The works of John Dryden, $c now first collected in eighteen volumes. $p Volume 05 by John Dryden
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English fellowship; I am invited to a morning's draught.
_Page._ Good-morrow, brother, good-morrow; by that time you have filled your belly, and I have emptied mine, it will be time to meet at home again. [_Exeunt severally._ _Per._ So, this makes well for my design; he's left alone, unguarded, and asleep: Satan, thou art a bounteous friend, and liberal of occasions to do mischief; my pardon I have ready, if I am taken, my money half beforehand: up, Perez, rouse thy Spanish courage up; if he should wake, I think I dare attempt him; then my revenge is nobler, and revenge, to injured men, is full as sweet as profit. [_Exit._ SCENE II. _The_ SCENE _drawn, discovers_ TOWERSON _asleep on a Couch in his Night-gown. A Table by him; Pen, Ink, and Paper on it._ _Re-enter_ PEREZ _with a Dagger._ _Per._ Asleep, as I imagined, and as fast as all the plummets of eternal night were hung upon his temples. Oh that some courteous dæmon, in the other world, would let him know, 'twas Perez sent him thither! A paper by him too! He little thinks it is his testament; the last he e'er shall make: I'll read it first. [_Takes it up._] Oh, by the inscription, 'tis a memorial of what he means to do this day: What's here? My name in the first line! I'll read it. [_Reads._] _Memorandum, That my first action this morning shall be, to find out my true and valiant lieutenant, captain Perez; and, as a testimony of |
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