The Works of Christopher Marlowe ...W. Pickering, 1826 |
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... flames Shall blow up the old king , consume his sons , And make all Spain a bonfire . This tragedy being acted , hers doth begin ; To shed a harlot's blood can be no sin . SCENE II . [ Exit . The curtain being drawn , there appears in ...
... flames Shall blow up the old king , consume his sons , And make all Spain a bonfire . This tragedy being acted , hers doth begin ; To shed a harlot's blood can be no sin . SCENE II . [ Exit . The curtain being drawn , there appears in ...
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... flame . I'll do't . COLE . And I his baseness we'll proclaim . [ Exeunt Friars . ELEAZ . Do , and be damn'd ; Zarack and Bal- tazar , Dog them at the heels ; and when their poisonous breath Hath scatter'd this infection on the hearts Of ...
... flame . I'll do't . COLE . And I his baseness we'll proclaim . [ Exeunt Friars . ELEAZ . Do , and be damn'd ; Zarack and Bal- tazar , Dog them at the heels ; and when their poisonous breath Hath scatter'd this infection on the hearts Of ...
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... flames of wild desire , I'll drink this off ; let fire conquer love's fire . KING . Were love himself in real substance here , Thus would I drink him down ; let your sweet strings Speak louder ; pleasure is but a slave to kings , In ...
... flames of wild desire , I'll drink this off ; let fire conquer love's fire . KING . Were love himself in real substance here , Thus would I drink him down ; let your sweet strings Speak louder ; pleasure is but a slave to kings , In ...
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... flames do shine Like lightning in the air . Wherefore , my lords Look well on Eleazar ; value me , Not by my sun - burnt cheeks , nor by my birth ; But by my loss of blood , Which I have sacrificed in Spain's defence . Then look on ...
... flames do shine Like lightning in the air . Wherefore , my lords Look well on Eleazar ; value me , Not by my sun - burnt cheeks , nor by my birth ; But by my loss of blood , Which I have sacrificed in Spain's defence . Then look on ...
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... flame apparently was seen , — Leander's father knew where he had been , And for the same mildly rebuk'd his son , Thinking to quench the sparkles new begun . But love resisted once grows passionate , And nothing more than counsel lovers ...
... flame apparently was seen , — Leander's father knew where he had been , And for the same mildly rebuk'd his son , Thinking to quench the sparkles new begun . But love resisted once grows passionate , And nothing more than counsel lovers ...
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Abydos Alvero arms BALT Baltazar bastard beauty blood bosom breast Cæsar CARD cardinal Ceres chaste cheeks COLE CRAB crown damn'd dare dead dear death devil dost doth earth ELEAZ Eleazar ELEGIA Exeunt eyes face fair fear fire flame friars give goddess gods grace hair hand hast hate hath head hear heart heaven hell Hellespont here's HERO AND LEANDER Hero's honour HORTEN Hortenzo Hymen is't Jove king kiss live look lord lov'd Love's lovers lust LUST'S DOMINION maid MARIA Marlowe Mendoza mistress Moor mother muse naked night nymph Ovid peace PHIL Philip Prince Philip queen rage Rome SESTYAD shame shine sing slave soldiers soul Spain stand stay STINKARD sweet sword tears tell thee thine thou art thought thyself Tibullus tongue turn'd unto Venus verse wench Zarack Zounds
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Page 322 - Which, lightened by her neck, like diamonds shone. She ware no gloves; for neither sun nor wind Would burn or parch her hands, but, to her mind, Or warm or cool them, for they took delight To play upon those hands, they were so white.
Page 321 - Her wide sleeves green, and bordered with a grove, Where Venus in her naked glory strove To please the careless and disdainful eyes Of proud Adonis, that before her lies ; Her kirtle blue, whereon was many a stain, Made with the blood of wretched lovers slain.
Page 345 - Which made his love through Sestos to be known, And thence unto Abydos sooner blown Than he could sail, for incorporeal Fame, Whose weight consists in nothing but her name, Is swifter than the wind, whose tardy plumes Are reeking water and dull earthly fumes.
Page 326 - Blood-quaffing Mars heaving the iron net, Which limping Vulcan and his Cyclops set; Love kindling fire, to burn such towns as Troy...
Page 352 - One half appear'd the other half was hid. Thus near the bed she blushing stood upright, And from her countenance behold ye might A kind of twilight break, which through the air, As from an orient cloud, glimps'd here and there ; And round about the chamber this false morn Brought forth the day before the day was born.
Page 402 - Come, naked Virtue's only tire, The reaped harvest of the light, Bound up in sheaves of sacred fire. Love calls to war; Sighs his alarms, Lips his swords are, The field his arms.
Page 328 - And I in duty will excel all other, As thou in beauty dost exceed Love's mother. Nor heaven, nor thou, were made to gaze upon, As heaven preserves all things, so save thou one. A stately builded ship, well rigged and tall, The ocean maketh more majestical.
Page 324 - A pleasant smiling cheek, a speaking eye, A brow for love to banquet royally; And such as knew he was a man would say, Leander, thou art made for amorous play: Why arc thou not in love, and loved of all? Though thou be fair, yet be not thine own thrall.
Page 341 - Yet as she went, full often look'd behind, And many poor excuses did she find To linger by the way, and once she stay'd, And would have turn'd again, but was afraid, In offering parley, to be counted light.
Page 326 - Venus' glass. There might you see the gods in sundry shapes, Committing heady riots, incest, rapes: For know, that underneath this radiant...