...The eyes and ears of all the ladies present, T' admire each graceful gesture, note, and footing. 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. ijo Suns that set may...

...eyes and ears of all the ladies present, T' admire each graceful gesture, note, and footing. Song .65 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. ,70 Suns that set may...

...revealed as a cunning old lecher as well as a sadistic miser, sings to his shrinking victim the song, "Come, my Celia, let us prove, /While we can, the sports of love," which has in its context much grimmer overtones than can be imagined when it is read or sung separately....

...Love.11 The echo of Jonson is in the last couplet: in Volpone there is the 'Song to Celia', which opens: 'Come, my Celia, let us prove while we can, the sports of love'. This kind of extension of the literal material features continually in O'Connor's translations, but...

...celebrated fifth song of Catullus, "Vivamus, mea Lesbia": Come my Celia. let us prove, While we may, the sports of love; Time will not be ours, for ever:...at length, our good will sever. Spend not then his guifts in vaine. Sunnes, that set, may rise agalne: But if once we loose this light, Tis, with us,...

...Foote, vol. 2, repr. in Johnsonian Miscellanies, vol. 2, p. 393, ed. George Birkbeck Hill (1897). 25 Come, my Celia, let us prove, While we can, the sports of love. BEN JONSON, (c. 1572-1637) British dramatist, poet. Volpone, in Volpone, act 3, sc. 7 (written c. 1605,...

...and ears of all the ladies present, To admire each graceful gesture, note, and footing. 165 SONG 0 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. 170 Suns that set may...

...we will take, until my roof whirl around With the vertigo-, and my dwarf shall dance. 5272 Volpone onnie Robertson 5273W>Jpone Honour! tut, a breath. There's no such thing in nature; a mere term Invented to awe fools....

...admire each graceful gesture, note, and footing. [He sings.] SONG Come, my Celia, let us prove, 165 While we can, the sports of love. Time will not be...then his gifts in vain. Suns that set may rise again; 170 151. practice] constant or habitual endeavour; with overtones of 'scheming'. 152. figures] shapes,...

...present, To admire each graceful gesture, note, and footing. SONG Come, my Celia, let us prove, 165 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...