Talk:The Mourning Bride

Copyright problem removed[edit]

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Alleged origin of "savage breast"[edit]

To be clear, the ultimate source of the quote appears to be Pharsalia, as translated by May: See: https://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/music-has-charms-to-soothe-the-savage-breast.html ~~ — Preceding unsigned comment added by 99.2.170.124 (talk) 18:03, 19 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]

I removed the following claim from the article (added in this edit):

This misquotation is attributable to Congreve's suspected borrowing from Thomas May's poem published in the 1620s stating "...Whose charming voice and matchless musick mov'd, moves savage beasts, stones and trees."

The article from phrases.org.uk noted by the anonymous editor above says:

Many years before Congreve published his poem, the Latin epic poem Pharsalia, which was written by the Roman poet Lucan, contained lines which must have been Congreve's source. The poem was Englished, that is, translated into English, by the English courtier Thomas May and published in several editions in the 1620s and 30s. It includes these lines:

...Whose charming voice and matchless musick mov'd
The savage beasts, the stones, and senseless trees,

However, May's translation of Pharsalia is available on Google Books and does not appear to contain these lines, or at least I could not find them. We need a verifiable citation before we can put this claim back in the article. Gdr 16:15, 11 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]