The Maids Tragedy by Francis Beaumont;John Fletcher
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_Ant_. Not as I remember.
_Asp_. It should ha' been so; could the Gods know this, And not of all their number raise a storm? But they are all as ill. This false smile was well exprest; Just such another caught me; you shall not go so _Antiphila_, In this place work a quick-sand, And over it a shallow smiling Water. And his ship ploughing it, and then a fear. Do that fear to the life Wench. _Ant_. 'Twill wrong the story. _Asp_. 'Twill make the story wrong'd by wanton Poets Live long and be believ'd; but where's the Lady? _Ant_. There Madam. _Asp_. Fie, you have mist it here _Antiphila_, You are much mistaken Wench; These colours are not dull and pale enough, To shew a soul so full of misery As this sad Ladies was; do it by me, Do it again by me the lost _Aspatia_, And you shall find all true but the wild Island; I stand upon the Sea breach now, and think Mine arms thus, and mine hair blown with the wind, Wild as that desart, and let all about me |
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