Misfortunes Of Arthur 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. 1828 edition. Excerpt: ...Loe, heaving hie is of so small forecast, To totter first, and tumble downe at last. Yet Psegasus still reares himselfe on hie, And coltishly doth kicke the cloudes in skie. 3. Who sawe the griefe engraven in a crowne, Or knew the bad and bane whereto it's bound, Would never sticke to throwe and fling it downe, Nor once vouchsafe to heave it from the ground. Such is the sweete of this ambitions powre, No sooner had, then turnes eftsoones to sowre: Atchiev'd with envie, exercisde with hate, Garded with feare, supported with debate. A. O restlesse race of high aspyring head! O worthlesse rule, both pittyed and envied! How many millions to their losse you lead, With love and lure of kingdomes blisse untryed! So things untasted cause a quenchlesse thirst, Which, were they knowne, would be refused first: Yea, oft we see, yet seeing cannot shonne The fact, we finde as fondly dar'd as donne. The Argument of the third Act. 1. In the first scene Cador and Howell incite and exhort Arthur unto warre: who mooved with fatherly affection towards his sonnc, notwithstanding their perswasions, resolveth upon peace. 2. In the second scene an Herault is sent from Mordred to commaund Arthur to discharge his armies under paine of death, or otherwise, if he dare, to trie it by battaile. 3. In the third scene Arthur calleth his assistants and soldiers together, whom he exhorteth to pursue their foes. 4. In the fourth scene Arthur, between griefe and despaire, resolveth to warre. The Argument and manner of the third dumb shewe. During the musicke after the second act, there came uppon the stage two gentlemen attyred in a peaceable manner, which brought with them a table, carpet and cloth: and then having covered the table they furnisht it with incense on the one...