...the first century of the modern era: All, all, of a piece throughout; Thy Chase had a Beast in View; Thy Wars brought nothing about; Thy Lovers were all...untrue. 'Tis well an Old Age is out, And time to begin a New.2l> Notes CHAPTER 1 1. The Zohar, trans. Daniel C. Matt, Pritzker edition (Stanford: Stanford University...

...will. He could sense the shape of things to come but could not, or would not, become part of them. Tis well an old age is out: And time to begin a new. These elegiac lines are from his last written work, The Secular Masque, which was performed within...

...the three deities who define the three stages of the century, forcing the entire company to conclude "Tis well an Old Age is out, /And time to begin a New.'1 These words resonate across future fins de siecle down to the present; like other papers in...

...nineteenth century into a new freedom. All, all of a piece throughout: Thy Chase had a Beast in View; Thy Wars brought nothing about; Thy Lovers were all...untrue. Tis well an Old Age is out, And time to begin a new.6 The world's great age begins anew, The golden years return, The earth doth like a snake renew...

...figurative richness and a touching and occasional abandon to lyric melancholy. When Dryden wrote, in 1700, "Tis well an Old Age is out, / And time to begin a New' (vol. iv, p. 1765, lines 96-7), it was only in part the hopeful greeting of a new century; it was also...