A Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 3 by Various
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page 217 of 479 (45%)
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Without the catchinge of a rotten boarde
To keepe bare life and mysserye together To fyght eche other. _Bus_. Furyes fryght thy soule! Is a good mans ill fate thy nourishment? Noble _Orlando_, what omynous fatell starre Ruld thy nativitie that fire must be Strooke out of Ice to ruyne all thy hopes: This marriage is their grave. _Did_. Sir, I may rayse A broken state by service. _Bus_. Yes, of the devyll To whom thou art a factor. Slave, 'tis thou That hast undoone my father and increast His evyll inclinatyons. I have seene Your conference with witches, night-spell knaves, Connivynge mountebanks and the damned frye Of cheating mathematicks. And is this The issue of your closse contryvances[84]? If in thys p[ro]myst throng of future ill There may be found a way to anye good Of brave _Orlando_ the great palladyne, My constant industry shall tyer the day And outwatche night but I will fynde it for hym; And yf to doe hym good-- _Enter La Fue_. |
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