Specimens of English Dramatic Poets Who Lived about the Time of Shakspeare
by Charles Lamb
Format: Paperback
ISBN13: 9780217056021
Paperback|9780217056021
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: MUSTAPHA: A TRAG-EDY. BY FULKE GSEVILLE, LORD BROOKE. Ross A, wife to SoLYMAif the Turkish JEmperor, persuades her ha band, that Mustapha, his son by a former marriage, and heir to his crown, seeks his life; that she may make way, by the death of Mustapha, for the advancement of her own children, Zanger and Camena. Camena, the virtuous daughter of Rossa, defends the innocence of Mustapha, in a conference which she holds with the Emperor. Camena. Solyman. Cam. They that from youth do suck at Fortune's breast, And nurse their empty hearts with seeking higher, Like dropsy-fed, their thirst doth never rest; For still, by getting, they beget desire: Till thoughts, like wood, while they maintain the flame Of high desires, grow ashes in the same. But Virtue those that can behold thy beauties, Those that suck, from their youth, thy milk of goodness, Their minds grow strong against the storms of Fortune, And stand, like rocks in winter-gusts, unshaken; Not with the blindness of desire mistaken. O Virtue therefore whose thrall I think Fortune, Thou who despisest not the sex of women, Help me out of these riddles of my fortune, Wherein (methinks) you with yourself do pose me: Let fates go on: sweet Virtue do not lose me. My mother and my husband have conspired, For brother's good, the ruin of my brother My father by my mother is inspired, For one child to seek ruin of another. 1 that to help by nature am required, While I do help, must needs still hurt a brother. While I see who conspire, 1 seem conspired Against a husband, father, and a mother. Truth bids me run, by truth I am retired; Shame leads me both the one way and the other. In what a labyrinth is honour cast, Drawn divers ways with sex, with time, with state, In all which, error's c...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217056021 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217056024 |
| Weight | 1.19 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.82 In |
| List Price | $30.43 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 368 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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