Mucedorus

KING OF ARAGON. Break, heart, and end my pallid woes! My Amadine, the comfort of my life, How can I joy, except she were in sight? Her absence breeds sorrow to my soul And with...

MUCEDORUS. Unknown to any here within these woods, With bloody Bremo do I lead my life. The monster! he doth murther all he meets; He spareth none, and none doth him escape. Who...

SEGASTO. When heaps of harms do hover over head, ’Tis time as then, some say, to look about, And of ensuing harms to choose the least. But hard, yea hapless, is that wretch’s ch...

MOUSE. O, the meal-man; I know him very well; he brings meal every Saturday; but hark you, master, must I bid him come to you, or must you come to him?

AMADINE. As like the woods of Bremo’s cruelty. Though I were dumb, and could not answer him, The beasts themselves would with relenting tears Bewail thy savage and unhumane deeds.

Adrostus, the KING OF ARAGON AMADINE, the King’s daughter of Aragon ARIENA, Amadine’s maid, SEGASTO, a Nobleman of Aragon RUMBELO, a Nobleman of Aragon COLLEN, a Councillor TREM...

MUCEDORUS. From Amadine, and from her father’s court, With gold and silver, and with rich rewards, Flowing from the banks of golden treasuries. More may I boast, and say, but I,...

KING OF ARAGON. Preserved the life of my sometime distressed daughter? How can that be? I never knew the time Wherein thou wast distress’d: I never knew the day But that I have...

MOUSE. Hold him, hold him, hold him! Here’s a stir indeed; here came hue after the crier, and I was set close at mother Nip’s house, and there I called for three pots of ale, as...

MUCEDORUS. Now, Mucedorus, whither wilt thou go? Home to thy father, to thy native soil, Or try some long abode within these woods? Well, I will hence depart, and hie me home. W...

MUCEDORUS. Stay, lady, stay; and be no more dismay’d. That cruel beast, most merciless and fell, Which hath bereaved thousands of their lives, Affrighted many with his hard purs...

AMADINE. God grant my long delay procures no harm, Nor this my tarrying frustrate my pretence. My Mucedorus surely stays for me, And thinks me over-long. At length I come, My pr...

ANSELMO. Whose dear affections bosom with my heart, And keep their domination in one orb, Whence ne’er disloyalty shall root it forth, But faith plant firmer in your choice resp...

SEGASTO. ’Tis well, Segasto, that thou hast thy will: Should such a shepherd, such a simple swain, Eclipse thy credit famous through the court? No, ply, Segasto, ply! And let it...

KING OF ARAGON. Now, brave Lords, our wars are brought to end, Our foes to foil, and we in safety rest, It us behoves to use such clemency In peace, as valour in the wars. It is...

KING OF VALENCIA. Enough of music, it but adds to torment, Delights to vexed spirits are as dates Set to a sickly man, which rather cloy than comfort; Let me entreat you to repe...

SEGASTO. I thought so; it was a hermit that walked a solitary life in the woods. Well, get you to dinner; and after never leave seeking, till you bring some news of them, or I’l...

Now, Bremo, sit, thy leisure so affords, An needless thing. [_Sits down_.] Who knows not Bremo’s strength, That like a king commands within these woods? The bear, the boar dare...

MOUSE. O horrible, terrible! Was ever poor gentleman so scar’d out of his seven senses? A bear? Nay, sure it cannot be a bear, but some devil in a bear’s doublet; for a bear cou...

MUCEDORUS. It was my will an hour ago and more, As was my promise for to make return; But other business hind’red my pretence: It is a world to see, when man appoints, And purpo...