The works of John Dryden, $c now first collected in eighteen volumes. $p Volume 07 by John Dryden
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Grow the two tallest trees in Arden forest.
_1 Sher._ For what, pray, colonel, if we may be so bold? _Gril._ Why, to hang you upon the highest branches. 'Fore God, it will be so; and I shall laugh To see you dangling to and fro i'the air, With the honest crows pecking your traitors' limbs. _All._ Good colonel! _Gril._ Good rats, my precious vermin. You moving dirt, you rank stark muck o'the world, You oven-bats, you things so far from souls, Like dogs, you're out of Providence's reach, And only fit for hanging; but be gone, And think of plunder.--You right elder sheriff, Who carved our Henry's image on a table, At your club-feast, and after stabbed it through,--[11] _1 Sher._ Mercy, good colonel. _Gril._ Run with your nose to earth; Run, blood-hound, run, and scent out royal murder.-- You second rogue, but equal to the first, Plunder, go hang,--nay, take your tackling with you, For these shall hold you fast,--your slaves shall hang you. To the mid region in the sun: Plunder! Begone, vipers, asps, and adders! [_Exeunt Sheriffs and People._ |
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