A Select Collection Of Old English Plays Volume Ii PDF Download

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1874 edition. Excerpt: ...What, thou foolish lad, no such tiling was in my mind. ACTUS SECUNDI, SCENA PRIMA RAGAN, the servant of Esau. Ragan. I have heard it oft, but now I feel a wonder, In what grievous pain they die, that die for hunger. 0 my greedy stomach, how it doth bite and gnaw 1 If I were at a rack, I could eat hay or straw. Mine empty guts do fret, my maw doth even tear. Would God I had a piece of some horsebread here. Yet is master Esau in worse case than I. If he have not some meat, the sooner he will die: He hath sunk for faintness twice or thrice by the way, And not one seely bit we got since yesterday. All that ever he hath, he would have given to-day To have had but three morsels his hunger to allay. Or in the field to have met with some hogs; 1 could scarcely keep him from eating of these dogs. He hath sent me afore some meat for to provide, And cometh creeping after, scarce able to stride. But if I know where to get of any man, For to ease mine own self, as hungry as I am, I pray God I stink; but if any come to me, Die who die will; for sure I will first served be. I will see, if any be ready here at home, Or whether Jacob have any, that peakish mome. But first I must put all my dogs up, And lay up this gear, and then God send us the cup. ACTUS SECUNDI, SCNA SECUNDA. EsAU, the master. BAGAN, the servant. Esau cometh in so faint, that he can scarce go. Esau. O, what a grievous pain is hunger to a man? Take all that I have for meat, help who that can. O Lord, some good body, for God's sake, give me meat. 1 force not what it were, so that I had to eat. Meat or drink, save my life--or bread, I reck not what: If there be nothing else, some man give me a cat. If any good body on me will do so much cost, I will tear and eat her raw, she shall ne'er be...