The works of John Dryden, $c now first collected in eighteen volumes. $p Volume 07 by John Dryden
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These musket bullets have not read much logic,
Nor are they given to make your nice distinctions: [_One enters, and gives the Queen a Note, she reads--_ One of them possibly may hit the king In some one part of him that's not divine; And so that mortal part of his majesty would draw the divinity of it into another world, sweet Abbot. _Qu. M._ 'Tis equal madness to go out or stay; The reverence due to kings is all transferred To haughty Guise; and when new gods are made, The old must quit the temple; you must fly. _King._ Death! had I wings, yet would I scorn to fly. _Gril._ Wings, or no wings, is not the question: If you won't fly for't, you must ride for't, And that comes much to one. _King._ Forsake my regal town! _Qu. M._ Forsake a bedlam; This note informs me fifteen thousand men Are marching to inclose the Louvre round. _Abb._ The business then admits no more dispute, You, madam, must be pleased to find the Guise; Seem easy, fearful, yielding, what you will; But still prolong the treaty all you can, |
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