The Wedding - Results found: 55
(spoaken of a friend to a friend)
as wee are made one body, soe lets bee one
soule, and will and will both the same thing
y
e blood you carry / doth warme my veines, yet could nature bee / forgetfull, and remoove it
selfe, y
e love / I owe y
r merit, doth oblige mee to you
By Marwood,
in The Wedding (1.4),
James Shirley
in British Library Additional MS 22608, f. 81r
Was ever woman good, and Gratiana vitious? lost to honour? at y
e instant / when I expected
all my harvest ripe. / y
e golden summer tempting mee to reape / y
e well growne eares, comes
an impetuous storme / destroyes an ages hope in a short minute. / and let's mee live y
e copy of
in British Library Additional MS 22608, f. 81r
let me study, Ile count all my sinns beefore you, never did / penitent in ↄfession strip y
e soule / more naked; Ile unclaspe my booke of ↄscience; / you shall read ore
my heart, and if you find / in y
t great volume but one single thought / y
t ↄcernd
you, and did not
Ndend w
th some / good praier for you; oh bee just and kill mee.
By Gratiana,
in The Wedding (2.3),
James Shirley
in British Library Additional MS 22608, f. 81r
In this weeping posture does shee not present / a water-nimph placd in y
e midst of some /
faire garden, like a fountaine to dispense / her chrystall streames upon y
e flowers?
w
ch e> cannot / but soe refresht, looke up, and seeme to smile / upon y
e eyes that feed'em.
By Landby,
in The Wedding (3.1),
James Shirley
in British Library Additional MS 22608, f. 81r
y
r fat men, put them to anyaction, and see if they doe not smoake it; one hot service
makes them rost, and they have enough in 'em to bast an hundred. you may take
a leane man, marry y
r selfe to famine, and beg for a greatbelly. a fat man has y
e priviledge to long for any thing an may have it under pretence of a great belly.
By Lodam,
in The Wedding (3.2),
James Shirley
in British Library Additional MS 22608, f. 81r
There'sa period in nature, ist not / better to dye; and not bee sicke, worne in / our
bodies, w
ch e> in imitation of ghosts, grow leane, as if they would at last / bee
immateriall too; [our] blood turne jelly, / and freeze in their cold channell.
By Beauford,
in The Wedding (4.4),
James Shirley
in British Library Additional MS 22608, f. 81r
She's gone for ever; / and can y
e earth still dwell a quiet neighbour / to y
e rough sea,
and not it selfe bee thawd into a river? let it melt to waves / from henceforth, y
t beeside y
e
inhabitants, / y
e very genius of y
e world may drowne, / and not accuse mee for her.
By Beauford,
in The Wedding (4.4),
James Shirley
in British Library Additional MS 22608, f. 82r
I would kisse her cold face into life agen; /
renew her breath w
th mine, on her pale lipe; / I doe not thinke but if some artery /
of mine were opened, and y
e crimson flood / conuaid into her veines, it would agree; / and w
th
a gentle gliding, steale it selfe / into her heart, enlifne her dead faculties, and w
th a flattery
tice her soule agen / to dwell in her faire tenement.
By Beauford,
in The Wedding (4.4),
James Shirley
in British Library Additional MS 22608, f. 82r
I will soe talke of thee among y
e blest, y
t they shall bee in love w
th thee
and descend / in holy shapes, to woe thee to come thither / and bee of their society; doe not
veile they beauty / w
th such a shoure, keepe this soft raine / to water some more lost and
barren garden. / lest you destroy y
e spring w
ch e> nature made / to bee a wonder in thy cheeke.
By Beauford,
in The Wedding (5.2),
James Shirley
in British Library Additional MS 22608, f. 82r