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)
9 _deare_. A, my.
15-16 _and now . . . imminent_. A omits.
17 _upper_. A, utmost.
49 _shine_. A, see.
50 _men are_. A, sense is.
_Thunders_ A omits
_Thunders._ A omits.
76 _or_. A, and.
_with a letter written in bloud_. A omits.
85-98 _O lying Spirit . . . calls him_. Omitted in A, which
has instead:--
_Buss._ O lying Spirit: welcome, loved father,
How fares my dearest mistresse?
_Mont._ Well as ever,
Being well as ever thought on by her lord:
Wherof she sends this witnesse in her hand,
And praies, for urgent cause, your speediest
presence.
91-92 _I beleeved . . . give_. One line in B.
[SCENA QUARTA.
_A Room in Montsurry's House._]
_Thunder. Intrat Umbra Frier and discovers Tamyra._
_[Umbra] Friar._ Up with these stupid thoughts, still loved daughter,
And strike away this heartlesse trance of anguish:
Be like the sunne, and labour in eclipses.
Look to the end of woes: oh, can you sit
Mustering the horrors of your servants slaughter 5
Before your contemplation, and not study
How to prevent it? Watch when he shall rise,
And, with a suddaine out-crie of his murther,
Blow his retreat before he be revenged.
_Tamyra._ O father, have my dumb woes wak'd your death? 10
When will our humane griefes be at their height?
Man is a tree that hath no top in cares,
No root in comforts; all his power to live
Is given to no end but t'have power to grieve.
_Umb. Fri._ It is the misery of our creation. 15
Your true friend,
Led by your husband, shadowed in my weed,
Now enters the dark vault.
_Tam._ But, my dearest father,
Why will not you appeare to him your selfe,
And see that none of these deceits annoy him? 20
_Umb. Fri._ My power is limited; alas! I cannot;
All that I can doe--See! the cave opens. _Exit._
_D'Amboys at the gulfe._
_Tam._ Away (my love) away! thou wilt be murther'd.
_Enter Monsieur and Guise above._
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