What greater pain canst thou inflict on me, NIGHT breaks off her speech.1 [Act v., Sc. 8.] Night. But stay! for there methinks I see the Sun, And limn the heavens in vermilion dye; Their gingling harness, and their neighing sounds, I hear Eous and fierce Pirous Come panting on my back; and therefore I [Prologue.] CHABOT, ADMIRAL OF FRANCE. A TRAGEDY. G. CHAPMAN AND J. SHIRLEY [See page 368] No Advice to Self Advice. -another's knowledge, Applied to my instruction, cannot equal My own soul's knowledge how to inform acts. The sun's rich radiance shot thro' waves most fair, Is but a shadow to his beams i' th' air; vapour flies, 1 In the Prologue. BY To what his own pure bosom rarefies : On others' knowledge, and exile their own. Virtue under Calumny. -as in cloudy days we see the Sun Glide over turrets, temples, richest fields (All those left dark and slighted in his way); And on the wretched plight of some poor shed Pours all the glories of his golden head: So heavenly Virtue on this envied Lord Points all his graces. [Act i., Sc. 1.1] CÆSAR AND POMPEY. [Act iv., Sc. 1.] A TRAGEDY, 1631. BY G. CHAPMAN [See page 72] Cato's Speech at Utica to a Senator, who had exprest fears on his account. Away, Statilius; how long shall thy love Exceed thy knowledge of me, and the Gods, Whose rights thou wrong'st for my right? have not I Their powers to guard me in a cause of theirs, Their justice and integrity to guard me In what I stand for? he that fears the Gods, For guard of any goodness, all things fears; Earth, seas, and air; heav'n; darkness; broad day-light; And what an aspen soul has such a creature! How dangerous to his soul is such a fear! In whose cold fits, is all Heav'n's justice shaken To his faint thoughts; and all the goodness there, 1 [Edited Dyce, vol. vi.] : resolution, wherever I wander, to be as I were ever kneeling before Sapho my loyalty unspotted, though unrewarded. With as little malice will I go to my grave, as I did lie withal in my cradle. My life shall be spent in sighing and wishing; the one for my bad fortune, the other for Sapho's good. [Act v., Sc. 3.1] THE TRUE TROJANS; OR FUIMUS TROES. AN HIS- UNKNOWN. 1639)] Invocation of the Druids to the Gods of Britain, on the invasion of Cæsar. Draw near, ye Heav'nly Powers, Who dwell in starry bowers; And ye, who in the deep On mossy pillows sleep; Belief doth beg relief. By the vervain and lunary, By fern seed planetary, By the dreadful misletoe Which doth on holy oak grow, Draw near, draw near, draw near. Help us beset with danger, [See also Appendix, p. 594.] (His soul being free from death) which otherwise "Twixt them and bodies, making bodies fitter Athenodorus. Hold you, our bodies shall revive; resuming Our souls again to heaven? Cato. Past doubt; though others Think heav'n a world too high for our low reaches We shall,' past death, -now I am safe; His last words. Come, Cæsar, quickly now, or lose your vassal. 1["Know each other; and"] [Act iv., Sc. 1.] 2 [Six and a half lines omitted.] The joys and horrors of their peace and wars; Greatness in Adversity. Vulcan from heav'n fell, yet on's feet did light, [Act v., Sc. 1.] [Act v., p. 184.] BUSSY D'AMBOIS. A TRAGEDY. BY G. CHAPMAN [See page 74] Invocation for Secrecy at a Love-meeting. Tamyra. Now all the peaceful Regents of the Night, Languishing Winds, and murmuring Falls of Waters, Enchantment's dead Sleeps; all the Friends of Rest, Extend your utmost strengths, and this charm'd hour Of Time and Fortune stand; and great Existence, At the Meeting. [Act ii., Sc. 1.] Here's nought but whispering with us: like a calm Lays her soft ear close to the earth, to hearken [Act iv., Sc. 1.] Invocation for a Spirit of Intelligence. D'Ambois. I long to know How my dear Mistress fares, and be inform'd 1 D'Ambois: with whom she has an appointment. |