowne?
Would’st be a wonder? Such a one
As would winne with a looke?
A schollar in a garrison?
And conquer by the booke?
Take then this mathematick shield, And henceforth by its rules,
Be able to dispute ith’ field,
And combate in the schooles.
Whil’st peacefull learning once agen And th’ souldier do concorde,
As that he fights now with her penne, And she writes with his sword.
Rich. Lovelace, A. Glouces. Oxon.
TO FLETCHER REVIV’D.<63.1>
How have I bin religious? what strange good Has scap’t me, that I never understood?
Have I hel-guarded Haeresie o’rthrowne? Heald wounded states? made kings and kingdoms one? That FATE should be so merciful to me,
To let me live t’ have said I have read thee.
Faire star, ascend! the joy! the life! the light Of this tempestuous age, this darke worlds sight! Oh, from thy crowne of glory dart one flame May strike a sacred reverence, whilest thy name (Like holy flamens to their god of day)
We bowing, sing; and whilst we praise, we pray.
Bright spirit! whose aeternal motion Of wit, like Time, stil in it selfe did run, Binding all others in it, and did give
Commission, how far this or that shal live; Like DESTINY of poems who, as she
Signes death to all, her selfe cam never dye.
And now thy purple-robed Traegedy,<63.2>
In her imbroider’d buskins, cals mine eye, Where the brave Aetius we see betray’d,
T’ obey his death, whom thousand lives obey’d; Whilst that the mighty foole his scepter breakes, And through his gen’rals wounds his own doome speakes, Weaving thus richly VALENTINIAN,
The costliest monarch with the cheapest man.
Souldiers may here to their old glories adde, The LOVER love, and be with reason MAD:<63.3>
Not, as of old, Alcides furious,<63.4>
Who wilder then his bull did teare the house (Hurling his language with the canvas stone): Twas thought the monster ror’d the sob’rer tone.
But ah! when thou thy sorrow didst inspire With passions, blacke as is her darke attire, Virgins as sufferers have wept to see
So white a soule, so red a crueltie; That thou hast griev’d, and with unthought redresse Dri’d their wet eyes who now thy mercy blesse; Yet, loth to lose thy watry jewell, when Joy wip’t it off, laughter straight sprung’t agen.
Now ruddy checked Mirth with rosie wings<63.5>
Fans ev’ry brow with gladnesse, whilst she sings Delight to all, and the whole theatre
A festivall in heaven doth appeare: Nothing but pleasure, love; and (like the morne) Each face a gen’ral smiling doth adorne.
Heare ye, foul speakers, that pronounce the aire Of stewes and shores,<63.6> I will informe you where
And how to cloath aright your wanton wit, Without her nasty bawd attending it:<63.7>
View here a loose thought sayd with such a grace, Minerva might have spoke in Venus face;
So well disguis’d, that ’twas conceiv’d by none But Cupid had Diana’s linnen on;
And all his naked parts so vail’d, th’ expresse The shape with clowding the uncomlinesse; That if this Reformation, which we
Receiv’d, had not been buried with thee, The stage (as this worke) might have liv’d and lov’d Her lines, the austere Skarlet<63.8> had approv’d;
And th’ actors wisely been from that offence As cleare, as they are now from audience.<63.9>
Thus with thy Genius did the scaene expire,<63.10>
Wanting thy active and correcting fire, That now (to spread a darknesse over all) Nothing remaines but Poesie to fall:
And though from these thy Embers we receive Some warmth, so much as may be said, we live; That we dare praise thee blushlesse, in the head Of the best piece Hermes to Love<63.11> e’re read;
That we rejoyce and glory in thy wit, And feast each other with remembring it; That we dare speak thy thought, thy acts recite: Yet all men henceforth be afraid to write.
<63.1> Fletcher the dramatist fell a victim to the plague of 1625. See Aubrey’s LIVES, vol. 2, part i. p. 352. The verses here republished were originally prefixed to the first collected edition of Beaumont and Fletcher’s TRAGEDIES AND COMEDIES, 1647, folio. It is scarcely necessary to remind the reader that Lovelace was only a child when Fletcher died.
<63.2> VALENTINIAN, A TRAGEDY. First printed in the folio of 1647.
<63.3> THE MAD LOVER. Also first printed in the folio of 1647.
<63.4> An allusion to the HERCULES FURENS of Euripides. Lovelace had, no doubt, some tincture of Greek scholarship (See Wood’s ATH. OX. ii. 466); but as to the extent of his acquirements in this direction, it is hard to speak with confidence. Among the books of Mr. Thomas Jolley, dispersed in 1853, was a copy of Clenardus INSTITUTIONES GRAECAE LINGUAE, Lugd. Batav. 1626, 8vo., on the title of which was “Richard Lovelace, 1630, March 5,” supposed to be the autograph of the poet when a schoolboy.
<63.5> In the margin of the copy of 1647, against these lines is written–“COMEDIES: THE SPANISH CURATE, THE HUMOROUS LIEUTENANT, THE TAMER TAMED, THE LITTLE FRENCH LAWYER.”
<63.7> THE CUSTOME OF THE COUNTREY–Marginal note in the copy of 1647.
<63.8> Query, LAUD.
<63.9> These lines refer to the prohibition published by the Parliament against the performance of stage-plays and interludes. The first ordinance appeared in 1642, but that not being found effectual, a more stringent measure was enacted in 1647, directing, under the heaviest penalties, the total and immediate abolition of theatricals.
<63.10> i.e. The scenic drama. The original meaning of SCENE was a wooden stage for the representation of plays, &c., and it is here used therefore in its primitive sense.
<63.11> In the old mythology of Greece, Cupid is the pupil of Mercury or Hermes; or, in other words, LOVE is instructed by ELOQUENCE and WIT.
RICHARD LOVELACE ESQ;
THOSE HONOURS COME TOO LATE, THAT ON OUR ASHES WAITE.
Mart. lib. I. Epig. 26.
Printed by WILLIAM GODBID for
TO THE RIGHT H0N0RABLE JOHN LOVELACE, ESQUIRE.<64.1>
LUCASTA (fair, but hapless maid!)
Once flourisht underneath the shade Of your illustrious Mother; now,
An orphan grown, she bows to you!
To you, her vertues’ noble heir;
Oh may she find protection there!
Nor let her welcome be the less,
‘Cause a rough hand makes her address: One (to whom foes the Muses are)
Born and bred up in rugged war:
For, conscious how unfit I am,
I only have pronounc’d her name
To waken pity in your brest,
And leave her tears to plead the rest. Sir,
Your most obedient
Servant and kinsman
<64.1> This gentleman was the eldest son of John, second Lord Lovelace of Hurley, co. Berks, by Anne, daughter of Thomas, Earl of Cleveland. The first part of LUCASTA was inscribed by the poet himself to Lady Lovelace, his mother.
HER RESERVED LOOKS.
LUCASTA, frown, and let me die,
But smile, and see, I live;
The sad indifference of your eye
Both kills and doth reprieve.
You hide our fate within its screen; We feel our judgment, ere we hear.
So in one picture I have seen
An angel here, the devil there.
Heark, how she laughs aloud,
Although the world put on its shrowd: Wept at by the fantastic crowd,
Who cry: one drop, let fall
From her, might save the universal ball. She laughs again
At our ridiculous pain;
And at our merry misery
She laughs, until she cry.
That ill-contrived tear,
Although your fear
Doth barricado hope from your soft ear. That which still makes her mirth to flow, Is our sinister-handed woe,
Which downwards on its head doth go, And, ere that it is sown, doth grow.
This makes her spleen contract,
And her just pleasure feast:
For the unjustest act
Is still the pleasant’st jest.
Night! loathed jaylor of the lock’d up sun, And tyrant-turnkey on committed day,
Bright eyes lye fettered in thy dungeon, And Heaven it self doth thy dark wards obey. Thou dost arise our living hell;
With thee grones, terrors, furies dwell; Until LUCASTA doth awake,
And with her beams these heavy chaines off shake.
Behold! with opening her almighty lid, Bright eyes break rowling, and with lustre spread, And captive day his chariot mounted is; Night to her proper hell is beat,
And screwed to her ebon seat;
Till th’ Earth with play oppressed lies, And drawes again the curtains of her eyes.
But, bondslave, I know neither day nor night; Whether she murth’ring sleep, or saving wake; Now broyl’d ith’ zone of her reflected light, Then frose, my isicles, not sinews shake. Smile then, new Nature, your soft blast Doth melt our ice, and fires waste;
Whil’st the scorch’d shiv’ring world new born Now feels it all the day one rising morn.
Introth, I do my self perswade,
That the wilde boy is grown a man, And all his childishnesse off laid,
E’re since LUCASTA did his fires fan; H’ has left his apish jigs,
And whipping hearts like gigs:
For t’ other day I heard him swear, That beauty should be crown’d in honours chair.
With what a true and heavenly state He doth his glorious darts dispence,
Now cleans’d from falsehood, blood and hate, And newly tipt with innocence!
Love Justice is become,
And doth the cruel doome;
Reversed is the old decree;
Behold! he sits inthron’d with majestie.
Inthroned in LUCASTA’S eye,
He doth our faith and hearts survey; Then measures them by sympathy,
And each to th’ others breast convey; Whilst to his altars now
The frozen vestals bow,
And strickt Diana too doth go
A-hunting with his fear’d, exchanged bow.
Th’ imbracing seas and ambient air
Now in his holy fires burn;
Fish couple, birds and beasts in pair Do their own sacrifices turn.
This is a miracle,
That might religion swell;
But she, that these and their god awes, Her crowned self submits to her own laws.
Twas not for some calm blessing to deceive, Thou didst thy polish’d hands in shagg’d furs weave; It were no blessing thus obtain’d;
Thou rather would’st a curse have gain’d, Then let thy warm driven snow be ever stain’d.
Not that you feared the discolo’ring cold Might alchymize their silver into gold;
Nor could your ten white nuns so sin, That you should thus pennance them in,
Each in her coarse hair smock of discipline.
Nor, Hero-like who, on their crest still wore A lyon, panther, leopard, or a bore,
To looke their enemies in their herse, Thou would’st thy hand should deeper pierce, And, in its softness rough, appear more fierce.
No, no, LUCASTA, destiny decreed,
That beasts to thee a sacrifice should bleed, And strip themselves to make you gay:
For ne’r yet herald did display
A coat, where SABLES upon ERMIN lay.
This for lay-lovers, that must stand at dore, Salute the threshold, and admire no more; But I, in my invention tough,
Rate not this outward bliss enough, But still contemplate must the hidden muffe.
A BLACK PATCH<65.1> ON LUCASTA’S FACE.
Dull as I was, to think that a court fly Presum’d so neer her eye;
When ’twas th’ industrious bee Mistook her glorious face for paradise, To summe up all his chymistry of spice;
With a brave pride and honour led, Neer both her suns he makes his bed,
And, though a spark, struggles to rise as red. Then aemulates the gay
Daughter of day;
Acts the romantick phoenix’ fate, When now, with all his sweets lay’d out in state, LUCASTA scatters but one heat,
And all the aromatick pills do sweat, And gums calcin’d themselves to powder beat, Which a fresh gale of air
Conveys into her hair;
Then chaft, he’s set on fire,
And in these holy flames doth glad expire; And that black marble tablet there
So neer her either sphere
Was plac’d; nor foyl, nor ornament, But the sweet little bee’s large monument.
<65.1> The following is a poet’s lecture to the ladies of his time on the long prevailing practice of wearing patches, in which it seems that Lucasta acquiesced:–
LADIES turn conjurers, and can impart The hidden mystery of the black art,
Black artificial patches do betray; They more affect the works of night than day. The creature strives the Creator to disgrace, By patching that which is a perfect face: A little stain upon the purest dye
Is both offensive to the heart and eye. Defile not then with spots that face of snow, Where the wise God His workmanship doth show, The light of nature and the light of grace Is the complexion for a lady’s face.
FLAMMA SINE FUMO, by R. Watkyns, 1662, p. 81.
In a poem entitled THE BURSSE OF REFORMATION, in praise of the New Exchange, printed in WIT RESTORED, 1658, patches are enumerated among the wares of all sorts to be procured there:–
“Heer patches are of every cut,
For pimples and for scars.”
They were also used for rheum, as appears from a passage in WESTWARD HOE, 1607:–
“JUDITH. I am so troubled with the rheum too. Mouse, what’s good for it?
HONEY. How often I have told you you must get a patch.” Webster’s WORKS, ed. Hazlitt, i. 87. See Durfey’s PILLS TO PURGE MELANCHOLY, v. 197.
“Mrs. Pepys wore patches, and so did my Lady Sandwich and her daughter.”–DIARY, 30 Aug. and 20 Oct. 1660.
As I beheld a winter’s evening air, Curl’d in her court-false-locks of living hair, Butter’d with jessamine the sun left there.
Galliard and clinquant she appear’d to give, A serenade or ball to us that grieve,
And teach us A LA MODE more gently live.
But as a Moor, who to her cheeks prefers White spots, t’ allure her black idolaters, Me thought she look’d all ore-bepatch’d with stars.
Like the dark front of some Ethiopian queen, Vailed all ore with gems of red, blew, green, Whose ugly night seem’d masked with days skreen.
Whilst the fond people offer’d sacrifice To saphyrs, ‘stead of veins and arteries, And bow’d unto the diamonds, not her eyes.
Behold LUCASTA’S face, how’t glows like noon! A sun intire is her complexion,
And form’d of one whole constellation.
So gently shining, so serene, so cleer, Her look doth universal Nature cheer;
Only a cloud or two hangs here and there.
I laugh and sing, but cannot tell
Whether the folly on’t sounds well; But then I groan,
Methinks, in tune;
Whilst grief, despair and fear dance to the air Of my despised prayer.
A pretty antick love does this,
Then strikes a galliard with a kiss; As in the end
The chords they rend;
So you but with a touch from your fair hand Turn all to saraband.
Like to the sent’nel stars, I watch all night; For still the grand round of your light And glorious breast
Awake<66.1> in me an east:
Nor will my rolling eyes ere know a west.
Now on my down I’m toss’d as on a wave, And my repose is made my grave;
Fluttering I lye,
Do beat my self and dye,
But for a resurrection from your eye.
Ah, my fair murdresse! dost thou cruelly heal With various pains to make me well?
Then let me be
Thy cut anatomie,
And in each mangled part my heart you’l see.
<66.1> Original has AWAKES.
LUCASTA AT THE BATH.
I’ th’ autumn of a summer’s day,
When all the winds got leave to play, LUCASTA, that fair ship, is lanch’d,
And from its crust this almond blanch’d.
Blow then, unruly northwind, blow,
‘Till in their holds your eyes you stow; And swell your cheeks, bequeath chill death; See! she hath smil’d thee out of breath.
Court, gentle zephyr, court and fan Her softer breast’s carnation wan;
Your charming rhethorick of down
Flyes scatter’d from before her frown.
Say, my white water-lilly, say,
How is’t those warm streams break away, Cut by thy chast cold breast, which dwells Amidst them arm’d in isicles?
And the hot floods, more raging grown, In flames of thee then in their own,
In their distempers wildly glow,
And kisse thy pillar of fix’d snow.
No sulphur, through whose each blew vein The thick and lazy currents strein,
Can cure the smarting nor the fell
Blisters of love, wherewith they swell.
These great physicians of the blind, The lame, and fatal blains of Inde
In every drop themselves now see
Speckled with a new leprosie.
As sick drinks are with old wine dash’d, Foul waters too with spirits wash’d,
Thou greiv’d, perchance, one tear let’st fall, Which straight did purifie them all.
And now is cleans’d enough the flood, Which since runs cleare as doth thy blood; Of the wet pearls uncrown thy hair,
And mantle thee with ermin air.
Lucasta, hail! fair conqueresse
Of fire, air, earth and seas!
Thou whom all kneel to, yet even thou Wilt unto love, thy captive, bow.
Forbear, thou great good husband, little ant; A little respite from thy flood of sweat! Thou, thine own horse and cart under this plant, Thy spacious tent, fan thy prodigious heat; Down with thy double load of that one grain! It is a granarie for all thy train.
Cease, large example of wise thrift, awhile (For thy example is become our law),
And teach thy frowns a seasonable smile: So Cato sometimes the nak’d Florals saw.<67.2>
And thou, almighty foe, lay by thy sting, Whilst thy unpay’d musicians, crickets, sing.
LUCASTA, she that holy makes the day, And ‘stills new life in fields of fueillemort,<67.3>
Hath back restor’d their verdure with one ray, And with her eye bid all to play and sport, Ant, to work still! age will thee truant call; And to save now, th’art worse than prodigal.
Austere and cynick! not one hour t’ allow, To lose with pleasure, what thou gotst with pain; But drive on sacred festivals thy plow,
Tearing high-ways with thy ore-charged wain. Not all thy life-time one poor minute live, And thy ore-labour’d bulk with mirth relieve?
Look up then, miserable ant, and spie Thy fatal foes, for breaking of their<67.4> law,
Hov’ring above thee: Madam MARGARET PIE: And her fierce servant, meagre Sir JOHN DAW: Thy self and storehouse now they do store up, And thy whole harvest too within their crop.
Thus we unt[h]rifty thrive within earth’s tomb For some more rav’nous and ambitious jaw: The grain in th’ ant’s, the ant<67.5> in the pie’s womb,
The pie in th’ hawk’s, the hawk<67.6> ith’ eagle’s maw.
So scattering to hord ‘gainst a long day, Thinking to save all, we cast all away.
<67.1> A writer in CENSURA LITERARIA, x. 292 (first edit.)–the late E. V. Utterson, Esq.–highly praises this little poem, and says that it is not unworthy of Cowper. I think it highly probable that the translation from Martial (lib. vi. Ep. 15), at the end of the present volume, was executed prior to the composition of these lines; and that the latter were suggested by the former. Compare the beautiful description of the ant in the PROVERBS OF SOLOMON:–“Go to the ant, thou sluggard; consider her ways and be wise: which having no guide, overseer, or ruler, provideth her meat in the summer, and gathereth her food in the harvest.–PROVERBS, vi. 6-8.
In the poems of John Cleveland, 1669, is a piece entitled “Fuscara, or the Bee Errant,” which is of a somewhat similar character, and is by no means a contemptible production, though spoiled by that LUES ALCHYMISTICA which disfigures so much of the poetry of Cleveland’s time. The abilities of Cleveland as a writer seem to have been underrated by posterity, in proportion to the undue praise lavished upon him by his contemporaries.
<67.2> The Floralia, games antiently celebrated at Rome in honour of Flora.
<67.3> Here used for DEAD OR FADED VEGETATION, but strictly it means DEAD OR FADED LEAF. FILEMORT is another form of the same word.
<67.4> Original has HER.
<67.5> Original reads ANTS.
<67.6> Original reads HAWKS.
Strive not, vain lover, to be fine; Thy silk’s the silk-worm’s, and not thine: You lessen to a fly your mistriss’ thought, To think it may be in a cobweb caught.
What, though her thin transparent lawn Thy heart in a strong net hath drawn:
Not all the arms the god of fire ere made Can the soft bulwarks of nak’d love invade.
Be truly fine, then, and yourself dress In her fair soul’s immac’late glass.
Then by reflection you may have the bliss Perhaps to see what a true fineness is;
When all your gawderies will fit
Those only that are poor in wit.
She that a clinquant outside doth adore, Dotes on a gilded statue and no more.
IN ALLUSION TO THE FRENCH SONG.
N’ ENTENDEZ VOUS PAS CE LANGUAGE.
THEN UNDERSTAND YOU NOT (FAIR CHOICE) THIS LANGUAGE WITHOUT TONGUE OR VOICE?
How often have my tears
Invaded your soft ears,
And dropp’d their silent chimes
A thousand thousand times?
Whilst echo did your eyes,
And sweetly sympathize;
But that the wary lid
Their sluces did forbid.
Cho. THEN UNDERSTAND YOU NOT (FAIR CHOICE) THIS LANGUAGE WITHOUT TONGUE OR VOICE?
My arms did plead my wound,
Each in the other bound;
Volleys of sighs did crowd,
And ring my griefs alowd;
Grones, like a canon-ball,
Batter’d the marble wall,
That the kind neighb’ring grove
Did mutiny for love.
Cho. THEN UNDERSTAND YOU NOT (FAIR CHOICE) THIS LANGUAGE WITHOUT TONGUE OR VOICE?
The rheth’rick of my hand
Woo’d you to understand;
Nay, in our silent walk
My very feet would talk;
My knees were eloquent,
And spake the love I meant;
But deaf unto that ayr,
They, bent, would fall in prayer.
Cho. YET UNDERSTAND YOU NOT (FAIR CHOICE) THIS LANGUAGE WITHOUT TONGUE OR VOICE?
No? Know, then, I would melt
On every limb I felt,
And on each naked part
Spread my expanded heart,
That not a vein of thee
But should be fill’d with mee.
Whilst on thine own down, I
Would tumble, pant, and dye.
Cho. YOU UNDERSTAND NOT THIS (FAIR CHOICE); THIS LANGUAGE WANTS BOTH TONGUE AND VOICE.
That frown, Aminta, now hath drown’d Thy bright front’s pow’r, and crown’d
Me that was bound.
No, no, deceived cruel, no!
Love’s fiery darts,
Till tipt with kisses, never kindle hearts.
Adieu, weak beauteous tyrant, see!
Thy angry flames meant me,<68.2>
Retort on thee:
For know, it is decreed, proud fair, I ne’r must dye
By any scorching, but a melting, eye.
<68.1> COURANTE was a favourite dance and dance-tune. It is still known under the same name.
<68.2> i.e. THAT meant me, which was intended for me.
A LOOSE SARABAND.
Nay, prethee, dear, draw nigher,
Yet closer, nigher yet;
Here is a double fire,
A dry one and a wet.
True lasting heavenly fuel
Puts out the vestal jewel,
When once we twining marry
Mad love with wild canary.
Off with that crowned Venice,<69.1>
‘Till all the house doth flame,
Wee’l quench it straight in Rhenish, Or what we must not name.
Milk lightning still asswageth;
So when our fury rageth,
As th’ only means to cross it,
Wee’l drown it in love’s posset.
Love never was well-willer
Unto my nag or mee,
Ne’r watter’d us ith’ cellar,
But the cheap buttery.
At th’ head of his own barrells,
Where broach’d are all his quarrels, Should a true noble master
Still make his guest his taster.
See, all the world how’t staggers,
More ugly drunk then we,
As if far gone in daggers
And blood it seem’d to be.
We drink our glass of roses,
Which nought but sweets discloses:
Then in our loyal chamber
Refresh us with love’s amber.
Now tell me, thou fair cripple,
That dumb canst scarcely see
Th’ almightinesse of tipple,
And th’ ods ‘twixt thee and thee,
What of Elizium’s missing,
Still drinking and still kissing;
Adoring plump October;
Lord! what is man, and<69.2> sober?
Now, is there such a trifle
As honour, the fools gyant,
What is there left to rifle,
When wine makes all parts plyant?
Let others glory follow,
In their false riches wallow,
And with their grief be merry:
Leave me but love and sherry.
<69.1> QU. a crowned goblet of Venice glass.
<69.2> i.e. if.
Fair Princesse of the spacious air,
That hast vouchsaf’d acquaintance here, With us are quarter’d below stairs,
That can reach heav’n with nought but pray’rs; Who, when our activ’st wings we try,
Advance a foot into the sky.
Bright heir t’ th’ bird imperial,
From whose avenging penons fall
Thunder and lightning twisted spun! Brave cousin-german to the Sun!
That didst forsake thy throne and sphere, To be an humble pris’ner here;
And for a pirch of her soft hand,
Resign the royal woods’ command.
How often would’st thou shoot heav’ns ark, Then mount thy self into a lark;
And after our short faint eyes call, When now a fly, now nought at all!
Then stoop so swift unto our sence, As thou wert sent intelligence!
Free beauteous slave, thy happy feet In silver fetters vervails<70.1> meet,
And trample on that noble wrist,
The gods have kneel’d in vain t’ have kist. But gaze not, bold deceived spye,
Too much oth’ lustre of her eye;
The Sun thou dost out stare, alas!
Winks at the glory of her face.
Be safe then in thy velvet helm,
Her looks are calms that do orewhelm, Then the Arabian bird more blest,
Chafe in the spicery of her breast, And loose you in her breath a wind
Sow’rs the delicious gales of Inde.
But now a quill from thine own wing
I pluck, thy lofty fate to sing;
Whilst we behold the varions fight
With mingled pleasure and affright; The humbler hinds do fall to pray’r,
As when an army’s seen i’ th’ air,
And the prophetick spannels run,
And howle thy epicedium.
The heron mounted doth appear
On his own Peg’sus a lanceer,
And seems, on earth when he doth hut, A proper halberdier on foot;
Secure i’ th’ moore, about to sup,
The dogs have beat his quarters up.
And now he takes the open air,
Drawes up his wings with tactick care; Whilst th’ expert falcon swift doth climbe In subtle mazes serpentine;
And to advantage closely twin’d
She gets the upper sky and wind,
Where she dissembles to invade,
And lies a pol’tick ambuscade.
The hedg’d-in heron, whom the foe
Awaits above, and dogs below,
In his fortification lies,
And makes him ready for surprize;
When roused with a shrill alarm,
Was shouted from beneath: they arm.
The falcon charges at first view
With her brigade of talons, through Whose shoots, the wary heron beat
With a well counterwheel’d retreat. But the bold gen’ral, never lost,
Hath won again her airy post;
Who, wild in this affront, now fryes, Then gives a volley of her eyes.
The desp’rate heron now contracts
In one design all former facts;
Noble, he is resolv’d to fall,
His and his en’mies funerall,
And (to be rid of her) to dy,
A publick martyr of the sky.
When now he turns his last to wreak
The palizadoes of his beak,
The raging foe impatient,
Wrack’d with revenge, and fury rent, Swift as the thunderbolt he strikes
Too sure upon the stand of pikes;
There she his naked breast doth hit, And on the case of rapiers’s split.
But ev’n in her expiring pangs
The heron’s pounc’d within her phangs, And so above she stoops to rise,
A trophee and a sacrifice;
Whilst her own bells in the sad fall Ring out the double funerall.
Ah, victory, unhap’ly wonne!
Weeping and red is set the Sun;
Whilst the whole field floats in one tear, And all the air doth mourning wear.
Close-hooded all thy kindred come
To pay their vows upon thy tombe;
The hobby<70.2> and the musket<70.3> too
Do march to take their last adieu.
The lanner<70.4> and the lanneret<70.5>
Thy colours bear as banneret;
The GOSHAWK and her TERCEL<70.6> rows’d
With tears attend thee as new bows’d, All these are in their dark array,
Led by the various herald-jay.
But thy eternal name shall live
Whilst quills from ashes fame reprieve, Whilst open stands renown’s wide dore,
And wings are left on which to soar; Doctor robbin, the prelate pye,
And the poetick swan, shall dye,
Only to sing thy elegie.
<70.1> i.e. VERVELS. See Halliwell’s DICTIONARY OF ARCHAIC AND PROVINCIAL WORDS, art. VERVEL.
<70.2> A kind of falcon. It is the FALCO SUBBUTEO of Linnaeus. Lyly, in his EUPHUES (1579, fol. 28), makes Lucilla say– “No birde can looke agains the Sunne, but those that bee bredde of the eagle, neyther any hawke soare so hie as the broode of the hobbie.”
“Then rouse thee, muse, each little hobby plies At scarabes and painted butterflies.” Wither’s ABUSES STRIPT AND WHIPT, 1613.
<70.3> The young male sparrow-hawk.
<70.4> The FALCO LANIARIUS of Linnaeus.
<70.5> The female of the LANNER. Latham (Faulconrie, lib. ii. chap. v. ed. 1658), explains the difference between the LANNER and the GOSHAWK.
<70.6> Here used for the female of the goshawk. TIERCEL and TASSEL are other forms of the same word. See Strutt’s SPORTS AND PASTIMES, ed. Hone, 1845, p. 37.
LOVE MADE IN THE FIRST AGE.
In the nativity of time,
Chloris! it was not thought a crime In direct Hebrew for to woe.
Now wee make love, as all on fire,
Ring retrograde our lowd desire,
And court in English backward too.
Thrice happy was that golden age,
When complement was constru’d rage, And fine words in the center hid;
When cursed NO stain’d no maid’s blisse, And all discourse was summ’d in YES,
And nought forbad, but to forbid.
Love then unstinted love did sip,
And cherries pluck’d fresh from the lip, On cheeks and roses free he fed;
Lasses, like Autumne plums, did drop, And lads indifferently did drop
A flower and a maiden-head.
Then unconfined each did tipple
Wine from the bunch, milk from the nipple; Paps tractable as udders were.
Then equally the wholsome jellies
Were squeez’d from olive-trees and bellies: Nor suits of trespasse did they fear.
A fragrant bank of strawberries,
Diaper’d with violets’ eyes,
Was table, table-cloth and fare;
No palace to the clouds did swell,
Each humble princesse then did dwell In the Piazza of her hair.
Both broken faith and th’ cause of it, All-damning gold, was damn’d to th’ pit; Their troth seal’d with a clasp and kisse, Lasted until that extreem day,
In which they smil’d their souls away, And in each other breath’d new blisse.
Because no fault, there was no tear; No grone did grate the granting ear,
No false foul breath, their del’cat smell. No serpent kiss poyson’d the tast,
Each touch was naturally chast,
And their mere Sense a Miracle.
Naked as their own innocence,
And unembroyder’d from offence,
They went, above poor riches, gay; On softer than the cignet’s down,
In beds they tumbled off their own: For each within the other lay.
Thus did they live: thus did they love, Repeating only joyes above,
And angels were but with cloaths on, Which they would put off cheerfully,
To bathe them in the Galaxie,
Then gird them with the heavenly zone.
Now, Chloris! miserably crave
The offer’d blisse you would not have, Which evermore I must deny:
Whilst ravish’d with these noble dreams, And crowned with mine own soft beams,
Injoying of my self I lye.
<71.1> This and the succeeding stanza are omitted by Mr. Singer in his reprint.
TO A LADY WITH CHILD THAT ASK’D AN OLD SHIRT.<72.1>
And why an honour’d ragged shirt, that shows, Like tatter’d ensigns, all its bodie’s blows? Should it be swathed in a vest so dire,
It were enough to set the child on fire; Dishevell’d queen[s] should strip them of their hair, And in it mantle the new rising heir:
Nor do I know ought worth to wrap it in, Except my parchment upper-coat of skin;
And then expect no end of its chast tears, That first was rowl’d in down, now furs of bears.
But since to ladies ‘t hath a custome been Linnen to send, that travail and lye in; To the nine sempstresses, my former friends, I su’d; but they had nought but shreds and ends. At last, the jolli’st of the three times three Rent th’ apron from her smock, and gave it me; ‘Twas soft and gentle, subt’ly spun, no doubt; Pardon my boldnese, madam; HERE’S THE CLOUT.
<72.1> A portion of this little poem is quoted in Brand’s POPULAR ANTIQUITIES (edit. 1849, ii. 70), as an illustration of the custom to which it refers. No second example of such an usage seems to have been known to Brand and his editors.
following passage in the old morality of THE MARRIAGE OF WIT AND WISDOM (circa 1570) has come under my notice:–
“INDULGENCE [to her son WIT].
Well, yet before the goest, hold heare MY BLESSING IN A CLOUTE,
WELL FARE THE MOTHER AT A NEEDE, Stand to thy tackling stout.”
The allusion is to the contemplated marriage of WIT to his betrothed, WISDOM.
In mine one monument I lye,
And in my self am buried;
Sure, the quick lightning of her eye Melted my soul ith’ scabberd dead;
And now like some pale ghost I walk, And with another’s spirit talk.
Nor can her beams a heat convey,
That may my frozen bosome warm,
Unless her smiles have pow’r, as they, That a cross charm can countercharm.
But this is such a pleasing pain,
I’m loth to be alive again.
I did believe I was in heav’n,
When first the heav’n her self was giv’n, That in my heart her beams did passe
As some the sun keep in a glasse,
So that her beauties thorow me
Did hurt my rival-enemy.
But fate, alas! decreed it so,
That I was engine to my woe:
For, as a corner’d christal spot,
My heart diaphanous was not;
But solid stuffe, where her eye flings Quick fire upon the catching strings:
Yet, as at triumphs in the night,
You see the Prince’s Arms in light, So, when I once was set on flame,
I burnt all ore the letters of her name.
You are deceiv’d; I sooner may, dull fair, Seat a dark Moor in Cassiopea’s<73.1> chair,
Or on the glow-worm’s uselesse light Bestow the watching flames of night,
Or give the rose’s breath
To executed death,
Ere the bright hiew
Of verse to you;
It is just Heaven on beauty stamps a fame, And we, alas! its triumphs but proclaim.
What chains but are too light for me, should I Say that Lucasta in strange arms could lie? Or that Castara<73.2> were impure;
Or Saccarisa’s<73.3> faith unsure?
That Chloris’ love, as hair,
Embrac’d each en’mies air;
That all their good
Ran in their blood?
‘Tis the same wrong th’ unworthy to inthrone, As from her proper sphere t’ have vertue thrown.
That strange force on the ignoble hath renown; As AURUM FULMINANS, it blows vice down.
‘Twere better (heavy one) to crawl Forgot, then raised, trod on [to] fall. All your defections now
Are not writ on your brow;
Odes to faults give
A shame must live.
When a fat mist we view, we coughing run; But, that once meteor drawn, all cry: undone.
How bright the fair Paulina<73.4> did appear,
When hid in jewels she did seem a star! But who could soberly behold
A wicked owl in cloath of gold,
Or the ridiculous Ape
In sacred Vesta’s shape?
So doth agree
Just praise with thee:
For since thy birth gave thee no beauty, know, No poets pencil must or can do so.
<73.1> The constellation so called. In old drawings Cassiopeia is represented as a woman sitting in a chair with a branch in her hand, and hence the allusion here. Dixon, in his CANIDIA, 1683, part i. p. 35, makes his witches say:–
“We put on Berenice’s hair,
And sit in Cassiopeia’s chair.”
Randolph couples it with “Ariadne’s Crowne” in the following passage:–
“Shine forth a constellation, full and bright, Bless the poor heavens with more majestick light, Who in requitall shall present you there ARIADNE’S CROWNE and CASSIOPEIA’S CHAYR.” POEMS, ed. 1640, p. 14.
<73.2> William Habington published his poems under the name of CASTARA, a fictitious appellation signifying the daughter of Lord Powis. This lady was eventually his wife. The first edition of CASTARA appeared in 1634, the second in 1635, and the third in 1640.
<73.3> Waller’s SACHARISSA, i.e. Lady Dorothy Sydney.
<73.4> Lollia Paulina, who first married Memmius Regulus, and subsequently the Emperor Caligula, from both of whom she was divorced. She inherited from her father enormous wealth.
Love drunk, the other day, knockt at my brest, But I, alas! was not within.
My man, my ear, told me he came t’ attest, That without cause h’d boxed him,
And battered the windows of mine eyes, And took my heart for one of’s nunneries.
I wondred at the outrage safe return’d, And stormed at the base affront;
And by a friend of mine, bold faith, that burn’d, I called him to a strict accompt.
He said that, by the law, the challeng’d might Take the advantage both of arms and fight.
Two darts of equal length and points he sent, And nobly gave the choyce to me,
Which I not weigh’d, young and indifferent, Now full of nought but victorie.
So we both met in one of’s mother’s groves, The time, at the first murm’ring of her doves.
I stript myself naked all o’re, as he: For so I was best arm’d, when bare.
His first pass did my liver rase: yet I Made home a falsify<74.1> too neer:
For when my arm to its true distance came, I nothing touch’d but a fantastick flame.
This, this is love we daily quarrel so, An idle Don-Quichoterie:
We whip our selves with our own twisted wo, And wound the ayre for a fly.
The only way t’ undo this enemy
Is to laugh at the boy, and he will cry.
<74.1> “To falsify a thrust,” says Phillips (WORLD OF WORDS, ed. 1706, art. FALSIFY), “is to make a feigned pass.” Lovelace here employs the word as a substantive rather awkwardly; but the meaning is, no doubt, the same.
CUPID FAR GONE.
What, so beyond all madnesse is the elf, Now he hath got out of himself!
His fatal enemy the Bee,
Nor his deceiv’d artillerie,
His shackles, nor the roses bough
Ne’r half so netled him, as he is now.
See! at’s own mother he is offering; His finger now fits any ring;
Old Cybele he would enjoy,
And now the girl, and now the boy. He proffers Jove a back caresse,
And all his love in the antipodes.
Jealous of his chast Psyche, raging he Quarrels with<75.2> student Mercurie,
And with a proud submissive breath Offers to change his darts with Death.
He strikes at the bright eye of day, And Juno tumbles in her milky way.
The dear sweet secrets of the gods he tells, And with loath’d hate lov’d heaven he swells; Now, like a fury, he belies
Myriads of pure virginities,
And swears, with this false frenzy hurl’d, There’s not a vertuous she in all the world.
Olympus he renownces, then descends, And makes a friendship with the fiends; Bids Charon be no more a slave,
He Argos rigg’d with stars shall have, And triple Cerberus from below
Must leash’d t’ himself with him a hunting go.
<75.1> This stanza was suppressed by Mr. Singer.
<75.2> Original reads THE.
A MOCK SONG.
Now Whitehall’s in the grave,
And our head is our slave,
The bright pearl in his close shell of oyster; Now the miter is lost,
The proud Praelates, too, crost,
And all Rome’s confin’d to a cloister. He, that Tarquin was styl’d,
Our white land’s exil’d,
Not a court ape’s left to confute us; Then let your voyces rise high,
As your colours did flye,
And flour’shing cry:
Long live the brave Oliver-Brutus.<76.1>
Now the sun is unarm’d,
And the moon by us charm’d,
All the stars dissolv’d to a jelly; Now the thighs of the Crown
And the arms are lopp’d down,
And the body is all but a belly.
Let the Commons go on,
The town is our own,
We’l rule alone:
For the Knights have yielded their spent-gorge; And an order is tane
With HONY SOIT profane,
Shout forth amain:
For our Dragon hath vanquish’d the St. George.
A FLY CAUGHT IN A COBWEB.
Small type of great ones, that do hum Within this whole world’s narrow room,
That with a busie hollow noise
Catch at the people’s vainer voice, And with spread sails play with their breath, Whose very hails new christen death.
Poor Fly, caught in an airy net,
Thy wings have fetter’d now thy feet; Where, like a Lyon in a toyl,
Howere thou keep’st a noble coyl,
And beat’st thy gen’rous breast, that o’re The plains thy fatal buzzes rore,
Till thy all-bellyd foe (round elf<77.1>)
Hath quarter’d thee within himself.
Was it not better once to play
I’ th’ light of a majestick ray,
Where, though too neer and bold, the fire Might sindge thy upper down attire,
And thou i’ th’ storm to loose an eye. A wing, or a self-trapping thigh:
Yet hadst thou fal’n like him, whose coil Made fishes in the sea to broyl,
When now th’ast scap’d the noble flame; Trapp’d basely in a slimy frame,
And free of air, thou art become
Slave to the spawn of mud and lome?
Nor is’t enough thy self do’s dresse To thy swoln lord a num’rous messe,
And by degrees thy thin veins bleed, And piecemeal dost his poyson feed;
But now devour’d, art like to be
A net spun for thy familie,
And, straight expanded in the air,
Hang’st for thy issue too a snare.
Strange witty death and cruel ill
That, killing thee, thou thine dost kill! Like pies, in whose entombed ark
All fowl crowd downward to a lark,
Thou art thine en’mies’ sepulcher,
And in thee buriest, too, thine heir.
Yet Fates a glory have reserv’d
For one so highly hath deserv’d.
As the rhinoceros doth dy
Under his castle-enemy,
As through the cranes trunk throat doth speed, The aspe doth on his feeder feed;
Fall yet triumphant in thy woe,
Bound with the entrails of thy foe.
<77.1> The spider.
A FLY ABOUT A GLASSE OF BURNT CLARET.
Forbear this liquid fire, Fly,
It is more fatal then the dry,
That singly, but embracing, wounds; And this at once both burns and drowns.
The salamander, that in heat
And flames doth cool his monstrous sweat, Whose fan a glowing cake is said,
Of this red furnace is afraid.
Viewing the ruby-christal shine,
Thou tak’st it for heaven-christalline; Anon thou wilt be taught to groan:
‘Tis an ascended Acheron.
A snow-ball heart in it let fall,
And take it out a fire-ball;
Ali icy breast in it betray’d
Breaks a destructive wild granade.
‘Tis this makes Venus altars shine, This kindles frosty Hymen’s pine;
When the boy grows old in his desires, This flambeau doth new light his fires.
Though the cold hermit over wail,
Whose sighs do freeze, and tears drop hail, Once having pass’d this, will ne’r
Another flaming purging fear.
The vestal drinking this doth burn
Now more than in her fun’ral urn;
Her fires, that with the sun kept race, Are now extinguish’d by her face.
The chymist, that himself doth still,<78.1>
Let him but tast this limbecks<78.2> bill,
And prove this sublimated bowl,
He’ll swear it will calcine a soul.
Noble, and brave! now thou dost know The false prepared decks below,
Dost thou the fatal liquor sup,
One drop, alas! thy barque blowes up.
What airy country hast to save,
Whose plagues thou’lt bury in thy grave? For even now thou seem’st to us
On this gulphs brink a Curtius.
And now th’ art faln (magnanimous Fly) In, where thine Ocean doth fry,
Like the Sun’s son, who blush’d the flood To a complexion of blood.
Yet, see! my glad auricular
Redeems thee (though dissolv’d) a star, Flaggy<78.3> thy wings, and scorch’d thy thighs, Thou ly’st a double sacrifice.
And now my warming, cooling breath
Shall a new life afford in death;
See! in the hospital of my hand
Already cur’d, thou fierce do’st stand.
Burnt insect! dost thou reaspire
The moist-hot-glasse and liquid fire? I see ’tis such a pleasing pain,
Thou would’st be scorch’d and drown’d again.
<78.1> i.e. distil.
<78.2> Lovelace was by no means peculiar in the fondness which he has shown in this poem and elsewhere for figures drawn from the language of alchemy.
“Retire into thy grove of eglantine, Where I will all those ravished sweets distill Through Love’s alembic, and with chemic skill From the mix’d mass one sovereign balm derive.” Carew’s POEMS (1640), ed. 1772, p. 77.
“—-I will try
From the warm limbeck of my eye, In such a method to distil
Tears on thy marble nature—-“
Shirley’s POEMS (Works by Dyce, vi. 407).
“Nature’s Confectioner, the BEE,
Whose suckers are moist ALCHYMIE, The still of his refining Mould,
Minting the garden into gold.”
Cleveland’s POEMS, ed. 1669, p. 4.
“Fisher is here with purple wing,
Who brings me to the Spring-head, where Crystall is Lymbeckt all the year.”
Lord Westmoreland’s OTIA SACRA, 1648, p. 137,
<78.3> WEAK. The word was once not very uncommon in writings. Bacon, Spenser, &c. use it; but it is now, I believe, confined to Somersetshire and the bordering counties.
“LUKE. A south wind
Shall sooner soften marble, and the rain, That slides down gently from his flaggy wings, O’erflow the Alps.”
Massinger’s CITY MADAM, 1658.
Mongst the worlds wonders, there doth yet remain One greater than the rest, that’s all those o’re again, And her own self beside: A Lady, whose soft breast Is with vast honours soul and virtues life possest. Fair as original light first from the chaos shot, When day in virgin-beams triumph’d, and night was not, And as that breath infus’d in the new-breather good, When ill unknown was dumb, and bad not understood; Chearful, as that aspect at this world’s finishing, When cherubims clapp’d wings, and th’ sons of Heaven did sing; Chast as th’ Arabian bird, who all the ayr denyes,<79.1>
And ev’n in flames expires, when with her selfe she lyes. Oh! she’s as kind as drops of new faln April showers, That on each gentle breast spring fresh perfuming flowers; She’s constant, gen’rous, fixt; she’s calm, she is the all We can of vertue, honour, faith, or glory call, And she is (whom I thus transmit to endless fame) Mistresse oth’ world and me, and LAURA is her name.
<79.1> The Phoenix.
LUTE AND VOICE.
L. Sing, Laura, sing, whilst silent are the sphears, And all the eyes of Heaven are turn’d to ears.
V. Touch thy dead wood, and make each living tree Unchain its feet, take arms, and follow thee.
L. Sing. V. Touch. 0 Touch. L. 0 Sing. BOTH. It is the souls, souls sole offering.
V. Touch the divinity of thy chords, and make Each heart string tremble, and each sinew shake.
L. Whilst with your voyce you rarifie the air, None but an host of angels hover here.
CHORUS. SING, TOUCH, &c.
V. Touch thy soft lute, and in each gentle thread The lyon and the panther captive lead.
L. Sing, and in heav’n inthrone deposed love, Whilst angels dance, and fiends in order move.
What sacred charm may this then be In harmonie,
That thus can make the angels wild, The devils mild,
And teach<80.1> low hell to heav’n to swell,
And the high heav’n to stoop to hell?
<80.1> Original and Singer read REACH.
A MOCK CHARON.
W. Charon! thou slave! thou fooll! thou cavaleer!<81.1>
CHA. A slave! a fool! what traitor’s voice I hear? W. Come bring thy boat. CH. No, sir. W. No! sirrah, why? CHA. The blest will disagree, and fiends will mutiny At thy, at thy [un]numbred treachery. W. Villain, I have a pass which who disdains, I will sequester the Elizian plains. CHA. Woes me, ye gentle shades! where shall I dwell? He’s come! It is not safe to be in hell.
Thus man, his honor lost, falls on these shelves; Furies and fiends are still true to themselves.
CHA. You must, lost fool, come in. W. Oh, let me in! But now I fear thy boat will sink with my ore-weighty sin. Where, courteous Charon, am I now? CHA. Vile rant!<81.2>
At the gates of thy supreme Judge Rhadamant.
DOUBLE CHORUS OF DIVELS.
Welcome to rape, to theft, to perjurie, To all the ills thou wert, we canot hope to be; Oh, pitty us condemned! Oh, cease to wooe, And softly, softly breath, least you infect us too.
<81.1> This word is used here merely to denote a GALLANT, a FELLOW. From being in its primitive sense a most honourable appellation, it became, during and after the civil war between Charles and the Parliament, a term of equivocal import.
<81.2> Here equivalent to RANTER, and used for the sake of the metre.
THE TOAD AND SPYDER.
Upon a day, when the Dog-star
Unto the world proclaim’d a war,
And poyson bark’d from black throat, And from his jaws infection shot,
Under a deadly hen-bane shade
With slime infernal mists are made, Met the two dreaded enemies,
Having their weapons in their eyes.
First from his den rolls forth that load Of spite and hate, the speckl’d toad,
And from his chaps a foam doth spawn, Such as the loathed three heads yawn;
Defies his foe with a fell spit,
To wade through death to meet with it; Then in his self the lymbeck turns,
And his elixir’d poyson urns.
Arachne, once the fear oth’ maid<82.1>
Coelestial, thus unto her pray’d:
Heaven’s blew-ey’d daughter, thine own mother! The Python-killing Sun’s thy brother.
Oh! thou, from gods that didst descend, With a poor virgin to contend,
Shall seed of earth and hell ere be A rival in thy victorie?
Pallas assents: for now long time
And pity had clean rins’d her crime; When straight she doth with active fire
Her many legged foe inspire.
Have you not seen a charact<82.2> lie
A great cathedral in the sea,
Under whose Babylonian walls
A small thin frigot almshouse stalls? So in his slime the toad doth float
And th’ spyder by, but seems his boat. And now the naumachie<82.3> begins;
Close to the surface her self spins: Arachne, when her foe lets flye
A broad-side of his breath too high, That’s over-shot, the wisely-stout,
Advised maid doth tack about;
And now her pitchy barque doth sweat, Chaf’d in her own black fury wet;
Lasie and cold before, she brings
New fires to her contracted stings, And with discolour’d spumes doth blast
The herbs that to their center hast. Now to the neighb’ring henbane top
Arachne hath her self wound up,
And thence, from its dilated leaves, By her own cordage downwards weaves,
And doth her town of foe attack,<82.4>
And storms the rampiers<82.5> of his back;
Which taken in her colours spread,
March to th’ citadel of’s head.
Now as in witty torturing Spain,
The brain is vext to vex the brain, Where hereticks bare heads are arm’d
In a close helm, and in it charm’d
An overgrown and meagre rat,
That peece-meal nibbles himself fat; So on the toads blew-checquer’d scull
The spider gluttons her self full.
And vomiting her Stygian seeds,
Her poyson on his poyson feeds.
Thus the invenom’d toad, now grown
Big with more poyson than his own,
Doth gather all his pow’rs, and shakes His stormer in’s disgorged lakes;
And wounded now, apace crawls on
To his next plantane surgeon,<82.6>
With whose rich balm no sooner drest, But purged is his sick swoln breast;
And as a glorious combatant,
That only rests awhile to pant,
Then with repeated strength and scars, That smarting fire him new to wars,
Deals blows that thick themselves prevent, As they would gain the time he spent.
So the disdaining angry toad,
That calls but a thin useless load, His fatal feared self comes back
With unknown venome fill’d to crack. Th’ amased spider, now untwin’d,
Hath crept up, and her self new lin’d With fresh salt foams and mists, that blast The ambient air as they past.
And now me thinks a Sphynx’s wing
I pluck, and do not write, but sting; With their black blood my pale inks blent,<82.7>
Gall’s but a faint ingredient.
The pol’tick toad doth now withdraw, Warn’d, higher in CAMPANIA.<82.8>
There wisely doth, intrenched deep, His body in a body keep,
And leaves a wide and open pass
T’ invite the foe up to his jaws,
Which there within a foggy blind
With fourscore fire-arms were lin’d. The gen’rous active spider doubts
More ambuscadoes than redoubts;
So within shot she doth pickear,<82.9>
Now gall’s the flank, and now the rear; As that<82.10> the toad in’s own dispite
Must change the manner of his fight, Who, like a glorious general,
With one home-charge lets fly at all. Chaf’d with a fourfold ven’mous foam
Of scorn, revenge, his foes and ‘s own, He seats him in his loathed chair,
New-made him by each mornings air,
With glowing eyes he doth survey
Th’ undaunted hoast he calls his prey; Then his dark spume he gred’ly laps,
And shows the foe his grave, his chaps.
Whilst the quick wary Amazon
Of ‘vantage takes occasion,
And with her troop of leggs carreers In a full speed with all her speers.
Down (as some mountain on a mouse)
On her small cot he flings his house; Without the poyson of the elf,
The toad had like t’ have burst himself: For sage Arachne with good heed
Had stopt herself upon full speed,
And, ‘s body now disorder’d, on
She falls to execution.
The passive toad now only can
Contemn and suffer. Here began
The wronged maids ingenious rage,
Which his heart venome must asswage. One eye she hath spet out, strange smother, When one flame doth put out another,
And one eye wittily spar’d, that he Might but behold his miserie.
She on each spot a wound doth print, And each speck hath a sting within’t;
Till he but one new blister is,
And swells his own periphrasis.
Then fainting, sick, and yellow-pale, She baths him with her sulph’rous stale; Thus slacked is her Stygian fire,
And she vouchsafes now to retire.
Anon the toad begins to pant,
Bethinks him of th’ almighty plant, And lest he peece-meal should be sped,
Wisely doth finish himself dead.
Whilst the gay girl, as was her fate, Doth wanton and luxuriate,
And crowns her conqu’ring head all or With fatal leaves of hellebore.
Not guessing at the pretious aid
Was lent her by the heavenly maid.
The neer expiring toad now rowls
Himself in lazy bloody scrowls,

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Here’s an example of the real world interfering with the experience of watching a movie, and I think that’s okay to report that, because this is a blog about experiences and not a review blog. I had been looking forward to seeing Isao Takahata’s final film, The Tale of the Princess Kaguya, for most of the year. It’s the last in this year’s Ghiblifest from Fathom Events, and if you missed it last evening, you can see it subtitled in many cities on December 18.
But then, you’ll notice the blog went dormant for a few days earlier this month. That’s because I had surgery on my spine. Since returning from the hospital, we haven’t all three been curled up on the sofa watching things together. Marie and our son have been curled up on the sofa, while I’ve been sitting up straight in a fairly comfortable chair, squirming because, after half an hour or so, it isn’t comfortable enough. And The Tale of the Princess Kaguya isn’t a short film, it’s nearly two and a half hours long. Two and a half beautiful hours, mind you – the film’s design deliberately evokes the picture scrolls where folk tales in Japan unrolled a thousand years ago, with expanses of white skies, careful drops of color for the leaves, and delicate, intricate linework for the figures – but that’s a long time for a fellow with little steel rods in his back to sit still.
With a palette and look that’s unlike any other movie in Ghibli’s library, Kaguya is an unusual standout that doesn’t seem to attract the attention of that studio’s American fans. Every other Fathom Events screening that we’ve attended, even of other Takahata films, drew a far bigger crowd than this did last night. The big names sell out, and even Arrietty was about two-thirds full. Last night it was just us and a group of about eight guys and girls in their twenties. What a shame; I hope more people see it tomorrow night, because it’s a beautiful experience.
The movie is an adaptation of a classic folk tale. An old bamboo cutter finds a tiny, doll-sized girl dressed as a princess inside a stalk. She turns into a human baby, growing very fast, and a second visit to the forest gives the old man gold and beautiful robes. He believes that whatever spirit brought them this child wants the couple to raise her as royalty. So he buys a mansion in the capital and hires servants to train her in the formality of proper behavior. When she comes of age, she is given the name “Kaguya” and attracts wealthy, noble suitors. But nobody asked her what she herself wants, or where she came from, or how long she’ll be staying on Earth.
Well, I completely loved it. I think it’s a gorgeous film and I love the way the style and the speed of the editing changes so radically at key points. It’s a classic fairy tale with an inevitable end, and so spending two and a half hours in the company of kind-hearted people with good intentions, rather than the five minutes it might take to just tell the story, means that the ending is very depressing despite its honesty and beauty. Our son thought it was extremely sad and it left him in low spirits for a while, but some occasional light gags and mild comedy kept his attention even though this experience was a little outside his wheelhouse.
And you’ll be glad to know that I was all kinds of sore but I made it out of the comfy Regal seat all right. We’ll go back to the same theater in a week and I’ll be in even better shape next time.
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sony and PlayStation have been desperately trying to turn their beloved characters and stories into massive movie franchises for quite some time with little success. Their attempt to bring Ratchet & Clank on the big screen was heavily criticized by just about everyone for its lack of consistency and was a massive box office bomb. It all but shut down an already troubled production of an animated film Sly Cooper movie. I probably don’t even remember the direct-to-video adaptation of A heavenly sword in 2014 and for good reason.
However, with PlayStation franchises now featuring richer, cinematic-quality stories and a new studio, PlayStation Productions, developed specifically to produce video game adaptations, Sony and PlayStation have a better chance of success. Their first effort, the next Unexploredwas not without production problems, but it’s promising. Upcoming shows and movies based on some of PlayStation’s most popular games have some fans wondering what other titles might get the same treatment.
In the books: The last of us
Given the resounding success of The naughty dogit is The last of us games, it’s no wonder PlayStation Productions is going all out on the upcoming TV adaptation set to debut on HBO Later this year. It’s no secret that the tales of the the zombie apocalypse is obsessed with daddiesand it’s one of the best father-child bonding stories ever.
Casting announcement Pedro Pascal and Bella Ramsey as Joel and Ellie, respectively, had fans screaming with excitement and the first season would cover the event of the first game after Joel and Ellie’s journey through a dangerous post-apocalyptic world. The last of us is easily one of HBO’s biggest upcoming series of the year and could be that massive hit that Sony and PlayStation have been looking for.
Should be in progress: Sly Cooper
Of course, Sony and PlayStation have tried in the past to make a Sly Cooper movie has come and gone, but with PlayStation Productions now booming, why not take the opportunity to try again?
Whether it’s a movie or a TV series, Sly Cooper and his band of thieves have the perfect kind of energy and lingering story surrounding the titular raccoon thief who tries to be at the living up to his family’s legacy to be a fun and memorable ride. The characters are filled with endless charm and Sly’s antics easily provide big chills.
In the books: Ghost of Tsushima
A little after Sucker Punchthe massive success of 2020 Ghost of Tsushima took the world by storm, a film adaptation was announced in the works with John Wick director Chad Stahelski direct the film.
the Ghost of Tsushima the film isn’t that deep in production, but certainly has the potential to deliver a visually stunning modern samurai story. The actors in the game resemble their characters enough to reprise their roles. With Stahelski directing, fans can expect some incredible action.
Should be in progress: concrete engineering
Although pixelopus‘ concrete engineering is far from an incredibly well-known PlayStation title, its story of a young boy named Ash escaping the bullies around him with the help of magical creatures he can draw has plenty of adaptation potential.
The sheer potential of the eye-catching visuals of Ash’s drawn friends and their environments along with the heartwarming emotion of Ash’s story would make a concrete engineering movie or show worthy of interest. It could attract a large audience and has a dedicated fan base that would love to see it come to life.
Conversations on a twisted metal the ongoing show had seemed like pure fantasy until there was confirmation last year that a TV series was in production with some notable names attached.
dead Pool writers Paul Wernick and Rhett Reese are currently attached as producers and another report from last year said that Anthony Macky is set to play the role of a character named John Doe. From what we’ve heard, which is very little, it sounds like twisted metal could give it its own twist death racewhich would be great.
Should be (and somehow) in the works: Jack and Daxter
Whatever Jack and Daxter related would appeal to very vocal fans who would like to see the dynamic duo return in any form at this point and recent interest could point to a film adaptation.
As Unexplored is about to be released, both director Ruben Fleischer and actor Tom Holland have expressed their own interest in seeing a Jack and Daxter the movie comes to life. Holland shared his potential as an A24 movie and Fleischer recently said he had potentially started work on a Jack and Daxter movie. Perhaps their visions could coalesce to create an epic adaptation.
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February 26, 2021 Ryukyu Shimpo
On February 23, the city council of Berkeley, California, passed a resolution in solidarity with the people of Okinawa, opposing the construction of a new base in Henoko, Nago City–the planned relocation site for U.S. Marine Corps Futenma Air Station. The official motion demands the immediate and complete halt of the Henoko base construction.
In September 2015, the Berkeley City Council became the first American local council to pass a resolution opposing the relocation of Futenma Air Station to Henoko. In December 2017, the council passed another resolution opposing the construction of U.S. military helipads in Takae, Higashi Village, and the subsequent training exercises.
The latest resolution offers background on Henoko and Oura Bay and explains that the prospective site is one of the world’s richest areas of biodiversity. The council noted that Japanese and American environmental groups previously brought a suit in the U.S. to halt the base construction, citing its effects on the endangered dugong habitat.
The motion also states that the soft seabed at the site has caused the construction time and costs to balloon, delaying Futenma Air Station’s closure. The council also noted the result of the prefectural referendum held in February 2019, in which more than 70% of voters voted “no” to reclaiming land at Henoko. Although the referendum established the will of the Okinawan people, the Japanese government, with support from the U.S., continues to reclaim land from the beautiful sea.
The resolution will be delivered to the U.S. House Armed Services Committee as well as Representative Barbara Lee and Senator Dianne Feinstein, both of California.
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If you’re not hip to the #TwoIngredientGame, you should be. It’s a fun game we play on social media where I say give me two ingredients, and I’ll whip up a recipe – live. Only, we do it on Periscope and Facebook Live at the same time. It’s fun stuff! I took two great ingredients and whipped them into an easy weeknight dinner that’s super simple to do.
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Creamed Spinach & Salmon Alfredo
-3/4 box of thin linguini, cooked and drained
-1/2 cup of diced onion
-4 garlic cloves minced
-2 teaspoons of olive oil
-1/2 cup of good white wine
-2 cups of chipped frozen spinach, drained
-2 cups of heavy cream
-1/2 cup of grated Parmesan cheese
-pinch of red pepper flakes
-1/2 teaspoon of dried Italian herbs
-1/2 chicken bouillon cube
-salt and pepper to taste
-2 cups of cooked salmon fillet
1. Saute the onion and garlic in olive oil until translucent.
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3. Then add in the heavy cream and season with salt and pepper. Let the cream cook down for about 10 minutes and it will thicken. Then, add in the spinach and parmesan cheese and cook until the spinach is warmed through.
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The ink miser intra-bottle inkwell fits inside a 3 ounce glass or plastic fountain pen ink bottle. So easy to use, simply replace the cap, quickly turn the bottle over a couple of times, remove the lid and fill your fountain pen as usual. Ink bottle not included.
Instructions for ink miser intra-bottle inkwell:
- Open ink bottle and place ink miser intra-bottle inkwell into a 3 oz. bottle.
- Replace ink bottle cap and screw on tightly leaving the miser in place.
- Turn bottle upside down a few times allowing the ink to fill the miser.
- Quickly turn upright and carefully remove the lid.
- Place pen nib in the ink- filled ink miser and fill the pen with ink as usual.
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- Wipe the pen with a dry cloth to remove excess ink.
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Size: 55 mm high 26 mm wide

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The Virginia women’s soccer team ended in the round of 16 on Saturday night.
The No. 1 seeded Cavaliers (18-3-2) fell in the Klöckner Stadium with a result of 1-0 against the fourth seeded BYU (16-4-1).
The only goal of the game came two minutes after the second half. BYU took advantage of a turnover and turned to attack on a counter. The Cougars played the ball forward through a series of passes before passing Cameron Tucker down the left flank. She cut in on the area and fired her shot, which she sent to the top right corner to get the result.
“Congratulations to BYU. They played very hard and it was a very competitive game. It sure felt like a college cup game, ”said UVA coach Steve Swanson. “There wasn’t much between the teams and I felt the same way last year when we played them. They have very good offensive firepower and transition play. I thought we did a good job, for the most part, of minimizing it. They won’t stop an attack like BYU’s, but we did a good job minimizing it. You need to give your player credit for coming down and finishing that shot. We had our chances. We had to control the pace better. We missed a bit of what played into their hands.
“I’m incredibly proud of the team and the season that we had. It’s hard now because the reality is our season is over and that’s sad because we won’t be together for a while. It’s always a difficult thing when that’s over. “

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Winter in northern Norway is dark. The sun doesn't make it above the horizon for a number of weeks in the depths of winter. This doesn't mean there is total darkness, just a continuous twilight. With the twilight comes sunrise and sunset, lingering in the sky as a continuous state of colour. The light changes and evolves as the sun moves around, below the visible horizon, dancing in an alpenglow along the tops of the mountains. This is known as the polar night and lasts from late November until mid January each year. This state of darkness is compensated by the presence of the aurora borealis, dancing across the night sky when conditions allow.
Ersfjordbotn is a small village located on the shore of the north facing Ersfjord, tucked on the corner of the island of Kvaløya. This traditional village is just 30minutes from the city of Tromsø, but couldn't be further from the bustle of the city. Tromsø has the highest number of wooden buildings in northern Norway and some of these were seen in the wooden village just outside the city. On the shoreline the remains of wooden fishing huts sit frozen. Nets gently rippling in the frozen air. Red paint peeling exposing the silver weathered wood below.
Ersfjord at Twilight
From the small harbour in Ersfjordbotn, the fjord extends like a large and calm lake below the mountains. Sitting on the deck of the lovely Bryggejentene cafe, this is the perfect location to watch for whales and imagine what lies beyond the island at the entrance to the fjord. High above the furthest peaks, flocks of birds soar and the light moves with the movement of the sun. Time passes but the twilight hangs in the air. Never becoming daylight but teasing of the night which will come.
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