The Works of Christopher Marlowe, Vol. 2 (of 3)Marlowe, Christopher
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The Works of Christopher Marlowe, Vol. 2 (of 3)
Marlowe, Christopher
English drama -- Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600
_Cup._ So you'll love me, I care not if I do.
_Nurse._ That I might live to see this boy a man!
How prettily he laughs! Go, ye wag!_[536]_
You'll be a twigger[537] when you come to age.-- 20
Say Dido what she will, I am not old;
I'll be no more a widow; I am young;
I'll have a husband, or else a lover.
_Cup._ A husband, and no teeth!
_Nurse._ O, what mean I to have such foolish thoughts?
Foolish is love, a toy.--O sacred love!
If there be any heaven in earth, 'tis love,
Especially in women of your years.--
Blush, blush for shame! why shouldst thou think of love?
A grave, and not a lover, fits thy age.-- 30
A grave! why, I may live a hundred years;
Fourscore is but a girl's age: love is sweet.--
My veins are withered, and my sinews dry:
Why do I think of love, now I should die?
_Cup._ Come, nurse.
_Nurse._ Well, if he come a-wooing, he shall speed:
O, how unwise was I to say him nay!
[_Exeunt._
ACT V.
SCENE I.
_Enter_ ÆNEAS,[538] _with a paper in his hand,
drawing the platform[539] of the city_; ACHATES,
SERGESTUS, CLOANTHUS, _and_ ILIONEUS.
_Æn._ Triumph, my mates! our travels are at end:
Here will Æneas build a statelier Troy
Than that which grim Atrides overthrew.
Carthage shall vaunt her petty walls no more;
For I will grace them with a fairer frame,
And clad her in a crystal livery,
Wherein the day may evermore delight;
From golden India Ganges will I fetch,
Whose wealthy streams may wait upon her towers,
And triple-wise entrench her round about; 10
The sun from Egypt shall rich odours bring,
Wherewith his burning beams (like labouring bees
That load their thighs with Hybla's honey-spoils)[540]
Shall here unburden their exhalèd sweets,
And plant our pleasant suburbs with their[541] fumes.
_Ach._ What length or breadth shall this brave town contain?
_Æn._ Not past four thousand paces at the most.
_Ili._ But what shall it be call'd? Troy, as before?
_Æn._ That have I not determin'd with myself.
_Clo._ Let it be term'd Ænea, by your name. 20
_Serg._ Rather Ascania, by your little son.
_Æn._ Nay, I will have it callèd Anchisæon,
Of my old father's name.
_Enter_ HERMES _with_ ASCANIUS.
_Her._ Æneas, stay; Jove's herald bids thee stay.
_Æn._ Whom do I see? Jove's wingèd messenger!
Welcome to Carthage new-erected town.
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