A Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 4 by Unknown
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_Ho_. But turne about and thou wilt know my face.
_Ava_. It may be so, and know thy want of grace. What! _Homicide_? thou art the man I seeke: I reconcile me thus upon thy cheeke. [_Kisse, imbrace_. Hadst thou nam'd blood and damn'd iniquitie, I had forborne to bight so bitterlie. _Hom_. Knowst thou a hart wide open to receive, A plot of horred desolation? Tell me of this, thou art my cheefest good, And I will quaffe thy health in bowles of blood. _Ava_. I know two men, that seem two innocents, Whose lookes, surveied with iuditiall eyes, Would seeme to beare the markes of honestie; But snakes finde harbour mongst the fairest flowers, Then never credit outward semblaunces. _Enter[4] Trueth_. I know their harts relentlesse, mercilesse, And will performe through hope of benefit: More dreadfull things then can be thought upon. _Hom_. If gaine will draw, I prethy then allure Their hungrie harts with hope of recompence, But tye dispaire unto those mooving hopes, Unleast a deed of murther farther it, Then blood on blood, shall overtake them all, |
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