Two Noble Kinsmen (Quarto, 1634)

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 The Two Noble Kinsmen. 
 762And the enjoying of our greefes together.
 763Whilst Palamon is with me, let me perish
 764If I thinke this our prison.
 765Pala. Certeinly,
 766Tis a maine goodnes Cosen, that our fortunes
 767Were twyn'd together; tis most true, two soules
 768Put in two noble Bodies, let'em suffer
 769The gaule of hazard, so they grow together,
 770Will never sincke, they must not, say they could,
 771A willing man dies sleeping, and all's done.
 772Arc. Shall we make worthy uses of this place
 773That all men hate so much?
 774Pal. How gentle Cosen?
 775Arc. Let's thinke this prison, holy sanctuary,
 776To keepe us from corruption of worse men,
 777We are young and yet desire the waies of honour,
 778That liberty and common Conversation
 779The poyson of pure spirits; might like women
 780Wooe us to wander from. What worthy blessing
 781Can be but our Imaginations
 782May make it ours? And heere being thus together,
 783We are an endles mine to one another;
 784We are one anothers wife, ever begetting
 785New birthes of love; we are father, friends, acquaintance,
 786We are in one another, Families,
 787I am your heire, and you are mine: This place
 788Is our Inheritance: no hard Oppressour
 789Dare take this from us; here with a little patience
 790We shall live long, and loving: No surfeits seeke us:
 791The hand of war hurts none here, nor the Seas
 792Swallow their youth: were we at liberty,
 793A wife might part us lawfully, or busines,
 794Quarrels consume us, Envy of ill men
 795Crave our acquaintance, I might sicken Cosen,
 796Where you should never know it, and so perish
 797Without your noble hand to close mine eies,
 798Or praiers to the gods; a thousand chaunces
 799Were we from hence, would seaver us.
 D3   Pal.

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