The chief Elizabethan dramatists, excluding Shakespeare

_Endymion._ I find, Eumenides, in all things both variety to content, and satiety to glut, saving only in my affections, which are so staid, and withal so stately, that I can ne...

_Tellus._ Treacherous and most perjured Endymion, is Cynthia the sweetness of thy life and the bitterness of my death? What revenge may be devised so full of shame as my thought...

_Top._ Because _amicitia_ (as in old annals we find) is _inter pares_. Now, my pretty companions (40) you shall see how unequal you be to me; but I will not cut you quite off, y...

_Tellus._ Behold, Floscula, we have met with the woman by chance that we sought for by travel. I will break my mind to her without ceremony or circumstance, lest we lose that ti...

_Endymion._ O fair Cynthia! O unfortunate Endymion! Why was not thy birth as high as thy thoughts, or her beauty less than heavenly; or why are not thine honours as rare as her...

_Dar._ How say you, Favilla, is not love a lurcher,[22] that taketh men’s stomachs away that they cannot eat, their spleen that they cannot laugh, their hearts that they cannot...

_End._ No rest, Endymion! Still uncertain how to settle thy steps by day or thy thoughts by night! Thy truth is measured by thy fortune, and thou art judged unfaithful because t...

_Cynth._ What, have we here before my face these unseemly and malapert overthwarts![35] I will tame your tongues and your thoughts, (20) and make your speeches answerable to you...

_Cors._ Here is the castle, fair Tellus, in which you must weave, till either time end your days, or Cynthia her displeasure. I am sorry so fair a face should be subject to so h...

_Tophas._ No; but love hath, as it were, (25) milk’d my thoughts and drained from my heart the very substance of my accustomed courage; it worketh in my head like new wine, so a...

_Eum._ Father, your sad music being tuned on the same key that my hard fortune is, hath so melted my mind that I wish to hang at your mouth’s end till my life end.

_Tellus._ I marvel Corsites giveth me so much liberty,—all the world knowing his charge to be so high and his nature to be most strange,—who hath so ill entreated ladies of grea...

_Dar._ No; I think he sleeps for a wager. But how shall we spend the time? Sir Tophas is so far in love that he pineth in his bed and cometh not abroad. 5

_Corsites._ I am come in sight of the lunary bank. Without doubt Tellus doteth upon me, and cunningly, that I might not perceive her love, she hath set me to a task that is done...

_Dar._ The other old man, what a sad speech used he, that caused us almost all to weep. (5) Cynthia is so desirous to know the experiment of her own virtue, and so willing to ea...

_Top._ Then cometh a pie of patience, a hen of honey, a goose of gall, a capon of care, and many other viands, some sweet and some sour, which proveth love to be, as it was said...

_Pan._ Who would have thought that Tellus, being so fair by nature, so honourable by birth, so wise by education, would have entered into a mischief to the gods so odious, to me...

_Myc._ Brother Cosroe, I find myself aggriev’d, Yet insufficient to express the same, For it requires a great and thund’ring speech: Good brother, tell the cause unto my lords;...

_Tamb._ Come, lady, let not this appal your thoughts; The jewels and the treasure we have ta’en Shall be reserv’d, and you in better state, Than if you were arriv’d in Syria, Ev...

_Cos._ Thus far are we towards Theridamas, And valiant Tamburlaine, the man of fame, The man that in the forehead of his fortune Bears figures of renown and miracle. But tell me...

_Myc._ Come, my Meander, let us to this gear. I tell you true, my heart is swoln with wrath On this same thievish villain, Tamburlaine, And on that false Cosroe, my traitorous b...

_Cos._ Now, worthy Tamburlaine, have I repos’d In thy approved fortunes all my hope. What think’st thou, man, shall come of our attempts? For even as from assured oracle, I take...

_Cos._ What means this devilish shepherd to aspire With such a giantly presumption To cast up hills against the face of Heaven, And dare the force of angry Jupiter? But as he th...

_Baj._ Great Kings of Barbary and my portly bassoes,[303] We hear the Tartars and the eastern thieves, Under the conduct of one Tamburlaine, Presume a bickering with your empero...

[_Agyd._] Madam Zenocrate, may I presume To know the cause of these unquiet fits, That work such trouble to your wonted rest? ’T is more than pity such a heavenly face Should by...

_Tamb._ Basso, by this thy lord and master knows I mean to meet him in Bithynia: See how he comes! Tush, Turks are full of brags, And menace more than they can well perform. He...

_Sold._ Awake, ye men of Memphis! Hear the clang Of Scythian trumpets! Hear the basilisks[324] That, roaring, shake Damascus’ turrets down! The rogue of Volga holds Zenocrate, T...

_Baj._ Ye holy priests of heavenly Mahomet, That, sacrificing, slice and cut your flesh, Staining his altars with your purple blood; Make Heaven to frown and every fixed star 5...

_Sold._ Methinks we march as Meleager did, Environed with brave Argolian knights, To chase the savage Calydonian boar, Or Cephalus with lusty Theban youths Against the wolf that...

_Tamb._ Now hang our bloody colours by Damascus, Reflexing hues of blood upon their heads, While they walk quivering on their city walls, Half dead for fear before they feel my...

_Gov._ Still doth this man, or rather god of war, Batter our walls and beat our turrets down; And to resist with longer stubbornness Or hope of rescue from the Soldan’s power, W...

_Tamb._ What, are the turtles fray’d[343] out of their nests? Alas, poor fools! must you be first shall feel The sworn destruction of Damascus? They knew my custom; could they n...

_Bar._ So that of thus much that return was made: And of the third part of the Persian ships, There was the venture summ’d and satisfied. As for those Samnites,[468] and the men...

_Bar._ Thus, like the sad presaging raven, that tolls The sick man’s passport in her hollow beak, And in the shadow of the silent night Doth shake contagion from her sable wings...

_Bell._ Since this town was besieg’d, my gain grows cold. The time has been that, but for one bare night, A hundred ducats have been freely given: But now against my will I must...

_Bar._ There is no music to[549] a Christian’s knell: How sweet the bells ring now the nuns are dead, That sound at other times like tinker’s pans! I was afraid the poison had n...

_Fern._ Now, gentlemen, betake you to your arms, And see that Malta be well fortifi’d; And it behoves you to be resolute; For Calymath, having hover’d here so long, Will win the...

_Ghost._ When this eternal substance of my soul Did live imprison’d in my wanton flesh, Each in their function serving other’s need, I was a courtier in the Spanish court. My na...

_Lor._ My lord, though Bel-imperia seem thus coy, Let reason hold you in your wonted joy. In time the savage bull sustains the yoke,[756] In time all haggard[757] hawks will sto...

_Vic._ Infortunate condition of kings. Seated amidst so many helpless doubts! First we are plac’d upon extremest height, And oft supplanted with exceeding hate, But ever subject...

_Bel._ Is this the love thou bear’st Horatio? Is this the kindness that thou counterfeits? Are these the fruits of thine incessant tears? Hieronimo, are these thy passions, Thy...

_Bu._ Fortune, not Reason, rules the state of things, Reward goes backwards, Honour on his head; Who is not poor, is monstrous; only need Gives form and worth to every human see...

_He._ Less than either Will make the gall of envy overflow. She feeds on outcast entrails like a kite; 5 In which foul heap, if any ill lies hid, She sticks her beak into it, sh...

_Ta._ Oh, my dear servant,[979] in thy close embraces, I have set open all the doors of danger To my encompast honour, and my life. 5 Before I was secure against death and hell,...

_He._ Ladies, ye have not done our banquet right, Nor lookt upon it with those cheerful rays That lately turn’d your breaths to floods of gold; Your looks, methinks, are not dra...

_Fr._ My lord, remember that your soul must seek 5 Her peace, as well as your revengeful blood. You ever to this hour have prov’d yourself A noble, zealous, and obedient son, T’...

_Know._ How happy yet should I esteem myself, Could I, by any practice, wean the boy From one vain course of study he affects. 10 He is a scholar, if a man may trust The liberal...

_Step._ Nay, we do not stand much on our gentility, friend; yet you are welcome: and I assure you mine uncle here is a man of a thousand a year, Middlesex land. He has but one s...

_Step._ Foh! the stockings be good enough, now summer is coming on, for the dust: I’ll have a pair of silk again’[1133] winter, that I go to dwell in the town. I think my leg wo...

_Cob._ Why. sir, an ancient lineage, and a (10) princely. Mine ance’try came from a king’s belly no worse man; and yet no man either, by your worship’s leave, I did lie in that,...

_Bob._ Body o’ me! it was so late ere we parted last night, I can scarce open my eyes yet; I was but new risen, as you came. How passes the day abroad, sir? you can tell.

_Kit._ Let him tell over straight that Spanish gold, 5 And weigh it, with th’ pieces of eight.[1168] Do you See the delivery of those silver stuffs To Master Lucar: tell him, if...

_Bob._ Speak to him! away! By the foot of Pharaoh, you shall not! you shall not do him that grace.—The time of day to you, gentleman o’ the house. Is master Wellbred stirring?

_Kit._ Well; yet my troubled spirit’s somewhat eas’d, Though not repos’d in that security As I could wish: but I must be content, Howe’er I set a face on ’t to the world. 10 Wou...

_Brai._ ’Slid, I cannot choose but laugh to see myself translated thus, from a poor creature to a creator; for now must I create an intolerable sort[1195] of lies, or my present...

_Know._ I cannot lose the thought yet of this letter Sent to my son; nor leave t’ admire[1201] the change Of manners, and the breeding of our youth Within the kingdom, since mys...

_Bob._ He. Mr. Wellbred, I know not in what kind you hold me; but let me say to you this: as sure as honour, I esteem it so much out of the sunshine of reputation, to throw the...

_Brai._ [_taking_ E. KNOW. _aside_.] Faith, sir, I am but servant to the drum[1229] extraordinary, and indeed, this smoky varnish being washt off, and three or four patches remo...

_Kit._ O, that is well; fetch me my cloak, my cloak!—[_Exit_ CASH.] 5 Stay, let me see, an hour to go and come; Ay, that will be the least; and then ’t will be An hour before I...

_Cob._ Fasting-days! what tell you me of fasting-days? ’Slid, would they were all on a light fire for me! They say the whole world shall be consum’d with fire one day, but would...

_E. Know._ ’Fore God, not I, an I might have been join’d patten[1250] with one of the seven wise masters for knowing him. He had so writhen[1251] himself into the habit of one o...

_Kit._ [_Aside._] A swarm, a swarm! Spite of the devil, how they sting my head With forked stings, thus wide and large!—But, Cob, 10 How long hast thou been coming hither, Cob?

_Cob._ No, sir; but your worship’s warrant for one that has wrong’d me, sir. His arms are at (25) too much liberty, I would fain have them bound to a treaty of peace, an my cred...

_Dow._ His friends! his fiends! ’Slud! they do nothing but haunt him up and down like a sort of unlucky spirits, and tempt him to all manner of villainy that can be thought of....

_Mat._ Faith, I did it in a humour; I know not how it is; but please you come near, sir. This (25) gentleman has judgment, he knows how to censure of a——pray you, sir, you can j...

_Kit._ Why, how now! what’s the matter, what’s the stir here? Whence springs the quarrel? Thomas! where is he? Put up your weapons, and put off this rage. My wife and sister, th...

_Cob._ O, must you be stabb’d by a soldier? Mass, that’s true! When was Bobadill here, your captain? that rogue, that foist,[1293] that fencing Burgullion?[1294] I’ll tickle him...

_Brai._ I warrant you, sir; fear nothing; I have a nimble soul has wakt all forces of my phant’sie by this time, and put ’em in true (10) motion. What you have possest[1297] me...

_Know._ Ay, a knave; I took him begging o’ the way, this morning, As I came over Moorfields. [_Enter_ BRAINWORM, _disguised as before_.] O, here he is!—you’ve made fair speed, b...

_Mat._ Sir, did your eyes ever taste the like clown of him where we were to-day, Mr. Wellbred’s half-brother? I think the whole earth cannot shew his parallel, by this daylight.

_Kit._ Now, trust me, brother, you were much to blame, T’ incense his anger, and disturb the peace Of my poor house, where there are sentinels That every minute watch to give al...

_Bob._ Tut! I assure you, no: you shall have there your _nobilis_, your _gentilezza_, come in bravely upon your reverse, stand you close, (15) stand you firm, stand you fair, sa...

_Dame K._ (_spies her husband come, and runs to him._) O, sir, have I forestall’d your honest market? Found your close[1329] walks? You stand amaz’d now, do you? 29 I’ faith, I...

_Brai._ Well, of all my disguises yet, now am I most like myself, being in this serjeant’s gown. A man of my present profession never counterfeits, till he lays hold upon a debt...

_Clem._ A soldier! Take down my armour, my sword quickly. A soldier speak with me! Why, when, knaves! Come on, come on. (_Arms himself_); (55) hold my cap there, so; give me my...

_Clem._ Nay, keep out, sir; I know not your pretence.—You send me word, sir, you are a soldier; why, sir, you shall be answer’d here: 5 here be them have been amongst soldiers....

_Step._ God’s my witness, uncle, I am wrong’d here monstrously; he charges me with stealing of his cloak, and would I might never stir, if I did not find it in the street by cha...

_Form._ An’t please you, sir, it hung up i’ (10) the room where I was stript; and I borrow’d it of one of the drawers[1351] to come home in, because I was loth to do penance thr...

Who be these? O, the young company; welcome, welcome! Gi’ you joy. Nay, mistress Bridget, blush not; you are not so fresh a bride, but the news of it is come hither afore you. M...

_Sab._ No, Silius, we are no good inginers.[1374] We want the fine arts, and their thriving use 5 Should make us grac’d, or favour’d of the times: We have no shift of faces, no...

_Sej._ Physician, thou art worthy of a province, For the great favours done unto our loves; And, but that greatest Livia bears a part In the requital of thy services, I should a...

_Sej._ ’T is only you must urge against him, Varro; Nor I, nor Caesar may appear therein, Except in your defence, who are the consul; And, under colour of late enmity 4 Between...

_Agr._ I must have vengeance first; and that were nectar Unto my famish’d spirits. O, my fortune, Let it be sudden thou prepar’st against me; Strike all my powers of understandi...

_Sej._ Swell, swell, my joys; and faint not to declare Yourselves as ample as your causes are. I did not live till now: this my first hour, Wherein I see my thoughts reach’d by...

Hail the world’s soul, and mine! More glad than is The teeming earth to see the long’d-for sun Peep through the horns of the celestial Ram, 5 Am I, to view thy splendour dark’ni...

_Nan._ “Now, room for fresh gamesters, who do will you to know, They do bring you neither play nor university show; And therefore do intreat you that whatsoever they rehearse, M...

_Mos._ You still are what you were, sir. Only you, Of all the rest, are he commands his love, And you do wisely to preserve it thus, With early visitation, and kind notes Of you...

_Mos._ Betake you to your silence, and your sleep. Stand there and multiply. [_Putting the plate to the rest._] Now we shall see A wretch who is indeed more impotent Than this c...

_Mos._ Perhaps he has So much remembrance left as to know you, sir: He still calls on you; nothing but your name Is in his mouth. Is your pearl orient,[1582] sir?

_Sir P._ Sir, to a wise man, all the world’s his soil: It is not Italy, nor France, nor Europe, That must bound me, if my fates call me forth. Yet I protest, it is no salt desir...

_Sir. P._ Pity his ignorance. They are the only knowing men of Europe! Great general scholars, excellent physicians, 10 Most admir’d statesmen, profest favourites And cabinet co...

_Cor._ Spite o’ the devil, and my shame! come down here; Come down!—No house but mine to make your scene? Signior Flaminio, will you down, sir? down? What, is my wife your Franc...

_Volp._ Not without; Those blows were nothing: I could bear them ever. But angry Cupid, bolting from her eyes, Hath shot himself into me like a flame; Where now he flings about...

_Corv._ Death of mine honour, with the city’s fool! A juggling, tooth-drawing, prating mountebank! And at a public windore! where, whilst he, With his strain’d action, and his d...

_Corv._ Death! that damn’d mountebank! but for the law 10 Now, I could kill the rascal: it cannot be His oil should have that virtue. Ha’ not I Known him a common rogue, come fi...

_Mos._ I fear I shall begin to grow in love With my dear self, and my most prosp’rous parts, They do so spring and burgeon; I can feel A whimsy i’ my blood: I know not how, Succ...

_Mos._ Heaven be good to me! These imputations are too common, sir, And easily stuck on virtue when she’s poor. You are unequal[1649] to me, and however Your sentence may be rig...

_Nan._ “Dwarf, fool, and eunuch, well met here we be. A question it were now, whether of us three, Being all the known delicates of a rich man, 5 In pleasing him, claim the prec...

_Lady P._ I thank you, good sir. Pray you signify Unto your patron I am here.—This band Shows not my neck enough.—I trouble you, sir; Let me request you bid one of my women Come...

_Volp._ Oh, Rid me of this my torture, quickly, there; My madam with the everlasting voice: The bells, in time of pestilence, ne’er made 5 Like noise, or were in that perpetual...

_Mos._ Prevent! [_Aside._] Did e’er man haste so for his horns? A courtier would not ply it so for a place. 5 —Well, now there is no helping it, stay here; I’ll presently return...

_Sir P._ I told you, sir, it was a plot; you see What observation is! You mention’d me For some instructions: I will tell you, sir, (Since we are met here in this height of Veni...

_Lady P._ Ay, he plays both[1692] with me. I pray you stay. This heat will do more harm To my complexion than his heart is worth. (I do not care to hinder, but to take him.) 5 H...

_Per._ This is rare! Sir Politic Would-be? No, Sir Politic Bawd, 20 To bring me thus acquainted with his wife! Well, wise Sir Pol, since you have practis’d thus Upon my freshman...

_Mos._ Why, we ’ll think; Sell him for mummia:[1702] he ’s half dust already.—— Do you not smile, (_to_ VOLTORE) to see this buffalo,[1703] 16 How he doth sport it with his head...

_Volt._ Your fatherhoods’ fit pleasures be obey’d; [_Exeunt_ Officers.] But sure, the sight will rather move your pities Than indignation. May it please the court, In the mean t...

_Lady P._ Ay, this same is she. [_Pointing to_ CELIA.] Out, thou chameleon harlot! now thine eyes Vie tears with the hyena. Dar’st thou look Upon my wronged face? I cry your par...

_Volp._ Well, I am here, and all this brunt is past. I ne’er was in dislike with my disguise Till this fled moment: here ’t was good, in private; But in your public,—_cave_ whil...

_Mos._ How now, sir? Does the day look clear again? Are we recover’d, and wrought out of error, Into our way, to see our path before us? Is our trade free once more?

_Volp._ Rare! Be busy still. Now they begin to flutter: They never think of me. Look, see, see, see! How their swift eyes run over the long deed, Unto the name, and to the legac...

_Per._ Yes, and ha’ his Adventures put i’ th’ Book of Voyages, 5 And his gull’d story regist’red for truth. Well, gentlemen, when I am in a while, And that you think us warm in...

_Mos._ Do so. My Fox Is out of his hole, and ere he shall re-enter, I ’ll make him languish in his borrow’d case,[1729] Except he come to composition with me.— Androgyno, Castro...

_Volp._ O! belike you are the man, Signior Corvino? Faith, you carry it well; 15 You grow not mad withal; I love your spirit: You are not over-leaven’d with your fortune. You sh...

_Volp._ I mean to be a suitor to your worship, For the small tenement, out of reparations,[1732] That, at the end of your long row of houses, By the Piscaria: it was, in Volpone...

_Volp._ In good faith, sir, I’m heartily griev’d, a beard of your grave length 5 Should be so over-reach’d. I never brook’d That parasite’s hair; methought his nose should cozen...

_Volp._ Sir, the court, In troth, stays for you. I am mad, a mule That never read Justinian, should get up, 10 And ride an advocate. Had you no quirk To avoid gullage, sir, by s...

_Volt._ It is not passion in me, reverend fathers, But only conscience, conscience, my good sires, That makes me now tell truth. That parasite, That knave, hath been the instrum...

_Volp._ To make a snare for mine own neck! and run My head into it, wilfully! with laughter! When I had newly scap’d, was free and clear, Out of mere wantonness! O, the dull dev...

_1 Avoc._ These things can ne’er be reconcil’d. He here [_showing the papers_] Professeth that the gentleman was wrong’d, And that the gentlewoman was brought thither, Forc’d by...

_Sub._ Yes. You were once (time ’s not long past) the good, 15 Honest, plain, livery-three-pound-thrum,[1768] that kept Your master’s worship’s house here in the Friars,[1769] F...

_Dap._ Ay, I am very glad, I had a scurvy writ or two to make, 5 And I had lent my watch last night to one That dines to-day at the sheriff’s, and so was robb’d Of my pass-time....

_Drug._ This, an ’t please your worship; I am a young beginner, and am building Of a new shop, an ’t like your worship, just At corner of a street:—Here is the plot[1825] on ’t—...

_Sub._ O, I did look for him With the sun’s rising: marvel he could sleep! This is the day I am to perfect for him The magisterium, our great work, the stone; And yield it, made...

_Mam._ Come on, sir. Now you set your foot on shore In _Novo Orbe_;[1847] here’s the rich Peru: And there within, sir, are the golden mines, Great Solomon’s Ophir! He was sailin...

_Mam._ Pertinax, my Surly. 5 Again I say to thee, aloud, BE RICH. This day thou shalt have ingots; and to-morrow Give lords th’ affront.—Is it, my Zephyrus, right? Blushes the b...

_Sub._ Son, I doubt You ’re covetous, that thus you meet your time I’ the just[1871] point, prevent[1872] your day at morning. 6 This argues something worthy of a fear Of import...

_Dol._ O, let me alone, I ’ll not forget my race, I warrant you. I ’ll keep my distance, laugh and talk aloud; Have all the tricks of a proud scurvy lady, 10 And be as rude ’s h...

_Face._ ’T is a stone, 40 And not a stone; a spirit, a soul, and a body: Which if you do dissolve, it is dissolv’d; If you coagulate, it is coagulated; If you make it to fly, it...

_Face._ I told you he would be furious.—Sir, here ’s Nab Has brought you another piece of gold to look on; —We must appeass him. Give it me,—and prays you, 5 You would devise—wh...

_Ana._ He bears The visible mark of the beast in his forehead. And for his stone, it is a work of darkness, And with philosophy blinds the eyes of man. 10

_Sub._ O, are you come? ’T was time. Your threescore minutes Were at last thread, you see; and down had gone _Furnus acediae, turris circulatorius:_ Limbec, bolt’s-head, retort,...

_Face._ Quit him! An hell would quit him too, he were happy. ’Slight! would you have me stalk like a mill-jade, 5 All day, for one that will not yield us grains? I know him of old.

_Face._ O, sir, you are welcome. The doctor is within a moving for you; I have had the most ado to win him to it!— He swears you ’ll be the darling o’ the dice: He never heard h...

_Sub._ Then, to her cuz, Hoping that he hath vinegar’d his senses, 5 As he was bid, the Fairy queen dispenses, By me, this robe, the petticoat of Fortune; Which that he straight...

_Face._ The very house, sir, would run mad. You know it, How scrupulous he is, and violent, ’Gainst the least act of sin. Physic or mathematics, 15 Poetry, state,[1958] or bawdr...

_Sub._ Come near, my worshipful boy, _my terræ fili_, That is, my boy of land; make thy approaches: Welcome; I know thy lusts and thy desires, 15 And I will serve and satisfy ’e...

_Sub._ I will not treat with thee. What! sell my fortune? ’T is better than my birthright. Do not murmur: Win her, and carry her. If you grumble, Dol 15 Knows it directly.

_Face._ Ask from your courtier to your inns-of-court-man, To your mere milliner; they will tell you all, Your Spanish jennet is the best horse; your Spanish Stoop is the best ga...

_Dol. And so we may arrive by Talmud skill,[2013] And profane Greek, to raise the building up 26 Of Helen’s house against the Ismaelite, King of Thogarma, and his habergions Bri...

_Sur._ Lady, you see into what hands you are fall’n; ’Mongst what a nest of villains! and how near Your honour was t’ have catch’d a certain clap, Through your credulity, had I...

_Face._ Nay, here’s an honest fellow too that knows him, And all his tricks. (Make good what I say, Abel.) This cheater would ha’ cozen’d thee o’ the widow.— [_Aside to_ DRUG.]...

_Love._ What should my knave advance, To draw this company? He hung out no banners Of a strange calf with five legs to be seen, Or a huge lobster with six claws?

_Face._ Yes, sir, my fellow, The cat that kept the buttery, had it on her A week before I spied it; but I got her Convey’d away i’ the night: and so I shut 10 The house for a mo...

_Face._ Two o’ the fools! You talk as idly as they. Good faith, sir, I think the moon has craz’d ’em all.—[_Aside._] O me, 30 [_Enter_ KASTRIL.] The angry boy come too! He ’ll m...

_Sub._ Well, sir, your aunt her grace Will give you audience presently, on my suit, And the captain’s word that you did not eat your gag In any contempt of her highness. [_Unbin...

_Love._ The house is mine here, and the doors are open; If there be any such persons as you seek for, Use your authority, search on o’ God’s name, I am but newly come to town, a...

_Linc._ My lord mayor, you have sundry times Feasted myself and many courtiers more; Seldom or never can we be so kind To make requital of your courtesy. But leaving this, I hea...

_Rose._ Here sit thou down upon this flow’ry bank And make a garland for thy Lacy’s head. These pinks, these roses, and these violets, These blushing gilliflowers, these marigol...

_Lacy._ How many shapes have gods and kings devis’d, Thereby to compass their desired loves! It is no shame for Rowland Lacy, then, To clothe his cunning with the gentle craft,...

_Eyre._ Where be these boys, these girls, these drabs, these scoundrels? They wallow in the fat brewiss[2127] of my bounty, and lick up the crumbs of my table, yet will not rise...

_Ham._ Cousin, beat every brake, the game ’s not far, This way with winged feet he fled from death, Whilst the pursuing hounds, scenting his steps, Find out his highway to destr...

_Sybil._ Upon some, no. Forester? Go by; no, faith, mistress. The deer came running into the barn through the orchard and over the pale; I wot well, I lookt as pale as a new che...

Skip. _Ick sal yow wat seggen, Hans; dis skip dot comen from Candy, is all vol, by Got’s sacrament, van sugar, civet, almonds, cambrick, end alle dingen, towsand towsand ding. N...

_Dodger._ My lord, upon the eighteenth day of May The French and English were prepar’d to fight; Each side with eager fury gave the sign Of a most hot encounter. Five long hours...

_L. Mayor._ Good Master Scott, I have been bold with you, To be a witness to a wedding-knot Betwixt young Master Hammon and my daughter. O, stand aside; see where the lovers come.

_Marg._ I pray thee, run—do you hear?—run to Guildhall, and learn if my husband, Master (5) Eyre, will take that worshipful vocation of Master Sheriff upon him. Hie thee, good F...

_L. Mayor._ Now, by my troth, I’ll tell thee, Master Eyre, It does me good, and all my brethren, That such a madcap fellow as thyself Is ent’red into our society.

_Ham._ Yonder ’s the shop, and there my fair love sits. She ’s fair and lovely, but she is not mine. O, would she were! Thrice have I courted her, Thrice hath my hand been moist...

_Firk._ Thou do for her? Then ’t will be a (29) lame doing, and that she loves not. Ralph, thou might’st have sent her to me, in faith, I would have yarked and firked your Prisc...

_Serv._ Why you must make them in all parts like this shoe; but, at any hand, fail not to do them, for the gentlewoman is to be married very early in the morning.

_Rose._ Sweet Lacy, since fair opportunity Offers herself to further our escape, 5 Let not too over-fond esteem of me Hinder that happy hour. Invent the means, And Rose will fol...

_L. Mayor._ Believe me, on my credit, I speak truth: Since first your nephew Lacy went to France, I have not seen him. It seem’d strange to me, When Dodger told me that he stay’...

_Eyre._ Away with these ifs and ans, Hans, and these et caeteras! By mine honour, Rowland Lacy, none but the king shall wrong thee. Come, fear nothing, am not I Sim Eyre? Is not...

_Hodge._ Come, Ralph; stand to it, Firk. My masters, as we are the brave bloods of the shoemakers, heirs apparent to Saint Hugh, and perpetual benefactors to all good fellows, t...

_Nobleman._ One of the merriest madcaps in your land. Your grace will think, when you behold the man, He’s rather a wild ruffian than a mayor. Yet thus much I’ll ensure your maj...

_Eyre._ Come, my fine Hodge, my jolly gentlemen shoemakers; soft, where be these cannibals, these varlets, my officers? Let them all walk and wait upon my brethren; for my meani...

_King._ Well, Lacy, though the fact was very foul Of your revolting from our kingly love And your own duty, yet we pardon you. Rise both, and, Mistress Lacy, thank my lord mayor...

GASPARO TREBAZZI, Duke of Milan. HIPPOLITO, a Count. CASTRUCHIO. SINEZI. PIORATTO. FLUELLO. MATHEO. BENEDICT, a Doctor. ANSELMO, a Friar. FUSTIGO, Brother of Viola. CANDIDO, a L...

_Enter at one door a Funeral (a coronet lying on the hearse, scutcheons and garlands hanging on the sides), attended by_ GASPARO TREBAZZI, Duke of Milan, CASTRUCHIO, SINEZI, PIO...

GASPARO TREBAZZI, Duke of Milan. HIPPOLITO, a Count, Husband of Infelice. ORLANDO FRISCOBALDO, Father of Bellafront. MATHEO, Husband of Bellafront. CANDIDO, a Linen-draper. LODO...

_Lod._ Oh, a morning to tempt Jove from his ningle,[2460] Ganymede; which is but to give dairy-wenches green gowns as they are going a-milking. What, is thy lord stirring yet? 10

_Lod._ Oh ’t is rare sucking a sweet honey comb! Pray Heaven his old wife be buried deep enough, that she rise not up to call for her dance! The poor fiddlers’ instruments would...

_Orl._ This madam: my poor mistress has a (5) waste piece of ground, which is her own by inheritance, and left to her by her mother. There ’s a lord now that goes about not to t...

_Pre._ You think you are in a brothel-house, do you not?—This room is ill-scented. _Enter One with a perfume._ So, perfume, perfume: some upon me, I pray thee. The duke is upon...

_Mal._ (_out of his chamber._) Yaugh, god-a-man, (5) what dost thou there? Duke’s Ganymede, Juno’s jealous of thy long stockings. Shadow of a woman, what wouldst, weasel? Thou l...

[_Pietro._] See, he comes. Now shall you hear the extremity of a malcontent: he is as free as air; he blows over every man.—And, sir, whence come you now? 4

_Mal._ Peace, speak low, peace! O Celso, constant lord, (Thou to whose faith I only rest discovered, Thou, one of full ten millions of men, That lovest virtue only for itself; 5...

_Men._ Now, good Elysium! what a delicious heaven is it for a man to be in a prince’s favour! O sweet God! O pleasure! O fortune! O all thou best of life! What should I think, w...

_Maq._ To speak feelingly, more, more richly in solid sense than worthless words, give me those jewels of your ears to receive my enforced duty. As for my part, ’t is well known...

_Men._ I! Come, come, sit; here ’s my bare heart to thee, As steady as is the[2673] centre to this[2674] glorious world: And yet, hark, thou art a cornuto,—but by me?

_Men._ He’s caught, the woodcock’s head is i’ th’ noose. Now treads Ferneze in dangerous path of lust, Swearing his sense is merely[2686] deified: The fool grasps clouds, and sh...

_Mal._ Ay, old coal; methinks thou liest like a brand under these billets of green wood. He (5) that will inflame a young wench’s heart, let him lay close to her an old coal tha...

_Mal._ With most servile patience.—Time will come When wonder of thy error will strike dumb Thy bezzled[2693] senses.— 20 Slaves! ay, favour: ay, marry, shall he rise: Good God!...

_Maq._ ’T is a pretty pearl; by this pearl (how does’t with me?[2700]) thus it is: Seven and thirty yolks of Barbary hens’ eggs; eighteen spoonfuls (10) and a half of the juice...

_Men._ Pierce, pierce!—Thou shallow fool, drop there! He that attempts a princess’ lawless love 5 Must have broad hands, close heart, with Argus’ eyes, And back of Hercules, or...

_Pietro._ Would God I could! Mendoza, bid ’em haste. _Exit_ MENDOZA. 5 I would fain shift, place; O vain relief! Sad souls may well change place, but not change grief: As deer,...

_Mal._ I cannot sleep; my eyes’ ill-neighbouring lids Will hold no fellowship. O thou pale sober night, Thou that in sluggish fumes all sense dost steep; Thou that giv’st all th...

_Celso._ I’ faith, my lord, that beast with many heads, 5 The staggering multitude, recoils apace: Though thorough great men’s envy, most men’s malice, Their much-intemperate he...

_Pietro._ Would God nothing but the dogs were at it! Let the deer pursue safety,[2729] the dogs follow the game, and do you follow the dogs: as for me, ’t is unfit one beast sho...

_Mal._ Brief, brief: who? The Duke! Good heaven, that fools Should stumble upon greatness!—Do not sleep, duke; 4 Give ye good-morrow. I[2732] must be brief, duke; I am fee’d to...

_Maq._ O ladies, the most abominable mischance! O dear ladies the most piteous disaster! (15) Ferneze was taken last night in the duchess’ chamber. Alas, the duke catcht him and...

_Guer._ Why, ’t is but two singles on the left, two on the right, three doubles forward, a traverse of six round: do this twice, three singles side, galliard trick-of-twenty, co...

_Mal._ Rest in peace, as the duke does: quietly sit: for my own part, I beheld him but dead; that ’s all. Marry, here ’s one can give you 10 a more particular account of him.

_Mal._ Yes, from my friends; for from mine enemies I’ll deliver myself. O, cut-throat friendship is the rankest villainy! Mark this Mendoza; mark him for a villain: but heaven w...

_Aur._ Why, why, I can desire nothing but death, Nor deserve anything but hell. 5 If heaven should give sufficiency of grace To clear my soul, it would make heaven graceless: My...

_Bil._ This calf hath been a reveller this twenty year. When Monsieur Gundi lay here ambassador, (5) I could have carried a lady up and down at arm’s end in a platter; and I can...

_Mal._ O, thou art a blessed creature! Had (5) I a modest woman to conceal, I would put her to thy custody; for no reasonable creature would ever suspect her to be in thy compan...

_Maq._ Nay, by mine honour, madam, as good ha’ ne’er a husband as a banished husband; he’s in another world now. I ’ll tell ye, lady, I have heard of a sect that maintained, whe...

_Bil._ Nay, sweet Malevole, since my return I hear you are become the thing I always prophesied would be,—an advanced virtue, a worthily-employed faithfulness, a man o’ grace, (...

_Men._ Madam, with gentle ear receive my suit; A kingdom’s safety should o’er-peise[2788] slight rites; Marriage is merely nature’s policy: Then, since unless our royal beds be...

_Vent._ Sirrah, I’ll make you know you are my prentice, And whom my charitable love redeem’d Even from the fall of fortune; gave thee heat And growth, to be what now thou art, n...

_Wife._ George, dost thou think in thy conscience now ’t will be a match? Tell me but what thou think’st, sweet rogue. Thou seest 10 the poor gentleman, dear heart, how it labou...

_Jasp._ Come, my dear dear; though we have lost our way, We have not lost ourselves. Are you not weary With this night’s wand’ring, broken from your rest, And frighted with the...

_Jasp._ Go and be happy! [_Exit_ Boy.] Now, my latest hope, Forsake me not, but fling thy anchor out, And let it hold! Stand fixt, thou rolling stone, Till I enjoy my dearest! H...

_Vent._ Go, get you up;[3120] I will not be entreated; And, gossip mine, I ’ll keep you sure hereafter From gadding out again with boys and unthrifts. Come, they are women’s tea...

_Vent._ I will have no great store of company at the wedding; a couple of neighbours and their wives; and we will have a capon in stewed broth, with marrow, and a good piece of...

_Dion._ Credit me, gentlemen, I wonder at it. They receiv’d strict charge from the King to attend here; besides, it was boldly published that no officer should forbid any gentle...

_Phi._ And thou shalt find her honourable, boy; Full of regard unto thy tender youth, For thine own modesty; and, for my sake, Apter to give than thou wilt be to ask, Ay, or des...

_Dion._ Ay; and ’t is the gods That rais’d this punishment, to scourge the King With his own issue. Is it not a shame For us that should write noble in the land, 5 For us that s...

_Dion._ He looks like an old surfeited stallion, dull as a dormouse. See how he sinks! The wench has shot him between wind and water, and, I hope, sprung a leak.

_Phi._ Oh, Arethusa, oh, Bellario, Leave to be kind! I shall be shut from Heaven, as now from earth, If you continue so. I am a man 6 False to a pair of the most trusty ones Tha...

_Stra._ Yes; they must commend their king, and speak in praise Of the assembly, bless the bride and bridegroom In person of some god; they ’re tied to rules 10 Of flattery.

_Evad._ I thank thee, Dula. Would thou couldst instil Some of thy mirth into Aspatia! Nothing but sad thoughts in her breast do dwell: 35 Methinks, a mean betwixt you would do w...

_Amin._ Your sister frets This morning; and does turn her eyes upon me, As people on their headsman. She does chafe, And kiss, and chafe again, and clap my cheeks: She ’s in ano...

_Mel._ Thy long-lost honour. Would the gods had set me Rather to grapple with the plague, or stand One of their loudest bolts! Come, tell me quickly, Do it without enforcement,...

_Evad._[3399] The night grows horrible; and all about me Like my black purpose. Oh, the conscience _King abed._ Of a lost virgin,[3400] whither wilt thou pull me? To what things...

_Clorin._ Hail, holy earth, whose cold arms do embrace The truest man that ever fed his flocks By the fat plains of fruitful Thessaly! Thus I salute thy grave; thus do I pay My...

_Priest._ Shepherds all, and maidens fair, Fold your flocks up, for the air ’Gins to thicken, and the sun Already his great course hath run. See the dew-drops how they kiss 5 Ev...

_Daph._ Here will I stay, for this the covert is Where I appointed Cloe. Do not miss, Thou bright-ey’d virgin; come, oh come, my fair! Be not abus’d with fear, nor let cold care...

_Sull. Shep._ From thy forehead thus I take These herbs, and charge thee not awake Till in yonder holy well Thrice, with powerful magic spell Fill’d with many a baleful word 5 T...

_Peri._ She is untrue, unconstant, and unkind; She’s gone, she’s gone! Blow high, thou northwest wind, And raise the sea to mountains; let the trees That dare oppose thy raging...

_Priest._ Shepherds, rise, and shake off sleep! See, the blushing morn doth peep Through the windows, whilst the sun To the mountain-tops is run, Gilding all the vales below 5 W...

_F. Boy._ I am sure I have run hard; Would somebody would walk me, and see me litter’d, For I think my fellow-horse cannot in reason 5 Desire more rest, nor take up his chamber...

_Mir._ Welcome to Paris, once more, gentlemen! We have had a merry and a lusty ordinary, And wine, and good meat, and a bouncing reckoning; And let it go for once; ’t is a good...

_Nant._ That’s my hope too: 5 For, certain, sir, I much desire your alliance. You see ’em; they are no gypsies. For their breeding, It has not been so coarse but they are able T...

_Mir._ Ne’er tell me of this happiness; ’t is nothing: The state[3532] they bring with being sought-to,[3533] scurvy: I had rather make mine own play, and I will do. My happines...

_Serv._ You ’ll find that quickly. May be she ’ll call ye saucy, scurvy fellow, 11 Or some such familiar name; may be she knows ye And will fling a piss-pot at ye, or a pantofle...

_Ros._ You say right; for, as long as he perceives ye Sink under his proud scornings, he ’ll laugh at ye. 5 For me, secure yourself; and, for my sister, I partly know her mind t...

_Lug._ There ’s no great scholarship belongs to this, sir; What I am, I am. I pity your poor sister, And heartily I hate these travellers, These gim-cracks, made of mops[3564] a...

_Lug._ Faint not, but do as I direct ye: trust me; Believe me too; for what I have told ye, lady, As true as you are Lillia, is authentic; I know it, I have found it: ’t is a po...

_Lil._ Are you ready? Belleur is coming on here, hard behind me: 15 I have no leisure to relate my fortune; Only I wish you may come off as handsomely. Upon the sign, you know w...

_La Cast._ Let him alone: It is his glory that he can kill beauty.— Ye bear my stamp, but not my tenderness; Your wild unsavoury courses let[3611] that in ye! For shame, be sorr...

_Lug._ That’s the worst can happen: If there be any way to reach, and work upon him, Upon his nature suddenly, and catch him—That he loves, Though he dissemble it, and would sho...

_Mir._ Pray, sir, your pardon; For I must travel. Lie lazy here, Bound to a wife! Chain’d to her subleties, Her humours, and her wills, which are mere fetters! To have her to-da...

_Lug._ Your man is ready. For I must not be seen; no, nor this gentleman; That may beget suspicion; all the rest 5 Are people of no doubt. I would have ye, ladies, Keep your old...

_Y. Man._ Of a fair size, sir. My master not being at home, I have been so out of my wits to get her company! 5 I mean, sir, of her own fair sex and fashion——

_Mir._ No, no. I only saw her; she was busy. Now I go for that end; and mark her, gentlemen, If she appear not to ye one of the sweetest, The handsomest, the fairest in behaviou...

_Y. Man._ They are come in. Sit you two off, as strangers.— There, lady.—Where ’s the boy? [_Enter_ Boy.] Be ready, sirrah, And clear your pipes.—The music now; they enter. _Mus...

_Delio._ You are welcome to your country, dear Antonio; You have been long in France, and you return A very formal Frenchman in your habit. How do you like the French court?

_Ferd._ Why should he not as well sleep or eat by a deputy? This might take idle, offensive, and base office from him, whereas the other deprives him of honour. 25

_Bos._ Let me see: you have a reasonable good face for ’t already, and your night-cap expresses your ears sufficient largely. I would have you (5) learn to twirl the strings of...

_Bos._ Who? I? No; only, by the way now and then, mention your frailties. The orange-tree bears ripe and green fruit and blossoms all (15) together; and some of you give enterta...

_Bos._ Sure I did hear a woman shriek: list, ha! And the sound came, if I receiv’d it right, From the duchess’ lodgings. There’s some stratagem In the confining all our courtier...

_Card._ Why do you weep? 20 Are tears your justification? The self-same tears Will fall into your husband’s bosom, lady, With a loud protestation that you love him Above the wor...

_Ferd._ Lower! Rogues do not whisper ’t now, but seek to publish ’t 5 (As servants do the bounty of their lords) Aloud; and with a covetous searching eye, To mark who note them....

_Delio._ Methinks ’t was yesterday. Let me but wink, And not behold your face, which to mine eye Is somewhat leaner, verily I should dream 10 It were within this half hour.

_Ant._ O, fie upon this single life! forgo it. We read how Daphne, for her peevish [flight,][3725] Became a fruitless bay-tree; Syrinx turn’d 26 To the pale empty reed; Anaxaret...

_Mal._ The emperor, Hearing your worth that way, ere you attain’d This reverend garment, joins you in commission With the right fortunate soldier the Marquis of Pescara, And the...

_2 Pil._ The Cardinal of Arragon Is this day to resign his cardinal’s hat; His sister duchess likewise is arriv’d To pay her vow of pilgrimage. I expect 5 A noble ceremony.

_Duch._ The birds, that live i’ th’ field On the wild benefit of nature, live Happier than we: for they may choose their mates, And carol their sweet pleasures to the spring. 20

_Bos._ Nobly: I ’ll describe her. She ’s sad as one long us’d to ’t, and she seems Rather to welcome the end of misery Than shun it; a behaviour so noble 5 As gives a majesty to...

_Delio._ I misdoubt it; For though they have sent their letters of safe-conduct For your repair to Milan, they appear But nets to entrap you. The Marquis of Pescara, 5 Under who...

_Delio._ Yond ’s the cardinal’s window. This fortification Grew from the ruins of an ancient abbey; And to yond side o’ th’ river lies a wall, Piece of a cloister, which in my o...

_Card._ O, by no means; The noise, and change of object in his eye, Doth more distract him. I pray, all to bed; 5 And though you hear him in his violent fit, Do not rise, I entr...

_Card._ I am puzzl’d in a question about hell; He says, in hell there ’s one material fire, And yet it shall not burn all men alike. Lay him by. How tedious is a guilty conscien...

_Wit._ All ’s gone! still thou ’rt a gentleman, that ’s all; but a poor one, that ’s nothing. What milk brings thy meadows forth now? Where are thy goodly uplands, and thy down-...

_Luc._ My adversary evermore twits me with my nephew, forsooth, my nephew: why may not a virtuous uncle have a dissolute nephew? What though he be a brotheller, a wastethrift, a...

_Wit._ What can be kept so close but you creditors hear on ’t! Well, ’t is a lamentable state, that our chiefest afflictors should first hear of our fortunes. Why, this is no go...

1 [_Gent._] Join hearts, join hands, In wedlock’s bands, Never to part Till death cleave your heart. [_To_ HOARD.] You shall forsake all other women; 5 [_To_ Courtesan.] You lor...

_Hoa._ Prithee, show a little diligence, and overlook the knaves a little; they ’ll filch and steal to-day, and send whole pasties home to their wives; an thou be’st a good niec...

_Als._ ’T was in the temple where I first beheld her, And now again the same: what omen yet Follows of that? None but imaginary. Why should my hopes or fate be timorous? The pla...

_Beat._ O sir, I ’m ready now for that fair service Which makes the name of friend sit glorious on you! Good angels and this conduct be your guide! [_Giving a paper._] Fitness o...

_De Flores._ Yes, here are all the keys; I was afraid, my lord, I ’d wanted for the postern, this is it. I ’ve all, I ’ve all, my lord: this for the sconce.[3945]

_Enter Gentlemen_, VERMANDERO _meeting them with action of wonderment at the flight of_ PIRACQUO. _Enter_ ALSEMERO _with_ JASPERINO _and gallants_: VERMANDERO _points to him, th...

_Beat._ One struck, and yet she lies by ’t! O my fears! This strumpet serves her own ends, ’t is apparent now, Devours the pleasure with a greedy appetite, And never minds my ho...

_Tap._ Even so, sir. And I must tell you, if you but advance 10 Your Plymouth cloak[4022] you shall be soon instructed There dwells, and within call, if it please your worship,...

_Ord._ Set all things right, or, as my name is Order, And by this staff of office that commands you, This chain and double ruff, symbols of power, Whoever misses in his function...

_Ord._ Sir, it is her will. Which we, that are her servants, ought to serve it, 5 And not dispute. Howe’er, you are nobly welcome; And, if you please to stay, that you may think...

_Mar._ Your worships have the way on ’t, and ne’er miss To squeeze these unthrifts into air; and yet, The chapfallen[4047] justice did his part, returning For your advantage the...

_All._ I have told you what my haste is: Besides, being now another’s, not mine own, Howe’er I much desire to enjoy you longer, My duty suffers, if, to please myself, 5 I should...

_Mar._ Ease! an it like your worship! I hope Jack Marrall shall not live so long, To prove himself such an unmannerly beast, 10 Though it hail hazel-nuts, as to be cover’d When...

_All._ O, my lord, What a sacrifice of reverence, duty, watching, Although I could put off the use of sleep, And ever wait on your commands to serve ’em; 5 What dangers, though...

_Over._ That proverb fits your stomach, Master Greedy. And let no plate be seen but what ’s pure gold, Or such whose workmanship exceeds the matter 5 That it is made of; let my...

_Over._ She ’s caught! O women!—she neglects my lord, And all her compliments appli’d to Wellborn! The garments of her widowhood laid by, She now appears as glorious as the spri...

_All._ What is blest With your good wish, my lord, cannot but prosper. Let aftertimes report, and to your honour, 5 How much I stand engag’d, for I want language To speak my deb...

_Froth._ Mine! I defy thee. Did not Master Marrall (He has marr’d all, I am sure) strictly command us, On pain of Sir Giles Overreach’ displeasure, To turn the gentleman out of...

_All._ Whether to yield the first praise to my lord’s Unequall’d temperance or your constant sweetness That I yet live, my weak hands fasten’d on Hope’s anchor, spite of all sto...

_L. All._ By this you know how strong the motives were That did, my lord, induce me to dispense A little with my gravity to advance, In personating some few favours to him, The...

_Crot._ Give me one, a good one; Such I expect, and ere we part must have. Athens! Pray, why to Athens? You intend not 5 To kick against the world, turn cynic, stoic, Or read th...

_Amy._ The Spartan gods are gracious; our humility Shall bend before their altars, and perfume Their temples with abundant sacrifice. See, lords, Amyclas, your old king, is ent’...

_Tec._ Tempt not the stars; young man, thou canst not play With the severity of fate: this change Of habit and disguise in outward view Hides not the secrets of thy soul within...

_Bass._ I’ll have that window next the street damm’d up; It gives too full a prospect to temptation, And courts a gazer’s glances. There ’s a lust Committed by the eye, that swe...

_Ith._ Ambition! ’t is of vipers’ breed: it gnaws A passage through the womb that gave it motion. Ambition, like a seeled[4157] dove, mounts upward, Higher and higher still, to...

_Pro._ In this walk, lady, will your brother find you: And, with your favour, give me leave a little To work a preparation. In his fashion I have observ’d of late some kind of s...

_Tec._ I am jealous;[4170] For if the borrowed shape so late put on Inferr’d a consequence, we must conclude 5 Some violent design of sudden nature Hath shook that shadow off, t...

_Ith._ I did the noble Orgilus much injury, But griev’d Penthea more: I now repent it,— Now, uncle, now; this “now” is now too late. So provident is folly in sad issue, 11 That...

_Bass._ Athens—to Athens I have sent, the nursery Of Greece for learning and the fount of knowledge: For here in Sparta there ’s not left amongst us One wise man to direct; we ’...

_Cal._ On to the dance!— Dear cousin, hand you the bride; the bridegroom must be Intrusted to my courtship. Be not jealous, 10 Euphranea; I shall scarcely prove a temptress.— Fa...

_An altar covered with white_; _two lights of virgin wax, during which music of recorders_; _enter four bearing_ ITHOCLES _on a hearse_, _or in a chair, in a rich robe_, _with a...

_Lady B._[4234] ’T is that I came to town for. I would not Endure again the country conversation, To be the lady of six shires! The men, So near the primitive making, they retai...

_Born._ ’T is a strange humour I have undertaken, To dance, and play, and spend as fast as she does; But I am resolv’d: it may do good upon her, And fright her into thrift. Nay,...

_Lord._ Please you to give me the particular, That I may know the extent of my engagement.[4280] I am ignorant by what desert you should Be encourag’d to have care of me.

_Kick._ I am not hurt; my patience to obey ’em, Not without fear to ha’ my throat cut else, Did me a courtesy. Whither ha’ they brought me? [_Pulls off a bandage._] ’T is devili...

_Serv._ And five hundred more he borrow’d. The dice are notable devourers, madam; They make no more of pieces than of pebbles, But thrust their heaps together, to engender. 5 “T...

_1 Lord._ The darling of the war, whom victory Hath often courted; a man of daring, And most exalted spirit. Pride in him 25 Dwells like an ornament, where so much honour Secure...

_Colum._ I see no face in all this council that Hath one pale fear upon ’t, though we arriv’d not So timely to secure the town, which gives Our enemy such triumph.

_Val._ I did not think, Celinda, when I prais’d Alvarez, to the duchess, that things thus Would come about. What does your ladyship Think of Columbo now? It staggers all The cou...

_Her._ But, as the murder done had been a dream Vanish’d to memory, he’s courted as Preserver of his country. With what chains 10 Of magic does this Cardinal hold the king?

_2 Lord._ But what a subject of disgrace and mirth Hath poor Celinda made herself by pride, In her belief Columbo was her servant! 25 Her head hath stoop’d much since he died, a...