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Often appears with: suicide and self-destruction · the passions and the emotions · refusal of food and drink · mourning clothes · mourning and grief · marriage and betrothal · idyl iii · goatherd’s courtship · criseyde mourning · amaryllis
Usually: narrative (2) · confronting death (2) · indignation (2) · lament (2) · temptation (1) · the test or trial (1)
“Soon wilt thou make me rend the wreath in pieces small, the wreath of ivy, dear Amaryllis, that I keep for thee, with rose-buds twined, and fragrant parsley.” Theocritus, Theocritus, Bion and Moschus, Rendered into English · vivid
Criseyde’s distress turns to a full suicide threat: she claims she will go into mourning, refuse food and drink, and mourn her separation from Troilus after his death.
my bane be, Than shal no mete or drinke come in me 775 Til I my soule out of my breste unshethe; And thus my-selven wol I do to dethe. `And, Troilus, my clothes everichoon Shul blake been, in tokeninge, herte swete, That I am as out of this world agoon, 780 That wont was yow to setten in quiete; And of myn ordre, ay til deeth me mete, …
A goatherd courting Amaryllis laments her coldness, offers apples and promises, cites famous lovers to argue love’s power, threatens suicide, and finally decides he will die where he falls.
them. Ah, Tityrus, my dearly beloved, feed thou the goats, and to the well-side lead them, Tityrus, and ’ware the yellow Libyan he-goat, lest he butt thee with his horns. Ah, lovely Amaryllis, why no more, as of old, dust thou glance through this cavern after me, nor callest me, thy sweetheart, to thy side. Can it be that thou hatest me? Do I seem snub-nosed, now thou hast seen me near, maiden, and under-hung? Th…