[301] Dashed violently.--We have had the word before (p. 11) used transitively; but it is also used intransitively, as in Drayton's _Ballad of Agincourt_:-- "This while our noble king, His broadsword brandishing. Down the French host did _ding_ As to o'erwhelm it." (Text of ed. 1619.) [302] _I.e._ alas, that his fortunes should be, &c. [303] Cote (another form of _quote_) = mark, note. [304] So Hieronymo in _The Spanish Tragedy_:-- "Well heaven is heaven still! And there is Nemesis and furies, And things call'd whips." [305] "Bear coals" = put up with injuries. [306] Not marked in ed. 1602. [307] "Marry muffe"--a common expression of contempt.--Middleton, i. 42, 71, &c.] SCENE II. _Enter_ ANTONIO _solus, in fool's habit_. _Ant._ Ay, heaven, thou may'st, thou may'st, omnipotence. What vermin bred of putrefacted slime Shall dare to expostulate with thy decrees! O heaven, thou may'st indeed: she was all thine, All heavenly: I did but humbly beg To borrow her of thee a little time. Thou gavest her me, as some weak-breasted dame Giveth her infant, puts it out to nurse; And when it once goes high-lone,[308] takes it back. She was my vital blood, and yet, and yet, 10 I'll not blaspheme. Look here! behold! [ANTONIO _puts off his cap and lieth just upon his back_. I turn my prostrate breast upon thy face, And vent a heaving sigh. O hear but this! I am a poor, poor orphant--a weak, weak child,-- The wrack of splitted fortune, the very ooze, The quicksand that devours all misery. Behold the valiant'st creature that doth breathe! For all this I dare live, and I will live, Only to numb some other's cursèd blood With the dead palsy of like misery. 20 Then, death, like to a stifling incubus,[309] Lie on my bosom. Lo, see,[310] I am sped. My breast is Golgotha, grave for the dead. _Enter_ PANDULPHO, ALBERTO, _and a Page, carrying_ FELICHE'S _trunk in a winding sheet, and lay it thwart_ ANTONIO'S _breast_. _Pan._ Antonio, kiss my foot: I honour thee, In laying thwart my blood upon thy breast. I tell thee, boy, he was Pandulpho's son; And I do grace thee with supporting him. Young man, He[311] who hath naught that fortune's gripe can seize, The domineering monarch of the earth; 30 He who is all impregnably his own, He whose great heart heaven cannot force with force, Vouchsafes his love. _Non servio Deo, sed assentio._ _Ant._ I ha' lost a good wife.