354 355 356 357 L° THE PRISON CHAMBER OOK round thee, young Astolpho: there's the place, which men (for being poor) are sent to starve in,— rude remedy, I trow, for sore disease. Within these walls, stifled by damp and stench, kindling their hell-born cressets, light to deeds LOT OF MAN AND WOMAN COMPARED MAN by the battle's hour immortalized may fall, yet leave his name to living song; but of forsaken woman's countless tears what recks the after-world? the poet's voice tells nought of all the slow, sad, weary days, and long, long nights, through which the lonely soul in passionate adjurings, vain desires, F. HEMANS from Goethe INVOCATION TO COTYTTO AIL, goddess of nocturnal sport, HA dark-veiled Cotytto, to whom the secret flame of Stygian darkness spets her thickest gloom, stay thy cloudy ebon chair, wherein thou ridest with Hecate, and befriend of all thy dues be done, and none left out. 358 To whom do lions cast their gentle looks? ALL TRUE JUSTICE W. SHAKESPEARE are not just, because they do no wrong, but he, who will not wrong me when he may, he is the truly just. I praise not them, who in their petty dealings pilfer not; but him, whose conscience spurns a secret fraud, his be the praise, who looking down with scorn R. CUMBERLAND 359 THE ENCOUNTER BETWEEN MORTIMER AND 360 GLENDOWER HEN on the gentle Severn's sedgy bank, WHE in single opposition, hand to hand, he did confound the best part of an hour . in changing hardiment with great Glendower. upon agreement, of swift Severn's flood; who then, affrighted with their bloody looks, W. SHAKESPEARE ON SLANDER TO THE DEAD WOUN WOUND not the soul of a departed man! 361 362 Why slander the deaf earth, that cannot hear, H R. CUMBERLAND THE QUARRels of brOTHERS ATRED hatched at home is a tame tiger, may fawn and sport, but never leaves his nature. The jars of brothers, two such mighty ones, is like a small stone thrown into a river, the breach scarce heard; but view the beaten current, rise in his face, still swelling and still growing; BEAUMONT AND FLETCHER THE BELATED TRAVELLER S you have seen an unskilled traveller, stretch out his limbs luxuriously supine, and sink in slumbers thoughtless of his journey, E. HAYWOOD 363 ADVICE ON CONDUCT OR your behaviour, let it be free and negligent; not clogged with ceremony 364 365 giv'st any man above that, so much thou PETE CELSA G. CHAPMAN NATURE that formed us of four elements, warring within our breast for regiment, DID BRUTUS' REPROOF OF CASSIUS ID not great Julius bleed for justice' sake? What villain touched his body, that did stab, and not for justice? What, shall one of us, that struck the foremost man of all this world, but for supporting robbers; shall we now contaminate our fingers with base bribes? and sell the mighty space of our large honours, for so much trash as may be grasped thus?— I had rather be a dog, and bay the moon, than such a Roman. W. SHAKESPEARE 366 GRATITUDe of osmyn on recovering his WIFE ALMERIA GRANT me but life, good Heaven, but length of days, to pay some part, some little of the debt, this countless sum of tenderness and love, snatch me from life and cut me short unwarned; 367 368 then, then 'twill be enough!-I shall be old, O THE CARES OF ROYALTY ROYALTY! what joys hast thou to boast, or like a wounded snake, lay down to writhe A SAMSON TO HIS GUIDE A. DOWE LITTLE onward lend thy guiding hand unwholesome draught. But here I feel amends, the breath of heaven fresh blowing, pure and sweet, with day-spring born; here leave me to respire. 369 This day a solemn feast the people hold to Dagon their sea-idol, and forbid laborious works—unwillingly this rest their superstition yields me-hence, with leave retiring from the popular noise, I seek this unfrequented place to find some ease,— ease to the body some, none to the mind from restless thoughts, that, like a deadly swarm of hornets armed, no sooner found alone, but rush upon me thronging, and present times past, what once I was and what am now. |