Abstract
The question so artistically framed is addressed to astrologers, but in the mid-seventeenth century their ranks still included most doctors. They were as adept at casting a horoscope and working out a new baby’s fate from the stars as any clever decoder of ciphered despatches. Who, then, could better interpret the tears that Chlora had been shedding ‘of late’?
You, that decipher out the Fate
Of humane Off-springs from the Skies
What mean these Infants which of late
Spring from the Starrs of Chlora’s Eyes?
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© 1979 Michael Craze
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Craze, M. (1979). Mourning. In: The Life and Lyrics of Andrew Marvell. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-04588-4_9
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