A Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 3 by Various
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(To whom I nowe must be obedyent)
Can challendge any share in my disgrace; But myne owne fortune that did never smyle But when it gave me a full cause to cursse. And were the way to my successyon free As when I lefte the courte, yet gaynst all sence And possybyllitie somethynge suer woulde sprynge From my meare fate to make another kynge: So, torrent-like, my fortune ruynes all My rights of byrthe and nature. _Rei_. You have doone ill To soothe hys adge unto thys vyolence. _Oli_. With penytence tys confest, consyderinge Preventyon hathe quyte fledd us, & no way's Lefte eyther for revendge or remedye. _Orl_. I am the verye foote-ball of the starres, Th'anottomye [sic] of fortune whom she dyssects With all the poysons and sharpe corrosyves Stylld in the lymbecke of damde pollycie. My starres, my starres! O that my breath could plucke theym from their spheares So with theire ruyns to conclude my feares. _Enter La Busse_. _Rei_. Smoother your passions, Sir: here comes his sonne-- A propertie oth court, that least his owne |
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