The Works Of John Dryden Now First Collected In Eighteen Volume

_The Scene opens, and discovers the Temple of the Sun, all of gold, and four Priests, in habits of white and red feathers, attending by a bloody altar, as ready for sacrifice.

_Non_. Murder, murder! beat down their weapons. Will you murder Sir Timorous, Mr Loveby?--[_They disarm both_.] Sir Timorous?--ha, Burr! Thieves, thieves!--sit down, good Mr Jus...

_Flor_. 'Twill be rare now, if I can go through with it, to outdo this mad Celadon in all his tricks, and get both his mistresses from him; then I shall revenge myself upon all...

_Chr. Priest_. Mark how this impious heathen justifies His own false gods, and our true God denies: How wickedly he has refused his wealth, And hid his gold, from christian hand...

'Tis true, she banished me but for a day; But favourites, once declining, sink apace. Yet fortune, stop--this is the likeliest place To meet Asteria, and by her convey My humble...

_Fail_. To guard our interest in him from the enemy, madam Isabella; who, I doubt, has designs upon him. I do not fear her wit, but her sex; she carries a prevailing argument ab...

_High Pr_. The incense is upon the altar placed, The bloody sacrifice already past; Five hundred captives saw the rising sun, Who lost their light, ere half his race was run. Th...

_Mel_. I must take this business up in time: This wild fellow begins to haunt my house again. Well, I'll be bold to say it, 'tis as easy to bring up a young lion without mischie...

_Man_. Hold, gentlemen! we're equally concerned. [_To RODORICK'S Servants_. We for our own, you for your master's safety; If we join forces, we may then resist them, If not, bot...

_Trice_. Saucy rascal, to disturb my meditations. [_Exit Servant_.--Ay, it shall be he: Jack Loveby, what think'st thou of a game at piquet, we two, hand to fist? you and I will...

_Lov_. Nay, the devil take thee, sweet landlady, hold thy tongue: Was't not enough thou hast scolded me from my lodging, which, as long as I rent it, is my castle; but to follow...

_Hip_. I know not much of him: Handsome you see, and of graceful fashion; Of noble blood, he says, and I believe him; But in some deep distress; he'll tell no more, And I could...

_Fail_. I vow to gad, my lord, Sir Timorous is the most dejected person in the world, and full of regret for what is past. 'Twas his misfortune to be drawn in by such a person a...

_Const_. Well, my opinion is, some great lady, that is in love with you, supplies you still; and you tell me an incredible tale of the devil, merely to shadow your infidelity.

_Hip_. This were so fit a time For my revenge, had I the courage, now! My heart swells at him, and my breath grows short; But whether fear or anger choaks it up, I cannot tell.

My master bid me speak for him to Julia: Hard fate, that I am made a confident Against myself! Yet, though unwillingly I took the office, I would perform it well: But how can I...

Nothing thrives that I have plotted; For I have sounded Philocles, and find He is too constant to Candiope: Her too I have assaulted, but in vain, Objecting want of quality in P...

_Phil_. Had I known it sooner, My swift attendance, sir, had spared your trouble.-- Cousin, you see prince Lysimantes [_To_ CEL. Is pleased to favour me with his commands: I beg...

_Lov_. Why, there's it: I have promised my lady Constance an hundred pounds ere night; I had four hours to perform it in, when I engaged to do it; and I have slept out more than...

_Gon_. Nay, 'twas a strange as well as cruel storm, To take us almost in the port of Sevile, And drive us up as far as Barcelona; The whole plate fleet was scattered, some part...

_Alm_. I'm justly plagued by this your unbelief, And am myself the cause of my own grief: But to beg love, I cannot stoop so low; It is enough that you my passion know: 'Tis in...

Zemp_. Shame of my blood, and traitor to thy own: Born to dishonour, not command a throne! Hast thou, with envious eyes, my triumph seen? Or couldst not see thy mother in thy qu...

_Guy_. I sought not honour on so base a train, Such cowards by our women may be slain; I felled along a man of bearded face, His limbs all covered with a shining case: So wondro...

_1 Serv_. I do not think she fancies much the man: Only, to make the reconcilement perfect Betwixt the families, she's passive in it; The choice being but her brother's, not her...

_Queen_. Dull Asteria! not to know, Mad people never think the same thing twice!-- Alas! I'm hurried restless up and down:-- I was in anger once, and then I thought I had put in...

_Guy_. One means is only left. I to this hour Have kept the captive from Almeria's power; And though, by your command, she often sent To urge his doom, do still his death prevent.

_Inca_. Thrice have the Mexicans before us fled, Their armies broke, their prince in triumph led; Both to thy valour, brave young man, we owe; Ask thy reward, but such as it may...

_Man_. Thus I provide for others' happiness, And lose my own. 'Tis true, I cannot blame Thy hatred, Angelina, but thy silence. Thy brother's hatred made thine just; but yet 'Twa...

_Guy_. Were she ambitious, she'd disdain to own The pageant pomp of such a servile throne; A throne, which thou by parricide dost gain, And by a base submission must retain.

_Odm_. 'Tis, sir, the general cry; nor seems it strange, The face of plenty should so swiftly change: This city never felt a siege before, But from the lake received its daily s...

_Zemp_. Ho, Ismeron, Ismeron! He stirs not; ha, in such a dismal cell Can gentle sleep with his soft blessings dwell? Must I feel tortures in a human breast, While beasts and mo...

_Trax_. Now take your choice, and bid him live or die; To both shew pity, or shew cruelty: 'Tis you that must condemn, I'll only act; Your sentence is more cruel than my fact.

_Man_. This is the time and place, where I expect My fugitive mistress; if I meet with her, I may forget the wrongs, her brother did me; If otherwise, his blood shall expiate th...

_Mont_. Hold, villains, hold, or your rude lives shall be Lost in the midst of your own victory: These have I hunted for;--nay, do not stare; Be gone, and in the common plunder...

_Fail_. Egad, there goes more cunning than one would think to the putting thy clothes together. Thy doublet and breeches are Guelphs and Ghibellins to one another; and the stitc...

_Aca_. First, Montezuma, take thy liberty; Thou gavest me freedom, here I set thee free: We're equal now. Madam, the danger's great Of close pursuit; to favour your retreat, Per...

Spaniard, awake: thy fatal hour is come: Thou shalt not at such ease receive thy doom. Revenge is sure, though sometimes slowly paced: Awake, awake, or, sleeping, sleep thy last.

_Odm_. The gods, fair Alibech, had so decreed, Nor could my valour against fate succeed; Yet though our army brought not conquest home, I did not from the fight inglorious come:...

_Hip_. Nay, 'tis too true; for, peeping through a chink, I saw Don Roderick lying on a bed, Not dead, as we supposed, but only hurt; So waited on as spoke him master here.

_Cel_. Constant to one!--I have been a courtier, a soldier, and a traveller, to good purpose, if I must be constant to one: Give me some twenty, some forty, some a hundred mistr...

_Mont_. Not that I fear the utmost fate can do, Come I the event of doubtful war to know; For life and death are things indifferent; Each to be chose as either brings content: M...

_Fail_. He shall be hanged, ere he shall get her. Thus far I have dogged them, and this way I am sure they must pass, ere they come to the house. The rogue had got the old dog-t...

_Set_. Take here the mighty queen of good and ill, Fortune; first marry, then enjoy thy fill Of lawful pleasures; but depart ere morn; Slip from her bed, or else thou shalt be t...

_Alib_. Blessings will crown your name, if you prevent That blood, which in this battle will be spent; Nor need you fear so just a suit to move, Which both becomes your duty and...

_Zemp_. O my Acacis! Does not my grief, Traxalla, seem too rude, Thus to press out before my gratitude Has paid my debts to you?--yet it does move My rage and grief, to see thos...

_A pleasant grotto discovered; in it a fountain spouting; round about it Vasquez, Pizarro, and other Spaniards, lying carelessly unarmed, and by them many Indian women, one of w...

_Aca_. You wrong, me, my best friend, not to believe Your kindness gives me joy; and when I grieve, Unwillingly my sorrows I obey: Showers sometimes fall upon a shining day.

_Cort_. All things are hushed, as nature's self lay dead; The mountains seem to nod their drowsy head; The little birds, in dreams, their songs repeat, And sleeping flowers bene...

_Ast_. My dear brother, welcome! A thousand welcomes! Methinks, this year, you have been absent, has been so tedious:--I hope, as you have made a pleasant voyage, so you have br...

_Lov_. This is the time and place he pointed me, and 'tis certainly the devil I am to meet; for no mortal creature could have that kindness for me, to supply my necessities as h...

_Capt_. 'Faith, I have considered better on't: for, conversing a whole day together with honest men, I found them all so poor and beggarly, that a civil person would be ashamed...

_Cort_. Either fight or die, I'll not strain honour to a point too high; I saved your life, and keep it if you can, Cydaria shall be for the bravest man; On equal terms you shal...

_Cort_. On what new happy climate are we thrown, So long kept secret, and so lately known; As if our old world modestly withdrew, And here in private had brought forth a new?

_Trice_. Cinque and quatre: My cinque I play here, sir; my quatre here, sir: Now for you, sir: But first I'll drink to you, sir; upon my faith I'll do you reason, sir: Mine was...

_Zemp_. Slaves, perhaps you grieve to see Your young prince glorious, 'cause he sprang from me; Had he been one of base Amexia's brood, Your tongues, though silent now, had then...

_Sir Timorous, Be at the garden-door at nine this evening; there I'll receive you with my daughter. To gratify your modesty I designed this way, after I had better considered on...

_Serv_. I have done better; for I have employed Some, whom I know, this day to seize a ship; Which they have done, clapping the men within her All under hatches, with such speed...

_Mont_. Charge, charge! their ground the faint Taxallans yield! Bold in close ambush, base in open field. The envious devil did my fortune wrong:-- Thus fought, thus conquered I...