Apollo's lore--lore here means teachings, or things that are taught,
hence learnt--is simply poetry in this case, plus the usual layered
meanings of Apollo and the Apollonian dichotomy.
There is one variant in the text, which is "Apollo's love" but I
believe that is a typo, and that lore is correct. Still, an interesting
variant.
There is an implicit reference to the end of days, and the instruments
that are enumerated as the sounds that one hears before the trumpet, as
well as the invocation to the muses, with whom Apollo is often
pictured.
dt
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From: Peter Nightingale <[email protected]>
To: lute list <[email protected]>
Sent: Tue, November 8, 2011 11:36:07 AM
Subject: [LUTE] Apollo's lore?
From the desk of H. Purcell, the Obscure:
O, how I solitude adore!
That element of noblest wit,
Where I have learnt Apollo's lore,
Without the pains to study it.
For thy sake I in love am grown
With what thy fancy does pursue;
But when I think upon my own,
I hate it for that reason too,
Because it needs must hinder me
From seeing and from serving thee.
O solitude, O how I solitude adore!
Does anyone know what is "Apollo's lore." I guess that it's something
that life teaches so that on does not have to go through the pain of
studying it, but, really, pretty clueless.
Thanks,
Peter.
The next auto-quote (sent from my commercial-free computer) is:
I reverse the phrase of Voltaire, and say that if God
really existed, it would be necessary to abolish him.
(Mikhail Bakunin)
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