The Custom of the Country - Results found: 94
4.
– if I studied y
e countries laws I shd so easily sound all
y
r depth, & rise up such a wonder, y
t y
e pleaders y
t now are
in most practice, & esteem shd starve for want of clients. If I
traveld like wise Ulysses to see men, & manns, I would returne
in act more knowing y
n Hom ^
ere could fancy him. If a physitian
so oft I would restore death-wounded men, That where I li’vd
Galen shd not be nam’d, & he y
t joynd again y
e scattd limbs Of
torn Hippolita shd be forgotten. I could teach Ovid courtship. how
to win A Julia, & enjoy her, tho her dower were all y
e Sun gives
light to. And for arms, were y
e Persian hoast y
t drank up rivs
added to y
e Turks psent power, I could coon, & marshall y
m
By Duarte,
in The Custom of the Country (2.1.111-28),
Francis Beaumont
in Bodleian Library MS Sancroft 29, p. 3
–And
yet y
e courage they exp
rst being taken, & y
e contemt of death
won more upō me y
n all they did being free. me thinks I
see y
m yet w
n they were brought aboard us disarmd & ready
to be putt in fetts How on y
e suddain as if they had sworne
nev to tast y
e bread of servitutde Both snatchḡ up y
r swords
& frō this Virgin Takḡ a farewell only w
th y
r eyes They leapt
into y
e sea --
By Leopold,
in The Custom of the Country (2.2.9-18),
Francis Beaumont
in Bodleian Library MS Sancroft 29, p. 11
--Then we live indeed, w
n we can goe to rest w
th out a larum Given evy mintue to a guiltsick consc.. To keep
us wakḡ, & rise in y
e mornḡ secure in being iocent; but
w
n yn the remembr. of o
r worser actions we ev bear about us whips,
& furies To make y
e day a night of sorrow to us Even life’s a
burthen .----
By Doctor,
in The Custom of the Country (4.1.6-14),
Francis Beaumont
in Bodleian Library MS Sancroft 29, p. 48