Category: Plays/Films/Dramas
_Franklin._ Arden, cheer up thy spirits, and droop no more! My gracious Lord, the Duke of Somerset, Hath freely given to thee and to thy heirs, By letters patents from his Majesty, All the lands of the Abbey of Feversham. Here are the deeds, [_He hands them._ Sealed and subscr...
_Franklin._ Arden, cheer up thy spirits, and droop no more! My gracious Lord, the Duke of Somerset, Hath freely given to thee and to thy heirs, By letters patents from his Majes...
14. SCENE I_Will._ Thou knowest, Greene, that I have lived in London this twelve years, where I have made some go upon wooden legs for taking the wall on me; divers with silver noses for s...
3. SCENE II‘My duty remembered, Mistress Susan, hoping in God you be in good health, as I Michael was at the making hereof. This is to certify you that as the turtle true, when she hath lo...
8. SCENE V_Mosbie._ Disturbèd thoughts drives me from company And dries my marrow with their watchfulness; Continual trouble of my moody brain Feebles my body by excess of drink, And nips...
9. SCENE VI_Will._ Then ask me if my nose be on my face, Or whether my tongue be frozen in my mouth. Zounds, here’s a coil! You were best swear me on the interrogatories How many pistols I...
13. SCENE IV_Reede._ He is coming from Shorlow as I understand; Here I’ll intercept him, for at his house He never will vouchsafe to speak with me. If prayers and fair entreaties will not s...
19. SCENE VI_Franklin._ Thus have you seen the truth of Arden’s death. As for the ruffians, Shakebag and Black Will, The one took sanctuary, and, being sent for out, Was murdered in Southwa...
2. SCENE I_Bradshaw._ The one I know not, but he seems a knave Chiefly for bearing the other company; For such a slave, so vile a rogue as he, Lives not again upon the earth. Black Will i...
4. SCENE I_Arden._ No, Franklin, no: if fear or stormy threats, If love of me or care of womanhood, If fear of God or common speech of men, Who mangle credit with their wounding words, An...
10. SCENE I_Arden._ See how the hours, the gardant of heaven’s gate, Have by their toil removed the darksome clouds, That Sol may well discern the trampled path Wherein he wont to guide hi...
12. SCENE III_Shakebag._ No; this were a fine world for chandlers, if this weather would last; for then a man should never dine nor sup without candle-light. But, sirrah Will, what horses ar...
5. SCENE II_Shakebag._ Black night hath hid the pleasures of the day, And sheeting darkness overhangs the earth, And with the black fold of her cloudy robe Obscures us from the eyesight of...
6. SCENE III_Arden._ Sirrah, get you back to Billingsgate And learn what time the tide will serve our turn; Come to us in Paul’s. First go make the bed, And afterwards go hearken for the fl...
18. SCENE V_Bradshaw._ Mistress Arden, you are now going to God, And I am by the law condemned to die About a letter I brought from Master Greene. I pray you, Mistress Arden, speak the tru...
7. SCENE IV_Michael._ For God’s sake, sirs, let me excuse myself: For here I swear, by heaven and earth and all, I did perform the utmost of my task, And left the doors unbolted and unlock...
11. SCENE II_Ferryman._ I think ’tis like to a curst wife in a little house, that never leaves her husband till she have driven him out at doors with a wet pair of eyes; then looks he as if...
16. SCENE III_Alice._ Arden, sweet husband, what shall I say? The more I sound his name, the more he bleeds; This blood condemns me, and in gushing forth Speaks as it falls, and asks me why...
17. SCENE IV_Will._ Shakebag, I hear, hath taken sanctuary, But I am so pursued with hues and cries For petty robberies that I have done, That I can come unto no sanctuary. Therefore must I...
15. SCENE II_Shakebag._ The widow Chambly in her husband’s days I kept; And now he’s dead, she is grown so stout She will not know her old companions. I came thither, thinking to have had h...