A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 07

TANCRED. Ah me! break, heart; and thou, fly forth, my soul. What, doth my daughter Gismund take it so? What hast thou done? O, let me see thine eyes! O, let me dress up those un...

[41] [Lo, this before your eyes so will I show, That ye shall justly say with one accord We must relent and yield; for now we know Love rules the world, love only is the lord.--...

TANCRED. O dolorous happe, ruthefull and all of woe Alas I carefull wretche what resteth me? Shall I now live that with these eyes did soe Beholde my daughter die? what, shall I...

[158] In his "Life of Marius," Plutarch states that this event occurred at Perusia, and that Young Marius was besieged there by Sylla; but in his "Life of Sylla" he corrects the...

RENUCHIO. O cruel fate! O miserable chance! O dire aspect of hateful destinies! O woe may not be told! Suffic'd it not That I should see, and with these eyes behold So foul, so...

[340] A common proverbial expression: "Beggars'-bush being a tree notoriously known, on the left-hand of the London road, from Huntingdon to Caxton." [Hazlitt'a "Proverbs," 1869...

TANCRED. Gods! are ye guides of justice and revenge? O thou great Thunderer! dost thou behold With watchful eyes the subtle 'scapes of men Harden'd in shame, sear'd up in the de...

JULIO. If it please your highness, hither have we brought This captive Earl, as you commanded us. Whom, as we were foretold, even there we found. Where by your majesty we were e...

GUISCARD. Leave me, my friends; this solitary walk Enticeth me to break your company. Leave me, my friends, I can endure no talk. Let me entreat this common courtesy. [_The gent...

RENUCHIO. Thy father, O queen, here in this cup hath sent The thing to joy and comfort thee withal Which thou lovedst best, even as thou wast content To comfort him with his chi...

TANCRED. Fair daughter, I have sought thee out with grief, To ease the sorrows of thy vexed heart. How long wilt thou torment thy father thus, Who daily dies to see thy needless...

GISMUNDA. By this I hope my aunt hath mov'd the king, And knows his mind, and makes return to me To end at once all this perplexity. Lo, where she stands. O, how my trembling he...

LUCRECE. Sir, as I always have employ'd my power And faithful service, such as lay in me, In my best wise to honour you and yours: So now my bounden duty moveth me Your majesty...

TANCRED. Renuchio, depart: leave us alone. [_Exit_ RENUCHIO. Gismund, if either I could cast aside All care of thee! or if thou wouldst have had Some care of me, it would not no...

GISMUNDA. Dear aunt, my sole companion in distress, And true copartner of my thoughtful cares: When with myself I weigh my present state, Comparing it with my forepassed days, N...

CUPID _cometh out of the heavens in a cradle of flowers, drawing forth upon the stage, in a blue twist of silk, from his left hand, Vain Hope, Brittle Joy: and with a carnation...

[140] We have before had Pedro the Frenchman, or rather the _Gaul_, according to Plutarch (though why he is called by the Spanish name of Pedro, we know not), employed to murder...

LUCRECE. Pity, that moveth every gentle heart To rue their griefs, that be distress'd in pain, Enforceth me to wail my niece's smart, Whose tender breast no long time may sustai...

MEGAERA. Sisters, begone, bequeath the rest to me, That yet belongs unto this tragedy. [_The two furies depart down_. Vengeance and death from forth the deepest hell I bring the...

GISMUNDA. "O vain, unsteadfast state of mortal things! Who trust this world, leans to a brittle stay: Such fickle fruit his flattering bloom forth brings, Ere it be ripe, it fal...

CUPID. So now they feel what lordly Love can do, That proudly practise to deface his name; In vain they wrastle with so fierce a foe; Of little sparks arise a blazing flame. "By...