A Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 3 by Various
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_Did_. What! passyonate in rhyme? I must be taught
To give attendance on the full-fedd guest![83] ... ... ... ... ... _Bus_. You may be dambd For useing sorcerye upon the kynge. That naturell heate, which is the cause and nurse Of younge desyers, his pallsye hath shooke of, And all the able facultyes of man Are fled his frost of age to that extreame Theres not enough to cherrish a desyer Left in his saplesse nerves. _Did_. In this your worshypp Gives my hopes illustratyon. Age must doate To a Judgments dearth that may be cheated on Yet that cheate rest unquestyond. Doe you heare? The kynge is beinge maryed to your aunte Hathe bounde hys fortunes to my lord, and he Will, like a ryver that so long retaynes The oceans bounty that at last it seemes To be it selfe a sea, receyve and keepe The comon treasure; and in such a floode, Whose thycknes would keepe up what naturullye Covetts the center, can you hope Ile synke? _Bus_. Hell take thy hopes and thee! _Did_. But I would have You understand that I may rise agayne |
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