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Thestylis

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Thestylis
embodiment of peasant prettiness. [Br. Lit.: L’Allegro, Brewer Dictionary, 1074]


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The play's correct, even lucid, but textbookish Latin is reminiscent of the university classroom and suggests student participation, as when Thestylis, the wife of the Anabaptist peasant Meliboeus, laments, "O temporal O mores
49) Given the duties accorded to her within the georgic economy briefly sketched by Marvell, Thestylis seems to exist primarily to minimize loss in this violent economy, and to ensure that nothing lies waste in a mode intensely concerned with the frill semantic range of "waste.
 
 
 
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