Sapho and Phao

Sapho and Phao is an Elizabethan era stage play, a comedy written by John Lyly. One of Lyly's earliest dramas, it was likely the first that the playwright devoted to the allegorical idealisation of Queen Elizabeth I that became the predominating feature of Lyly's dramatic canon.

Quotes

 * V ULCAN : My shag-haire Cyclops, come, lets ply Our Lemnion hammers lustily;        By my wifes sparrowes,        I sweare these arrowes        Shall singing fly      Through many a wantons Eye.These headed are with golden Blisses, These silver-ones featherd with Kisses,        But this of Lead        Strikes a Clowne Dead,        When in a Dance        Hee fals in a Trance, To se his black-brow Lasse not busse him, And then whines out for death t’ untrusse him. So, so, our worke being don lets play, Holliday (Boyes) cry Holliday.
 * Act IV, scene iv, "The Song, in making of the Arrowes"