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A36616
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The Duke of Guise a tragedy : acted by Their Majesties servants / written by Mr. Dryden and Mr. Lee.
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Dryden, John, 1631-1700.; Lee, Nathaniel, 1653?-1692.
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in and spoil your Mirth Mal. I wo'n not Serv. Sir I dare not tell him so Knock again more fiercely My hair stands up in bristles when I see him The Dogs run into Corners the Spade Bitch Bayes at his back and howls Mal. Bid him enter and go off thy self Exit Serv. Scene closes upon the Company Enter Melanax an Hour-glass in his hand almost empty How dar'st thou interrupt my softer hours By Heaven I 'le ramm thee in some knotted Oak Where thou shalt sigh and groan to whistling winds Upon the lonely Plain Or I 'le confine thee deep in the Red Sea grov'ling on the Sands Ten thousand Billows rowling o're thy head Mel. Hoh hoh hoh Mal. Laugh'st thou malicious Fiend I le ope my Book of bloody Characters Shall rumple up thy tender airy Limbs Like Parchment on a flame Mel. Thou canst not do 't Behold this Hour-glass Mal. Well and what of that Mel. See'st thou these ebbing Sands They run for thee and when their Race is run Thy Lungs the Bellows of thy mortal breath Shall sink for ever down and heave no more Mal. What resty Fiend Nine Years thou hast to serve Mel. Not full Nine Minutes Mal. Thou ly'st look on thy Bond and view the date Mel. Then wilt thou stand to that without Appeal Mal. I will so help me Heav'n Mel. So take thee Hell Gives him the Bond. There Fool behold who lyes the Devil or thou Mal. Ha! One and twenty Years are shrunk to twelve Do my Eyes dazle Mel. No they see too true They dazl'd once I cast a Mist before 'em So what was figur'd Twelve to thy dull sight Appear'd full Twenty one Mal. There 's Equity in Heaven for this a Cheat. Mel. Fool thou hast quitted thy Appeal to Heaven To stand to this Mal. Then I am lost for ever Mel. Thou art Mal. O why was I not warn'd before Mel. Yes to repent then thou hadst cheated me Mal. Add but a day but half a day an hour For sixty Minutes I 'le forgive nine Years Mel. No not a Moments thought beyond my time Dispatch 't is much below me to attend For one poor single Fare Mal. So pitiless But yet I may command thee and I will I love the Guise even with my latest breath Beyond my Soul and my lost hopes of Heav'n I charge thee by my short-liv'd power disclose What Fate attends my Master Mel. If he goes To Council when he next is call'd he dyes Mal. Who waits Enter Servant Go give my Lord my last adieu Say I shall never see his Eyes agen But if he goes when next he 's call'd to Council Bid him believe my latest breath he dyes The Sands run yet O do not shake the Glass I shall be thine too soon cou'd I repent Heaven 's not confin'd to Moments Mercy Mercy Exit Serv. Devil shakes the Glass Mel. I see thy Prayers disperst into the winds And Heaven has pust 'em by I was an Angel once of foremost Rank Stood next the shining Throne and wink'd but half So almost gaz'd I glory in the Face That I could bear it and star'd farther in 'T was but a Moments pride and yet I fell For ever fell but Man base Earth-born Man Sins past a Sum and might be pardon'd more And yet 't is just for we were perfect Light And saw our Crimes Man in his Body's mire Half soul Half clod sinks blindfold into sin Betray'd by Frauds without and Lusts within Mal. Then I have hope Mel. Not so I preach'd on purpose To make thee lose this Moment of thy Prayer Thy Sand creeps low Despair Despair Despair Mal. Where am I now Upon the brink of Life The Culph before me Devils to push me on And Heaven behind me closing all its doors A thousand Years for ev'ry Hour I 've past O cou'd I scape so cheap But Ever Ever Still to begin an endless round of Woes To be renew'd for Pains and last for Hell Yet can Pains last when Bodies cannot last Can earthy Substance endless Flames endure Or when one Body wears and flits away Do Souls thrust forth another Crust of Clay To fence and guard their tender forms from fire╌ I feel my heart-strings rend I 'm here I 'm gone Thus Men too careless of their future State Dispute know nothing and believe too late A flash of Lightning they sink together Duke of Guise Cardinal Aumale Card. A dreadful Message from a dying Man A Prophesie indeed For Souls just quitting Earth peep into Heaven Make swift Acquaintance with their Kindred forms And Partners of Immortal Secrets grow Aum. 'T is good to lean on the securer side When Life depends the mighty Stake is such Fools fear too little and they dare too much Enter Archbishop Guise You have prevail'd I will not go to Council I have provok'd my Soveraign past a Pardon It but remains to doubt if he dare kill me Then if he dares but to be just I dye 'T is too much odds against me I 'le depart And finish Greatness at some sater time Archb. By Heaven 't is Harry's plot to fright you hence That Coward-like you might for sake your Friends Guise The Devil foretold it dying Malicorne Archb. Yes some Court-Devil no doubt If you depart consider good my Lord You are the Master spring that move our Fabrick Which once remov'd our Motion is no more Without your Presence which buoys up our hearts The League will sink beneath a Royal Name Th' inevitable Yoke prepar'd for Kings Will soon be shaken off Things done repeal'd And Things undone past future Means to do Card. I know not I begin to taste his Reasons Archb. Nay were the danger certain of your stay An Act so mean would lose you all your Friends And leave you single to the Tyrant's Rage Then better 't is to hazard Life alone Than Life and Friends and Reputation too Guise Since more I am confirm'd I 'le stand the shock Where e're he dares to call I dare to go My Friends are many faithful and united He will not venture on so rash a deed And now I wonder I should fear that Force Which I have us'd to Conquer and Contemn Enter Marmoutier Archb. Your Tempter comes perhaps to turn the Scale And warn you not to go Guise O fear her not Exeunt Archbishop and Cardinal I will be there What can she mean Repent Or is it cast betwixt the King and her To sound me Come what will it warms my heart With secret joy which these my ominous Statesmen Left dead within me ha she turns away Mar. Do you not wonder at this Visit Sir Guise No Madam I at last have gain'd the Point Of mightiest Minds to wonder now at nothing Mar. ╌Believe me Guise 't were gallantly resolv'd If you cou'd carry 't on the inside too Why came that Sigh uncall'd For Love of me Partly perhaps but more for thirst of Glory Which now agen dilates it self in Smiles As if you scorn'd that I should