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The Tragedy of Locrine (Third Folio, 1664)
1871Scena Tertia.
1872Enter Guendoline, Thrasimachus, Madan, and souldiers.
1874Passe through the circuit of the heavenly vault,
1875Enter the clouds unto the throne of Jove,
1876And bear my prayers to his all-hearing ears,
1877For Locrine hath forsaken Guendoline,
1878And learnt to love proud Humbers concubine.
1886Shadow thy radiant locks in gloomy clouds,
1887Deny thy cheerfull light unto the world,
1888Where nothing reigns but falshood and deceit.
1890For Locrine hath forsaken Guendoline.
1891Behold the heavens do wail for Guendoline:
1893The liquid air doth weep for Guendoline:
1894The very ground doth groan for Guendoline.
1895I, they are milder then the Britain King,
1896For he rejecteth luckless Guendoline.
1898This open wrong must have an open plague:
1899This plague must be repaid with grievous war,
1902Guen. O no, his death will more augment my woes,
1904More dear to me then the apple of mine eye,
1906Thra. Madam, if not your proper injuries,
1907Nor my exile, can move you to revenge:
1908Think on our father Corineus words,
1909His words to us stand alwayes for a Law.
1910Should Locrine live that caus'd my fathers death?
1911Should Locrine live that now divorceth you?
1912The heavens, the earth, the air, the fire reclaims;
1915All childish pitty henceforth then farewell:
1918Sits arm'd at all points on our dismal blades,
1920Shall if I live, die a reproachfull death.
1921Madan. Mother, though nature makes me to lament
1922 My luckless fathers froward lechery;
1923Yet for he wrongs my Lady mother, thus,
1924I, if I could, my self would work his death.
1926Is in the children of a tender age.
1927Forward, brave souldiers, into Mertia,