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Another part of the same, more remote from Thebes</a><br/><br/></td> +<td> <a href="#sceneI_38.5">Scene V. Another part of the same, more remote from Thebes</a><br><br></td> </tr> <tr> @@ -155,7 +134,7 @@ Mr. William Shakspeare, Gent.</h2> </tr> <tr> -<td> <a href="#sceneII_38.6">Scene VI. Athens. Before the prison</a><br/><br/></td> +<td> <a href="#sceneII_38.6">Scene VI. Athens. Before the prison</a><br><br></td> </tr> <tr> @@ -183,7 +162,7 @@ Mr. William Shakspeare, Gent.</h2> </tr> <tr> -<td> <a href="#sceneIII_38.6">Scene VI. The same part of the forest as in scene III.</a><br/><br/></td> +<td> <a href="#sceneIII_38.6">Scene VI. The same part of the forest as in scene III.</a><br><br></td> </tr> <tr> @@ -199,7 +178,7 @@ Mr. William Shakspeare, Gent.</h2> </tr> <tr> -<td> <a href="#sceneIV_38.3">Scene III. A room in the prison</a><br/><br/></td> +<td> <a href="#sceneIV_38.3">Scene III. A room in the prison</a><br><br></td> </tr> <tr> @@ -235,14 +214,14 @@ PROLOGUE </p> <p class="drama"> -ARCITE, the two noble kinsmen, cousins,<br/> +ARCITE, the two noble kinsmen, cousins,<br> PALAMON, nephews of Creon, King of Thebes </p> <p class="drama"> -THESEUS, Duke of Athens<br/> -HIPPOLYTA, Queen of the Amazons, later Duchess of Athens<br/> -EMILIA, Sister of Hippolyta<br/> +THESEUS, Duke of Athens<br> +HIPPOLYTA, Queen of the Amazons, later Duchess of Athens<br> +EMILIA, Sister of Hippolyta<br> PIRITHOUS, friend to Theseus </p> @@ -251,34 +230,34 @@ Three QUEENS, widows of the kings killed in laying siege to Thebes </p> <p class="drama"> -The JAILER of Theseus’s prison<br/> -His DAUGHTER, in love with Palamon<br/> -His BROTHER,<br/> -The WOOER of the Jailer’s daughter<br/> -Two FRIENDS of the Jailer,<br/> -A DOCTOR<br/> +The JAILER of Theseus’s prison<br> +His DAUGHTER, in love with Palamon<br> +His BROTHER,<br> +The WOOER of the Jailer’s daughter<br> +Two FRIENDS of the Jailer,<br> +A DOCTOR<br> </p> <p class="drama"> -ARTESIUS, an Athenian soldier<br/> -VALERIUS, a Theban<br/> -WOMAN, attending on Emilia<br/> -An Athenian GENTLEMAN<br/> -Six KNIGHTS, three accompanying Arcite, three Palamon<br/> +ARTESIUS, an Athenian soldier<br> +VALERIUS, a Theban<br> +WOMAN, attending on Emilia<br> +An Athenian GENTLEMAN<br> +Six KNIGHTS, three accompanying Arcite, three Palamon<br> </p> <p class="drama"> -Six COUNTRYMEN, one dressed as a Bavian or baboon<br/> -Gerald, a SCHOOLMASTER<br/> -NEL, a countrywoman<br/> -A TABORER<br/> +Six COUNTRYMEN, one dressed as a Bavian or baboon<br> +Gerald, a SCHOOLMASTER<br> +NEL, a countrywoman<br> +A TABORER<br> </p> <p class="drama"> -A singing BOY<br/> -A HERALD<br/> -A MESSENGER<br/> -A SERVANT<br/> +A singing BOY<br> +A HERALD<br> +A MESSENGER<br> +A SERVANT<br> </p> <p class="drama"> @@ -297,45 +276,45 @@ where it is Thebes and the Neighbourhood</b></h3> <div class="chapter"> -<h2><a name="sceneI_38.0"></a><b>PROLOGUE</b></h2> +<h2><a id="sceneI_38.0"></a><b>PROLOGUE</b></h2> <p class="scenedesc"> Flourish. Enter <span class="charname">Prologue</span>. </p> <p class="drama"> -PROLOGUE.<br/> -New plays and maidenheads are near akin:<br/> -Much followed both, for both much money gi’en,<br/> -If they stand sound and well. And a good play,<br/> -Whose modest scenes blush on his marriage day<br/> -And shake to lose his honour, is like her<br/> -That after holy tie and first night’s stir<br/> -Yet still is Modesty, and still retains<br/> -More of the maid, to sight, than husband’s pains.<br/> -We pray our play may be so, for I am sure<br/> -It has a noble breeder and a pure,<br/> -A learned, and a poet never went<br/> -More famous yet ’twixt Po and silver Trent.<br/> -Chaucer, of all admired, the story gives;<br/> -There, constant to eternity, it lives.<br/> -If we let fall the nobleness of this,<br/> -And the first sound this child hear be a hiss,<br/> -How will it shake the bones of that good man<br/> -And make him cry from underground, “O, fan<br/> -From me the witless chaff of such a writer<br/> -That blasts my bays and my famed works makes lighter<br/> -Than Robin Hood!” This is the fear we bring;<br/> -For, to say truth, it were an endless thing<br/> -And too ambitious, to aspire to him,<br/> -Weak as we are, and, almost breathless, swim<br/> -In this deep water. Do but you hold out<br/> -Your helping hands, and we shall tack about<br/> -And something do to save us. You shall hear<br/> -Scenes, though below his art, may yet appear<br/> -Worth two hours’ travel. To his bones sweet sleep;<br/> -Content to you. If this play do not keep<br/> -A little dull time from us, we perceive<br/> +PROLOGUE.<br> +New plays and maidenheads are near akin:<br> +Much followed both, for both much money gi’en,<br> +If they stand sound and well. And a good play,<br> +Whose modest scenes blush on his marriage day<br> +And shake to lose his honour, is like her<br> +That after holy tie and first night’s stir<br> +Yet still is Modesty, and still retains<br> +More of the maid, to sight, than husband’s pains.<br> +We pray our play may be so, for I am sure<br> +It has a noble breeder and a pure,<br> +A learned, and a poet never went<br> +More famous yet ’twixt Po and silver Trent.<br> +Chaucer, of all admired, the story gives;<br> +There, constant to eternity, it lives.<br> +If we let fall the nobleness of this,<br> +And the first sound this child hear be a hiss,<br> +How will it shake the bones of that good man<br> +And make him cry from underground, “O, fan<br> +From me the witless chaff of such a writer<br> +That blasts my bays and my famed works makes lighter<br> +Than Robin Hood!” This is the fear we bring;<br> +For, to say truth, it were an endless thing<br> +And too ambitious, to aspire to him,<br> +Weak as we are, and, almost breathless, swim<br> +In this deep water. Do but you hold out<br> +Your helping hands, and we shall tack about<br> +And something do to save us. You shall hear<br> +Scenes, though below his art, may yet appear<br> +Worth two hours’ travel. To his bones sweet sleep;<br> +Content to you. If this play do not keep<br> +A little dull time from us, we perceive<br> Our losses fall so thick, we must needs leave. </p> @@ -346,7 +325,7 @@ Our losses fall so thick, we must needs leave. <div class="chapter"> -<h2><a name="sceneI_38.1"></a><b>ACT I</b></h2> +<h2><a id="sceneI_38.1"></a><b>ACT I</b></h2> <h3><b>SCENE I. Athens. Before a temple</b></h3> @@ -371,40 +350,40 @@ The Song </p> <p class="drama"> -<i>Roses, their sharp spines being gone,<br/> -Not royal in their smells alone,<br/> - But in their hue;<br/> -Maiden pinks of odour faint,<br/> -Daisies smell-less, yet most quaint,<br/> +<i>Roses, their sharp spines being gone,<br> +Not royal in their smells alone,<br> + But in their hue;<br> +Maiden pinks of odour faint,<br> +Daisies smell-less, yet most quaint,<br> And sweet thyme true;</i> </p> <p class="drama"> -<i>Primrose, first-born child of Ver,<br/> -Merry springtime’s harbinger,<br/> - With harebells dim,<br/> -Oxlips in their cradles growing,<br/> -Marigolds on deathbeds blowing,<br/> +<i>Primrose, first-born child of Ver,<br> +Merry springtime’s harbinger,<br> + With harebells dim,<br> +Oxlips in their cradles growing,<br> +Marigolds on deathbeds blowing,<br> Lark’s-heels trim;</i> </p> <p class="right">[<i>Strews flowers.</i>]</p> <p class="drama"> -<i>All dear Nature’s children sweet<br/> -Lie ’fore bride and bridegroom’s feet,<br/> - Blessing their sense.<br/> -Not an angel of the air,<br/> -Bird melodious or bird fair,<br/> +<i>All dear Nature’s children sweet<br> +Lie ’fore bride and bridegroom’s feet,<br> + Blessing their sense.<br> +Not an angel of the air,<br> +Bird melodious or bird fair,<br> Is absent hence.</i> </p> <p class="drama"> -<i>The crow, the sland’rous cuckoo, nor<br/> -The boding raven, nor chough hoar,<br/> - Nor chatt’ring ’pie,<br/> -May on our bride-house perch or sing,<br/> -Or with them any discord bring,<br/> +<i>The crow, the sland’rous cuckoo, nor<br> +The boding raven, nor chough hoar,<br> + Nor chatt’ring ’pie,<br> +May on our bride-house perch or sing,<br> +Or with them any discord bring,<br> But from it fly.</i> </p> @@ -417,404 +396,404 @@ class="charname">Hippolyta;</span> the third before </p> <p class="drama"> -FIRST QUEEN.<br/> -For pity’s sake and true gentility’s,<br/> +FIRST QUEEN.<br> +For pity’s sake and true gentility’s,<br> Hear and respect me. </p> <p class="drama"> -SECOND QUEEN.<br/> -For your mother’s sake,<br/> -And as you wish your womb may thrive with fair ones,<br/> +SECOND QUEEN.<br> +For your mother’s sake,<br> +And as you wish your womb may thrive with fair ones,<br> Hear and respect me. </p> <p class="drama"> -THIRD QUEEN.<br/> -Now, for the love of him whom Jove hath marked<br/> -The honour of your bed, and for the sake<br/> -Of clear virginity, be advocate<br/> -For us and our distresses. This good deed<br/> -Shall raze you out o’ th’ book of trespasses<br/> +THIRD QUEEN.<br> +Now, for the love of him whom Jove hath marked<br> +The honour of your bed, and for the sake<br> +Of clear virginity, be advocate<br> +For us and our distresses. This good deed<br> +Shall raze you out o’ th’ book of trespasses<br> All you are set down there. </p> <p class="drama"> -THESEUS.<br/> +THESEUS.<br> Sad lady, rise. </p> <p class="drama"> -HIPPOLYTA.<br/> +HIPPOLYTA.<br> Stand up. </p> <p class="drama"> -EMILIA.<br/> -No knees to me.<br/> -What woman I may stead that is distressed,<br/> +EMILIA.<br> +No knees to me.<br> +What woman I may stead that is distressed,<br> Does bind me to her. </p> <p class="drama"> -THESEUS.<br/> +THESEUS.<br> What’s your request? Deliver you for all. </p> <p class="drama"> -FIRST QUEEN.<br/> -We are three queens whose sovereigns fell before<br/> -The wrath of cruel Creon, who endure<br/> -The beaks of ravens, talons of the kites,<br/> -And pecks of crows, in the foul fields of Thebes.<br/> -He will not suffer us to burn their bones,<br/> -To urn their ashes, nor to take th’ offence<br/> -Of mortal loathsomeness from the blest eye<br/> -Of holy Phœbus, but infects the winds<br/> -With stench of our slain lords. O, pity, Duke!<br/> -Thou purger of the earth, draw thy feared sword<br/> -That does good turns to th’ world; give us the bones<br/> -Of our dead kings, that we may chapel them;<br/> -And of thy boundless goodness take some note<br/> -That for our crowned heads we have no roof<br/> -Save this, which is the lion’s and the bear’s,<br/> +FIRST QUEEN.<br> +We are three queens whose sovereigns fell before<br> +The wrath of cruel Creon, who endure<br> +The beaks of ravens, talons of the kites,<br> +And pecks of crows, in the foul fields of Thebes.<br> +He will not suffer us to burn their bones,<br> +To urn their ashes, nor to take th’ offence<br> +Of mortal loathsomeness from the blest eye<br> +Of holy Phœbus, but infects the winds<br> +With stench of our slain lords. O, pity, Duke!<br> +Thou purger of the earth, draw thy feared sword<br> +That does good turns to th’ world; give us the bones<br> +Of our dead kings, that we may chapel them;<br> +And of thy boundless goodness take some note<br> +That for our crowned heads we have no roof<br> +Save this, which is the lion’s and the bear’s,<br> And vault to everything. </p> <p class="drama"> -THESEUS.<br/> -Pray you, kneel not.<br/> -I was transported with your speech and suffered<br/> -Your knees to wrong themselves. I have heard the fortunes<br/> -Of your dead lords, which gives me such lamenting<br/> -As wakes my vengeance and revenge for ’em.<br/> -King Capaneus was your lord. The day<br/> -That he should marry you, at such a season<br/> -As now it is with me, I met your groom<br/> -By Mars’s altar. You were that time fair!<br/> -Not Juno’s mantle fairer than your tresses,<br/> -Nor in more bounty spread her. Your wheaten wreath<br/> -Was then nor threshed nor blasted. Fortune at you<br/> -Dimpled her cheek with smiles. Hercules, our kinsman,<br/> -Then weaker than your eyes, laid by his club;<br/> -He tumbled down upon his Nemean hide<br/> -And swore his sinews thawed. O grief and time,<br/> +THESEUS.<br> +Pray you, kneel not.<br> +I was transported with your speech and suffered<br> +Your knees to wrong themselves. I have heard the fortunes<br> +Of your dead lords, which gives me such lamenting<br> +As wakes my vengeance and revenge for ’em.<br> +King Capaneus was your lord. The day<br> +That he should marry you, at such a season<br> +As now it is with me, I met your groom<br> +By Mars’s altar. You were that time fair!<br> +Not Juno’s mantle fairer than your tresses,<br> +Nor in more bounty spread her. Your wheaten wreath<br> +Was then nor threshed nor blasted. Fortune at you<br> +Dimpled her cheek with smiles. Hercules, our kinsman,<br> +Then weaker than your eyes, laid by his club;<br> +He tumbled down upon his Nemean hide<br> +And swore his sinews thawed. O grief and time,<br> Fearful consumers, you will all devour! </p> <p class="drama"> -FIRST QUEEN.<br/> -O, I hope some god,<br/> -Some god hath put his mercy in your manhood,<br/> -Whereto he’ll infuse power, and press you forth<br/> +FIRST QUEEN.<br> +O, I hope some god,<br> +Some god hath put his mercy in your manhood,<br> +Whereto he’ll infuse power, and press you forth<br> Our undertaker. </p> <p class="drama"> -THESEUS.<br/> -O, no knees, none, widow!<br/> -Unto the helmeted Bellona use them,<br/> -And pray for me, your soldier.<br/> +THESEUS.<br> +O, no knees, none, widow!<br> +Unto the helmeted Bellona use them,<br> +And pray for me, your soldier.<br> Troubled I am. </p> <p class="right">[<i>Turns away.</i>]</p> <p class="drama"> -SECOND QUEEN.<br/> -Honoured Hippolyta,<br/> -Most dreaded Amazonian, that hast slain<br/> -The scythe-tusked boar; that with thy arm, as strong<br/> -As it is white, wast near to make the male<br/> -To thy sex captive, but that this thy lord,<br/> -Born to uphold creation in that honour<br/> -First nature styled it in, shrunk thee into<br/> -The bound thou wast o’erflowing, at once subduing<br/> -Thy force and thy affection; soldieress<br/> -That equally canst poise sternness with pity,<br/> -Whom now I know hast much more power on him<br/> -Than ever he had on thee, who ow’st his strength<br/> -And his love too, who is a servant for<br/> -The tenor of thy speech, dear glass of ladies,<br/> -Bid him that we, whom flaming war doth scorch,<br/> -Under the shadow of his sword may cool us;<br/> -Require him he advance it o’er our heads;<br/> -Speak ’t in a woman’s key, like such a woman<br/> -As any of us three; weep ere you fail.<br/> -Lend us a knee;<br/> -But touch the ground for us no longer time<br/> -Than a dove’s motion when the head’s plucked off.<br/> -Tell him if he i’ th’ blood-sized field lay swollen,<br/> -Showing the sun his teeth, grinning at the moon,<br/> +SECOND QUEEN.<br> +Honoured Hippolyta,<br> +Most dreaded Amazonian, that hast slain<br> +The scythe-tusked boar; that with thy arm, as strong<br> +As it is white, wast near to make the male<br> +To thy sex captive, but that this thy lord,<br> +Born to uphold creation in that honour<br> +First nature styled it in, shrunk thee into<br> +The bound thou wast o’erflowing, at once subduing<br> +Thy force and thy affection; soldieress<br> +That equally canst poise sternness with pity,<br> +Whom now I know hast much more power on him<br> +Than ever he had on thee, who ow’st his strength<br> +And his love too, who is a servant for<br> +The tenor of thy speech, dear glass of ladies,<br> +Bid him that we, whom flaming war doth scorch,<br> +Under the shadow of his sword may cool us;<br> +Require him he advance it o’er our heads;<br> +Speak ’t in a woman’s key, like such a woman<br> +As any of us three; weep ere you fail.<br> +Lend us a knee;<br> +But touch the ground for us no longer time<br> +Than a dove’s motion when the head’s plucked off.<br> +Tell him if he i’ th’ blood-sized field lay swollen,<br> +Showing the sun his teeth, grinning at the moon,<br> What you would do. </p> <p class="drama"> -HIPPOLYTA.<br/> -Poor lady, say no more.<br/> -I had as lief trace this good action with you<br/> -As that whereto I am going, and never yet<br/> -Went I so willing way. My lord is taken<br/> -Heart-deep with your distress. Let him consider;<br/> +HIPPOLYTA.<br> +Poor lady, say no more.<br> +I had as lief trace this good action with you<br> +As that whereto I am going, and never yet<br> +Went I so willing way. My lord is taken<br> +Heart-deep with your distress. Let him consider;<br> I’ll speak anon. </p> <p class="drama"> -THIRD QUEEN.<br/> -O, my petition was<br/> -Set down in ice, which by hot grief uncandied<br/> -Melts into drops; so sorrow, wanting form,<br/> +THIRD QUEEN.<br> +O, my petition was<br> +Set down in ice, which by hot grief uncandied<br> +Melts into drops; so sorrow, wanting form,<br> Is pressed with deeper matter. </p> <p class="drama"> -EMILIA.<br/> -Pray, stand up;<br/> +EMILIA.<br> +Pray, stand up;<br> Your grief is written in your cheek. </p> <p class="drama"> -THIRD QUEEN.<br/> -O, woe!<br/> -You cannot read it there. There through my tears,<br/> -Like wrinkled pebbles in a glassy stream,<br/> -You may behold ’em. Lady, lady, alack!<br/> -He that will all the treasure know o’ th’ earth<br/> -Must know the center too; he that will fish<br/> -For my least minnow, let him lead his line<br/> -To catch one at my heart. O, pardon me!<br/> -Extremity, that sharpens sundry wits,<br/> +THIRD QUEEN.<br> +O, woe!<br> +You cannot read it there. There through my tears,<br> +Like wrinkled pebbles in a glassy stream,<br> +You may behold ’em. Lady, lady, alack!<br> +He that will all the treasure know o’ th’ earth<br> +Must know the center too; he that will fish<br> +For my least minnow, let him lead his line<br> +To catch one at my heart. O, pardon me!<br> +Extremity, that sharpens sundry wits,<br> Makes me a fool. </p> <p class="drama"> -EMILIA.<br/> -Pray you say nothing, pray you.<br/> -Who cannot feel nor see the rain, being in ’t,<br/> -Knows neither wet nor dry. If that you were<br/> -The ground-piece of some painter, I would buy you<br/> -T’ instruct me ’gainst a capital grief, indeed<br/> -Such heart-pierced demonstration. But, alas,<br/> -Being a natural sister of our sex,<br/> -Your sorrow beats so ardently upon me<br/> -That it shall make a counter-reflect ’gainst<br/> -My brother’s heart and warm it to some pity,<br/> +EMILIA.<br> +Pray you say nothing, pray you.<br> +Who cannot feel nor see the rain, being in ’t,<br> +Knows neither wet nor dry. If that you were<br> +The ground-piece of some painter, I would buy you<br> +T’ instruct me ’gainst a capital grief, indeed<br> +Such heart-pierced demonstration. But, alas,<br> +Being a natural sister of our sex,<br> +Your sorrow beats so ardently upon me<br> +That it shall make a counter-reflect ’gainst<br> +My brother’s heart and warm it to some pity,<br> Though it were made of stone. Pray have good comfort. </p> <p class="drama"> -THESEUS.<br/> -Forward to th’ temple! Leave not out a jot<br/> +THESEUS.<br> +Forward to th’ temple! Leave not out a jot<br> O’ th’ sacred ceremony. </p> <p class="drama"> -FIRST QUEEN.<br/> -O, this celebration<br/> -Will longer last and be more costly than<br/> -Your suppliants’ war! Remember that your fame<br/> -Knolls in the ear o’ th’ world; what you do quickly<br/> -Is not done rashly; your first thought is more<br/> -Than others’ laboured meditance, your premeditating<br/> -More than their actions. But, O Jove, your actions,<br/> -Soon as they move, as ospreys do the fish,<br/> -Subdue before they touch. Think, dear Duke, think<br/> +FIRST QUEEN.<br> +O, this celebration<br> +Will longer last and be more costly than<br> +Your suppliants’ war! Remember that your fame<br> +Knolls in the ear o’ th’ world; what you do quickly<br> +Is not done rashly; your first thought is more<br> +Than others’ laboured meditance, your premeditating<br> +More than their actions. But, O Jove, your actions,<br> +Soon as they move, as ospreys do the fish,<br> +Subdue before they touch. Think, dear Duke, think<br> What beds our slain kings have! </p> <p class="drama"> -SECOND QUEEN.<br/> -What griefs our beds,<br/> +SECOND QUEEN.<br> +What griefs our beds,<br> That our dear lords have none! </p> <p class="drama"> -THIRD QUEEN.<br/> -None fit for th’ dead.<br/> -Those that with cords, knives, drams, precipitance,<br/> -Weary of this world’s light, have to themselves<br/> -Been death’s most horrid agents, human grace<br/> +THIRD QUEEN.<br> +None fit for th’ dead.<br> +Those that with cords, knives, drams, precipitance,<br> +Weary of this world’s light, have to themselves<br> +Been death’s most horrid agents, human grace<br> Affords them dust and shadow. </p> <p class="drama"> -FIRST QUEEN.<br/> -But our lords<br/> -Lie blist’ring ’fore the visitating sun,<br/> +FIRST QUEEN.<br> +But our lords<br> +Lie blist’ring ’fore the visitating sun,<br> And were good kings when living. </p> <p class="drama"> -THESEUS.<br/> -It is true, and I will give you comfort<br/> -To give your dead lords graves;<br/> +THESEUS.<br> +It is true, and I will give you comfort<br> +To give your dead lords graves;<br> The which to do must make some work with Creon. </p> <p class="drama"> -FIRST QUEEN.<br/> -And that work presents itself to th’ doing.<br/> -Now ’twill take form; the heats are gone tomorrow.<br/> -Then, bootless toil must recompense itself<br/> -With its own sweat. Now he’s secure,<br/> -Not dreams we stand before your puissance,<br/> -Rinsing our holy begging in our eyes<br/> +FIRST QUEEN.<br> +And that work presents itself to th’ doing.<br> +Now ’twill take form; the heats are gone tomorrow.<br> +Then, bootless toil must recompense itself<br> +With its own sweat. Now he’s secure,<br> +Not dreams we stand before your puissance,<br> +Rinsing our holy begging in our eyes<br> To make petition clear. </p> <p class="drama"> -SECOND QUEEN.<br/> +SECOND QUEEN.<br> Now you may take him, drunk with his victory. </p> <p class="drama"> -THIRD QUEEN.<br/> +THIRD QUEEN.<br> And his army full of bread and sloth. </p> <p class="drama"> -THESEUS.<br/> -Artesius, that best knowest<br/> -How to draw out fit to this enterprise<br/> -The prim’st for this proceeding, and the number<br/> -To carry such a business: forth and levy<br/> -Our worthiest instruments, whilst we dispatch<br/> -This grand act of our life, this daring deed<br/> +THESEUS.<br> +Artesius, that best knowest<br> +How to draw out fit to this enterprise<br> +The prim’st for this proceeding, and the number<br> +To carry such a business: forth and levy<br> +Our worthiest instruments, whilst we dispatch<br> +This grand act of our life, this daring deed<br> Of fate in wedlock. </p> <p class="drama"> -FIRST QUEEN.<br/> -Dowagers, take hands.<br/> -Let us be widows to our woes; delay<br/> +FIRST QUEEN.<br> +Dowagers, take hands.<br> +Let us be widows to our woes; delay<br> Commends us to a famishing hope. </p> <p class="drama"> -ALL THE QUEENS.<br/> +ALL THE QUEENS.<br> Farewell! </p> <p class="drama"> -SECOND QUEEN.<br/> -We come unseasonably; but when could grief<br/> -Cull forth, as unpanged judgement can, fitt’st time<br/> +SECOND QUEEN.<br> +We come unseasonably; but when could grief<br> +Cull forth, as unpanged judgement can, fitt’st time<br> For best solicitation? </p> <p class="drama"> -THESEUS.<br/> -Why, good ladies,<br/> -This is a service, whereto I am going,<br/> -Greater than any war; it more imports me<br/> -Than all the actions that I have foregone,<br/> +THESEUS.<br> +Why, good ladies,<br> +This is a service, whereto I am going,<br> +Greater than any war; it more imports me<br> +Than all the actions that I have foregone,<br> Or futurely can cope. </p> <p class="drama"> -FIRST QUEEN.<br/> -The more proclaiming<br/> -Our suit shall be neglected when her arms,<br/> -Able to lock Jove from a synod, shall<br/> -By warranting moonlight corselet thee. O, when<br/> -Her twinning cherries shall their sweetness fall<br/> -Upon thy tasteful lips, what wilt thou think<br/> -Of rotten kings or blubbered queens? What care<br/> -For what thou feel’st not, what thou feel’st being able<br/> -To make Mars spurn his drum? O, if thou couch<br/> -But one night with her, every hour in ’t will<br/> -Take hostage of thee for a hundred, and<br/> -Thou shalt remember nothing more than what<br/> +FIRST QUEEN.<br> +The more proclaiming<br> +Our suit shall be neglected when her arms,<br> +Able to lock Jove from a synod, shall<br> +By warranting moonlight corselet thee. O, when<br> +Her twinning cherries shall their sweetness fall<br> +Upon thy tasteful lips, what wilt thou think<br> +Of rotten kings or blubbered queens? What care<br> +For what thou feel’st not, what thou feel’st being able<br> +To make Mars spurn his drum? O, if thou couch<br> +But one night with her, every hour in ’t will<br> +Take hostage of thee for a hundred, and<br> +Thou shalt remember nothing more than what<br> That banquet bids thee to. </p> <p class="drama"> -HIPPOLYTA.<br/> -Though much unlike<br/> -You should be so transported, as much sorry<br/> -I should be such a suitor, yet I think,<br/> -Did I not, by th’ abstaining of my joy,<br/> -Which breeds a deeper longing, cure their surfeit<br/> -That craves a present med’cine, I should pluck<br/> +HIPPOLYTA.<br> +Though much unlike<br> +You should be so transported, as much sorry<br> +I should be such a suitor, yet I think,<br> +Did I not, by th’ abstaining of my joy,<br> +Which breeds a deeper longing, cure their surfeit<br> +That craves a present med’cine, I should pluck<br> All ladies’ scandal on me. Therefore, sir, </p> <p class="right">[<i>She kneels.</i>]</p> <p class="drama"> -As I shall here make trial of my prayers,<br/> -Either presuming them to have some force,<br/> -Or sentencing for aye their vigor dumb,<br/> -Prorogue this business we are going about, and hang<br/> -Your shield afore your heart, about that neck<br/> -Which is my fee, and which I freely lend<br/> +As I shall here make trial of my prayers,<br> +Either presuming them to have some force,<br> +Or sentencing for aye their vigor dumb,<br> +Prorogue this business we are going about, and hang<br> +Your shield afore your heart, about that neck<br> +Which is my fee, and which I freely lend<br> To do these poor queens service. </p> <p class="drama"> -ALL QUEENS.<br/> -[<i>To Emilia</i>.] O, help now!<br/> +ALL QUEENS.<br> +[<i>To Emilia</i>.] O, help now!<br> Our cause cries for your knee. </p> <p class="drama"> -EMILIA.<br/> -[<i>To Theseus, kneeling</i>.] If you grant not<br/> -My sister her petition in that force,<br/> -With that celerity and nature, which<br/> -She makes it in, from henceforth I’ll not dare<br/> -To ask you anything, nor be so hardy<br/> +EMILIA.<br> +[<i>To Theseus, kneeling</i>.] If you grant not<br> +My sister her petition in that force,<br> +With that celerity and nature, which<br> +She makes it in, from henceforth I’ll not dare<br> +To ask you anything, nor be so hardy<br> Ever to take a husband. </p> <p class="drama"> -THESEUS.<br/> -Pray stand up.<br/> +THESEUS.<br> +Pray stand up.<br> I am entreating of myself to do </p> <p class="right">[<i>They rise.</i>]</p> <p class="drama"> -That which you kneel to have me.—Pirithous,<br/> -Lead on the bride; get you and pray the gods<br/> -For success and return; omit not anything<br/> -In the pretended celebration.—Queens,<br/> -Follow your soldier. [<i>To Artesius.</i>] As before, hence you,<br/> -And at the banks of Aulis meet us with<br/> -The forces you can raise, where we shall find<br/> -The moiety of a number for a business<br/> +That which you kneel to have me.—Pirithous,<br> +Lead on the bride; get you and pray the gods<br> +For success and return; omit not anything<br> +In the pretended celebration.—Queens,<br> +Follow your soldier. [<i>To Artesius.</i>] As before, hence you,<br> +And at the banks of Aulis meet us with<br> +The forces you can raise, where we shall find<br> +The moiety of a number for a business<br> More bigger looked. </p> <p class="right">[<i>Exit <span class="charname">Artesius</span>.</i>]</p> <p class="drama"> -[<i>To Hippolyta.</i>] Since that our theme is haste,<br/> -I stamp this kiss upon thy currant lip;<br/> -Sweet, keep it as my token. Set you forward,<br/> +[<i>To Hippolyta.</i>] Since that our theme is haste,<br> +I stamp this kiss upon thy currant lip;<br> +Sweet, keep it as my token. Set you forward,<br> For I will see you gone. </p> <p class="right">[<i>The wedding procession moves towards the temple.</i>]</p> <p class="drama"> -Farewell, my beauteous sister.—Pirithous,<br/> +Farewell, my beauteous sister.—Pirithous,<br> Keep the feast full; bate not an hour on ’t. </p> <p class="drama"> -PIRITHOUS.<br/> -Sir,<br/> -I’ll follow you at heels. The feast’s solemnity<br/> +PIRITHOUS.<br> +Sir,<br> +I’ll follow you at heels. The feast’s solemnity<br> Shall want till your return. </p> <p class="drama"> -THESEUS.<br/> -Cousin, I charge you,<br/> -Budge not from Athens. We shall be returning<br/> -Ere you can end this feast, of which I pray you<br/> +THESEUS.<br> +Cousin, I charge you,<br> +Budge not from Athens. We shall be returning<br> +Ere you can end this feast, of which I pray you<br> Make no abatement. Once more, farewell all. </p> @@ -824,34 +803,34 @@ Make no abatement. Once more, farewell all. </p> <p class="drama"> -FIRST QUEEN.<br/> +FIRST QUEEN.<br> Thus dost thou still make good the tongue o’ th’ world. </p> <p class="drama"> -SECOND QUEEN.<br/> +SECOND QUEEN.<br> And earn’st a deity equal with Mars. </p> <p class="drama"> -THIRD QUEEN.<br/> -If not above him, for<br/> -Thou, being but mortal, mak’st affections bend<br/> -To godlike honours; they themselves, some say,<br/> +THIRD QUEEN.<br> +If not above him, for<br> +Thou, being but mortal, mak’st affections bend<br> +To godlike honours; they themselves, some say,<br> Groan under such a mast’ry. </p> <p class="drama"> -THESEUS.<br/> -As we are men,<br/> -Thus should we do; being sensually subdued,<br/> -We lose our human title. Good cheer, ladies.<br/> +THESEUS.<br> +As we are men,<br> +Thus should we do; being sensually subdued,<br> +We lose our human title. Good cheer, ladies.<br> Now turn we towards your comforts. </p> <p class="right">[<i>Flourish. Exeunt.</i>]</p> -<h3><a name="sceneI_38.2"></a><b>SCENE II. Thebes. The Court of the Palace</b></h3> +<h3><a id="sceneI_38.2"></a><b>SCENE II. Thebes. The Court of the Palace</b></h3> <p class="scenedesc"> Enter <span class="charname">Palamon</span> and @@ -859,134 +838,134 @@ Enter <span class="charname">Palamon</span> and </p> <p class="drama"> -ARCITE.<br/> -Dear Palamon, dearer in love than blood<br/> -And our prime cousin, yet unhardened in<br/> -The crimes of nature, let us leave the city<br/> -Thebes, and the temptings in ’t, before we further<br/> -Sully our gloss of youth<br/> -And here to keep in abstinence we shame<br/> -As in incontinence; for not to swim<br/> -I’ th’ aid o’ th’ current, were almost to sink,<br/> -At least to frustrate striving; and to follow<br/> -The common stream, ’twould bring us to an eddy<br/> -Where we should turn or drown; if labour through,<br/> +ARCITE.<br> +Dear Palamon, dearer in love than blood<br> +And our prime cousin, yet unhardened in<br> +The crimes of nature, let us leave the city<br> +Thebes, and the temptings in ’t, before we further<br> +Sully our gloss of youth<br> +And here to keep in abstinence we shame<br> +As in incontinence; for not to swim<br> +I’ th’ aid o’ th’ current, were almost to sink,<br> +At least to frustrate striving; and to follow<br> +The common stream, ’twould bring us to an eddy<br> +Where we should turn or drown; if labour through,<br> Our gain but life and weakness. </p> <p class="drama"> -PALAMON.<br/> -Your advice<br/> -Is cried up with example. What strange ruins,<br/> -Since first we went to school, may we perceive<br/> -Walking in Thebes! Scars and bare weeds<br/> -The gain o’ th’ martialist, who did propound<br/> -To his bold ends honour and golden ingots,<br/> -Which, though he won, he had not, and now flirted<br/> -By peace for whom he fought! Who then shall offer<br/> -To Mars’s so-scorned altar? I do bleed<br/> -When such I meet, and wish great Juno would<br/> -Resume her ancient fit of jealousy<br/> -To get the soldier work, that peace might purge<br/> -For her repletion, and retain anew<br/> -Her charitable heart, now hard and harsher<br/> +PALAMON.<br> +Your advice<br> +Is cried up with example. What strange ruins,<br> +Since first we went to school, may we perceive<br> +Walking in Thebes! Scars and bare weeds<br> +The gain o’ th’ martialist, who did propound<br> +To his bold ends honour and golden ingots,<br> +Which, though he won, he had not, and now flirted<br> +By peace for whom he fought! Who then shall offer<br> +To Mars’s so-scorned altar? I do bleed<br> +When such I meet, and wish great Juno would<br> +Resume her ancient fit of jealousy<br> +To get the soldier work, that peace might purge<br> +For her repletion, and retain anew<br> +Her charitable heart, now hard and harsher<br> Than strife or war could be. </p> <p class="drama"> -ARCITE.<br/> -Are you not out?<br/> -Meet you no ruin but the soldier in<br/> -The cranks and turns of Thebes? You did begin<br/> -As if you met decays of many kinds.<br/> -Perceive you none that do arouse your pity<br/> +ARCITE.<br> +Are you not out?<br> +Meet you no ruin but the soldier in<br> +The cranks and turns of Thebes? You did begin<br> +As if you met decays of many kinds.<br> +Perceive you none that do arouse your pity<br> But th’ unconsidered soldier? </p> <p class="drama"> -PALAMON.<br/> -Yes, I pity<br/> -Decays where’er I find them, but such most<br/> -That, sweating in an honourable toil,<br/> +PALAMON.<br> +Yes, I pity<br> +Decays where’er I find them, but such most<br> +That, sweating in an honourable toil,<br> Are paid with ice to cool ’em. </p> <p class="drama"> -ARCITE.<br/> -’Tis not this<br/> -I did begin to speak of. This is virtue<br/> -Of no respect in Thebes. I spake of Thebes,<br/> -How dangerous, if we will keep our honours,<br/> -It is for our residing, where every evil<br/> -Hath a good colour; where every seeming good’s<br/> -A certain evil; where not to be e’en jump<br/> -As they are here were to be strangers, and,<br/> +ARCITE.<br> +’Tis not this<br> +I did begin to speak of. This is virtue<br> +Of no respect in Thebes. I spake of Thebes,<br> +How dangerous, if we will keep our honours,<br> +It is for our residing, where every evil<br> +Hath a good colour; where every seeming good’s<br> +A certain evil; where not to be e’en jump<br> +As they are here were to be strangers, and,<br> Such things to be, mere monsters. </p> <p class="drama"> -PALAMON.<br/> -’Tis in our power—<br/> -Unless we fear that apes can tutor ’s—to<br/> -Be masters of our manners. What need I<br/> -Affect another’s gait, which is not catching<br/> -Where there is faith? Or to be fond upon<br/> -Another’s way of speech, when by mine own<br/> -I may be reasonably conceived, saved too,<br/> -Speaking it truly? Why am I bound<br/> -By any generous bond to follow him<br/> -Follows his tailor, haply so long until<br/> -The followed make pursuit? Or let me know<br/> -Why mine own barber is unblessed, with him<br/> -My poor chin too, for ’tis not scissored just<br/> -To such a favourite’s glass? What canon is there<br/> -That does command my rapier from my hip<br/> -To dangle ’t in my hand, or to go tiptoe<br/> -Before the street be foul? Either I am<br/> -The fore-horse in the team, or I am none<br/> -That draw i’ th’ sequent trace. These poor slight sores<br/> -Need not a plantain; that which rips my bosom<br/> +PALAMON.<br> +’Tis in our power—<br> +Unless we fear that apes can tutor ’s—to<br> +Be masters of our manners. What need I<br> +Affect another’s gait, which is not catching<br> +Where there is faith? Or to be fond upon<br> +Another’s way of speech, when by mine own<br> +I may be reasonably conceived, saved too,<br> +Speaking it truly? Why am I bound<br> +By any generous bond to follow him<br> +Follows his tailor, haply so long until<br> +The followed make pursuit? Or let me know<br> +Why mine own barber is unblessed, with him<br> +My poor chin too, for ’tis not scissored just<br> +To such a favourite’s glass? What canon is there<br> +That does command my rapier from my hip<br> +To dangle ’t in my hand, or to go tiptoe<br> +Before the street be foul? Either I am<br> +The fore-horse in the team, or I am none<br> +That draw i’ th’ sequent trace. These poor slight sores<br> +Need not a plantain; that which rips my bosom<br> Almost to th’ heart’s— </p> <p class="drama"> -ARCITE.<br/> +ARCITE.<br> Our uncle Creon. </p> <p class="drama"> -PALAMON.<br/> -He.<br/> -A most unbounded tyrant, whose successes<br/> -Makes heaven unfeared and villainy assured<br/> -Beyond its power there’s nothing; almost puts<br/> -Faith in a fever, and deifies alone<br/> -Voluble chance; who only attributes<br/> -The faculties of other instruments<br/> -To his own nerves and act; commands men service,<br/> -And what they win in ’t, boot and glory; one<br/> -That fears not to do harm; good, dares not. Let<br/> -The blood of mine that’s sib to him be sucked<br/> -From me with leeches; let them break and fall<br/> +PALAMON.<br> +He.<br> +A most unbounded tyrant, whose successes<br> +Makes heaven unfeared and villainy assured<br> +Beyond its power there’s nothing; almost puts<br> +Faith in a fever, and deifies alone<br> +Voluble chance; who only attributes<br> +The faculties of other instruments<br> +To his own nerves and act; commands men service,<br> +And what they win in ’t, boot and glory; one<br> +That fears not to do harm; good, dares not. Let<br> +The blood of mine that’s sib to him be sucked<br> +From me with leeches; let them break and fall<br> Off me with that corruption. </p> <p class="drama"> -ARCITE.<br/> -Clear-spirited cousin,<br/> -Let’s leave his court, that we may nothing share<br/> -Of his loud infamy; for our milk<br/> -Will relish of the pasture, and we must<br/> -Be vile or disobedient; not his kinsmen<br/> +ARCITE.<br> +Clear-spirited cousin,<br> +Let’s leave his court, that we may nothing share<br> +Of his loud infamy; for our milk<br> +Will relish of the pasture, and we must<br> +Be vile or disobedient; not his kinsmen<br> In blood unless in quality. </p> <p class="drama"> -PALAMON.<br/> -Nothing truer.<br/> -I think the echoes of his shames have deafed<br/> -The ears of heavenly justice. Widows’ cries<br/> -Descend again into their throats and have not<br/> +PALAMON.<br> +Nothing truer.<br> +I think the echoes of his shames have deafed<br> +The ears of heavenly justice. Widows’ cries<br> +Descend again into their throats and have not<br> Due audience of the gods. </p> @@ -999,84 +978,84 @@ Valerius! </p> <p class="drama"> -VALERIUS.<br/> -The King calls for you; yet be leaden-footed<br/> -Till his great rage be off him. Phœbus, when<br/> -He broke his whipstock and exclaimed against<br/> -The horses of the sun, but whispered to<br/> +VALERIUS.<br> +The King calls for you; yet be leaden-footed<br> +Till his great rage be off him. Phœbus, when<br> +He broke his whipstock and exclaimed against<br> +The horses of the sun, but whispered to<br> The loudness of his fury. </p> <p class="drama"> -PALAMON.<br/> -Small winds shake him.<br/> +PALAMON.<br> +Small winds shake him.<br> But what’s the matter? </p> <p class="drama"> -VALERIUS.<br/> -Theseus, who where he threats appalls, hath sent<br/> -Deadly defiance to him and pronounces<br/> -Ruin to Thebes, who is at hand to seal<br/> +VALERIUS.<br> +Theseus, who where he threats appalls, hath sent<br> +Deadly defiance to him and pronounces<br> +Ruin to Thebes, who is at hand to seal<br> The promise of his wrath. </p> <p class="drama"> -ARCITE.<br/> -Let him approach.<br/> -But that we fear the gods in him, he brings not<br/> -A jot of terror to us. Yet what man<br/> -Thirds his own worth—the case is each of ours—<br/> -When that his action’s dregged with mind assured<br/> +ARCITE.<br> +Let him approach.<br> +But that we fear the gods in him, he brings not<br> +A jot of terror to us. Yet what man<br> +Thirds his own worth—the case is each of ours—<br> +When that his action’s dregged with mind assured<br> ’Tis bad he goes about? </p> <p class="drama"> -PALAMON.<br/> -Leave that unreasoned.<br/> -Our services stand now for Thebes, not Creon.<br/> -Yet to be neutral to him were dishonour,<br/> -Rebellious to oppose; therefore we must<br/> -With him stand to the mercy of our fate,<br/> +PALAMON.<br> +Leave that unreasoned.<br> +Our services stand now for Thebes, not Creon.<br> +Yet to be neutral to him were dishonour,<br> +Rebellious to oppose; therefore we must<br> +With him stand to the mercy of our fate,<br> Who hath bounded our last minute. </p> <p class="drama"> -ARCITE.<br/> -So we must.<br/> -[<i>To Valerius.</i>] Is ’t said this war’s afoot? Or, it shall be,<br/> +ARCITE.<br> +So we must.<br> +[<i>To Valerius.</i>] Is ’t said this war’s afoot? Or, it shall be,<br> On fail of some condition? </p> <p class="drama"> -VALERIUS.<br/> -’Tis in motion;<br/> -The intelligence of state came in the instant<br/> +VALERIUS.<br> +’Tis in motion;<br> +The intelligence of state came in the instant<br> With the defier. </p> <p class="drama"> -PALAMON.<br/> -Let’s to the King; who, were he<br/> -A quarter carrier of that honour which<br/> -His enemy come in, the blood we venture<br/> -Should be as for our health, which were not spent,<br/> -Rather laid out for purchase. But alas,<br/> -Our hands advanced before our hearts, what will<br/> +PALAMON.<br> +Let’s to the King; who, were he<br> +A quarter carrier of that honour which<br> +His enemy come in, the blood we venture<br> +Should be as for our health, which were not spent,<br> +Rather laid out for purchase. But alas,<br> +Our hands advanced before our hearts, what will<br> The fall o’ th’ stroke do damage? </p> <p class="drama"> -ARCITE.<br/> -Let th’ event,<br/> -That never-erring arbitrator, tell us<br/> -When we know all ourselves; and let us follow<br/> +ARCITE.<br> +Let th’ event,<br> +That never-erring arbitrator, tell us<br> +When we know all ourselves; and let us follow<br> The becking of our chance. </p> <p class="right">[<i>Exeunt.</i>]</p> -<h3><a name="sceneI_38.3"></a><b>SCENE III. Before the gates of Athens</b></h3> +<h3><a id="sceneI_38.3"></a><b>SCENE III. Before the gates of Athens</b></h3> <p class="scenedesc"> Enter <span class="charname">Pirithous, Hippolyta</span> and @@ -1084,180 +1063,180 @@ Enter <span class="charname">Pirithous, Hippolyta</span> and </p> <p class="drama"> -PIRITHOUS.<br/> +PIRITHOUS.<br> No further. </p> <p class="drama"> -HIPPOLYTA.<br/> -Sir, farewell. Repeat my wishes<br/> -To our great lord, of whose success I dare not<br/> -Make any timorous question; yet I wish him<br/> -Excess and overflow of power, an ’t might be,<br/> -To dure ill-dealing fortune. Speed to him!<br/> +HIPPOLYTA.<br> +Sir, farewell. Repeat my wishes<br> +To our great lord, of whose success I dare not<br> +Make any timorous question; yet I wish him<br> +Excess and overflow of power, an ’t might be,<br> +To dure ill-dealing fortune. Speed to him!<br> Store never hurts good governors. </p> <p class="drama"> -PIRITHOUS.<br/> -Though I know<br/> -His ocean needs not my poor drops, yet they<br/> -Must yield their tribute there. My precious maid,<br/> -Those best affections that the heavens infuse<br/> -In their best-tempered pieces keep enthroned<br/> +PIRITHOUS.<br> +Though I know<br> +His ocean needs not my poor drops, yet they<br> +Must yield their tribute there. My precious maid,<br> +Those best affections that the heavens infuse<br> +In their best-tempered pieces keep enthroned<br> In your dear heart! </p> <p class="drama"> -EMILIA.<br/> -Thanks, sir. Remember me<br/> -To our all-royal brother, for whose speed<br/> -The great Bellona I’ll solicit; and<br/> -Since in our terrene state petitions are not<br/> -Without gifts understood, I’ll offer to her<br/> -What I shall be advised she likes. Our hearts<br/> +EMILIA.<br> +Thanks, sir. Remember me<br> +To our all-royal brother, for whose speed<br> +The great Bellona I’ll solicit; and<br> +Since in our terrene state petitions are not<br> +Without gifts understood, I’ll offer to her<br> +What I shall be advised she likes. Our hearts<br> Are in his army, in his tent. </p> <p class="drama"> -HIPPOLYTA.<br/> -In ’s bosom.<br/> -We have been soldiers, and we cannot weep<br/> -When our friends don their helms, or put to sea,<br/> -Or tell of babes broached on the lance, or women<br/> -That have sod their infants in—and after eat them—<br/> -The brine they wept at killing ’em. Then if<br/> -You stay to see of us such spinsters, we<br/> +HIPPOLYTA.<br> +In ’s bosom.<br> +We have been soldiers, and we cannot weep<br> +When our friends don their helms, or put to sea,<br> +Or tell of babes broached on the lance, or women<br> +That have sod their infants in—and after eat them—<br> +The brine they wept at killing ’em. Then if<br> +You stay to see of us such spinsters, we<br> Should hold you here for ever. </p> <p class="drama"> -PIRITHOUS.<br/> -Peace be to you<br/> -As I pursue this war, which shall be then<br/> +PIRITHOUS.<br> +Peace be to you<br> +As I pursue this war, which shall be then<br> Beyond further requiring. </p> <p class="right">[<i>Exit <span class="charname">Pirithous</span>.</i>]</p> <p class="drama"> -EMILIA.<br/> -How his longing<br/> -Follows his friend! Since his depart, his sports,<br/> -Though craving seriousness and skill, passed slightly<br/> -His careless execution, where nor gain<br/> -Made him regard, or loss consider, but<br/> -Playing one business in his hand, another<br/> -Directing in his head, his mind nurse equal<br/> -To these so differing twins. Have you observed him<br/> +EMILIA.<br> +How his longing<br> +Follows his friend! Since his depart, his sports,<br> +Though craving seriousness and skill, passed slightly<br> +His careless execution, where nor gain<br> +Made him regard, or loss consider, but<br> +Playing one business in his hand, another<br> +Directing in his head, his mind nurse equal<br> +To these so differing twins. Have you observed him<br> Since our great lord departed? </p> <p class="drama"> -HIPPOLYTA.<br/> -With much labour,<br/> -And I did love him for ’t. They two have cabined<br/> -In many as dangerous as poor a corner,<br/> -Peril and want contending; they have skiffed<br/> -Torrents whose roaring tyranny and power<br/> -I’ th’ least of these was dreadful; and they have<br/> -Fought out together where Death’s self was lodged;<br/> -Yet fate hath brought them off. Their knot of love,<br/> -Tied, weaved, entangled, with so true, so long,<br/> -And with a finger of so deep a cunning,<br/> -May be outworn, never undone. I think<br/> -Theseus cannot be umpire to himself,<br/> -Cleaving his conscience into twain and doing<br/> +HIPPOLYTA.<br> +With much labour,<br> +And I did love him for ’t. They two have cabined<br> +In many as dangerous as poor a corner,<br> +Peril and want contending; they have skiffed<br> +Torrents whose roaring tyranny and power<br> +I’ th’ least of these was dreadful; and they have<br> +Fought out together where Death’s self was lodged;<br> +Yet fate hath brought them off. Their knot of love,<br> +Tied, weaved, entangled, with so true, so long,<br> +And with a finger of so deep a cunning,<br> +May be outworn, never undone. I think<br> +Theseus cannot be umpire to himself,<br> +Cleaving his conscience into twain and doing<br> Each side like justice, which he loves best. </p> <p class="drama"> -EMILIA.<br/> -Doubtless<br/> -There is a best, and reason has no manners<br/> -To say it is not you. I was acquainted<br/> -Once with a time when I enjoyed a playfellow;<br/> -You were at wars when she the grave enriched,<br/> -Who made too proud the bed, took leave o’ th’ moon<br/> -Which then looked pale at parting, when our count<br/> +EMILIA.<br> +Doubtless<br> +There is a best, and reason has no manners<br> +To say it is not you. I was acquainted<br> +Once with a time when I enjoyed a playfellow;<br> +You were at wars when she the grave enriched,<br> +Who made too proud the bed, took leave o’ th’ moon<br> +Which then looked pale at parting, when our count<br> Was each eleven. </p> <p class="drama"> -HIPPOLYTA.<br/> +HIPPOLYTA.<br> ’Twas Flavina. </p> <p class="drama"> -EMILIA.<br/> -Yes.<br/> -You talk of Pirithous’ and Theseus’ love.<br/> -Theirs has more ground, is more maturely seasoned,<br/> -More buckled with strong judgement, and their needs<br/> -The one of th’ other may be said to water<br/> -Their intertangled roots of love; but I,<br/> -And she I sigh and spoke of, were things innocent,<br/> -Loved for we did, and like the elements<br/> -That know not what nor why, yet do effect<br/> -Rare issues by their operance, our souls<br/> -Did so to one another. What she liked<br/> -Was then of me approved, what not, condemned,<br/> -No more arraignment. The flower that I would pluck<br/> -And put between my breasts, O, then but beginning<br/> -To swell about the blossom—she would long<br/> -Till she had such another, and commit it<br/> -To the like innocent cradle, where, phœnix-like,<br/> -They died in perfume. On my head no toy<br/> -But was her pattern; her affections—pretty,<br/> -Though haply her careless wear—I followed<br/> -For my most serious decking; had mine ear<br/> -Stol’n some new air, or at adventure hummed one<br/> -From musical coinage, why, it was a note<br/> -Whereon her spirits would sojourn—rather, dwell on,<br/> -And sing it in her slumbers. This rehearsal,<br/> -Which fury-innocent wots well, comes in<br/> -Like old importment’s bastard—has this end,<br/> -That the true love ’tween maid and maid may be<br/> +EMILIA.<br> +Yes.<br> +You talk of Pirithous’ and Theseus’ love.<br> +Theirs has more ground, is more maturely seasoned,<br> +More buckled with strong judgement, and their needs<br> +The one of th’ other may be said to water<br> +Their intertangled roots of love; but I,<br> +And she I sigh and spoke of, were things innocent,<br> +Loved for we did, and like the elements<br> +That know not what nor why, yet do effect<br> +Rare issues by their operance, our souls<br> +Did so to one another. What she liked<br> +Was then of me approved, what not, condemned,<br> +No more arraignment. The flower that I would pluck<br> +And put between my breasts, O, then but beginning<br> +To swell about the blossom—she would long<br> +Till she had such another, and commit it<br> +To the like innocent cradle, where, phœnix-like,<br> +They died in perfume. On my head no toy<br> +But was her pattern; her affections—pretty,<br> +Though haply her careless wear—I followed<br> +For my most serious decking; had mine ear<br> +Stol’n some new air, or at adventure hummed one<br> +From musical coinage, why, it was a note<br> +Whereon her spirits would sojourn—rather, dwell on,<br> +And sing it in her slumbers. This rehearsal,<br> +Which fury-innocent wots well, comes in<br> +Like old importment’s bastard—has this end,<br> +That the true love ’tween maid and maid may be<br> More than in sex individual. </p> <p class="drama"> -HIPPOLYTA.<br/> -You’re out of breath;<br/> -And this high-speeded pace is but to say<br/> -That you shall never, like the maid Flavina,<br/> +HIPPOLYTA.<br> +You’re out of breath;<br> +And this high-speeded pace is but to say<br> +That you shall never, like the maid Flavina,<br> Love any that’s called man. </p> <p class="drama"> -EMILIA.<br/> +EMILIA.<br> I am sure I shall not. </p> <p class="drama"> -HIPPOLYTA.<br/> -Now, alack, weak sister,<br/> -I must no more believe thee in this point—<br/> -Though in ’t I know thou dost believe thyself—<br/> -Than I will trust a sickly appetite,<br/> -That loathes even as it longs. But sure, my sister,<br/> -If I were ripe for your persuasion, you<br/> -Have said enough to shake me from the arm<br/> -Of the all-noble Theseus; for whose fortunes<br/> -I will now in and kneel, with great assurance<br/> -That we, more than his Pirithous, possess<br/> +HIPPOLYTA.<br> +Now, alack, weak sister,<br> +I must no more believe thee in this point—<br> +Though in ’t I know thou dost believe thyself—<br> +Than I will trust a sickly appetite,<br> +That loathes even as it longs. But sure, my sister,<br> +If I were ripe for your persuasion, you<br> +Have said enough to shake me from the arm<br> +Of the all-noble Theseus; for whose fortunes<br> +I will now in and kneel, with great assurance<br> +That we, more than his Pirithous, possess<br> The high throne in his heart. </p> <p class="drama"> -EMILIA.<br/> -I am not<br/> +EMILIA.<br> +I am not<br> Against your faith, yet I continue mine. </p> <p class="right">[<i>Exeunt.</i>]</p> -<h3><a name="sceneI_38.4"></a><b>SCENE IV. A field before Thebes.</b></h3> +<h3><a id="sceneI_38.4"></a><b>SCENE IV. A field before Thebes.</b></h3> <p class="scenedesc"> Cornets. A battle struck within; then a retreat. Flourish. Then enter, <span @@ -1267,33 +1246,33 @@ class="charname">Queens</span> meet him and fall on their faces before him. </p> <p class="drama"> -FIRST QUEEN.<br/> +FIRST QUEEN.<br> To thee no star be dark! </p> <p class="drama"> -SECOND QUEEN.<br/> -Both heaven and earth<br/> +SECOND QUEEN.<br> +Both heaven and earth<br> Friend thee for ever! </p> <p class="drama"> -THIRD QUEEN.<br/> -All the good that may<br/> +THIRD QUEEN.<br> +All the good that may<br> Be wished upon thy head, I cry “Amen” to ’t! </p> <p class="drama"> -THESEUS.<br/> -Th’ impartial gods, who from the mounted heavens<br/> -View us their mortal herd, behold who err<br/> -And, in their time, chastise. Go and find out<br/> -The bones of your dead lords and honour them<br/> -With treble ceremony, rather than a gap<br/> -Should be in their dear rites, we would supply ’t,<br/> -But those we will depute which shall invest<br/> -You in your dignities and even each thing<br/> -Our haste does leave imperfect. So, adieu,<br/> +THESEUS.<br> +Th’ impartial gods, who from the mounted heavens<br> +View us their mortal herd, behold who err<br> +And, in their time, chastise. Go and find out<br> +The bones of your dead lords and honour them<br> +With treble ceremony, rather than a gap<br> +Should be in their dear rites, we would supply ’t,<br> +But those we will depute which shall invest<br> +You in your dignities and even each thing<br> +Our haste does leave imperfect. So, adieu,<br> And heaven’s good eyes look on you. </p> @@ -1310,69 +1289,69 @@ What are those? </p> <p class="drama"> -HERALD.<br/> -Men of great quality, as may be judged<br/> -By their appointment. Some of Thebes have told ’s<br/> +HERALD.<br> +Men of great quality, as may be judged<br> +By their appointment. Some of Thebes have told ’s<br> They are sisters’ children, nephews to the King. </p> <p class="drama"> -THESEUS.<br/> -By th’ helm of Mars, I saw them in the war,<br/> -Like to a pair of lions, smeared with prey,<br/> -Make lanes in troops aghast. I fixed my note<br/> -Constantly on them, for they were a mark<br/> -Worth a god’s view. What prisoner was ’t that told me<br/> +THESEUS.<br> +By th’ helm of Mars, I saw them in the war,<br> +Like to a pair of lions, smeared with prey,<br> +Make lanes in troops aghast. I fixed my note<br> +Constantly on them, for they were a mark<br> +Worth a god’s view. What prisoner was ’t that told me<br> When I enquired their names? </p> <p class="drama"> -HERALD.<br/> +HERALD.<br> Wi’ leave, they’re called Arcite and Palamon. </p> <p class="drama"> -THESEUS.<br/> +THESEUS.<br> ’Tis right; those, those. They are not dead? </p> <p class="drama"> -HERALD.<br/> -Nor in a state of life. Had they been taken<br/> -When their last hurts were given, ’twas possible<br/> -They might have been recovered; yet they breathe<br/> +HERALD.<br> +Nor in a state of life. Had they been taken<br> +When their last hurts were given, ’twas possible<br> +They might have been recovered; yet they breathe<br> And have the name of men. </p> <p class="drama"> -THESEUS.<br/> -Then like men use ’em.<br/> -The very lees of such, millions of rates,<br/> -Exceed the wine of others. All our surgeons<br/> -Convent in their behoof; our richest balms,<br/> -Rather than niggard, waste. Their lives concern us<br/> -Much more than Thebes is worth. Rather than have ’em<br/> -Freed of this plight, and in their morning state,<br/> -Sound and at liberty, I would ’em dead;<br/> -But forty-thousandfold we had rather have ’em<br/> -Prisoners to us than death. Bear ’em speedily<br/> -From our kind air, to them unkind, and minister<br/> -What man to man may do, for our sake, more,<br/> -Since I have known frights, fury, friends’ behests,<br/> -Love’s provocations, zeal, a mistress’ task,<br/> -Desire of liberty, a fever, madness,<br/> -Hath set a mark which nature could not reach to<br/> -Without some imposition, sickness in will<br/> -O’er-wrestling strength in reason. For our love<br/> -And great Apollo’s mercy, all our best<br/> -Their best skill tender. Lead into the city,<br/> -Where, having bound things scattered, we will post<br/> +THESEUS.<br> +Then like men use ’em.<br> +The very lees of such, millions of rates,<br> +Exceed the wine of others. All our surgeons<br> +Convent in their behoof; our richest balms,<br> +Rather than niggard, waste. Their lives concern us<br> +Much more than Thebes is worth. Rather than have ’em<br> +Freed of this plight, and in their morning state,<br> +Sound and at liberty, I would ’em dead;<br> +But forty-thousandfold we had rather have ’em<br> +Prisoners to us than death. Bear ’em speedily<br> +From our kind air, to them unkind, and minister<br> +What man to man may do, for our sake, more,<br> +Since I have known frights, fury, friends’ behests,<br> +Love’s provocations, zeal, a mistress’ task,<br> +Desire of liberty, a fever, madness,<br> +Hath set a mark which nature could not reach to<br> +Without some imposition, sickness in will<br> +O’er-wrestling strength in reason. For our love<br> +And great Apollo’s mercy, all our best<br> +Their best skill tender. Lead into the city,<br> +Where, having bound things scattered, we will post<br> To Athens ’fore our army. </p> <p class="right">[<i>Flourish. Exeunt.</i>]</p> -<h3><a name="sceneI_38.5"></a><b>SCENE V. Another part of the same, more remote +<h3><a id="sceneI_38.5"></a><b>SCENE V. Another part of the same, more remote from Thebes</b></h3> <p class="scenedesc"> @@ -1385,41 +1364,41 @@ SONG. </p> <p class="drama"> -<i>Urns and odours bring away;<br/> -Vapours, sighs, darken the day;<br/> -Our dole more deadly looks than dying;<br/> -Balms and gums and heavy cheers,<br/> -Sacred vials filled with tears,<br/> +<i>Urns and odours bring away;<br> +Vapours, sighs, darken the day;<br> +Our dole more deadly looks than dying;<br> +Balms and gums and heavy cheers,<br> +Sacred vials filled with tears,<br> And clamours through the wild air flying.</i> </p> <p class="drama"> -<i>Come, all sad and solemn shows<br/> -That are quick-eyed Pleasure’s foes;<br/> -We convent naught else but woes.<br/> +<i>Come, all sad and solemn shows<br> +That are quick-eyed Pleasure’s foes;<br> +We convent naught else but woes.<br> We convent naught else but woes.</i> </p> <p class="drama"> -THIRD QUEEN.<br/> -This funeral path brings to your household’s grave.<br/> +THIRD QUEEN.<br> +This funeral path brings to your household’s grave.<br> Joy seize on you again; peace sleep with him. </p> <p class="drama"> -SECOND QUEEN.<br/> +SECOND QUEEN.<br> And this to yours. </p> <p class="drama"> -FIRST QUEEN.<br/> -Yours this way. Heavens lend<br/> +FIRST QUEEN.<br> +Yours this way. Heavens lend<br> A thousand differing ways to one sure end. </p> <p class="drama"> -THIRD QUEEN.<br/> -This world’s a city full of straying streets,<br/> +THIRD QUEEN.<br> +This world’s a city full of straying streets,<br> And death’s the market-place where each one meets. </p> @@ -1429,7 +1408,7 @@ And death’s the market-place where each one meets. <div class="chapter"> -<h2><a name="sceneII_38.1"></a><b>ACT II</b></h2> +<h2><a id="sceneII_38.1"></a><b>ACT II</b></h2> <h3><b>SCENE I. Athens. A garden, with a castle in the background</b></h3> @@ -1439,7 +1418,7 @@ Enter <span class="charname">Jailer</span> and </p> <p class="drama"> -JAILER.<br/> +JAILER.<br> I may depart with little while I live; something I may cast to you, not much. Alas, the prison I keep, though it be for great ones, yet they seldom come; before one salmon, you shall take a number of minnows. I am given out to be @@ -1449,13 +1428,13 @@ will assure upon my daughter at the day of my death. </p> <p class="drama"> -WOOER.<br/> +WOOER.<br> Sir, I demand no more than your own offer, and I will estate your daughter in what I have promised. </p> <p class="drama"> -JAILER.<br/> +JAILER.<br> Well, we will talk more of this when the solemnity is past. But have you a full promise of her? When that shall be seen, I tender my consent. </p> @@ -1465,12 +1444,12 @@ Enter the Jailer’s <span class="charname">Daughter,</span> carrying rushes. </p> <p class="drama"> -WOOER.<br/> +WOOER.<br> I have sir. Here she comes. </p> <p class="drama"> -JAILER.<br/> +JAILER.<br> Your friend and I have chanced to name you here, upon the old business. But no more of that now; so soon as the court hurry is over, we will have an end of it. I’ th’ meantime, look tenderly to the two prisoners. I can tell you they @@ -1478,7 +1457,7 @@ are princes. </p> <p class="drama"> -DAUGHTER.<br/> +DAUGHTER.<br> These strewings are for their chamber. ’Tis pity they are in prison, and ’twere pity they should be out. I do think they have patience to make any adversity ashamed. The prison itself is proud of ’em, and they have all the world in @@ -1486,23 +1465,23 @@ their chamber. </p> <p class="drama"> -JAILER.<br/> +JAILER.<br> They are famed to be a pair of absolute men. </p> <p class="drama"> -DAUGHTER.<br/> +DAUGHTER.<br> By my troth, I think fame but stammers ’em; they stand a grise above the reach of report. </p> <p class="drama"> -JAILER.<br/> +JAILER.<br> I heard them reported in the battle to be the only doers. </p> <p class="drama"> -DAUGHTER.<br/> +DAUGHTER.<br> Nay, most likely, for they are noble sufferers. I marvel how they would have looked had they been victors, that with such a constant nobility enforce a freedom out of bondage, making misery their mirth and affliction a toy to jest @@ -1510,12 +1489,12 @@ at. </p> <p class="drama"> -JAILER.<br/> +JAILER.<br> Do they so? </p> <p class="drama"> -DAUGHTER.<br/> +DAUGHTER.<br> It seems to me they have no more sense of their captivity than I of ruling Athens. They eat well, look merrily, discourse of many things, but nothing of their own restraint and disasters. Yet sometime a divided sigh, martyred as @@ -1525,12 +1504,12 @@ least a sigher to be comforted. </p> <p class="drama"> -WOOER.<br/> +WOOER.<br> I never saw ’em. </p> <p class="drama"> -JAILER.<br/> +JAILER.<br> The Duke himself came privately in the night, and so did they. </p> @@ -1545,25 +1524,25 @@ looks out. </p> <p class="drama"> -DAUGHTER.<br/> +DAUGHTER.<br> No, sir, no, that’s Palamon. Arcite is the lower of the twain; you may perceive a part of him. </p> <p class="drama"> -JAILER.<br/> +JAILER.<br> Go to, leave your pointing; they would not make us their object. Out of their sight. </p> <p class="drama"> -DAUGHTER.<br/> +DAUGHTER.<br> It is a holiday to look on them. Lord, the difference of men! </p> <p class="right">[<i>Exeunt.</i>]</p> -<h3><a name="sceneII_38.2"></a><b>SCENE II. The prison</b></h3> +<h3><a id="sceneII_38.2"></a><b>SCENE II. The prison</b></h3> <p class="scenedesc"> Enter <span class="charname">Palamon</span> and @@ -1571,201 +1550,201 @@ Enter <span class="charname">Palamon</span> and </p> <p class="drama"> -PALAMON.<br/> +PALAMON.<br> How do you, noble cousin? </p> <p class="drama"> -ARCITE.<br/> +ARCITE.<br> How do you, sir? </p> <p class="drama"> -PALAMON.<br/> -Why, strong enough to laugh at misery<br/> -And bear the chance of war; yet we are prisoners<br/> +PALAMON.<br> +Why, strong enough to laugh at misery<br> +And bear the chance of war; yet we are prisoners<br> I fear for ever, cousin. </p> <p class="drama"> -ARCITE.<br/> -I believe it,<br/> -And to that destiny have patiently<br/> +ARCITE.<br> +I believe it,<br> +And to that destiny have patiently<br> Laid up my hour to come. </p> <p class="drama"> -PALAMON.<br/> -O, cousin Arcite,<br/> -Where is Thebes now? Where is our noble country?<br/> -Where are our friends and kindreds? Never more<br/> -Must we behold those comforts, never see<br/> -The hardy youths strive for the games of honour,<br/> -Hung with the painted favours of their ladies,<br/> -Like tall ships under sail; then start amongst ’em,<br/> -And as an east wind leave ’em all behind us,<br/> -Like lazy clouds, whilst Palamon and Arcite,<br/> -Even in the wagging of a wanton leg,<br/> -Outstripped the people’s praises, won the garlands,<br/> -Ere they have time to wish ’em ours. O, never<br/> -Shall we two exercise, like twins of honour,<br/> -Our arms again, and feel our fiery horses<br/> -Like proud seas under us! Our good swords now—<br/> -Better the red-eyed god of war ne’er wore—<br/> -Ravished our sides, like age must run to rust<br/> -And deck the temples of those gods that hate us;<br/> -These hands shall never draw ’em out like lightning<br/> +PALAMON.<br> +O, cousin Arcite,<br> +Where is Thebes now? Where is our noble country?<br> +Where are our friends and kindreds? Never more<br> +Must we behold those comforts, never see<br> +The hardy youths strive for the games of honour,<br> +Hung with the painted favours of their ladies,<br> +Like tall ships under sail; then start amongst ’em,<br> +And as an east wind leave ’em all behind us,<br> +Like lazy clouds, whilst Palamon and Arcite,<br> +Even in the wagging of a wanton leg,<br> +Outstripped the people’s praises, won the garlands,<br> +Ere they have time to wish ’em ours. O, never<br> +Shall we two exercise, like twins of honour,<br> +Our arms again, and feel our fiery horses<br> +Like proud seas under us! Our good swords now—<br> +Better the red-eyed god of war ne’er wore—<br> +Ravished our sides, like age must run to rust<br> +And deck the temples of those gods that hate us;<br> +These hands shall never draw ’em out like lightning<br> To blast whole armies more. </p> <p class="drama"> -ARCITE.<br/> -No, Palamon,<br/> -Those hopes are prisoners with us. Here we are,<br/> -And here the graces of our youths must wither<br/> -Like a too-timely spring; here age must find us<br/> -And, which is heaviest, Palamon, unmarried.<br/> -The sweet embraces of a loving wife,<br/> -Loaden with kisses, armed with thousand Cupids,<br/> -Shall never clasp our necks; no issue know us,<br/> -No figures of ourselves shall we e’er see,<br/> -To glad our age, and like young eagles teach ’em<br/> -Boldly to gaze against bright arms and say<br/> -“Remember what your fathers were, and conquer!”<br/> -The fair-eyed maids shall weep our banishments<br/> -And in their songs curse ever-blinded Fortune<br/> -Till she for shame see what a wrong she has done<br/> -To youth and nature. This is all our world.<br/> -We shall know nothing here but one another,<br/> -Hear nothing but the clock that tells our woes.<br/> -The vine shall grow, but we shall never see it;<br/> -Summer shall come, and with her all delights,<br/> +ARCITE.<br> +No, Palamon,<br> +Those hopes are prisoners with us. Here we are,<br> +And here the graces of our youths must wither<br> +Like a too-timely spring; here age must find us<br> +And, which is heaviest, Palamon, unmarried.<br> +The sweet embraces of a loving wife,<br> +Loaden with kisses, armed with thousand Cupids,<br> +Shall never clasp our necks; no issue know us,<br> +No figures of ourselves shall we e’er see,<br> +To glad our age, and like young eagles teach ’em<br> +Boldly to gaze against bright arms and say<br> +“Remember what your fathers were, and conquer!”<br> +The fair-eyed maids shall weep our banishments<br> +And in their songs curse ever-blinded Fortune<br> +Till she for shame see what a wrong she has done<br> +To youth and nature. This is all our world.<br> +We shall know nothing here but one another,<br> +Hear nothing but the clock that tells our woes.<br> +The vine shall grow, but we shall never see it;<br> +Summer shall come, and with her all delights,<br> But dead-cold winter must inhabit here still. </p> <p class="drama"> -PALAMON.<br/> -’Tis too true, Arcite. To our Theban hounds<br/> -That shook the aged forest with their echoes<br/> -No more now must we hallow, no more shake<br/> -Our pointed javelins whilst the angry swine<br/> -Flies like a Parthian quiver from our rages,<br/> -Struck with our well-steeled darts. All valiant uses,<br/> -The food and nourishment of noble minds,<br/> -In us two here shall perish; we shall die,<br/> -Which is the curse of honour, lastly,<br/> +PALAMON.<br> +’Tis too true, Arcite. To our Theban hounds<br> +That shook the aged forest with their echoes<br> +No more now must we hallow, no more shake<br> +Our pointed javelins whilst the angry swine<br> +Flies like a Parthian quiver from our rages,<br> +Struck with our well-steeled darts. All valiant uses,<br> +The food and nourishment of noble minds,<br> +In us two here shall perish; we shall die,<br> +Which is the curse of honour, lastly,<br> Children of grief and ignorance. </p> <p class="drama"> -ARCITE.<br/> -Yet, cousin,<br/> -Even from the bottom of these miseries,<br/> -From all that fortune can inflict upon us,<br/> -I see two comforts rising, two mere blessings,<br/> -If the gods please: to hold here a brave patience,<br/> -And the enjoying of our griefs together.<br/> -Whilst Palamon is with me, let me perish<br/> +ARCITE.<br> +Yet, cousin,<br> +Even from the bottom of these miseries,<br> +From all that fortune can inflict upon us,<br> +I see two comforts rising, two mere blessings,<br> +If the gods please: to hold here a brave patience,<br> +And the enjoying of our griefs together.<br> +Whilst Palamon is with me, let me perish<br> If I think this our prison! </p> <p class="drama"> -PALAMON.<br/> -Certainly<br/> -’Tis a main goodness, cousin, that our fortunes<br/> -Were twined together; ’tis most true, two souls<br/> -Put in two noble bodies, let ’em suffer<br/> -The gall of hazard, so they grow together,<br/> -Will never sink; they must not, say they could.<br/> +PALAMON.<br> +Certainly<br> +’Tis a main goodness, cousin, that our fortunes<br> +Were twined together; ’tis most true, two souls<br> +Put in two noble bodies, let ’em suffer<br> +The gall of hazard, so they grow together,<br> +Will never sink; they must not, say they could.<br> A willing man dies sleeping and all’s done. </p> <p class="drama"> -ARCITE.<br/> -Shall we make worthy uses of this place<br/> +ARCITE.<br> +Shall we make worthy uses of this place<br> That all men hate so much? </p> <p class="drama"> -PALAMON.<br/> +PALAMON.<br> How, gentle cousin? </p> <p class="drama"> -ARCITE.<br/> -Let’s think this prison holy sanctuary,<br/> -To keep us from corruption of worse men.<br/> -We are young and yet desire the ways of honour;<br/> -That liberty and common conversation,<br/> -The poison of pure spirits, might like women,<br/> -Woo us to wander from. What worthy blessing<br/> -Can be but our imaginations<br/> -May make it ours? And here being thus together,<br/> -We are an endless mine to one another;<br/> -We are one another’s wife, ever begetting<br/> -New births of love; we are father, friends, acquaintance;<br/> -We are, in one another, families;<br/> -I am your heir, and you are mine. This place<br/> -Is our inheritance; no hard oppressor<br/> -Dare take this from us; here with a little patience<br/> -We shall live long and loving. No surfeits seek us;<br/> -The hand of war hurts none here, nor the seas<br/> -Swallow their youth. Were we at liberty,<br/> -A wife might part us lawfully, or business;<br/> -Quarrels consume us; envy of ill men<br/> -Crave our acquaintance. I might sicken, cousin,<br/> -Where you should never know it, and so perish<br/> -Without your noble hand to close mine eyes,<br/> -Or prayers to the gods. A thousand chances,<br/> +ARCITE.<br> +Let’s think this prison holy sanctuary,<br> +To keep us from corruption of worse men.<br> +We are young and yet desire the ways of honour;<br> +That liberty and common conversation,<br> +The poison of pure spirits, might like women,<br> +Woo us to wander from. What worthy blessing<br> +Can be but our imaginations<br> +May make it ours? And here being thus together,<br> +We are an endless mine to one another;<br> +We are one another’s wife, ever begetting<br> +New births of love; we are father, friends, acquaintance;<br> +We are, in one another, families;<br> +I am your heir, and you are mine. This place<br> +Is our inheritance; no hard oppressor<br> +Dare take this from us; here with a little patience<br> +We shall live long and loving. No surfeits seek us;<br> +The hand of war hurts none here, nor the seas<br> +Swallow their youth. Were we at liberty,<br> +A wife might part us lawfully, or business;<br> +Quarrels consume us; envy of ill men<br> +Crave our acquaintance. I might sicken, cousin,<br> +Where you should never know it, and so perish<br> +Without your noble hand to close mine eyes,<br> +Or prayers to the gods. A thousand chances,<br> Were we from hence, would sever us. </p> <p class="drama"> -PALAMON.<br/> -You have made me—<br/> -I thank you, cousin Arcite—almost wanton<br/> -With my captivity. What a misery<br/> -It is to live abroad and everywhere!<br/> -’Tis like a beast, methinks. I find the court here,<br/> -I am sure, a more content; and all those pleasures<br/> -That woo the wills of men to vanity<br/> -I see through now, and am sufficient<br/> -To tell the world ’tis but a gaudy shadow<br/> -That old Time as he passes by takes with him.<br/> -What had we been, old in the court of Creon,<br/> -Where sin is justice, lust and ignorance<br/> -The virtues of the great ones? Cousin Arcite,<br/> -Had not the loving gods found this place for us,<br/> -We had died as they do, ill old men, unwept,<br/> -And had their epitaphs, the people’s curses.<br/> +PALAMON.<br> +You have made me—<br> +I thank you, cousin Arcite—almost wanton<br> +With my captivity. What a misery<br> +It is to live abroad and everywhere!<br> +’Tis like a beast, methinks. I find the court here,<br> +I am sure, a more content; and all those pleasures<br> +That woo the wills of men to vanity<br> +I see through now, and am sufficient<br> +To tell the world ’tis but a gaudy shadow<br> +That old Time as he passes by takes with him.<br> +What had we been, old in the court of Creon,<br> +Where sin is justice, lust and ignorance<br> +The virtues of the great ones? Cousin Arcite,<br> +Had not the loving gods found this place for us,<br> +We had died as they do, ill old men, unwept,<br> +And had their epitaphs, the people’s curses.<br> Shall I say more? </p> <p class="drama"> -ARCITE.<br/> +ARCITE.<br> I would hear you still. </p> <p class="drama"> -PALAMON.<br/> -Ye shall.<br/> -Is there record of any two that loved<br/> +PALAMON.<br> +Ye shall.<br> +Is there record of any two that loved<br> Better than we do, Arcite? </p> <p class="drama"> -ARCITE.<br/> +ARCITE.<br> Sure, there cannot. </p> <p class="drama"> -PALAMON.<br/> -I do not think it possible our friendship<br/> +PALAMON.<br> +I do not think it possible our friendship<br> Should ever leave us. </p> <p class="drama"> -ARCITE.<br/> +ARCITE.<br> Till our deaths it cannot; </p> @@ -1775,201 +1754,201 @@ Enter <span class="charname">Emilia</span> and her </p> <p class="drama"> -And after death our spirits shall be led<br/> +And after death our spirits shall be led<br> To those that love eternally. Speak on, sir. </p> <p class="drama"> -EMILIA.<br/> -This garden has a world of pleasures in’t.<br/> +EMILIA.<br> +This garden has a world of pleasures in’t.<br> What flower is this? </p> <p class="drama"> -WOMAN.<br/> +WOMAN.<br> ’Tis called narcissus, madam. </p> <p class="drama"> -EMILIA.<br/> -That was a fair boy, certain, but a fool,<br/> +EMILIA.<br> +That was a fair boy, certain, but a fool,<br> To love himself. Were there not maids enough? </p> <p class="drama"> -ARCITE.<br/> +ARCITE.<br> Pray, forward. </p> <p class="drama"> -PALAMON.<br/> +PALAMON.<br> Yes. </p> <p class="drama"> -EMILIA.<br/> +EMILIA.<br> Or were they all hard-hearted? </p> <p class="drama"> -WOMAN.<br/> +WOMAN.<br> They could not be to one so fair. </p> <p class="drama"> -EMILIA.<br/> +EMILIA.<br> Thou wouldst not. </p> <p class="drama"> -WOMAN.<br/> +WOMAN.<br> I think I should not, madam. </p> <p class="drama"> -EMILIA.<br/> -That’s a good wench.<br/> +EMILIA.<br> +That’s a good wench.<br> But take heed to your kindness, though. </p> <p class="drama"> -WOMAN.<br/> +WOMAN.<br> Why, madam? </p> <p class="drama"> -EMILIA.<br/> +EMILIA.<br> Men are mad things. </p> <p class="drama"> -ARCITE.<br/> +ARCITE.<br> Will ye go forward, cousin? </p> <p class="drama"> -EMILIA.<br/> +EMILIA.<br> Canst not thou work such flowers in silk, wench? </p> <p class="drama"> -WOMAN.<br/> +WOMAN.<br> Yes. </p> <p class="drama"> -EMILIA.<br/> -I’ll have a gown full of ’em, and of these.<br/> -This is a pretty colour; will ’t not do<br/> +EMILIA.<br> +I’ll have a gown full of ’em, and of these.<br> +This is a pretty colour; will ’t not do<br> Rarely upon a skirt, wench? </p> <p class="drama"> -WOMAN.<br/> +WOMAN.<br> Dainty, madam. </p> <p class="drama"> -ARCITE.<br/> +ARCITE.<br> Cousin, cousin! How do you, sir? Why, Palamon! </p> <p class="drama"> -PALAMON.<br/> +PALAMON.<br> Never till now I was in prison, Arcite. </p> <p class="drama"> -ARCITE.<br/> +ARCITE.<br> Why, what’s the matter, man? </p> <p class="drama"> -PALAMON.<br/> -Behold, and wonder!<br/> +PALAMON.<br> +Behold, and wonder!<br> By heaven, she is a goddess. </p> <p class="drama"> -ARCITE.<br/> +ARCITE.<br> Ha! </p> <p class="drama"> -PALAMON.<br/> +PALAMON.<br> Do reverence. She is a goddess, Arcite. </p> <p class="drama"> -EMILIA.<br/> -Of all flowers,<br/> +EMILIA.<br> +Of all flowers,<br> Methinks a rose is best. </p> <p class="drama"> -WOMAN.<br/> +WOMAN.<br> Why, gentle madam? </p> <p class="drama"> -EMILIA.<br/> -It is the very emblem of a maid.<br/> -For when the west wind courts her gently,<br/> -How modestly she blows and paints the sun<br/> -With her chaste blushes! When the north comes near her,<br/> -Rude and impatient, then, like chastity,<br/> -She locks her beauties in her bud again,<br/> +EMILIA.<br> +It is the very emblem of a maid.<br> +For when the west wind courts her gently,<br> +How modestly she blows and paints the sun<br> +With her chaste blushes! When the north comes near her,<br> +Rude and impatient, then, like chastity,<br> +She locks her beauties in her bud again,<br> And leaves him to base briers. </p> <p class="drama"> -WOMAN.<br/> -Yet, good madam,<br/> -Sometimes her modesty will blow so far<br/> -She falls for ’t. A maid,<br/> -If she have any honour, would be loath<br/> +WOMAN.<br> +Yet, good madam,<br> +Sometimes her modesty will blow so far<br> +She falls for ’t. A maid,<br> +If she have any honour, would be loath<br> To take example by her. </p> <p class="drama"> -EMILIA.<br/> +EMILIA.<br> Thou art wanton. </p> <p class="drama"> -ARCITE.<br/> +ARCITE.<br> She is wondrous fair. </p> <p class="drama"> -PALAMON.<br/> +PALAMON.<br> She is all the beauty extant. </p> <p class="drama"> -EMILIA.<br/> -The sun grows high; let’s walk in. Keep these flowers.<br/> -We’ll see how near art can come near their colours.<br/> +EMILIA.<br> +The sun grows high; let’s walk in. Keep these flowers.<br> +We’ll see how near art can come near their colours.<br> I am wondrous merry-hearted. I could laugh now. </p> <p class="drama"> -WOMAN.<br/> +WOMAN.<br> I could lie down, I am sure. </p> <p class="drama"> -EMILIA.<br/> +EMILIA.<br> And take one with you? </p> <p class="drama"> -WOMAN.<br/> +WOMAN.<br> That’s as we bargain, madam. </p> <p class="drama"> -EMILIA.<br/> +EMILIA.<br> Well, agree then. </p> @@ -1979,231 +1958,231 @@ Well, agree then. </p> <p class="drama"> -PALAMON.<br/> +PALAMON.<br> What think you of this beauty? </p> <p class="drama"> -ARCITE.<br/> +ARCITE.<br> ’Tis a rare one. </p> <p class="drama"> -PALAMON.<br/> +PALAMON.<br> Is’t but a rare one? </p> <p class="drama"> -ARCITE.<br/> +ARCITE.<br> Yes, a matchless beauty. </p> <p class="drama"> -PALAMON.<br/> +PALAMON.<br> Might not a man well lose himself, and love her? </p> <p class="drama"> -ARCITE.<br/> -I cannot tell what you have done; I have,<br/> +ARCITE.<br> +I cannot tell what you have done; I have,<br> Beshrew mine eyes for’t! Now I feel my shackles. </p> <p class="drama"> -PALAMON.<br/> +PALAMON.<br> You love her, then? </p> <p class="drama"> -ARCITE.<br/> +ARCITE.<br> Who would not? </p> <p class="drama"> -PALAMON.<br/> +PALAMON.<br> And desire her? </p> <p class="drama"> -ARCITE.<br/> +ARCITE.<br> Before my liberty. </p> <p class="drama"> -PALAMON.<br/> +PALAMON.<br> I saw her first. </p> <p class="drama"> -ARCITE.<br/> +ARCITE.<br> That’s nothing. </p> <p class="drama"> -PALAMON.<br/> +PALAMON.<br> But it shall be. </p> <p class="drama"> -ARCITE.<br/> +ARCITE.<br> I saw her too. </p> <p class="drama"> -PALAMON.<br/> +PALAMON.<br> Yes, but you must not love her. </p> <p class="drama"> -ARCITE.<br/> -I will not, as you do, to worship her<br/> -As she is heavenly and a blessed goddess.<br/> -I love her as a woman, to enjoy her.<br/> +ARCITE.<br> +I will not, as you do, to worship her<br> +As she is heavenly and a blessed goddess.<br> +I love her as a woman, to enjoy her.<br> So both may love. </p> <p class="drama"> -PALAMON.<br/> +PALAMON.<br> You shall not love at all. </p> <p class="drama"> -ARCITE.<br/> +ARCITE.<br> Not love at all! Who shall deny me? </p> <p class="drama"> -PALAMON.<br/> -I, that first saw her; I that took possession<br/> -First with mine eye of all those beauties in her <br/> -Revealed to mankind. If thou lovest her,<br/> -Or entertain’st a hope to blast my wishes,<br/> -Thou art a traitor, Arcite, and a fellow<br/> -False as thy title to her. Friendship, blood,<br/> -And all the ties between us, I disclaim<br/> +PALAMON.<br> +I, that first saw her; I that took possession<br> +First with mine eye of all those beauties in her <br> +Revealed to mankind. If thou lovest her,<br> +Or entertain’st a hope to blast my wishes,<br> +Thou art a traitor, Arcite, and a fellow<br> +False as thy title to her. Friendship, blood,<br> +And all the ties between us, I disclaim<br> If thou once think upon her. </p> <p class="drama"> -ARCITE.<br/> -Yes, I love her;<br/> -And, if the lives of all my name lay on it,<br/> -I must do so; I love her with my soul.<br/> -If that will lose ye, farewell, Palamon.<br/> -I say again, I love, and in loving her maintain<br/> -I am as worthy and as free a lover<br/> -And have as just a title to her beauty,<br/> -As any Palamon, or any living<br/> +ARCITE.<br> +Yes, I love her;<br> +And, if the lives of all my name lay on it,<br> +I must do so; I love her with my soul.<br> +If that will lose ye, farewell, Palamon.<br> +I say again, I love, and in loving her maintain<br> +I am as worthy and as free a lover<br> +And have as just a title to her beauty,<br> +As any Palamon, or any living<br> That is a man’s son. </p> <p class="drama"> -PALAMON.<br/> +PALAMON.<br> Have I called thee friend? </p> <p class="drama"> -ARCITE.<br/> -Yes, and have found me so. Why are you moved thus?<br/> -Let me deal coldly with you: am not I<br/> -Part of your blood, part of your soul? You have told me<br/> +ARCITE.<br> +Yes, and have found me so. Why are you moved thus?<br> +Let me deal coldly with you: am not I<br> +Part of your blood, part of your soul? You have told me<br> That I was Palamon and you were Arcite. </p> <p class="drama"> -PALAMON.<br/> +PALAMON.<br> Yes. </p> <p class="drama"> -ARCITE.<br/> -Am not I liable to those affections,<br/> +ARCITE.<br> +Am not I liable to those affections,<br> Those joys, griefs, angers, fears, my friend shall suffer? </p> <p class="drama"> -PALAMON.<br/> +PALAMON.<br> Ye may be. </p> <p class="drama"> -ARCITE.<br/> -Why then would you deal so cunningly,<br/> -So strangely, so unlike a noble kinsman,<br/> -To love alone? Speak truly; do you think me<br/> +ARCITE.<br> +Why then would you deal so cunningly,<br> +So strangely, so unlike a noble kinsman,<br> +To love alone? Speak truly; do you think me<br> Unworthy of her sight? </p> <p class="drama"> -PALAMON.<br/> -No; but unjust,<br/> +PALAMON.<br> +No; but unjust,<br> If thou pursue that sight. </p> <p class="drama"> -ARCITE.<br/> -Because another<br/> -First sees the enemy, shall I stand still<br/> +ARCITE.<br> +Because another<br> +First sees the enemy, shall I stand still<br> And let mine honour down, and never charge? </p> <p class="drama"> -PALAMON.<br/> +PALAMON.<br> Yes, if he be but one. </p> <p class="drama"> -ARCITE.<br/> -But say that one<br/> +ARCITE.<br> +But say that one<br> Had rather combat me? </p> <p class="drama"> -PALAMON.<br/> -Let that one say so,<br/> -And use thy freedom. Else, if thou pursuest her,<br/> -Be as that cursed man that hates his country,<br/> +PALAMON.<br> +Let that one say so,<br> +And use thy freedom. Else, if thou pursuest her,<br> +Be as that cursed man that hates his country,<br> A branded villain. </p> <p class="drama"> -ARCITE.<br/> +ARCITE.<br> You are mad. </p> <p class="drama"> -PALAMON.<br/> -I must be,<br/> -Till thou art worthy, Arcite; it concerns me;<br/> -And in this madness, if I hazard thee<br/> +PALAMON.<br> +I must be,<br> +Till thou art worthy, Arcite; it concerns me;<br> +And in this madness, if I hazard thee<br> And take thy life, I deal but truely. </p> <p class="drama"> -ARCITE.<br/> -Fie, sir!<br/> -You play the child extremely. I will love her;<br/> -I must, I ought to do so, and I dare,<br/> +ARCITE.<br> +Fie, sir!<br> +You play the child extremely. I will love her;<br> +I must, I ought to do so, and I dare,<br> And all this justly. </p> <p class="drama"> -PALAMON.<br/> -O, that now, that now,<br/> -Thy false self and thy friend had but this fortune,<br/> -To be one hour at liberty, and grasp<br/> -Our good swords in our hands! I would quickly teach thee<br/> -What ’twere to filch affection from another!<br/> -Thou art baser in it than a cutpurse.<br/> -Put but thy head out of this window more<br/> +PALAMON.<br> +O, that now, that now,<br> +Thy false self and thy friend had but this fortune,<br> +To be one hour at liberty, and grasp<br> +Our good swords in our hands! I would quickly teach thee<br> +What ’twere to filch affection from another!<br> +Thou art baser in it than a cutpurse.<br> +Put but thy head out of this window more<br> And, as I have a soul, I’ll nail thy life to ’t. </p> <p class="drama"> -ARCITE.<br/> -Thou dar’st not, fool, thou canst not, thou art feeble.<br/> -Put my head out? I’ll throw my body out<br/> -And leap the garden, when I see her next<br/> +ARCITE.<br> +Thou dar’st not, fool, thou canst not, thou art feeble.<br> +Put my head out? I’ll throw my body out<br> +And leap the garden, when I see her next<br> And pitch between her arms, to anger thee. </p> @@ -2212,40 +2191,40 @@ Enter <span class="charname">Jailer</span>. </p> <p class="drama"> -PALAMON.<br/> -No more; the keeper’s coming. I shall live<br/> +PALAMON.<br> +No more; the keeper’s coming. I shall live<br> To knock thy brains out with my shackles. </p> <p class="drama"> -ARCITE.<br/> +ARCITE.<br> Do! </p> <p class="drama"> -JAILER.<br/> +JAILER.<br> By your leave, gentlemen. </p> <p class="drama"> -PALAMON.<br/> +PALAMON.<br> Now, honest keeper? </p> <p class="drama"> -JAILER.<br/> -Lord Arcite, you must presently to th’ Duke;<br/> +JAILER.<br> +Lord Arcite, you must presently to th’ Duke;<br> The cause I know not yet. </p> <p class="drama"> -ARCITE.<br/> +ARCITE.<br> I am ready, keeper. </p> <p class="drama"> -JAILER.<br/> -Prince Palamon, I must awhile bereave you<br/> +JAILER.<br> +Prince Palamon, I must awhile bereave you<br> Of your fair cousin’s company. </p> @@ -2255,25 +2234,25 @@ Of your fair cousin’s company. </p> <p class="drama"> -PALAMON.<br/> -And me too,<br/> -Even when you please, of life.—Why is he sent for?<br/> -It may be he shall marry her; he’s goodly,<br/> -And like enough the Duke hath taken notice<br/> -Both of his blood and body. But his falsehood!<br/> -Why should a friend be treacherous? If that<br/> -Get him a wife so noble and so fair,<br/> -Let honest men ne’er love again. Once more<br/> -I would but see this fair one. Blessed garden<br/> -And fruit and flowers more blessed that still blossom<br/> -As her bright eyes shine on ye! Would I were,<br/> -For all the fortune of my life hereafter,<br/> -Yon little tree, yon blooming apricock!<br/> -How I would spread and fling my wanton arms<br/> -In at her window! I would bring her fruit<br/> -Fit for the gods to feed on; youth and pleasure<br/> -Still as she tasted should be doubled on her;<br/> -And, if she be not heavenly, I would make her<br/> +PALAMON.<br> +And me too,<br> +Even when you please, of life.—Why is he sent for?<br> +It may be he shall marry her; he’s goodly,<br> +And like enough the Duke hath taken notice<br> +Both of his blood and body. But his falsehood!<br> +Why should a friend be treacherous? If that<br> +Get him a wife so noble and so fair,<br> +Let honest men ne’er love again. Once more<br> +I would but see this fair one. Blessed garden<br> +And fruit and flowers more blessed that still blossom<br> +As her bright eyes shine on ye! Would I were,<br> +For all the fortune of my life hereafter,<br> +Yon little tree, yon blooming apricock!<br> +How I would spread and fling my wanton arms<br> +In at her window! I would bring her fruit<br> +Fit for the gods to feed on; youth and pleasure<br> +Still as she tasted should be doubled on her;<br> +And, if she be not heavenly, I would make her<br> So near the gods in nature, they should fear her. </p> @@ -2282,123 +2261,123 @@ Enter <span class="charname">Jailer</span>. </p> <p class="drama"> -And then I am sure she would love me. How now, keeper?<br/> +And then I am sure she would love me. How now, keeper?<br> Where’s Arcite? </p> <p class="drama"> -JAILER.<br/> -Banished. Prince Pirithous<br/> -Obtained his liberty, but never more<br/> -Upon his oath and life must he set foot<br/> +JAILER.<br> +Banished. Prince Pirithous<br> +Obtained his liberty, but never more<br> +Upon his oath and life must he set foot<br> Upon this kingdom. </p> <p class="drama"> -PALAMON.<br/> -He’s a blessed man.<br/> -He shall see Thebes again, and call to arms<br/> -The bold young men that, when he bids ’em charge,<br/> -Fall on like fire. Arcite shall have a fortune,<br/> -If he dare make himself a worthy lover,<br/> -Yet in the field to strike a battle for her;<br/> -And, if he lose her then, he’s a cold coward.<br/> -How bravely may he bear himself to win her<br/> -If he be noble Arcite, thousand ways!<br/> -Were I at liberty, I would do things<br/> -Of such a virtuous greatness that this lady,<br/> -This blushing virgin, should take manhood to her<br/> +PALAMON.<br> +He’s a blessed man.<br> +He shall see Thebes again, and call to arms<br> +The bold young men that, when he bids ’em charge,<br> +Fall on like fire. Arcite shall have a fortune,<br> +If he dare make himself a worthy lover,<br> +Yet in the field to strike a battle for her;<br> +And, if he lose her then, he’s a cold coward.<br> +How bravely may he bear himself to win her<br> +If he be noble Arcite, thousand ways!<br> +Were I at liberty, I would do things<br> +Of such a virtuous greatness that this lady,<br> +This blushing virgin, should take manhood to her<br> And seek to ravish me. </p> <p class="drama"> -JAILER.<br/> -My lord for you<br/> +JAILER.<br> +My lord for you<br> I have this charge to— </p> <p class="drama"> -PALAMON.<br/> +PALAMON.<br> To discharge my life? </p> <p class="drama"> -JAILER.<br/> -No, but from this place to remove your lordship;<br/> +JAILER.<br> +No, but from this place to remove your lordship;<br> The windows are too open. </p> <p class="drama"> -PALAMON.<br/> -Devils take ’em,<br/> +PALAMON.<br> +Devils take ’em,<br> That are so envious to me! Prithee, kill me. </p> <p class="drama"> -JAILER.<br/> +JAILER.<br> And hang for’t afterward! </p> <p class="drama"> -PALAMON.<br/> -By this good light,<br/> +PALAMON.<br> +By this good light,<br> Had I a sword I would kill thee. </p> <p class="drama"> -JAILER.<br/> +JAILER.<br> Why, my Lord? </p> <p class="drama"> -PALAMON.<br/> -Thou bringst such pelting, scurvy news continually,<br/> +PALAMON.<br> +Thou bringst such pelting, scurvy news continually,<br> Thou art not worthy life. I will not go. </p> <p class="drama"> -JAILER.<br/> +JAILER.<br> Indeed, you must, my lord. </p> <p class="drama"> -PALAMON.<br/> +PALAMON.<br> May I see the garden? </p> <p class="drama"> -JAILER.<br/> +JAILER.<br> No. </p> <p class="drama"> -PALAMON.<br/> +PALAMON.<br> Then I am resolved, I will not go. </p> <p class="drama"> -JAILER.<br/> -I must constrain you then; and, for you are dangerous,<br/> +JAILER.<br> +I must constrain you then; and, for you are dangerous,<br> I’ll clap more irons on you. </p> <p class="drama"> -PALAMON.<br/> -Do, good keeper.<br/> -I’ll shake ’em so, ye shall not sleep;<br/> +PALAMON.<br> +Do, good keeper.<br> +I’ll shake ’em so, ye shall not sleep;<br> I’ll make you a new morris. Must I go? </p> <p class="drama"> -JAILER.<br/> +JAILER.<br> There is no remedy. </p> <p class="drama"> -PALAMON.<br/> -Farewell, kind window.<br/> -May rude wind never hurt thee!—O, my lady,<br/> -If ever thou hast felt what sorrow was,<br/> +PALAMON.<br> +Farewell, kind window.<br> +May rude wind never hurt thee!—O, my lady,<br> +If ever thou hast felt what sorrow was,<br> Dream how I suffer.—Come, now bury me. </p> @@ -2407,37 +2386,37 @@ Dream how I suffer.—Come, now bury me. <span class="charname">Jailer</span>.</i>] </p> -<h3><a name="sceneII_38.3"></a><b>SCENE III. The country near Athens</b></h3> +<h3><a id="sceneII_38.3"></a><b>SCENE III. The country near Athens</b></h3> <p class="scenedesc"> Enter <span class="charname">Arcite</span>. </p> <p class="drama"> -ARCITE.<br/> -Banished the kingdom? ’Tis a benefit,<br/> -A mercy I must thank ’em for; but banished<br/> -The free enjoying of that face I die for,<br/> -O, ’twas a studied punishment, a death<br/> -Beyond imagination, such a vengeance<br/> -That, were I old and wicked, all my sins<br/> -Could never pluck upon me. Palamon,<br/> -Thou hast the start now; thou shalt stay and see<br/> -Her bright eyes break each morning ’gainst thy window<br/> -And let in life into thee; thou shalt feed<br/> -Upon the sweetness of a noble beauty<br/> -That nature ne’er exceeded nor ne’er shall.<br/> -Good gods, what happiness has Palamon!<br/> -Twenty to one, he’ll come to speak to her;<br/> -And if she be as gentle as she’s fair,<br/> -I know she’s his; he has a tongue will tame<br/> -Tempests and make the wild rocks wanton.<br/> -Come what can come,<br/> -The worst is death; I will not leave the kingdom.<br/> -I know mine own is but a heap of ruins,<br/> -And no redress there. If I go, he has her.<br/> -I am resolved another shape shall make me<br/> -Or end my fortunes. Either way I am happy.<br/> +ARCITE.<br> +Banished the kingdom? ’Tis a benefit,<br> +A mercy I must thank ’em for; but banished<br> +The free enjoying of that face I die for,<br> +O, ’twas a studied punishment, a death<br> +Beyond imagination, such a vengeance<br> +That, were I old and wicked, all my sins<br> +Could never pluck upon me. Palamon,<br> +Thou hast the start now; thou shalt stay and see<br> +Her bright eyes break each morning ’gainst thy window<br> +And let in life into thee; thou shalt feed<br> +Upon the sweetness of a noble beauty<br> +That nature ne’er exceeded nor ne’er shall.<br> +Good gods, what happiness has Palamon!<br> +Twenty to one, he’ll come to speak to her;<br> +And if she be as gentle as she’s fair,<br> +I know she’s his; he has a tongue will tame<br> +Tempests and make the wild rocks wanton.<br> +Come what can come,<br> +The worst is death; I will not leave the kingdom.<br> +I know mine own is but a heap of ruins,<br> +And no redress there. If I go, he has her.<br> +I am resolved another shape shall make me<br> +Or end my fortunes. Either way I am happy.<br> I’ll see her and be near her, or no more. </p> @@ -2447,262 +2426,262 @@ before them. </p> <p class="drama"> -FIRST COUNTRYMAN.<br/> +FIRST COUNTRYMAN.<br> My masters, I’ll be there, that’s certain. </p> <p class="drama"> -SECOND COUNTRYMAN.<br/> +SECOND COUNTRYMAN.<br> And I’ll be there. </p> <p class="drama"> -THIRD COUNTRYMAN.<br/> +THIRD COUNTRYMAN.<br> And I. </p> <p class="drama"> -FOURTH COUNTRYMAN.<br/> -Why, then, have with you, boys. ’Tis but a chiding.<br/> -Let the plough play today; I’ll tickle ’t out<br/> +FOURTH COUNTRYMAN.<br> +Why, then, have with you, boys. ’Tis but a chiding.<br> +Let the plough play today; I’ll tickle ’t out<br> Of the jades’ tails tomorrow. </p> <p class="drama"> -FIRST COUNTRYMAN.<br/> -I am sure<br/> -To have my wife as jealous as a turkey,<br/> +FIRST COUNTRYMAN.<br> +I am sure<br> +To have my wife as jealous as a turkey,<br> But that’s all one. I’ll go through; let her mumble. </p> <p class="drama"> -SECOND COUNTRYMAN.<br/> -Clap her aboard tomorrow night, and stow her,<br/> +SECOND COUNTRYMAN.<br> +Clap her aboard tomorrow night, and stow her,<br> And all’s made up again. </p> <p class="drama"> -THIRD COUNTRYMAN.<br/> -Ay, do but put<br/> -A fescue in her fist and you shall see her<br/> -Take a new lesson out and be a good wench.<br/> +THIRD COUNTRYMAN.<br> +Ay, do but put<br> +A fescue in her fist and you shall see her<br> +Take a new lesson out and be a good wench.<br> Do we all hold against the Maying? </p> <p class="drama"> -FOURTH COUNTRYMAN.<br/> -Hold?<br/> +FOURTH COUNTRYMAN.<br> +Hold?<br> What should ail us? </p> <p class="drama"> -THIRD COUNTRYMAN.<br/> +THIRD COUNTRYMAN.<br> Arcas will be there. </p> <p class="drama"> -SECOND COUNTRYMAN.<br/> -And Sennois.<br/> -And Rycas; and three better lads ne’er danced<br/> -Under green tree. And ye know what wenches, ha?<br/> -But will the dainty domine, the schoolmaster,<br/> +SECOND COUNTRYMAN.<br> +And Sennois.<br> +And Rycas; and three better lads ne’er danced<br> +Under green tree. And ye know what wenches, ha?<br> +But will the dainty domine, the schoolmaster,<br> Keep touch, do you think? For he does all, ye know. </p> <p class="drama"> -THIRD COUNTRYMAN.<br/> -He’ll eat a hornbook ere he fail. Go to;<br/> -The matter’s too far driven between him<br/> -And the tanner’s daughter to let slip now;<br/> +THIRD COUNTRYMAN.<br> +He’ll eat a hornbook ere he fail. Go to;<br> +The matter’s too far driven between him<br> +And the tanner’s daughter to let slip now;<br> And she must see the Duke, and she must dance too. </p> <p class="drama"> -FOURTH COUNTRYMAN.<br/> +FOURTH COUNTRYMAN.<br> Shall we be lusty? </p> <p class="drama"> -SECOND COUNTRYMAN.<br/> -All the boys in Athens<br/> -Blow wind i’ th’ breech on ’s. And here I’ll be,<br/> -And there I’ll be, for our town, and here again,<br/> +SECOND COUNTRYMAN.<br> +All the boys in Athens<br> +Blow wind i’ th’ breech on ’s. And here I’ll be,<br> +And there I’ll be, for our town, and here again,<br> And there again. Ha, boys, hey for the weavers! </p> <p class="drama"> -FIRST COUNTRYMAN.<br/> +FIRST COUNTRYMAN.<br> This must be done i’ th’ woods. </p> <p class="drama"> -FOURTH COUNTRYMAN.<br/> +FOURTH COUNTRYMAN.<br> O, pardon me. </p> <p class="drama"> -SECOND COUNTRYMAN.<br/> -By any means; our thing of learning says so—<br/> -Where he himself will edify the Duke<br/> -Most parlously in our behalfs. He’s excellent i’ th’ woods;<br/> +SECOND COUNTRYMAN.<br> +By any means; our thing of learning says so—<br> +Where he himself will edify the Duke<br> +Most parlously in our behalfs. He’s excellent i’ th’ woods;<br> Bring him to th’ plains, his learning makes no cry. </p> <p class="drama"> -THIRD COUNTRYMAN.<br/> -We’ll see the sports, then every man to ’s tackle;<br/> -And, sweet companions, let’s rehearse, by any means,<br/> -Before the ladies see us, and do sweetly,<br/> +THIRD COUNTRYMAN.<br> +We’ll see the sports, then every man to ’s tackle;<br> +And, sweet companions, let’s rehearse, by any means,<br> +Before the ladies see us, and do sweetly,<br> And God knows what may come on ’t. </p> <p class="drama"> -FOURTH COUNTRYMAN.<br/> -Content; the sports once ended, we’ll perform.<br/> +FOURTH COUNTRYMAN.<br> +Content; the sports once ended, we’ll perform.<br> Away, boys, and hold. </p> <p class="drama"> -ARCITE.<br/> +ARCITE.<br> By your leaves, honest friends: pray you, whither go you? </p> <p class="drama"> -FOURTH COUNTRYMAN.<br/> +FOURTH COUNTRYMAN.<br> Whither? Why, what a question’s that? </p> <p class="drama"> -ARCITE.<br/> -Yes, ’tis a question<br/> +ARCITE.<br> +Yes, ’tis a question<br> To me that know not.</p> <p class="drama"> -THIRD COUNTRYMAN.<br/> +THIRD COUNTRYMAN.<br> To the games, my friend. </p> <p class="drama"> -SECOND COUNTRYMAN.<br/> +SECOND COUNTRYMAN.<br> Where were you bred, you know it not? </p> <p class="drama"> -ARCITE.<br/> -Not far, sir;<br/> +ARCITE.<br> +Not far, sir;<br> Are there such games today? </p> <p class="drama"> -FIRST COUNTRYMAN.<br/> -Yes, marry, are there,<br/> -And such as you never saw; the Duke himself<br/> +FIRST COUNTRYMAN.<br> +Yes, marry, are there,<br> +And such as you never saw; the Duke himself<br> Will be in person there. </p> <p class="drama"> -ARCITE.<br/> +ARCITE.<br> What pastimes are they? </p> <p class="drama"> -SECOND COUNTRYMAN.<br/> +SECOND COUNTRYMAN.<br> Wrestling, and running.—’Tis a pretty fellow. </p> <p class="drama"> -THIRD COUNTRYMAN.<br/> +THIRD COUNTRYMAN.<br> Thou wilt not go along? </p> <p class="drama"> -ARCITE.<br/> +ARCITE.<br> Not yet, sir. </p> <p class="drama"> -FOURTH COUNTRYMAN.<br/> -Well, sir,<br/> +FOURTH COUNTRYMAN.<br> +Well, sir,<br> Take your own time. Come, boys. </p> <p class="drama"> -FIRST COUNTRYMAN.<br/> -My mind misgives me,<br/> -This fellow has a vengeance trick o’ th’ hip;<br/> +FIRST COUNTRYMAN.<br> +My mind misgives me,<br> +This fellow has a vengeance trick o’ th’ hip;<br> Mark how his body’s made for ’t. </p> <p class="drama"> -SECOND COUNTRYMAN.<br/> -I’ll be hanged, though,<br/> -If he dare venture. Hang him, plum porridge!<br/> +SECOND COUNTRYMAN.<br> +I’ll be hanged, though,<br> +If he dare venture. Hang him, plum porridge!<br> He wrestle? He roast eggs! Come, let’s be gone, lads. </p> <p class="right">[<i>Exeunt <span class="charname">Countrymen</span>.</i>]</p> <p class="drama"> -ARCITE.<br/> -This is an offered opportunity<br/> -I durst not wish for. Well I could have wrestled—<br/> -The best men called it excellent—and run<br/> -Swifter than wind upon a field of corn,<br/> -Curling the wealthy ears, never flew. I’ll venture,<br/> -And in some poor disguise be there. Who knows<br/> -Whether my brows may not be girt with garlands,<br/> -And happiness prefer me to a place<br/> +ARCITE.<br> +This is an offered opportunity<br> +I durst not wish for. Well I could have wrestled—<br> +The best men called it excellent—and run<br> +Swifter than wind upon a field of corn,<br> +Curling the wealthy ears, never flew. I’ll venture,<br> +And in some poor disguise be there. Who knows<br> +Whether my brows may not be girt with garlands,<br> +And happiness prefer me to a place<br> Where I may ever dwell in sight of her? </p> <p class="right">[<i>Exit <span class="charname">Arcite</span>.</i>]</p> -<h3><a name="sceneII_38.4"></a><b>SCENE IV. Athens. A room in the prison</b></h3> +<h3><a id="sceneII_38.4"></a><b>SCENE IV. Athens. A room in the prison</b></h3> <p class="scenedesc"> Enter Jailer’s <span class="charname">Daughter</span> alone. </p> <p class="drama"> -DAUGHTER.<br/> -Why should I love this gentleman? ’Tis odds<br/> -He never will affect me. I am base,<br/> -My father the mean keeper of his prison,<br/> -And he a prince. To marry him is hopeless;<br/> -To be his whore is witless. Out upon ’t!<br/> -What pushes are we wenches driven to<br/> -When fifteen once has found us! First, I saw him;<br/> -I, seeing, thought he was a goodly man;<br/> -He has as much to please a woman in him,<br/> -If he please to bestow it so, as ever<br/> -These eyes yet looked on. Next, I pitied him,<br/> -And so would any young wench, o’ my conscience,<br/> -That ever dreamed, or vowed her maidenhead<br/> -To a young handsome man. Then I loved him,<br/> -Extremely loved him, infinitely loved him!<br/> -And yet he had a cousin, fair as he too,<br/> -But in my heart was Palamon, and there,<br/> -Lord, what a coil he keeps! To hear him<br/> -Sing in an evening, what a heaven it is!<br/> -And yet his songs are sad ones. Fairer spoken<br/> -Was never gentleman. When I come in<br/> -To bring him water in a morning, first<br/> -He bows his noble body, then salutes me thus:<br/> -“Fair, gentle maid, good morrow. May thy goodness<br/> -Get thee a happy husband.” Once he kissed me;<br/> -I loved my lips the better ten days after.<br/> -Would he would do so ev’ry day! He grieves much—<br/> -And me as much to see his misery.<br/> -What should I do to make him know I love him?<br/> -For I would fain enjoy him. Say I ventured<br/> -To set him free? What says the law then?<br/> -Thus much for law or kindred! I will do it;<br/> +DAUGHTER.<br> +Why should I love this gentleman? ’Tis odds<br> +He never will affect me. I am base,<br> +My father the mean keeper of his prison,<br> +And he a prince. To marry him is hopeless;<br> +To be his whore is witless. Out upon ’t!<br> +What pushes are we wenches driven to<br> +When fifteen once has found us! First, I saw him;<br> +I, seeing, thought he was a goodly man;<br> +He has as much to please a woman in him,<br> +If he please to bestow it so, as ever<br> +These eyes yet looked on. Next, I pitied him,<br> +And so would any young wench, o’ my conscience,<br> +That ever dreamed, or vowed her maidenhead<br> +To a young handsome man. Then I loved him,<br> +Extremely loved him, infinitely loved him!<br> +And yet he had a cousin, fair as he too,<br> +But in my heart was Palamon, and there,<br> +Lord, what a coil he keeps! To hear him<br> +Sing in an evening, what a heaven it is!<br> +And yet his songs are sad ones. Fairer spoken<br> +Was never gentleman. When I come in<br> +To bring him water in a morning, first<br> +He bows his noble body, then salutes me thus:<br> +“Fair, gentle maid, good morrow. May thy goodness<br> +Get thee a happy husband.” Once he kissed me;<br> +I loved my lips the better ten days after.<br> +Would he would do so ev’ry day! He grieves much—<br> +And me as much to see his misery.<br> +What should I do to make him know I love him?<br> +For I would fain enjoy him. Say I ventured<br> +To set him free? What says the law then?<br> +Thus much for law or kindred! I will do it;<br> And this night, or tomorrow, he shall love me. </p> <p class="right">[<i>Exit.</i>]</p> -<h3><a name="sceneII_38.5"></a><b>SCENE V. An open place in Athens</b></h3> +<h3><a id="sceneII_38.5"></a><b>SCENE V. An open place in Athens</b></h3> <p class="scenedesc"> A short flourish of cornets and shouts within. Enter <span @@ -2711,276 +2690,276 @@ disguise as a countryman, with a garland, Attendants, and others. </p> <p class="drama"> -THESEUS.<br/> -You have done worthily. I have not seen,<br/> -Since Hercules, a man of tougher sinews.<br/> -Whate’er you are, you run the best and wrestle,<br/> +THESEUS.<br> +You have done worthily. I have not seen,<br> +Since Hercules, a man of tougher sinews.<br> +Whate’er you are, you run the best and wrestle,<br> That these times can allow. </p> <p class="drama"> -ARCITE.<br/> +ARCITE.<br> I am proud to please you. </p> <p class="drama"> -THESEUS.<br/> +THESEUS.<br> What country bred you? </p> <p class="drama"> -ARCITE.<br/> +ARCITE.<br> This; but far off, Prince. </p> <p class="drama"> -THESEUS.<br/> +THESEUS.<br> Are you a gentleman? </p> <p class="drama"> -ARCITE.<br/> -My father said so;<br/> +ARCITE.<br> +My father said so;<br> And to those gentle uses gave me life. </p> <p class="drama"> -THESEUS.<br/> +THESEUS.<br> Are you his heir? </p> <p class="drama"> -ARCITE.<br/> +ARCITE.<br> His youngest, sir. </p> <p class="drama"> -THESEUS.<br/> -Your father<br/> +THESEUS.<br> +Your father<br> Sure is a happy sire then. What profess you? </p> <p class="drama"> -ARCITE.<br/> -A little of all noble qualities.<br/> -I could have kept a hawk and well have hallowed<br/> -To a deep cry of dogs. I dare not praise<br/> -My feat in horsemanship, yet they that knew me<br/> -Would say it was my best piece; last, and greatest,<br/> +ARCITE.<br> +A little of all noble qualities.<br> +I could have kept a hawk and well have hallowed<br> +To a deep cry of dogs. I dare not praise<br> +My feat in horsemanship, yet they that knew me<br> +Would say it was my best piece; last, and greatest,<br> I would be thought a soldier. </p> <p class="drama"> -THESEUS.<br/> +THESEUS.<br> You are perfect. </p> <p class="drama"> -PIRITHOUS.<br/> +PIRITHOUS.<br> Upon my soul, a proper man. </p> <p class="drama"> -EMILIA.<br/> +EMILIA.<br> He is so. </p> <p class="drama"> -PIRITHOUS.<br/> +PIRITHOUS.<br> How do you like him, lady? </p> <p class="drama"> -HIPPOLYTA.<br/> -I admire him.<br/> -I have not seen so young a man so noble,<br/> +HIPPOLYTA.<br> +I admire him.<br> +I have not seen so young a man so noble,<br> If he say true, of his sort. </p> <p class="drama"> -EMILIA.<br/> -Believe,<br/> -His mother was a wondrous handsome woman;<br/> +EMILIA.<br> +Believe,<br> +His mother was a wondrous handsome woman;<br> His face, methinks, goes that way. </p> <p class="drama"> -HIPPOLYTA.<br/> -But his body<br/> +HIPPOLYTA.<br> +But his body<br> And fiery mind illustrate a brave father. </p> <p class="drama"> -PIRITHOUS.<br/> -Mark how his virtue, like a hidden sun,<br/> +PIRITHOUS.<br> +Mark how his virtue, like a hidden sun,<br> Breaks through his baser garments. </p> <p class="drama"> -HIPPOLYTA.<br/> +HIPPOLYTA.<br> He’s well got, sure. </p> <p class="drama"> -THESEUS.<br/> +THESEUS.<br> What made you seek this place, sir? </p> <p class="drama"> -ARCITE.<br/> -Noble Theseus,<br/> -To purchase name and do my ablest service<br/> -To such a well-found wonder as thy worth;<br/> -For only in thy court, of all the world,<br/> +ARCITE.<br> +Noble Theseus,<br> +To purchase name and do my ablest service<br> +To such a well-found wonder as thy worth;<br> +For only in thy court, of all the world,<br> Dwells fair-eyed Honour. </p> <p class="drama"> -PIRITHOUS.<br/> +PIRITHOUS.<br> All his words are worthy. </p> <p class="drama"> -THESEUS.<br/> -Sir, we are much indebted to your travel,<br/> -Nor shall you lose your wish.—Pirithous,<br/> +THESEUS.<br> +Sir, we are much indebted to your travel,<br> +Nor shall you lose your wish.—Pirithous,<br> Dispose of this fair gentleman. </p> <p class="drama"> -PIRITHOUS.<br/> -Thanks, Theseus.<br/> -Whate’er you are, you’re mine, and I shall give you<br/> -To a most noble service: to this lady,<br/> -This bright young virgin; pray, observe her goodness.<br/> -You have honoured her fair birthday with your virtues,<br/> +PIRITHOUS.<br> +Thanks, Theseus.<br> +Whate’er you are, you’re mine, and I shall give you<br> +To a most noble service: to this lady,<br> +This bright young virgin; pray, observe her goodness.<br> +You have honoured her fair birthday with your virtues,<br> And, as your due, you’re hers; kiss her fair hand, sir. </p> <p class="drama"> -ARCITE.<br/> -Sir, you’re a noble giver.—Dearest beauty,<br/> +ARCITE.<br> +Sir, you’re a noble giver.—Dearest beauty,<br> Thus let me seal my vowed faith. </p> <p class="right">[<i>He kisses her hand.</i>]</p> <p class="drama"> -When your servant,<br/> -Your most unworthy creature, but offends you,<br/> +When your servant,<br> +Your most unworthy creature, but offends you,<br> Command him die, he shall. </p> <p class="drama"> -EMILIA.<br/> -That were too cruel.<br/> -If you deserve well, sir, I shall soon see ’t.<br/> -You’re mine, and somewhat better than your rank<br/> +EMILIA.<br> +That were too cruel.<br> +If you deserve well, sir, I shall soon see ’t.<br> +You’re mine, and somewhat better than your rank<br> I’ll use you. </p> <p class="drama"> -PIRITHOUS.<br/> -I’ll see you furnished, and because you say<br/> -You are a horseman, I must needs entreat you<br/> +PIRITHOUS.<br> +I’ll see you furnished, and because you say<br> +You are a horseman, I must needs entreat you<br> This afternoon to ride, but ’tis a rough one. </p> <p class="drama"> -ARCITE.<br/> -I like him better, Prince; I shall not then<br/> +ARCITE.<br> +I like him better, Prince; I shall not then<br> Freeze in my saddle. </p> <p class="drama"> -THESEUS.<br/> -Sweet, you must be ready,—<br/> -And you, Emilia,—and you, friend,—and all,<br/> -Tomorrow by the sun, to do observance<br/> -To flowery May, in Dian’s wood.—Wait well, sir,<br/> -Upon your mistress.—Emily, I hope<br/> +THESEUS.<br> +Sweet, you must be ready,—<br> +And you, Emilia,—and you, friend,—and all,<br> +Tomorrow by the sun, to do observance<br> +To flowery May, in Dian’s wood.—Wait well, sir,<br> +Upon your mistress.—Emily, I hope<br> He shall not go afoot. </p> <p class="drama"> -EMILIA.<br/> -That were a shame, sir,<br/> -While I have horses.—Take your choice, and what<br/> -You want at any time, let me but know it.<br/> -If you serve faithfully, I dare assure you<br/> +EMILIA.<br> +That were a shame, sir,<br> +While I have horses.—Take your choice, and what<br> +You want at any time, let me but know it.<br> +If you serve faithfully, I dare assure you<br> You’ll find a loving mistress. </p> <p class="drama"> -ARCITE.<br/> -If I do not,<br/> -Let me find that my father ever hated,<br/> +ARCITE.<br> +If I do not,<br> +Let me find that my father ever hated,<br> Disgrace and blows. </p> <p class="drama"> -THESEUS.<br/> -Go lead the way; you have won it.<br/> -It shall be so; you shall receive all dues<br/> -Fit for the honour you have won; ’twere wrong else.<br/> -Sister, beshrew my heart, you have a servant,<br/> -That, if I were a woman, would be master.<br/> +THESEUS.<br> +Go lead the way; you have won it.<br> +It shall be so; you shall receive all dues<br> +Fit for the honour you have won; ’twere wrong else.<br> +Sister, beshrew my heart, you have a servant,<br> +That, if I were a woman, would be master.<br> But you are wise. </p> <p class="drama"> -EMILIA.<br/> +EMILIA.<br> I hope too wise for that, sir. </p> <p class="right">[<i>Flourish. Exeunt.</i>]</p> -<h3><a name="sceneII_38.6"></a><b>SCENE VI. Athens. Before the prison</b></h3> +<h3><a id="sceneII_38.6"></a><b>SCENE VI. Athens. Before the prison</b></h3> <p class="scenedesc"> Enter Jailer’s <span class="charname">Daughter</span> alone. </p> <p class="drama"> -DAUGHTER.<br/> -Let all the dukes and all the devils roar,<br/> -He is at liberty! I have ventured for him<br/> -And out I have brought him; to a little wood<br/> -A mile hence I have sent him, where a cedar<br/> -Higher than all the rest spreads like a plane<br/> -Fast by a brook, and there he shall keep close<br/> -Till I provide him files and food, for yet<br/> -His iron bracelets are not off. O Love,<br/> -What a stout-hearted child thou art! My father<br/> -Durst better have endured cold iron than done it.<br/> -I love him beyond love and beyond reason,<br/> -Or wit, or safety. I have made him know it;<br/> -I care not, I am desperate. If the law<br/> -Find me and then condemn me for ’t, some wenches,<br/> -Some honest-hearted maids, will sing my dirge<br/> -And tell to memory my death was noble,<br/> -Dying almost a martyr. That way he takes,<br/> -I purpose is my way too. Sure he cannot<br/> -Be so unmanly as to leave me here.<br/> -If he do, maids will not so easily<br/> -Trust men again. And yet he has not thanked me<br/> -For what I have done; no, not so much as kissed me,<br/> -And that, methinks, is not so well; nor scarcely<br/> -Could I persuade him to become a free man,<br/> -He made such scruples of the wrong he did<br/> -To me and to my father. Yet I hope,<br/> -When he considers more, this love of mine<br/> -Will take more root within him. Let him do<br/> -What he will with me, so he use me kindly;<br/> -For use me so he shall, or I’ll proclaim him,<br/> -And to his face, no man. I’ll presently<br/> -Provide him necessaries and pack my clothes up,<br/> -And where there is a path of ground I’ll venture,<br/> -So he be with me. By him, like a shadow<br/> -I’ll ever dwell. Within this hour the hubbub<br/> -Will be all o’er the prison. I am then<br/> -Kissing the man they look for. Farewell, father!<br/> -Get many more such prisoners and such daughters,<br/> +DAUGHTER.<br> +Let all the dukes and all the devils roar,<br> +He is at liberty! I have ventured for him<br> +And out I have brought him; to a little wood<br> +A mile hence I have sent him, where a cedar<br> +Higher than all the rest spreads like a plane<br> +Fast by a brook, and there he shall keep close<br> +Till I provide him files and food, for yet<br> +His iron bracelets are not off. O Love,<br> +What a stout-hearted child thou art! My father<br> +Durst better have endured cold iron than done it.<br> +I love him beyond love and beyond reason,<br> +Or wit, or safety. I have made him know it;<br> +I care not, I am desperate. If the law<br> +Find me and then condemn me for ’t, some wenches,<br> +Some honest-hearted maids, will sing my dirge<br> +And tell to memory my death was noble,<br> +Dying almost a martyr. That way he takes,<br> +I purpose is my way too. Sure he cannot<br> +Be so unmanly as to leave me here.<br> +If he do, maids will not so easily<br> +Trust men again. And yet he has not thanked me<br> +For what I have done; no, not so much as kissed me,<br> +And that, methinks, is not so well; nor scarcely<br> +Could I persuade him to become a free man,<br> +He made such scruples of the wrong he did<br> +To me and to my father. Yet I hope,<br> +When he considers more, this love of mine<br> +Will take more root within him. Let him do<br> +What he will with me, so he use me kindly;<br> +For use me so he shall, or I’ll proclaim him,<br> +And to his face, no man. I’ll presently<br> +Provide him necessaries and pack my clothes up,<br> +And where there is a path of ground I’ll venture,<br> +So he be with me. By him, like a shadow<br> +I’ll ever dwell. Within this hour the hubbub<br> +Will be all o’er the prison. I am then<br> +Kissing the man they look for. Farewell, father!<br> +Get many more such prisoners and such daughters,<br> And shortly you may keep yourself. Now to him. </p> @@ -2990,7 +2969,7 @@ And shortly you may keep yourself. Now to him. <div class="chapter"> -<h2><a name="sceneIII_38.1"></a><b>ACT III</b></h2> +<h2><a id="sceneIII_38.1"></a><b>ACT III</b></h2> <h3><b>SCENE I. A forest near Athens</b></h3> @@ -3000,36 +2979,36 @@ class="charname">Arcite</span> alone. </p> <p class="drama"> -ARCITE.<br/> -The Duke has lost Hippolyta; each took<br/> -A several land. This is a solemn rite<br/> -They owe bloomed May, and the Athenians pay it<br/> -To th’ heart of ceremony. O Queen Emilia,<br/> -Fresher than May, sweeter<br/> -Than her gold buttons on the boughs, or all<br/> -Th’ enameled knacks o’ th’ mead or garden—yea,<br/> -We challenge too the bank of any nymph<br/> -That makes the stream seem flowers; thou, O jewel<br/> -O’ th’ wood, o’ th’ world, hast likewise blessed a pace<br/> -With thy sole presence. In thy rumination<br/> -That I, poor man, might eftsoons come between<br/> -And chop on some cold thought! Thrice blessed chance<br/> -To drop on such a mistress, expectation<br/> -Most guiltless on ’t. Tell me, O Lady Fortune,<br/> -Next after Emily my sovereign, how far<br/> -I may be proud. She takes strong note of me,<br/> -Hath made me near her, and this beauteous morn,<br/> -The prim’st of all the year, presents me with<br/> -A brace of horses; two such steeds might well<br/> -Be by a pair of kings backed, in a field<br/> -That their crowns’ titles tried. Alas, alas,<br/> -Poor cousin Palamon, poor prisoner, thou<br/> -So little dream’st upon my fortune that<br/> -Thou think’st thyself the happier thing, to be<br/> -So near Emilia; me thou deem’st at Thebes,<br/> -And therein wretched, although free. But if<br/> -Thou knew’st my mistress breathed on me, and that<br/> -I eared her language, lived in her eye, O coz,<br/> +ARCITE.<br> +The Duke has lost Hippolyta; each took<br> +A several land. This is a solemn rite<br> +They owe bloomed May, and the Athenians pay it<br> +To th’ heart of ceremony. O Queen Emilia,<br> +Fresher than May, sweeter<br> +Than her gold buttons on the boughs, or all<br> +Th’ enameled knacks o’ th’ mead or garden—yea,<br> +We challenge too the bank of any nymph<br> +That makes the stream seem flowers; thou, O jewel<br> +O’ th’ wood, o’ th’ world, hast likewise blessed a pace<br> +With thy sole presence. In thy rumination<br> +That I, poor man, might eftsoons come between<br> +And chop on some cold thought! Thrice blessed chance<br> +To drop on such a mistress, expectation<br> +Most guiltless on ’t. Tell me, O Lady Fortune,<br> +Next after Emily my sovereign, how far<br> +I may be proud. She takes strong note of me,<br> +Hath made me near her, and this beauteous morn,<br> +The prim’st of all the year, presents me with<br> +A brace of horses; two such steeds might well<br> +Be by a pair of kings backed, in a field<br> +That their crowns’ titles tried. Alas, alas,<br> +Poor cousin Palamon, poor prisoner, thou<br> +So little dream’st upon my fortune that<br> +Thou think’st thyself the happier thing, to be<br> +So near Emilia; me thou deem’st at Thebes,<br> +And therein wretched, although free. But if<br> +Thou knew’st my mistress breathed on me, and that<br> +I eared her language, lived in her eye, O coz,<br> What passion would enclose thee! </p> @@ -3039,279 +3018,279 @@ he bends his fist at <span class="charname">Arcite</span>. </p> <p class="drama"> -PALAMON.<br/> -Traitor kinsman,<br/> -Thou shouldst perceive my passion, if these signs<br/> -Of prisonment were off me, and this hand<br/> -But owner of a sword. By all oaths in one,<br/> -I and the justice of my love would make thee<br/> -A confessed traitor! O thou most perfidious<br/> -That ever gently looked, the void’st of honour<br/> -That e’er bore gentle token, falsest cousin<br/> -That ever blood made kin! Call’st thou her thine?<br/> -I’ll prove it in my shackles, with these hands,<br/> -Void of appointment, that thou liest, and art<br/> -A very thief in love, a chaffy lord,<br/> -Nor worth the name of villain. Had I a sword,<br/> +PALAMON.<br> +Traitor kinsman,<br> +Thou shouldst perceive my passion, if these signs<br> +Of prisonment were off me, and this hand<br> +But owner of a sword. By all oaths in one,<br> +I and the justice of my love would make thee<br> +A confessed traitor! O thou most perfidious<br> +That ever gently looked, the void’st of honour<br> +That e’er bore gentle token, falsest cousin<br> +That ever blood made kin! Call’st thou her thine?<br> +I’ll prove it in my shackles, with these hands,<br> +Void of appointment, that thou liest, and art<br> +A very thief in love, a chaffy lord,<br> +Nor worth the name of villain. Had I a sword,<br> And these house-clogs away— </p> <p class="drama"> -ARCITE.<br/> +ARCITE.<br> Dear cousin Palamon— </p> <p class="drama"> -PALAMON.<br/> -Cozener Arcite, give me language such<br/> +PALAMON.<br> +Cozener Arcite, give me language such<br> As thou hast showed me feat. </p> <p class="drama"> -ARCITE.<br/> -Not finding in<br/> -The circuit of my breast any gross stuff<br/> -To form me like your blazon holds me to<br/> -This gentleness of answer. ’Tis your passion<br/> -That thus mistakes, the which, to you being enemy,<br/> -Cannot to me be kind. Honour and honesty<br/> -I cherish and depend on, howsoe’er<br/> -You skip them in me, and with them, fair coz,<br/> -I’ll maintain my proceedings. Pray be pleased<br/> -To show in generous terms your griefs, since that<br/> -Your question’s with your equal, who professes<br/> -To clear his own way with the mind and sword<br/> +ARCITE.<br> +Not finding in<br> +The circuit of my breast any gross stuff<br> +To form me like your blazon holds me to<br> +This gentleness of answer. ’Tis your passion<br> +That thus mistakes, the which, to you being enemy,<br> +Cannot to me be kind. Honour and honesty<br> +I cherish and depend on, howsoe’er<br> +You skip them in me, and with them, fair coz,<br> +I’ll maintain my proceedings. Pray be pleased<br> +To show in generous terms your griefs, since that<br> +Your question’s with your equal, who professes<br> +To clear his own way with the mind and sword<br> Of a true gentleman. </p> <p class="drama"> -PALAMON.<br/> +PALAMON.<br> That thou durst, Arcite! </p> <p class="drama"> -ARCITE.<br/> -My coz, my coz, you have been well advertised<br/> -How much I dare; you’ve seen me use my sword<br/> -Against th’ advice of fear. Sure, of another<br/> -You would not hear me doubted, but your silence<br/> +ARCITE.<br> +My coz, my coz, you have been well advertised<br> +How much I dare; you’ve seen me use my sword<br> +Against th’ advice of fear. Sure, of another<br> +You would not hear me doubted, but your silence<br> Should break out, though i’ th’ sanctuary. </p> <p class="drama"> -PALAMON.<br/> -Sir,<br/> -I have seen you move in such a place, which well<br/> -Might justify your manhood; you were called<br/> -A good knight and a bold. But the whole week’s not fair<br/> -If any day it rain. Their valiant temper<br/> -Men lose when they incline to treachery;<br/> -And then they fight like compelled bears, would fly<br/> +PALAMON.<br> +Sir,<br> +I have seen you move in such a place, which well<br> +Might justify your manhood; you were called<br> +A good knight and a bold. But the whole week’s not fair<br> +If any day it rain. Their valiant temper<br> +Men lose when they incline to treachery;<br> +And then they fight like compelled bears, would fly<br> Were they not tied. </p> <p class="drama"> -ARCITE.<br/> -Kinsman, you might as well<br/> -Speak this and act it in your glass as to<br/> +ARCITE.<br> +Kinsman, you might as well<br> +Speak this and act it in your glass as to<br> His ear which now disdains you. </p> <p class="drama"> -PALAMON.<br/> -Come up to me;<br/> -Quit me of these cold gyves, give me a sword<br/> -Though it be rusty, and the charity<br/> -Of one meal lend me. Come before me then,<br/> -A good sword in thy hand, and do but say<br/> -That Emily is thine, I will forgive<br/> -The trespass thou hast done me, yea, my life,<br/> -If then thou carry ’t; and brave souls in shades<br/> -That have died manly, which will seek of me<br/> -Some news from earth, they shall get none but this:<br/> +PALAMON.<br> +Come up to me;<br> +Quit me of these cold gyves, give me a sword<br> +Though it be rusty, and the charity<br> +Of one meal lend me. Come before me then,<br> +A good sword in thy hand, and do but say<br> +That Emily is thine, I will forgive<br> +The trespass thou hast done me, yea, my life,<br> +If then thou carry ’t; and brave souls in shades<br> +That have died manly, which will seek of me<br> +Some news from earth, they shall get none but this:<br> That thou art brave and noble. </p> <p class="drama"> -ARCITE.<br/> -Be content.<br/> -Again betake you to your hawthorn house.<br/> -With counsel of the night, I will be here<br/> -With wholesome viands. These impediments<br/> -Will I file off; you shall have garments and<br/> -Perfumes to kill the smell o’ th’ prison. After,<br/> -When you shall stretch yourself and say but “Arcite,<br/> -I am in plight,” there shall be at your choice<br/> +ARCITE.<br> +Be content.<br> +Again betake you to your hawthorn house.<br> +With counsel of the night, I will be here<br> +With wholesome viands. These impediments<br> +Will I file off; you shall have garments and<br> +Perfumes to kill the smell o’ th’ prison. After,<br> +When you shall stretch yourself and say but “Arcite,<br> +I am in plight,” there shall be at your choice<br> Both sword and armour. </p> <p class="drama"> -PALAMON.<br/> -Oh you heavens, dares any<br/> -So noble bear a guilty business? None<br/> -But only Arcite, therefore none but Arcite<br/> +PALAMON.<br> +Oh you heavens, dares any<br> +So noble bear a guilty business? None<br> +But only Arcite, therefore none but Arcite<br> In this kind is so bold. </p> <p class="drama"> -ARCITE.<br/> +ARCITE.<br> Sweet Palamon. </p> <p class="drama"> -PALAMON.<br/> -I do embrace you and your offer; for<br/> -Your offer do ’t I only, sir; your person,<br/> -Without hypocrisy I may not wish<br/> +PALAMON.<br> +I do embrace you and your offer; for<br> +Your offer do ’t I only, sir; your person,<br> +Without hypocrisy I may not wish<br> More than my sword’s edge on ’t. </p> <p class="right">[<i>Wind horns of cornets.</i>]</p> <p class="drama"> -ARCITE.<br/> -You hear the horns.<br/> -Enter your musit, lest this match between ’s<br/> -Be crossed ere met. Give me your hand; farewell.<br/> -I’ll bring you every needful thing. I pray you,<br/> +ARCITE.<br> +You hear the horns.<br> +Enter your musit, lest this match between ’s<br> +Be crossed ere met. Give me your hand; farewell.<br> +I’ll bring you every needful thing. I pray you,<br> Take comfort and be strong. </p> <p class="drama"> -PALAMON.<br/> -Pray hold your promise,<br/> -And do the deed with a bent brow. Most certain<br/> -You love me not; be rough with me, and pour<br/> -This oil out of your language. By this air,<br/> -I could for each word give a cuff, my stomach<br/> +PALAMON.<br> +Pray hold your promise,<br> +And do the deed with a bent brow. Most certain<br> +You love me not; be rough with me, and pour<br> +This oil out of your language. By this air,<br> +I could for each word give a cuff, my stomach<br> Not reconciled by reason. </p> <p class="drama"> -ARCITE.<br/> -Plainly spoken.<br/> -Yet pardon me hard language. When I spur<br/> -My horse, I chide him not; content and anger<br/> +ARCITE.<br> +Plainly spoken.<br> +Yet pardon me hard language. When I spur<br> +My horse, I chide him not; content and anger<br> In me have but one face. </p> <p class="right">[<i>Wind horns.</i>]</p> <p class="drama"> -Hark, sir, they call<br/> -The scattered to the banquet. You must guess<br/> +Hark, sir, they call<br> +The scattered to the banquet. You must guess<br> I have an office there. </p> <p class="drama"> -PALAMON.<br/> -Sir, your attendance<br/> -Cannot please heaven, and I know your office<br/> +PALAMON.<br> +Sir, your attendance<br> +Cannot please heaven, and I know your office<br> Unjustly is achieved. </p> <p class="drama"> -ARCITE.<br/> -’Tis a good title.<br/> -I am persuaded, this question, sick between ’s,<br/> -By bleeding must be cured. I am a suitor<br/> -That to your sword you will bequeath this plea,<br/> +ARCITE.<br> +’Tis a good title.<br> +I am persuaded, this question, sick between ’s,<br> +By bleeding must be cured. I am a suitor<br> +That to your sword you will bequeath this plea,<br> And talk of it no more. </p> <p class="drama"> -PALAMON.<br/> -But this one word:<br/> -You are going now to gaze upon my mistress,<br/> +PALAMON.<br> +But this one word:<br> +You are going now to gaze upon my mistress,<br> For, note you, mine she is— </p> <p class="drama"> -ARCITE.<br/> +ARCITE.<br> Nay, then— </p> <p class="drama"> -PALAMON.<br/> -Nay, pray you,<br/> -You talk of feeding me to breed me strength.<br/> -You are going now to look upon a sun<br/> -That strengthens what it looks on; there<br/> -You have a vantage o’er me. But enjoy ’t till<br/> +PALAMON.<br> +Nay, pray you,<br> +You talk of feeding me to breed me strength.<br> +You are going now to look upon a sun<br> +That strengthens what it looks on; there<br> +You have a vantage o’er me. But enjoy ’t till<br> I may enforce my remedy. Farewell. </p> <p class="right">[<i>Exeunt.</i>]</p> -<h3><a name="sceneIII_38.2"></a><b>SCENE II. Another Part of the forest</b></h3> +<h3><a id="sceneIII_38.2"></a><b>SCENE II. Another Part of the forest</b></h3> <p class="scenedesc"> Enter Jailer’s <span class="charname">Daughter</span> alone. </p> <p class="drama"> -DAUGHTER.<br/> -He has mistook the brake I meant, is gone<br/> -After his fancy. ’Tis now well-nigh morning.<br/> -No matter; would it were perpetual night,<br/> -And darkness lord o’ th’ world. Hark, ’tis a wolf!<br/> -In me hath grief slain fear, and but for one thing,<br/> -I care for nothing, and that’s Palamon.<br/> -I reck not if the wolves would jaw me, so<br/> -He had this file. What if I hallowed for him?<br/> -I cannot hallow. If I whooped, what then?<br/> -If he not answered, I should call a wolf,<br/> -And do him but that service. I have heard<br/> -Strange howls this livelong night; why may ’t not be<br/> -They have made prey of him? He has no weapons;<br/> -He cannot run; the jingling of his gyves<br/> -Might call fell things to listen, who have in them<br/> -A sense to know a man unarmed and can<br/> -Smell where resistance is. I’ll set it down<br/> -He’s torn to pieces; they howled many together,<br/> -And then they fed on him. So much for that.<br/> -Be bold to ring the bell. How stand I then?<br/> -All’s chared when he is gone. No, no, I lie.<br/> -My father’s to be hanged for his escape;<br/> -Myself to beg, if I prized life so much<br/> -As to deny my act; but that I would not,<br/> -Should I try death by dozens. I am moped.<br/> -Food took I none these two days;<br/> -Sipped some water. I have not closed mine eyes<br/> -Save when my lids scoured off their brine. Alas,<br/> -Dissolve, my life! Let not my sense unsettle,<br/> -Lest I should drown, or stab, or hang myself.<br/> -O state of nature, fail together in me,<br/> -Since thy best props are warped! So, which way now?<br/> -The best way is the next way to a grave;<br/> -Each errant step beside is torment. Lo,<br/> -The moon is down, the crickets chirp, the screech owl<br/> -Calls in the dawn. All offices are done<br/> -Save what I fail in. But the point is this:<br/> +DAUGHTER.<br> +He has mistook the brake I meant, is gone<br> +After his fancy. ’Tis now well-nigh morning.<br> +No matter; would it were perpetual night,<br> +And darkness lord o’ th’ world. Hark, ’tis a wolf!<br> +In me hath grief slain fear, and but for one thing,<br> +I care for nothing, and that’s Palamon.<br> +I reck not if the wolves would jaw me, so<br> +He had this file. What if I hallowed for him?<br> +I cannot hallow. If I whooped, what then?<br> +If he not answered, I should call a wolf,<br> +And do him but that service. I have heard<br> +Strange howls this livelong night; why may ’t not be<br> +They have made prey of him? He has no weapons;<br> +He cannot run; the jingling of his gyves<br> +Might call fell things to listen, who have in them<br> +A sense to know a man unarmed and can<br> +Smell where resistance is. I’ll set it down<br> +He’s torn to pieces; they howled many together,<br> +And then they fed on him. So much for that.<br> +Be bold to ring the bell. How stand I then?<br> +All’s chared when he is gone. No, no, I lie.<br> +My father’s to be hanged for his escape;<br> +Myself to beg, if I prized life so much<br> +As to deny my act; but that I would not,<br> +Should I try death by dozens. I am moped.<br> +Food took I none these two days;<br> +Sipped some water. I have not closed mine eyes<br> +Save when my lids scoured off their brine. Alas,<br> +Dissolve, my life! Let not my sense unsettle,<br> +Lest I should drown, or stab, or hang myself.<br> +O state of nature, fail together in me,<br> +Since thy best props are warped! So, which way now?<br> +The best way is the next way to a grave;<br> +Each errant step beside is torment. Lo,<br> +The moon is down, the crickets chirp, the screech owl<br> +Calls in the dawn. All offices are done<br> +Save what I fail in. But the point is this:<br> An end, and that is all. </p> <p class="right">[<i>Exit.</i>]</p> -<h3><a name="sceneIII_38.3"></a><b>SCENE III. The same part of the forest as in scene I.</b></h3> +<h3><a id="sceneIII_38.3"></a><b>SCENE III. The same part of the forest as in scene I.</b></h3> <p class="scenedesc"> Enter <span class="charname">Arcite</span> with meat, wine and files. </p> <p class="drama"> -ARCITE.<br/> +ARCITE.<br> I should be near the place.—Ho! Cousin Palamon! </p> <p class="drama"> -PALAMON.<br/> +PALAMON.<br> [<i>From the bush.</i>] Arcite? </p> <p class="drama"> -ARCITE.<br/> -The same. I have brought you food and files.<br/> +ARCITE.<br> +The same. I have brought you food and files.<br> Come forth and fear not; here’s no Theseus. </p> @@ -3320,299 +3299,299 @@ Enter <span class="charname">Palamon</span>. </p> <p class="drama"> -PALAMON.<br/> +PALAMON.<br> Nor none so honest, Arcite. </p> <p class="drama"> -ARCITE.<br/> -That’s no matter.<br/> -We’ll argue that hereafter. Come, take courage;<br/> -You shall not die thus beastly. Here, sir, drink—<br/> +ARCITE.<br> +That’s no matter.<br> +We’ll argue that hereafter. Come, take courage;<br> +You shall not die thus beastly. Here, sir, drink—<br> I know you are faint—then I’ll talk further with you. </p> <p class="drama"> -PALAMON.<br/> +PALAMON.<br> Arcite, thou mightst now poison me. </p> <p class="drama"> -ARCITE.<br/> -I might;<br/> -But I must fear you first. Sit down and, good now,<br/> -No more of these vain parleys; let us not,<br/> -Having our ancient reputation with us,<br/> +ARCITE.<br> +I might;<br> +But I must fear you first. Sit down and, good now,<br> +No more of these vain parleys; let us not,<br> +Having our ancient reputation with us,<br> Make talk for fools and cowards. To your health. </p> <p class="right">[<i>Drinks.</i>]</p> <p class="drama"> -PALAMON.<br/> +PALAMON.<br> Do. </p> <p class="drama"> -ARCITE.<br/> -Pray sit down, then, and let me entreat you,<br/> -By all the honesty and honour in you,<br/> -No mention of this woman; ’twill disturb us.<br/> +ARCITE.<br> +Pray sit down, then, and let me entreat you,<br> +By all the honesty and honour in you,<br> +No mention of this woman; ’twill disturb us.<br> We shall have time enough. </p> <p class="drama"> -PALAMON.<br/> +PALAMON.<br> Well, sir, I’ll pledge you. </p> <p class="right">[<i>Drinks.</i>]</p> <p class="drama"> -ARCITE.<br/> -Drink a good hearty draught; it breeds good blood, man.<br/> +ARCITE.<br> +Drink a good hearty draught; it breeds good blood, man.<br> Do not you feel it thaw you? </p> <p class="drama"> -PALAMON.<br/> -Stay, I’ll tell you<br/> +PALAMON.<br> +Stay, I’ll tell you<br> After a draught or two more. </p> <p class="drama"> -ARCITE.<br/> +ARCITE.<br> Spare it not; the Duke has more, coz. Eat now. </p> <p class="drama"> -PALAMON.<br/> +PALAMON.<br> Yes. </p> <p class="right">[<i>Eats.</i>]</p> <p class="drama"> -ARCITE.<br/> +ARCITE.<br> I am glad you have so good a stomach. </p> <p class="drama"> -PALAMON.<br/> +PALAMON.<br> I am gladder I have so good meat to ’t. </p> <p class="drama"> -ARCITE.<br/> -Is’t not mad lodging,<br/> +ARCITE.<br> +Is’t not mad lodging,<br> Here in the wild woods, cousin? </p> <p class="drama"> -PALAMON.<br/> -Yes, for them<br/> +PALAMON.<br> +Yes, for them<br> That have wild consciences. </p> <p class="drama"> -ARCITE.<br/> -How tastes your victuals?<br/> +ARCITE.<br> +How tastes your victuals?<br> Your hunger needs no sauce, I see. </p> <p class="drama"> -PALAMON.<br/> -Not much.<br/> -But if it did, yours is too tart, sweet cousin.<br/> +PALAMON.<br> +Not much.<br> +But if it did, yours is too tart, sweet cousin.<br> What is this? </p> <p class="drama"> -ARCITE.<br/> +ARCITE.<br> Venison. </p> <p class="drama"> -PALAMON.<br/> -’Tis a lusty meat.<br/> -Give me more wine. Here, Arcite, to the wenches<br/> -We have known in our days! The Lord Steward’s daughter,<br/> +PALAMON.<br> +’Tis a lusty meat.<br> +Give me more wine. Here, Arcite, to the wenches<br> +We have known in our days! The Lord Steward’s daughter,<br> Do you remember her? </p> <p class="drama"> -ARCITE.<br/> +ARCITE.<br> After you, coz. </p> <p class="drama"> -PALAMON.<br/> +PALAMON.<br> She loved a black-haired man. </p> <p class="drama"> -ARCITE.<br/> +ARCITE.<br> She did so; well, sir? </p> <p class="drama"> -PALAMON.<br/> +PALAMON.<br> And I have heard some call him Arcite, and— </p> <p class="drama"> -ARCITE.<br/> +ARCITE.<br> Out with’t, faith. </p> <p class="drama"> -PALAMON.<br/> -She met him in an arbour.<br/> +PALAMON.<br> +She met him in an arbour.<br> What did she there, coz? Play o’ th’ virginals? </p> <p class="drama"> -ARCITE.<br/> +ARCITE.<br> Something she did, sir. </p> <p class="drama"> -PALAMON.<br/> -Made her groan a month for ’t,<br/> +PALAMON.<br> +Made her groan a month for ’t,<br> Or two, or three, or ten. </p> <p class="drama"> -ARCITE.<br/> -The Marshal’s sister<br/> -Had her share too, as I remember, cousin,<br/> +ARCITE.<br> +The Marshal’s sister<br> +Had her share too, as I remember, cousin,<br> Else there be tales abroad. You’ll pledge her? </p> <p class="drama"> -PALAMON.<br/> +PALAMON.<br> Yes. </p> <p class="drama"> -ARCITE.<br/> -A pretty brown wench ’tis. There was a time<br/> -When young men went a-hunting, and a wood,<br/> -And a broad beech; and thereby hangs a tale.<br/> +ARCITE.<br> +A pretty brown wench ’tis. There was a time<br> +When young men went a-hunting, and a wood,<br> +And a broad beech; and thereby hangs a tale.<br> Heigh ho! </p> <p class="drama"> -PALAMON.<br/> -For Emily, upon my life! Fool,<br/> -Away with this strained mirth! I say again<br/> -That sigh was breathed for Emily. Base cousin,<br/> +PALAMON.<br> +For Emily, upon my life! Fool,<br> +Away with this strained mirth! I say again<br> +That sigh was breathed for Emily. Base cousin,<br> Dar’st thou break first? </p> <p class="drama"> -ARCITE.<br/> +ARCITE.<br> You are wide. </p> <p class="drama"> -PALAMON.<br/> -By heaven and earth,<br/> +PALAMON.<br> +By heaven and earth,<br> There’s nothing in thee honest. </p> <p class="drama"> -ARCITE.<br/> -Then I’ll leave you.<br/> +ARCITE.<br> +Then I’ll leave you.<br> You are a beast now. </p> <p class="drama"> -PALAMON.<br/> +PALAMON.<br> As thou mak’st me, traitor. </p> <p class="drama"> -ARCITE.<br/> -There’s all things needful: files and shirts and perfumes.<br/> -I’ll come again some two hours hence, and bring<br/> +ARCITE.<br> +There’s all things needful: files and shirts and perfumes.<br> +I’ll come again some two hours hence, and bring<br> That that shall quiet all. </p> <p class="drama"> -PALAMON.<br/> +PALAMON.<br> A sword and armour? </p> <p class="drama"> -ARCITE.<br/> -Fear me not. You are now too foul. Farewell.<br/> +ARCITE.<br> +Fear me not. You are now too foul. Farewell.<br> Get off your trinkets; you shall want naught. </p> <p class="drama"> -PALAMON.<br/> +PALAMON.<br> Sirrah— </p> <p class="drama"> -ARCITE.<br/> +ARCITE.<br> I’ll hear no more. </p> <p class="right">[<i>Exit.</i>]</p> <p class="drama"> -PALAMON.<br/> +PALAMON.<br> If he keep touch, he dies for ’t. </p> <p class="right">[<i>Exit.</i>]</p> -<h3><a name="sceneIII_38.4"></a><b>SCENE IV. Another part of the forest</b></h3> +<h3><a id="sceneIII_38.4"></a><b>SCENE IV. Another part of the forest</b></h3> <p class="scenedesc"> Enter Jailer’s <span class="charname">Daughter</span>. </p> <p class="drama"> -DAUGHTER.<br/> -I am very cold, and all the stars are out too,<br/> -The little stars and all, that look like aglets.<br/> -The sun has seen my folly. Palamon!<br/> -Alas, no; he’s in heaven. Where am I now?<br/> -Yonder’s the sea, and there’s a ship; how ’t tumbles!<br/> -And there’s a rock lies watching under water;<br/> -Now, now, it beats upon it; now, now, now,<br/> -There’s a leak sprung, a sound one! How they cry!<br/> -Run her before the wind, you’ll lose all else.<br/> -Up with a course or two, and tack about, boys!<br/> -Good night, good night; you’re gone. I am very hungry.<br/> -Would I could find a fine frog; he would tell me<br/> -News from all parts o’ th’ world; then would I make<br/> -A carrack of a cockle shell, and sail<br/> -By east and north-east to the king of pygmies,<br/> -For he tells fortunes rarely. Now my father,<br/> -Twenty to one, is trussed up in a trice<br/> +DAUGHTER.<br> +I am very cold, and all the stars are out too,<br> +The little stars and all, that look like aglets.<br> +The sun has seen my folly. Palamon!<br> +Alas, no; he’s in heaven. Where am I now?<br> +Yonder’s the sea, and there’s a ship; how ’t tumbles!<br> +And there’s a rock lies watching under water;<br> +Now, now, it beats upon it; now, now, now,<br> +There’s a leak sprung, a sound one! How they cry!<br> +Run her before the wind, you’ll lose all else.<br> +Up with a course or two, and tack about, boys!<br> +Good night, good night; you’re gone. I am very hungry.<br> +Would I could find a fine frog; he would tell me<br> +News from all parts o’ th’ world; then would I make<br> +A carrack of a cockle shell, and sail<br> +By east and north-east to the king of pygmies,<br> +For he tells fortunes rarely. Now my father,<br> +Twenty to one, is trussed up in a trice<br> Tomorrow morning. I’ll say never a word. </p> <p class="right">[<i>Sings.</i>]</p> <p class="drama"> -<i>For I’ll cut my green coat a foot above my knee,<br/> -And I’ll clip my yellow locks an inch below mine eye.<br/> -Hey nonny, nonny, nonny.<br/> -He’s buy me a white cut, forth for to ride,<br/> -And I’ll go seek him through the world that is so wide.<br/> -Hey nonny, nonny, nonny.</i><br/> -O, for a prick now, like a nightingale,<br/> +<i>For I’ll cut my green coat a foot above my knee,<br> +And I’ll clip my yellow locks an inch below mine eye.<br> +Hey nonny, nonny, nonny.<br> +He’s buy me a white cut, forth for to ride,<br> +And I’ll go seek him through the world that is so wide.<br> +Hey nonny, nonny, nonny.</i><br> +O, for a prick now, like a nightingale,<br> To put my breast against. I shall sleep like a top else. </p> <p class="right">[<i>Exit.</i>]</p> -<h3><a name="sceneIII_38.5"></a><b>SCENE V. Another part of the forest</b></h3> +<h3><a id="sceneIII_38.5"></a><b>SCENE V. Another part of the forest</b></h3> <p class="scenedesc"> Enter a <span class="charname">Schoolmaster</span> and five @@ -3620,53 +3599,53 @@ Enter a <span class="charname">Schoolmaster</span> and five </p> <p class="drama"> -SCHOOLMASTER.<br/> -Fie, fie,<br/> -What tediosity and disinsanity<br/> -Is here among ye! Have my rudiments<br/> -Been laboured so long with ye, milked unto ye,<br/> -And, by a figure, even the very plum-broth<br/> -And marrow of my understanding laid upon ye,<br/> -And do you still cry “Where?” and “How?” and “Wherefore?”<br/> -You most coarse-frieze capacities, ye jean judgements,<br/> -Have I said “Thus let be” and “There let be”<br/> -And “Then let be” and no man understand me?<br/> -<i>Proh Deum, medius fidius</i>, ye are all dunces!<br/> -For why?<br/> -Here stand I; here the Duke comes; there are you,<br/> -Close in the thicket; the Duke appears; I meet him<br/> -And unto him I utter learned things<br/> -And many figures; he hears, and nods, and hums,<br/> -And then cries “Rare!” and I go forward. At length<br/> -I fling my cap up—mark there! Then do you<br/> -As once did Meleager and the boar,<br/> -Break comely out before him; like true lovers,<br/> -Cast yourselves in a body decently,<br/> +SCHOOLMASTER.<br> +Fie, fie,<br> +What tediosity and disinsanity<br> +Is here among ye! Have my rudiments<br> +Been laboured so long with ye, milked unto ye,<br> +And, by a figure, even the very plum-broth<br> +And marrow of my understanding laid upon ye,<br> +And do you still cry “Where?” and “How?” and “Wherefore?”<br> +You most coarse-frieze capacities, ye jean judgements,<br> +Have I said “Thus let be” and “There let be”<br> +And “Then let be” and no man understand me?<br> +<i>Proh Deum, medius fidius</i>, ye are all dunces!<br> +For why?<br> +Here stand I; here the Duke comes; there are you,<br> +Close in the thicket; the Duke appears; I meet him<br> +And unto him I utter learned things<br> +And many figures; he hears, and nods, and hums,<br> +And then cries “Rare!” and I go forward. At length<br> +I fling my cap up—mark there! Then do you<br> +As once did Meleager and the boar,<br> +Break comely out before him; like true lovers,<br> +Cast yourselves in a body decently,<br> And sweetly, by a figure, trace and turn, boys. </p> <p class="drama"> -FIRST COUNTRYMAN.<br/> +FIRST COUNTRYMAN.<br> And sweetly we will do it, Master Gerald. </p> <p class="drama"> -SECOND COUNTRYMAN.<br/> +SECOND COUNTRYMAN.<br> Draw up the company. Where’s the taborer? </p> <p class="drama"> -THIRD COUNTRYMAN.<br/> +THIRD COUNTRYMAN.<br> Why, Timothy! </p> <p class="drama"> -TABORER.<br/> +TABORER.<br> Here, my mad boys, have at ye. </p> <p class="drama"> -SCHOOLMASTER.<br/> +SCHOOLMASTER.<br> But I say, where’s their women? </p> @@ -3675,114 +3654,114 @@ Enter five <span class="charname">Countrywomen</span>. </p> <p class="drama"> -FOURTH COUNTRYMAN.<br/> +FOURTH COUNTRYMAN.<br> Here’s Friz and Maudlin. </p> <p class="drama"> -SECOND COUNTRYMAN.<br/> +SECOND COUNTRYMAN.<br> And little Luce with the white legs, and bouncing Barbary. </p> <p class="drama"> -FIRST COUNTRYMAN.<br/> +FIRST COUNTRYMAN.<br> And freckled Nel, that never failed her master. </p> <p class="drama"> -SCHOOLMASTER.<br/> -Where be your ribbons, maids? Swim with your bodies,<br/> -And carry it sweetly and deliverly,<br/> +SCHOOLMASTER.<br> +Where be your ribbons, maids? Swim with your bodies,<br> +And carry it sweetly and deliverly,<br> And now and then a favour and a frisk. </p> <p class="drama"> -NEL.<br/> +NEL.<br> Let us alone, sir. </p> <p class="drama"> -SCHOOLMASTER.<br/> +SCHOOLMASTER.<br> Where’s the rest o’ th’ music? </p> <p class="drama"> -THIRD COUNTRYMAN.<br/> +THIRD COUNTRYMAN.<br> Dispersed, as you commanded. </p> <p class="drama"> -SCHOOLMASTER.<br/> -Couple, then,<br/> -And see what’s wanting. Where’s the Bavian?<br/> -My friend, carry your tail without offence<br/> -Or scandal to the ladies; and be sure<br/> -You tumble with audacity and manhood;<br/> +SCHOOLMASTER.<br> +Couple, then,<br> +And see what’s wanting. Where’s the Bavian?<br> +My friend, carry your tail without offence<br> +Or scandal to the ladies; and be sure<br> +You tumble with audacity and manhood;<br> And when you bark, do it with judgement. </p> <p class="drama"> -BAVIAN.<br/> +BAVIAN.<br> Yes, sir. </p> <p class="drama"> -SCHOOLMASTER.<br/> +SCHOOLMASTER.<br> <i>Quo usque tandem?</i> Here is a woman wanting. </p> <p class="drama"> -FOURTH COUNTRYMAN.<br/> +FOURTH COUNTRYMAN.<br> We may go whistle; all the fat’s i’ th’ fire. </p> <p class="drama"> -SCHOOLMASTER.<br/> -We have,<br/> -as learned authors utter, washed a tile.<br/> +SCHOOLMASTER.<br> +We have,<br> +as learned authors utter, washed a tile.<br> we have been <i>fatuus</i> and laboured vainly. </p> <p class="drama"> -SECOND COUNTRYMAN.<br/> -This is that scornful piece, that scurvy hilding,<br/> -That gave her promise faithfully, she would be here,<br/> -Cicely, the sempster’s daughter.<br/> -The next gloves that I give her shall be dogskin!<br/> -Nay an she fail me once—You can tell, Arcas,<br/> +SECOND COUNTRYMAN.<br> +This is that scornful piece, that scurvy hilding,<br> +That gave her promise faithfully, she would be here,<br> +Cicely, the sempster’s daughter.<br> +The next gloves that I give her shall be dogskin!<br> +Nay an she fail me once—You can tell, Arcas,<br> She swore by wine and bread, she would not break. </p> <p class="drama"> -SCHOOLMASTER.<br/> -An eel and woman,<br/> -A learned poet says, unless by th’ tail<br/> -And with thy teeth thou hold, will either fail.<br/> +SCHOOLMASTER.<br> +An eel and woman,<br> +A learned poet says, unless by th’ tail<br> +And with thy teeth thou hold, will either fail.<br> In manners this was false position. </p> <p class="drama"> -FIRST COUNTRYMAN.<br/> +FIRST COUNTRYMAN.<br> A fire ill take her; does she flinch now? </p> <p class="drama"> -THIRD COUNTRYMAN.<br/> -What<br/> +THIRD COUNTRYMAN.<br> +What<br> Shall we determine, sir? </p> <p class="drama"> -SCHOOLMASTER.<br/> -Nothing.<br/> -Our business is become a nullity,<br/> +SCHOOLMASTER.<br> +Nothing.<br> +Our business is become a nullity,<br> Yea, and a woeful and a piteous nullity. </p> <p class="drama"> -FOURTH COUNTRYMAN.<br/> -Now, when the credit of our town lay on it,<br/> -Now to be frampul, now to piss o’ th’ nettle!<br/> +FOURTH COUNTRYMAN.<br> +Now, when the credit of our town lay on it,<br> +Now to be frampul, now to piss o’ th’ nettle!<br> Go thy ways; I’ll remember thee. I’ll fit thee. </p> @@ -3791,107 +3770,107 @@ Enter Jailer’s <span class="charname">Daughter</span>. </p> <p class="drama"> -DAUGHTER.<br/> -[<i>Sings</i>.]<br/> -<i>The George Alow came from the south,<br/> -From the coast of Barbary-a.<br/> -And there he met with brave gallants of war,<br/> +DAUGHTER.<br> +[<i>Sings</i>.]<br> +<i>The George Alow came from the south,<br> +From the coast of Barbary-a.<br> +And there he met with brave gallants of war,<br> By one, by two, by three-a.</i> </p> <p class="drama"> -<i>Well hailed, well hailed, you jolly gallants,<br/> -And whither now are you bound-a?<br/> -O let me have your company<br/> +<i>Well hailed, well hailed, you jolly gallants,<br> +And whither now are you bound-a?<br> +O let me have your company<br> Till I come to the sound-a.</i> </p> <p class="drama"> -<i>There was three fools fell out about an howlet:<br/> -The one said it was an owl,<br/> -The other he said nay,<br/> -The third he said it was a hawk,<br/> +<i>There was three fools fell out about an howlet:<br> +The one said it was an owl,<br> +The other he said nay,<br> +The third he said it was a hawk,<br> And her bells were cut away.</i> </p> <p class="drama"> -THIRD COUNTRYMAN.<br/> -There’s a dainty mad woman, Master,<br/> -Comes i’ th’ nick, as mad as a March hare.<br/> -If we can get her dance, we are made again;<br/> +THIRD COUNTRYMAN.<br> +There’s a dainty mad woman, Master,<br> +Comes i’ th’ nick, as mad as a March hare.<br> +If we can get her dance, we are made again;<br> I warrant her, she’ll do the rarest gambols. </p> <p class="drama"> -FIRST COUNTRYMAN.<br/> +FIRST COUNTRYMAN.<br> A madwoman? We are made, boys. </p> <p class="drama"> -SCHOOLMASTER.<br/> +SCHOOLMASTER.<br> And are you mad, good woman? </p> <p class="drama"> -DAUGHTER.<br/> -I would be sorry else.<br/> +DAUGHTER.<br> +I would be sorry else.<br> Give me your hand. </p> <p class="drama"> -SCHOOLMASTER.<br/> +SCHOOLMASTER.<br> Why? </p> <p class="drama"> -DAUGHTER.<br/> -I can tell your fortune.<br/> -You are a fool. Tell ten. I have posed him. Buzz!<br/> -Friend, you must eat no white bread; if you do,<br/> -Your teeth will bleed extremely. Shall we dance, ho?<br/> -I know you, you’re a tinker; sirrah tinker,<br/> +DAUGHTER.<br> +I can tell your fortune.<br> +You are a fool. Tell ten. I have posed him. Buzz!<br> +Friend, you must eat no white bread; if you do,<br> +Your teeth will bleed extremely. Shall we dance, ho?<br> +I know you, you’re a tinker; sirrah tinker,<br> Stop no more holes but what you should. </p> <p class="drama"> -SCHOOLMASTER.<br/> +SCHOOLMASTER.<br> <i>Dii boni!</i> A tinker, damsel? </p> <p class="drama"> -DAUGHTER.<br/> -Or a conjurer.<br/> -Raise me a devil now, and let him play<br/> +DAUGHTER.<br> +Or a conjurer.<br> +Raise me a devil now, and let him play<br> <i>Qui passa</i> o’ th’ bells and bones. </p> <p class="drama"> -SCHOOLMASTER.<br/> -Go, take her,<br/> -And fluently persuade her to a peace.<br/> -<i>Et opus exegi, quod nec Jovis ira, nec ignis—</i><br/> +SCHOOLMASTER.<br> +Go, take her,<br> +And fluently persuade her to a peace.<br> +<i>Et opus exegi, quod nec Jovis ira, nec ignis—</i><br> Strike up, and lead her in. </p> <p class="drama"> -SECOND COUNTRYMAN.<br/> +SECOND COUNTRYMAN.<br> Come, lass, let’s trip it. </p> <p class="drama"> -DAUGHTER.<br/> +DAUGHTER.<br> I’ll lead. </p> <p class="drama"> -THIRD COUNTRYMAN.<br/> +THIRD COUNTRYMAN.<br> Do, do! </p> <p class="drama"> -SCHOOLMASTER.<br/> -Persuasively, and cunningly.<br/> -Away, boys; I hear the horns. Give me some meditation,<br/> +SCHOOLMASTER.<br> +Persuasively, and cunningly.<br> +Away, boys; I hear the horns. Give me some meditation,<br> And mark your cue. </p> @@ -3907,90 +3886,90 @@ train. </p> <p class="drama"> -THESEUS.<br/> +THESEUS.<br> This way the stag took. </p> <p class="drama"> -SCHOOLMASTER.<br/> +SCHOOLMASTER.<br> Stay, and edify! </p> <p class="drama"> -THESEUS.<br/> +THESEUS.<br> What have we here? </p> <p class="drama"> -PIRITHOUS.<br/> +PIRITHOUS.<br> Some country sport, upon my life, sir. </p> <p class="drama"> -THESEUS.<br/> -Well, sir, go forward; we will “edify.”<br/> +THESEUS.<br> +Well, sir, go forward; we will “edify.”<br> Ladies, sit down. We’ll stay it. </p> <p class="drama"> -SCHOOLMASTER.<br/> +SCHOOLMASTER.<br> Thou doughty Duke, all hail! All hail, sweet ladies! </p> <p class="drama"> -THESEUS.<br/> +THESEUS.<br> This is a cold beginning. </p> <p class="drama"> -SCHOOLMASTER.<br/> -If you but favour, our country pastime made is.<br/> -We are a few of those collected here<br/> -That ruder tongues distinguish “villager.”<br/> -And to say verity, and not to fable,<br/> -We are a merry rout, or else a <i>rabble</i>,<br/> -Or company, or by a figure, <i>chorus</i>,<br/> -That ’fore thy dignity will dance a morris.<br/> -And I that am the rectifier of all,<br/> -By title <i>pædagogus</i>, that let fall<br/> -The birch upon the breeches of the small ones,<br/> -And humble with a ferula the tall ones,<br/> -Do here present this machine, or this frame.<br/> -And, dainty Duke, whose doughty dismal fame<br/> -From Dis to Dædalus, from post to pillar,<br/> -Is blown abroad, help me, thy poor well-willer,<br/> -And with thy twinkling eyes look right and straight<br/> -Upon this mighty <i>Morr</i>, of mickle weight.<br/> -<i>Is</i> now comes in, which being glued together<br/> -Makes <i>Morris</i>, and the cause that we came hither.<br/> -The body of our sport, of no small study.<br/> -I first appear, though rude and raw and muddy,<br/> -To speak before thy noble grace this tenner,<br/> -At whose great feet I offer up my penner.<br/> -The next, the Lord of May and Lady bright,<br/> -The Chambermaid and Servingman, by night<br/> -That seek out silent hanging; then mine Host<br/> -And his fat Spouse, that welcomes to their cost<br/> -The galled traveller, and with a beck’ning<br/> -Informs the tapster to inflame the reck’ning.<br/> -Then the beest-eating Clown and next the Fool,<br/> -The Bavian with long tail and eke long tool,<br/> -<i>Cum multis aliis</i> that make a dance.<br/> +SCHOOLMASTER.<br> +If you but favour, our country pastime made is.<br> +We are a few of those collected here<br> +That ruder tongues distinguish “villager.”<br> +And to say verity, and not to fable,<br> +We are a merry rout, or else a <i>rabble</i>,<br> +Or company, or by a figure, <i>chorus</i>,<br> +That ’fore thy dignity will dance a morris.<br> +And I that am the rectifier of all,<br> +By title <i>pædagogus</i>, that let fall<br> +The birch upon the breeches of the small ones,<br> +And humble with a ferula the tall ones,<br> +Do here present this machine, or this frame.<br> +And, dainty Duke, whose doughty dismal fame<br> +From Dis to Dædalus, from post to pillar,<br> +Is blown abroad, help me, thy poor well-willer,<br> +And with thy twinkling eyes look right and straight<br> +Upon this mighty <i>Morr</i>, of mickle weight.<br> +<i>Is</i> now comes in, which being glued together<br> +Makes <i>Morris</i>, and the cause that we came hither.<br> +The body of our sport, of no small study.<br> +I first appear, though rude and raw and muddy,<br> +To speak before thy noble grace this tenner,<br> +At whose great feet I offer up my penner.<br> +The next, the Lord of May and Lady bright,<br> +The Chambermaid and Servingman, by night<br> +That seek out silent hanging; then mine Host<br> +And his fat Spouse, that welcomes to their cost<br> +The galled traveller, and with a beck’ning<br> +Informs the tapster to inflame the reck’ning.<br> +Then the beest-eating Clown and next the Fool,<br> +The Bavian with long tail and eke long tool,<br> +<i>Cum multis aliis</i> that make a dance.<br> Say “Ay,” and all shall presently advance. </p> <p class="drama"> -THESEUS.<br/> +THESEUS.<br> Ay, ay, by any means, dear <i>Domine</i>. </p> <p class="drama"> -PIRITHOUS.<br/> +PIRITHOUS.<br> Produce. </p> <p class="drama"> -SCHOOLMASTER.<br/> +SCHOOLMASTER.<br> <i>Intrate, filii!</i> Come forth and foot it. </p> @@ -4000,56 +3979,56 @@ Music. Enter the <span class="charname">Countrymen, Countrywomen</span> and </p> <p class="drama"> -Ladies, if we have been merry<br/> -And have pleased ye with a derry,<br/> -And a derry, and a down,<br/> -Say the schoolmaster’s no clown.<br/> -Duke, if we have pleased thee too<br/> -And have done as good boys should do,<br/> -Give us but a tree or twain<br/> -For a Maypole, and again,<br/> -Ere another year run out,<br/> +Ladies, if we have been merry<br> +And have pleased ye with a derry,<br> +And a derry, and a down,<br> +Say the schoolmaster’s no clown.<br> +Duke, if we have pleased thee too<br> +And have done as good boys should do,<br> +Give us but a tree or twain<br> +For a Maypole, and again,<br> +Ere another year run out,<br> We’ll make thee laugh, and all this rout. </p> <p class="drama"> -THESEUS.<br/> +THESEUS.<br> Take twenty, <i>Domine</i>.—How does my sweetheart? </p> <p class="drama"> -HIPPOLYTA.<br/> +HIPPOLYTA.<br> Never so pleased, sir. </p> <p class="drama"> -EMILIA.<br/> -’Twas an excellent dance,<br/> +EMILIA.<br> +’Twas an excellent dance,<br> And, for a preface, I never heard a better. </p> <p class="drama"> -THESEUS.<br/> +THESEUS.<br> Schoolmaster, I thank you.—One see’em all rewarded. </p> <p class="drama"> -PIRITHOUS.<br/> +PIRITHOUS.<br> And here’s something to paint your pole withal. </p> <p class="right">[<i>He gives money.</i>]</p> <p class="drama"> -THESEUS.<br/> +THESEUS.<br> Now to our sports again. </p> <p class="drama"> -SCHOOLMASTER.<br/> -May the stag thou hunt’st stand long,<br/> -And thy dogs be swift and strong;<br/> -May they kill him without lets,<br/> +SCHOOLMASTER.<br> +May the stag thou hunt’st stand long,<br> +And thy dogs be swift and strong;<br> +May they kill him without lets,<br> And the ladies eat his dowsets. </p> @@ -4059,35 +4038,35 @@ and Train. Horns winded as they go out.</i>] </p> <p class="drama"> -Come, we are all made. <i>Dii deæque omnes</i>,<br/> +Come, we are all made. <i>Dii deæque omnes</i>,<br> You have danced rarely, wenches. </p> <p class="right">[<i>Exeunt.</i>]</p> -<h3><a name="sceneIII_38.6"></a><b>SCENE VI. The same part of the forest as in scene III.</b></h3> +<h3><a id="sceneIII_38.6"></a><b>SCENE VI. The same part of the forest as in scene III.</b></h3> <p class="scenedesc"> Enter <span class="charname">Palamon</span> from the bush. </p> <p class="drama"> -PALAMON.<br/> -About this hour my cousin gave his faith<br/> -To visit me again, and with him bring<br/> -Two swords and two good armours. If he fail,<br/> -He’s neither man nor soldier. When he left me,<br/> -I did not think a week could have restored<br/> -My lost strength to me, I was grown so low<br/> -And crestfall’n with my wants. I thank thee, Arcite,<br/> -Thou art yet a fair foe, and I feel myself,<br/> -With this refreshing, able once again<br/> -To outdure danger. To delay it longer<br/> -Would make the world think, when it comes to hearing,<br/> -That I lay fatting like a swine to fight<br/> -And not a soldier. Therefore, this blest morning<br/> -Shall be the last; and that sword he refuses,<br/> -If it but hold, I kill him with. ’Tis justice.<br/> +PALAMON.<br> +About this hour my cousin gave his faith<br> +To visit me again, and with him bring<br> +Two swords and two good armours. If he fail,<br> +He’s neither man nor soldier. When he left me,<br> +I did not think a week could have restored<br> +My lost strength to me, I was grown so low<br> +And crestfall’n with my wants. I thank thee, Arcite,<br> +Thou art yet a fair foe, and I feel myself,<br> +With this refreshing, able once again<br> +To outdure danger. To delay it longer<br> +Would make the world think, when it comes to hearing,<br> +That I lay fatting like a swine to fight<br> +And not a soldier. Therefore, this blest morning<br> +Shall be the last; and that sword he refuses,<br> +If it but hold, I kill him with. ’Tis justice.<br> So, love and fortune for me! </p> @@ -4100,102 +4079,102 @@ O, good morrow. </p> <p class="drama"> -ARCITE.<br/> +ARCITE.<br> Good morrow, noble kinsman. </p> <p class="drama"> -PALAMON.<br/> -I have put you<br/> +PALAMON.<br> +I have put you<br> To too much pains, sir. </p> <p class="drama"> -ARCITE.<br/> -That too much, fair cousin,<br/> +ARCITE.<br> +That too much, fair cousin,<br> Is but a debt to honour, and my duty. </p> <p class="drama"> -PALAMON.<br/> -Would you were so in all, sir; I could wish ye<br/> -As kind a kinsman as you force me find<br/> -A beneficial foe, that my embraces<br/> +PALAMON.<br> +Would you were so in all, sir; I could wish ye<br> +As kind a kinsman as you force me find<br> +A beneficial foe, that my embraces<br> Might thank ye, not my blows. </p> <p class="drama"> -ARCITE.<br/> -I shall think either,<br/> +ARCITE.<br> +I shall think either,<br> Well done, a noble recompence. </p> <p class="drama"> -PALAMON.<br/> +PALAMON.<br> Then I shall quit you. </p> <p class="drama"> -ARCITE.<br/> -Defy me in these fair terms, and you show<br/> -More than a mistress to me. No more anger,<br/> -As you love anything that’s honourable!<br/> -We were not bred to talk, man; when we are armed<br/> -And both upon our guards, then let our fury,<br/> -Like meeting of two tides, fly strongly from us;<br/> -And then to whom the birthright of this beauty<br/> -Truly pertains—without upbraidings, scorns,<br/> -Despisings of our persons, and such poutings,<br/> -Fitter for girls and schoolboys—will be seen,<br/> -And quickly, yours or mine. Will ’t please you arm, sir?<br/> -Or, if you feel yourself not fitting yet<br/> -And furnished with your old strength, I’ll stay, cousin,<br/> -And every day discourse you into health,<br/> -As I am spared. Your person I am friends with,<br/> -And I could wish I had not said I loved her,<br/> -Though I had died; but, loving such a lady,<br/> +ARCITE.<br> +Defy me in these fair terms, and you show<br> +More than a mistress to me. No more anger,<br> +As you love anything that’s honourable!<br> +We were not bred to talk, man; when we are armed<br> +And both upon our guards, then let our fury,<br> +Like meeting of two tides, fly strongly from us;<br> +And then to whom the birthright of this beauty<br> +Truly pertains—without upbraidings, scorns,<br> +Despisings of our persons, and such poutings,<br> +Fitter for girls and schoolboys—will be seen,<br> +And quickly, yours or mine. Will ’t please you arm, sir?<br> +Or, if you feel yourself not fitting yet<br> +And furnished with your old strength, I’ll stay, cousin,<br> +And every day discourse you into health,<br> +As I am spared. Your person I am friends with,<br> +And I could wish I had not said I loved her,<br> +Though I had died; but, loving such a lady,<br> And justifying my love, I must not fly from ’t. </p> <p class="drama"> -PALAMON.<br/> -Arcite, thou art so brave an enemy,<br/> -That no man but thy cousin’s fit to kill thee.<br/> +PALAMON.<br> +Arcite, thou art so brave an enemy,<br> +That no man but thy cousin’s fit to kill thee.<br> I am well and lusty; choose your arms. </p> <p class="drama"> -ARCITE.<br/> +ARCITE.<br> Choose you, sir. </p> <p class="drama"> -PALAMON.<br/> -Wilt thou exceed in all, or dost thou do it<br/> +PALAMON.<br> +Wilt thou exceed in all, or dost thou do it<br> To make me spare thee? </p> <p class="drama"> -ARCITE.<br/> -If you think so, cousin,<br/> -You are deceived, for as I am a soldier,<br/> +ARCITE.<br> +If you think so, cousin,<br> +You are deceived, for as I am a soldier,<br> I will not spare you. </p> <p class="drama"> -PALAMON.<br/> +PALAMON.<br> That’s well said. </p> <p class="drama"> -ARCITE.<br/> +ARCITE.<br> You’ll find it. </p> <p class="drama"> -PALAMON.<br/> -Then, as I am an honest man and love<br/> -With all the justice of affection,<br/> +PALAMON.<br> +Then, as I am an honest man and love<br> +With all the justice of affection,<br> I’ll pay thee soundly. </p> @@ -4206,216 +4185,216 @@ This I’ll take. </p> <p class="drama"> -ARCITE.<br/> -That’s mine, then.<br/> +ARCITE.<br> +That’s mine, then.<br> I’ll arm you first. </p> <p class="drama"> -PALAMON.<br/> +PALAMON.<br> Do. </p> <p class="right">[<i><span class="charname">Arcite</span> begins arming him.</i>]</p> <p class="drama"> -Pray thee, tell me, cousin,<br/> +Pray thee, tell me, cousin,<br> Where got’st thou this good armour? </p> <p class="drama"> -ARCITE.<br/> -’Tis the Duke’s,<br/> +ARCITE.<br> +’Tis the Duke’s,<br> And, to say true, I stole it. Do I pinch you? </p> <p class="drama"> -PALAMON.<br/> +PALAMON.<br> No. </p> <p class="drama"> -ARCITE.<br/> +ARCITE.<br> Is’t not too heavy? </p> <p class="drama"> -PALAMON.<br/> -I have worn a lighter,<br/> +PALAMON.<br> +I have worn a lighter,<br> But I shall make it serve. </p> <p class="drama"> -ARCITE.<br/> +ARCITE.<br> I’ll buckle ’t close. </p> <p class="drama"> -PALAMON.<br/> +PALAMON.<br> By any means. </p> <p class="drama"> -ARCITE.<br/> +ARCITE.<br> You care not for a grand guard? </p> <p class="drama"> -PALAMON.<br/> -No, no; we’ll use no horses: I perceive<br/> +PALAMON.<br> +No, no; we’ll use no horses: I perceive<br> You would fain be at that fight. </p> <p class="drama"> -ARCITE.<br/> +ARCITE.<br> I am indifferent. </p> <p class="drama"> -PALAMON.<br/> -Faith, so am I. Good cousin, thrust the buckle<br/> +PALAMON.<br> +Faith, so am I. Good cousin, thrust the buckle<br> Through far enough. </p> <p class="drama"> -ARCITE.<br/> +ARCITE.<br> I warrant you. </p> <p class="drama"> -PALAMON.<br/> +PALAMON.<br> My casque now. </p> <p class="drama"> -ARCITE.<br/> +ARCITE.<br> Will you fight bare-armed? </p> <p class="drama"> -PALAMON.<br/> +PALAMON.<br> We shall be the nimbler. </p> <p class="drama"> -ARCITE.<br/> -But use your gauntlets though. Those are o’ th’ least;<br/> +ARCITE.<br> +But use your gauntlets though. Those are o’ th’ least;<br> Prithee take mine, good cousin. </p> <p class="drama"> -PALAMON.<br/> -Thank you, Arcite.<br/> +PALAMON.<br> +Thank you, Arcite.<br> How do I look? Am I fall’n much away? </p> <p class="drama"> -ARCITE.<br/> +ARCITE.<br> Faith, very little; love has used you kindly. </p> <p class="drama"> -PALAMON.<br/> +PALAMON.<br> I’ll warrant thee, I’ll strike home. </p> <p class="drama"> -ARCITE.<br/> -Do, and spare not.<br/> +ARCITE.<br> +Do, and spare not.<br> I’ll give you cause, sweet cousin. </p> <p class="drama"> -PALAMON.<br/> +PALAMON.<br> Now to you, sir. </p> <p class="right">[<i>He begins to arm <span class="charname">Arcite</span>.</i>]</p> <p class="drama"> -Methinks this armour’s very like that, Arcite,<br/> +Methinks this armour’s very like that, Arcite,<br> Thou wor’st that day the three kings fell, but lighter. </p> <p class="drama"> -ARCITE.<br/> -That was a very good one; and that day,<br/> -I well remember, you outdid me, cousin;<br/> -I never saw such valour. When you charged<br/> -Upon the left wing of the enemy,<br/> -I spurred hard to come up, and under me<br/> +ARCITE.<br> +That was a very good one; and that day,<br> +I well remember, you outdid me, cousin;<br> +I never saw such valour. When you charged<br> +Upon the left wing of the enemy,<br> +I spurred hard to come up, and under me<br> I had a right good horse. </p> <p class="drama"> -PALAMON.<br/> -You had indeed;<br/> +PALAMON.<br> +You had indeed;<br> A bright bay, I remember. </p> <p class="drama"> -ARCITE.<br/> -Yes, but all<br/> -Was vainly laboured in me; you outwent me,<br/> -Nor could my wishes reach you. Yet a little<br/> +ARCITE.<br> +Yes, but all<br> +Was vainly laboured in me; you outwent me,<br> +Nor could my wishes reach you. Yet a little<br> I did by imitation. </p> <p class="drama"> -PALAMON.<br/> -More by virtue;<br/> +PALAMON.<br> +More by virtue;<br> You are modest, cousin. </p> <p class="drama"> -ARCITE.<br/> -When I saw you charge first,<br/> -Me thought I heard a dreadful clap of thunder<br/> +ARCITE.<br> +When I saw you charge first,<br> +Me thought I heard a dreadful clap of thunder<br> Break from the troop. </p> <p class="drama"> -PALAMON.<br/> -But still before that flew<br/> -The lightning of your valour. Stay a little;<br/> +PALAMON.<br> +But still before that flew<br> +The lightning of your valour. Stay a little;<br> Is not this piece too strait? </p> <p class="drama"> -ARCITE.<br/> +ARCITE.<br> No, no, ’tis well. </p> <p class="drama"> -PALAMON.<br/> -I would have nothing hurt thee but my sword.<br/> +PALAMON.<br> +I would have nothing hurt thee but my sword.<br> A bruise would be dishonour. </p> <p class="drama"> -ARCITE.<br/> +ARCITE.<br> Now I am perfect. </p> <p class="drama"> -PALAMON.<br/> +PALAMON.<br> Stand off, then. </p> <p class="drama"> -ARCITE.<br/> +ARCITE.<br> Take my sword; I hold it better. </p> <p class="drama"> -PALAMON.<br/> -I thank ye, no; keep it; your life lies on it.<br/> -Here’s one; if it but hold, I ask no more<br/> +PALAMON.<br> +I thank ye, no; keep it; your life lies on it.<br> +Here’s one; if it but hold, I ask no more<br> For all my hopes. My cause and honour guard me! </p> <p class="drama"> -ARCITE.<br/> +ARCITE.<br> And me my love! </p> @@ -4426,101 +4405,101 @@ Is there aught else to say? </p> <p class="drama"> -PALAMON.<br/> -This only, and no more. Thou art mine aunt’s son.<br/> -And that blood we desire to shed is mutual,<br/> -In me thine, and in thee mine. My sword<br/> -Is in my hand, and if thou killest me,<br/> -The gods and I forgive thee. If there be<br/> -A place prepared for those that sleep in honour,<br/> -I wish his weary soul that falls may win it.<br/> +PALAMON.<br> +This only, and no more. Thou art mine aunt’s son.<br> +And that blood we desire to shed is mutual,<br> +In me thine, and in thee mine. My sword<br> +Is in my hand, and if thou killest me,<br> +The gods and I forgive thee. If there be<br> +A place prepared for those that sleep in honour,<br> +I wish his weary soul that falls may win it.<br> Fight bravely, cousin; give me thy noble hand. </p> <p class="drama"> -ARCITE.<br/> -Here, Palamon. This hand shall never more<br/> +ARCITE.<br> +Here, Palamon. This hand shall never more<br> Come near thee with such friendship. </p> <p class="drama"> -PALAMON.<br/> +PALAMON.<br> I commend thee. </p> <p class="drama"> -ARCITE.<br/> -If I fall, curse me, and say I was a coward,<br/> -For none but such dare die in these just trials.<br/> +ARCITE.<br> +If I fall, curse me, and say I was a coward,<br> +For none but such dare die in these just trials.<br> Once more farewell, my cousin. </p> <p class="drama"> -PALAMON.<br/> +PALAMON.<br> Farewell, Arcite. </p> <p class="right">[<i>They fight. Horns within. They stand</i>.]</p> <p class="drama"> -ARCITE.<br/> +ARCITE.<br> Lo, cousin, lo, our folly has undone us. </p> <p class="drama"> -PALAMON.<br/> +PALAMON.<br> Why? </p> <p class="drama"> -ARCITE.<br/> -This is the Duke, a-hunting, as I told you.<br/> -If we be found, we are wretched. O, retire,<br/> -For honour’s sake and safety, presently<br/> -Into your bush again. Sir, we shall find<br/> -Too many hours to die in. Gentle cousin,<br/> -If you be seen, you perish instantly<br/> -For breaking prison and I, if you reveal me,<br/> -For my contempt. Then all the world will scorn us,<br/> -And say we had a noble difference,<br/> +ARCITE.<br> +This is the Duke, a-hunting, as I told you.<br> +If we be found, we are wretched. O, retire,<br> +For honour’s sake and safety, presently<br> +Into your bush again. Sir, we shall find<br> +Too many hours to die in. Gentle cousin,<br> +If you be seen, you perish instantly<br> +For breaking prison and I, if you reveal me,<br> +For my contempt. Then all the world will scorn us,<br> +And say we had a noble difference,<br> But base disposers of it. </p> <p class="drama"> -PALAMON.<br/> -No, no, cousin,<br/> -I will no more be hidden, nor put off<br/> -This great adventure to a second trial;<br/> -I know your cunning and I know your cause.<br/> -He that faints now, shame take him! Put thyself<br/> +PALAMON.<br> +No, no, cousin,<br> +I will no more be hidden, nor put off<br> +This great adventure to a second trial;<br> +I know your cunning and I know your cause.<br> +He that faints now, shame take him! Put thyself<br> Upon thy present guard— </p> <p class="drama"> -ARCITE.<br/> +ARCITE.<br> You are not mad? </p> <p class="drama"> -PALAMON.<br/> -Or I will make th’advantage of this hour<br/> -Mine own, and what to come shall threaten me<br/> -I fear less than my fortune. Know, weak cousin,<br/> -I love Emilia, and in that I’ll bury<br/> +PALAMON.<br> +Or I will make th’advantage of this hour<br> +Mine own, and what to come shall threaten me<br> +I fear less than my fortune. Know, weak cousin,<br> +I love Emilia, and in that I’ll bury<br> Thee, and all crosses else. </p> <p class="drama"> -ARCITE.<br/> -Then, come what can come,<br/> -Thou shalt know, Palamon, I dare as well<br/> -Die, as discourse, or sleep. Only this fears me,<br/> -The law will have the honour of our ends.<br/> +ARCITE.<br> +Then, come what can come,<br> +Thou shalt know, Palamon, I dare as well<br> +Die, as discourse, or sleep. Only this fears me,<br> +The law will have the honour of our ends.<br> Have at thy life! </p> <p class="drama"> -PALAMON.<br/> +PALAMON.<br> Look to thine own well, Arcite. </p> @@ -4532,207 +4511,207 @@ train. </p> <p class="drama"> -THESEUS.<br/> -What ignorant and mad malicious traitors<br/> -Are you, that ’gainst the tenor of my laws<br/> -Are making battle, thus like knights appointed,<br/> -Without my leave, and officers of arms?<br/> +THESEUS.<br> +What ignorant and mad malicious traitors<br> +Are you, that ’gainst the tenor of my laws<br> +Are making battle, thus like knights appointed,<br> +Without my leave, and officers of arms?<br> By Castor, both shall die. </p> <p class="drama"> -PALAMON.<br/> -Hold thy word, Theseus.<br/> -We are certainly both traitors, both despisers<br/> -Of thee and of thy goodness. I am Palamon,<br/> -That cannot love thee, he that broke thy prison.<br/> -Think well what that deserves. And this is Arcite.<br/> -A bolder traitor never trod thy ground,<br/> -A falser ne’er seemed friend. This is the man<br/> -Was begged and banished; this is he contemns thee<br/> -And what thou dar’st do; and in this disguise,<br/> -Against thine own edict, follows thy sister,<br/> -That fortunate bright star, the fair Emilia,<br/> -Whose servant—if there be a right in seeing<br/> -And first bequeathing of the soul to—justly<br/> -I am; and, which is more, dares think her his.<br/> -This treachery, like a most trusty lover,<br/> -I called him now to answer. If thou be’st<br/> -As thou art spoken, great and virtuous,<br/> -The true decider of all injuries,<br/> -Say “Fight again,” and thou shalt see me, Theseus,<br/> -Do such a justice thou thyself wilt envy.<br/> +PALAMON.<br> +Hold thy word, Theseus.<br> +We are certainly both traitors, both despisers<br> +Of thee and of thy goodness. I am Palamon,<br> +That cannot love thee, he that broke thy prison.<br> +Think well what that deserves. And this is Arcite.<br> +A bolder traitor never trod thy ground,<br> +A falser ne’er seemed friend. This is the man<br> +Was begged and banished; this is he contemns thee<br> +And what thou dar’st do; and in this disguise,<br> +Against thine own edict, follows thy sister,<br> +That fortunate bright star, the fair Emilia,<br> +Whose servant—if there be a right in seeing<br> +And first bequeathing of the soul to—justly<br> +I am; and, which is more, dares think her his.<br> +This treachery, like a most trusty lover,<br> +I called him now to answer. If thou be’st<br> +As thou art spoken, great and virtuous,<br> +The true decider of all injuries,<br> +Say “Fight again,” and thou shalt see me, Theseus,<br> +Do such a justice thou thyself wilt envy.<br> Then take my life; I’ll woo thee to ’t. </p> <p class="drama"> -PIRITHOUS.<br/> -O heaven,<br/> +PIRITHOUS.<br> +O heaven,<br> What more than man is this! </p> <p class="drama"> -THESEUS.<br/> +THESEUS.<br> I have sworn. </p> <p class="drama"> -ARCITE.<br/> -We seek not<br/> -Thy breath of mercy, Theseus. ’Tis to me<br/> -A thing as soon to die as thee to say it,<br/> -And no more moved. Where this man calls me traitor,<br/> -Let me say thus much: if in love be treason,<br/> -In service of so excellent a beauty,<br/> -As I love most, and in that faith will perish,<br/> -As I have brought my life here to confirm it,<br/> -As I have served her truest, worthiest,<br/> -As I dare kill this cousin that denies it,<br/> -So let me be most traitor, and you please me.<br/> -For scorning thy edict, Duke, ask that lady<br/> -Why she is fair, and why her eyes command me<br/> -Stay here to love her; and if she say “traitor,”<br/> +ARCITE.<br> +We seek not<br> +Thy breath of mercy, Theseus. ’Tis to me<br> +A thing as soon to die as thee to say it,<br> +And no more moved. Where this man calls me traitor,<br> +Let me say thus much: if in love be treason,<br> +In service of so excellent a beauty,<br> +As I love most, and in that faith will perish,<br> +As I have brought my life here to confirm it,<br> +As I have served her truest, worthiest,<br> +As I dare kill this cousin that denies it,<br> +So let me be most traitor, and you please me.<br> +For scorning thy edict, Duke, ask that lady<br> +Why she is fair, and why her eyes command me<br> +Stay here to love her; and if she say “traitor,”<br> I am a villain fit to lie unburied. </p> <p class="drama"> -PALAMON.<br/> -Thou shalt have pity of us both, O Theseus,<br/> -If unto neither thou show mercy. Stop,<br/> -As thou art just, thy noble ear against us;<br/> -As thou art valiant, for thy cousin’s soul,<br/> -Whose twelve strong labours crown his memory,<br/> -Let’s die together at one instant, Duke;<br/> -Only a little let him fall before me,<br/> +PALAMON.<br> +Thou shalt have pity of us both, O Theseus,<br> +If unto neither thou show mercy. Stop,<br> +As thou art just, thy noble ear against us;<br> +As thou art valiant, for thy cousin’s soul,<br> +Whose twelve strong labours crown his memory,<br> +Let’s die together at one instant, Duke;<br> +Only a little let him fall before me,<br> That I may tell my soul he shall not have her. </p> <p class="drama"> -THESEUS.<br/> -I grant your wish, for, to say true, your cousin<br/> -Has ten times more offended, for I gave him<br/> -More mercy than you found, sir, your offences<br/> -Being no more than his. None here speak for ’em,<br/> +THESEUS.<br> +I grant your wish, for, to say true, your cousin<br> +Has ten times more offended, for I gave him<br> +More mercy than you found, sir, your offences<br> +Being no more than his. None here speak for ’em,<br> For, ere the sun set, both shall sleep for ever. </p> <p class="drama"> -HIPPOLYTA.<br/> -Alas the pity! Now or never, sister,<br/> -Speak, not to be denied. That face of yours<br/> -Will bear the curses else of after ages<br/> +HIPPOLYTA.<br> +Alas the pity! Now or never, sister,<br> +Speak, not to be denied. That face of yours<br> +Will bear the curses else of after ages<br> For these lost cousins. </p> <p class="drama"> -EMILIA.<br/> -In my face, dear sister,<br/> -I find no anger to ’em, nor no ruin;<br/> -The misadventure of their own eyes kill ’em.<br/> -Yet that I will be woman and have pity,<br/> +EMILIA.<br> +In my face, dear sister,<br> +I find no anger to ’em, nor no ruin;<br> +The misadventure of their own eyes kill ’em.<br> +Yet that I will be woman and have pity,<br> My knees shall grow to’ th’ ground but I’ll get mercy. </p> <p class="right">[<i>She kneels.</i>]</p> <p class="drama"> -Help me, dear sister; in a deed so virtuous<br/> -The powers of all women will be with us.<br/> +Help me, dear sister; in a deed so virtuous<br> +The powers of all women will be with us.<br> Most royal brother— </p> <p class="drama"> -HIPPOLYTA.<br/> +HIPPOLYTA.<br> [<i>Kneels.</i>] Sir, by our tie of marriage— </p> <p class="drama"> -EMILIA.<br/> +EMILIA.<br> By your own spotless honour— </p> <p class="drama"> -HIPPOLYTA.<br/> -By that faith,<br/> +HIPPOLYTA.<br> +By that faith,<br> That fair hand, and that honest heart you gave me— </p> <p class="drama"> -EMILIA.<br/> -By that you would have pity in another,<br/> +EMILIA.<br> +By that you would have pity in another,<br> By your own virtues infinite— </p> <p class="drama"> -HIPPOLYTA.<br/> -By valour,<br/> +HIPPOLYTA.<br> +By valour,<br> By all the chaste nights I have ever pleased you— </p> <p class="drama"> -THESEUS.<br/> +THESEUS.<br> These are strange conjurings. </p> <p class="drama"> -PIRITHOUS.<br/> +PIRITHOUS.<br> Nay, then, I’ll in too. </p> <p class="right">[<i>Kneels.</i>]</p> <p class="drama"> -By all our friendship, sir, by all our dangers,<br/> +By all our friendship, sir, by all our dangers,<br> By all you love most: wars and this sweet lady— </p> <p class="drama"> -EMILIA.<br/> -By that you would have trembled to deny<br/> +EMILIA.<br> +By that you would have trembled to deny<br> A blushing maid— </p> <p class="drama"> -HIPPOLYTA.<br/> -By your own eyes, by strength,<br/> -In which you swore I went beyond all women,<br/> +HIPPOLYTA.<br> +By your own eyes, by strength,<br> +In which you swore I went beyond all women,<br> Almost all men, and yet I yielded, Theseus— </p> <p class="drama"> -PIRITHOUS.<br/> -To crown all this, by your most noble soul,<br/> +PIRITHOUS.<br> +To crown all this, by your most noble soul,<br> Which cannot want due mercy, I beg first. </p> <p class="drama"> -HIPPOLYTA.<br/> +HIPPOLYTA.<br> Next, hear my prayers. </p> <p class="drama"> -EMILIA.<br/> +EMILIA.<br> Last, let me entreat, sir. </p> <p class="drama"> -PIRITHOUS.<br/> +PIRITHOUS.<br> For mercy. </p> <p class="drama"> -HIPPOLYTA.<br/> +HIPPOLYTA.<br> Mercy. </p> <p class="drama"> -EMILIA.<br/> +EMILIA.<br> Mercy on these princes. </p> <p class="drama"> -THESEUS.<br/> -Ye make my faith reel. Say I felt<br/> +THESEUS.<br> +Ye make my faith reel. Say I felt<br> Compassion to’em both, how would you place it? </p> @@ -4742,245 +4721,245 @@ Compassion to’em both, how would you place it? </p> <p class="drama"> -EMILIA.<br/> +EMILIA.<br> Upon their lives. But with their banishments. </p> <p class="drama"> -THESEUS.<br/> -You are a right woman, sister: you have pity,<br/> -But want the understanding where to use it.<br/> -If you desire their lives, invent a way<br/> -Safer than banishment. Can these two live,<br/> -And have the agony of love about ’em,<br/> -And not kill one another? Every day<br/> -They’d fight about you, hourly bring your honour<br/> -In public question with their swords. Be wise, then,<br/> -And here forget ’em; it concerns your credit<br/> -And my oath equally. I have said they die.<br/> -Better they fall by th’ law than one another.<br/> +THESEUS.<br> +You are a right woman, sister: you have pity,<br> +But want the understanding where to use it.<br> +If you desire their lives, invent a way<br> +Safer than banishment. Can these two live,<br> +And have the agony of love about ’em,<br> +And not kill one another? Every day<br> +They’d fight about you, hourly bring your honour<br> +In public question with their swords. Be wise, then,<br> +And here forget ’em; it concerns your credit<br> +And my oath equally. I have said they die.<br> +Better they fall by th’ law than one another.<br> Bow not my honour. </p> <p class="drama"> -EMILIA.<br/> -O, my noble brother,<br/> -That oath was rashly made, and in your anger;<br/> -Your reason will not hold it; if such vows<br/> -Stand for express will, all the world must perish.<br/> -Besides, I have another oath ’gainst yours,<br/> -Of more authority, I am sure more love,<br/> +EMILIA.<br> +O, my noble brother,<br> +That oath was rashly made, and in your anger;<br> +Your reason will not hold it; if such vows<br> +Stand for express will, all the world must perish.<br> +Besides, I have another oath ’gainst yours,<br> +Of more authority, I am sure more love,<br> Not made in passion neither, but good heed. </p> <p class="drama"> -THESEUS.<br/> +THESEUS.<br> What is it, sister? </p> <p class="drama"> -PIRITHOUS.<br/> +PIRITHOUS.<br> Urge it home, brave lady. </p> <p class="drama"> -EMILIA.<br/> -That you would ne’er deny me anything<br/> -Fit for my modest suit and your free granting.<br/> -I tie you to your word now; if ye fail in ’t,<br/> -Think how you maim your honour—<br/> -For now I am set a-begging, sir, I am deaf<br/> -To all but your compassion—how their lives<br/> -Might breed the ruin of my name. Opinion!<br/> -Shall anything that loves me perish for me?<br/> -That were a cruel wisdom. Do men prune<br/> -The straight young boughs that blush with thousand blossoms<br/> -Because they may be rotten? O, Duke Theseus,<br/> -The goodly mothers that have groaned for these,<br/> -And all the longing maids that ever loved,<br/> -If your vow stand, shall curse me and my beauty,<br/> -And in their funeral songs for these two cousins<br/> -Despise my cruelty, and cry woe worth me,<br/> -Till I am nothing but the scorn of women.<br/> +EMILIA.<br> +That you would ne’er deny me anything<br> +Fit for my modest suit and your free granting.<br> +I tie you to your word now; if ye fail in ’t,<br> +Think how you maim your honour—<br> +For now I am set a-begging, sir, I am deaf<br> +To all but your compassion—how their lives<br> +Might breed the ruin of my name. Opinion!<br> +Shall anything that loves me perish for me?<br> +That were a cruel wisdom. Do men prune<br> +The straight young boughs that blush with thousand blossoms<br> +Because they may be rotten? O, Duke Theseus,<br> +The goodly mothers that have groaned for these,<br> +And all the longing maids that ever loved,<br> +If your vow stand, shall curse me and my beauty,<br> +And in their funeral songs for these two cousins<br> +Despise my cruelty, and cry woe worth me,<br> +Till I am nothing but the scorn of women.<br> For heaven’s sake, save their lives, and banish ’em. </p> <p class="drama"> -THESEUS.<br/> +THESEUS.<br> On what conditions? </p> <p class="drama"> -EMILIA.<br/> -Swear ’em never more<br/> -To make me their contention, or to know me,<br/> -To tread upon thy dukedom, and to be,<br/> -Wherever they shall travel, ever strangers<br/> +EMILIA.<br> +Swear ’em never more<br> +To make me their contention, or to know me,<br> +To tread upon thy dukedom, and to be,<br> +Wherever they shall travel, ever strangers<br> To one another. </p> <p class="drama"> -PALAMON.<br/> -I’ll be cut a-pieces<br/> -Before I take this oath! Forget I love her?<br/> -O, all ye gods, despise me then! Thy banishment<br/> -I not mislike, so we may fairly carry<br/> -Our swords and cause along; else never trifle,<br/> -But take our lives, Duke. I must love, and will<br/> -And for that love must and dare kill this cousin<br/> +PALAMON.<br> +I’ll be cut a-pieces<br> +Before I take this oath! Forget I love her?<br> +O, all ye gods, despise me then! Thy banishment<br> +I not mislike, so we may fairly carry<br> +Our swords and cause along; else never trifle,<br> +But take our lives, Duke. I must love, and will<br> +And for that love must and dare kill this cousin<br> On any piece the earth has. </p> <p class="drama"> -THESEUS.<br/> -Will you, Arcite,<br/> +THESEUS.<br> +Will you, Arcite,<br> Take these conditions? </p> <p class="drama"> -PALAMON.<br/> +PALAMON.<br> He’s a villain, then. </p> <p class="drama"> -PIRITHOUS.<br/> +PIRITHOUS.<br> These are men! </p> <p class="drama"> -ARCITE.<br/> -No, never, Duke. ’Tis worse to me than begging<br/> -To take my life so basely. Though I think<br/> -I never shall enjoy her, yet I’ll preserve<br/> -The honour of affection, and die for her,<br/> +ARCITE.<br> +No, never, Duke. ’Tis worse to me than begging<br> +To take my life so basely. Though I think<br> +I never shall enjoy her, yet I’ll preserve<br> +The honour of affection, and die for her,<br> Make death a devil. </p> <p class="drama"> -THESEUS.<br/> +THESEUS.<br> What may be done? For now I feel compassion. </p> <p class="drama"> -PIRITHOUS.<br/> +PIRITHOUS.<br> Let it not fall again, sir. </p> <p class="drama"> -THESEUS.<br/> -Say, Emilia,<br/> -If one of them were dead, as one must, are you<br/> -Content to take th’ other to your husband?<br/> -They cannot both enjoy you. They are princes<br/> -As goodly as your own eyes, and as noble<br/> -As ever fame yet spoke of. Look upon ’em,<br/> -And, if you can love, end this difference;<br/> +THESEUS.<br> +Say, Emilia,<br> +If one of them were dead, as one must, are you<br> +Content to take th’ other to your husband?<br> +They cannot both enjoy you. They are princes<br> +As goodly as your own eyes, and as noble<br> +As ever fame yet spoke of. Look upon ’em,<br> +And, if you can love, end this difference;<br> I give consent.—Are you content too, princes? </p> <p class="drama"> -BOTH.<br/> +BOTH.<br> With all our souls. </p> <p class="drama"> -THESEUS.<br/> -He that she refuses<br/> +THESEUS.<br> +He that she refuses<br> Must die, then. </p> <p class="drama"> -BOTH.<br/> +BOTH.<br> Any death thou canst invent, Duke. </p> <p class="drama"> -PALAMON.<br/> -If I fall from that mouth, I fall with favour,<br/> +PALAMON.<br> +If I fall from that mouth, I fall with favour,<br> And lovers yet unborn shall bless my ashes. </p> <p class="drama"> -ARCITE.<br/> -If she refuse me, yet my grave will wed me,<br/> +ARCITE.<br> +If she refuse me, yet my grave will wed me,<br> And soldiers sing my epitaph. </p> <p class="drama"> -THESEUS.<br/> +THESEUS.<br> Make choice, then. </p> <p class="drama"> -EMILIA.<br/> -I cannot, sir, they are both too excellent;<br/> +EMILIA.<br> +I cannot, sir, they are both too excellent;<br> For me, a hair shall never fall of these men. </p> <p class="drama"> -HIPPOLYTA.<br/> +HIPPOLYTA.<br> What will become of ’em? </p> <p class="drama"> -THESEUS.<br/> -Thus I ordain it<br/> -And, by mine honour, once again, it stands,<br/> -Or both shall die. You shall both to your country,<br/> -And each within this month, accompanied<br/> -With three fair knights, appear again in this place,<br/> -In which I’ll plant a pyramid; and whether,<br/> -Before us that are here, can force his cousin<br/> -By fair and knightly strength to touch the pillar,<br/> -He shall enjoy her; th’ other lose his head,<br/> -And all his friends; nor shall he grudge to fall,<br/> -Nor think he dies with interest in this lady.<br/> +THESEUS.<br> +Thus I ordain it<br> +And, by mine honour, once again, it stands,<br> +Or both shall die. You shall both to your country,<br> +And each within this month, accompanied<br> +With three fair knights, appear again in this place,<br> +In which I’ll plant a pyramid; and whether,<br> +Before us that are here, can force his cousin<br> +By fair and knightly strength to touch the pillar,<br> +He shall enjoy her; th’ other lose his head,<br> +And all his friends; nor shall he grudge to fall,<br> +Nor think he dies with interest in this lady.<br> Will this content ye? </p> <p class="drama"> -PALAMON.<br/> -Yes. Here, cousin Arcite,<br/> +PALAMON.<br> +Yes. Here, cousin Arcite,<br> I am friends again, till that hour. </p> <p class="right">[<i>He offers his hand.</i>]</p> <p class="drama"> -ARCITE.<br/> +ARCITE.<br> I embrace ye. </p> <p class="drama"> -THESEUS.<br/> +THESEUS.<br> Are you content, sister? </p> <p class="drama"> -EMILIA.<br/> -Yes, I must, sir,<br/> +EMILIA.<br> +Yes, I must, sir,<br> Else both miscarry. </p> <p class="drama"> -THESEUS.<br/> -Come, shake hands again, then;<br/> -And take heed, as you are gentlemen, this quarrel<br/> +THESEUS.<br> +Come, shake hands again, then;<br> +And take heed, as you are gentlemen, this quarrel<br> Sleep till the hour prefixed, and hold your course. </p> <p class="drama"> -PALAMON.<br/> +PALAMON.<br> We dare not fail thee, Theseus. </p> <p class="right">[<i>They shake hands.</i>]</p> <p class="drama"> -THESEUS.<br/> -Come, I’ll give ye<br/> -Now usage like to princes, and to friends.<br/> -When ye return, who wins, I’ll settle here;<br/> +THESEUS.<br> +Come, I’ll give ye<br> +Now usage like to princes, and to friends.<br> +When ye return, who wins, I’ll settle here;<br> Who loses, yet I’ll weep upon his bier. </p> @@ -4990,7 +4969,7 @@ Who loses, yet I’ll weep upon his bier. <div class="chapter"> -<h2><a name="sceneIV_38.1"></a><b>ACT IV</b></h2> +<h2><a id="sceneIV_38.1"></a><b>ACT IV</b></h2> <h3><b>SCENE I. Athens. A room in the prison</b></h3> @@ -5000,32 +4979,32 @@ Enter <span class="charname">Jailer</span> and his </p> <p class="drama"> -JAILER.<br/> -Hear you no more? Was nothing said of me<br/> -Concerning the escape of Palamon?<br/> +JAILER.<br> +Hear you no more? Was nothing said of me<br> +Concerning the escape of Palamon?<br> Good sir, remember. </p> <p class="drama"> -FIRST FRIEND.<br/> -Nothing that I heard,<br/> -For I came home before the business<br/> -Was fully ended. Yet I might perceive,<br/> -Ere I departed, a great likelihood<br/> -Of both their pardons; for Hippolyta<br/> -And fair-eyed Emily, upon their knees,<br/> -Begged with such handsome pity that the Duke<br/> -Methought stood staggering whether he should follow<br/> -His rash oath or the sweet compassion<br/> -Of those two ladies. And, to second them,<br/> -That truly noble prince, Pirithous,<br/> -Half his own heart, set in too, that I hope<br/> -All shall be well. Neither heard I one question<br/> +FIRST FRIEND.<br> +Nothing that I heard,<br> +For I came home before the business<br> +Was fully ended. Yet I might perceive,<br> +Ere I departed, a great likelihood<br> +Of both their pardons; for Hippolyta<br> +And fair-eyed Emily, upon their knees,<br> +Begged with such handsome pity that the Duke<br> +Methought stood staggering whether he should follow<br> +His rash oath or the sweet compassion<br> +Of those two ladies. And, to second them,<br> +That truly noble prince, Pirithous,<br> +Half his own heart, set in too, that I hope<br> +All shall be well. Neither heard I one question<br> Of your name or his ’scape. </p> <p class="drama"> -JAILER.<br/> +JAILER.<br> Pray heaven it hold so. </p> @@ -5034,69 +5013,69 @@ Enter <span class="charname">Second Friend</span>. </p> <p class="drama"> -SECOND FRIEND.<br/> -Be of good comfort, man; I bring you news,<br/> +SECOND FRIEND.<br> +Be of good comfort, man; I bring you news,<br> Good news. </p> <p class="drama"> -JAILER.<br/> +JAILER.<br> They are welcome. </p> <p class="drama"> -SECOND FRIEND.<br/> -Palamon has cleared you,<br/> -And got your pardon, and discovered how<br/> -And by whose means he escaped, which was your daughter’s,<br/> -Whose pardon is procured too; and the prisoner,<br/> -Not to be held ungrateful to her goodness,<br/> -Has given a sum of money to her marriage,<br/> +SECOND FRIEND.<br> +Palamon has cleared you,<br> +And got your pardon, and discovered how<br> +And by whose means he escaped, which was your daughter’s,<br> +Whose pardon is procured too; and the prisoner,<br> +Not to be held ungrateful to her goodness,<br> +Has given a sum of money to her marriage,<br> A large one, I’ll assure you. </p> <p class="drama"> -JAILER.<br/> -You are a good man<br/> +JAILER.<br> +You are a good man<br> And ever bring good news. </p> <p class="drama"> -FIRST FRIEND.<br/> +FIRST FRIEND.<br> How was it ended? </p> <p class="drama"> -SECOND FRIEND.<br/> -Why, as it should be; they that never begged<br/> -But they prevailed had their suits fairly granted;<br/> +SECOND FRIEND.<br> +Why, as it should be; they that never begged<br> +But they prevailed had their suits fairly granted;<br> The prisoners have their lives. </p> <p class="drama"> -FIRST FRIEND.<br/> +FIRST FRIEND.<br> I knew ’twould be so. </p> <p class="drama"> -SECOND FRIEND.<br/> -But there be new conditions, which you’ll hear of<br/> +SECOND FRIEND.<br> +But there be new conditions, which you’ll hear of<br> At better time. </p> <p class="drama"> -JAILER.<br/> +JAILER.<br> I hope they are good. </p> <p class="drama"> -SECOND FRIEND.<br/> -They are honourable;<br/> +SECOND FRIEND.<br> +They are honourable;<br> How good they’ll prove, I know not. </p> <p class="drama"> -FIRST FRIEND.<br/> +FIRST FRIEND.<br> ’Twill be known. </p> @@ -5105,189 +5084,189 @@ Enter <span class="charname">Wooer</span>. </p> <p class="drama"> -WOOER.<br/> +WOOER.<br> Alas, sir, where’s your daughter? </p> <p class="drama"> -JAILER.<br/> +JAILER.<br> Why do you ask? </p> <p class="drama"> -WOOER.<br/> +WOOER.<br> O, sir, when did you see her? </p> <p class="drama"> -SECOND FRIEND.<br/> +SECOND FRIEND.<br> How he looks? </p> <p class="drama"> -JAILER.<br/> +JAILER.<br> This morning. </p> <p class="drama"> -WOOER.<br/> -Was she well? Was she in health, sir?<br/> +WOOER.<br> +Was she well? Was she in health, sir?<br> When did she sleep? </p> <p class="drama"> -FIRST FRIEND.<br/> +FIRST FRIEND.<br> These are strange questions. </p> <p class="drama"> -JAILER.<br/> -I do not think she was very well, for now<br/> -You make me mind her, but this very day<br/> -I asked her questions, and she answered me<br/> -So far from what she was, so childishly,<br/> -So sillily, as if she were a fool,<br/> -An innocent, and I was very angry.<br/> +JAILER.<br> +I do not think she was very well, for now<br> +You make me mind her, but this very day<br> +I asked her questions, and she answered me<br> +So far from what she was, so childishly,<br> +So sillily, as if she were a fool,<br> +An innocent, and I was very angry.<br> But what of her, sir? </p> <p class="drama"> -WOOER.<br/> -Nothing but my pity.<br/> -But you must know it, and as good by me<br/> +WOOER.<br> +Nothing but my pity.<br> +But you must know it, and as good by me<br> As by another that less loves her. </p> <p class="drama"> -JAILER.<br/> +JAILER.<br> Well, sir? </p> <p class="drama"> -FIRST FRIEND.<br/> +FIRST FRIEND.<br> Not right? </p> <p class="drama"> -SECOND FRIEND.<br/> +SECOND FRIEND.<br> Not well? </p> <p class="drama"> -WOOER.<br/> -No, sir, not well:<br/> +WOOER.<br> +No, sir, not well:<br> ’Tis too true, she is mad. </p> <p class="drama"> -FIRST FRIEND.<br/> +FIRST FRIEND.<br> It cannot be. </p> <p class="drama"> -WOOER.<br/> +WOOER.<br> Believe, you’ll find it so. </p> <p class="drama"> -JAILER.<br/> -I half suspected<br/> -What you have told me. The gods comfort her!<br/> -Either this was her love to Palamon,<br/> -Or fear of my miscarrying on his ’scape,<br/> +JAILER.<br> +I half suspected<br> +What you have told me. The gods comfort her!<br> +Either this was her love to Palamon,<br> +Or fear of my miscarrying on his ’scape,<br> Or both. </p> <p class="drama"> -WOOER.<br/> +WOOER.<br> ’Tis likely. </p> <p class="drama"> -JAILER.<br/> +JAILER.<br> But why all this haste, sir? </p> <p class="drama"> -WOOER.<br/> -I’ll tell you quickly. As I late was angling<br/> -In the great lake that lies behind the palace,<br/> -From the far shore, thick set with reeds and sedges,<br/> -As patiently I was attending sport,<br/> -I heard a voice, a shrill one; and, attentive,<br/> -I gave my ear, when I might well perceive<br/> -’Twas one that sung, and by the smallness of it<br/> -A boy or woman. I then left my angle<br/> -To his own skill, came near, but yet perceived not<br/> -Who made the sound, the rushes and the reeds<br/> -Had so encompassed it. I laid me down<br/> -And listened to the words she sung, for then,<br/> -Through a small glade cut by the fishermen,<br/> +WOOER.<br> +I’ll tell you quickly. As I late was angling<br> +In the great lake that lies behind the palace,<br> +From the far shore, thick set with reeds and sedges,<br> +As patiently I was attending sport,<br> +I heard a voice, a shrill one; and, attentive,<br> +I gave my ear, when I might well perceive<br> +’Twas one that sung, and by the smallness of it<br> +A boy or woman. I then left my angle<br> +To his own skill, came near, but yet perceived not<br> +Who made the sound, the rushes and the reeds<br> +Had so encompassed it. I laid me down<br> +And listened to the words she sung, for then,<br> +Through a small glade cut by the fishermen,<br> I saw it was your daughter. </p> <p class="drama"> -JAILER.<br/> +JAILER.<br> Pray, go on, sir. </p> <p class="drama"> -WOOER.<br/> -She sung much, but no sense; only I heard her<br/> -Repeat this often: “Palamon is gone,<br/> -Is gone to th’ wood to gather mulberries;<br/> +WOOER.<br> +She sung much, but no sense; only I heard her<br> +Repeat this often: “Palamon is gone,<br> +Is gone to th’ wood to gather mulberries;<br> I’ll find him out tomorrow.” </p> <p class="drama"> -FIRST FRIEND.<br/> +FIRST FRIEND.<br> Pretty soul! </p> <p class="drama"> -WOOER.<br/> -“His shackles will betray him; he’ll be taken,<br/> -And what shall I do then? I’ll bring a bevy,<br/> -A hundred black-eyed maids that love as I do,<br/> -With chaplets on their heads of daffadillies,<br/> -With cherry lips and cheeks of damask roses,<br/> -And all we’ll dance an antic ’fore the Duke,<br/> -And beg his pardon.” Then she talked of you, sir;<br/> -That you must lose your head tomorrow morning,<br/> -And she must gather flowers to bury you,<br/> -And see the house made handsome. Then she sung<br/> -Nothing but “Willow, willow, willow,” and between<br/> -Ever was “Palamon, fair Palamon,”<br/> -And “Palamon was a tall young man.” The place<br/> -Was knee-deep where she sat; her careless tresses,<br/> -A wreath of bulrush rounded; about her stuck<br/> -Thousand fresh water-flowers of several colours,<br/> -That methought she appeared like the fair nymph<br/> -That feeds the lake with waters, or as Iris<br/> -Newly dropped down from heaven. Rings she made<br/> -Of rushes that grew by, and to ’em spoke<br/> -The prettiest posies: “Thus our true love’s tied,”<br/> -“This you may loose, not me,” and many a one;<br/> -And then she wept, and sung again, and sighed,<br/> +WOOER.<br> +“His shackles will betray him; he’ll be taken,<br> +And what shall I do then? I’ll bring a bevy,<br> +A hundred black-eyed maids that love as I do,<br> +With chaplets on their heads of daffadillies,<br> +With cherry lips and cheeks of damask roses,<br> +And all we’ll dance an antic ’fore the Duke,<br> +And beg his pardon.” Then she talked of you, sir;<br> +That you must lose your head tomorrow morning,<br> +And she must gather flowers to bury you,<br> +And see the house made handsome. Then she sung<br> +Nothing but “Willow, willow, willow,” and between<br> +Ever was “Palamon, fair Palamon,”<br> +And “Palamon was a tall young man.” The place<br> +Was knee-deep where she sat; her careless tresses,<br> +A wreath of bulrush rounded; about her stuck<br> +Thousand fresh water-flowers of several colours,<br> +That methought she appeared like the fair nymph<br> +That feeds the lake with waters, or as Iris<br> +Newly dropped down from heaven. Rings she made<br> +Of rushes that grew by, and to ’em spoke<br> +The prettiest posies: “Thus our true love’s tied,”<br> +“This you may loose, not me,” and many a one;<br> +And then she wept, and sung again, and sighed,<br> And with the same breath smiled and kissed her hand. </p> <p class="drama"> -SECOND FRIEND.<br/> +SECOND FRIEND.<br> Alas, what pity it is! </p> <p class="drama"> -WOOER.<br/> -I made in to her.<br/> -She saw me, and straight sought the flood. I saved her<br/> -And set her safe to land, when presently<br/> -She slipped away, and to the city made<br/> -With such a cry and swiftness that, believe me,<br/> -She left me far behind her. Three or four<br/> -I saw from far off cross her—one of ’em<br/> -I knew to be your brother—where she stayed<br/> -And fell, scarce to be got away. I left them with her<br/> +WOOER.<br> +I made in to her.<br> +She saw me, and straight sought the flood. I saved her<br> +And set her safe to land, when presently<br> +She slipped away, and to the city made<br> +With such a cry and swiftness that, believe me,<br> +She left me far behind her. Three or four<br> +I saw from far off cross her—one of ’em<br> +I knew to be your brother—where she stayed<br> +And fell, scarce to be got away. I left them with her<br> And hither came to tell you. </p> @@ -5301,7 +5280,7 @@ Here they are. </p> <p class="drama"> -DAUGHTER.<br/> +DAUGHTER.<br> [<i>Sings</i>.] </p> @@ -5314,328 +5293,328 @@ Is not this a fine song? </p> <p class="drama"> -BROTHER.<br/> +BROTHER.<br> O, a very fine one. </p> <p class="drama"> -DAUGHTER.<br/> +DAUGHTER.<br> I can sing twenty more. </p> <p class="drama"> -BROTHER.<br/> +BROTHER.<br> I think you can. </p> <p class="drama"> -DAUGHTER.<br/> -Yes, truly can I. I can sing “The Broom”<br/> +DAUGHTER.<br> +Yes, truly can I. I can sing “The Broom”<br> and “Bonny Robin.” Are not you a tailor? </p> <p class="drama"> -BROTHER.<br/> +BROTHER.<br> Yes. </p> <p class="drama"> -DAUGHTER.<br/> +DAUGHTER.<br> Where’s my wedding gown? </p> <p class="drama"> -BROTHER.<br/> +BROTHER.<br> I’ll bring it tomorrow. </p> <p class="drama"> -DAUGHTER.<br/> -Do, very rarely, I must be abroad else<br/> -To call the maids and pay the minstrels,<br/> -For I must lose my maidenhead by cocklight.<br/> -’Twill never thrive else.<br/> +DAUGHTER.<br> +Do, very rarely, I must be abroad else<br> +To call the maids and pay the minstrels,<br> +For I must lose my maidenhead by cocklight.<br> +’Twill never thrive else.<br> [<i>Sings</i>.] <i>O fair, O sweet, &c.</i> </p> <p class="drama"> -BROTHER.<br/> +BROTHER.<br> [<i>To Jailer.</i>] You must e’en take it patiently. </p> <p class="drama"> -JAILER.<br/> +JAILER.<br> ’Tis true. </p> <p class="drama"> -DAUGHTER.<br/> -Good ev’n, good men; pray, did you ever hear<br/> +DAUGHTER.<br> +Good ev’n, good men; pray, did you ever hear<br> Of one young Palamon? </p> <p class="drama"> -JAILER.<br/> +JAILER.<br> Yes, wench, we know him. </p> <p class="drama"> -DAUGHTER.<br/> +DAUGHTER.<br> Is’t not a fine young gentleman? </p> <p class="drama"> -JAILER.<br/> +JAILER.<br> ’Tis, love. </p> <p class="drama"> -BROTHER.<br/> -By no means cross her; she is then distempered<br/> +BROTHER.<br> +By no means cross her; she is then distempered<br> Far worse than now she shows. </p> <p class="drama"> -FIRST FRIEND.<br/> +FIRST FRIEND.<br> Yes, he’s a fine man. </p> <p class="drama"> -DAUGHTER.<br/> +DAUGHTER.<br> O, is he so? You have a sister? </p> <p class="drama"> -FIRST FRIEND.<br/> +FIRST FRIEND.<br> Yes. </p> <p class="drama"> -DAUGHTER.<br/> -But she shall never have him, tell her so,<br/> -For a trick that I know; you’d best look to her,<br/> -For if she see him once, she’s gone, she’s done,<br/> -And undone in an hour. All the young maids<br/> -Of our town are in love with him, but I laugh at ’em<br/> +DAUGHTER.<br> +But she shall never have him, tell her so,<br> +For a trick that I know; you’d best look to her,<br> +For if she see him once, she’s gone, she’s done,<br> +And undone in an hour. All the young maids<br> +Of our town are in love with him, but I laugh at ’em<br> And let ’em all alone. Is ’t not a wise course? </p> <p class="drama"> -FIRST FRIEND.<br/> +FIRST FRIEND.<br> Yes. </p> <p class="drama"> -DAUGHTER.<br/> -There is at least two hundred now with child by him—<br/> -There must be four; yet I keep close for all this,<br/> -Close as a cockle; and all these must be boys<br/> -He has the trick on ’t; and at ten years old<br/> -They must be all gelt for musicians<br/> +DAUGHTER.<br> +There is at least two hundred now with child by him—<br> +There must be four; yet I keep close for all this,<br> +Close as a cockle; and all these must be boys<br> +He has the trick on ’t; and at ten years old<br> +They must be all gelt for musicians<br> And sing the wars of Theseus. </p> <p class="drama"> -SECOND FRIEND.<br/> +SECOND FRIEND.<br> This is strange. </p> <p class="drama"> -DAUGHTER.<br/> +DAUGHTER.<br> As ever you heard, but say nothing. </p> <p class="drama"> -FIRST FRIEND.<br/> +FIRST FRIEND.<br> No. </p> <p class="drama"> -DAUGHTER.<br/> -They come from all parts of the dukedom to him.<br/> -I’ll warrant ye, he had not so few last night<br/> -As twenty to dispatch. He’ll tickle ’t up<br/> +DAUGHTER.<br> +They come from all parts of the dukedom to him.<br> +I’ll warrant ye, he had not so few last night<br> +As twenty to dispatch. He’ll tickle ’t up<br> In two hours, if his hand be in. </p> <p class="drama"> -JAILER.<br/> -She’s lost<br/> +JAILER.<br> +She’s lost<br> Past all cure. </p> <p class="drama"> -BROTHER.<br/> +BROTHER.<br> Heaven forbid, man! </p> <p class="drama"> -DAUGHTER.<br/> +DAUGHTER.<br> Come hither, you are a wise man. </p> <p class="drama"> -FIRST FRIEND.<br/> +FIRST FRIEND.<br> [<i>Aside.</i>] Does she know him? </p> <p class="drama"> -SECOND FRIEND.<br/> +SECOND FRIEND.<br> [<i>Aside.</i>] No, would she did. </p> <p class="drama"> -DAUGHTER.<br/> +DAUGHTER.<br> You are master of a ship? </p> <p class="drama"> -JAILER.<br/> +JAILER.<br> Yes. </p> <p class="drama"> -DAUGHTER.<br/> +DAUGHTER.<br> Where’s your compass? </p> <p class="drama"> -JAILER.<br/> +JAILER.<br> Here. </p> <p class="drama"> -DAUGHTER.<br/> -Set it to th’ north.<br/> -And now direct your course to th’ wood, where Palamon<br/> -Lies longing for me. For the tackling,<br/> +DAUGHTER.<br> +Set it to th’ north.<br> +And now direct your course to th’ wood, where Palamon<br> +Lies longing for me. For the tackling,<br> Let me alone. Come, weigh, my hearts, cheerly. </p> <p class="drama"> -ALL.<br/> -Owgh, owgh, owgh! ’Tis up, the wind’s fair!<br/> -Top the bowline; out with the mainsail;<br/> +ALL.<br> +Owgh, owgh, owgh! ’Tis up, the wind’s fair!<br> +Top the bowline; out with the mainsail;<br> Where’s your whistle, master? </p> <p class="drama"> -BROTHER.<br/> +BROTHER.<br> Let’s get her in. </p> <p class="drama"> -JAILER.<br/> +JAILER.<br> Up to the top, boy. </p> <p class="drama"> -BROTHER.<br/> +BROTHER.<br> Where’s the pilot? </p> <p class="drama"> -FIRST FRIEND.<br/> +FIRST FRIEND.<br> Here. </p> <p class="drama"> -DAUGHTER.<br/> +DAUGHTER.<br> What kenn’st thou? </p> <p class="drama"> -SECOND FRIEND.<br/> +SECOND FRIEND.<br> A fair wood. </p> <p class="drama"> -DAUGHTER.<br/> -Bear for it, master. Tack about!<br/> -[<i>Sings</i>.]<br/> +DAUGHTER.<br> +Bear for it, master. Tack about!<br> +[<i>Sings</i>.]<br> <i>When Cinthia with her borrowed light, &c.</i> </p> <p class="right">[<i>Exeunt.</i>]</p> -<h3><a name="sceneIV_38.2"></a><b>SCENE II. A Room in the Palace</b></h3> +<h3><a id="sceneIV_38.2"></a><b>SCENE II. A Room in the Palace</b></h3> <p class="scenedesc"> Enter <span class="charname">Emilia</span> alone, with two pictures. </p> <p class="drama"> -EMILIA.<br/> -Yet I may bind those wounds up, that must open<br/> -And bleed to death for my sake else. I’ll choose,<br/> -And end their strife. Two such young handsome men<br/> -Shall never fall for me; their weeping mothers,<br/> -Following the dead cold ashes of their sons,<br/> +EMILIA.<br> +Yet I may bind those wounds up, that must open<br> +And bleed to death for my sake else. I’ll choose,<br> +And end their strife. Two such young handsome men<br> +Shall never fall for me; their weeping mothers,<br> +Following the dead cold ashes of their sons,<br> Shall never curse my cruelty. </p> <p class="right">[<i>Looks at one of the pictures.</i>]</p> <p class="drama"> -Good heaven,<br/> -What a sweet face has Arcite! If wise Nature,<br/> -With all her best endowments, all those beauties<br/> -She sows into the births of noble bodies,<br/> -Were here a mortal woman, and had in her<br/> -The coy denials of young maids, yet doubtless<br/> -She would run mad for this man. What an eye,<br/> -Of what a fiery sparkle and quick sweetness,<br/> -Has this young prince! Here Love himself sits smiling;<br/> -Just such another wanton Ganymede<br/> -Set Jove afire with, and enforced the god<br/> -Snatch up the goodly boy and set him by him,<br/> -A shining constellation. What a brow,<br/> -Of what a spacious majesty, he carries,<br/> -Arched like the great-eyed Juno’s, but far sweeter,<br/> -Smoother than Pelops’ shoulder! Fame and Honour,<br/> -Methinks, from hence, as from a promontory<br/> -Pointed in heaven, should clap their wings and sing<br/> -To all the under-world the loves and fights<br/> +Good heaven,<br> +What a sweet face has Arcite! If wise Nature,<br> +With all her best endowments, all those beauties<br> +She sows into the births of noble bodies,<br> +Were here a mortal woman, and had in her<br> +The coy denials of young maids, yet doubtless<br> +She would run mad for this man. What an eye,<br> +Of what a fiery sparkle and quick sweetness,<br> +Has this young prince! Here Love himself sits smiling;<br> +Just such another wanton Ganymede<br> +Set Jove afire with, and enforced the god<br> +Snatch up the goodly boy and set him by him,<br> +A shining constellation. What a brow,<br> +Of what a spacious majesty, he carries,<br> +Arched like the great-eyed Juno’s, but far sweeter,<br> +Smoother than Pelops’ shoulder! Fame and Honour,<br> +Methinks, from hence, as from a promontory<br> +Pointed in heaven, should clap their wings and sing<br> +To all the under-world the loves and fights<br> Of gods and such men near ’em. </p> <p class="right">[<i>Looks at the other picture.</i>]</p> <p class="drama"> -Palamon<br/> -Is but his foil; to him a mere dull shadow;<br/> -He’s swart and meagre, of an eye as heavy<br/> -As if he had lost his mother; a still temper,<br/> -No stirring in him, no alacrity;<br/> -Of all this sprightly sharpness, not a smile.<br/> -Yet these that we count errors may become him;<br/> -Narcissus was a sad boy but a heavenly.<br/> -O, who can find the bent of woman’s fancy?<br/> -I am a fool; my reason is lost in me;<br/> -I have no choice, and I have lied so lewdly<br/> -That women ought to beat me. On my knees<br/> -I ask thy pardon, Palamon, thou art alone<br/> -And only beautiful, and these the eyes,<br/> -These the bright lamps of beauty, that command<br/> -And threaten love, and what young maid dare cross ’em?<br/> -What a bold gravity, and yet inviting,<br/> -Has this brown manly face! O Love, this only<br/> +Palamon<br> +Is but his foil; to him a mere dull shadow;<br> +He’s swart and meagre, of an eye as heavy<br> +As if he had lost his mother; a still temper,<br> +No stirring in him, no alacrity;<br> +Of all this sprightly sharpness, not a smile.<br> +Yet these that we count errors may become him;<br> +Narcissus was a sad boy but a heavenly.<br> +O, who can find the bent of woman’s fancy?<br> +I am a fool; my reason is lost in me;<br> +I have no choice, and I have lied so lewdly<br> +That women ought to beat me. On my knees<br> +I ask thy pardon, Palamon, thou art alone<br> +And only beautiful, and these the eyes,<br> +These the bright lamps of beauty, that command<br> +And threaten love, and what young maid dare cross ’em?<br> +What a bold gravity, and yet inviting,<br> +Has this brown manly face! O Love, this only<br> From this hour is complexion. Lie there, Arcite. </p> <p class="right">[<i>She puts aside his picture.</i>]</p> <p class="drama"> -Thou art a changeling to him, a mere gypsy,<br/> -And this the noble body. I am sotted,<br/> -Utterly lost. My virgin’s faith has fled me.<br/> -For if my brother but even now had asked me<br/> -Whether I loved, I had run mad for Arcite;<br/> -Now, if my sister, more for Palamon.<br/> -Stand both together. Now, come ask me, brother.<br/> -Alas, I know not! Ask me now, sweet sister.<br/> -I may go look! What a mere child is Fancy,<br/> -That, having two fair gauds of equal sweetness,<br/> +Thou art a changeling to him, a mere gypsy,<br> +And this the noble body. I am sotted,<br> +Utterly lost. My virgin’s faith has fled me.<br> +For if my brother but even now had asked me<br> +Whether I loved, I had run mad for Arcite;<br> +Now, if my sister, more for Palamon.<br> +Stand both together. Now, come ask me, brother.<br> +Alas, I know not! Ask me now, sweet sister.<br> +I may go look! What a mere child is Fancy,<br> +That, having two fair gauds of equal sweetness,<br> Cannot distinguish, but must cry for both. </p> @@ -5644,35 +5623,35 @@ Enter a <span class="charname">Gentleman</span>. </p> <p class="drama"> -EMILIA.<br/> +EMILIA.<br> How now, sir? </p> <p class="drama"> -GENTLEMAN.<br/> -From the noble Duke your brother,<br/> +GENTLEMAN.<br> +From the noble Duke your brother,<br> Madam, I bring you news. The knights are come. </p> <p class="drama"> -EMILIA.<br/> +EMILIA.<br> To end the quarrel? </p> <p class="drama"> -GENTLEMAN.<br/> +GENTLEMAN.<br> Yes. </p> <p class="drama"> -EMILIA.<br/> -Would I might end first!<br/> -What sins have I committed, chaste Diana,<br/> -That my unspotted youth must now be soiled<br/> -With blood of princes, and my chastity<br/> -Be made the altar where the lives of lovers—<br/> -Two greater and two better never yet<br/> -Made mothers joy—must be the sacrifice<br/> +EMILIA.<br> +Would I might end first!<br> +What sins have I committed, chaste Diana,<br> +That my unspotted youth must now be soiled<br> +With blood of princes, and my chastity<br> +Be made the altar where the lives of lovers—<br> +Two greater and two better never yet<br> +Made mothers joy—must be the sacrifice<br> To my unhappy beauty? </p> @@ -5681,32 +5660,32 @@ Enter <span class="charname">Theseus, Hippolyta, Pirithous</span> and Attendants </p> <p class="drama"> -THESEUS.<br/> -Bring ’em in<br/> -Quickly, by any means; I long to see ’em.<br/> -Your two contending lovers are returned,<br/> -And with them their fair knights. Now, my fair sister,<br/> +THESEUS.<br> +Bring ’em in<br> +Quickly, by any means; I long to see ’em.<br> +Your two contending lovers are returned,<br> +And with them their fair knights. Now, my fair sister,<br> You must love one of them. </p> <p class="drama"> -EMILIA.<br/> -I had rather both,<br/> +EMILIA.<br> +I had rather both,<br> So neither for my sake should fall untimely. </p> <p class="drama"> -THESEUS.<br/> +THESEUS.<br> Who saw ’em? </p> <p class="drama"> -PIRITHOUS.<br/> +PIRITHOUS.<br> I a while. </p> <p class="drama"> -GENTLEMAN.<br/> +GENTLEMAN.<br> And I. </p> @@ -5715,207 +5694,207 @@ Enter <span class="charname">Messenger</span>. </p> <p class="drama"> -THESEUS.<br/> +THESEUS.<br> From whence come you, sir? </p> <p class="drama"> -MESSENGER.<br/> +MESSENGER.<br> From the knights. </p> <p class="drama"> -THESEUS.<br/> -Pray, speak,<br/> +THESEUS.<br> +Pray, speak,<br> You that have seen them, what they are. </p> <p class="drama"> -MESSENGER.<br/> -I will, sir,<br/> -And truly what I think. Six braver spirits<br/> -Than these they have brought, if we judge by the outside,<br/> -I never saw nor read of. He that stands<br/> -In the first place with Arcite, by his seeming<br/> -Should be a stout man, by his face a prince,<br/> -His very looks so say him; his complexion<br/> -Nearer a brown than black, stern and yet noble,<br/> -Which shows him hardy, fearless, proud of dangers;<br/> -The circles of his eyes show fire within him,<br/> -And as a heated lion so he looks.<br/> -His hair hangs long behind him, black and shining<br/> -Like ravens’ wings; his shoulders broad and strong;<br/> -Armed long and round; and on his thigh a sword<br/> -Hung by a curious baldric, when he frowns<br/> -To seal his will with. Better, o’ my conscience,<br/> +MESSENGER.<br> +I will, sir,<br> +And truly what I think. Six braver spirits<br> +Than these they have brought, if we judge by the outside,<br> +I never saw nor read of. He that stands<br> +In the first place with Arcite, by his seeming<br> +Should be a stout man, by his face a prince,<br> +His very looks so say him; his complexion<br> +Nearer a brown than black, stern and yet noble,<br> +Which shows him hardy, fearless, proud of dangers;<br> +The circles of his eyes show fire within him,<br> +And as a heated lion so he looks.<br> +His hair hangs long behind him, black and shining<br> +Like ravens’ wings; his shoulders broad and strong;<br> +Armed long and round; and on his thigh a sword<br> +Hung by a curious baldric, when he frowns<br> +To seal his will with. Better, o’ my conscience,<br> Was never soldier’s friend. </p> <p class="drama"> -THESEUS.<br/> +THESEUS.<br> Thou hast well described him. </p> <p class="drama"> -PIRITHOUS.<br/> -Yet a great deal short,<br/> +PIRITHOUS.<br> +Yet a great deal short,<br> Methinks, of him that’s first with Palamon. </p> <p class="drama"> -THESEUS.<br/> +THESEUS.<br> Pray, speak him, friend. </p> <p class="drama"> -PIRITHOUS.<br/> -I guess he is a prince too,<br/> -And, if it may be, greater; for his show<br/> -Has all the ornament of honour in ’t:<br/> -He’s somewhat bigger than the knight he spoke of,<br/> -But of a face far sweeter; his complexion<br/> -Is, as a ripe grape, ruddy. He has felt<br/> -Without doubt what he fights for, and so apter<br/> -To make this cause his own. In ’s face appears<br/> -All the fair hopes of what he undertakes<br/> -And when he’s angry, then a settled valour,<br/> -Not tainted with extremes, runs through his body<br/> -And guides his arm to brave things. Fear he cannot;<br/> -He shows no such soft temper. His head’s yellow,<br/> -Hard-haired and curled, thick-twined like ivy tods,<br/> -Not to undo with thunder. In his face<br/> -The livery of the warlike maid appears,<br/> -Pure red and white, for yet no beard has blessed him;<br/> -And in his rolling eyes sits Victory,<br/> -As if she ever meant to crown his valour.<br/> -His nose stands high, a character of honour;<br/> +PIRITHOUS.<br> +I guess he is a prince too,<br> +And, if it may be, greater; for his show<br> +Has all the ornament of honour in ’t:<br> +He’s somewhat bigger than the knight he spoke of,<br> +But of a face far sweeter; his complexion<br> +Is, as a ripe grape, ruddy. He has felt<br> +Without doubt what he fights for, and so apter<br> +To make this cause his own. In ’s face appears<br> +All the fair hopes of what he undertakes<br> +And when he’s angry, then a settled valour,<br> +Not tainted with extremes, runs through his body<br> +And guides his arm to brave things. Fear he cannot;<br> +He shows no such soft temper. His head’s yellow,<br> +Hard-haired and curled, thick-twined like ivy tods,<br> +Not to undo with thunder. In his face<br> +The livery of the warlike maid appears,<br> +Pure red and white, for yet no beard has blessed him;<br> +And in his rolling eyes sits Victory,<br> +As if she ever meant to crown his valour.<br> +His nose stands high, a character of honour;<br> His red lips, after fights, are fit for ladies. </p> <p class="drama"> -EMILIA.<br/> +EMILIA.<br> Must these men die too? </p> <p class="drama"> -PIRITHOUS.<br/> -When he speaks, his tongue<br/> -Sounds like a trumpet. All his lineaments<br/> -Are as a man would wish ’em, strong and clean.<br/> -He wears a well-steeled axe, the staff of gold;<br/> +PIRITHOUS.<br> +When he speaks, his tongue<br> +Sounds like a trumpet. All his lineaments<br> +Are as a man would wish ’em, strong and clean.<br> +He wears a well-steeled axe, the staff of gold;<br> His age some five-and-twenty. </p> <p class="drama"> -MESSENGER.<br/> -There’s another,<br/> -A little man, but of a tough soul, seeming<br/> -As great as any; fairer promises<br/> +MESSENGER.<br> +There’s another,<br> +A little man, but of a tough soul, seeming<br> +As great as any; fairer promises<br> In such a body yet I never looked on. </p> <p class="drama"> -PIRITHOUS.<br/> +PIRITHOUS.<br> O, he that’s freckle-faced? </p> <p class="drama"> -MESSENGER.<br/> -The same, my lord;<br/> +MESSENGER.<br> +The same, my lord;<br> Are they not sweet ones? </p> <p class="drama"> -PIRITHOUS.<br/> +PIRITHOUS.<br> Yes, they are well. </p> <p class="drama"> -MESSENGER.<br/> -Methinks,<br/> -Being so few and well disposed, they show<br/> -Great and fine art in nature. He’s white-haired,<br/> -Not wanton white, but such a manly colour<br/> -Next to an auburn; tough and nimble-set,<br/> -Which shows an active soul. His arms are brawny,<br/> -Lined with strong sinews. To the shoulder-piece<br/> -Gently they swell, like women new-conceived,<br/> -Which speaks him prone to labour, never fainting<br/> -Under the weight of arms; stout-hearted still,<br/> -But when he stirs, a tiger. He’s grey-eyed,<br/> -Which yields compassion where he conquers; sharp<br/> -To spy advantages, and where he finds ’em,<br/> -He’s swift to make ’em his. He does no wrongs,<br/> -Nor takes none. He’s round-faced, and when he smiles<br/> -He shows a lover; when he frowns, a soldier.<br/> -About his head he wears the winner’s oak,<br/> -And in it stuck the favour of his lady.<br/> -His age some six-and-thirty. In his hand<br/> +MESSENGER.<br> +Methinks,<br> +Being so few and well disposed, they show<br> +Great and fine art in nature. He’s white-haired,<br> +Not wanton white, but such a manly colour<br> +Next to an auburn; tough and nimble-set,<br> +Which shows an active soul. His arms are brawny,<br> +Lined with strong sinews. To the shoulder-piece<br> +Gently they swell, like women new-conceived,<br> +Which speaks him prone to labour, never fainting<br> +Under the weight of arms; stout-hearted still,<br> +But when he stirs, a tiger. He’s grey-eyed,<br> +Which yields compassion where he conquers; sharp<br> +To spy advantages, and where he finds ’em,<br> +He’s swift to make ’em his. He does no wrongs,<br> +Nor takes none. He’s round-faced, and when he smiles<br> +He shows a lover; when he frowns, a soldier.<br> +About his head he wears the winner’s oak,<br> +And in it stuck the favour of his lady.<br> +His age some six-and-thirty. In his hand<br> He bears a charging-staff embossed with silver. </p> <p class="drama"> -THESEUS.<br/> +THESEUS.<br> Are they all thus? </p> <p class="drama"> -PIRITHOUS.<br/> +PIRITHOUS.<br> They are all the sons of honour. </p> <p class="drama"> -THESEUS.<br/> -Now, as I have a soul, I long to see’em.<br/> +THESEUS.<br> +Now, as I have a soul, I long to see’em.<br> Lady, you shall see men fight now. </p> <p class="drama"> -HIPPOLYTA.<br/> -I wish it,<br/> -But not the cause, my lord. They would show<br/> -Bravely about the titles of two kingdoms.<br/> -’Tis pity love should be so tyrannous.—<br/> -O, my soft-hearted sister, what think you?<br/> +HIPPOLYTA.<br> +I wish it,<br> +But not the cause, my lord. They would show<br> +Bravely about the titles of two kingdoms.<br> +’Tis pity love should be so tyrannous.—<br> +O, my soft-hearted sister, what think you?<br> Weep not till they weep blood. Wench, it must be. </p> <p class="drama"> -THESEUS.<br/> -You have steeled ’em with your beauty.<br/> -Honoured friend,<br/> -To you I give the field; pray order it<br/> +THESEUS.<br> +You have steeled ’em with your beauty.<br> +Honoured friend,<br> +To you I give the field; pray order it<br> Fitting the persons that must use it. </p> <p class="drama"> -PIRITHOUS.<br/> +PIRITHOUS.<br> Yes, sir. </p> <p class="drama"> -THESEUS.<br/> -Come, I’ll go visit ’em. I cannot stay,<br/> -Their fame has fired me so; till they appear.<br/> +THESEUS.<br> +Come, I’ll go visit ’em. I cannot stay,<br> +Their fame has fired me so; till they appear.<br> Good friend, be royal. </p> <p class="drama"> -PIRITHOUS.<br/> +PIRITHOUS.<br> There shall want no bravery. </p> <p class="right">[<i>Exeunt all but <span class="charname">Emilia</span>.</i>]</p> <p class="drama"> -EMILIA.<br/> -Poor wench, go weep, for whosoever wins,<br/> +EMILIA.<br> +Poor wench, go weep, for whosoever wins,<br> Loses a noble cousin for thy sins. </p> <p class="right">[<i>Exit.</i>]</p> -<h3><a name="sceneIV_38.3"></a><b>SCENE III. A room in the prison</b></h3> +<h3><a id="sceneIV_38.3"></a><b>SCENE III. A room in the prison</b></h3> <p class="scenedesc"> Enter <span class="charname">Jailer, Wooer</span> and @@ -5923,13 +5902,13 @@ Enter <span class="charname">Jailer, Wooer</span> and </p> <p class="drama"> -DOCTOR.<br/> +DOCTOR.<br> Her distraction is more at some time of the moon, than at other some, is it not? </p> <p class="drama"> -JAILER.<br/> +JAILER.<br> She is continually in a harmless distemper, sleeps little, altogether without appetite, save often drinking, dreaming of another world, and a better; and what broken piece of matter soe’er she’s about, the name Palamon lards it, that @@ -5945,7 +5924,7 @@ Look where she comes; you shall perceive her behaviour. </p> <p class="drama"> -DAUGHTER.<br/> +DAUGHTER.<br> I have forgot it quite. The burden on ’t was “Down-a, down-a,” and penned by no worse man than Geraldo, Emilia’s schoolmaster. He’s as fantastical, too, as ever he may go upon’s legs, for in the next world will Dido see Palamon, and @@ -5953,17 +5932,17 @@ then will she be out of love with Æneas. </p> <p class="drama"> -DOCTOR.<br/> +DOCTOR.<br> What stuff’s here? Poor soul! </p> <p class="drama"> -JAILER.<br/> +JAILER.<br> Even thus all day long. </p> <p class="drama"> -DAUGHTER.<br/> +DAUGHTER.<br> Now for this charm that I told you of: you must bring a piece of silver on the tip of your tongue, or no ferry. Then if it be your chance to come where the blessed spirits are, there’s a sight now! We maids that have our livers @@ -5973,12 +5952,12 @@ then let him mark me—then. </p> <p class="drama"> -DOCTOR.<br/> +DOCTOR.<br> How prettily she’s amiss! Note her a little further. </p> <p class="drama"> -DAUGHTER.<br/> +DAUGHTER.<br> Faith, I’ll tell you, sometime we go to barley-break, we of the blessed. Alas, ’tis a sore life they have i’ th’ other place—such burning, frying, boiling, hissing, howling, chattering, cursing—O, they have shrewd measure; take heed! @@ -5989,12 +5968,12 @@ never be enough. </p> <p class="drama"> -DOCTOR.<br/> +DOCTOR.<br> How her brain coins! </p> <p class="drama"> -DAUGHTER.<br/> +DAUGHTER.<br> Lords and courtiers that have got maids with child, they are in this place. They shall stand in fire up to the navel and in ice up to the heart, and there th’ offending part burns and the deceiving part freezes. In troth, a very @@ -6003,13 +5982,13 @@ would marry a leprous witch to be rid on ’t, I’ll assure you. </p> <p class="drama"> -DOCTOR.<br/> +DOCTOR.<br> How she continues this fancy! ’Tis not an engraffed madness, but a most thick, and profound melancholy. </p> <p class="drama"> -DAUGHTER.<br/> +DAUGHTER.<br> To hear there a proud lady and a proud city wife howl together! I were a beast an I’d call it good sport. One cries “O this smoke!” th’ other, “This fire!”; one cries, “O, that ever I did it behind the arras!” and then howls; th’ other @@ -6017,47 +5996,47 @@ curses a suing fellow and her garden house. </p> <p class="drama"> -[<i>Sings.</i>]<br/> +[<i>Sings.</i>]<br> <i>I will be true, my stars, my fate, &c.</i> </p> <p class="right">[<i>Exit Jailer’s <span class="charname">Daughter</span>.</i>]</p> <p class="drama"> -JAILER.<br/> +JAILER.<br> What think you of her, sir? </p> <p class="drama"> -DOCTOR.<br/> +DOCTOR.<br> I think she has a perturbed mind, which I cannot minister to. </p> <p class="drama"> -JAILER.<br/> +JAILER.<br> Alas, what then? </p> <p class="drama"> -DOCTOR.<br/> +DOCTOR.<br> Understand you she ever affected any man ere she beheld Palamon? </p> <p class="drama"> -JAILER.<br/> +JAILER.<br> I was once, sir, in great hope she had fixed her liking on this gentleman, my friend. </p> <p class="drama"> -WOOER.<br/> +WOOER.<br> I did think so too, and would account I had a great penn’orth on’t, to give half my state, that both she and I at this present stood unfeignedly on the same terms. </p> <p class="drama"> -DOCTOR.<br/> +DOCTOR.<br> That intemperate surfeit of her eye hath distempered the other senses. They may return and settle again to execute their preordained faculties, but they are now in a most extravagant vagary. This you must do: confine her to a place @@ -6088,7 +6067,7 @@ which, doubt not, will bring forth comfort. <div class="chapter"> -<h2><a name="sceneV_38.1"></a><b>ACT V</b></h2> +<h2><a id="sceneV_38.1"></a><b>ACT V</b></h2> <h3><b>SCENE I. Athens. Before the Temples of Mars, Venus, and Diana</b></h3> @@ -6098,18 +6077,18 @@ Attendants. </p> <p class="drama"> -THESEUS.<br/> -Now let ’em enter and before the gods<br/> -Tender their holy prayers. Let the temples<br/> -Burn bright with sacred fires, and the altars<br/> -In hallowed clouds commend their swelling incense<br/> -To those above us. Let no due be wanting.<br/> -They have a noble work in hand, will honour<br/> +THESEUS.<br> +Now let ’em enter and before the gods<br> +Tender their holy prayers. Let the temples<br> +Burn bright with sacred fires, and the altars<br> +In hallowed clouds commend their swelling incense<br> +To those above us. Let no due be wanting.<br> +They have a noble work in hand, will honour<br> The very powers that love ’em. </p> <p class="drama"> -PIRITHOUS.<br/> +PIRITHOUS.<br> Sir, they enter. </p> @@ -6119,105 +6098,105 @@ Enter <span class="charname">Palamon</span> and </p> <p class="drama"> -THESEUS.<br/> -You valiant and strong-hearted enemies,<br/> -You royal german foes, that this day come<br/> -To blow that nearness out that flames between ye,<br/> -Lay by your anger for an hour and, dove-like,<br/> -Before the holy altars of your helpers,<br/> -The all-feared gods, bow down your stubborn bodies.<br/> -Your ire is more than mortal; so your help be;<br/> -And, as the gods regard ye, fight with justice.<br/> -I’ll leave you to your prayers, and betwixt ye<br/> +THESEUS.<br> +You valiant and strong-hearted enemies,<br> +You royal german foes, that this day come<br> +To blow that nearness out that flames between ye,<br> +Lay by your anger for an hour and, dove-like,<br> +Before the holy altars of your helpers,<br> +The all-feared gods, bow down your stubborn bodies.<br> +Your ire is more than mortal; so your help be;<br> +And, as the gods regard ye, fight with justice.<br> +I’ll leave you to your prayers, and betwixt ye<br> I part my wishes. </p> <p class="drama"> -PIRITHOUS.<br/> +PIRITHOUS.<br> Honour crown the worthiest. </p> <p class="right">[<i>Exeunt <span class="charname">Theseus</span> and his Train.</i>]</p> <p class="drama"> -PALAMON.<br/> -The glass is running now that cannot finish<br/> -Till one of us expire. Think you but thus,<br/> -That were there aught in me which strove to show<br/> -Mine enemy in this business, were ’t one eye<br/> -Against another, arm oppressed by arm,<br/> -I would destroy th’ offender, coz, I would<br/> -Though parcel of myself. Then from this gather<br/> +PALAMON.<br> +The glass is running now that cannot finish<br> +Till one of us expire. Think you but thus,<br> +That were there aught in me which strove to show<br> +Mine enemy in this business, were ’t one eye<br> +Against another, arm oppressed by arm,<br> +I would destroy th’ offender, coz, I would<br> +Though parcel of myself. Then from this gather<br> How I should tender you. </p> <p class="drama"> -ARCITE.<br/> -I am in labour<br/> -To push your name, your ancient love, our kindred<br/> -Out of my memory, and i’ th’ selfsame place<br/> -To seat something I would confound. So hoist we<br/> -The sails that must these vessels port even where<br/> +ARCITE.<br> +I am in labour<br> +To push your name, your ancient love, our kindred<br> +Out of my memory, and i’ th’ selfsame place<br> +To seat something I would confound. So hoist we<br> +The sails that must these vessels port even where<br> The heavenly limiter pleases. </p> <p class="drama"> -PALAMON.<br/> -You speak well.<br/> -Before I turn, let me embrace thee, cousin.<br/> +PALAMON.<br> +You speak well.<br> +Before I turn, let me embrace thee, cousin.<br> This I shall never do again. </p> <p class="drama"> -ARCITE.<br/> +ARCITE.<br> One farewell. </p> <p class="drama"> -PALAMON.<br/> +PALAMON.<br> Why, let it be so. Farewell, coz. </p> <p class="drama"> -ARCITE.<br/> +ARCITE.<br> Farewell, sir. </p> <p class="right">[<i>Exeunt <span class="charname">Palamon</span> and his Knights.</i>]</p> <p class="drama"> -Knights, kinsmen, lovers, yea, my sacrifices,<br/> -True worshippers of Mars, whose spirit in you<br/> -Expels the seeds of fear and th’ apprehension<br/> -Which still is father of it, go with me<br/> -Before the god of our profession. There<br/> -Require of him the hearts of lions and<br/> -The breath of tigers, yea, the fierceness too,<br/> -Yea, the speed also—to go on, I mean;<br/> -Else wish we to be snails. You know my prize<br/> -Must be dragged out of blood; force and great feat<br/> -Must put my garland on, where she sticks,<br/> -The queen of flowers. Our intercession, then,<br/> -Must be to him that makes the camp a cistern<br/> -Brimmed with the blood of men. Give me your aid,<br/> +Knights, kinsmen, lovers, yea, my sacrifices,<br> +True worshippers of Mars, whose spirit in you<br> +Expels the seeds of fear and th’ apprehension<br> +Which still is father of it, go with me<br> +Before the god of our profession. There<br> +Require of him the hearts of lions and<br> +The breath of tigers, yea, the fierceness too,<br> +Yea, the speed also—to go on, I mean;<br> +Else wish we to be snails. You know my prize<br> +Must be dragged out of blood; force and great feat<br> +Must put my garland on, where she sticks,<br> +The queen of flowers. Our intercession, then,<br> +Must be to him that makes the camp a cistern<br> +Brimmed with the blood of men. Give me your aid,<br> And bend your spirits towards him. </p> <p class="right">[<i>They advance to the altar of Mars, fall on their faces before it, and then kneel.</i>]</p> <p class="drama"> -Thou mighty one, that with thy power hast turned<br/> -Green Neptune into purple; whose approach<br/> -Comets prewarn, whose havoc in vast field<br/> -Unearthed skulls proclaim; whose breath blows down<br/> -The teeming Ceres’ foison, who dost pluck<br/> -With hand armipotent from forth blue clouds<br/> -The masoned turrets, that both mak’st and break’st<br/> -The stony girths of cities; me thy pupil,<br/> -Youngest follower of thy drum, instruct this day<br/> -With military skill, that to thy laud<br/> -I may advance my streamer, and by thee<br/> -Be styled the lord o’ th’ day. Give me, great Mars,<br/> +Thou mighty one, that with thy power hast turned<br> +Green Neptune into purple; whose approach<br> +Comets prewarn, whose havoc in vast field<br> +Unearthed skulls proclaim; whose breath blows down<br> +The teeming Ceres’ foison, who dost pluck<br> +With hand armipotent from forth blue clouds<br> +The masoned turrets, that both mak’st and break’st<br> +The stony girths of cities; me thy pupil,<br> +Youngest follower of thy drum, instruct this day<br> +With military skill, that to thy laud<br> +I may advance my streamer, and by thee<br> +Be styled the lord o’ th’ day. Give me, great Mars,<br> Some token of thy pleasure. </p> @@ -6226,12 +6205,12 @@ heard clanging of armour, with a short thunder, as the burst of a battle, whereupon they all rise and bow to the altar.</i>]</p> <p class="drama"> -O, great corrector of enormous times,<br/> -Shaker of o’er-rank states, thou grand decider<br/> -Of dusty and old titles, that heal’st with blood<br/> -The earth when it is sick, and cur’st the world<br/> -O’ th’ pleurisy of people; I do take<br/> -Thy signs auspiciously, and in thy name<br/> +O, great corrector of enormous times,<br> +Shaker of o’er-rank states, thou grand decider<br> +Of dusty and old titles, that heal’st with blood<br> +The earth when it is sick, and cur’st the world<br> +O’ th’ pleurisy of people; I do take<br> +Thy signs auspiciously, and in thy name<br> To my design march boldly.—Let us go. </p> @@ -6243,72 +6222,72 @@ observance. </p> <p class="drama"> -PALAMON.<br/> -Our stars must glister with new fire, or be<br/> -Today extinct. Our argument is love,<br/> -Which, if the goddess of it grant, she gives<br/> -Victory too. Then blend your spirits with mine,<br/> -You whose free nobleness do make my cause<br/> -Your personal hazard. To the goddess Venus<br/> -Commend we our proceeding, and implore<br/> +PALAMON.<br> +Our stars must glister with new fire, or be<br> +Today extinct. Our argument is love,<br> +Which, if the goddess of it grant, she gives<br> +Victory too. Then blend your spirits with mine,<br> +You whose free nobleness do make my cause<br> +Your personal hazard. To the goddess Venus<br> +Commend we our proceeding, and implore<br> Her power unto our party. </p> <p class="right">[<i>Here they kneel as formerly.</i>]</p> <p class="drama"> -Hail, sovereign queen of secrets, who hast power<br/> -To call the fiercest tyrant from his rage<br/> -And weep unto a girl; that hast the might<br/> -Even with an eye-glance to choke Mars’s drum<br/> -And turn th’ alarm to whispers; that canst make<br/> -A cripple flourish with his crutch, and cure him<br/> -Before Apollo; that mayst force the king<br/> -To be his subject’s vassal, and induce<br/> -Stale gravity to dance. The polled bachelor,<br/> -Whose youth, like wanton boys through bonfires,<br/> -Have skipped thy flame, at seventy thou canst catch,<br/> -And make him, to the scorn of his hoarse throat,<br/> -Abuse young lays of love. What godlike power<br/> -Hast thou not power upon? To Phœbus thou<br/> -Add’st flames hotter than his; the heavenly fires<br/> -Did scorch his mortal son, thine him. The huntress,<br/> -All moist and cold, some say, began to throw<br/> -Her bow away and sigh. Take to thy grace<br/> -Me, thy vowed soldier, who do bear thy yoke<br/> -As ’twere a wreath of roses, yet is heavier<br/> -Than lead itself, stings more than nettles.<br/> -I have never been foul-mouthed against thy law,<br/> -Ne’er revealed secret, for I knew none—would not,<br/> -Had I kenned all that were. I never practised<br/> -Upon man’s wife, nor would the libels read<br/> -Of liberal wits. I never at great feasts<br/> -Sought to betray a beauty, but have blushed<br/> -At simpering sirs that did. I have been harsh<br/> -To large confessors, and have hotly asked them<br/> -If they had mothers—I had one, a woman,<br/> -And women ’twere they wronged. I knew a man<br/> -Of eighty winters, this I told them, who<br/> -A lass of fourteen brided; ’twas thy power<br/> -To put life into dust. The aged cramp<br/> -Had screwed his square foot round;<br/> -The gout had knit his fingers into knots,<br/> -Torturing convulsions from his globy eyes<br/> -Had almost drawn their spheres, that what was life<br/> -In him seemed torture. This anatomy<br/> -Had by his young fair fere a boy, and I<br/> -Believed it was his, for she swore it was,<br/> -And who would not believe her? Brief, I am<br/> -To those that prate and have done, no companion;<br/> -To those that boast and have not, a defier;<br/> -To those that would and cannot, a rejoicer.<br/> -Yea, him I do not love that tells close offices<br/> -The foulest way, nor names concealments in<br/> -The boldest language. Such a one I am,<br/> -And vow that lover never yet made sigh<br/> -Truer than I. O, then, most soft sweet goddess,<br/> -Give me the victory of this question, which<br/> -Is true love’s merit, and bless me with a sign<br/> +Hail, sovereign queen of secrets, who hast power<br> +To call the fiercest tyrant from his rage<br> +And weep unto a girl; that hast the might<br> +Even with an eye-glance to choke Mars’s drum<br> +And turn th’ alarm to whispers; that canst make<br> +A cripple flourish with his crutch, and cure him<br> +Before Apollo; that mayst force the king<br> +To be his subject’s vassal, and induce<br> +Stale gravity to dance. The polled bachelor,<br> +Whose youth, like wanton boys through bonfires,<br> +Have skipped thy flame, at seventy thou canst catch,<br> +And make him, to the scorn of his hoarse throat,<br> +Abuse young lays of love. What godlike power<br> +Hast thou not power upon? To Phœbus thou<br> +Add’st flames hotter than his; the heavenly fires<br> +Did scorch his mortal son, thine him. The huntress,<br> +All moist and cold, some say, began to throw<br> +Her bow away and sigh. Take to thy grace<br> +Me, thy vowed soldier, who do bear thy yoke<br> +As ’twere a wreath of roses, yet is heavier<br> +Than lead itself, stings more than nettles.<br> +I have never been foul-mouthed against thy law,<br> +Ne’er revealed secret, for I knew none—would not,<br> +Had I kenned all that were. I never practised<br> +Upon man’s wife, nor would the libels read<br> +Of liberal wits. I never at great feasts<br> +Sought to betray a beauty, but have blushed<br> +At simpering sirs that did. I have been harsh<br> +To large confessors, and have hotly asked them<br> +If they had mothers—I had one, a woman,<br> +And women ’twere they wronged. I knew a man<br> +Of eighty winters, this I told them, who<br> +A lass of fourteen brided; ’twas thy power<br> +To put life into dust. The aged cramp<br> +Had screwed his square foot round;<br> +The gout had knit his fingers into knots,<br> +Torturing convulsions from his globy eyes<br> +Had almost drawn their spheres, that what was life<br> +In him seemed torture. This anatomy<br> +Had by his young fair fere a boy, and I<br> +Believed it was his, for she swore it was,<br> +And who would not believe her? Brief, I am<br> +To those that prate and have done, no companion;<br> +To those that boast and have not, a defier;<br> +To those that would and cannot, a rejoicer.<br> +Yea, him I do not love that tells close offices<br> +The foulest way, nor names concealments in<br> +The boldest language. Such a one I am,<br> +And vow that lover never yet made sigh<br> +Truer than I. O, then, most soft sweet goddess,<br> +Give me the victory of this question, which<br> +Is true love’s merit, and bless me with a sign<br> Of thy great pleasure. </p> @@ -6316,12 +6295,12 @@ Of thy great pleasure. again upon their faces, then on their knees.</i>]</p> <p class="drama"> -O thou that from eleven to ninety reign’st<br/> -In mortal bosoms, whose chase is this world<br/> -And we in herds thy game, I give thee thanks<br/> -For this fair token, which being laid unto<br/> -Mine innocent true heart, arms in assurance<br/> -My body to this business.—Let us rise<br/> +O thou that from eleven to ninety reign’st<br> +In mortal bosoms, whose chase is this world<br> +And we in herds thy game, I give thee thanks<br> +For this fair token, which being laid unto<br> +Mine innocent true heart, arms in assurance<br> +My body to this business.—Let us rise<br> And bow before the goddess. </p> @@ -6343,32 +6322,32 @@ fire to it; then they curtsy and kneel. </p> <p class="drama"> -EMILIA.<br/> -O sacred, shadowy, cold, and constant queen,<br/> -Abandoner of revels, mute contemplative,<br/> -Sweet, solitary, white as chaste, and pure<br/> -As wind-fanned snow, who to thy female knights<br/> -Allow’st no more blood than will make a blush,<br/> -Which is their order’s robe, I here, thy priest,<br/> -Am humbled ’fore thine altar. O, vouchsafe<br/> -With that thy rare green eye, which never yet<br/> -Beheld thing maculate, look on thy virgin;<br/> -And, sacred silver mistress, lend thine ear,<br/> -Which ne’er heard scurrile term, into whose port<br/> -Ne’er entered wanton sound, to my petition,<br/> -Seasoned with holy fear. This is my last<br/> -Of vestal office. I am bride-habited<br/> -But maiden-hearted. A husband I have ’pointed,<br/> -But do not know him. Out of two I should<br/> -Choose one, and pray for his success, but I<br/> -Am guiltless of election. Of mine eyes,<br/> -Were I to lose one, they are equal precious;<br/> -I could doom neither; that which perished should<br/> -Go to ’t unsentenced. Therefore, most modest queen,<br/> -He of the two pretenders that best loves me<br/> -And has the truest title in ’t, let him<br/> -Take off my wheaten garland, or else grant<br/> -The file and quality I hold I may<br/> +EMILIA.<br> +O sacred, shadowy, cold, and constant queen,<br> +Abandoner of revels, mute contemplative,<br> +Sweet, solitary, white as chaste, and pure<br> +As wind-fanned snow, who to thy female knights<br> +Allow’st no more blood than will make a blush,<br> +Which is their order’s robe, I here, thy priest,<br> +Am humbled ’fore thine altar. O, vouchsafe<br> +With that thy rare green eye, which never yet<br> +Beheld thing maculate, look on thy virgin;<br> +And, sacred silver mistress, lend thine ear,<br> +Which ne’er heard scurrile term, into whose port<br> +Ne’er entered wanton sound, to my petition,<br> +Seasoned with holy fear. This is my last<br> +Of vestal office. I am bride-habited<br> +But maiden-hearted. A husband I have ’pointed,<br> +But do not know him. Out of two I should<br> +Choose one, and pray for his success, but I<br> +Am guiltless of election. Of mine eyes,<br> +Were I to lose one, they are equal precious;<br> +I could doom neither; that which perished should<br> +Go to ’t unsentenced. Therefore, most modest queen,<br> +He of the two pretenders that best loves me<br> +And has the truest title in ’t, let him<br> +Take off my wheaten garland, or else grant<br> +The file and quality I hold I may<br> Continue in thy band. </p> @@ -6376,11 +6355,11 @@ Continue in thy band. ascends a rose tree, having one rose upon it.</i>]</p> <p class="drama"> - See what our general of ebbs and flows<br/> -Out from the bowels of her holy altar<br/> -With sacred act advances: but one rose!<br/> -If well inspired, this battle shall confound<br/> -Both these brave knights, and I, a virgin flower,<br/> + See what our general of ebbs and flows<br> +Out from the bowels of her holy altar<br> +With sacred act advances: but one rose!<br> +If well inspired, this battle shall confound<br> +Both these brave knights, and I, a virgin flower,<br> Must grow alone, unplucked. </p> @@ -6388,16 +6367,16 @@ Must grow alone, unplucked. falls from the tree.</i>]</p> <p class="drama"> -The flower is fall’n, the tree descends. O mistress,<br/> -Thou here dischargest me. I shall be gathered;<br/> -I think so, but I know not thine own will.<br/> -Unclasp thy mystery!—I hope she’s pleased;<br/> +The flower is fall’n, the tree descends. O mistress,<br> +Thou here dischargest me. I shall be gathered;<br> +I think so, but I know not thine own will.<br> +Unclasp thy mystery!—I hope she’s pleased;<br> Her signs were gracious. </p> <p class="right">[<i>They curtsy and exeunt.</i>]</p> -<h3><a name="sceneV_38.2"></a><b>SCENE II. Athens. A Room in the Prison</b></h3> +<h3><a id="sceneV_38.2"></a><b>SCENE II. Athens. A Room in the Prison</b></h3> <p class="scenedesc"> Enter <span class="charname">Doctor, Jailer and Wooer</span> in the habit of @@ -6405,161 +6384,161 @@ Palamon. </p> <p class="drama"> -DOCTOR.<br/> +DOCTOR.<br> Has this advice I told you, done any good upon her? </p> <p class="drama"> -WOOER.<br/> -O, very much. The maids that kept her company<br/> -Have half persuaded her that I am Palamon;<br/> -Within this half-hour she came smiling to me,<br/> -And asked me what I would eat, and when I would kiss her.<br/> +WOOER.<br> +O, very much. The maids that kept her company<br> +Have half persuaded her that I am Palamon;<br> +Within this half-hour she came smiling to me,<br> +And asked me what I would eat, and when I would kiss her.<br> I told her “Presently,” and kissed her twice. </p> <p class="drama"> -DOCTOR.<br/> -’Twas well done. Twenty times had been far better,<br/> +DOCTOR.<br> +’Twas well done. Twenty times had been far better,<br> For there the cure lies mainly. </p> <p class="drama"> -WOOER.<br/> -Then she told me<br/> -She would watch with me tonight, for well she knew<br/> +WOOER.<br> +Then she told me<br> +She would watch with me tonight, for well she knew<br> What hour my fit would take me. </p> <p class="drama"> -DOCTOR.<br/> -Let her do so,<br/> +DOCTOR.<br> +Let her do so,<br> And when your fit comes, fit her home, and presently. </p> <p class="drama"> -WOOER.<br/> +WOOER.<br> She would have me sing. </p> <p class="drama"> -DOCTOR.<br/> +DOCTOR.<br> You did so? </p> <p class="drama"> -WOOER.<br/> +WOOER.<br> No. </p> <p class="drama"> -DOCTOR.<br/> -’Twas very ill done, then;<br/> +DOCTOR.<br> +’Twas very ill done, then;<br> You should observe her every way. </p> <p class="drama"> -WOOER.<br/> -Alas,<br/> +WOOER.<br> +Alas,<br> I have no voice, sir, to confirm her that way. </p> <p class="drama"> -DOCTOR.<br/> -That’s all one, if ye make a noise.<br/> -If she entreat again, do anything.<br/> +DOCTOR.<br> +That’s all one, if ye make a noise.<br> +If she entreat again, do anything.<br> Lie with her, if she ask you. </p> <p class="drama"> -JAILER.<br/> +JAILER.<br> Hoa, there, doctor! </p> <p class="drama"> -DOCTOR.<br/> +DOCTOR.<br> Yes, in the way of cure. </p> <p class="drama"> -JAILER.<br/> -But first, by your leave,<br/> +JAILER.<br> +But first, by your leave,<br> I’ th’ way of honesty. </p> <p class="drama"> -DOCTOR.<br/> -That’s but a niceness,<br/> -Ne’er cast your child away for honesty.<br/> -Cure her first this way; then if she will be honest,<br/> +DOCTOR.<br> +That’s but a niceness,<br> +Ne’er cast your child away for honesty.<br> +Cure her first this way; then if she will be honest,<br> She has the path before her. </p> <p class="drama"> -JAILER.<br/> +JAILER.<br> Thank ye, Doctor. </p> <p class="drama"> -DOCTOR.<br/> -Pray, bring her in,<br/> +DOCTOR.<br> +Pray, bring her in,<br> And let’s see how she is. </p> <p class="drama"> -JAILER.<br/> -I will, and tell her<br/> -Her Palamon stays for her. But, Doctor,<br/> +JAILER.<br> +I will, and tell her<br> +Her Palamon stays for her. But, Doctor,<br> Methinks you are i’ th’ wrong still. </p> <p class="right">[<i>Exit <span class="charname">Jailer</span>.</i>]</p> <p class="drama"> -DOCTOR.<br/> -Go, go;<br/> -You fathers are fine fools. Her honesty?<br/> +DOCTOR.<br> +Go, go;<br> +You fathers are fine fools. Her honesty?<br> An we should give her physic till we find that! </p> <p class="drama"> -WOOER.<br/> +WOOER.<br> Why, do you think she is not honest, sir? </p> <p class="drama"> -DOCTOR.<br/> +DOCTOR.<br> How old is she? </p> <p class="drama"> -WOOER.<br/> +WOOER.<br> She’s eighteen. </p> <p class="drama"> -DOCTOR.<br/> -She may be,<br/> -But that’s all one; ’tis nothing to our purpose.<br/> -Whate’er her father says, if you perceive<br/> -Her mood inclining that way that I spoke of,<br/> +DOCTOR.<br> +She may be,<br> +But that’s all one; ’tis nothing to our purpose.<br> +Whate’er her father says, if you perceive<br> +Her mood inclining that way that I spoke of,<br> <i>Videlicet</i>, the way of flesh—you have me? </p> <p class="drama"> -WOOER.<br/> +WOOER.<br> Yes, very well, sir. </p> <p class="drama"> -DOCTOR.<br/> -Please her appetite,<br/> -And do it home; it cures her, <i>ipso facto</i>,<br/> +DOCTOR.<br> +Please her appetite,<br> +And do it home; it cures her, <i>ipso facto</i>,<br> The melancholy humour that infects her. </p> <p class="drama"> -WOOER.<br/> +WOOER.<br> I am of your mind, Doctor. </p> @@ -6569,125 +6548,125 @@ Enter <span class="charname">Jailer, Jailer’s Daughter</span> and </p> <p class="drama"> -DOCTOR.<br/> +DOCTOR.<br> You’ll find it so. She comes, pray, humour her. </p> <p class="drama"> -JAILER.<br/> -Come, your love Palamon stays for you, child,<br/> +JAILER.<br> +Come, your love Palamon stays for you, child,<br> And has done this long hour, to visit you. </p> <p class="drama"> -DAUGHTER.<br/> -I thank him for his gentle patience;<br/> -He’s a kind gentleman, and I am much bound to him.<br/> +DAUGHTER.<br> +I thank him for his gentle patience;<br> +He’s a kind gentleman, and I am much bound to him.<br> Did you ne’er see the horse he gave me? </p> <p class="drama"> -JAILER.<br/> +JAILER.<br> Yes. </p> <p class="drama"> -DAUGHTER.<br/> +DAUGHTER.<br> How do you like him? </p> <p class="drama"> -JAILER.<br/> +JAILER.<br> He’s a very fair one. </p> <p class="drama"> -DAUGHTER.<br/> +DAUGHTER.<br> You never saw him dance? </p> <p class="drama"> -JAILER.<br/> +JAILER.<br> No. </p> <p class="drama"> -DAUGHTER.<br/> -I have often.<br/> -He dances very finely, very comely,<br/> -And for a jig, come cut and long tail to him,<br/> +DAUGHTER.<br> +I have often.<br> +He dances very finely, very comely,<br> +And for a jig, come cut and long tail to him,<br> He turns ye like a top. </p> <p class="drama"> -JAILER.<br/> +JAILER.<br> That’s fine, indeed. </p> <p class="drama"> -DAUGHTER.<br/> -He’ll dance the morris twenty mile an hour,<br/> -And that will founder the best hobby-horse<br/> -If I have any skill in all the parish,<br/> -And gallops to the tune of “Light o’ love.”<br/> +DAUGHTER.<br> +He’ll dance the morris twenty mile an hour,<br> +And that will founder the best hobby-horse<br> +If I have any skill in all the parish,<br> +And gallops to the tune of “Light o’ love.”<br> What think you of this horse? </p> <p class="drama"> -JAILER.<br/> -Having these virtues,<br/> +JAILER.<br> +Having these virtues,<br> I think he might be brought to play at tennis. </p> <p class="drama"> -DAUGHTER.<br/> +DAUGHTER.<br> Alas, that’s nothing. </p> <p class="drama"> -JAILER.<br/> +JAILER.<br> Can he write and read too? </p> <p class="drama"> -DAUGHTER.<br/> -A very fair hand, and casts himself th’ accounts<br/> -Of all his hay and provender. That hostler<br/> -Must rise betime that cozens him. You know<br/> +DAUGHTER.<br> +A very fair hand, and casts himself th’ accounts<br> +Of all his hay and provender. That hostler<br> +Must rise betime that cozens him. You know<br> The chestnut mare the Duke has? </p> <p class="drama"> -JAILER.<br/> +JAILER.<br> Very well. </p> <p class="drama"> -DAUGHTER.<br/> -She is horribly in love with him, poor beast;<br/> +DAUGHTER.<br> +She is horribly in love with him, poor beast;<br> But he is like his master, coy and scornful. </p> <p class="drama"> -JAILER.<br/> +JAILER.<br> What dowry has she? </p> <p class="drama"> -DAUGHTER.<br/> -Some two hundred bottles,<br/> -And twenty strike of oates; but he’ll ne’er have her.<br/> -He lisps in’s neighing, able to entice<br/> +DAUGHTER.<br> +Some two hundred bottles,<br> +And twenty strike of oates; but he’ll ne’er have her.<br> +He lisps in’s neighing, able to entice<br> A miller’s mare. He’ll be the death of her. </p> <p class="drama"> -DOCTOR.<br/> +DOCTOR.<br> What stuff she utters! </p> <p class="drama"> -JAILER.<br/> +JAILER.<br> Make curtsy; here your love comes. </p> @@ -6697,145 +6676,145 @@ Enter <span class="charname">Wooer</span> and </p> <p class="drama"> -WOOER.<br/> -Pretty soul,<br/> +WOOER.<br> +Pretty soul,<br> How do ye? That’s a fine maid; there’s a curtsy! </p> <p class="drama"> -DAUGHTER.<br/> -Yours to command i’ th’ way of honesty.<br/> +DAUGHTER.<br> +Yours to command i’ th’ way of honesty.<br> How far is’t now to’ th’ end o’ th’ world, my masters? </p> <p class="drama"> -DOCTOR.<br/> +DOCTOR.<br> Why, a day’s journey, wench. </p> <p class="drama"> -DAUGHTER.<br/> +DAUGHTER.<br> Will you go with me? </p> <p class="drama"> -WOOER.<br/> +WOOER.<br> What shall we do there, wench? </p> <p class="drama"> -DAUGHTER.<br/> -Why, play at stool-ball;<br/> +DAUGHTER.<br> +Why, play at stool-ball;<br> What is there else to do? </p> <p class="drama"> -WOOER.<br/> -I am content,<br/> +WOOER.<br> +I am content,<br> If we shall keep our wedding there. </p> <p class="drama"> -DAUGHTER.<br/> -’Tis true,<br/> -For there, I will assure you, we shall find<br/> -Some blind priest for the purpose, that will venture<br/> -To marry us, for here they are nice and foolish.<br/> -Besides, my father must be hanged tomorrow,<br/> -And that would be a blot i’ th’ business.<br/> +DAUGHTER.<br> +’Tis true,<br> +For there, I will assure you, we shall find<br> +Some blind priest for the purpose, that will venture<br> +To marry us, for here they are nice and foolish.<br> +Besides, my father must be hanged tomorrow,<br> +And that would be a blot i’ th’ business.<br> Are not you Palamon? </p> <p class="drama"> -WOOER.<br/> +WOOER.<br> Do not you know me? </p> <p class="drama"> -DAUGHTER.<br/> -Yes, but you care not for me. I have nothing<br/> +DAUGHTER.<br> +Yes, but you care not for me. I have nothing<br> But this poor petticoat, and two coarse smocks. </p> <p class="drama"> -WOOER.<br/> +WOOER.<br> That’s all one; I will have you. </p> <p class="drama"> -DAUGHTER.<br/> +DAUGHTER.<br> Will you surely? </p> <p class="drama"> -WOOER.<br/> +WOOER.<br> [<i>Taking her hand.</i>] Yes, by this fair hand, will I. </p> <p class="drama"> -DAUGHTER.<br/> +DAUGHTER.<br> We’ll to bed, then. </p> <p class="drama"> -WOOER.<br/> +WOOER.<br> E’en when you will. </p> <p class="right">[<i>Kisses her.</i>]</p> <p class="drama"> -DAUGHTER.<br/> +DAUGHTER.<br> [<i>Rubs off the kiss.</i>] O sir, you would fain be nibbling. </p> <p class="drama"> -WOOER.<br/> +WOOER.<br> Why do you rub my kiss off? </p> <p class="drama"> -DAUGHTER.<br/> -’Tis a sweet one,<br/> -And will perfume me finely against the wedding.<br/> +DAUGHTER.<br> +’Tis a sweet one,<br> +And will perfume me finely against the wedding.<br> Is not this your cousin Arcite? </p> <p class="right">[<i>She indicates the <span class="charname">Doctor</span>.</i>]</p> <p class="drama"> -DOCTOR.<br/> -Yes, sweetheart,<br/> -And I am glad my cousin Palamon<br/> +DOCTOR.<br> +Yes, sweetheart,<br> +And I am glad my cousin Palamon<br> Has made so fair a choice. </p> <p class="drama"> -DAUGHTER.<br/> +DAUGHTER.<br> Do you think he’ll have me? </p> <p class="drama"> -DOCTOR.<br/> +DOCTOR.<br> Yes, without doubt. </p> <p class="drama"> -DAUGHTER.<br/> +DAUGHTER.<br> Do you think so too? </p> <p class="drama"> -JAILER.<br/> +JAILER.<br> Yes. </p> <p class="drama"> -DAUGHTER.<br/> -We shall have many children. [<i>To Doctor.</i>] Lord, how you’re grown!<br/> -My Palamon, I hope, will grow too, finely,<br/> -Now he’s at liberty. Alas, poor chicken,<br/> -He was kept down with hard meat and ill lodging,<br/> +DAUGHTER.<br> +We shall have many children. [<i>To Doctor.</i>] Lord, how you’re grown!<br> +My Palamon, I hope, will grow too, finely,<br> +Now he’s at liberty. Alas, poor chicken,<br> +He was kept down with hard meat and ill lodging,<br> But I’ll kiss him up again. </p> @@ -6844,115 +6823,115 @@ Enter a <span class="charname">Messenger</span>. </p> <p class="drama"> -MESSENGER.<br/> -What do you here? You’ll lose the noblest sight<br/> +MESSENGER.<br> +What do you here? You’ll lose the noblest sight<br> That e’er was seen. </p> <p class="drama"> -JAILER.<br/> +JAILER.<br> Are they i’ th’ field? </p> <p class="drama"> -MESSENGER.<br/> -They are.<br/> +MESSENGER.<br> +They are.<br> You bear a charge there too. </p> <p class="drama"> -JAILER.<br/> -I’ll away straight.<br/> +JAILER.<br> +I’ll away straight.<br> I must e’en leave you here. </p> <p class="drama"> -DOCTOR.<br/> -Nay, we’ll go with you;<br/> +DOCTOR.<br> +Nay, we’ll go with you;<br> I will not lose the sight. </p> <p class="drama"> -JAILER.<br/> +JAILER.<br> How did you like her? </p> <p class="drama"> -DOCTOR.<br/> -I’ll warrant you, within these three or four days<br/> -I’ll make her right again. You must not from her,<br/> +DOCTOR.<br> +I’ll warrant you, within these three or four days<br> +I’ll make her right again. You must not from her,<br> But still preserve her in this way. </p> <p class="drama"> -WOOER.<br/> +WOOER.<br> I will. </p> <p class="drama"> -DOCTOR.<br/> +DOCTOR.<br> Let’s get her in. </p> <p class="drama"> -WOOER.<br/> -Come, sweet, we’ll go to dinner;<br/> +WOOER.<br> +Come, sweet, we’ll go to dinner;<br> And then we’ll play at cards. </p> <p class="drama"> -DAUGHTER.<br/> +DAUGHTER.<br> And shall we kiss too? </p> <p class="drama"> -WOOER.<br/> +WOOER.<br> A hundred times. </p> <p class="drama"> -DAUGHTER.<br/> +DAUGHTER.<br> And twenty. </p> <p class="drama"> -WOOER.<br/> +WOOER.<br> Ay, and twenty. </p> <p class="drama"> -DAUGHTER.<br/> +DAUGHTER.<br> And then we’ll sleep together. </p> <p class="drama"> -DOCTOR.<br/> +DOCTOR.<br> Take her offer. </p> <p class="drama"> -WOOER.<br/> +WOOER.<br> Yes, marry, will we. </p> <p class="drama"> -DAUGHTER.<br/> +DAUGHTER.<br> But you shall not hurt me. </p> <p class="drama"> -WOOER.<br/> +WOOER.<br> I will not, sweet. </p> <p class="drama"> -DAUGHTER.<br/> +DAUGHTER.<br> If you do, love, I’ll cry. </p> <p class="right">[<i>Exeunt.</i>]</p> -<h3><a name="sceneV_38.3"></a><b>SCENE III. A part of the Forest near Athens, +<h3><a id="sceneV_38.3"></a><b>SCENE III. A part of the Forest near Athens, and near the Place appointed for the Combat</b></h3> <p class="scenedesc"> @@ -6961,152 +6940,152 @@ and some Attendants. </p> <p class="drama"> -EMILIA.<br/> +EMILIA.<br> I’ll no step further. </p> <p class="drama"> -PIRITHOUS.<br/> +PIRITHOUS.<br> Will you lose this sight? </p> <p class="drama"> -EMILIA.<br/> -I had rather see a wren hawk at a fly<br/> -Than this decision. Every blow that falls<br/> -Threats a brave life; each stroke laments<br/> -The place whereon it falls, and sounds more like<br/> -A bell than blade. I will stay here.<br/> -It is enough my hearing shall be punished<br/> -With what shall happen, ’gainst the which there is<br/> -No deafing, but to hear; not taint mine eye<br/> +EMILIA.<br> +I had rather see a wren hawk at a fly<br> +Than this decision. Every blow that falls<br> +Threats a brave life; each stroke laments<br> +The place whereon it falls, and sounds more like<br> +A bell than blade. I will stay here.<br> +It is enough my hearing shall be punished<br> +With what shall happen, ’gainst the which there is<br> +No deafing, but to hear; not taint mine eye<br> With dread sights it may shun. </p> <p class="drama"> -PIRITHOUS.<br/> -Sir, my good lord,<br/> +PIRITHOUS.<br> +Sir, my good lord,<br> Your sister will no further. </p> <p class="drama"> -THESEUS.<br/> -O, she must.<br/> -She shall see deeds of honour in their kind,<br/> -Which sometime show well, penciled. Nature now<br/> -Shall make and act the story, the belief<br/> -Both sealed with eye and ear. You must be present;<br/> -You are the victor’s meed, the price and garland<br/> +THESEUS.<br> +O, she must.<br> +She shall see deeds of honour in their kind,<br> +Which sometime show well, penciled. Nature now<br> +Shall make and act the story, the belief<br> +Both sealed with eye and ear. You must be present;<br> +You are the victor’s meed, the price and garland<br> To crown the question’s title. </p> <p class="drama"> -EMILIA.<br/> -Pardon me;<br/> +EMILIA.<br> +Pardon me;<br> If I were there, I’d wink. </p> <p class="drama"> -THESEUS.<br/> -You must be there;<br/> -This trial is as ’twere i’ th’ night, and you<br/> +THESEUS.<br> +You must be there;<br> +This trial is as ’twere i’ th’ night, and you<br> The only star to shine. </p> <p class="drama"> -EMILIA.<br/> -I am extinct.<br/> -There is but envy in that light which shows<br/> -The one the other. Darkness, which ever was<br/> -The dam of horror, who does stand accursed<br/> -Of many mortal millions, may even now,<br/> -By casting her black mantle over both,<br/> -That neither could find other, get herself<br/> -Some part of a good name, and many a murder<br/> +EMILIA.<br> +I am extinct.<br> +There is but envy in that light which shows<br> +The one the other. Darkness, which ever was<br> +The dam of horror, who does stand accursed<br> +Of many mortal millions, may even now,<br> +By casting her black mantle over both,<br> +That neither could find other, get herself<br> +Some part of a good name, and many a murder<br> Set off whereto she’s guilty. </p> <p class="drama"> -HIPPOLYTA.<br/> +HIPPOLYTA.<br> You must go. </p> <p class="drama"> -EMILIA.<br/> +EMILIA.<br> In faith, I will not. </p> <p class="drama"> -THESEUS.<br/> -Why, the knights must kindle<br/> -Their valour at your eye. Know, of this war<br/> -You are the treasure, and must needs be by<br/> +THESEUS.<br> +Why, the knights must kindle<br> +Their valour at your eye. Know, of this war<br> +You are the treasure, and must needs be by<br> To give the service pay. </p> <p class="drama"> -EMILIA.<br/> -Sir, pardon me;<br/> -The title of a kingdom may be tried<br/> +EMILIA.<br> +Sir, pardon me;<br> +The title of a kingdom may be tried<br> Out of itself. </p> <p class="drama"> -THESEUS.<br/> -Well, well, then, at your pleasure.<br/> -Those that remain with you could wish their office<br/> +THESEUS.<br> +Well, well, then, at your pleasure.<br> +Those that remain with you could wish their office<br> To any of their enemies. </p> <p class="drama"> -HIPPOLYTA.<br/> -Farewell, sister.<br/> -I am like to know your husband ’fore yourself<br/> -By some small start of time. He whom the gods<br/> -Do of the two know best, I pray them he<br/> +HIPPOLYTA.<br> +Farewell, sister.<br> +I am like to know your husband ’fore yourself<br> +By some small start of time. He whom the gods<br> +Do of the two know best, I pray them he<br> Be made your lot. </p> <p class="right">[<i>Exeunt all but <span class="charname">Emilia</span>.</i>]</p> <p class="drama"> -EMILIA.<br/> -Arcite is gently visaged, yet his eye<br/> -Is like an engine bent, or a sharp weapon<br/> -In a soft sheath; mercy and manly courage<br/> -Are bedfellows in his visage. Palamon<br/> -Has a most menacing aspect; his brow<br/> -Is graved, and seems to bury what it frowns on;<br/> -Yet sometimes ’tis not so, but alters to<br/> -The quality of his thoughts. Long time his eye<br/> -Will dwell upon his object. Melancholy<br/> -Becomes him nobly; so does Arcite’s mirth;<br/> -But Palamon’s sadness is a kind of mirth,<br/> -So mingled as if mirth did make him sad<br/> -And sadness merry. Those darker humours that<br/> -Stick misbecomingly on others, on them<br/> +EMILIA.<br> +Arcite is gently visaged, yet his eye<br> +Is like an engine bent, or a sharp weapon<br> +In a soft sheath; mercy and manly courage<br> +Are bedfellows in his visage. Palamon<br> +Has a most menacing aspect; his brow<br> +Is graved, and seems to bury what it frowns on;<br> +Yet sometimes ’tis not so, but alters to<br> +The quality of his thoughts. Long time his eye<br> +Will dwell upon his object. Melancholy<br> +Becomes him nobly; so does Arcite’s mirth;<br> +But Palamon’s sadness is a kind of mirth,<br> +So mingled as if mirth did make him sad<br> +And sadness merry. Those darker humours that<br> +Stick misbecomingly on others, on them<br> Live in fair dwelling. </p> <p class="right">[<i>Cornets. Trumpets sound as to a charge.</i>]</p> <p class="drama"> -Hark how yon spurs to spirit do incite<br/> -The princes to their proof! Arcite may win me<br/> -And yet may Palamon wound Arcite to<br/> -The spoiling of his figure. O, what pity<br/> -Enough for such a chance? If I were by,<br/> -I might do hurt, for they would glance their eyes<br/> -Towards my seat, and in that motion might<br/> -Omit a ward or forfeit an offence<br/> -Which craved that very time. It is much better<br/> +Hark how yon spurs to spirit do incite<br> +The princes to their proof! Arcite may win me<br> +And yet may Palamon wound Arcite to<br> +The spoiling of his figure. O, what pity<br> +Enough for such a chance? If I were by,<br> +I might do hurt, for they would glance their eyes<br> +Towards my seat, and in that motion might<br> +Omit a ward or forfeit an offence<br> +Which craved that very time. It is much better<br> I am not there. </p> <p class="right">[<i>Cornets. A great cry and noise within crying “À Palamon!”</i>]</p> <p class="drama"> -Oh better never born<br/> +Oh better never born<br> Than minister to such harm. </p> @@ -7119,45 +7098,45 @@ What is the chance? </p> <p class="drama"> -SERVANT.<br/> +SERVANT.<br> The cry’s “À Palamon.” </p> <p class="drama"> -EMILIA.<br/> -Then he has won. ’Twas ever likely.<br/> -He looked all grace and success, and he is<br/> -Doubtless the prim’st of men. I prithee run<br/> +EMILIA.<br> +Then he has won. ’Twas ever likely.<br> +He looked all grace and success, and he is<br> +Doubtless the prim’st of men. I prithee run<br> And tell me how it goes. </p> <p class="right">[<i>Shout and cornets, crying “À Palamon!”</i>]</p> <p class="drama"> -SERVANT.<br/> +SERVANT.<br> Still “Palamon.” </p> <p class="drama"> -EMILIA.<br/> +EMILIA.<br> Run and enquire. </p> <p class="right">[<i>Exit <span class="charname">Servant</span>.</i>]</p> <p class="drama"> -Poor servant, thou hast lost.<br/> -Upon my right side still I wore thy picture,<br/> -Palamon’s on the left. Why so, I know not.<br/> -I had no end in ’t else; chance would have it so.<br/> -On the sinister side the heart lies; Palamon<br/> +Poor servant, thou hast lost.<br> +Upon my right side still I wore thy picture,<br> +Palamon’s on the left. Why so, I know not.<br> +I had no end in ’t else; chance would have it so.<br> +On the sinister side the heart lies; Palamon<br> Had the best-boding chance. </p> <p class="right">[<i>Another cry and shout within, and cornets.</i>]</p> <p class="drama"> -This burst of clamour<br/> +This burst of clamour<br> Is sure th’ end o’ th’ combat. </p> @@ -7166,40 +7145,40 @@ Enter <span class="charname">Servant</span>. </p> <p class="drama"> -SERVANT.<br/> -They said that Palamon had Arcite’s body<br/> -Within an inch o’ th’ pyramid, that the cry<br/> -Was general “À Palamon.” But anon,<br/> -Th’ assistants made a brave redemption, and<br/> -The two bold titlers at this instant are<br/> +SERVANT.<br> +They said that Palamon had Arcite’s body<br> +Within an inch o’ th’ pyramid, that the cry<br> +Was general “À Palamon.” But anon,<br> +Th’ assistants made a brave redemption, and<br> +The two bold titlers at this instant are<br> Hand to hand at it. </p> <p class="drama"> -EMILIA.<br/> -Were they metamorphosed<br/> -Both into one—O, why? There were no woman<br/> -Worth so composed a man! Their single share,<br/> -Their nobleness peculiar to them, gives<br/> -The prejudice of disparity, value’s shortness,<br/> +EMILIA.<br> +Were they metamorphosed<br> +Both into one—O, why? There were no woman<br> +Worth so composed a man! Their single share,<br> +Their nobleness peculiar to them, gives<br> +The prejudice of disparity, value’s shortness,<br> To any lady breathing. </p> <p class="right">[<i>Cornets. Cry within, “Arcite, Arcite.”</i>]</p> <p class="drama"> -More exulting?<br/> +More exulting?<br> “Palamon” still? </p> <p class="drama"> -SERVANT.<br/> +SERVANT.<br> Nay, now the sound is “Arcite.” </p> <p class="drama"> -EMILIA.<br/> -I prithee, lay attention to the cry;<br/> +EMILIA.<br> +I prithee, lay attention to the cry;<br> Set both thine ears to th’ business. </p> @@ -7207,24 +7186,24 @@ Set both thine ears to th’ business. <p class="drama"> -SERVANT.<br/> -The cry is<br/> -“Arcite”, and “Victory!” Hark, “Arcite, victory!”<br/> -The combat’s consummation is proclaimed<br/> +SERVANT.<br> +The cry is<br> +“Arcite”, and “Victory!” Hark, “Arcite, victory!”<br> +The combat’s consummation is proclaimed<br> By the wind instruments. </p> <p class="drama"> -EMILIA.<br/> -Half-sights saw<br/> -That Arcite was no babe. God’s lid, his richness<br/> -And costliness of spirit looked through him; it could<br/> -No more be hid in him than fire in flax,<br/> -Than humble banks can go to law with waters<br/> -That drift-winds force to raging. I did think<br/> -Good Palamon would miscarry, yet I knew not<br/> -Why I did think so. Our reasons are not prophets<br/> -When oft our fancies are. They are coming off.<br/> +EMILIA.<br> +Half-sights saw<br> +That Arcite was no babe. God’s lid, his richness<br> +And costliness of spirit looked through him; it could<br> +No more be hid in him than fire in flax,<br> +Than humble banks can go to law with waters<br> +That drift-winds force to raging. I did think<br> +Good Palamon would miscarry, yet I knew not<br> +Why I did think so. Our reasons are not prophets<br> +When oft our fancies are. They are coming off.<br> Alas, poor Palamon! </p> @@ -7234,81 +7213,81 @@ as victor, and Attendants. </p> <p class="drama"> -THESEUS.<br/> -Lo, where our sister is in expectation,<br/> -Yet quaking and unsettled.—Fairest Emily,<br/> -The gods by their divine arbitrament<br/> -Have given you this knight; he is a good one<br/> -As ever struck at head. Give me your hands.<br/> -Receive you her, you him; be plighted with<br/> +THESEUS.<br> +Lo, where our sister is in expectation,<br> +Yet quaking and unsettled.—Fairest Emily,<br> +The gods by their divine arbitrament<br> +Have given you this knight; he is a good one<br> +As ever struck at head. Give me your hands.<br> +Receive you her, you him; be plighted with<br> A love that grows as you decay. </p> <p class="drama"> -ARCITE.<br/> -Emily,<br/> -To buy you, I have lost what’s dearest to me,<br/> -Save what is bought; and yet I purchase cheaply,<br/> +ARCITE.<br> +Emily,<br> +To buy you, I have lost what’s dearest to me,<br> +Save what is bought; and yet I purchase cheaply,<br> As I do rate your value. </p> <p class="drama"> -THESEUS.<br/> -O loved sister,<br/> -He speaks now of as brave a knight as e’er<br/> -Did spur a noble steed. Surely the gods<br/> -Would have him die a bachelor, lest his race<br/> -Should show i’ th’ world too godlike. His behaviour<br/> -So charmed me that methought Alcides was<br/> -To him a sow of lead. If I could praise<br/> -Each part of him to th’ all I have spoke, your Arcite<br/> -Did not lose by ’t, for he that was thus good<br/> -Encountered yet his better. I have heard<br/> -Two emulous Philomels beat the ear o’ th’ night<br/> -With their contentious throats, now one the higher,<br/> -Anon the other, then again the first,<br/> -And by-and-by out-breasted, that the sense<br/> -Could not be judge between ’em. So it fared<br/> -Good space between these kinsmen, till heavens did<br/> -Make hardly one the winner.—Wear the garland<br/> -With joy that you have won.—For the subdued,<br/> -Give them our present justice, since I know<br/> -Their lives but pinch ’em. Let it here be done.<br/> -The scene’s not for our seeing. Go we hence<br/> -Right joyful, with some sorrow.—Arm your prize;<br/> -I know you will not lose her.—Hippolyta,<br/> -I see one eye of yours conceives a tear,<br/> +THESEUS.<br> +O loved sister,<br> +He speaks now of as brave a knight as e’er<br> +Did spur a noble steed. Surely the gods<br> +Would have him die a bachelor, lest his race<br> +Should show i’ th’ world too godlike. His behaviour<br> +So charmed me that methought Alcides was<br> +To him a sow of lead. If I could praise<br> +Each part of him to th’ all I have spoke, your Arcite<br> +Did not lose by ’t, for he that was thus good<br> +Encountered yet his better. I have heard<br> +Two emulous Philomels beat the ear o’ th’ night<br> +With their contentious throats, now one the higher,<br> +Anon the other, then again the first,<br> +And by-and-by out-breasted, that the sense<br> +Could not be judge between ’em. So it fared<br> +Good space between these kinsmen, till heavens did<br> +Make hardly one the winner.—Wear the garland<br> +With joy that you have won.—For the subdued,<br> +Give them our present justice, since I know<br> +Their lives but pinch ’em. Let it here be done.<br> +The scene’s not for our seeing. Go we hence<br> +Right joyful, with some sorrow.—Arm your prize;<br> +I know you will not lose her.—Hippolyta,<br> +I see one eye of yours conceives a tear,<br> The which it will deliver. </p> <p class="right">[<i>Flourish.</i>]</p> <p class="drama"> -EMILIA.<br/> -Is this winning?<br/> -O all you heavenly powers, where is your mercy?<br/> -But that your wills have said it must be so,<br/> -And charge me live to comfort this unfriended,<br/> -This miserable prince, that cuts away<br/> -A life more worthy from him than all women,<br/> +EMILIA.<br> +Is this winning?<br> +O all you heavenly powers, where is your mercy?<br> +But that your wills have said it must be so,<br> +And charge me live to comfort this unfriended,<br> +This miserable prince, that cuts away<br> +A life more worthy from him than all women,<br> I should and would die too. </p> <p class="drama"> -HIPPOLYTA.<br/> -Infinite pity<br/> -That four such eyes should be so fixed on one<br/> +HIPPOLYTA.<br> +Infinite pity<br> +That four such eyes should be so fixed on one<br> That two must needs be blind for ’t. </p> <p class="drama"> -THESEUS.<br/> +THESEUS.<br> So it is. </p> <p class="right">[<i>Exeunt.</i>]</p> -<h3><a name="sceneV_38.4"></a><b>SCENE IV. The same; a Block prepared</b></h3> +<h3><a id="sceneV_38.4"></a><b>SCENE IV. The same; a Block prepared</b></h3> <p class="scenedesc"> Enter <span class="charname">Palamon</span> and his Knights pinioned; @@ -7316,116 +7295,116 @@ Enter <span class="charname">Palamon</span> and his Knights pinioned; </p> <p class="drama"> -PALAMON.<br/> -There’s many a man alive that hath outlived<br/> -The love o’ th’ people; yea, i’ th’ selfsame state<br/> -Stands many a father with his child. Some comfort<br/> -We have by so considering. We expire,<br/> -And not without men’s pity; to live still,<br/> -Have their good wishes; we prevent<br/> -The loathsome misery of age, beguile<br/> -The gout and rheum that in lag hours attend<br/> -For gray approachers; we come towards the gods<br/> -Young and unwappered, not halting under crimes<br/> -Many and stale. That sure shall please the gods<br/> -Sooner than such, to give us nectar with ’em,<br/> -For we are more clear spirits. My dear kinsmen,<br/> -Whose lives for this poor comfort are laid down,<br/> +PALAMON.<br> +There’s many a man alive that hath outlived<br> +The love o’ th’ people; yea, i’ th’ selfsame state<br> +Stands many a father with his child. Some comfort<br> +We have by so considering. We expire,<br> +And not without men’s pity; to live still,<br> +Have their good wishes; we prevent<br> +The loathsome misery of age, beguile<br> +The gout and rheum that in lag hours attend<br> +For gray approachers; we come towards the gods<br> +Young and unwappered, not halting under crimes<br> +Many and stale. That sure shall please the gods<br> +Sooner than such, to give us nectar with ’em,<br> +For we are more clear spirits. My dear kinsmen,<br> +Whose lives for this poor comfort are laid down,<br> You have sold ’em too too cheap. </p> <p class="drama"> -FIRST KNIGHT.<br/> -What ending could be<br/> -Of more content? O’er us the victors have<br/> -Fortune, whose title is as momentary,<br/> -As to us death is certain. A grain of honour<br/> +FIRST KNIGHT.<br> +What ending could be<br> +Of more content? O’er us the victors have<br> +Fortune, whose title is as momentary,<br> +As to us death is certain. A grain of honour<br> They not o’erweigh us. </p> <p class="drama"> -SECOND KNIGHT.<br/> -Let us bid farewell;<br/> -And with our patience anger tottering Fortune,<br/> +SECOND KNIGHT.<br> +Let us bid farewell;<br> +And with our patience anger tottering Fortune,<br> Who at her certain’st reels. </p> <p class="drama"> -THIRD KNIGHT.<br/> +THIRD KNIGHT.<br> Come; who begins? </p> <p class="drama"> -PALAMON.<br/> -E’en he that led you to this banquet shall<br/> -Taste to you all.—Ah ha, my friend, my friend,<br/> -Your gentle daughter gave me freedom once;<br/> -You’ll see ’t done now for ever. Pray, how does she?<br/> -I heard she was not well; her kind of ill<br/> +PALAMON.<br> +E’en he that led you to this banquet shall<br> +Taste to you all.—Ah ha, my friend, my friend,<br> +Your gentle daughter gave me freedom once;<br> +You’ll see ’t done now for ever. Pray, how does she?<br> +I heard she was not well; her kind of ill<br> Gave me some sorrow. </p> <p class="drama"> -JAILER.<br/> -Sir, she’s well restored,<br/> +JAILER.<br> +Sir, she’s well restored,<br> And to be married shortly. </p> <p class="drama"> -PALAMON.<br/> -By my short life,<br/> -I am most glad on’t. ’Tis the latest thing<br/> -I shall be glad of; prithee, tell her so.<br/> -Commend me to her, and, to piece her portion,<br/> +PALAMON.<br> +By my short life,<br> +I am most glad on’t. ’Tis the latest thing<br> +I shall be glad of; prithee, tell her so.<br> +Commend me to her, and, to piece her portion,<br> Tender her this. </p> <p class="right">[<i>Gives him his purse.</i>]</p> <p class="drama"> -FIRST KNIGHT.<br/> +FIRST KNIGHT.<br> Nay let’s be offerers all. </p> <p class="drama"> -SECOND KNIGHT.<br/> +SECOND KNIGHT.<br> Is it a maid? </p> <p class="drama"> -PALAMON.<br/> -Verily, I think so.<br/> -A right good creature, more to me deserving<br/> +PALAMON.<br> +Verily, I think so.<br> +A right good creature, more to me deserving<br> Then I can ’quite or speak of. </p> <p class="drama"> -ALL KNIGHTS.<br/> +ALL KNIGHTS.<br> Commend us to her. </p> <p class="right">[<i>They give their purses.</i>]</p> <p class="drama"> -JAILER.<br/> +JAILER.<br> The gods requite you all, and make her thankful. </p> <p class="drama"> -PALAMON.<br/> -Adieu; and let my life be now as short<br/> +PALAMON.<br> +Adieu; and let my life be now as short<br> As my leave-taking. </p> <p class="right">[<i>Lays his head on the block.</i>]</p> <p class="drama"> -FIRST KNIGHT.<br/> +FIRST KNIGHT.<br> Lead, courageous cousin. </p> <p class="drama"> -SECOND AND THIRD KNIGHT.<br/> +SECOND AND THIRD KNIGHT.<br> We’ll follow cheerfully. </p> @@ -7436,7 +7415,7 @@ Enter in haste a <span class="charname">Messenger</span>. </p> <p class="drama"> -MESSENGER.<br/> +MESSENGER.<br> Hold, hold! O hold, hold, hold! </p> @@ -7445,70 +7424,70 @@ Enter <span class="charname">Pirithous</span> in haste. </p> <p class="drama"> -PIRITHOUS.<br/> -Hold, ho! It is a cursed haste you made<br/> -If you have done so quickly!—Noble Palamon,<br/> -The gods will show their glory in a life<br/> +PIRITHOUS.<br> +Hold, ho! It is a cursed haste you made<br> +If you have done so quickly!—Noble Palamon,<br> +The gods will show their glory in a life<br> That thou art yet to lead. </p> <p class="drama"> -PALAMON.<br/> -Can that be,<br/> +PALAMON.<br> +Can that be,<br> When Venus, I have said, is false? How do things fare? </p> <p class="drama"> -PIRITHOUS.<br/> -Arise, great sir, and give the tidings ear<br/> +PIRITHOUS.<br> +Arise, great sir, and give the tidings ear<br> That are most dearly sweet and bitter. </p> <p class="drama"> -PALAMON.<br/> -What<br/> +PALAMON.<br> +What<br> Hath waked us from our dream? </p> <p class="drama"> -PIRITHOUS.<br/> -List, then. Your cousin,<br/> -Mounted upon a steed that Emily<br/> -Did first bestow on him, a black one, owing<br/> -Not a hair-worth of white, which some will say<br/> -Weakens his price, and many will not buy<br/> -His goodness with this note, which superstition<br/> -Here finds allowance—on this horse is Arcite<br/> -Trotting the stones of Athens, which the calkins<br/> -Did rather tell than trample; for the horse<br/> -Would make his length a mile, if ’t pleased his rider<br/> -To put pride in him. As he thus went counting<br/> -The flinty pavement, dancing, as ’twere, to th’ music<br/> -His own hooves made—for, as they say, from iron<br/> -Came music’s origin—what envious flint,<br/> -Cold as old Saturn, and like him possessed<br/> -With fire malevolent, darted a spark,<br/> -Or what fierce sulphur else, to this end made,<br/> -I comment not; the hot horse, hot as fire,<br/> -Took toy at this and fell to what disorder<br/> -His power could give his will; bounds, comes on end,<br/> -Forgets school-doing, being therein trained<br/> -And of kind manage. Pig-like he whines<br/> -At the sharp rowel, which he frets at rather<br/> -Than any jot obeys; seeks all foul means<br/> -Of boist’rous and rough jad’ry to disseat<br/> -His lord that kept it bravely. When naught served,<br/> -When neither curb would crack, girth break, nor diff’ring plunges<br/> -Disroot his rider whence he grew, but that<br/> -He kept him ’tween his legs, on his hind hoofs<br/> -On end he stands<br/> -That Arcite’s legs, being higher than his head,<br/> -Seemed with strange art to hang. His victor’s wreath<br/> -Even then fell off his head and presently<br/> -Backward the jade comes o’er, and his full poise<br/> -Becomes the rider’s load. Yet is he living,<br/> -But such a vessel ’tis that floats but for<br/> -The surge that next approaches. He much desires<br/> +PIRITHOUS.<br> +List, then. Your cousin,<br> +Mounted upon a steed that Emily<br> +Did first bestow on him, a black one, owing<br> +Not a hair-worth of white, which some will say<br> +Weakens his price, and many will not buy<br> +His goodness with this note, which superstition<br> +Here finds allowance—on this horse is Arcite<br> +Trotting the stones of Athens, which the calkins<br> +Did rather tell than trample; for the horse<br> +Would make his length a mile, if ’t pleased his rider<br> +To put pride in him. As he thus went counting<br> +The flinty pavement, dancing, as ’twere, to th’ music<br> +His own hooves made—for, as they say, from iron<br> +Came music’s origin—what envious flint,<br> +Cold as old Saturn, and like him possessed<br> +With fire malevolent, darted a spark,<br> +Or what fierce sulphur else, to this end made,<br> +I comment not; the hot horse, hot as fire,<br> +Took toy at this and fell to what disorder<br> +His power could give his will; bounds, comes on end,<br> +Forgets school-doing, being therein trained<br> +And of kind manage. Pig-like he whines<br> +At the sharp rowel, which he frets at rather<br> +Than any jot obeys; seeks all foul means<br> +Of boist’rous and rough jad’ry to disseat<br> +His lord that kept it bravely. When naught served,<br> +When neither curb would crack, girth break, nor diff’ring plunges<br> +Disroot his rider whence he grew, but that<br> +He kept him ’tween his legs, on his hind hoofs<br> +On end he stands<br> +That Arcite’s legs, being higher than his head,<br> +Seemed with strange art to hang. His victor’s wreath<br> +Even then fell off his head and presently<br> +Backward the jade comes o’er, and his full poise<br> +Becomes the rider’s load. Yet is he living,<br> +But such a vessel ’tis that floats but for<br> +The surge that next approaches. He much desires<br> To have some speech with you. Lo, he appears. </p> @@ -7517,20 +7496,20 @@ Enter <span class="charname">Theseus, Hippolyta, Emilia, Arcite</span> in a chai </p> <p class="drama"> -PALAMON.<br/> -O miserable end of our alliance!<br/> -The gods are mighty. Arcite, if thy heart,<br/> -Thy worthy, manly heart, be yet unbroken,<br/> -Give me thy last words. I am Palamon,<br/> +PALAMON.<br> +O miserable end of our alliance!<br> +The gods are mighty. Arcite, if thy heart,<br> +Thy worthy, manly heart, be yet unbroken,<br> +Give me thy last words. I am Palamon,<br> One that yet loves thee dying. </p> <p class="drama"> -ARCITE.<br/> -Take Emilia<br/> -And with her all the world’s joy. Reach thy hand;<br/> -Farewell. I have told my last hour. I was false,<br/> -Yet never treacherous. Forgive me, cousin.<br/> +ARCITE.<br> +Take Emilia<br> +And with her all the world’s joy. Reach thy hand;<br> +Farewell. I have told my last hour. I was false,<br> +Yet never treacherous. Forgive me, cousin.<br> One kiss from fair Emilia. </p> @@ -7539,81 +7518,81 @@ One kiss from fair Emilia. <span class="charname">Arcite</span>.</i>] </p> <p class="drama"> -’Tis done.<br/> +’Tis done.<br> Take her. I die. </p> <p class="drama"> -PALAMON.<br/> +PALAMON.<br> Thy brave soul seek Elysium! </p> <p class="right">[<i><span class="charname">Arcite</span> dies.</i>]</p> <p class="drama"> -EMILIA.<br/> -I’ll close thine eyes, Prince; blessed souls be with thee!<br/> -Thou art a right good man, and, while I live,<br/> +EMILIA.<br> +I’ll close thine eyes, Prince; blessed souls be with thee!<br> +Thou art a right good man, and, while I live,<br> This day I give to tears. </p> <p class="drama"> -PALAMON.<br/> +PALAMON.<br> And I to honour. </p> <p class="drama"> -THESEUS.<br/> -In this place first you fought; e’en very here<br/> -I sundered you. Acknowledge to the gods<br/> -Our thanks that you are living.<br/> -His part is played, and, though it were too short,<br/> -He did it well; your day is lengthened, and<br/> -The blissful dew of heaven does arrose you.<br/> -The powerful Venus well hath graced her altar,<br/> -And given you your love. Our master Mars,<br/> -Hath vouched his oracle, and to Arcite gave<br/> -The grace of the contention. So the deities<br/> +THESEUS.<br> +In this place first you fought; e’en very here<br> +I sundered you. Acknowledge to the gods<br> +Our thanks that you are living.<br> +His part is played, and, though it were too short,<br> +He did it well; your day is lengthened, and<br> +The blissful dew of heaven does arrose you.<br> +The powerful Venus well hath graced her altar,<br> +And given you your love. Our master Mars,<br> +Hath vouched his oracle, and to Arcite gave<br> +The grace of the contention. So the deities<br> Have showed due justice.—Bear this hence. </p> <p class="drama"> -PALAMON.<br/> -O cousin,<br/> -That we should things desire, which do cost us<br/> -The loss of our desire! That naught could buy<br/> +PALAMON.<br> +O cousin,<br> +That we should things desire, which do cost us<br> +The loss of our desire! That naught could buy<br> Dear love, but loss of dear love! </p> <p class="right">[<i><span class="charname">Arcite’s</span> body is carried out.</i>]</p> <p class="drama"> -THESEUS.<br/> -Never Fortune<br/> -Did play a subtler game. The conquered triumphs;<br/> -The victor has the loss; yet in the passage<br/> -The gods have been most equal. Palamon,<br/> -Your kinsman hath confessed the right o’ th’ lady<br/> -Did lie in you, for you first saw her and<br/> -Even then proclaimed your fancy. He restored her<br/> -As your stol’n jewel and desired your spirit<br/> -To send him hence forgiven. The gods my justice<br/> -Take from my hand and they themselves become<br/> -The executioners. Lead your lady off<br/> -And call your lovers from the stage of death,<br/> -Whom I adopt my friends. A day or two<br/> -Let us look sadly, and give grace unto<br/> -The funeral of Arcite, in whose end<br/> -The visages of bridegrooms we’ll put on<br/> -And smile with Palamon; for whom an hour,<br/> -But one hour since, I was as dearly sorry<br/> -As glad of Arcite, and am now as glad<br/> -As for him sorry. O you heavenly charmers,<br/> -What things you make of us! For what we lack<br/> -We laugh, for what we have are sorry, still<br/> -Are children in some kind. Let us be thankful<br/> -For that which is, and with you leave dispute<br/> -That are above our question. Let’s go off<br/> +THESEUS.<br> +Never Fortune<br> +Did play a subtler game. The conquered triumphs;<br> +The victor has the loss; yet in the passage<br> +The gods have been most equal. Palamon,<br> +Your kinsman hath confessed the right o’ th’ lady<br> +Did lie in you, for you first saw her and<br> +Even then proclaimed your fancy. He restored her<br> +As your stol’n jewel and desired your spirit<br> +To send him hence forgiven. The gods my justice<br> +Take from my hand and they themselves become<br> +The executioners. Lead your lady off<br> +And call your lovers from the stage of death,<br> +Whom I adopt my friends. A day or two<br> +Let us look sadly, and give grace unto<br> +The funeral of Arcite, in whose end<br> +The visages of bridegrooms we’ll put on<br> +And smile with Palamon; for whom an hour,<br> +But one hour since, I was as dearly sorry<br> +As glad of Arcite, and am now as glad<br> +As for him sorry. O you heavenly charmers,<br> +What things you make of us! For what we lack<br> +We laugh, for what we have are sorry, still<br> +Are children in some kind. Let us be thankful<br> +For that which is, and with you leave dispute<br> +That are above our question. Let’s go off<br> And bear us like the time. </p> @@ -7623,31 +7602,31 @@ And bear us like the time. <div class="chapter"> -<h2><a name="sceneV_38.5"></a><b>EPILOGUE</b></h2> +<h2><a id="sceneV_38.5"></a><b>EPILOGUE</b></h2> <p class="scenedesc"> Enter <span class="charname">Epilogue</span>. </p> <p class="drama"> -EPILOGUE<br/> - I would now ask ye how you like the play,<br/> -But, as it is with schoolboys, cannot say.<br/> -I am cruel fearful! Pray yet, stay a while,<br/> -And let me look upon ye. No man smile?<br/> -Then it goes hard, I see. He that has<br/> -Loved a young handsome wench, then, show his face—<br/> -’Tis strange if none be here—and, if he will,<br/> -Against his conscience let him hiss, and kill<br/> -Our market. ’Tis in vain, I see, to stay ye.<br/> -Have at the worst can come, then! Now what say ye?<br/> -And yet mistake me not: I am not bold;<br/> -We have no such cause. If the tale we have told<br/> -For ’tis no other—any way content ye—<br/> -For to that honest purpose it was meant ye—<br/> -We have our end; and you shall have ere long,<br/> -I dare say, many a better, to prolong<br/> -Your old loves to us. We, and all our might,<br/> +EPILOGUE<br> + I would now ask ye how you like the play,<br> +But, as it is with schoolboys, cannot say.<br> +I am cruel fearful! Pray yet, stay a while,<br> +And let me look upon ye. No man smile?<br> +Then it goes hard, I see. He that has<br> +Loved a young handsome wench, then, show his face—<br> +’Tis strange if none be here—and, if he will,<br> +Against his conscience let him hiss, and kill<br> +Our market. ’Tis in vain, I see, to stay ye.<br> +Have at the worst can come, then! Now what say ye?<br> +And yet mistake me not: I am not bold;<br> +We have no such cause. If the tale we have told<br> +For ’tis no other—any way content ye—<br> +For to that honest purpose it was meant ye—<br> +We have our end; and you shall have ere long,<br> +I dare say, many a better, to prolong<br> +Your old loves to us. We, and all our might,<br> Rest at your service. Gentlemen, good night. </p> @@ -7657,448 +7636,6 @@ Rest at your service. 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