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... prevail more or less in all the plays of this volume : the wretched husband Amin- tor , too " loyal " to raise hand against the tyrant who has wronged him more than man was ever wronged ; FRANCIS BEAUMONT AND JOHN FLETCHER 13.
... prevail more or less in all the plays of this volume : the wretched husband Amin- tor , too " loyal " to raise hand against the tyrant who has wronged him more than man was ever wronged ; FRANCIS BEAUMONT AND JOHN FLETCHER 13.
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... Amin . Thou art Melantius ; All love is spoke in that . A sacrifice , To thank the gods Melantius is returned . In safety ! Victory sits on his sword , As she was wont : may she build there and dwell ; And may thy armour be , as it hath ...
... Amin . Thou art Melantius ; All love is spoke in that . A sacrifice , To thank the gods Melantius is returned . In safety ! Victory sits on his sword , As she was wont : may she build there and dwell ; And may thy armour be , as it hath ...
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... Amin . We'll all attend you . [ Exeunt LYSIPPUS , CLEON , STRATO , DIPHILUS . With our solemnities . Mel . We shall trouble you Not so , Amintor : But if you laugh at my rude carriage In peace , I'll do as much for you in war , When you ...
... Amin . We'll all attend you . [ Exeunt LYSIPPUS , CLEON , STRATO , DIPHILUS . With our solemnities . Mel . We shall trouble you Not so , Amintor : But if you laugh at my rude carriage In peace , I'll do as much for you in war , When you ...
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... Ay , you may say your pleasure . Enter AMINTOR Amin . What vile injury Has stirred my worthy friend , who is as slow To fight with words as he is quick of hands ? Mel . That heap of age , which I should SCENE II ] 29 THE MAID'S TRAGEDY.
... Ay , you may say your pleasure . Enter AMINTOR Amin . What vile injury Has stirred my worthy friend , who is as slow To fight with words as he is quick of hands ? Mel . That heap of age , which I should SCENE II ] 29 THE MAID'S TRAGEDY.
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... Amin . Good sir , forbear . Cal . There is just such another as yourself . Amin . He will wrong you , or me , or any man , And talk as if he had no life to lose , Since this our match . The King is coming in ; I would not for more ...
... Amin . Good sir , forbear . Cal . There is just such another as yourself . Amin . He will wrong you , or me , or any man , And talk as if he had no life to lose , Since this our match . The King is coming in ; I would not for more ...
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2nd Daugh Amar Amin Amintor Amoret ARETHUSA arms Aspatia Beaumont and Fletcher BELLARIO blood Bonduca brave Calianax captain Caratach Cloe dare dear death DECIUS Dion Diph Diphilus dost doth DRUSUS Dula Enter Evad Evadne Exeunt Exit eyes fair FAITHFUL SHEPHERDESS Farewell fear gentlemen give gods hand hang hath hear heart Heaven Hengo holy honour Judas Junius kill King kiss lady live look lord LYSIPPUS Macer madam maid Maid's Tragedy Melantius Nennius never night noble Peri Perigot Petillius PHARAMOND Philaster Pœn Pœnius pray prince Re-enter Roman Satyr SCENE shame Shep shepherd shepherdess sleep soldier soul speak stay Suet SUETONIUS sweet sword tell thee There's thine thou art thou hast Thra tragicomedy uncle unto virtue wench whilst woman Wood wrong ΙΟ
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Page 215 - Here be grapes, whose lusty blood Is the learned poet's good. Sweeter yet did never crown The head of Bacchus ; nuts more brown Than the squirrel's teeth that crack them...
Page 215 - Hath deck'd their rising cheeks in red, Such as on your lips is spread. Here be berries for a queen, Some be red, some be green ; These are of that luscious meat, The great god Pan himself doth eat : All these, and what the woods can yield, The hanging mountain or the field, I freely offer, and ere long Will bring you more, more sweet and strong ; Till when humbly leave I take, Lest the great Pan do awake, That sleeping lies in a deep glade, Under a broad beech's shade : I must go, I must run Swifter...
Page 225 - I sit by and sing, Or gather rushes to make many a ring For thy long fingers ; tell thee tales of love, How the pale Phoebe, hunting in a grove, First saw the boy Endymion, from whose eyes She took eternal fire that never dies ; How she...
Page 231 - Shepherds all, and maidens fair, Fold your flocks up, for the air 'Gins to thicken, and the sun Already his great course hath run. See the dew-drops how they kiss Every little flower that is ; Hanging on their velvet heads, Like a rope of crystal beads...
Page 47 - To put that wished act in practice as ever yet Was known to woman ; and they have been shown Both. But it was the folly of thy youth To think this beauty, to what hand soe'er It shall be called, shall stoop
Page 158 - He walks still ; and the face you let him wear When he was innocent is still the same, Not blasted! Is this justice? Do you mean To intrap mortality, that you allow Treason so smooth a brow? I cannot now Think he is guilty.
Page 205 - My father oft would speak , Your worth and virtue ; and, as I did grow More and more apprehensive, I did thirst To see the man so praised ; but yet all this Was but a maiden longing, to be lost As soon as found ; till sitting in my window, Printing my thoughts in lawn, I saw a god, I thought, (but it was you) enter our gates. My blood flew out, and back again as fast, As I had...
Page 200 - Cap. Go thy ways, thou art the king of courtesy ! Fall off again, my sweet youths. Come, And every man trace to his house again, And hang his pewter up ; then to the tavern, And bring your wives in muffs. We will have music ; And the red grape shall make us dance and rise, boys. [Exeunt.
Page 220 - A virtuous well, about whose flowery banks The nimble-footed fairies dance their rounds By the pale moonshine, dipping oftentimes Their stolen children, so to make them free From dying flesh and dull mortality...
Page 211 - A tragi-comedy is not so called in respect of mirth and killing, but in respect it wants deaths, which is enough to make it no tragedy, yet brings some near to it, which is enough to make it no comedy...