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Excerpt from Greene's Arcadia; Or Menaphon: Camilla's Alarum to Slumber Euphues in His Melancholy Cell at Silexedra Greene's Arcadia was first published in 1587, and again 1589, 1599, 1605, 1610, 1616, 1634. The name, scene, and something in the style and construction of the fable, were perhaps suggested by Sir Philip Sydney's celebrated romance, though that work did not appear in print till 1590. Each commences with consulting the oracle at Delphos; whose dark responses are in both fulfilled in an equally improbable manner. To make Sephestia, under the disguised name and character of Samela, at once the object of the amorous attachment of her father, her husband, and her son, each unable to discover the identity of a person so nearly connected with them, is a revolting improbability; which shews the gross and unsettled taste both of the writer and of the age, that could endure, and still more, could even admire, such a fable. This is far different from the skill and moral feeling displayed in the conduct of the incidents of Philomela, where the angelic virtues of a patient, faithful, and beautiful wife, arc drawn in conflict with the blood-thirsty cruelties of a husband inflamed by idle jealousies to madness. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.