A Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 1 by Various
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That it beates downe againe my clyming thoughts.
_Petron_. Why, true; And other of thy blindnesses thou seest[?] Such one to love thou dar'st not speake unto. Give me a wench that will be easily had Not woed with cost, and being sent for comes: And when I have her foulded in mine armes Then _Cleopatra_ she, or _Lucres_ is; Ile give her any title. _Anto_. Yet not so much her greatnesse and estate My hopes disharten as her chastitie. _Petron_. Chastitie! foole! a word not knowne in Courts. Well may it lodge in meane and countrey homes Where povertie and labour keepes them downe, Short sleepes and hands made hard with _Thuscan_ Woll, But never comes to great mens Pallaces Where ease and riches stirring thoughts beget, Provoking meates and surfet wines inflame; Where all there setting forth's but to be wooed, And wooed they would not be but to be wonne. Will one man serve _Poppea_? nay, thou shalt Make her as soone contented with an [one?] eye. _Nimphidius_ to them. _Nimph_. Whil'st _Nero_ in the streetes his Pageants shewes I to his fair wives chambers sent for am. |
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