Edm. There's my exchange: [Throwing down | Which, (for they yet glance by, and scarcely bruise,) a Glove.] what in the world he is That names me traitor, villain-like he lies: Call by thy trumpet: he that dares approach, On him, on you, (who not?) I will maintain My truth and honor firmly. Alb. A herald, ho! Edm. A herald, ho, a herald! Alb. Trust to thy single virtue ; for thy soldiers, All levied in my name, have in my name Took their discharge. Reg. This sword of mine shall give them instant way, Gon. Shut your mouth, dame, Enter a Herald. [1 Trumpet. [2 Trumpet. 3 Trumpet. [Trumpet answers within. Enter EDGAR, armed, preceded by a Trumpet. Alb. Ask him his purposes, why he appears Upon this call o' the trumpet. Her. What are you? Your name, your quality? and why you answer This present summons? Edg. Know, my name is lost; By treason's tooth bare-gnawn, and canker-bit: Yet am I noble, as the adversary I come to cope withal. Edm. Himself;-What say'st thou to him? Thou liest. Edm. In wisdom, I should ask thy name: But, since thy outside looks so fair and warlike, And that thy tongue some 'say' of breeding breathes, What safe and nicely I might well delay ai.e. Valor. Sample. [Gives the Letter to EDMUND. Gon. Say, if I do; the laws are mine, not thine: Who shall arraign me for't? Alb. Know'st thou this paper? Gon. Most monstrous! Ask me not what I know. [Exit GONERIC. Alb. Go after her: she's desperate; govern her. [To an Officer, who goes out. Edm. What you have charged me with, that have I done; And more, much more; the time will bring it out; Edg. Let's exchange charity. The dark and vicious place where thee he got, Edm. Thou hast spoken right, 'tis true; Alb. Where have you hid yourself? How have you known the miseries of your father? Edg. By nursing them, my lord.-List' a brief tale ; And, when 'tis told, O, that my heart would burst!- That follow'd me so near, (O, our lives' sweetness! Edm. This speech of yours hath mov'd me, And shall, perchance, do good: but speak you on; You look as you had something more to say. Alb. It there be more, more woeful, hold it in; For I am almost ready to dissolve, Hearing of this. Edg. This would have seem'd a period To such as love not sorrow; but another, To amplify too much, would make much more, And top extremity. Whilst I was big in clamor, came there a man, Shunn'd my abhorr'd society; but then, finding Follow'd his enemy king, and did him service Enter a Gentleman hastily, with a bloody Knife. Gent. Help! help! O help! What kind of help! Speak, man. "Tis hot, it smokes; Edg. What means that bloody knife? It came even from the heart of- Who, man? speak. Gent. Your lady, sir, your lady: and her sister By her is poison'd; she confesses it. Edm. I was contracted to them both; all three Now marry in an instant. Alb. Produce their bodies, be they alive or dead! This judgment of the heavens, that makes us tremble, Touches us not with pity. [Exit Gentleman. Edm. Well thought on; take my sword, Give it the captain. Alb. Haste thee, for thy life. [Exit EDGAR Edm. He hath commission from thy wife and me To hang Cordelia in the prison, and To lay the blame upon her own despair, Alb. The gods defend her! Bear him hence Enter LEAR, with CORDELIA dead in his Arms; EDGAR, Officer, and others. Lear. Howl, howl, howl, howl!-0, ye are men of stones: Had I your tongues and eyes, I'd use them so That heaven's vault should crack-O, she is gone for ever! I know when one is dead, and when one lives; Is this the promis'd end? That ever I have felt. Kent. O my good master! [Kneeling, Lear. Pr'ythee, away. What is't thou say'st?-Her voice was ever soft, Did I not, fellow? I have seen the day, with my good biting faulchion I would have made them skip: I am old now, And these same crosses spoil me.-Who are you! Mine eyes are noue o'the best:-I'll tell you straight. Kent. If fortune brag of two she lov'd and hated, One of them we behold. Lear. This is a dull sight: Are you not Kent! Kent. The same; Your servant Kent: Where is your servant Caius! Lear. He's a good fellow, I can tell you that; He'll strike, and quickly too:-He's dead and What comfort to this great decay may come, To him our absolute power:-You to your rights; Lear. And my poor fool is hang'd! No, no, no Why should a dog, a horse, a rat, have life, Edg. That would upon the rack of this tough world O, he is gone, indeed. Alb. Bear them from hence. Our present Is general woe. Friends of my soul, you twain And thou no breath at all? O, thou wilt come no Rule in this realm, and the gor'd state sustain. more, Never, never, never, never, never! Pray you, undo this button: Thank you, sir.- Kent. I have a journey, sir, shortly to go; Alb. The weight of this sad time we must obey [Exeunt, with a dead March. to Romeo. ABRAM, Servant to Montague. Boy, Page to Paris. LADY MONTAGUE, Wife to Montague. BENVOLIO, Nephew to Montague, and Friend to LADY CAPULET, Wife to Capulet. Romeo. JULIET, Daughter to Capulet. Nurse to Juliet. SCENE, during the greater part of the Play, in Verona; once, in the fifth Act, at Mantua. SCENE I-A Public Place. The fearful passage of their death-mark'd love, And the continuance of their parents' rage, Which, but their children's end, nought could re move, Is now the two-hours traffic of our stage; The which, if y、 a with patient ears attend, What here si-all miss, our toil shall strive to mend. ACT I. weaker vessels, are ever thrust to the wall:-thereEnter SAMPSON and GREGORY, armed with Swords fore I will push Montague's men from the wall, and Bucklers. Sam. A dog of that house shall move me to stand: I will take the wall of any man or maid of Montague's. Gre. That shows thee a weak slave; for the weakest goes to the wall. Sam. True; and therefore women, being the A phrase formerly in use, to signify the bearing injuries. and thrust his maids to the wall. Gre. The quarrel is between our masters, and us their men. Sam. 'Tis all one, I will show myself a tyrant: when I have fought with the men, I will be cruel with the maids; I will cut off their heads Gre. The heads of the maids? Sam. Ay, the heads of the maids, or their maidenheads; take it in what sense thou wilt. Gre. They must take it in sense, that feel it. Sam. Me they shall feel, while I am able to stand: and, 'tis known, I am a pretty piece of flesh. Gre. "Tis well, thou art not fish; if thou hadst, thou hadst been poor John. Draw thy tool; here comes two of the house of the Montagues. Enter ABRAM and BALTHAZAR. Sam. My naked weapon is out; quarrel, I wil back thee. 2 Poor John is hake, dried and salted. Gre. How? turn thy back, and run? Gre. No, marry: I fear thee! Sam. Let us take the law of our sides; let them begin Gre. I will frown as I pass by; and let them take it as they list. Sam. Nay, as they dare. I will bite my thumb Abr. Do you bite your thumb at us, sir? Sam. No, sir; I do not bite my thumb at you, sir: but I bite my thumb, sir. Gre. Do you quarrel, sir? Sam. If you do, sir, I am for you; I serve as good a man as you. Abr. No better. Sam. Well, sir. Cap. My sword, I say!-Old Montague is come, And flourishes his blade in spite of me. Enter MONTAGUE, and LADY MONTAGUE. Mon. Thou villain, Capulet,-Hold me not, let me go! La. Mon.Thou shalt not stir one foot to seek a foe. Enter Prince, with Attendant's. Prin. Rebellious subjects, enemies to peace, Profaners of this neighbor-stained steel,Will they not hear?-what, ho! you men, you beasts, That quench the fire of your pernicious rage With purple fountains issuing from your veins, Clubs was the usual exclamation at an affray in the streets, as we now call Watch! On pain of torture, from those bloody hands [Exeunt Prince, and Attendants; CAPULET, Mon. Who set this ancient quarrel new abroach?Speak, nephew, were you by, when it began? Ben. Here were the servants of your adversary, And yours, close fighting ere I did approach: I drew to part them; in the instant, came The fiery Tybalt, with his sword prepared; Which, as he breath'd defiance to my ears, He swung about his head, and cut the winds, Who, nothing hurt withal, hiss'd him in scorn: While we were interchanging thrust and blows, Came more and more, and fought on part and part, Till the prince came, who parted either part. La. Mon. O, where is Romeo?-saw you him today? Right glad I am, he was not at this fray. Peer'd forth the golden window of the east, I measuring his affections by my own,- Mon. Many a morning hath he there been seen, Ben. My noble uncle, do you know the cause! Mon. I neither know it, nor can learn of him. Ben. Have you impórtuned him by any means? Mon. Both by myself and many other friends But he, his own affections' counsellor, Is to himself-I will not say, how trueBut to himself so secret and so close, So far from sounding and discovery, As is the bud bit with an envious worm, 3 Angry. A kind of pike. • Appeared, |