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Two Noble Kinsmen (Quarto, 1634)
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The Two Noble Kinsmen.
3110Cornets. a great showt and cry, Arcite, victory.
3111Set both thine eares to'th busines.
3112Ser. The cry is
3114The Combats consummation is proclaim'd
3115By the wind Instruments.
3117That Arcite was no babe: god's lyd, his richnes
3120Then humble banckes can goe to law with waters,
3121That drift windes, force to raging: I did thinke
3122Good Palamon would miscarry, yet I knew not
3124When oft our fancies are: They are comming off:
3125Alas poore Palamon. Cornets.
3126Enter Theseus, Hipolita, Pirithous, Arcite as victor, and
3127attendants, &c.
3130The gods by their divine arbitrament
3131Have given you this Knight, he is a good one
3132As ever strooke at head: Give me your hands;
3133Receive you her, you him, be plighted with
3134A love that growes, as you decay;
3135Arcite. Emily,
3137Save what is bought, and yet I purchase cheapely,
3138As I doe rate your value.
3140He speakes now of as brave a Knight as ere
3141Did spur a noble Steed: Surely the gods
3142Would have him die a Batchelour, least his race
3143Should shew i'th world too godlike: His behaviour
3144So charmd me, that me thought Alcides was
3146Each part of him to'th all; I have spoke, your Arcite
3147Did not loose by't; For he that was thus good
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