The False One eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 84 pages of information about The False One.

The False One eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 84 pages of information about The False One.

  2 Sol. He was not wont
  To let poor Souldiers that have spent their Fortunes,
  Their Bloods, and limbs, walk up and down like vagabonds.

  Sep. Save ye good Souldiers:  good poor men, heaven help ye: 
  You have born the brunt of war, and shew the story,

  1 Sol. Some new commander sure.

  Sep. You look (my good friends)
  By your thin faces, as you would be Suitors.

  2 Sol. To Caesar, for our means, Sir.

  Sep. And ’tis fit Sir.

  3 Sol. We are poor men, and long forgot.

Sep. I grieve for it:  Good Souldiers should have good rewards, and favours, I’le give up your petitions, for I pity ye, And freely speak to Caesar.

  All.  O we honour ye.

  1 Sol. A good man sure ye are:  the Gods preserve ye.

  Sep. And to relieve your wants the while, hold Soldiers,
  Nay ’tis no dream:  ’tis good gold:  take it freely,
  ’Twill keep ye in good heart.

  2 Sol. Now goodness quit ye.

  Sep. I’le be a friend to your afflictions,
  And eat, and drink with ye too, and we’l be merry: 
  And every day I’le see ye.

  1 Sol. You are a Souldier,
  And one sent from the Gods, I think.

  Sep. I’le cloth ye,
  Ye are lame, and then provide good lodging for ye: 
  And at my Table, where no want shall meet ye.

    Enter Sceva.

  All.  Was never such a man.

  1 Sold. Dear honour’d Sir,
  Let us but know your name, that we may worship ye.

  2 Sold. That we may ever thank.

  Sep. Why, call me any thing,
  No matter for my name, that may betray me.

  Sce. A cunning thief, call him Septimius, Souldiers,
  The villain that kill’d Pompey.

  All.  How?

  Sce. Call him the shame of men. [Exit.

1 Sold. O that this mony Were weight enough to break thy brains out:  fling all:  And fling our curses next:  let them be mortal, Out bloody wolf, dost thou come guilded over, And painted with thy charitie, to poyson us?
2 Sold. I know him now:  may never Father own thee, But as a monstrous birth shun thy base memory:  And if thou hadst a Mother (as I cannot Believe thou wert a natural Burden) let her womb Be curs’d of women for a bed of vipers.
3 Sol. Me thinks the ground shakes to devour this rascal, And the kind air turns into foggs and vapours, Infectious mists, to crown his villanies.  Thou maist go wander, like a thing heaven hated.
1 Sold. And valiant minds hold poysonous to remember.  The Hangman will not keep thee company, He has an honourable house to thine, No, not a thief though thou couldst save his life for’t Will eat thy bread, nor one, for thirst starv’d, drink with thee.

  2 Sol. Thou art no company for an honest dog,
  And so we’l leave thee to a ditch (thy destiny.) [Exeunt.

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