Sunday, April 12, 2015

APRIL 13th: JONSON'S VOLPONE






This lyric poem is sung during the action of Volpone, in in Act 2.  I'll explain the context in class, and why it is important.

Song
Come, my Celia, let us prove,
While we can, the sports of love.
Time will not be ours forever;
He at length our good will sever.
Spend not then his gifts in vain.
Suns that set may rise again,
But if once we lose this light
‘Tis with us perpetual night.
Why should we defer our joys?
Fame and rumor are but toys.
Cannot we delude the eyes
Of  a few poor household spies?
Or his easier ears beguile,
Thus removed by our wile?
‘Tis no sin love’s fruits to steal
But the sweet theft to reveal,
To be taken, to be seen,
These have crimes accounted been.

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