The Spanish Tragedie by Thomas Kyd
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Now come and sit with vs, and taste our cheere.
Sit to the banquet. Sit downe, young prince, you are our second guest; Brother, sit downe; and nephew, take your placel Signior Horatio, waite thou vpon our cup, For well thou hast deserued to be honored. Now, lordings, fall too: Spaine is Portugall, And Portugall is Spaine; we both are freends; Tribute is paid, and we enioy our right. But where is olde Hieronimo, our marhsall? He promised vs, in honor of our guest, To grace our banquet with some pompous iest. Enter HIERONIMO with a DRUM, three KNIGHTS, each with scutchin; then he fethces three KINGS; they take their crownes and them captiue. Hieronimo, this makes contents mine eie, Although I sound well not the misterie. HIERO. The first arm'd knight that hung his scutchin vp He takes the scutchin ahd giues it to the KING. Was English Robert, Earle of Glocester, Who, when King Stephen bore sway in Albion, |
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