210:01,000[' ]| 210:01,001[A ]| Virtue's triumphant shrine! who dost engage 210:01,002[A ]| At once three kingdoms in a pilgrimage; 210:01,003[A ]| Which in ecstatic duty strive to come 210:01,004[A ]| Out of themselves, as well as from their home; 210:01,005[A ]| Whilst England grows one camp, and London is 210:01,006[A ]| Itself the nation, not metropolis, 210:01,007[A ]| And loyal Kent renews her arts again, 210:01,008[A ]| Fencing her ways with moving groves of men; 210:01,009[A ]| Forgive this distant homage, which doth meet 210:01,010[A ]| Your blest approach on sedentary feet; 210:01,011[A ]| And though my youth, not patient yet to bear 210:01,012[A ]| The weight of arms, denies me to appear 210:01,013[A ]| In steel before you, yet, Great Sir, approve 210:01,014[A ]| My manly wishes, and more vigorous love; 210:01,015[A ]| In whom a cold respect were treason to 210:01,016[A ]| A father's ashes, greater than to you; 210:01,017[A ]| Whose one ambition 'tis for to be known, 210:01,018[A ]| By daring loyalty, your Wilmot's son. 210:02,000[' ]| 210:02,001[A ]| 210:02,002[A ]| Respite, great Queen, your just and hasty fears: 210:02,003[A ]| There's no infection lodges in our tears. 210:02,004[A ]| Though our unhappy air be armed with death, 210:02,005[A ]| Yet sighs have an untainted, guiltless breath. 210:02,006[A ]| O stay awhile, and teach your equal skill 210:02,007[A ]| To understand and to support our ill. 210:02,008[A ]| You that in mighty wrongs an age have spent, 210:02,009[A ]| And seem to have outlived ev'n banishment; 210:02,010[A ]| Whom traitorous mischief sought its earliest prey 210:02,011[A ]| When unto sacred blood it made its way, 210:02,012[A ]| And thereby did its black design impart 210:02,013[A ]| To take his head, that wounded first his heart; 210:02,014[A ]| You that unmoved great Charles his ruin stood, 210:02,015[A ]| When that three nations sunk beneath the load; 210:02,016[A ]| Then a young daughter lost, yet balsam found 210:02,017[A ]| To stanch that new and freshly bleeding wound, 210:02,018[A ]| And after this, with fixed and steady eyes, 210:02,019[A ]| Beheld your noble Gloucester's obsequies, 210:02,020[A ]| And then sustained the royal princess' fall: 210:02,021[A ]| You only can lament her funeral. 210:02,022[A ]| But you will hence remove, and leave behind 210:02,023[A ]| Our sad complaints, lost in the empty wind ~~ 210:02,024[A ]| Those winds that bid you stay, and loudly roar 210:02,025[A ]| Destruction, and drive back unto the shore. 210:02,026[A ]| Shipwreck to safety, and the envy fly 210:02,027[A ]| Of sharing in this scene of tragedy, 210:02,028[A ]| Whilst sickness, from whose rage you post away, 210:02,029[A ]| Relents, and only now contrives your stay. 210:02,030[A ]| The lately fatal and infectious ill 210:02,031[A ]| Courts the fair princess, and forgets to kill. 210:02,032[A ]| In vain on fevers curses we dispense, 210:02,033[A ]| And vent our passions' angry eloquence. 210:02,034[A ]| In vain we blast the ministers of fate, 210:02,035[A ]| And the forlorn physicians imprecate; 210:02,036[A ]| Say they to death new poisons add, and fire; 210:02,037[A ]| Murder securely for reward and hire; 210:02,038[A ]| Art's basilisks, that kill whome'er they see, 210:02,039[A ]| And truly write bills of mortality; 210:02,040[A ]| Who, lest the bleeding corpse should them betray, 210:02,041[A ]| First drain those vital speaking streams away. 210:02,042[A ]| And will you by your flight take part with these? 210:02,043[A ]| Become yourself a third and new disease? 210:02,044[A ]| If they have caused our loss, then so have you, 210:02,045[A ]| Who take yourself and the fair princess too. 210:02,046[A ]| For we, deprived, an equal damage have 210:02,047[A ]| When France doth ravish hence, as when the grave, 210:02,048[A ]| But that your choice th' unkindness doth improve 210:02,049[A ]| And dereliction adds unto remove. 210:03,000[' ]| 210:03,001[A ]| Trust not that thing called woman: she is worse 210:03,002[A ]| Than all ingredients crammed into a curse. 210:03,003[A ]| Were she but ugly, peevish, proud, a whore, 210:03,004[A ]| Poxed, painted, perjured, so she were no more, 210:03,005[A ]| I could forgive her, and connive at this, 210:03,006[A ]| Alleging still she but a woman is. 210:03,007[A ]| But she is worse: in time she will forestall 210:03,008[A ]| The Devil, and be the damning of us all. 210:04,000[' ]| 210:04,001[A ]| Out of mere love and arrant devotion, 210:04,002[A ]| Of marriage I'll give you this galloping notion. 210:04,003[A ]| It's the bane of all business, the end of all pleasure, 210:04,004[A ]| The consumption of wit, youth, virtue, and treasure. 210:04,005[A ]| It's the rack of our thoughts, the nightmare of sleep, 210:04,006[A ]| That sets us to work before the day peep. 210:04,007[A ]| It makes us make brick without stubble or straw, 210:04,008[A ]| And a cunt has no sense of conscience or law. 210:04,009[A ]| If you needs must have flesh, take the way that is noble: 210:04,010[A ]| In a generous wench there is nothing of trouble. 210:04,011[A ]| You come on, you come off ~~ say, do what you please ~~ 210:04,012[A ]| And the worst you can fear is but a disease, 210:04,013[A ]| And diseases, you know, will admit of a cure, 210:04,014[A ]| But the hell-fire of marriage none can endure. 210:05,000[' ]| 210:05,000[' ]| 210:05,001[B ]| Injurious charmer of my vanquished heart, 210:05,002[B ]| Canst thou feel love, and yet no pity know? 210:05,003[B ]| Since of myself from thee I cannot part, 210:05,004[B ]| Invent some gentle way to let me go. 210:05,005[B ]| For what with joy thou didst obtain, 210:05,006[B ]| And I with more did give, 210:05,007[B ]| In time will make thee false and vain, 210:05,008[B ]| And me unfit to live. 210:05,000[' ]| 210:05,009[C ]| Frail angel, that wouldst leave a heart forlorn 210:05,010[C ]| With vain pretense falsehood therein might lie, 210:05,011[C ]| Seek not to cast wild shadows o'er your scorn: 210:05,012[C ]| You cannot sooner change than I can die. 210:05,013[C ]| To tedious life I'll never fall, 210:05,014[C ]| Thrown from thy dear, loved breast; 210:05,015[C ]| He merits not to live at all 210:05,016[C ]| Who cares to live unblest. 210:05,000[' ]| 210:05,017[D ]| Then let our flaming hearts be joined 210:05,018[D ]| While in that sacred fire; 210:05,019[D ]| Ere thou prove false, or I unkind, 210:05,020[D ]| Together both expire. 210:06,000[' ]| 210:06,001[A ]| Poet, whoe'er thou art, God damn thee; 210:06,002[A ]| Go hang thyself, and burn thy Mariamne. 210:07,000[' ]| 210:07,001[A ]| If Rome can pardon sins, as Romans hold, 210:07,002[A ]| And if those pardons can be bought and sold, 210:07,003[A ]| It were no sin t' adore and worship gold. 210:07,004[A ]| If they can purchase pardons with a sum 210:07,005[A ]| For sins they may commit in time to come, 210:07,006[A ]| And for sins past, 'tis very well for Rome. 210:07,007[A ]| At this rate they are happiest that have most: 210:07,008[A ]| They'll purchase heaven at their own proper cost. 210:07,009[A ]| Alas, the poor! All that are so are lost. 210:07,010[A ]| Whence came this knack, or when did it begin? 210:07,011[A ]| What author have they, or who brought it in? 210:07,012[A ]| Did Christ e'er keep a customhouse for sin? 210:07,013[A ]| Some subtle devil, without more ado, 210:07,014[A ]| Did certainly this sly invention brew 210:07,015[A ]| To gull 'em of their souls and money too.