A Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 1 by Various
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_Tigell_. Tis _Neroes_ pleasure that you straight depart
To _Giara_, and there remaine confin'd: Thus he, out of his Princely Clemencie, Hath Death, your due, turn'd but to banishment. _Corn_. Why, _Tigellinus_? _Tigell_. I have done, upon your perill go or stay. [_Ex. Ti_. _Corn_. And why should Death or Banishment be due For speaking that which was requir'd, my thought? O why doe Princes love to be deceiv'd And even do force abuses on themselves? Their Eares are so with pleasing speech beguil'd That Truth they mallice, Flatterie truth account, And their owne Soule and understanding lost Goe, what they are, to seeke in other men. Alas, weake Prince, how hast thou punisht me To banish me from thee? O let me goe And dwell in _Taurus_, dwell in _Ethiope_ So that I doe not dwell at _Rome_ with thee. The farther still I goe from hence, I know, The farther I leave Shame and Vice behind. Where can I goe but I shall see thee, Sunne? And _Heaven_ will be as neere me still as here. Can they so farre a knowing soule exyle That her owne roofe she sees not ore her head? [_Exit_. |
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