Philaster - Love Lies a Bleeding by Francis Beaumont;John Fletcher
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there I leave you Gentlemen.
_Thra_. Nay we'l go wander with you. [_Exeunt_. _Actus Tertius. Scena Prima_. _Enter _Cle. Di. _and _Thra. _Cle_. Nay doubtless 'tis true. _Di_. I, and 'tis the gods That rais'd this Punishment to scourge the King With his own issue: Is it not a shame For us, that should write noble in the land; For us, that should be freemen, to behold A man, that is the bravery of his age, _Philaster_, prest down from his Royal right, By this regardless King; and only look, And see the Scepter ready to be cast Into the hands of that lascivious Lady, That lives in lust with a smooth boy, now to be Married to yon strange Prince, who, but that people Please to let him be a Prince, is born a slave, In that which should be his most noble part, His mind? |
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