The Maids Tragedy by Francis Beaumont;John Fletcher
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man, Oh that beast man!
Come lets be sad my Girles; That down cast of thine eye, _Olympias_, Shews a fine sorrow; mark _Antiphila_, Just such another was the Nymph _Oenone_, When _Paris_ brought home _Helen_: now a tear, And then thou art a piece expressing fully The _Carthage_ Queen, when from a cold Sea Rock, Full with her sorrow, she tyed fast her eyes To the fair _Trojan_ ships, and having lost them, Just as thine eyes do, down stole a tear, _Antiphila_; What would this Wench do, if she were _Aspatia_? Here she would stand, till some more pitying God Turn'd her to Marble: 'tis enough my Wench; Shew me the piece of Needle-work you wrought. _Ant_. Of _Ariadne_, Madam? _Asp_. Yes that piece. This should be _Theseus_, h'as a cousening face, You meant him for a man. _Ant_. He was so Madam. _Asp_. Why then 'tis well enough, never look back, You have a full wind, and a false heart _Theseus_; Does not the story say, his Keel was split, Or his Masts spent, or some kind rock or other Met with his Vessel? |
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