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Near.

Chor.

Sirs, the song!

DIRGE.

Glories, pleasures, pomps, delights, and ease,
Can but please

The outward senses, when the mind
Is or untroubled or by peace refined.
1st. Voice. Crowns may flourish and decay,
Beauties shine, but fade away.
2nd Voice. Youth may revel, yet it must
Lie down in a bed of dust.

3rd Voice. Earthly honours flow and waste,
Time alone doth change and last.
Sorrows mingled with contents prepare
Rest far care;

Chor.

Love only reigns in death; though art
Can find no comfort for a broken heart.

[CALANTHA dies.

Arm. Look to the queen!
Bass.

Her heart is broke indeed.

O, royal maid, would thou hadst missed this part!

Yet 'twas a brave one. I must weep to see

Her smile in death.

Arm.

Wise Tecnicus! thus said he;

"When youth is ripe, and age from time doth part,
The Lifeless Trunk shall wed the Broken Heart."
'Tis here fulfilled.

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Shall never be digressed from: wait in order

Upon these faithful lovers, as becomes us.-
The counsels of the gods are never known

Till men can call the effects of them their own. [Exeunt.

EPILOGUE.

WHERE noble judgments and clear eyes are fixed
To grace endeavour, there sits truth, not mixed
With ignorance; those censures may command
Belief which talk not till they understand.

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Let some say, "This was flat;" some, Here the scene
Fell from its height;" another, “That the mean
Was ill observed in such a growing passion

As it transcended either state or fashion :

Some few may cry, ""Twas pretty well," or so,
"But--" and there shrug in silence: yet we know
Our writer's aim was in the whole addrest
Well to deserve of all, but please the best;
Which granted, by the allowance of this strain
The BROKEN HEART may be pieced-up again.

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OVE'S SACRIFICE was acted at the Phoenix in Drury Lane, and published in 1633, as "a tragedy received generally well." The source of the story is unknown. The passages in which D'Avolos excites the jealousy of the Duke were evidently suggested by Othello. The words in which D'Avolos bids farewell to his judges resemble, as Ward points out, those of Marinelli in Lessing's Emilia Galotti.

To my Friend, Master John Ford.
Unto this altar, rich with thy own spice,
I bring one grain to thy LOVE'S SACRIFICE;
And boast to see thy flames ascending, while
Perfumes enrich our air from thy sweet pile.
Look here, thou that hast malice to the stage,
And impudence enough for the whole age;
"Voluminously "-ignorant, be vext

To read this tragedy, and thy own be next.
JAMES SHIRLEY,

Thou cheat'st us, Ford: mak'st one seem two by art:
What is Love's Sacrifice but the Broken Heart?

RICHARD CRASHAW,1

1 This appeared in Crashaw's Delights of the Muses (1646). It is interesting to note the evident regard which the religious poet ard mystic felt for the dramatist.

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