TABLE OF REFERENCE TO THE EXTRACTS. WILLIAM ROWLEY, THOMAS DECKER, JOHN FORD, ETC. THE WITCH OF EDMONTON....... xi PAGE 164 SPECIMENS OF ENGLISH DRAMATIC POETS. GORBODUC, A TRAGEDY. BY THOMAS SACKVILLE, LORD BUCKHURST, AFTERWARDS EARL OF DORSET ; AND THOMAS NORTON. Whilst king Gorboduc in the presence of his councillors laments the death of his eldest son, Ferrex, whom Porrex, the younger son, has slain; Marcella, a court lady, enters and relates the miserable end of Porrex, stabbed by his mother in his bed. GORBODUC, AROSTUS, EUBULUS, and others. Gorb. What cruel destiny, What froward fate hath sorted us this chance ? Should rest and be, even there our only grief And deepest sorrows to abridge our life, Most pining cares and deadly thoughts do grave. Arost. Your grace should now, in these grave years of yours, Have found ere this the price of mortal joys, How full of change, how brittle our estate, To whom both man and all the world doth owe |