A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 05
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A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 05
English drama
To love and fear, and both at once, my lord,
In my conceit are things of more import,
Than women's wits are to be busied with.
BALTHAZAR.
'Tis I that love.
BELL'-IMPERIA.
Whom?
BALTHAZAR.
Bell'-Imperia.
BELL'-IMPERIA.
But I, that fear.
BALTHAZAR.
Whom?
BELL'-IMPERIA.
Bell'-Imperia.
LORENZO.
Fear yourself?
BELL'-IMPERIA.
Ay, brother.
LORENZO.
How?
BELL'-IMPERIA.
As those that what[203] they love are loth and fear to lose.
BALTHAZAR.
Then, fair, let Balthazar your keeper be.
BELL'-IMPERIA.
No,[204] Balthazar doth fear as well as we:
_Et tremulo metui pavidum junxere timorem,_
_Et vanum stolidæ proditionis opus._ [_Exit._
LORENZO.
Nay, an' you argue things so cunningly,
We'll go continue this discourse at court.
BALTHAZAR.
Led by the lodestar[205] of her heavenly looks,
Wends poor oppressed Balthazar,
As o'er the mountains walks the wanderer,
Incertain to effect his pilgrimage. [_Exeunt._
_Enter two_ PORTINGALS, _and_ HIERONIMO
_meets them_.
1 PORTINGAL.
By your leave, sir.
HIERONIMO.
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