Hurlothrumbo : $b or, The super-naturalJohnson, Samuel
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Hurlothrumbo : $b or, The super-natural
Johnson, Samuel
English drama -- 18th century
_King._ When I heard that you was married to another my Soul sigh’d
within me; it mourn’d, it griev’d, I perceiv’d a Tear of Blood to
trickle down, and drop from the Bottom of my Heart; then Reason rouz’d
within me, with celestial Wings I soar’d, I flew to my Aid aloft, I
sigh’d, I bow’d sublime, and wept.
_Enter_ Theorbeo _and_ Dologodelmo.
_Dolo._ The vanquish’d Traitors are come to appear before your Majesty.
_King._ Can you bear to see any thing in distress?
_Theo._ I must own my Soul is apt to sympathize.
_King._ ’Tis so with me; when I see the Wound of a Man, that Part of me
trembles; and thro’ viewing a Cripple, have been seiz’d with Lameness.
How Thoughts rise up and plead to strengthen Mercy! telling me I am a
Judge, my own Eternal highly honour’d, myself appears before myself, to
receive from myself my irrevocable Sentence.
_A Shout behind the Scenes. Enter_ Hurlothrumbo, Urlandenny,
_and_ Darony.
_King._ Here comes _Hurlothrumbo_ in Hieroglyphicks; pray the meaning of
this comical Dress?
_Hurlo._ ’Tis a dumb Confession of my Guilt, ’tis an Index to my Heart;
black and yellow without, wild and foolish within.
_King._ ’Tis true; though I have never known a Coward honourable, I have
seen a stout Man a Villain; the Love of Gold will overthrow the greatest
Heart: thou hast conquer’d a Lion, deceiv’d a Madman, and cunningly
escaped from Death, but now——
_Hurlo._ Oh now let me live that I may be all divine, and so out-wit the
Devil!
_King._ _Darony_, what have you to ask?
_Dar._ Life, and Pardon for my Offences.
_King._ As the Optick through the Lid discerns the Light; so through the
Eye of the Intellect, methinks I see your separate Souls strolling sad
through the intricate Windings of _Elysium_: I pity you all as poor
unfortunate Men; _Darony_, I will not take from you that Life which
Heaven has given, but will give thee Riches to satisfy the Thirst of thy
Ambition. Why do you pause?
_Dar._ Oh what an Alteration in the Mind! your Generosity is at Wars
within, and knocks down Avarice, Cruelty and Pride in me, I am in love
with your Greatness, and hate myself; I myself will punish your
Offender, [_stabs himself_] Oh! loose me, ’tis not finished.
[Dol. _holds him_.
_King._ See, is the Wound mortal?
_Dol._ ’Tis not, my Lord.
_King._ Unarm him, take him hence, he shall not die. _Hurlothrumbo_, so
long as thou art cloathed in that like Garment, thou shalt live, thou
shalt never appear in Scarlet any more, to deceive Mankind.
_Urlandenny_, I remember what good thy Father perform’d in our Family,
therefore I will not separate thy Soul from thy Body, but will give thee
Liberty.
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