664 Bal. as was his daughter or his dearest child. IF BALIOL-KING EDWARD I G. PEELE F cunning hath power to win the king, Lo. Why, what remains for Baliol now to give? Lo. What league of faith, where league is broken once? 665 for whoso quells the pomp of haughty minds, 'S' A KING'S CONFESSION G. PEELE UPPOSE this done, or were it possible I could rise higher still, I am a man: and all these glories, empires heaped upon me, confirmed by constant friends and faithful guards, cannot defend me from a shaking fever, or bribe the uncorrupted dart of Death to spare me one short minute. Thus adorned a traitor's poison. Shall I praise my Fortune, 666 or raise the building of my happiness SAMSON J. FLETCHER YOUR YOUR coming, friends, revives me; for I learn how counterfeit a coin they are who friends I would be understood). In prosperous days yet that which was the worst now least afflicts me, J. MILTON 667 TIRESIAS, feeling the inSPIRATION OF THE GOD TO HIS DAUGHTER MANTO WHO IS LEADING HIM I FEEL him now, like a strong spirit charmed into a tree, that leaps, and moves the wood without a wind. like parchment, crackles at the hallow'd fire; I shall be young again: Manto, my daughter, 668 with powerful strains; Manto, my lovely child, DRYDEN AND LEE HE plucked aside the curtain of the couch, and there two children's bodies lay composed. They seemed like twins of some ten years of age, and they had died so nearly both together he scarce could say which first and being dead, he put them, for some fanciful affection, each with its arm about the other's neck, so that a fairer sight I had not seen than those two children. I looked upon them long, and for a while I wished myself their sister, and to lie with them in death as they did with each other; through weakness of his frame and his great grief. 669 ALMERIA AND LEONORA IN the aisle of a Al. Le. IT CATHEDRAL T was a fancied noise, for all is hushed. Al. It was thy fear, or else some transient wind and silence will increase your melancholy. Al. It may my fears: but cannot add to that. lead me o'er bones and sculls and mouldering earth or wind me in the shroud of some pale corse yet green in earth, rather than be the bride W. CONGREVE 670 671 I CATILINE TO HIS ARMY NEVER yet knew, soldiers, that in fight words added virtue unto valiant men; or that a general's oration made an army fall or stand; but how much prowess was owner of, so much in act it shewed. 'tis vain to attempt with speech; for the mind's fear THE SATIS SVFFICIT B. JONSON HE vaine excesse of flattering fortune's gifts and beats the restlesse braine with endlesse drifts, the begger stands in like extremitie. By too too much Dan Croesus caught his death, and sterves in streets a mirrour to behold; G. GASCOIGNE 672 K.H. Go KING HENRY IV TO HIS SON OD pardon thee!-yet let me wonder, Harry, at thy affections, which do hold a wing quite from the flight of all thy ancestors. Thy place in council thou hast rudely lost, which by thy younger brother is supplied; and art almost an alien to the hearts of all the court and princes of my blood: W. SHAKESPEARE 673 KING HENRY IV-DUKE OF CLARENCE HIS SON HAT would my lord and father? Cla. WHAT K.H. Nothing but well to thee, Thomas of Clarence. than all thy brothers: cherish it, my boy; of mediation, after I am dead, between his greatness and thy other brethren :— nor lose the good advantage of his grace for he is gracious, if he be observed; he hath a tear for pity, and a hand yet notwithstanding, being incensed, he's flint; as flaws congealéd in the spring of day. W. SHAKESPEARE 674 SHE LAODAMIA HE looked upon him, and was calmed and cheered; his ghastly colour from his lips had fled; in his deportment, shape, and mien, appeared brought from a pensive though a happy place. |