...till night, That I may gaze upon this glittering crown ; So shall my eyes receive their last content, in beams doth vanish fast away, And needs I must resign my wished crown. Inhuman creatures, nurs'd with...

...wished right. Continue euer thou celestiall sunne, 2050 Let neuer silent night possesse this dime, Stand still you watches of the element, All times and seasons rest you at a stay, That Edward may he still faire Englands king : But dayes hright heames dooth vanish fast away, 2055 And needes I must...

...the heavens appoint, I must obey!' (Vi 56), only at once to fall into the Ovidian vein of Faustus: Continue ever thou celestial sun; Let never silent...stay, That Edward may be still fair England's king. (Vi 64-68) In vain. Again, at one moment he begs Now, sweet God of heaven, Make me despise this transitory...

...sharper every instant. His speech at his deposition is a definite reminiscence of the earlier play: Continue ever, thou celestial Sun; Let never silent...times and seasons, rest you at a stay, That Edward still may be fair England's king. (vi 64ff) (Compare Faustus, v. ii. 140-6.) Edward, in his refusal...

...lines which perfectly balance and oppose those earlier lines beginning, "Gallop apace, bright Phoebus": Continue ever thou celestial sun; Let never silent...stay, That Edward may be still fair England's king. (11. 64-68) Stasis replaces action as the object of desire because action, difficult enough at the...

...till night, That I may gaze upon this glittering crown; So shall my eyes receive their last content, My head the latest honour due to it, And jointly both yield up their wished right. Continue ever, them celestial sun, Let never silent night possess this clime; Stand still, you watches of the element,2...

...convey this opposition in verbal terms, and Edward's need to retard the movement sweeping him downward, 'Stand still you watches of the element; / All times...stay, / That Edward may be still fair England's king' (vi 66-68), contrasts wonderfully with his ebullient outburst of the previous act, 'Gallop apace bright...

...Edward the Second, in Christopher Marlowe's play about Edward's having to give up his throne: (683) Stand still, you watches of the element; All times...stay, That Edward may be still fair England's king! The watches of the element did not stand still, and Edward soon thereafter was brutally murdered measure...

...men, like satyrs grazing on the lawns, Shall with their goat feet dance an antic hay. 7002 Edward II 傀 ...G z ꏨ &"; 1998 Wordsworth"' Robertson Connie" 7003 Hero and Leander Who ever loved that loved not at first sight? 7004 Hero and Leander And as she...

...night, That I may gaze upon this glittering crown; 60 So shall my eyes receive their last content, My head the latest honour due to it, And jointly both yield up their wished right.0 Continue ever, thou celestial sun; Let never silent night possess this clime; 65 Stand still,...