Beaumont and Fletcher's Works, Vol. 04 of 10 — John Shaqi
Beaumont and Fletcher's Works, Vol. 04 of 10Fletcher, John
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Beaumont and Fletcher's Works, Vol. 04 of 10
Fletcher, John
English drama
_Are._ Do, and I'le flatter thee, nay more I'll love thee:
Thy tortures to what now I suffer _Cæsar_,
At which thou must arrive too, e're thou dy'st,
Are lighter, and more full of mirth and laughter.
_Emp._ Let 'em alone: I must drink.
_Are._ Now be mad,
But not near me yet.
_Emp._ Hold me, hold me, hold me,
Hold me; or I shall burst else.
_Are._ See me _Cæsar_,
And see to what thou must come for thy murder;
Millions of womens labours, all diseases.
_Emp._ Oh my afflicted soul too.
_Are._ Womens fears, horrors,
Despairs, and all the Plagues the hot Sun breeds.--
_Emp._ _Æcius_, O _Aecius_: O _Lucina_.
_Are._ Are but my torments shadows?
_Emp._ Hide me mountains;
The gods have found my sins:
Now break.
_Are._ Not yet Sir;
Thou hast a pull beyond all these.
_Emp._ Oh Hell,
Oh villain, cursed villain.
_Are._ O brave villain,
My poyson dances in me at this deed:
Now _Cæsar_, now behold me, this is torment,
And this is thine before thou diest, I am wildfire:
The brazen Bull of _Phalaris_ was feign'd,
The miseries of souls despising Heaven
But Emblems of my torments.
_Emp._ Oh quench me, quench me, quench me.
_Are._ Fire, a flattery;
And all the Poets tales of sad _Avernus_,
To my pains less than fictions: Yet to shew thee
What constant love I bore my murdred master;
Like a Southwind, I have sung through all these tempests
My heart, my wither'd heart, fear, fear thou Monster,
Fear the just gods, I have my peace.-- [_He dies._
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