Category: Plays/Films/Dramas

The Maids Tragedy

The Land by me welcomes thy vertues home to _Rhodes_, thou that with blood abroad buyest us our peace; the breath of King is like the breath of Gods; My brother wisht thee here, and thou art here; he will be too kind, and weary thee with often welcomes; but the time doth give...

Chapters

8. Chapter 8

p. 5, l. 2. A--G] fetcht. l. 4. A and B] that. l. 7. A] these. l. 9. A] too cruell. B] too fickle. l. 14. A and B] about. l. 18. A _omits_ this line, and gives the following spe...

7. Chapter 7

_Mel_. The short is this; 'Tis no ambition to lift up my self, Urgeth me thus; I do desire again To be a subject, so I may be freed; If not, I know my strength, and will unbuild...

5. Chapter 5

_Mel_. Thy long-lost honour: would the Gods had set me One of their loudest bolts; come tell me quickly, Do it without enforcement, and take heed You swell me not above my temper.

4. Chapter 4

_Amint_. Worse and worse! Thou that dar'st talk unto thy Husband thus, Profess thy self a Whore; and more than so, Resolve to be so still; it is my fate To bear and bow beneath...

2. Chapter 2

_Hold back thy hours dark night, till we have done, The day will come too soon; Young Maids will curse thee if thou steal'st away, And leav'st their blushes open to the day. Sta...

6. Chapter 6

_Mel_. I talk not to thee; Shall the wild words of this distempered man, Frantick with age and sorrow, make a breach Betwixt your Majesty and me? 'twas wrong To hearken to him;...

3. Chapter 3

_Amint_. These strange and sudden injuries have faln So thick upon me, that I lose all sense Of what they are: methinks I am not wrong'd, Nor is it ought, if from the censuring...

1. Chapter 1

The Land by me welcomes thy vertues home to _Rhodes_, thou that with blood abroad buyest us our peace; the breath of King is like the breath of Gods; My brother wisht thee here,...