Bussy D'Ambois and The Revenge of Bussy D'AmboisChapman, George
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Bussy D'Ambois and The Revenge of Bussy D'Ambois
Chapman, George
Bussy d'Amboise, 1549?-1579 -- Drama; English drama -- 17th century; Revenge -- Drama; Tragedies (Drama)
_Buss._ That ever any man was blest withall.
So here's for me! I think you are (at worst)
No devill, since y'are like to be no King;
Of which with any friend of yours Ile lay 480
This poore stillado here gainst all the starres,
I, and 'gainst all your treacheries, which are more:
That you did never good, but to doe ill,
But ill of all sorts, free and for it selfe:
That (like a murthering peece making lanes in armies, 485
The first man of a rank, the whole rank falling)
If you have wrong'd one man, you are so farre
From making him amends that all his race,
Friends, and associates fall into your chace:
That y'are for perjuries the very prince 490
Of all intelligencers; and your voice
Is like an easterne winde, that, where it flies,
Knits nets of catterpillars, with which you catch
The prime of all the fruits the kingdome yeelds:
That your politicall head is the curst fount 495
Of all the violence, rapine, cruelty,
Tyrannie, & atheisme flowing through the realme:
That y'ave a tongue so scandalous, 'twill cut
The purest christall, and a breath that will
Kill to that wall a spider; you will jest 500
With God, and your soule to the Devill tender
For lust; kisse horror, and with death engender:
That your foule body is a Lernean fenne
Of all the maladies breeding in all men:
That you are utterly without a soule; 505
And for your life, the thred of that was spunne
When Clotho slept, and let her breathing rock
Fall in the durt; and Lachesis still drawes it,
Dipping her twisting fingers in a boule
Defil'd, and crown'd with vertues forced soule: 510
And lastly (which I must for gratitude
Ever remember) that of all my height
And dearest life you are the onely spring,
Onely in royall hope to kill the King.
_Mons._ Why, now I see thou lov'st me! come to the banquet!
_Exeunt._ 515
_Finis Actus Tertii._
LINENOTES:
_Henry . . . Attendants_. A, _Henry, D'Ambois,
Monsieur, Guise, Mont., Elenor, Tam., Pero_.
1 _my_. A; B omits.
4 _sparrowes_. A, nothing.
16 _man_. A, truth.
29 _than_. So in A; B, by.
53 _besieged_. A, oppressed.
58 _the rest_. A, the tother.
67 _bout_. A, charge.
71-72 Three lines in Qq, i.e. _Peace . . . thee peace_ |
_Let . . . warre_ | _He's . . . man_.
76 _noblier_. Emend. ed. Qq, nobly; see note, p. 154.
88 _Stay . . . D'Ambois_. B, Stay them, stay D'Ambois.
89 _honour'd_. A, equall.
96 _empire_. A, eminence.
104 _one stick out_. A, out one sticke.
105 _bound our lifes_. A, was compris'd.
107 _ingenious_. A, ingenuous.
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