Believe as You List: A TragedyPercy Society, 1849 - 108 páginas |
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Página 56 - twill become mee) Receave it as a favour. Flaminius. Know then Rome In her pious care, that you may still increase The happinesse you live in ; and your subjectes, Under the shadowe of their owne vines eate The fruite they yeeld 'em ; their soft musicall feasts Continewinge, as they doe yet, unaffrighted With the harsh noyse of war, intreates as low As her knowne power and majestie can descende You woulde returne with due eequalitie A willingenes to preserve what shee hath conquer'd From change,...
Página 107 - Now offer'd to you, by his owne confession Must make it good, and not his weake expression You sit his judges, and like judges bee From favour to his cause, or malice free, Then whether hee hath hit the white or mist, As the title speaks, Beleeve you as you list. EPILOGUE. The end of Epilogues, is to inquire The conjure of the play, or to desire Pardon for what's amisse.
Página 10 - Be scene by the whole worlde, and with a voice Lowder then thunder, pierce the eares of prowd And secure greatenesse with the trewe relation Of my remarkeable storie, that my fall Might not bee fruitlesse, but still live the greate Example of man's frayletic.
Página 72 - ... openinge, Had shooke of her sicke fethers, and prepar'd Her selfe to make a noble flight, as set At libertie, and now this reparation Againe immures. You for whose curious palats The elements are ransackde looke upon This bill of fare, by my penurious steward Necessitie, serv'd to a famishde kinge. And warnde by my example, when your tables Cracke not with the waight, of deere, and far fetch'd dainties Dispute not with heavn's bounties. What shall I doe ? Yf I refuse to touch, and taste these...
Página 11 - I, that was Borne and bred up a kinge, whose frowne or smile Spake death, or life, my will a law ; my person Environde with an armie; now exposde To the contempt, and scorne of my owne slave ; Whoe, in his pride, as a god compar'd with mee, Bids mee become a begger. But complaynts Are weake and womanishe. I will, like a...
Página 20 - Silence your showtes : I will gieve stronger proofes Then theis exterior markes when I appeare Before the Carthaginian senators, With whom I have helde more intelligence And private counsailes, then with all the kinges Of Asia, or Affrique : I'le amaze them With the wonder of my storie. Berecinthius. Yet untill Your majestic bee furnishde like your selfe, To a neighbour village — Antiochus. Where you please : the omen Of this encounter promises a good issue : And our gods pleas'd, oppressed Asia,...
Página 1 - Which in her empires vastnesse rivalls Rome At her prowde height ; two howers will bringe you thither. Make use of what you have learnde in your longe travayles ; And from the golden principles read to you In th* Athenian Academic ; stand resolvde For either fortune.
Página 70 - ... lord Flaminius strictely commanded Before I have raysde hym out of the dongeon To lay theis instruments in his viewe. To what end I am not to enquire but I am certaine, After his longe fast they are viands that Will hardlye beedigested. Doe you heare sir?
Página 76 - In her right hand brings liberty, and a calm After so many storms ; and you no sooner Shall, to the world, profess you were suborned To this imposture — though I still believe It is a truth — but, with a free remission For the offence, I, as your better genius, Will lead you from this place of horror to A paradise of delight, to which compared, Thessalian Tempe, or that garden where Venus with her revived Adonis spend Their pleasant hours, and make from their embraces A perpetuity of happiness,...
Página 66 - You are i' the right my lord. Metellus. And there lies your intelligence. Sempronius, True my good lord 'Tis a discoverie will not shame a captaine When hee lies in garrison. Since I was a trader In such commodities, I never saw Her equall, I was ravish'd with the object And woulde you visit her I beleeve you woulde write Your selfe of my opinion. Metellus.