A Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 4 by Unknown
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And we will make a bloodie feastivall.
_Cove_. The plots are laide, the keyes of golden coine, Hath op'd the secret closets of their harts. Inter [_sic_], insult, make captive at thy will, Themselves, and friends, with deedes of damned ill: Yonder is _Truth_, she commeth to bewaile, The times and parties that we worke upon. _Hom_. Why, let her weepe, lament and morne for me, We are right bred of damn'd iniquitie, And will go make a two-folde Tragedie. [_Exeunt_. _Truth_. Goe you disturbers of a quiet soule, Sad, greedy, gaping, hungrie _Canibals_, That ioy to practise others miseries. Gentles, prepare your teare-bedecked eyes, To see two shewes of lamentation, Besprinckled every where with guiltlesse blood, Of harmlesse youth, and pretie innocents. Our Stage doth weare habilliments of woe, _Truth_ rues to tell the truth of these laments: The one was done in famous London late, Within that streete whose side the River Thames Doth strive to wash from all impuritie: But yet that silver stream can never wash, The sad remembrance of that cursed deede, Perform'd by cruell _Merry_ on iust _Beech_, And his true boye poore _Thomas Winchester_. |
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