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Christopher Marlowe's Tragedy of Edward the Second
Christopher Marlowe's Tragedy of Edward the Second Author:Christopher Marlowe General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1871 Original Publisher: Boyes and Geisler Subjects: Drama / General Drama / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh Drama / Shakespeare Literary Criticism / Drama Literary Criticism / Shakespeare Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illust... more »rations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: ACT THE FIRST. SCENE I. Enter Gaveston, reading a letter from the Icing. Gav. My father is deceased ! Come, Gaveston, And share the kingdom with thy dearest friend. Ah! words that make me surfeit with delight! "What greater bliss can hap to Gaveston, Than live and be the favourite of a king! 5 Sweet prince, I come! these, these thy amorous lines Might have enforced me to have swum from France, And, like Leander, gasped upon the sand, So thou wouldst smile, and take me in thine arms. The sight of London to my exiled eyes 10 Is as Elysium to a new-come soul; Not that I love the city, or the men, But that it harbours him I hold so dear -- The king, upon whose bosom let me lie, And with the world be still at enmity. 15 What need the arctic people love starlight, To whom the sun shines both by day and night ? Act I, Sc. 1. (A street in 'if only' ( -- modo, dummodo), a London, as appears from v. 10). very frequent use in the early 3. surfeit is used intransi- writers and still admissible in tively = to be surfeited, i. e. modern poetry. SeeM. II213. full to excess. This intransi- III 462. Compare the German tive use is also Shakespea- use of so in the sense of if, rian. which is also antiquated. 8. to have gasped. 12. not that, not because; 9. so means 'provided that',. see M. Ill 462. Farewell base stooping to the lordly peers! My knee shall bow to none but to the king. 2...« less