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Jackson, Helen Hunt, 1830-1885

"A Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 4"


_Hostis_. And _Acteon_, too? that's prettie ifaith.
_Enter Caesar, Lent: Tully, Teren: Flavia_.
_Caes_. Now, gallant Bridegroomes, and your lovely Brides,
That have ingeminate in endlesse league
Your troth-plight hearts, in your nuptial vowes
Tyed true love knots that nothing can disolve
Till death, that meager pursevant of _Jove_
That Cancels all bonds: we are to [_sic_] clowdie,
My spirit a typtoe, nothing I could chid so much
As winged time, that gins to free a passage
To his current glasse and crops our day-light,
That mistie night will summon us to rest,
Before we feele the burthen of our eylids.
The time is tedious, wants varietie;
But that I may shew what delightful raptures
Combats my soule to see this union,
And with what boundles joy I doe imbrace it,
We heere commaund all prison gates flye ope,
Freeing all prisoners (traitors all except,)
That poore mens prayers may increase our daies,
And writers circle ye with wreathes of bayes.
_Grac_. S'foot, _Accutus_, lets lay hold of this to free our captive.
_Acu_. Content; ile prosecute it.


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