Shakespeare and the Jesuits. Andrea Campana
closet hath he dragged him” (4.1)
WC: “we would not so much Pitty, as envy such happy passages out of this life” (32)
H: “Your sum of parts did not altogether pluck such envy from him” (4.7)
WC: “we would not so much Pitty, as envy such happy passages out of this life” (32)
H: “I know love is begun by time, and that I see, in passages of proof” (4.7)
WC: “Who knows not the weeping of Alexander at the death of Darius? the teares of Casar upon the sight of Pompey his head through remembrance of his former high worthiness and state? (41)
H: “To what base uses we may return, Horatio! Why may not imagination trace the noble dust of Alexander till ‘a find it stopping a bunghole?” … Alexander died, Alexander was buried Alexander returneth to Dust; the dust is earth; of earth we make loam whereto he was converted might they not stop a beer barrel? Imperious Caesar, dead and turned to clay, might stop a hole to keep the wind away.” (5.1)
WC: “Upon they that depose their private conceytes gotten by their own inquisition into Gods word, to be the only Christian divine saving truth so filling the world with innumerable dissonant sects. For as what fancy thinketh, that the bell ringeth: so what Heresy imagineth, that in their conceyte the Scripture soundeth” (6)
H: “to make inquire of his behavior” (2.1) “could force his soul to his own conceit” (2.2) “three of the carriages, in faith, are very dear to fancy, very responsive to the hilts, most delicate carriages, and of very liberal conceit” (5.2) “Yet here she is allowed her virgin crants, her maiden strewments, and the bringing home of bell and burial” (5.1)
WC: “her known immense wickedness could not hinder his hart from a compassionate remembrance of her worth, saying, she was a Queen, and a King’s daughter” (41)
H: “I have remembrances of yours that I have longed long to redeliver.” (3.1) “There’s rosemary, that’s for remembrance.” (4.5) “That we with wisest sorrow think on him together with remembrance of ourselves.” (1.2)
WC: “let her be buried with honour” (41)
H: “The queen, the courtiers. Who is this they follow? And with such maimèd rites?” (5.1)
WC: “We must with Holy Job and the auncient Christians, lay ourselves Prostrate at his feete, in the silence and sorrow of soule, drowning our Shallow selfe-humane wisdome in the bottomles depth of his [God’s] judgments” (17)
H: “He would drown the stage with tears” (2.2) “How can that be, unless she drowned herself in her own defense? … If I drown myself wittingly, it argues an act … she drowned herself wittingly … If the man go to this water and drown himself … But if the water come to him and drown him, he drowns not himself.” (5.1)
WC: “by pittifull sight, men should be warned to remember her Sanctity, her Dignity, her inestimable Benefits in former times” (41)
H: “Her obsequies have been as far enlarged as we have warranty. Her death was doubtful, and, by that great command o’ersways the order, she should in ground unsanctified been lodged” (5.1)
WC: “This is the religion [Catholic] that did first Banish from our mouth the uncouth names of Panime [pagan] Gods” (41)
H: “Now pile your dust upon the quick and the dead till of this flat a mountain you have made t’o’ertop old Pelion or the skyish head of blue Olympus.” (In Greek myth, Mt. Olympus is home to the gods, and giants piled Mt. Ossa on top of Mt. Pelion to climb to heaven.) “Let Hercules himself do what he may.” (5.1)
WC: “They must either want the comfort of the bread of life, or else resort to private Chambers for the same with danger of mischance, that the ancient cause of Jeremy his complaint may seem renewed in us: With losse of our lives we get the bread of our souls.” (40)
H: “’A took my father grossly, full of bread, with all his crimes broad blown, as flush as May; and how this audit stands, who knows save heaven? But in our circumstance and course of thought, ‘tis heavy with him; and am I then revenged, to take him in the purging of his soul” (3.3)
WC: “other examples strange and wonderfull” (21)
H: “But this is wondrous strange” (1.5)
WC: “incredible clemencyes of Titus toward his enemyes” (14)
H: “Here stooping to your clemency” (3.2)
WC: “moving their hands to leave monuments of their piety” (41)
H: “This grave shall have a monument.” (5.1)
WC: “the pious works & godly liberalityes thereof shining in the Princes. God doth by special Providence, honour and enrich these Princes for the benefit of his Church.” (26)
H: “Lord Hamlet is a prince, out of thy star” (2.2)
WC: “These be deaths by which men fall not to the ground, but STARRES returne unto their heavenly home: those starres I meane, wherof Daniel fayth, They that informe men unto righteousness, shall shine as STARRES in the firmament for all eternity.” (32)
H: “Make thy two eyes like stars start from their spheres” (1.5) “Lord Hamlet is a prince, out of thy star” (2.2) “the stamp of one defect, being nature’s livery, or fortune’s star” (1.4) (c.f. To the Memory of My Beloved William Shakespeare And What he Hath Left Us [by Ben Jonson]: “But stay, I see thee in the hemisphere,/Advanced, and made a constellation there!/Shine forth, thou Star of Poets, and with rage/Or influence, chide or cheer the drooping stage,/Which, since thy flight from hence, hath mourned like night,/And despairs day, but for thy volume’s light.”)
WC: “and from his goodness expect, in devout silence, the like reward of your constancy” (12)
H: “The rest is silence.” (5.1)
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