Beaumont and Fletcher's Works, Vol. 06 of 10Fletcher, John
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Beaumont and Fletcher's Works, Vol. 06 of 10
Fletcher, John
English drama
_Pand._ My best Lord?
As far as sorrow will give leave, most welcome;
This _Virolet_ was, and but a Son of mine,
I might say, the most hopeful of our Gentry;
And though unfortunate, never ignoble:
But I'll speak him no farther. Look on this,
This face, that in a savage would move pitty,
The wonder of her Sex, and having said
'Tis _Juliana_, Eloquence will want words
To set out her deservings; this blest Lady
That did indure the Rack, to save her Husband,
That Husband, who, in being forc'd to leave her,
Indur'd a thousand tortures; by what practise,
I know not, (but 'twas sure a cunning one)
Are made, the last I hope, but sad examples
Of _Ferrands_ tyranny. Convey the bodies hence.
_Sess._ Express your sorrow
In your revenge, not teares, my worthy Soldiers:
That fertile earth that teem'd so many children,
To feed his cruelty, in her wounded wombe,
Can hardly now receive 'em.
_Boats._ We are cold,
Cold walls shall not keep him from us.
_Gun._ Were he cover'd with mountains, and room only for a
Bullet to be sent level at him, I would speed him.
_M[r]._ Let's scale this petty Tower; at Sea we are Falcons,
And fly unto the main top in a moment.
What then can stop us here?
_1 Cit._ We'll tear him piece-meal.
_2 Cit._ Or eat a passage to him.
_Ses._ Let discretion
Direct your anger; that's a victory,
Which is got with least loss, let us make ours such:
And therefore friends, while we hold parley here,
Raise your scalado on the other side,
But enter'd wreak your suffrings.
[_Exit Saylors and Soldiers._
_1 Cit._ In our wrongs:
There was no mean.
_2 Cit._ Nor in our full revenge
Will we know any.
_Sess._ Be appeas'd good man,
No sorrow can redeem them from deaths Prison;
What his inevitable hand hath seiz'd on,
The world cannot recover. All the comfort
That I can give to you, is to see vengeance
Pour'd dreadfully upon the Authors head,
Of which their ashes may be sensible,
That have fain by him. [_Sound a parley._
_Enter_ Ferrand, Martia, Ascanio, _and_ Ronvere, _above._
_Pand._ They appear.
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