The Complete Works of William Shakespeare - Israel Gollancz William Shakespeare [1766]
And, for my part, the bloody scars I bear,
And weary nights that I have watched in field,
The dangerous conflicts I have often had,
The fearful menaces were proffered me,
The heat and cold and what else might displease:
I wish were now redoubled twenty fold,
So that hereafter ages, when they read
The painful traffic of my tender youth,
Might thereby be inflamed with such resolve,
As not the territories of France alone,
But likewise Spain, Turkey, and what countries else
That justly would provoke fair England's ire,
Might, at their presence, tremble and retire.
KING EDWARD.
Here, English Lords, we do proclaim a rest,
An intercession of our painful arms:
Sheath up your swords, refresh your weary limbs,
Peruse your spoils; and, after we have breathed
A day or two within this haven town,
God willing, then for England we'll be shipped;
Where, in a happy hour, I trust, we shall
Arrive, three kings, two princes, and a queen.
FINIS.
LOCRINE
This play depicts the legendary Trojan founders of England and of Troynovant (London). Locrine was entered in the Stationers' Register on July 20, 1594, and published in 1595 in a quarto issued by the printer Thomas Creede. The title page of the 1595 quarto advertised the play as "Newly set foorth, overseene and corrected, / By W. S." An identification of "W. S." with William Shakespeare apparently led to the play's inclusion among the seven works that Philip Chetwinde added to the second impression of his Shakespeare Third Folio in 1664 — which in turn led to the inclusion of Locrine in the Shakespeare Apocrypha. The play's stiff, formal verse is not Shakespearean — but the extant text of Locrine does show evidence of revision. The authorship of the original play has been assigned to several dramatists of the era, George Peele and Robert Greene being the two most common candidates.
CONTENTS
DRAMATIS PERSONAE.
ACT I. PROLOGUE.
ACT I. SCENE I.
ACT 1. SCENE 2. The house of Strumbo.
ACT I. SCENE 3. An apartment in the palace.
ACT II. PROLOGUE.
ACT II. SCENE I.
ACT II. SCENE II.
ACT II. SCENE III. The camp of Albanact.
ACT II. SCENE IV. The camp of Humber.
ACT II. SCENE V. Another part of the field of battle.
ACT II. SCENE VI. The camp of the Huns.
ACT III. PROLOGUE.
ACT III. SCENE I. Troynouant. An apartment in the Royal Palace.
ACT III. SCENE II. The banks of the river, afterward the Humber.
ACT III. SCENE III. Before the hut of a peasant.
ACT III. SCENE IV. The camp of Locrine.
ACT III. SCENE V. The field of battle.
ACT III. SCENE VI. Another part of the field.
ACT IV. PROLOGUE.
ACT IV. SCENE I. The camp of Locrine.
ACT IV. SCENE II. A forest.
ACT IV. SCENE III. A chamber in the Royal Palace.
ACT IV. SCENE IV. The entrance of a cave, near which runs the river, afterward the Humber.]
ACT V. PROLOGUE.
ACT V. SCENE I. A chamber in the Royal Palace.
ACT V. SCENE II. The camp of Gwendoline.
ACT V. SCENE III. The camp of Locrine.
ACT V. SCENE IV. The field of battle.
DRAMATIS PERSONAE.
BRUTUS, King of Britain.
LOCRINE, his son.
CAMBER, his son.
ALBANACT, his son.
CORINEIUS, brother to Brutus.
ASSARACHUS, brother to Brutus.
THRASIMACHUS, brother to Brutus.
DEBON, an old Officer.
HUMBER, King of the Scythians.
HUBBA, his son.
THRASSIER, a Scythian Commander.
STRUMBO, clown.
TRUMPART, clown.
OLIVER, clown.
WILLIAM, clown.
GWENDOLINE, Corineius his Daughter, married to Locrine.
ESTRILD, Humber's Wife.
ATE, the Goddess of Revenge.
Ghosts of Albanact, and Corineius.
ACT I. PROLOGUE.
Enter Ate with thunder and lightning all in black, with a burning torch in one hand, and a bloody sword in the other hand, and presently let there come forth a Lion running after a Bear or any other beast; then come forth an Archer who must kill the Lion in a dumb show, and then depart. Remain Ate.
ATE.
In paenam sectatur & umbra.
A Mighty Lion, ruler of the woods,
Of wondrous strength and great proportion,
With hideous noise scaring the trembling trees,
With yelling clamors shaking all the earth,
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