Elfrida, a Drama [In Verse]. (Paperback)

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: Amy. And hope for what? ? a husband I'll be bound I Esther. ' And /'// be bouud hen you were at my age, To die an old maid, Amy, was not yours! No, Either, no ? and therefore have I found, To wed in haste's at leisure to repent. Esther. Repentance on one's lat legs, Amy's, worse! O would I were away from these lone shades! I'll see what worrying Elfrida'Udo ? " And teaze her into taking this court lord, The very worst way to attain thine end: X For importunity resistance breeds; And mars what it would make? ' ., Esther. No?be ye sure, The thing for kindness ye can ne'er obtain, To importunity will be decreed: " Ask, and ye shall have/'"' seek, and ye shall find;'' "Knock, and it shall be open'd unto you." You think, forsooth, this new-ton.r Ethdwald, I sure to win our far-famed ladj-'s hand, chapter{Section 4Because my lord hath shown him some respect, And bade his daughter to the state saloon; But.like the rest, tomorrow he 11 ride hence, And ail your castles in the air will fail, And crumble into atomies' Esther. Ay. ay ? t warrant, I ve as long a look as you? He may ride hence tomorrow with the dawn, But he'll ride laden with Eifrida's heart! Blfi ida's heart is not so soon entrap'd. Ambition is an antidote to love! Esther. Love is omnipotent, and levels ranks? Ay, but if favor's shown unto this lord, 'Tis not from any wound of Cupid's dart; But from his terms of friendship with the king. Esther. I care not which, so Hymen stands the goal. Yrt I'll not yield in judgement; but main tain ' The paramount sufficiency of love! You see the surface only ? not the depth? Elfrida's heart is like the shallow soil, Ready to catch, and joyfully receive, The falling seeds of love ? they may sprin...