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
_Boats._ I never did you better service Sir,
Yet have been ever faithful. I confess
That she deserv'd to dye; but by whose hand?
Not by a fathers. Double all her guilt,
It could not make you innocent, had you done it.
In me 'tis murder, in you 'twere a crime
Heaven could not pardon. Witness that I love you,
And in that love I did it.
_Sess._ Thou art Noble,
I thank thee for't; the thought of her dye with her.
_Asc._ My turn is next: since she could find no mercy,
What am I to expect?
_Cit._ With one voyce, Sir,
The Citizens salute you with the stile
Of King of _Naples_.
_Sess._ I must be excus'd,
The burden is too heavy for my shoulder,
Bestow it where 'tis due. Stand forth _Ascanio_,
It does belong to you; live long and wear it,
And warn'd by the example of your Unkle,
Learn that you are to govern men, not beasts:
And that it is a most improvident head,
That strives to hurt the limbs that do support it.
Give burial to the dead; for me, and mine,
We will again to Sea, and never know,
The place, which in my birth first gave me woe. [_Exeunt._
[_Flor. of Trumpets._
APPENDIX.
_In the following references to the text the lines are numbered from
the top of the page, including titles, acts, stage directions,
&c., but not, of course, the headline or mere 'rules.' Where, as
in the lists of Persons Represented, there are double columns, the
right-hand column is numbered after the left._
It has not been thought necessary to record the correction of every
turned letter nor the substitution of marks of interrogation for
marks of exclamation and _vice versâ_. Full-stops have been silently
inserted at the ends of speeches and each fresh speaker has been given
the dignity of a fresh line: in the double-columned folio the speeches
are frequently run on. Misprints in the Quartos and the First Folio
are recorded when they appear to be interesting. A word or two from
the printed text is attached to the variants recorded below in cases
where the variant, by itself, would not be sufficiently clear. Altered
punctuation is shown, usually, by printing the old punctuation between
the preceding and following words.
THE QUEEN OF CORINTH.
A = First Folio. B = Second Folio.
p. =1.= _Not in_ A, _except title._
p. =2=, l. 15. B] Euphenes.
l. 28. B] Merionc.
p. =3=, l. 12. B] Agenenor.
p. =4=, l. 29. B] you.
l. 40. B] Gentleman.
p. =5=, l. 31. A] Servant.
p. =6=, l. 23. _Colon added, as in_ A.
l. 38. A _omits stage direction_.
p. =7=, l. 38. A _reads_]
_Bel._ Good _Euphanes,_ where benefits are ill conferr'd, I had
thought, &c. (See p. 8, ll, 28-30.)
p. =8=, l. 28. B] Bell.
p. =10=, l. 30. A] was from you due to me:
p. =11=, ll. 29, 30. B] he is. For
p. =12=, l. 5. B] in my.
l. 34. A] mine.
p. =13=, l. 7. B] Socines.
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