Near. Chor. Sirs, the song! DIRGE. Glories, pleasures, pomps, delights, and ease, The outward senses, when the mind 3rd Voice. Earthly honours flow and waste, Chor. Love only reigns in death; though art [CALANTHA dies. Arm. Look to the queen! 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, Shall never be digressed from: wait in order Upon these faithful lovers, as becomes us.- Till men can call the effects of them their own. [Exeunt. EPILOGUE. WHERE noble judgments and clear eyes are fixed 66 Let some say, "This was flat;" some, Here the scene As it transcended either state or fashion : Some few may cry, ""Twas pretty well," or so, 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. To read this tragedy, and thy own be next. Thou cheat'st us, Ford: mak'st one seem two by art: 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. |