A King, and No King by John Fletcher;Francis Beaumont
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Is't the course of _Iberia_ to use their prisoners thus? Had fortune thrown my name above _Arbace_, I should not thus have talk'd Sir, in _Armenia_ We hold it base, you should have kept your temper Till you saw home again, where 'tis the fashion Perhaps to brag. _Arb_. Be you my witness earth, need I to brag, Doth not this captive Prince speak Me sufficiently, and all the acts That I have wrought upon his suffering Land; Should I then boast! where lies that foot of ground Within his whole Realm, that I have not past, Fighting and conquering; Far then from me Be ostentation. I could tell the world How I have laid his Kingdom desolate By this sole Arm prop't by divinity, Stript him out of his glories, and have sent The pride of all his youth to people graves, And made his Virgins languish for their Loves, If I would brag, should I that have the power To teach the Neighbour world humility, Mix with vain-glory? _Mar_. Indeed this is none. |
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