Category: Plays/Films/Dramas
Sir Francis Acton. Music, ho! By your leave, sister;--by your husband’s leave, I should have said: the hand that but this day Was given you in the church I’ll borrow: sound! This marriage music hoists me from the ground.
Sir Francis Acton. Music, ho! By your leave, sister;--by your husband’s leave, I should have said: the hand that but this day Was given you in the church I’ll borrow: sound! Thi...
2. SCENE II.--_A Yard_.Jenkin. Come, Nick, take you Joan Miniver to trace withal; Jack Slime, traverse you with Cicely Milk-pail: I will take Jane Trubkin, and Roger Brickbat shall have Isbel Motley;...
3. SCENE III.--_The Open Country_.Sir Charles Mountford. So; well cast off: aloft, aloft! well flown! Oh, now she takes her at the sowse,[1.09] and strikes her Down to the earth, like a swift thunder-clap.
4. SCENE I.--Frankford’s _Study_.Frankford. How happy am I amongst other men, That in my mean estate embrace content! I am a gentleman, and by my birth, Companion with a king; a king’s no more. I am possessed o...
5. SCENE II.--_A Room in the Gaol_.Cranwell. He’s cleared of all, spite of his enemies, Whose earnest labour was to take his life: But in this suit of pardon he hath spent All the revenues that his father left hi...
6. SCENE III.--_A Room in_ Frankford’s _House_.Wendoll. I am a villain if I apprehend But such a thought: then, to attempt the deed,-- Slave, thou art damned without redemption. I’ll drive away this passion with a song. A so...
7. SCENE I.--_A Room in_ Sir Charles Mountford’s _House_.Sir Charles Mountford. Sister, you see we are driven to hard shift To keep this poor house we have left unsold; I am now enforced to follow husbandry, And you to milk; and do we...
8. SCENE II.--_A Sitting-Room in_ Frankford’s _House_._Enter_ Serving-Men, _one with a voider and a wooden knife_[1.23] _to take away; another with the salt and bread; another with the table-cloth and napkins; another with the carp...
9. SCENE I.--_A Room in_ Old Mountford’s _House_.Old Mountford. You say my nephew is in great distress: Who brought it to him, but his own lewd life? I cannot spare a cross.[1.32] I must confess He was my brother’s son: why, n...
10. SCENE II.--_A Prison Cell_.Sir Charles Mountford. Of all on the earth’s face most miserable, Breathe in this hellish dungeon thy laments, Thus like a slave ragged, like a felon gyved. What hurls thee head...
11. SCENE III.--_A Room in_ Frankford’s _House_.Frankford. My heart was with you, and my mind was on you. Fie, Master Cranwell! you are still thus sad? A stool, a stool. Where’s Jenkin, and where’s Nick? ’Tis supper-time at l...
12. SCENE IV.--_Another part of the House_.Jenkin. My mistress and Master Wendoll, my master, sup in her chamber to-night. Cicely, you are preferred from being the cook to be chambermaid: of all the loves betwixt thee an...
13. SCENE V.--_Outside_ Frankford’s _House_.Frankford. Soft, soft; we have tied our geldings to a tree, Two flight-shot[1.37] off, lest by their thundering hoofs They blab our coming back. Hear’st thou no noise?
14. SCENE VI.--_The Hall of_ Frankford’s _House_.Nicholas. Here’s a circumstance. A man be made cuckold in the time That he’s about it. An the case were mine, As ’tis my master’s,--’sblood that he makes me swear!-- I would hav...
15. SCENE I.--_The Entrance to_ Sir Francis Acton’s _House_.Sir Charles Mountford. Call me not brother, but imagine me Some barbarous outlaw, or uncivil kern;[1.41] For if thou shutt’st thy eye, and only hearest The words that I shall ut...
16. SCENE II.--_A Room in_ Frankford’s _House_.Frankford. O sir, to see that nothing may be left That ever was my wife’s. I loved her dearly, And when I do but think of her unkindness, My thoughts are all in hell; to avoid w...
17. SCENE III.--_A Country Road_.Mistress Frankford. Bid my coach stay: why should I ride in state, Being hurled so low down by the hand of fate? A seat like to my fortunes let me have; Earth for my chair, and...
18. SCENE IV.--_Before the Manor_.Sir Francis Acton. Brother, and now my wife, I think these troubles Fall on my head by justice of the Heavens, For being so strict to you in your extremities: But we are now ato...
19. SCENE V.--_A Room in the Manor_.Jenkin. O Lord, sir, she no sooner heard that her brother and his friends were come to see how she did, but she, for very shame of her guilty conscience, fell into such a swoon,...
20. SCENE VI.--Mistress Frankford’s _Bedchamber_.Mistress Frankford. Sick, sick, oh, sick. Give me some air, I pray you. Tell me, oh, tell me where is Master Frankford? Will not he deign to see me ere I die?
21. SCENE I.--_A Street in Plymouth_.Carrol. Nay, ’tis like. The great success at Cales,[2.07] under the conduct Of such a noble general, hath put heart Into the English: they are all on fire To purchase from the S...
22. SCENE II.--_In front of the Castle Tavern_.Goodlack. Pray resolve me; Why, being a gentleman of fortunes, means, And well revenued, will you adventure thus A doubtful voyage, when only such as I, Born to no other fortune...
23. SCENE III.--_A Room in the Castle Tavern_.Spencer. I have proved her Unto the utmost test; examined her, Even to a modest force; but all in vain: She’ll laugh, confer, keep company, discourse, And something more, kiss;...
24. SCENE IV.--_The Hoe_.Goodlack. You are too full of passion. To have the guilt of murder burden me; And next, my life in hazard to a death So ignominious; last, to lose a love.
25. SCENE V.--_The same_.1st Drawer. ’Tis well that we have gotten all the money due to my master. It is the commonest thing that can be, for these captains to score and to score; but when the scores ar...
26. SCENE I.--_Foy. The Windmill Tavern_.Roughman. I must know of what burden this vessel is. I shall not bear with her till she bear with me; and till then I cannot report her for a woman of good carriage.
27. SCENE II.--_Fayal_.[2.21Spencer. To imagine that in the same instant that one forfeits all his estate, another enters upon a rich possession. As one goes to the church to be married, another is hurried...
28. SCENE III.--_A Field near Foy_.Bess. Methinks I could be valiant on the sudden, And meet a man i’ the field. I could do all that I have heard discoursed Of Mary Ambree,[2.23] or Westminster’s Long Meg.
29. SCENE IV.--_Fayal_.Goodlack. The sailors call aboard, and I am forced To leave my friend now at the point of death, And cannot close his eyes. Here is the will. Now may I find yon tanner’s daughte...
30. SCENE I.--_Foy. A Street outside the Windmill Tavern_.Roughman. Indeed, I must confess he was no giant, Nor above fifty; but he did bestir him-- Was here, and there, and everywhere, at once, That I was ne’er so put to’t since the m...
31. SCENE II.--_A Room in the Tavern_.Clem. The best wine in the house for your worship; and I would call her, but I can assure you that she is either not stirring, or else not in case.
32. SCENE III.--_A Street in Foy_.Mayor. Believe me, sir, she bears herself so well, No man can justly blame her; and I wonder, Being a single woman as she is, And living in a house of such resort, She is no mor...
33. SCENE IV.--_The Windmill Tavern_.Bess. That it should be my fate! Poor, poor sweetheart! I do but think how thou becom’st thy grave, In which would I lay by thee. What’s my wealth, To enjoy’t without my Spencer...
34. SCENE V.--_A Bedroom in the Tavern_.Bess. To die, and not vouchsafe some few commends Before his death, was most unkindly done. This picture is more courteous: ’t will not shrink For twenty thousand kisses; no, no...
35. SCENE I.--_On Board a Spanish Vessel_.Spanish Captain. For Fayal’s loss and spoil, by the English done, We are in part revenged. There’s not a vessel That bears upon her top St. George’s cross, But for that act shal...
36. SCENE II.--_The Windmill Tavern_.Bess. Sir, I thank you; And how much I esteem this goodness from you, The trust I shall commit unto your charge Will truly witness. Marry, gentle sir! ’Las, I have sadder busine...
37. SCENE III.--_Morocco. The Court_.Mullisheg. Out of these bloody and intestine broils We have at length attained a fortunate peace, And now at last established in the throne Of our great ancestors, and reign as...
38. SCENE IV.--_On Board an English Ship_.Bess. Good morrow, captain. Oh, this last sea-fight Was gallantly performed! It did me good To see the Spanish carvel[2.54] vail[2.55] her top Unto my maiden flag. Where ride we...
39. SCENE I.--_Morocco. The Court_.Mullisheg. Ominous, Perhaps, to our good fate: she in a Negro Hath sailed thus far, to bosom with a Moor. But for the motion made to come ashore, How did she relish that?
40. SCENE II.--_The same_.Spencer. This day the king ascends his royal throne. The honest merchant, in whose ship I came, Hath, by a cunning quiddit[2.64] in the law, Both ship and goods made forfeit to...
41. SCENE I.--_A Room in_ Old Wincott’s _House_.Delavil. There’s your happiness. A scholar in his study knows the stars, Their motion and their influence, which are fixed And which are wandering, can decipher seas, And give e...
42. SCENE II.--_A Room in_ Old Lionel’s _House_.Reignald. I’ the meantime, I, as the mighty lord and seneschal Of this great house and castle, banish thee The very smell o’ the kitchen; be it death To appear before the dresser.
43. SCENE I.--_A Room in_ Old Wincott’s _House_.Wife. I have not eyes To search into the inward thoughts of men, Nor ever was I studied in that art To judge of men’s affection by the face; But that which makes me best opinion...
44. SCENE II.--_Before_ Old Lionel’s _House_.Young Lionel. These are the marine gods, to whom my father In his long voyage prays to; cannot they, That brought us to our haven, bury him In their abyss? For if he safe arrive...
45. SCENE I.--_The Dining Hall in_ Old Geraldine’s _House_.Old Geraldine. This, and more Many degrees, can never countervail[3.25] The oft and frequent welcomes given my son: You have took him from me quite, and have, I think, Adopted h...
46. SCENE II.--_Before_ Old Lionel’s _House_.Reignald. [_Aside_.] To which hand shall I turn me? Here’s my master Hath been to inquire of him that sold the house, Touching the murder; here’s an usuring rascal, Of whom we h...
47. SCENE III.--_Barnet. A Street_.Delavil. At the ordinary. I see, sir, you are but a stranger here. This Barnet is a place of great resort, And commonly, upon the market days, Here all the country gentlemen app...
48. SCENE IV.--_Inside a Tavern_.Bess. Faith, we may do how we list for you, you are grown So great a stranger: we are more beholding To Master Delavil; he’s a constant guest: And howsoe’er to some, that shall...
49. SCENE I.--_Outside_ Ricott’s _House_.Reignald. Now, impudence, but steel my face this once, Although I ne’er blush after! Here’s the house. Ho! who’s within? What, no man to defend These innocent gates from knocking?
50. SCENE II.--_The Garden of_ Old Wincott’s _House_.Clown. This is the garden gate; and here am I set to stand sentinel, and to attend the coming of young master Geraldine. Master Delavil’s gone to his chamber, my mistress to her...
51. SCENE III.--_A Room in_ Old Wincott’s _House_.Wincott. I wonder whence this strangeness should proceed, Or wherein I, or any of my house, Should be the occasion of the least distaste: Now, as I wish him well, it troubles me...
52. SCENE IV.--_Another Room in the House_.Wife. It hath been to my wish, and your desire; And this your coming by pretended love Unto my sister Prue cuts off suspicion Of any such converse ’twixt you and me.
53. SCENE V.--_A Room in_ Old Lionel’s _House_.Young Lionel. But tell me, how shall we dispose ourselves? We are as far to seek now as at the first; What is it to reprieve us for few hours, And now to suffer? better had it b...
54. SCENE VI.--_Outside_ Old Lionel’s _House_.Owner. Sir, sir, your threats nor warrants can fright me; My honesty and innocency’s known Always to have been unblemished; would you could As well approve your own integrity As...
55. SCENE I.--_Outside_ Old Wincott’s _House_.Old Geraldine. Son, let me tell you, you are ill advised, And doubly to be blamed, by undertaking Unnecessary travel, grounding no reason For such a rash and giddy enterprise. W...
56. SCENE II.--_A Room in_ Old Wincott’s _House_.Wincott. You’ve entertained me with a strange discourse Of your man’s knavish wit; but I rejoice That in your safe return all ends so well. Most welcome you, and you, and indeed...
57. SCENE I.--_A Room in a Tavern_.Young Chartley. Price of my life! now, if the devil have bones, These dice are made of his. Was ever such A cast seen in this age? Could any gull In Europe, saving myself, fling...
58. SCENE II.--_Before the_ Goldsmith’s _Shop_.Luce. I do not love to sit thus publicly; And yet upon the traffic of our wares Our provident eyes and presence must still wait. Do you attend the shop, I’ll ply my work. I see...
59. SCENE I.--_Before the_ Wise-woman’s _House_.Wise-woman. Fie, fie! what a toil and a moil it is For a woman to be wiser than all her neighbours! I pray, good people, press not too fast upon me; Though I have two ears, I ca...
60. SCENE II.--_A Room in_ Sir Harry’s _House_.Taber. Thanks, noble sir; and now I’ll tell you. Your daughter being walking to take the air of the fields, and I before her, whom should we meet just in the nick--
61. SCENE I.--_A Room in the_ Wise-woman’s _House_.Wise-woman. I’ll tell thee, boy--marry, thou must be secret. When any citizens or young gentlemen come hither, under a colour to know their fortunes, they look upon these pictur...
62. SCENE II.--_Before the_ Wise-woman’s _House_.Boyster. Why run away, and leave my wench behind? I’ll back. What have warrants and pursuivants to do with me? with me! why should I budge? why should I wear mask or visard? If...
63. SCENE I.--_A Room in_ Sir Harry’s _House_.Sir Harry. I am satisfied, good Master Haringfield, Touching your friend; and since I see you have left His dangerous company, I limit[4.43] you To be a welcome guest unto my ta...
64. SCENE II.--_The Street outside the Goldsmith’s Shop_.Boyster. I am mad, and know not at what; I could swagger, but know not with whom; I am at odds with myself, and know not why: I shall be pacified, and cannot tell when; I would...
65. SCENE III.--_Outside the_ Wise-woman’s _House_.Sencer. Now or never, look about thee, Sencer: to-morrow is the marriage day, which to prevent lies not within the compass of my apprehension; therefore I have thus disguised my...
66. SCENE IV.--_A Room in_ Sir Harry’s _House_.Sir Boniface. The dinner’s half done, and before I say grace, And bid the old knight and his guest proface.[4.51] A medicine from your trencher, good Master Taber, As good a man...
67. SCENE I.--_A Street near_ Sir Harry’s _House_.Old Chartley. At Grace Church by the Conduit, near Sir Harry. But stay, leave off a while your bootless search. Had e’er man such a wild brain to his sorrow, Of such small hope,...
68. SCENE II.--_The Principal Room in the_ Wise-woman’s _House, leadingWise-woman. Your ladyship is most lovingly welcome. A low stool for the gentlewoman, boy. I made bold to send to you to take view of such a piece of work as I presume you have s...
69. SCENE III.--_An Inner Room in the same_.Luce. That you have so much graced my mother’s house With your desirèd presence, worthy knight, Receive a poor maid’s thanks. Who’s there? a chair And cushion for Sir Harry.
70. SCENE IV.--_The Principal Room in the same_.2nd Luce. The knight you seek was here, or will be straight, And, if you be the man you name yourself, You are most welcome, and you shall not back Till you have seen Sir Harry.
71. SCENE I.--_The Senate-house_.Tullia. And I am Tullia--what of that? What diapason’s more in Tarquin’s name Than in a subject’s? or what’s Tullia More in the sound than to become the name Of a poor maid or w...
72. SCENE II.--_The same_.Tarquin. This place is not for fools, this parliament Assembles not the strains of idiotism, Only the grave and wisest of the land: Important are the affairs we have in hand. He...
73. SCENE III.--_A Public Place in Rome_.Brutus. Murder the king! a high and capital treason. Those giants that waged war against the gods, For which the o’erwhelmed mountains hurled by Jove To scatter them, and give t...
74. SCENE I.--_A Street in Rome_.Horatius. No, I’ll do’t for thee: Tarquin’s ability will in the weal Beget a weak unable impotence; His strength make Rome and our dominions weak, His soaring high make us to fl...
75. SCENE II.--_The Temple at Delphi_.Priest. O thou Delphian god, inspire Thy priests, and with celestial fire Shot from thy beams crown our desire, That we may follow, In these thy true and hallowed measures, The...
76. SCENE III.--_The Senate-house_.Tarquin. Excellent; Thou art our oracle, and, save from thee, We will admit no counsel. We obtained Our state by cunning; it must be kept by strength; And such as cannot love we...
77. SCENE IV.--_A Room in the House of_ Collatine.Lucrece. Come near, sir; be less officious In duty, and use more attention.-- Nay, gentlewoman, we exempt not you From our discourse, you must afford an ear As well as he to wha...
78. SCENE V.--_Outside the House of_ Collatine.Valerius. Only this, Horatius. [_Sings_.] The gentry to the King’s Head, The nobles to the Crown, The knights unto the Golden Fleece, And to the Plough the clown; The churchman...
79. SCENE I.--_The Senate-house_.Sextus. It was my duty, royal emperor, The duty of a subject and a son. We at our mother’s intercession likewise Are now atoned with Aruns, whom we here Receive into our bosom.
80. SCENE II.--_The Camp before Ardea_.2nd Soldier. Horatius hath the charge; the other chieftains Rest in the general’s tent; there’s no commander Of any note, but revel with the prince: And I amongst the rest am ch...
81. SCENE III.--_Inside_ Sextus’s _Tent. A banquet prepared_.Sextus. Sit round: the enemy is pounded[5.37] fast In their own folds; the walls made to oppugn Hostile incursions become a prison, To keep them fast for execution; There’s no e...
82. SCENE IV.--_A Room in the House of_ Collatine.Lucrece. But one hour more, and you shall all to rest. Now that your lord is absent from this house, And that the master’s eye is from his charge, We must be careful, and with p...
83. SCENE V.--_The Road to Ardea_.Sextus. Nor you, nor any: ’tis important business And serious occurrences that call me. Perhaps, lords, I’ll commend you to your wives. Collatine, shall I do you any service to...
84. SCENE I.--_A Room in the House of_ Collatine.Lucrece. This ring, my lord, hath oped the gates to you; For, though I know you for a royal prince, My sovereign’s son, and friend to Collatine, Without that key you had not ent...
85. SCENE II.--_Another Room in the same_.Clown. Soft, soft; not too loud; imagine we were now going on the ropes with eggs at our heels; he that hath but a creaking shoe I would he had a crick in his neck; tread not to...
86. SCENE III.--Lucrece’s _Bedchamber_.Sextus. Night, be as secret as thou art close, as close As thou art black and dark! thou ominous queen Of tenebrous silence, make this fatal hour As true to rape as thou hast ma...
87. SCENE IV.--_An Anteroom in_ Collatine’s _House_.Serving-man. What’s o’clock, trow? my lord bade me be early ready with my gelding, for he would ride betimes in the morning: now had I rather be up an hour before my time than a...
88. SCENE V.--Sextus’s _Chamber in_ Collatine’s _House_.Sextus. Nay, weep not, sweet, what’s done is past recall. Call not thy name in question, by this sorrow, Which is yet without blemish; what hath passed Is hid from the world’s e...
89. SCENE VI.--_The Camp at Ardea_.Brutus. Prithee, let’s hear it then while we may, for I divine thy music and my madness are both short-lived; we shall have somewhat else to do ere long, we hope, Valerius.
90. SCENE I.--_A Room in the House of_ Collatine.Lucrece. Nothing, nay, nothing. O you powerful gods, That should have angels guardants on your throne, To protect innocence and chastity! oh, why Suffer you such inhuman massacr...
91. SCENE II.--_The Outskirts of Rome_.Sextus. Traitors to Heaven, to Tarquin, Rome and us! Treason to kings doth stretch even to the gods, And those high gods that take great Rome in charge Shall punish your rebellion.
92. SCENE III.--_A Bridge across the Tiber_.Brutus. Thou Jovial hand, hold up thy sceptre high, And let not justice be oppressed with pride! O you Penates; leave not Rome and us Grasped in the purple hands of death and ru...
93. SCENE IV.--_Inside_ Porsenna’s _Tent_.Scevola. [_Aside_.] Horatius famous for defending Rome, But we ha’ done nought worthy Scevola, Nor of a Roman: I in this disguise Have passed the army and the puissant guard Of...
94. SCENE V.--_A Public Place in Rome_.Brutus. By thee we are consul, and still govern Rome, Which but for thee had been despoiled and ta’en, Made a confusèd heap of men and stones, Swimming in blood and slaughter; d...
95. SCENE VI.--_Outside Rome_.Aruns. ’Tis even balanced. I interchanged with Brutus, hand to hand, A dangerous encounter; both are wounded, And, had not the rude press divided us, One had dropped down to earth.