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Dante Gabriel Rossetti - On Certain Elizabethan revivals
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O RUFF-EMBASTIONED vast Elizabeth, 
Bush to these bushel-bellied casks of wine, 
Home-growth, `tis true, but rank as turpentine—
What would we with such skittle-plays at death? 
Say, must we watch these brawlers` brandished lathe, 
Or to their reeking wit our ears incline, 
Because all Castaly flowed crystalline 
In gentle Shakspeare`s modulated breath?
What! must our drama with the rat-pit vie, 
Nor the scene close while one is left to kill? 
Shall this be poetry? And thou—thou man 
Of blood, thou cannibalic Caliban, 
What shall be said of thee? A poet?—Fie! 
“An honourable murderer, if you will.”
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