'A Versifying Maid of Honour': Anne Finch and the Libretto for Venus and Adonis While at court, Finch began a translation of Tasso's Aminto, a pastoral drama resembling Venus and Adonis. 'The Grove', a partially blotted manuscript poem 'Written when I was a Maid of Honour', has close...
“I did on my harness,” said Simon, “such as it was; took my mother’s blessing96, a high spirited woman, who spoke of my father’s actions for the honour of the Fair Town. This heartened me, and I felt still bolder when I found myself ranked among the other crafts, all bowme...