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)
_Tam._ In meane time,
Deare servant, till your powerfull voice revoke him,
Be sure to use the policy he advis'd;
Lest fury in your too quick knowledge taken
Of our abuse, and your defence of me, 170
Accuse me more than any enemy.
And, father, you must on my lord impose
Your holiest charges, and the Churches power,
To temper his hot spirit, and disperse
The cruelty and the bloud I know his hand 175
Will showre upon our heads, if you put not
Your finger to the storme, and hold it up,
As my deare servant here must doe with Monsieur.
_Buss._ Ile sooth his plots, and strow my hate with smiles,
Till all at once the close mines of my heart 180
Rise at full date, and rush into his bloud:
Ile bind his arme in silk, and rub his flesh
To make the veine swell, that his soule may gush
Into some kennell where it longs to lie;
And policy shall be flanckt with policy. 185
Yet shall the feeling Center where we meet
Groane with the wait of my approaching feet:
Ile make th'inspired threshals of his Court
Sweat with the weather of my horrid steps,
Before I enter: yet will I appeare 190
Like calme security before a ruine.
A politician must, like lightning, melt
The very marrow, and not taint the skin:
His wayes must not be seene; the superficies
Of the greene Center must not taste his feet, 195
When hell is plow'd up with his wounding tracts,
And all his harvest reap't by hellish facts. _Exeunt._
_Finis Actus Quarti._
LINENOTES:
_Enter D'Ambois and Frier_ and 1-19 _I am . . .
despaire_. A omits.
18 _th[e]_. Emend, ed.; B, th.
_Tamira enters_. A, she enters. _Pero, her maid_.
Emend. Dilke; A, her maid; B, Pero and her maid.
22 _curst_. A omits.
25 After this line A has Father, followed by stage
direction: _Ascendit Bussy with Comolet._
28-31 _Our love is knowne; . . . but he_. Omitted in A,
which has instead:--
_Buss._ What insensate stocke,
Or rude inanimate vapour without fashion.
_He puts on his robes._ A omits.
_Thunder._ A omits.
78 _Articulat_. In some copies of B this is printed:
Articular.
80 _one_. A; B, on.
103 [_Fri._] Emend, ed.; Qq, _Monsieur_.
113 _where you may_. A, wherein you.
_Enter . . . letter_. A omits.
_Mont[surry] . . . exit_. Emend. ed.; A, _Exit
Mont._, which it places after _y'faith_ in l. 140; B,
_Exit Mont. and stabs Pero_.]
143 _rather be a bitter_. A, be, at least, if not a.
145 _To you . . . me_? A omits. _Enter servant_. A omits.
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