A Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 3 by Various
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page 315 of 479 (65%)
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With suche a frayle unproffytable thynge
As face or person when you chusse a frende; Th'are all deceytfull. Would my funerall rytts Were as I wishe provyded, to dispeirse A warnynge by my horryble abuse, And I would dye to morrowe. I lament That such another pyttied foole as I Should be amongst the liveinge.--Harke! who knocks? [_Richard knocks_. Aunswere, what are you? _Rich_. Open to your frende. _Gan_. O my starrs, tys he! can myschiefe thus Come flyinge to my bossome?--Sir, I come To open twoe dores, thys & thy false bossome. [_Stabbs hym_. _Rich_. O y'ave slayne me! tell me, cruell Sir, Why you have doone thys that myne inocent soule May teache repentance to you-- [_Dies_. _Gan_. Speake it out. What, not a worde? dumbe with a littill blowe? You are growne statlye, are you? tys even so: You have the trycke of mightie men in courte To speake at leasure & pretend imployment. Well, take your tyme; tys not materyall Whether you speake the resydue behynde |
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