The Dramatic Works of John Ford: With an Introduction, and Notes Critical and Explanatory, Volume 1J. & J. Harper, 1831 - English drama |
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... Amet . Pray give leave- He shall attend your entertainments soon , Next day , and next day ; -for an hour or two I would engross him only . Soph . Noble lord ! Amet . You are both dismiss'd . Pel . Your creature and your servant ...
... Amet . Pray give leave- He shall attend your entertainments soon , Next day , and next day ; -for an hour or two I would engross him only . Soph . Noble lord ! Amet . You are both dismiss'd . Pel . Your creature and your servant ...
Page 51
... Amet . Such is my case at home . Cleophila , thy kinswoman , that maid Of sweetness and humility , more pities Her father's poor afflictions , than the tide Of my complaints . Men . Thamasta , my great mistress , Your princely sister ...
... Amet . Such is my case at home . Cleophila , thy kinswoman , that maid Of sweetness and humility , more pities Her father's poor afflictions , than the tide Of my complaints . Men . Thamasta , my great mistress , Your princely sister ...
Page 52
... Amet . Jewel , Menaphon ? Men . A jewel , my Amethus , a fair youth ; A youth , whom , if I were but superstitious , I should repute an excellence more high , Than mere creations are : to add delight , I'll tell you how I found him . Amet ...
... Amet . Jewel , Menaphon ? Men . A jewel , my Amethus , a fair youth ; A youth , whom , if I were but superstitious , I should repute an excellence more high , Than mere creations are : to add delight , I'll tell you how I found him . Amet ...
Page 53
... Amet . And so do I ; good ! on- Men . A nightingale , Nature's best skill'd musician , undertakes The challenge , and for every several strain The well - shaped youth could touch , she sung her own ; He could not run division with more ...
... Amet . And so do I ; good ! on- Men . A nightingale , Nature's best skill'd musician , undertakes The challenge , and for every several strain The well - shaped youth could touch , she sung her own ; He could not run division with more ...
Page 54
... Amet . Now for the bird . Men . The bird , ordain'd to be Music's first martyr , strove to imitate These several sounds : which , when her warbling throat Fail'd in , for grief , down dropp'd she on his lute , And brake her heart ! It ...
... Amet . Now for the bird . Men . The bird , ordain'd to be Music's first martyr , strove to imitate These several sounds : which , when her warbling throat Fail'd in , for grief , down dropp'd she on his lute , And brake her heart ! It ...
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A-WATER Amet AMETHUS Amyc Amyclas ARETUS Armostes Athens Bass Bassanes beauty blood brother Calantha CHRISTALLA cittern Cleo Cleophila command Corax court cousin Crot CROTOLON DALYELL dare daughter Dawbeney dear doth earl Enter Eroclea Euph Euphranea Exeunt Exit eyes fair fate father favour Ford fortunes Frion Grau griefs Gril Gron GRONEAS hath heart heaven honour hope Hunt Huntley Ithocles John Ford Kala Kath king lady Lady's Trial LAMBERT SIMNEL live lord Lover's Melancholy marriage Melancholy Meleander Menaphon NEARCHUS never noble Orgilus Palador Parthenophill passion peace PELIAS Penthea Perkin PERKIN WARBECK PHILEMA pity poet pray prince princess prithee Prophilus Rhetias SCENE Sir William Stanley sister Soph SOPHRONOS soul Sparta speak sweet Tecnicus THAMASTA thank thee thine thou art thoughts truth Urswick vows WARBECK wife young youth