Love Tricks, or The School of Compliments - Results found: 26
There is a methode, when y
r passion's young / to keep it in obedience, you love Rufaldo / art
thou not young? how will y
e rose agree / w
th a dead hyacinth? or y
e hony woodbine, circling
a withered bryar? you can apply, can you submit y
t body / to bed w
th ice and snow, y
r
blood to mingle? / would you bee deaf'd w
th coughing, teach y
r eye / How to bee rumaticke?
breaths he not out / his body is diseases, and like dust / falling all into peeces, as of
nature / would make him his owne grave.
By Cornelio,
in Love Tricks, or The School of Compliments (2.2),
James Shirley
in British Library Additional MS 22608, f. 80r
x this was a devillish speech.
ↄncerning
yt as was spoken just now)
I will outlabour Joveborne Hercules, / and in a greater fury ransacke hell: / teare from y
e
sisters their ↄtorted curles, / and wracke y
e destinies on Ixions wheele: / braine Proserpine w
th
Sisiphs rowling stone / and in a brazen caldron choakd w
th leade / boyle Minos, Eacus, and
Radamant / make y
e infernall three-chapt band-dog roare. cram Tantalus w
th apples, lash
y
e fiends / w
th whips of snakes and poison'd scorpions: / snatch chain'd Prometheus from y
e Vultures
may, / and feed him w
th her liver, make old Charon / waft backe again y
e soules, or buffet
him / w
th his owne Oares to death
By Gentleman,
in Love Tricks, or The School of Compliments (3.5),
James Shirley
in British Library Additional MS 22608, f. 80v