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A Select Collection of Old English Plays Novel Chapters
List of most recent chapters published for the A Select Collection of Old English Plays novel. A total of 1049 chapters have been translated and the release date of the last chapter is Apr 02, 2024
Latest Release: Chapter 1 : A Select Collection of Old English Plays.by Robert Dodsley.INTRODUCTION.THOMAS RAWLINS,
A Select Collection of Old English Plays.by Robert Dodsley.INTRODUCTION.THOMAS RAWLINS, author of "The Rebellion," was a medallist by profession, and afterwards became an engraver of the Mint, a vocation which, in his preface, he prefers to the threadba
- 1049 In _Mercurius Politicus_, No. 168, from Thursday, Aug. 25, to Thursday, Sept. 1, 1653, p. 2700, is the following pa.s.sage:--"At Monmouth a.s.size an old man of _eighty-nine years_ was put to death for adultery, committed with a woman above _sixty_.&
- 1048 [222] See note to "Alb.u.mazar" [xi. 328].[223] [Old copy, _your_.][224] [Hazlitt's "Proverbs," 1869, p. 343, and note to Tomkis's "Alb.u.mazar," xi. 334-5.][225] [Platonic lovers.][226] [A very ancient office at the court; but here, of course, in
- 1047 [201] [Common. See Nares, edit. 1859, in _v._] This epithet of contempt is of frequent occurrence: _provand_, as all the commentators on "Romeo and Juliet," act ii. sc. 1, agree, means _provision_. In Ma.s.singer's "Maid of Honour,&quo
- 1046 [161] [Old copy, _Sought_.][162] [Old copy, _mine_.][163] [Mares.][164] [The names of rooms in the tavern.][165] [Perhaps a portion of the garden reserved for lady-guests.] [166] [Light skirt. Compare Halliwell in _v._][167] [An indelicate equivoque.][168
- 1045 [112] [Query, a page who walks behind a lady in the street.Compare Halliwell in _v._][113] [Sheldrake, or s.h.i.+eldrake.][114] [A play on the similarity of sound between _meddler_ and _medlar_.][115] [Tobacco. Old copy, _mundungo's_.] [116] [Old cop
- 1044 [68] [Hamstring me.] [69] _Under show of shrift_, or, in other words, as coming to hear me confess. [70] Thirty ma.s.ses on the same account. [71] Despatch. [72] Strut. [73] [Edits., give these words to Eleazar.] [74] With force, vigour, energy, vehemen
- 1043 [25] [Former edit., _our_.][26] [Former edit., _a.s.sended_.][27] [Former edit., prints this pa.s.sage thus-- "See, how he strugles, as if some visions Had a.s.sum'd a shape fuller of horrour Than his troubled thoughts."][28] [Former edit.,
- 1042 Was't not kindled _ex voto_? Nay, I will have your cloak.PAR. Take it; would 'twere Nessus's s.h.i.+rt, for you and your poet's sake.[_Exit_ PARSON.CAPT. What, does the rogue wish 'twere made of nettles?[280][CAPTAIN _puts on his
- 1041 WAN. I cannot but laugh, to see how easy it is to lose or win the opinion of the world. A little custom heals all; or else what's the difference betwixt a married widow and one of us? Can any woman be pure, or worth the serious sighing of a generous
- 1040 PAR. Are not you married too? take care that yours does not wear the breeches, another kind of danger, but as troublesome as that, or sore eyes; and if she get but a trick of taking as readily as she's persuaded to give, you may find a horn at home.
- 1039 CAPT. Their jest! what jest?JOLLY. Faith, now you shall know it, and the whole plot. In the first place, your coachman is well, whose death we, by the help of Secret, contrived, thinking by that trick to prevent this danger, and carry you out of town.CAPT
- 1038 PLEA. And what will all these do?WILD. Why, the two friends will swear they gave you, the parson will swear he married you, and the wench will swear she put us to bed.WID. Have you men to swear we are married?PLEA. And a parson to swear he did it?BOTH. Ye
- 1037 PLEA. But do they never grow surly, aunt?WID. Not if you keep them from raw flesh; for they are a kind of lion-lovers, and if they once taste the sweet of it, they'll turn to their kind.PLEA. Lord, aunt, there will be no going without one this summer int
- 1036 WAN. I hear the captain._Enter the_ CAPTAIN.JOLLY. Have you brought clothes and ribands?CAPT. Yes, yes, all is ready: did you hear them squeak yet?WAN. No, by this light: I think 'tis an appointment, and we have been all abused. CAPT. Give the fiddlers t
- 1035 PAR. They have slept all night, on purpose to play all day.JOLLY. When the ribands and points come from the Exchange, pray see the fiddlers have some; the rogues will play so out of tune all day else, they will spoil the dancing, if the plot do take._Ente
- 1034 [_They offer to depart._ WILD. Take a light. Good night, Wanton.CAPT. D'ye hear, d'ye hear? let me speak with you.[_They all come back again._ WILD. What's the business? CAPT. I cannot get hence this night: but your good angels hang at your heels, and
- 1033 WILD. The plague, as I live; and all my relation is truth, every syllable. But, Mistress Wanton, now must you play your masterpiece: be sure to blush, and appear but simple enough, and all is well: thou wilt pa.s.s for as arrant a chambermaid as any in th
- 1032 WID. Faith, nephew, the truth is, the sickness is in my house, and my coachman died since dinner.WILD. The sickness!PLEA. Ay, as I live: we have been walking since the play; and when we came home, we found the watch at the door, and the house shut up.SAD.
- 1031 WID. Ha! What shall we do, niece?SAD. If you please to command our lodging.PLEA. It will be too much trouble.WID. Let's go to Loveall's.PLEA. Not I, by my faith: it is scarce for our credits to let her come to us. WID. Why, is she naught?CON. Faith, mad
- 1030 PAR. I am undone.WILD. I can do nothing but justice: you must excuse me. I shall only make it appear how fit it is to punish this kind of sin in that coat in time, and to crush such serpents in the sh.e.l.ls.PAR. Mercy, O, mercy!WILD. Officers, away with
- 1029 JOLLY. What have we here, adultery? Take them both: here will be new matter.PAR. Master constable, a little argument will persuade you to believe I am grossly abused. Sure, this does not look like a piece that a man would sin to enjoy: let that then move
- 1028 WAN. Ay, but never to love, seldom enjoy, and always tell--foh!it stinks, and stains worse than Sh.o.r.editch dirt; and women hate and dread men for't. Why, I, that am a wh.o.r.e professed, cannot see youth[258] digest it, though it be my profit and
- 1027 WAN. Yes, yes, you are fine things: I wonder women can endure you; for me, I expect you worse, and am armed for't.WILD. Faith, let's send and release her; the jest is gone far enough; as I live, I pity her.WAN. Pity her! hang her, and rid the co
- 1026 CARE. Let that consideration, with her condition and her age, move some reverence, at least to what she was. Madam, I am sorry I cannot serve you in this particular.[_Exeunt_ JOLLY _and_ CARELESS.LOVE. I see all your mean baseness: pursue your scorn. Come
- 1025 CAPT. But I hope he had the grace to keep them.JOLLY. No, no; I'm a fool, I!CAPT. Was not my boy here?JOLLY. No, we saw him not.CAPT. A pox of the rogue! he's grown so lazy. WILD. Your boy is come in just now, and called for the key of the back-
- 1024 CROP. You did not borrow my money with this language.JOLLY. No, sirrah: then I was fain to flatter you, and endure the familiarity of your family, and hear (nay, fain sometimes to join in) the lying praises of the holy sister that expired at Tyburn.CROP.
- 1023 Threaten to arrest him: nothing but a sergeant can touch his conscience.TAI. Truly, gentlemen I have reason to be angry, for he uses me ill when I ask him for my money.JOLLY. [_Speaking within._] Where is Master Wild and Master Careless?TAI. I hear his vo
- 1022 CAPT. Go you before to the Devil,[242] and I'll make haste after.CARE. Agreed. We shall be sure of good wine there, and in fresco; for he is never without patent snow.WILD. Patent snow! What, doth that project hold?JOLLY. Yes, faith; and now there�
- 1021 JOLLY. When did he oversee his drinking so?CAPT. Gentlemen, still it is my fortune to make your wors.h.i.+ps merry.WILD. As I live, captain, I subscribe, and am content to hold my wit as a tenant to thee; and to-night I'll invite you to supper, where
- 1020 JOLLY. Because we want fortunes to buy rich wives or keep poor ones, and be loth to get beggars or wh.o.r.es, as well as I love 'em.PLEA. Why, are all their children so that have no fortune, think you?JOLLY. No, not all: I have heard of Whittington a
- 1019 CAPT. Yes, till the faithful nurse cries; Alas, madam! he keeps such a one, he has enough at home. Then she swells with envy and rage against us both; calls my mistress ugly, common, unsafe, and me a weak secure fool.JOLLY. These are strange truths, madam
- 1018 JOLLY. Ay, by my faith, continue, Master Sad, [to] give it out you love; and call it a new love, a love never seen before; we'll all come to it as your friends.SAD. Gentlemen, still I love: and if she to whom I thus sacrifice will not reward it, yet
- 1017 [_Exit_ PARSON.WAN. I'll follow you, and do what I can to be merry.BAWD. Why, he stands already.WAN. Peace, let me alone: I'll make him jostle like the miller's mare, and stand like the dun cow, till thou may'st milk him.BAWD. Pray bre
- 1016 CAPT. Yes, but not earned with a pair of stol'n verses, of, _I was not born till now, This my first night, And so forsooth_; nor given as a charm against l.u.s.t.CARE. What means all this?JOLLY. What! why, 'tis truth, and it means to shame the d
- 1015 WILD. When I put off my hat._Enter_ CAPTAIN.CAPT. 'Sblood, I thought you had been sunk: I have been hunting you these four hours. Death! you might ha' left word where you went, and not put me to hunt like Tom Fool. 'Tis well you are at Lond
- 1014 FAITH. He finds work enough to correct his dearly-beloved sinners.PAR. And the right wors.h.i.+pful my lady and yourself, they mend at leisure.LOVE. You are a saucy fellow, sirrah, to call me sinner in my own house. Get you gone with your _Madam, I hear_,
- 1013 [_She's going out, he calls her._ CAPT. Madam, I forgot to ask your ladys.h.i.+p one question.LOVE. What was't?CAPT. There happened a business last night betwixt Master Wild and one Jolly, a courtier, that brags extremely of your favour. I swear
- 1012 LOVE. Ah! as I live, I will not, I have sworn. Do not pull me: I will not be d.a.m.ned, I have sworn.[_He pulls her, and says this._ JOLLY. As I live I'll break your bodkin then. A weeping tyrant!Come, by this good day, you shall be merciful.LOVE. Wh
- 1011 WILD. No more, aunt, we'll come: and if you will give us good meat, we'll bring good humours and good stomachs.[WIDOW _shuts the curtain_.CARE. By this day, I'll not dine there: they take a pleasure to raise a spirit that they will not lay.
- 1010 CARE. Captain, whither in such haste? What, defeated? Call you this a retreat, or a flight from your friends?PLEA. Your nephew, and his governor, and his friend! Here will be a scene! Sit close, and we may know the secret of their hearts.WID. They have no
- 1009 JOLLY. You'll be able to say so one day, upon your wife's report.I would he were gelt, and all that hold his opinion: by this good day, they get more souls than they save.SAD. And what think you of the knight's son? I hope he's a fine
- 1008 PLEA. Faith, mine talks of nothing but how long he has loved me; and those that know me not think I am old, and still finds new causes (as he calls them) for his love. I asked him the other day, if I changed so fast, or no.WID. But what think'st thou
- 1007 WAN. Why, I pray?CAPT. What a miserable condition wilt thou come to? his wife cannot be an honest woman; and if thou shouldst turn honest, would it not vex thee to be chaste and poxed[197]--a saint without a nose? what calendar will admit thee by[198] an
- 1006 WAN. Was the slave so eloquent in his malice?CAPT. Yes, faith, and urged you (for your part) were never particular, and seldom sound.WAN. Not sound! why, he offered to marry me, and swore he thought I was chaste, I was so particular; and proved it, that c
- 1005 THE PARSON'S WEDDING._EDITION._ _The Parson's Wedding, A Comedy. The Scene London. Written at Basil in Switzerland: by Thomas Killigrew. Dedicated to the Lady Vrsvla Bartv [Bertie] Widow. London: Printed by J. M.for Henry Herringman...._ 1663.Th
- 1004 [_Aside._ CAR. I relish not th' discourse.[_Aside._ DUKE. Have we not here some ladies o'th' New Dress, So newly styl'd, and in their honour soil'd, Who have deserted whom they ought to love?LADIES. Is this the court masque, and t
- 1003 HUS. Well, girl, thou shalt find me ready to appear before his grace at any time.WIFE. You'll have a gracious bargain on't then, doubtless. Trust me, Jocelin, you will distemper all our ladies at court, if you push at the gate with your ram-horn
- 1002 HERALD. Make clear the way; room for his excellence!Never did Seville show more like herself Nor beautifi'd with a more graceful presence Since her foundation.ACT V., SCENE 1._Enter_ DUKE, _trumpets and drums sounding, colours victoriously displayed.
- 1001 TIL. Th' wound's so green, It must admit a cure. Our confidence Prepares us best admittance; go along.[_Exeunt._ SCENE VII._Enter the_ ALIMONY LADIES _at the other door_.FLO. How opportunely doth this season meet To give us freedom in our interc
- 1000 LADY. They come, they come, they come!ALL. Let's entertain them with a joint neglect.SCENE IV._As their husbands pa.s.s along, they take occasion of discourse one with another._ KNIGHTS. Let us pa.s.s by them with regardless scorn. SIR REU. Pox on th
- 999 _Enter_ DRAWER.DRAW. Your pleasures, madams?ALL. What hast within, boy?DRAW. Cakes, creams, stewed prunes, olivets, tongues, tarts, and---- CAV. What else, you Jack-of-all-trades! Doth your mistress take us, you nitty-napry rascal, for her bordella's
- 998 _Enter_ SIR AMADIN PUNY, SIR JASPER SIMPLETON, SIR ARTHUR HEARTLESS, SIR GREGORY SHAPELESS, SIR TRISTRAM SHORTTOOL, SIR REUBEN SCATTERGOOD.SIR REU. Doubt nothing, my fellow-knights of Hornsey; the plot is so neatly and nimbly laid as it cannot but hold st
- 997 CON. Let them then take themselves to their heels, and thank G.o.d you are so well rid of them.WATCH. One word more, good constable, and then good night. Be these the spirits that allure our children with spice and trinkets to their schippers, and so conv
- 996 Let's then some voyage take in hand To get us means by sea or land.Come, follow me, my boys, come follow me, And if thou die, I'll die with thee._ [_They join in the close._ _Hast thou a wife? I have one too, And children some, as well as thou;
- 995 KNIGHTS. Farewell, inconstant ladies.LADIES. Adieu, constant Acteons.[_Exeunt omnes, the Ladies ushered in by their Confidants._ ACT III., SCENE 1._Enter_ TWO CITIZENS. 1ST CIT. Is it for certain that the duke's voyage holds for Salamanca?2D CIT. No
- 994 CAR. So, good Sir Jasper, you've your doom in folio.[133][_Aside._ SIR ART. Receive me, dear Julippe.JUL. For what end?Have you stol'n from your colours? O, I hate A coward worser than a maidenhead Basely bestow'd. These Paphlagonian birds-
- 993 PLAT. A just proportion.LADIES. We submit to it.2D BOY. And so ye may well, if your husbands will yield to't.1ST BOY. These be nimble shavers, Nick, as well as sharers; they know how to cut large thongs out of other folks'leather.[131] [_Aside._
- 992 TIL. This exceeds All spousal suffering, which preceding times In our Italian stories ever read, Or in their sable annals register'd.FLO. Much of Sir Tristram Shorttool (so I think Men call your husband) have I ofttimes heard, And his penurious humou
- 991 SAL. Her rich deserts, Adorn'd with such choice native faculties, And grac'd with art to make them more complete, In humane reason should exempt her youth From such a servile yoke.MOR. In ancient times, When wisdom guarded senates, a decree, Con
- 990 FRI. Yet let our conditions Bring them within our lists. Well, our surprise Must make you parties i' th' discovery.ALL. For love's sake, how?FRI. As thus: we stand at bar T' express our grievances: and you must set Grave censors or exa
- 989 FRI. Our faith is not confirm'd by oratory.If man, he cannot falsify his trust In offices of love; we leave our own For your enjoyment; were there piety In making love the anvil of your treason?No, no; we shall not entertain a thought, That may sugge
- 988 _After the third sound_-- PROLOGUE._Madams, you're welcome; though our poet show A severe brow, it is not meant to you.Your virtues, like your features, they are such, They neither can be priz'd nor prais'd too much: Lov'd and admir�
- 987 TIM. The devil he has! What furious Mercury might this be?MES. Nay, sir, I know not what he may be; but, sure, if he be what he seems to be, he can be no less than one of our city Hectors; but I hope your spirit will conjure him, and make him a Clinias. H
- 986 _Chorist, Constable, Watch, Country Boors, Trepanners, Pages, with other Officials._ _The Scene, Seville._ LADY ALIMONY.ACT I., SCENE 1._Enter_ TRILLO. TRIL. Hey, boys! never did my spirit chirp more cheerfully since I had one. Here is work for Platonics.
- 985 EPH. Can this be true, Andromana?AND. Do you believe it?EPH. I wish I had not cause---- AND. Sir, every syllable was true he told you; Whose words I thus confirm.[_She takes_ PLANGUS'S _dagger, flings it at_ EPHORBAS, _and kills him_. EPH. I'm s
- 984 Nothing more usual than for those folks, who Have by sinister means reach'd to the top O' th' mountain of their hopes, but they throw down And forget the power that rais'd them; indeed Necessity enforceth them, lest others climb By the
- 983 RIN. As sure as death, this is one of the rogues That hath his roguery to act, and comes in like Something that hath brought news in th' latter end Of a play. Now shall we have some strange discovery-- How the rogue stares!LIB. No sooner had we shut
- 982 PLAN. Whence should this kindness come? and on a sudden too?A strange alteration! She who a day ago Forgot the vows her soul was fetter'd in, And but this morning tempted me to a sin I can scarce think on without fear, should on An instant be careful
- 981 O, art thou come? Stay, let me breathe, or else---- LIB. Nay, spare your pains, I know it all; I saw him Drink it with as great greediness as usurers Do unthrifts' lands, or jealous husbands confirm Their cuckolds.h.i.+ps by ocular testimony.AND. It
- 980 SCENE IV.AND. And is my love then scorn'd?The chaos of eternal night possess my breast, That it may not see to startle at any Undertakings, though they would make Medusa's snakes curl into rings for fear.If greatness have inspired me with though
- 979 INO. Hear me; Ask me no questions, nor answer me; or if you do, By Heav'n, I'll never speak more. It is revenge You'd have, and 'tis a great one, a very n.o.ble one, To kill yourself! Be confident, your greatest foes Wish nothing more.
- 978 'Tis well, dear Plangus (if thy divinity deserve not A more lasting name) that thou art come To take revenge on that most traitorous son, In's father's presence, who detests his baseness More than thyself can do---- PLAN. Excuse us, dear Ri
- 977 Consider on't.AND. You may command your va.s.sal.KING. That's kindly said.AND. But--I humbly take my leave; Goodness protect you![_Exit._ SCENE VI._Enter_ RINATUS, EUBULUS, _and_ ARAMNES.EPH. Wait on that lady forth.RIN. Would there were not a
- 976 _Enter_ NICETES _and_ ARAMNES, _with some Captains and Soldiers_.NIC. Yonder's the bones o' th' army ralli'd up Together, but they look'd rather as if They came home from being soundly beaten.Methinks such tatter'd rogues sho
- 975 AND. Now we do see an end of all our mischiefs; The prince hath gone from court, and the king Hath sent for us. Doth not the name Strike terror to thy curdling blood?LIB. No, by my troth, not at all.As far as I see, you're better than you were.I'
- 974 PLAN. Come, I will go; thou shalt not ask in vain.But let us kiss at parting; it may be Our last, perhaps-- I cannot now move one foot, though all the furies Should whip me forward with their snakes.Woman, thou stol'st my heart--just now thou stol�
- 973 'Twas chance, no policy of mine, betray'd his privacies: Ill-offices are not the engines I desire To rise by, only love to the young prince Makes me reveal them.EPH. Nay, nay, without apology; If it were treason, it should not go down The sooner
- 972 ARA. I ask it not to know his privacies; for if His freedom doth not acquaint me with them, Let them be secret still: yet I could wish An opportunity to tell him A little circ.u.mspection would Be handsome, and set a gloss upon all.Times might be chosen o
- 971 [_Embraces her._ Behold thy Philip ransom'd from that prison, In which the Moor had cloistered him.HOR. And here's Hortenzo.ELE. Then am I betrayed and cosen'd in My own designs: I did contrive Their ruin; but their subtle policy Hath blast
- 970 ELE. My lords, because you shall believe me too, Go to the castle: I will follow you.ALV. Thanks to the mighty Moor; and, for his fame, Be more in honour than thou art in name: But let me wish the other prisoners well, The queen and cardinal: let all have
- 969 PHIL. Then I profess, ay, and protest it too, That heres for him; what will not Philip do! HOR. See where he comes. _Enter the two Moors._ BAL. Zarack, what do I see? Hortenzo and Philippo? who did this? ZAR. I, Balthazar. BAL. Thou art half-d.a.m.nd fo
- 968 TWO MOORS. Try, try; he's gone.ELE. So him next, he next, and next him; and then---- ALL. Worse than d.a.m.nation! fiend, monster of men!ELE. Why, when! Down, down!CAR. Slave, as thou thrust me down Into this dungeon, so sink thou to h.e.l.l. QUEEN-M
- 967 HOR. You d.a.m.ned ministers of villany, Sworn to d.a.m.nation by the book of h.e.l.l; You maps of night, you element of devils, Why do you yoke my neck with iron chains?BAL. Many do borrow chains, but you have this Gratis for nothing.CAR. Slaves, unbind
- 966 ZAR. O, for necks, my lord?ELE. Ay; that, that, that; away, and yoke them. Stay, _Enter_ BALTHAZAR.Here's Balthazar: go both, teach them to preach Through an iron pillory. I'll spread a net To catch Alvero; O, he is old and wise; They are unfit
- 965 CAR. Hear me but speak.ELE. Away.ALV. Words are ill-spent, Where wrong sits judge; you're arm'd, if innocent.CAR. Well then, I must to prison: Moor, no more.Heavens, thou art just! Prince Philip I betray'd, And now myself fall; guile with g
- 964 ALV. What, Cardinal Mendoza?QUEEN-M. Yes, yes, even he.ELE. Spaniard or Moor, the saucy slave shall die.CAR. I Philip's father?[_Comes down, the rest talk._ QUEEN-M. Nay, deny me not; Now may a kingdom and my love be got.CAR. Those eyes and tongue b
- 963 CAR. Yes, upon thee, Like to the ruins of a tower, to grind Thy body into dust. Traitor and b.a.s.t.a.r.d, I do arrest thee of high treason.PHIL. Ha!Traitor and b.a.s.t.a.r.d! and by thee? my weapons!CAR. Lay hands upon him!PHIL. Ah! you're best do s
- 962 ELE. Well so; you turn my brains; you mar the face Of my attempts i' the making; for this chaos, This lump of projects, ere it be lick'd over, 'Tis like a bear's conception; stratagems, Being but begot and not got out, are like Charg&#
- 961 QUEEN-M. I would the Moor's d.a.m.nation were the ransom Of all the innocent blood that has been shed In this black day: I care not for the Moor; Love to my kingdom's peace makes me put on This habit of a suppliant; shall I speed?CAR. You shall,
- 960 PHIL. Puh! never swear.Thou know'st 'tis for a kingdom which we fight, And for that who'll not venture to h.e.l.l-gates?Come, Moor, I'm arm'd with more than complete steel-- The justice of my quarrel: when I look Upon my father�
- 959 PHIL. You lie.CAR. Lie!PHIL. Lie! a pox upon't, cardinal, come on, Second the desperate vanguard which is mine, And where I'll die or win. Follow my sword The b.l.o.o.d.y way I lead it, or, by heaven, I'll play the devil, and mar all! we�
- 958 1ST STINK. How? mean you by the ears?CRAB. No, but compare them.COLE. Do but compare them.2D STINK. Zounds! we say again, comparisons are odious.1ST STINK. But say on, say on. [_Pieces go off; friars die._ ALL. Treason! treason! every man s.h.i.+ft for hi
- 957 [_Exit._ _Enter_ CRAB _and_ COLE, _two friars, with a rout of stinkards following them_. CRAB. Ah! brother, tis best so. Now we have drawn them to a head, well begin here i the market-place. Tut, so long as we be commanded by the mother-queen, well say he
- 956 ELE. He that first opes his lips, I'll drive his words Down his wide throat upon my rapier's point.The king is murder'd, and I'll answer it.I am dishonour'd, and I will revenge it.Bend not your dangerous weapons at my breast; Thin
- 955 MARIA. Imperious queen, I am as free from murder as thyself; Which I will prove, if you will hear me speak.The king is living.ROD. If he liv'd, his breath would beat within his breast.QUEEN-M. The life he leads, Maria, thou shalt soon partic.i.p.ate.
- 954 [_Exeunt_ OMNES.SCENE II._Enter_ KING, _with his rapier drawn in one hand, leading_ MARIA, _seeming affrighted, in the other_.MARIA. O, kill me, ere you stain my chast.i.ty.KING. My hand holds death; but love sits in mine eye. Exclaim not, dear Maria; do
- 953 By heaven! I will not kiss the cheek of sleep, Till I have fetched those traitors to the court!KING. Why, this sorts right: he gone, his beauteous wife Shall sail into the naked arms of love.[_Aside._ QUEEN-M. Why, this is as it should be; he once gone, H
- 952 Here's h.e.l.l, here's heaven: here if you stay, You're gone, you're gone; friar Crab and I Will here dance friskin, whilst you fly.Gag us, bind us, come put on; The gag's too wide; so gone, gone, gone!PHIL. O, well, I'll com
- 951 ELE. Say, will you?BOTH. Ay.ELE. Why start you back and stare?Ha! are you afraid?COLE. O, no, sir, no! but, truth to tell, Seeing your face, we thought of h.e.l.l. ELE. h.e.l.l is a dream.COLE. But none do dream in h.e.l.l.ELE. Friars, stand to her and me
- 950 QUEEN-M. By this hand.ELE. When? good, good; when?QUEEN-M. This night, if Eleazar give consent.ELE. Why, then, this night Philip shall not live To see you kill him! Is he not your son?A mother be the murd'rer of a brat That liv'd within her! ha!