 | Stanley Wells - Dramatists, English - 1995 - 424 pages
...from the responsibilities of exerting his power, appeals to the audience to free him from the stage. Now I want Spirits to enforce, art to enchant; And...would pardoned be, Let your indulgence set me free. In the Epilogue, as in other comedies by Shakespeare, the play melts into reality, the ordinary man... | |
 | 1971 - 446 pages
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 | Paul N. Siegel - 1972 - 456 pages
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 | John Broadbent - Literary Criticism - 1973 - 364 pages
...theme : Now my charms are all o'erthrown, And what strength I have's mine own, Which is most faint. . . Now I want Spirits to enforce, art to enchant; And...would pardoned be, Let your indulgence set me free. The rhythm, the painful desire of freedom, suggest Comus, but the tone is very different. Shakespeare's... | |
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Gentle breath of yours my sails Must fill, or else my project fails, Which was to please. Now I want Spirits to enforce, art to enchant; And my ending is despair, Unless I be relieved by prayer, Which pierces so that it assaults Mercy itself and frees... 
