If we take Byron seriously, we can turn the mask of tragedy into the mask of comedy only by replacing the elegy with the epithalamium. |
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But if I take it in mind to publish an epithalamium without the author's consent, I commit an offense. |
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The Visigoths had openly aped the imperial court when King Athaulf married Galla Placidia in 411, a marriage celebrated by an official epithalamium delivered by a senator. |
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Other forms in the play include an epithalamium by Juliet, a rhapsody in Mercutio's Queen Mab speech, and an elegy by Paris. |
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Epithalamium, also spelled epithalamion or epithalamy, song or poem to the bride and bridegroom at their wedding. |
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