Two Noble Kinsmen (Quarto, 1634)

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 The Two Noble Kinsmen. 
 3034Thes. Why the knights must kindle
 3035Their valour at your eye: know of this war
 3036You are the Treasure, and must needes be by
 3037To give the Service pay.
 3038Emil, Sir pardon me,
 3039The tytle of a kingdome may be tride
 3040Out of it selfe.
 3041Thes. Well, well then, at your pleasure,
 3042Those that remaine with you, could wish their office
 3043To any of their Enemies.
 3044Hip. Farewell Sister,
 3045I am like to know your husband fore your selfe
 3046By some small start of time, he whom the gods
 3047Doe of the two know best, I pray them he
 3048Be made your Lot.
 3049Exeunt Theseus, Hipolita, Perithous, &c.
 3050Emil. Arcite is gently visagd; yet his eye
 3051Is like an Engyn bent, or a sharpe weapon
 3052In a soft sheath; mercy, and manly courage
 3053Are bedfellowes in his visage: Palamon
 3054Has a most menacing aspect, his brow
 3055Is grav'd, and seemes to bury what it frownes on,
 3056Yet sometime tis not so, but alters to
 3057The quallity of his thoughts; long time his eye
 3058Will dwell upon his object. Mellencholly
 3059Becomes him nobly; So do's Arcites mirth,
 3060But Palamons sadnes is a kinde of mirth,
 3061So mingled, as if mirth did make him sad,
 3062And sadnes, merry; those darker humours that
 3063Sticke misbecomingly on others, on them
 3064Live in faire dwelling.
 3065Cornets. Trompets sound as to a charge.
 3066Harke how yon spurs to spirit doe incite
 3067The Princes to their proofe, Arcite may win me,
 3068And yet may Palamon wound Arcite to
 3069The spoyling of his figure. O what pitty
 3070Enough for such a chance; if I were by
 3071I might doe hurt, for they would glance their eies
 M   Toward

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