Hurlothrumbo : $b or, The super-naturalJohnson, Samuel
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Hurlothrumbo : $b or, The super-natural
Johnson, Samuel
English drama -- 18th century
ACT IV.
_Enter_ Bellman _and Sings_.
Good Morn, good Morn, my Masters all good Morn!
Whilst I poor Mortal wander here below,
You what’s most pleasing know,
No Charm’s so deep, how charming, how sweet
It is to fall within the fair Enchantress Arms asleep;
But if I chance to wake you with my Bell,
Be sure you let my Mistress know you’re well;
And if you please her, as you ought to do,
She’ll thank you, Master, and the Bellman too.
[_Exit._
_Enter_ Sementory _and_ Seringo.
_Sem._ I have had no Rest this Night, my flustrated Spirits, my troubled
Soul rais’d me from my Couch to my Terrass, where I beheld all Nature in
Confusion, the City in Uproar, the Brave in Distress; Spears of Fire,
fighting in the Elements; the King’s Solitaries scrambling up the lofty
Hills, by the Light of the Moon; they prostrated themselves on the
Ground, and invoke Heaven for good towards their Master.
_Ser._ I laid me down, and could not rest, I am uneasy for want of
Sleep.
_Sem._ Who can sleep when a Lover’s false! This Morning _Cademore_
intreated for the Life of the King; and as she kneel’d before _Darony_,
her Sighs, her Tears, her Beauty has made him passionately in Love with
her; yet chear up thy self, and still have hopes; when a Woman has a
mind to gain a Man, she may study his Constitution, and what he likes.
_Ser._ Oh _Sementory_, I have had cruel Dreams.
_Enter_ Hurlothrumbo.
_Hurlo._ Ladies, what are you upon now?
_Sem._ Dreams my Lord.
_Hurlo._ Can you interpret, Madam?
_Sem._ You’re sure of my best Endeavours, my Lord.
_Hurlo._ As I was alone in my Chair, I slumber’d, I thought myself
mounted before a beautiful Wife upon the solemn Desarts of _Arabia_,
where a dark, black Cloud overwhelm’d the Desart; a stormy, tempestuous
Wind arose, and ripped up ragged Rocks, then drove them furiously over
the Plain, like tremendous Bullets of Thunder; and all the dreadful
Engines of eternal Misery rose up in Arms; I was in a Moment surrounded
with wild Monsters, fighting with one another which should devour me
first; my Horse tired, my Wife fell in Labour, the Element opened her
fiery Mouth, and pour’d out Cataracts of Lightning and Hail; all the
Pile of Building in the other World was tumbling down upon my Head, and
how I came into my Body, I know not.
_Sem._ You’re happy you had a Body to shelter you: this prognosticates
you’ll endure great Calamities, and at the last lose your Mistress.
_Hurlo._ This is my Mistress; _Darony_, my Rival, is dead in Love to
thee; since he’s cruel and inconstant, pour out thy Grief in merry
Sounds; you must part.
_Ser._ Part, and never meet no more:
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