Locrine

CORINEUS’ GHOST. Behold, the circuit of the azure sky Throws forth sad throbs and grievous suspires, Prejudicating Locrine’s overthrow. The fire casteth forth sharp darts of fla...

BRUTUS. Most loyal Lords and faithful followers, That have with me, unworthy General, Passed the greedy gulf of Ocean, Leaving the confines of fair Italy, Behold, your Brutus dr...

LOCRINE. Thus from the furty of Bellona’s broils, With sound of drum and trumpets’ melody, The Brittain king returns triumphantly. The Scithians slain with great occasion Do equ...

HUMBER. How bravely this young Brittain, Albanact, Darteth abroad the thunderbolts of war, Beating down millions with his furious mood, And in his glory triumphs over all, Movin...

ASSARACHUS. But tell me, cousin, died my brother so? Now who is left to helpless Albion? That as a pillar might uphold our state, That might strike terror to our daring foes? No...

HUMBER. What basilisk was hatched in this place, Where every thing consumed is to nought? What fearful Fury haunts these cursed groves, Where not a root is left for Humber’s mea...

STRUMBO. Either the four elements, the seven planets, and all the particular stars of the pole Antastick, are adversative against me, or else I was begotten and born in the wane...

HUMBER. At length the snail doth clime the highest tops, Ascending up the stately castle walls; At length the water with continual drops, Doth penetrate the hardest marble stone...

ALBA. Brave cavalries, princes of Albany, Whose trenchant blades with our deceased sire, Passing the frontiers of brave Graecia, Were bathed in our enemies’ lukewarm blood, Now...

LOCRINE. And is this true? Is Albanactus slain? Hath cursed Humber, with his straggling host, With that his army made of mungrel curs, Brought our redoubted brother to his end?...

CAPTAIN. The poorest state is farthest from annoy. How merrily he sitteth on his stool! But when he sees that needs he must be pressed, He’ll turn his note and sing another tune...

HUMBER. Thus are we come, victorious conquerors, Unto the flowing current’s silver streams, Which, in memorial of our victory, Shall be agnominated by our name, And talked of by...

OLIVER. No, by my dorth, neighbor Strumbo. Ich zee dat you are a man of small zideration, dat will zeek to injure your old vriends, one of your vamiliar guests; and derefore, ze...

GWENDOLINE. You gentle winds, that with your modest blasts Pass through the circuit of the heavenly vault, Enter the clouds unto the throne of Jove, And there bear my prayers to...

LOCRINE. Now am I guarded with an host of men, Whose haughty courage is invincible: Now am I hemmed with troops of soldiers, Such as might force Bellona to retire, And make her...

HUMBER. Where may I find some desert wilderness, Where I may breath out curse as I would, And scare the earth with my condemning voice; Where every echoes repercussion May help...

Long have I lived in this desert cave, With eating haws and miserable roots, Devouring leaves and beastly excrements. Caves were my beds, and stones my pillow-bears, Fear was my...

LOCRINE. Seven years hath aged Corineus lived, To Locrine’s grief, and fair Estrild’s woe, And seven years more he hopeth yet to live. Oh supreme Jove, annihilate this thought!...

HUMBER. Hubba, go take a coronet of our horse, As many lancers, and light armed knights As may suffice for such an enterprise, And place them in the grove of Caledon. With these...

Enter Ate with thunder and lightning all in black, with a burning torch in one hand, and a bloody sword in the other hand, and presently let there come forth a Lion running afte...

HUMBER. Thus from the dreadful shocks of furious Mars, Thundering alarms, and Rhamnusias’ drum, We are retired with joyful victory. The slaughtered Troyans, squeltring in their...

Enter Ate as before. After a little lightning and thundering, let there come forth this show:—Perseus and Andromeda, hand in hand, and Cepheus also, with swords and targets. The...

Enter Ate as before. Then let there follow Omphale, daughter to the king of Lydia, having a club in her hand, and a lion’s skin on her back, Hercules following with a distaff. T...

ATE. Scelera in authorem cadunt. High on a bank by Nilus’ boistrous streams, Fearfully sat the Aegiptian Crocodile, Dreadfully grinding in her sharp long teeth The broken bowels...

Enter Ate as before. Jason, leading Creon’s daughter. Medea, following, hath a garland in her hand, and putting it on Creon’s daughter’s head, setteth it on fire, and then, kill...

LOCRINE. Sayest thou so, Estrild, beauty’s paragon? Well, we will try her choler to the proof, And make her know, Locrine can brook no braves. March on, Assarachus; thou must le...

HUBBA. I am his son that slew young Albanact, And if thou take not heed, proud Phrigian, I’ll send thy soul unto the Stigian lake, There to complain of Humber’s injuries.

BRUTUS, King of Britain LOCRINE, son to Brutus CAMBER, son to Brutus ALBANACT, son to Brutus MADAN, son of Locrine and Gwendoline ASSARACHUS, follower of Brutus CORINEUS, follow...

LOCRINE. Uncle, and princes of brave Britany, Since that our noble father is entombed, As best beseemed so brave a prince as he, If so you please, this day my love and I, Within...