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The Phoenix and Turtle

By William Shakespeare

  • editors: Craig A. Berry, Martin Mueller, and Clifford Wulfman
  • technical editors: Jeffrey Cousens and Bill Parod
  • editorial assistants: Lawrence Berland, Hilary Bina, Katherine Gould, Kreg Segal, Nicholas Terrell

The WordHoard Shakespeare is a joint project of the Perseus Project at Tufts University, The Northwestern University Library, and Northwestern University Academic Technologies. It is derived from The Globe Shakespeare , the one-volume version of the Cambridge Shakespeare , edited by W. G. Clark, J. Glover, and W. A. Wright (1891-3). The Internet Shakespeare editions of the quartos and folios have been consulted to create a modern text that observes as closely as possible the morphological and prosodic practices of the earliest editions. Spellings, especially of contracted and hyphenated forms, have been standardized across the corpus. The text has been fully lemmatized and morphosyntactically tagged.

© 2003. The copyright to The WordHoard Shakespeare is owned jointly by Northwestern University and Tufts University. The WordHoard Shakespeare is provided for free solely for non-commercial use by students, scholars, and the public. Any commercial use or publication of it, in whole or in part, without prior written authorization of the copyright holders is strictly prohibited.

The Wordhoard Shakespeare is derived from, but not identical with, The Globe Shakespeare , the one-volume version of the Cambridge Shakespeare (1891-3) edited by W. G. Clark, J. Glover, and W. A. Wright.

Stanza 1 LET the bird of loudest lay,
Stanza 2 But thou shrieking harbinger,
Stanza 3 From this session interdict
Stanza 4 Let the priest in surplice white,
Stanza 5 And thou treble-dated crow,
Stanza 6 Here the anthem doth commence:
Stanza 7 So they loved, as love in twain
Stanza 8 Hearts remote, yet not asunder;
Stanza 9 So between them love did shine,
Stanza 10 Property was thus appalled,
Stanza 11 Reason, in itself confounded,
Stanza 12 That it cried, How true a twain
Stanza 13 Whereupon it made this threne
Stanza 14 Beauty, truth, and rarity,
Stanza 15 Death is now the phoenix' nest;
Stanza 16 Leaving no posterity:
Stanza 17 Truth may seem, but cannot be:
Stanza 18 To this urn let those repair