Hurlothrumbo : $b or, The super-naturalJohnson, Samuel
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Hurlothrumbo : $b or, The super-natural
Johnson, Samuel
English drama -- 18th century
_Fla._ Thou Key of my Soul, unlock me not, I will not die and leave her
behind amongst corporeal Rivals; that she was dead, alive, amongst the
purest Spirits: Oh that this too, oh too, too dear, tender fond Heart
could yearn, and sigh no more! Constancy destroys me, Love makes me
Heavenly, and Tears refine the Soul: as a Pilgrim I will travel till a
Hermitage I find; I’ll mourn, I’ll wander to _Ovid_’s solitary Tomb;
I’ll pity that poor unfortunate Man; I’ll think of her I love the most,
and pour out my Tears upon him; there will I prostrate myself, and may I
slumber till the heavenly Harmony wakes the sleepy dead.
[_Enter_ Sementory _and_ Seringo.
Oh! the deluding Creature,
Stings me from every Feature;
When you strive to gain me,
You only mean to pain me;
Cruel Deceiver, Heaven leave her,
Let her not come above,
To taste the Sweets of constant Love.
[_Exit._
_Sem._ Oh _Seringo_, entice not a Man to Love, except you design to
marry: If a radiant Beam dart from the Fire of the Eye, ’twill touch his
Inclination like Nitrous Powder, and flash through all his Veins,
discompose his Faculties, and infect his Soul: I am sorry for this poor
Man, ’tis dangerous to continue here, let us leave the place.
[_Exit._
[_Scene changes, and discovers the King Sleeping upon a Couch._
_Enter to him_ Dologodelmo.
_King._ Oh _Godelmo_, why hast thou call’d me home to myself?
_Dolo._ I came according to your Majesty’s Commands.
_King._ As in Dreams the Souls of Hermits in secret Extasies are catch’d
away by Angels, so was my Spirit in transport charm’d by the Image I
most admire; she retreated, and at a distance gaz’d and lov’d, then
eagerly flying to my Arms, she stifled me with Kisses; but like to Sin
you call’d me away from Heaven. Oh! my _Cademore_, that I might die
always thus to live with thee; for when the Fetters of Slumber have
link’d these Limbs and the Ground together, when the Chains of Sleep
have bound this Body to the Earth; when these Eyes, these Ears are
insensible, I have other Eyes that see, other Ears that hear, and myself
rejoices when myself is dead.
[_The King sits down and pauses, then rises._
_Dolo._ The Solitarys wait without, and humbly desire admittance.
_King._ Do you know their Business?
_Dolo._ They come with sublime Tidings from the cœlestial World, and
will yield your Majesty pleasure through their own Simplicities.
_King._ Let them appear. [_Exit_ Dolo.] These Men despise the Company of
Mortals, and say they delight more in the Shadow of something, than to
converse with a Nothing in Substance.
_Enter_ Dolo. _and six Solitarys_.
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