Beaumont and Fletcher's Works, Vol. 09 of 10Fletcher, John
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Beaumont and Fletcher's Works, Vol. 09 of 10
Fletcher, John
English drama
[_Exit_ Theseus _and his train_.
_Pal._ The glass is running now that cannot finish
Till one of us expire: think you but thus,
That were there ought in me which strove to shew
Mine enemy in this business, were't one eye
Against another: Arm opprest by Arm:
I would destroy th' offender, Coz. I would
Though parcel of my self: then from this gather
How I should tender you.
_Arc._ I am in labour
To push your name, your antient love, our kindred
Out of my memory; and i' th' self-same place
To seat something I would confound: so hoist we
The sails, that must these vessels port, even where
The heavenly Lymiter pleases.
_Pal._ You speak well;
Before I turn, let me embrace thee Cosin
This I shall never do agen.
_Arc._ One farewel.
_Pal._ Why let it be so: Farewel Coz.
[_Exeunt_ Palamon _and his Knights_.
_Arc._ Farewel Sir;
Knights, Kinsmen, Lovers, yea my Sacrifices
True worshipers of _Mars_, whose spirit in you
Expells the seeds of fear, and th' apprehension
Which still is farther off it, goe with me
Before the god of our profession: There
Require of him the hearts of Lions, and
The breath of Tygers, yea, the fierceness too,
Yea, the speed also, to go on, I mean
Else wish we to be snails: you know my prize
Must be dragg'd out of bloud, force and great fea[te]
Must put my Garland on, where she sticks
The Queen of Flowers: our intercession then
Must be to him that makes the Camp, a Cestron
Brim'd with the b[l]ood of men: give me your aid
And bend your spirits towards him. [_They kneel._
Thou mighty one, that with thy power hast turn'd
Green _Neptune_ into purple.
Comets prewarn, whose havock in vast Field
Unearthed skulls proclaim, whose breath blows down,
The teeming C[e]res foyzon, who dost pluck
With hand armenipotent from [forth] blew clouds,
The mason'd Turrets, that both mak'st and break'st
The stony girths of Cities: me thy pupil,
Youngest follower of thy Drum, instruct this day
With military skill, that to thy laud
I may advance my streamer, and by thee,
Be stil'd the Lord o' th' day, give me great _Mars_
Some token of thy Pleasure.
[_Here they fall on their faces as formerly,_
_and there is heard clanging of Armor,_
_with a short Thunder, as the burst of_
_a battel, whereupon they all rise, and_
_bow to the Altar._
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