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All I can. Though I am young, and cannot tell, The Song. Which while Karolin sings, Aegl mou reads Either what Death, or Love is well, Yet I have herd, they both bear darts, And both do aim at humane hearts: And then again, I have been told Love wounds with heart, as Death with cold; So that I fear, they do but bring Extremes to touch, and mean one thing. As in a ruin, we it call One thing to be blown up, or fallen; Or to our end, Like way may have, By a flash of lightning, or a wave: So Loves inflamed shaft, or brand, May kill as soon as Death's cold hand; Except Loves fires the virtue have To fright the frost out of the grave. And I a wretch! The Turtles of the Wood. Sure, you are very Like her! I conceived You had been she, seeing you run afore me: For such a suit she made her against this Feast; In all resemblance, or the very am; I saw her in it; had she lived to enjoy it She had been there and acceptable Guest To Marian, and the gentle Robin-hood, Who are the Crown, and Ghirland of the Wood. Who, the wise good Woman? Old Maud. of Pappelwicke? Who? Aegl. Earine, I saw her talking with you, or her Ghost; For she indeed is drowned in old Trents bottom. Did she not tell who would have pulled her in? And had her Maidenhead upon the place? The rivers brim, the margin of the Flood? No ground is holy enough, (you know my meaning) Lust is committed in Kings Palaces, And yet their Majesties not violated! No words! A Cogitation of the highest rapture! The last man! Whom, we shall never see himself again; Or ours, I fear! He starts away from hand, so, And all the touches, or soft stroke of reason! Ye can apply. No Colt is so unbroken! Or hawk yet half so haggard, or unmanned! He takes all toys that his wild phantsy proffers, And flies away with them. He now conceives That my lost Sister, his Earine, Is lately turned a Sphere amid the seven: And reads a Musique-Lecture to the Planets! And with this thought, he's run to call them, Hearers What is it, Lionel, wherein I may serve you? Why do you so survey, and circumscribe me? As if you stuck one Eye into my breast, And with the other took my whole dimensions? Then, it appears most real When th'other is deficient. He sings sweetly too! How sad, and wild his thoughts are! gone? Aeglamour goes out, but comes in again.
Plot summary
Plot — A Tale of a Tub
Audrey Turf is to be married to John Clay, even though her father has promised her to Squire Tub: she drew Clay in a Valentine’s Eve lottery and her parents are determined that she should marry him on Valentine’s Day. The vicar, Sir Hugh, alerts Tub, and lays a plot to stop the wedding; but also abets Justice Preamble’s scheming to get the girl for himself. Tub’s governor Hilts poses as a servant whose master, Captain Thumbs, was attacked nearby; he has brought Constable Turf orders from the Queen to raise a hue and cry to catch the criminals; moreover, his description of one of them fits Clay, the bridegroom. Turf is obliged to postpone the wedding, and leaves his daughter with Hilts, who hands her over to Tub. Audrey at first thinks herself too low-born to be the Squire’s wife, but is won over by the prospect of social advancement. But before Tub can get her to church, he is arrested by Preamble. The judge leaves Tub with a pursuivant, saying he must return Audrey to her father; but the pursuivant turns out to be Preamble’s clerk, Metaphor, in disguise, and he explains that Preamble is actually taking her to church to marry her himself. Clay goes into hiding. Tub tells Turf that the robbery was a ruse by Preamble to enable him to take Audrey. Turf breaks off the hue and cry and intervenes in time to prevent the marriage, and takes Audrey home. Sir Hugh poses as the robbed man, Captain Thumbs, and complains of Turf’s negligence. Turf is summoned before Preamble to answer for abandoning the chase; he must produce the thief, presumed to be Clay, or pay back the stolen money himself. He sends Metaphor to fetch the cash, but Sir Hugh tells Metaphor to bring Audrey too. Tub and Hilts bully the plot out of Metaphor, and arrange to intercept him as he returns with Audrey. Tub takes the girl and lets Hilts and Metaphor have the money; but his mother, who has been out looking for him, catches up with him just as he is about to take Audrey to church. He claims he was taking her home, but Lady Tub will not be put off, and sends Audrey home with her gentleman usher, Pol-Marten—who woos her for himself. Tub roots out a supposed devil in Turf’s barn: it turns out to be Clay, hiding in the straw. Pol-Marten disguises Audrey in Lady Tub’s clothes, and Sir Hugh marries them, not realizing who they are. Tub invites the company home to supper, where he has arranged a masque whose central feature is a tub, representing his family; it has been devised by the cooper Medley,…