The Mad Lover - Results found: 39
If a man mean to live: not to fight & swagger, Beaten about the ears with bawling
sheepskins, cut to the soul for summer, here an arm lost &
there a leg, his honourable head seal’d up in salves, & cerecloths,
like a packet & so sent over to an hospital. & all this sport for
cheese, & chines of dogs flesh, & money when two wednesdays meet
together.
By Fool,
in The Mad Lover (1.2.320-328),
Francis Beaumont
in Bodleian Library MS Sancroft 29, p. 2
1.
The loves we now know are but the heats of half and hour &
heated desires stirred up by nature to increase her licking of one another to a lust
coarse & base appetites,
earth's mere inheritors and the heirs of idleness & blood.
By Memnon,
in The Mad Lover (2.1.132-44),
Francis Beaumont
in Bodleian Library MS Sancroft 29, p. 12
things like ourselves
as sensual, vain, unvented, bubbles and breaths of air
got with an itching, as blisters are
and, bred, as much corruption flows from their lives; sorrow conceives & shapes
them. & oftentimes the death of those we love most
the breeders bring them
to
the world.
By Memnon,
in The Mad Lover (2.1.159-64),
Francis Beaumont
in Bodleian Library MS Sancroft 29, p. 12
1. Enter a mask of beasts.
This lion was a man of war that died
As thou wouldst do,
to gild his lady's pride. This dog a fool that hung himself for
love. This ape with daily hugging of a glove forgot to eat
& died. This goodly tree An usher that still grew before his
Lady witherd at root. This, for he could not woo, a grumbling
Lawyer. This pied bird a page, that melted out because he
wanted age.
By Orpheus,
in The Mad Lover (78-86),
Francis Beaumont
in Bodleian Library MS Sancroft 29, p. 21