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Chapter 7
Enjambment
This page contains the sound files of the readings discussed in Chapter 7, and the respective texts.
3. For where is she so fair whose uneared womb
Disdains the tillage of thy husbandry?
Or who is he so fond will be the tomb
Of his self-love to stop posterity? (5-8)
3a. For where is she so fair whose uneared womb
Disdains the tillage of thy husbandry?
3b. Or who is he so fond will be the tomb
Of his self-love to stop posterity?
Listen to the Marlowe Society's readings of Quotes 3a and 3b.
Listen to Douglas Hodge's reading of Quote 4.
5. Not mine own fears, nor the prophetic soul
Of the wide world dreaming on things to come,
Can yet the lease of my true love control,
Supposed as forfeit to a confined doom.
Listen to three readings of Quote 5.
7. But wherefore thou alone? Wherefore with thee
Came not all Hell broke loose? is pain to them
Less pain, less to be fled, or thou than they
Less hardy to endure? Courageous Chief,
The first in flight from pain, had'st thou alleg'd
To thy deserted host this cause of flight,
Thou surely had'st not come sole fugitive.
7a. But wherefore thou alone? Wherefore with thee
Came not all Hell broke loose?
7b. is pain to them
Less pain, less to be fled,
7c. or thou than they
Less hardy to endure? Courageous Chief,
7d. this cause of flight,
Thou surely had'st not come sole fugitive.
Listen to JH's readings of Quotes 7a, 7b, 7c and 7d.
Listen to DF's reading of Quote 7d.
8. But wherefore thou alone?
Wherefore with thee came not all Hell broke loose?
Is pain to them less pain, less to be fled,
Or thou than they less hardy to endure?
Courageous Chief, the first in flight from pain,
Had'st thou alleg'd to thy deserted host
This cause of flight, thou surely had'st not come
Sole fugitive.
8a. But wherefore thou alone?
Wherefore with thee came not all Hell broke loose?
8b. Is pain to them less pain, less to be fled,
8c. Or thou than they less hardy to endure?
Courageous Chief,
8d. This cause of flight, thou surely had'st not come
Sole fugitive.
Listen to JH's readings of Quotes 8a, 8b, 8c and 8d.
Listen to DF's reading of Quote 8d.
15. Him the Almighty Power
Hurled headlong flaming from th'etherial sky
With hideous ruin and combustion down
To bottomless perdition, there to dwell
In adamantine chains and penal fire,
Who durst defy th'Omnipotent to arms.
(Paradise Lost, I: 44-49)
Listen to DF's reading of Quote 15.
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