Quotes from book
Pandosto

Name: Pandosto
Author: Robert Greene (dramatist)

Pandosto: The Triumph of Time is a prose romance written by the English author Robert Greene, first published in 1588. A later edition of 1607 was re-titled Dorastus and Fawnia. Popular during the time of William Shakespeare, the work's plot was an inspiration for that of Shakespeare's play The Winter's Tale. Greene, in turn, may have based the work on The Clerk's Tale, one of The Canterbury Tales of Chaucer. Edward Chaney suggested that Robert Greene when writing Pandosto may have had in mind the Earl of Oxford's suspicions about the paternity of his daughter when he returned in 1576 from his continental tour that may have included Sicily.

“Sovereign of beauty, like the spray she grows;
Compass'd she is with thorns and canker'd bower.
Yet, were she willing to be pluck'd and worn,
She would be gather'd, though she grew on thorn.”

Robert Greene (dramatist) book Pandosto

Pandosto; Dyce p. 294.

“Ah, were she pitiful as she is fair,
Or but as mild as she is seeming so,
Then were my hopes greater than my despair,
Then all the world were heaven, nothing woe.”

Robert Greene (dramatist) book Pandosto

Pandosto (1588); Dyce p. 294.

“Ah Franion, treason is loved of many, but the Traitor hated of all: unjust offences may for a time escape without danger, but never without revenge.”

Robert Greene (dramatist) book Pandosto

Pandosto (1588); p. 9 http://books.google.com/books?id=5FIPAAAAQAAJ&q=&quot;Treason+is+loved+of+many+but+the+traitor+hated+of+all&quot;&pg=PA9#v=onepage. <br class="br">Compare: "Cæsar said he loved the treason, but hated the traitor", Plutarch, Life of Romulus. <br class="br">Compare: "This principle is old, but true as fate,—<br>Kings may love treason, but the traitor hate." Thomas Dekker, The Honest Whore (1604).