The Laws of Candy - Beaumont & Fletcher's Works (3 of 10) by John Fletcher;Francis Beaumont
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The streights of death, you might have justly then
Reputed me a Bastard: 'tis a cruelty More than to murther Innocents, to take The life of my yet infant-honour from me. Cassilanes: _Antinous_, look upon this badge of age, Thy Father's grey-hair'd beard: full fifty years, (And more than half of this, ere thou wert born) I have been known a Souldier, in which time I found no difference 'twixt War and Peace, For War was Peace to me, and Peace was War. _Antinous_, mark me well; there hath not liv'd These fifty years a man whom _Crete_ prefer'd Before thy Father; let me boldly boast, Thy Father, both for Discipline a[n]d Action 242] Hath so long been the first of all his Nation; Now, canst thou think it honest, charitable, Nay humane, being so young, my Son, my Child, Begot, bred, taught by me, by me thy Father, For one days service, and that on thy first, To rob me of a glory which I fought for A half of hundred years? Antinous: My case observes Both equity and presidents; for Sir, That very day whereon you got your Fame, |
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