I’ th’ marriage bed: there is no sleeping there.
In the margin of the translation are the words Curtain-Lectures.
Dryden in his translation of the same passage (published 1693) introduces the phrase into the text:—
Besides, what endless brawls by wives are bred;
The Curtain-Lecture makes a mournful bed.
And Addison, in the Tatler, describing a luckless wight undergoing the penalty of a nocturnal oration, says:—
I could not but admire his exemplary patience, and discovered, by his whole behavior, that he was then lying under the discipline of a curtain lecture.
THE CHARGE OF THE LIGHT BRIGADE.
The metre, movement, and idea of Tennyson’s Charge of the Six Hundred at Balaklava, are evidently derived from Michael Drayton’s Battle of Agincourt, published in 1627. The first, middle and last stanzas of Drayton’s poem run thus:—
1.