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Textor thought it a good epithet, too, for under flmator, he recorded from Strozius the father,
Patiens, quoniam, ut ait idem, Ferre famem, tolerate skim, cotemnere somnos, Dura pati dicit plurima, quisquis amat
and under Amor,
Patiens, ab aerumnis, quas perferunt amantes. qui interdum sub dio pernoctant, noctuq; discurrunt imbre & luto aspersi, ut fiant propositi uictores. Sabinus, Durauit, patis ad mala perstat amor.112
That Shakspere knew how to vary his epithets, etc., he himself has explicitly pointed out, and those epithets which he has specifically so labeled are generally traceable to the conventional store-house of such material, Textor. Presumably, also, as we have seen, Shakspere had the Flores Poetarum to aid him in "Smelling out the odoriferous flowers of fancy." Thus such fundamental aids in writing poetry were available to Shakspere as Brinsley demands.
A Scholler of any inclination and fitnesse for Poetry, cannot but receiue notable incouragement, hauing these, or but the principal! of these bookes: this exercise of Versifying will be found a most pleasant recreation vnto him after a time."'
It is abundantly evident, I believe, that by such methods Shakspere was taught "this exercise of Versifying," whether or not it was "found a most pleasant recreation vnto him after a time."
Textor, Epithetornm Opvs (1549), pp. 47, 54. 1 Brinsley, Ludus Literarius (1627), p. 197.
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