The New English Drama Volume 12 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1820 Excerpt: ...seek no one's ruin; but he who thrusts him on my secret privacy, were better look well to his future walk; the bear brooks none to cross his awful path. Amy. ( Terrified.) Aw ful indeed Lei. Nay, trust me, thou'rt pale, my love; forgive my warmth, and ask aught else, involving less than, fortune, fame and life--hast thou no other wish? Amy. Nothing, my lord--my love something I would have told you--but your anger has driven it from my recollection. Lei. Reserve it till a future hour then; go to thy chamber, and barring what I dare not, cannot grant, if I refuse thee any other boon, it must be more than England can fulfil. Exit, L.li. Amy. What means this palpitation--sinking terror I am a wife--I am no cast away--nor yet betrayed--yes, wife to England's hope--Yet I am a daughter--but I reflect that 1 deceived my father, and as a present punishment for past ingratitude, am bound in fetters, which restrain me from tearing the dark veil from his honoured sight, and cheering him with "Father, 1 am innocent " Exit, R.h. SCENEII.--Garden Front ofCumnor ManorHouse. Enter Vabney, R.h. Var. Dark as my purpose is, it leads to utter downfall on the one hand, or sure prosperity on the other, la a moment of Bacchanalian madness, I made an avowal of love to this lady--I was repulsed--and have hated myself ever since, almost as sincerely as I hate her in whose power it places me. 'Tis in each courtier's mouth, the queen adores the earl--had he no wife, he might be king of England, and then the generous Leicester--Enter Leickster, R.h. Lei. Soliloquizing Varncy and my name pronounced Var. Pardon, my lord--but when my patron's ho nour, and his wife's fame--Lei. No more--until thou say'st--who is the object of pursuit--upon whose track, as I learn, some of my ...