Beaumont & Fletcher's Works (2 of 10) - the Humourous Lieutenant by John Fletcher;Francis Beaumont
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_Dem_. What? _Cel_. I should be friends with you too, Now I think better. _Dem_. Ye are a tall Souldier: Here, take these, and these; This gold to furnish ye, and keep this bracelet; Why do you weep now? You a masculine Spirit? _Cel_. No, I confess, I am a fool, a woman: And ever when I part with you-- _Dem_. You shall not, These tears are like prodigious signs, my sweet one, I shall come back, loaden with fame, to honour thee. _Cel_. I hope you shall: But then my dear _Demetrius_, When you stand Conquerour, and at your mercy All people bow, and all things wait your sentence; Say then your eye (surveying all your conquest) Finds out a beautie, even in sorrow excellent, A constant face, that in the midst of ruine With a forc'd smile, both scorns at fate, and fortune: Say you find such a one, so nobly fortified, And in her figure all the sweets of nature? |
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