Part 14 (1/2)
_Pri._ That's your fault, And that the Surgeon knows.
_Chi._ Then farewel, I will not fail ye soon.
_Pri._ Ye shall stay Supper; I have sworn ye shall, by this ye shall.
_Chi._ I will, Wench; But after Supper for an hour, my business.
_Pri._ And but an hour?
_Chi._ No by this kiss, that ended I will return and all night in thine Arms wench.
_Pr._ No more, I'le take your meaning; come 'tis Supper time.
[_Exeunt._
_Enter_ Calis, Cleanthe, Lucippe.
_Calis._ Thou art not well.
_Clean._ Your grace sees more a great deal Than I feel, (yet I lye) O Brother!
_Cal._ Mark her, Is not the quickness of her eye consumed, wench?
The lively red and white?
_Lucip._ Nay she is much alter'd, That on my understanding, all her sleeps Lady Which were as sound and sweet--
_Cle._ Pray do not force me, Good Madam, where I am not, to be ill, Conceit's a double sickness; on my faith your highness Is meer mistaken in me. { _A Dead March within { of Drum and Sagb.u.t.ts_ _Cal._ I am glad on't.
Yet this I have ever noted when thou wast thus, It still forerun some strange event: my Sister Died when thou wast thus last: hark hark, ho, What mournfull noise is this comes creeping forward?
Still it grows nearer, nearer, do ye hear it?
_Enter_ Polydor, _and Captains_, Eumenes _mourning_.
_Lucip._ It seems some Souldiers funeral: see it enters.
_C[a]l._ What may it mean?
_Pol._ The G.o.ds keep ye fair _Calis_.
_Cal._ This man can speak, and well; he stands and views us; Wou'd I were ne'r worse look't upon: how humbly His eyes are cast now to the Earth! pray mark him And mark how rarely he has rankt his troubles: See now he weeps, they all weep; a sweeter sorrow I never look't upon, nor one that braver Became his grief; your will with us?
_Pol._ Great Lady, [_Plucks out the Cup._ Excellent beauty.
_Cal._ He speaks handsomely.
What a rare rhetorician his grief plaies!
That stop was admirable.
_Pol._ See, see thou Princess, Thou great commander of all hearts.
_Cal._ I have found it, O how my soul shakes!
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