Sapho and Phao

Sapho and Phao is an Elizabethan era stage play, a comedy written by John Lyly. One of Lyly's earliest dramas, it was likely the first that the playwright devoted to the allegorical idealisation of Queen Elizabeth I that became the predominating feature of Lyly's dramatic canon.

Quotes

• VULCAN:
  My shag-haire Cyclops, come, lets ply
    Our Lemnion hammers lustily;
          By my wifes sparrowes,
          I sweare these arrowes
          Shall singing fly
        Through many a wantons Eye.
  These headed are with golden Blisses,
  These silver-ones featherd with Kisses,
          But this of Lead
          Strikes a Clowne Dead,
          When in a Dance
          Hee fals in a Trance,
  To se his black-brow Lasse not busse him,
  And then whines out for death t’ untrusse him.
  So, so, our worke being don lets play,
  Holliday (Boyes) cry Holliday.
  • Act IV, scene iv, "The Song, in making of the Arrowes"