Philaster - Love Lies a Bleeding by Francis Beaumont;John Fletcher
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I'le love those pieces you have cut away,
Better than those that grow: and kiss these limbs, Because you made 'em so. _Phi_. Fearest thou not death? Can boys contemn that? _Bell_. Oh, what boy is he Can be content to live to be a man That sees the best of men thus passionate, thus without reason? _Phi_. Oh, but thou dost not know what 'tis to die. _Bell_. Yes, I do know my Lord; 'Tis less than to be born; a lasting sleep, A quiet resting from all jealousie; A thing we all pursue; I know besides, It is but giving over of a game that must be lost. _Phi_. But there are pains, false boy, For perjur'd souls; think but on these, and then Thy heart will melt, and thou wilt utter all. _Bell_. May they fall all upon me whilst I live, If I be perjur'd, or have ever thought Of that you charge me with; if I be false, Send me to suffer in those punishments you speak of; kill me. |
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