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)
_Thunder . . . Tamyra_. A has: _Intrat umbra Comolet
to the Countesse, wrapt in a canapie._
1-6 _Up . . . not study_. Omitted in A, which has
instead:--
Revive those stupid thoughts, and sit not thus,
Gathering the horrors of your servants slaughter
(So urg'd by your hand, and so imminent)
Into an idle fancie; but devise.
9 _revenged_. A, engaged.
14 _t'have_. A; B, have.
15-22 _It is . . . opens_. Omitted in A, which has
instead:--
_Umb._ Tis the just curse of our abus'd creation,
Which wee must suffer heere, and scape heereafter:
He hath the great mind that submits to all
He sees inevitable; he the small
That carps at earth, and her foundation shaker,
And rather than himselfe, will mend his maker.
16 _Your . . . friend_. In B ends preceding line.
_Enter . . . above_. A omits.
30 _To_. Some copies of B have T.
33-36 _If I . . . and ready_. A omits.
41 _Why . . . villains_? A omits.
_Enter . . . dore_. A omits.
_all but the first_. A omits.
53 Qq punctuate wrongly:--_Where is that angry Earle my
lord? Come forth._
_all the murtherers_. A, others.
_D'Ambois . . . downe_. A omits.
_Pistolls shot within._ Inserted before 72 in B; A
omits.
90-93 _And if . . . groomes_. A omits.
_She offers to help him._ Inserted before 95 in B. A
omits.
119 _Now_. A, And.
135 _in_. A, gainst.
136 _drifts of_. A, endless.
146 _struck_. Emend. ed.; Qq, stuck.
_Moritur_. A omits.
147-153 _Farewell . . . humanity_. These lines are placed by
A at the close of the Scene, and are preceded by
three lines which B omits:--
My terrors are strook inward, and no more
My pennance will allow they shall enforce
Earthly afflictions but upon my selfe.
147 _reliques_. A, relicts.
149 _Joine flames with Hercules_. So in A; B, Jove flames
with her rules.
151 _chrystall_. A, continent.
154 _Son . . . soule_. Before this line B has _Frier_.
155 _Rues . . . heaven_. After this line A inserts:--
Since thy revengefull spirit hath rejected
The charitie it commands, and the remission
To serve and worship the blind rage of bloud.
163 _kneeling_. A, sitting.
173 _No place . . . compriseth_. After this line A
inserts:--
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