The Works of George Peele Volume 1 (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: Than in her lovely boy fair Cupid's sight. Come, shepherd, come; sweet Venus is thy friend; No matter how thou other gods offend. [venus taketh Paris away with her. Exeunt. Juno. But he shall rue and ban the dismal day Wherein his Venus bare the ball away; And heaven and earth just witnesses shall be, I will revenge it on his progeny. Pal. Well, Juno, whether we be lief1 or loth, Venus hath got the apple from us both. [Exeunt. 1 So Dyce. Old ed. " leyse." VOL. I. ACT III. SCENA I. Enter Colin, who sings his passion of love. O gentle Love, ungentle for thy deed, Thou mak'st my heart A bloody mark With piercing shot to bleed ! Shoot soft, sweet Love, for fear thou shoot amiss, For fear too keen Thy arrows been, And hit the heart where my beloved is. Too fair that fortune were, nor never I Shall be so blest, 10 Among the rest, That Love shall seize on her by sympathy. Then since with Love my prayers bear no boot, This doth remain To ceaseJ my pain, I take the wound, and die at Venus' foot. [Exit Colin.Hobbinol, Diggon, (/thenot. 1 In England; Helicon, 1600, where this song is printed with Peele's signature, the reading is "ease." Hob. Poor Colin, woeful man, thy life forspoke by love, What uncouth 2 fit, what malady, is this that thou dost prove ? Dig. Or Love is void of physic clean, or Love's our common wrack, That gives us bane to bring us low, and let[s] us medicine lack. 20 Hob. That ever Love had reverence 'mong silly shepherd swains ! Belike that humour hurts them most that most might be 3 their pains. The. Hobbin, it is some other god that cherisheth their 4 sheep, For sure this Love doth nothing else but make our herd men weep. Dig. And what a hap is this, I pray, when...