"Soft peace" and "staid here his flying race"
Love, borne in Greece, of late fled from his native place,
Forc’d by a tedious proofe, that Turkish hardned heart
Is no fit marke to pierce with his fine pointed dart:
And pleasd with our soft peace, staid here his flying race.
(Sir Philip Sidney, Astrophil and Stella, 8. 1– 4.)
What do the phrases "soft peace" and "staid here his flying race" mean here?
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alibey1917 soft peace I guess he is speaking of England, contrasting its relatively mild {soft) domestic poliical climate (peace) with that of the Ottoman Empire, who had conquered and enslaved the Greeks. alibey1917 staid here his flying race "Staid" is an old spelling for "stayed". An archaic definition of "stay" is to cease.
- alibey1917 soft peace I guess he is speaking of England, contrasting its relatively mild {soft) domestic poliical climate (peace) with that of the Ottoman Empire, who had conquered and enslaved the Greeks.
- alibey1917 staid here his flying race "Staid" is an old spelling for "stayed".
- An archaic definition of "stay" is to cease.
- Eros has fled (flying) Greece in haste (race) and has stopped (staid) running in England.
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alibey1917soft peace
I guess he is speaking of England, contrasting its relatively mild {soft) domestic poliical climate (peace) with that of the Ottoman Empire, who had conquered and enslaved the Greeks.
alibey1917staid here his flying race
"Staid" is an old spelling for "stayed". An archaic definition of "stay" i
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