_Ant._ Alas, the flinty rocks groan'd at his plaints. "Tell her, (quoth he) that her obdurate sire Hath crack'd his bosom;" therewithal he wept, And thus sigh'd on: "The sea is merciful; Look how it gapes to bury all my grief! 240 Well, thou shalt have it, thou shalt be his tomb: My faith in my love live; in thee, die woe; Die, unmatch'd anguish, die, Antonio!" With that he totter'd from the reeling deck, And down he sunk. _Ros._ Pleasure's body! what makes my Lady weep? _Mel._ Nothing, sweet Rossaline, but the air's sharp[74]-- My father's palace, Madam, will be proud To entertain your presence, if you'll deign To make repose within. Ay me! 250 _Ant._ Lady, our fashion is not curious.[75] _Ros._ 'Faith, all the nobler, 'tis more generous. _Mel._ Shall I then know how fortune fell at last, What succour came, or what strange fate ensued? _Ant._ Most willingly: but this same court is vast, And public to the staring multitude. _Ros._ Sweet Lady, nay good sweet, now by my troth We'll be bedfellows: dirt on compliment froth![76] [_Exeunt_; ROSSALINE _giving_ ANTONIO _the way_. [52] Carbines. [53] Ed. 1633 "Heavens." [54] Old eds. "hurt." [55] Senec. _Thyestes_, 888. [56] "Christens it with policy" = dignifies it with the title of policy. [57] A term of contempt, like "carpet-knight," for an effeminate gallant "who never charged beyond a mistress' lips." [58] Pity. [59] The rowers' benches. [60] The famous Amazon, whose "valorous acts performed at Gaunt" (Ghent), circ. 1584, are celebrated in a fine old ballad. The name was commonly applied to any woman of spirit. [61] "Thy bright election's clear" = you are a woman of keen perception. [62] A favourite word with Marston. It is ridiculed by Ben Jonson in _The Poetaster_, v. 1:-- "What, shall thy lubrical and _glibbery_ muse Live, as she were defunct, like punk in stews?" [63] Old eds. "tiptoed." [64] It was a common form of abuse to compare a person to a may-pole. Hermia, railing at Helena, addresses her as "thou painted may-pole" (_Midsummer Night's Dream_, iii. 2). [65] Accoutrements.--Elsewhere Marston has the original French form "accoustrements," which is also found in Spenser. [66] "_Close fight_ is an old sea-term. 'A ship's _close fights_ are small ledges of wood laid cross one another, like the grates of iron in a prison window, betwixt the main-mast and fore-mast, and are called gratings or nettings.' Smith's _Sea Grammar_, 1627."--_Halliwell._ [67] The form "Brittany," for "Britain," is not uncommon. Marlowe uses it in _Edward II._, ii. 2. l. 42; and I have restored it, _metri causa_, in the prologue to the _Jew of Malta_, l. 29. [68] Ed. 1633 "swounded."