Abstract
T HE intensity of the laments with which Sidney opened his revised Arcadia seems at first excessive. Two shepherds, Strephon and Klaius, come to the shore of Laconia, which borders upon Arcadia, and bewail the departure thence of a lady called Urania, who has gone to the island of Cythera. They praise her with hyperbolical conceits more exaggerated than any even in the most conceitedly erotic passages between the princes and princesses in the main plot of the romance. Urania's parting footsteps 'printed the farewell of all beautie'; she is a maide, who is such, that as the greatest thing the world can shewe, is her beautie, so the least thing that may be praysed in her, is her beautie.'
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