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When this eternal substance of my soul Did live imprison'd in my wanton[7] flesh, Each in their function serving other's need, I was a courtier in the Spanish court: My name was Don Andrea; my descent, Though not ignoble, yet inferior far To gracious fortunes of my tender yout...
Perseda, these days are our days of joy: What could I more desire than thee to wife? And that I have: or than to govern Rhodes? And that I do, thanks to great Soliman.
4. ACT IV.[188So that you say this herb will purge the eye,[189] And this the head. Ah, but none of them will purge the heart! No, there's no medicine left for my disease, Nor any physic to r...
1. ACT I.When this eternal substance of my soul Did live imprison'd in my wanton[7] flesh, Each in their function serving other's need, I was a courtier in the Spanish court: My name was...
14. ACT I.Nay, what are you both, but subjects unto Death? And I command you to forbear this place; For here the mouth of sad Melpomene Is wholly bent to tragedy's discourse: And what are...
3. ACT III.Infortunate condition of kings,[138] Seated amidst[139] so many helpless doubts! First, we are plac'd upon extremest height, And oft supplanted with exceeding hate; But ever sub...
5. ACT V.Is this the love thou bear'st Horatio? Is this the kindness that thou counterfeit'st? Are these the fruits of thine incessant tears? Hieronimo, are these thy passions, Thy prote...
2. ACT II.My lord, though Bell'-Imperia seem thus coy, Let reason hold you in your wonted joy: In time the savage bull sustains the yoke; In time all haggard hawks will stoop to lure; In...
11. ACT IV.CASSIUS. Accursed Rome, that arm'st against thyself A tyrant's rage, and mak'st a wretch thy king. For one man's pleasure (O injurious Rome!) Thy children 'gainst thy children t...
15. ACT II.O holy oath, fair hand, and sugar'd kiss! O, never may Ferdinando lack such bliss! But say, my dear, when shall the gates of heaven Stand all wide open for celestial gods, With...
12. ACT V.MESSENGER. Unhappy man! amongst so many wracks As I have suffer'd both by land and sea, That scornful destiny denies my death! Oft have I seen the ends of mightier men, Whose co...
10. ACT III.[CORNELIA.] The cheerful cock (the sad night's comforter) Waiting upon the rising of the sun, Doth sing to see how Cynthia shrinks her horn, While Clytia takes her progress to t...
9. ACT II.CORNELIA. And will ye needs bedew my dead-grown joys, And nourish sorrow with eternal tears? O eyes, and will ye ('cause I cannot dry Your ceaseless springs) not suffer me to di...
17. ACT IV.I must confess that Soliman is kind Past all compare, and more than my desert: But what helps gay garments, when the mind's oppress'd? What pleaseth the eye, when the sense is a...
16. ACT III.How long shall Soliman spend his time, And waste his days in fruitless obsequies? Perhaps my grief and long-continual moan Adds but a trouble to my brothers' ghost[s], Which, bu...
8. ACT I.CICERO. Vouchsafe, immortals, and (above the rest) Great Jupiter, our city's sole protector, That if (provok'd against us by our evils) You needs will plague us with your ceasel...
7. ii. 316) attributed to Kyd the old plays of "King Lear," "Hamlet," and"The Taming of a Shrew," the first and third printed in Steevens's "Six Old Plays," 1779, the "Hamlet" no longer known. The edition of "The Taming of a Shrew" used by Steevens w...
6. iii. 108), where, referring to the play, he cites thus:--"Well done, Balthazar, hang up the tilt"--instead of "hang up the title." He thus lost a material passage, to show that of old a board was hung up on the stage with the title an...
13. act i. sc. 2--_The Tragedy of Solyman and Perseda. Wherein is laid open Loves constancy, Fortunes inconstancy, and Deaths Triumphs. At London. Printed by Edward Allde for Edward White, and ar...