Be't when she weav'd the sleided silk With fingers, long, small, white as milk; She sung, and made the night-bird mute, This Philoten contends-in skill With the dove of Paphos might the crow The pregnant instrument of wrath I do commend to your content: Only I carry winged time Post on the lame feet of my rhyme; Which never could I so convey, Unless your thoughts went on my way.— Dionyza does appear, With Leonine, a murderer. [Exit. SCENE I.-Tharsus. An open place near the sea-shore. Enter DIONYZA and LEONINE, Dion. Thy oath remember; thou hast sworn to do it Even women have cast off, melt thee, but be Leon. I'll do't; but yet she is a goodly creature. Dion. The fitter then the gods should have her. Here Weeping she comes for her old nurse's death. Thou art resolv'd? Enter MARINA, with a basket of flowers. Mar. No, no, I will rob Tellus of her weed, To strew thy green with flowers: the yellows, blues, The purple violets, and marigolds, Shall, as a chaplet, hang upon thy grave, While summer days do last. Ah me! poor maid, This world to me is like a lasting storm, my friends. Dion. How now, Marina! why do you keep alone? How chance my daughter is not with you? Do not Consume your blood with sorrowing: you have A nurse of me. Lord! how your favour's chang'd With this unprofitable woe! Come, come; Give me your wreath of flowers, ere the sea mar it. Walk forth with Leonine; the air is quick there, Piercing, and sharpens well the stomach. Come ;Leonine, take her by the arm, walk with her. Mar. No, I pray you; I'll not bereave you of your servant. Dion. Come, come; I love the king your father, and yourself, Mar. Well, I will go; But yet I have no desire to it. Dion. Come, come, I know 'tis good for you. Walk half an hour, Leonine, at the least; Remember what I have said. Leon. I warrant you, madam. Dion. I'll leave you, my sweet lady, for a while; Pray you walk softly, do not heat your blood: What! I must have a care of you. Mar. Thanks, sweet madam. [Exit DIONYZA South-west. Is this wind westerly that blows? Was't so? |