Revenge them, and we second you. Jacin. Father, dear father. Jul. Daughter, dear daughter. Jacin. Why do you kneel to me, Sir! Jul. To ask thee pardon that I did beget thee. I brought thee to a shame, stains all the way 'Twixt earth and Acheron: not all the clouds (The skies' large canopy) could they drown the seas With a perpetual inundation, Can wash it ever out: leave me, I pray. Alon. His fighting passion will be o'er anon, And all will be at peace. Ant. Best in my judgment We wake him with the sight of his won honors. His prisoners to him: such a sight as that Will brook no sorrow near it. [Falls down. Jul. 'Twas a good doctor that prescrib'd that physic. Our consanguinity. Jacin. Dear father, Recollect your noble spirits: conquer grief, Ha! they come, Jacinta, they come, hark, hark ; Now thou shalt see what cause I have given my king. Vanquished Moors' address to the Sun. Descend thy sphere, thou burning Deity. Yet never shamed these our impressive brows Man's Heart. I would fain know what kind thing a man's heart is. At Barber Surgeons' Hall to see a dissection? tush, 'tis not The real heart; but the unseen faculties. -Those I'll decipher unto you: (for surely The most part are but ciphers.) The heart indeed Than himself in him; that is, the soul. Now the soul As loving-affection, suffering-sorrows, and the like. And new shoot in their rooms: as for example; Your friend dies, there appears sorrow, but it quickly Withers; then is that branch gone. Again, you love a friend; "Children of the Sun."-Zanga in the Revenge. There affection springs forth; at last you distaste; A NEW WONDER: A WOMAN NEVER VEXT. A COMEDY. BY WILLIAM ROWLEY.. The Woman never Vext states her Case to a Divine. WIDOW. DOCTOR. Doc. You sent for me, gentlewoman? Wid. Sir, I did, and to this end. I have some scruples in my conscience; Some doubtful problems which I cannot answer, I can approve it good: guess at mine age. Doc. At the half-way 'twixt thirty and forty. Wid. 'Twas not much amiss; yet nearest to the last. How think you then, is not this a Wonder, That a Woman lives full seven-and-thirty years, Maid to a wife, and wife unto a widow, Now widow'd, and mine own; yet all this while, I know not yet what grief is, yet have sought That even those things that I have meant a cross, And to you alone belonging: you are the moon, For there 's but one, all women else are stars, Wid. Aye, Sir, 'tis wonderful, but is it well? I have heard you say that the Child of Heaven Nay, kings and princes share them with their subjects: Then I that know not any chastisement, How may I know my part of childhood? Doc. 'Tis a good doubt; but make it not extreme. 'Tis some affliction that you are afflicted For want of affliction: cherish that: Yet wrest it not to misconstruction; For all your blessings are free gifts from heaven, Wid. It was, but very small: no sooner I Doc. All this was happy, nor Can you wrest it from a heavenly blessing. Do not Appoint the rod: leave still the stroke unto Wid. One taste more I had, although but little, : In crossing of the Thames, To drop that wedlock ring from off my finger, Doc. This is but small. Wid. Nay, sure, I am of this opinion, That had I suffer'd a draught to be made for it, I am so wondrously fortunate. Foster, a wealthy Merchant, has a profligate Brother, Stephen, whom Robert, Son to Foster, relieves out of Prison with some of his Father's money intrusted to him. For this, his Father turns him out of doors and disinherits him. Meantime, by a reverse of fortune, Stephen becomes rich; and Foster by losses in trade is thrown into the same Prison (Ludgate) from which his brother had been relieved. Stephen adopts his Nephew, on the condition that he shall not assist or go near his Father: but filial piety prevails, above the consideration either of his Uncle's displeasure, or of his Father's late unkindness; and he visits his father in Prison. FOSTER. ROBERT. Fos. O torment to my soul, what mak'st thou here? Cannot the picture of my misery Be drawn, and hung out to the eyes of men, But thou must come to scorn and laugh at it? Rob. Dear Sir, I come to thrust my back under your load, To make the burthen lighter. Fos. Hence from my sight, dissembling villain, go: Thine uncle sends defiance to my wo, 1 |