The Hunchback

_Wilf_. Your wine, sirs! your wine! You do not justice to mine host of the Three Tuns, nor credit to yourselves; I swear the beverage is good! It is as palatable poison as you w...

_Helen_. You would no other know! Would you not know Another relative?--another friend-- Another house--another anything, Because the ones you have already please you? That's po...

_Clif_. Then is there no such thing On earth as reverence; honour filial, the fear Of kings, the awe of supreme heaven itself, Are only shows and sounds that stand for nothing....

_Thos_. She stands it well! 'Twas five, you say, when she came home; and wants it now three-quarters of an hour of ten? Wait till her stock of country health is out.

_Wal_. Weighty, indeed! What thou wouldst ne'er expect--wilt scarce believe! Long-hidden wrong, wondrously come to light, And great right done! But more of this anon. Now of my...

_Ste_. That letter brings not news to wish him joy upon. If he was disturbed before, which I guessed by his looks he was, he is not more at ease now. His hand to his head! A mos...

_Roch_. He is useful. Never heed him. My offer now do I present through him. He has the title-deeds of my estates, She'll listen to their wooing. I must have her. Not that I lov...

_Wal_. So falls out everything, as I would have it, Exact in place and time. This lord's advances Receives she,--as, I augur, in the spleen Of wounded pride she will,--my course...

_Helen_. I'm weary wandering from room to room; A castle after all is but a house-- The dullest one when lacking company. Were I at home, I could be company Unto myself. I see n...

_Wal_. This is the banqueting-room. Thou seest as far It leaves the last behind, as that excels The former ones. All is proportion here And harmony! Observe! The massy pillars M...

_Fath_. She offered me all she was mistress of to take the letter to Master Clifford. She drew her purse from her pocket--the ring from her finger--she took her very earrings ou...

_Julia_. No word from him, and evening now set in! He cannot play me false! His messenger Is dogged--or letter intercepted. I'm Beset with spies!--No rescue!--No escape!-- The h...

_Wal_. All runs fair-- Fair may all end! To-day you'll learn the cause That took me out of town. But soft a while,-- Here comes the bridegroom, with his friends, and here The al...