The speaker chastises their Muse for neglecting to describe their love with both truth and beauty. The Muse has a duty to use both truth and beauty in their descriptions so that their love will be praised for ages to come, long after their physical death. The speaker instructs the Muse to fulfill its duty and teach future ages what their love is truly like now, through using both truthful and beautiful language.
The speaker chastises their Muse for neglecting to describe their love with both truth and beauty. The Muse has a duty to use both truth and beauty in their descriptions so that their love will be praised for ages to come, long after their physical death. The speaker instructs the Muse to fulfill its duty and teach future ages what their love is truly like now, through using both truthful and beautiful language.
The speaker chastises their Muse for neglecting to describe their love with both truth and beauty. The Muse has a duty to use both truth and beauty in their descriptions so that their love will be praised for ages to come, long after their physical death. The speaker instructs the Muse to fulfill its duty and teach future ages what their love is truly like now, through using both truthful and beautiful language.
For thy neglect of truth in beauty dyed? Both truth and beauty on my love depends; So dost thou too, and therein dignified. Make answer Muse: wilt thou not haply say, 'Truth needs no colour, with his colour fixed; Beauty no pencil, beauty's truth to lay; But best is best, if never intermixed'? Because he needs no praise, wilt thou be dumb? Excuse not silence so, for't lies in thee To make him much outlive a gilded tomb And to be praised of ages yet to be. Then do thy office, Muse; I teach thee how To make him seem, long hence, as he shows now.
The Complete Apocryphal Plays of William Shakespeare: Arden Of Faversham; A Yorkshire Tragedy; The Lamentable Tragedy Of Locrine; Mucedorus; The King's Son Of Valentia
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