A Select Collection of Old English Plays: Originally Published by Robert Dodsley in the year 1744
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A Select Collection of Old English Plays: Originally Published by Robert Dodsley in the year 1744
English drama
EUBULUS. I go with joyful heart. O happy day! [_Aside._]
[_Exit._
GRONNO. I am glad to hear this word. Though their lives they do not
lese,
It is no reason[146] the hangman should lose his fees:
These are mine, I am gone with a trice.
[_Exit_.
_Here entereth_ EUBULUS _with new garments_.
DIONYSIUS. Put on these garments now; go in with me, the jewels of
my court.
DAMON _and_ PITHIAS. We go with joyful hearts.
STEPHANO. O Damon, my dear master, in all this joy remember me.
DIONYSIUS. My friend Damon, he asketh reason.
DAMON. Stephano, for thy good service be thou free.
[_Exeunt_ DION.[147]
STEPHANO. O most happy, pleasant, joyful, and triumphant day!
Poor Stephano now shall live in continual play:[148]
_Vive le roy_, with Damon and Pithias, in perfect amity.
_Vive tu_, Stephano, in thy pleasant liberality:[149]
Wherein I joy as much as he that hath a conquest won,
I am a free man, none so merry as I now under the sun.
Farewell, my lords, now the gods grant you all the sum of perfect
amity,
And me long to enjoy my long-desired liberty.
[_Exit._
_Here entereth_ EUBULUS _beating_ CARISOPHUS.
Away, villain! away, you flatt’ring parasite!
Away, the plague of this court! thy filed tongue, that forged lies,
No more here shall do hurt: away, false sycophant! wilt thou not?
CARISOPHUS. I am gone, sir, seeing it is the king’s pleasure.
Why whip ye me alone? a plague take Damon and Pithias! since they
came hither,
I am driven to seek relief abroad, alas! I know not whither.
Yet, Eubulus, though I be gone, here after time shall try,
There shall be found even in this court as great flatterers as I.
Well, for a while I will forego the court, though to my great pain:
I doubt not but to spy a time, when I may creep in again.
[_Exit._
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