The Noble Spanish Soldier by Thomas Dekker
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CARDINAL I come to knit the nerves of your lost strength, To build your ruins up, to set you free From this your voluntary banishment, And give new being to your murdered fame. ONELIA What Aesculapius <6> can do this? CARDINAL 'Tis from the King I come. ONELIA A name I hate. Oh, I am deaf now to your embassy. CARDINAL Hear what I speak. ONELIA Your language breathed from him Is death's sad doom upon a wretch condemned. CARDINAL Is it such poison? ONELIA Yes, and were you crystal, What the King fills you with would make you break. |
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