BREN. No, proud dictator, both do weary stand On equal terms: both wish a peaceful league. But if they shall oppress, know, generous spirits Will break this compact, like a spider's web. MER. Jove's will is finish'd: and, though Juno frown, That no more Trojan blood shall dye the stage, The world's fourth empire Britain doth embrace. The thunder-bearer with a Janus look At once views ruddy morn and cloudy west: Her wings, display'd o'er this terrestrial egg, Will shortly hatch an universal peace; For Jove intends a favour to the world. It now remains that you two martial wights Cease from your braving one another's worth: You must be friends at last. The close is sweet, When, after tumults, hearts and hands do meet. [_Exeunt._ _Nec lusisse pudet, sed non incidere ludum._ FOOTNOTES: [339] The wife of Locrine. See Geoffrey of Monmouth, bk. ii. c. 4. [340] A coxcomb, or conceited person. So in "The Emperor of the East," act iv. sc. 1-- "I have a heart, yet As ready to do service for my leg As any _princock_, peacock of you all." And again, "The Old Law," act iii. sc. 2-- "That wet one has cost many a _princock's_ life." See also Mr Steevens's note on "Romeo and Juliet," act i. sc. 5. [341] This sentiment, and many others in the course of the play, are borrowed: it is a translation from a very well known passage in Tacitus: _solitudinem faciunt_, &c.--_Collier._ [342] _i.e._, Poignard, sword. So in "The Return from Parnassus"-- "Strikes his _poynado_ at a button's breadth." [343] Alluding to Spenser's celebrated poem.--_Steevens._ [344] See note to "Albumazar," [xi. 346.] [345] The Tower of London, said to have been built by Julius Cæsar. [346] [The winter solstice.] [347] The 4o has it-- "The sea with rivers' water doth _The_ plants and flowers dainty." --_Collier._ [348] Or broken-banked with the flood. [349] The slaughter made at the battle of Allia, in the year of Rome 363. THE LOST LADY. _EDITION._ _The Lost Lady. A Tragy Comedy. Imprinted at London by Jo. Okes, for John Colby, and are to be sold at his Shop, at the Signe of the Holy Lambe on Ludgate-hill. 1639. Folio._ [Sir William Barclay or Berkley was probably related to Sir Richard Barclay, author of "A Discourse of the Felicity of Man," first printed in 1598. He wrote, besides the "Lost Lady," a "Description of Virginia." An account of him will be found in Bliss's edition of Wood's "Athenæ," iii. 1111-12. "The Lost Lady" was reprinted by Dodsley in 1744, but excluded from the second and third editions of the collection.] DRAMATIS PERSONÆ.[350] _Men._ LYSICLES. EUGENIO. AGENOR. CLEON. ERGASTO. PHORMIO. PINDARUS. PHYSICIAN. _Women._ MILESIA. HERMIONE. IRENE. PHILLIDA. ACANTHE. FOOTNOTES: