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Measure for iioasure Pater admired the episode of 'r.rinna,
with its ,limpses of "pleasant places - tlie field without
the to,,11, Angelo's garden house, the consecrated fountain".
This appreciation of poignancy combines the passage of
time, the fragility of life, the approach of death or rain,
and a saddened toleration in dealing xvith human affairs. In
"Shake;pere's English Kings" P- ter refuses to treat the
monarchs as text book examples of heroism or v/ickedness, and
allows the audience to be caual in their interest as the
characters are human in their fault and virtues:
It is no ?*cnria