Cromwell
Cromwell
Shakespeare
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Cromwell
ACT I.
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Cromwell
SCENE I. entrance of a smith's shop.
[Enter three Smiths, Hodge and two other, old Cromwell's men.]
HODGE. Come, masters, I think it be past five a clock; is it not time
we were at work: my old Master he'll be stirring anon.
FIRST SMITH. I cannot tell whether my old master will be stirring or
no:but I am sure I can hardly take my afternoon's nap, for my young
Master Thomas, he keeps such a quile in his study, with the Sun, and the
Moon, and the seven stars, that I do verily think he'll read out his wife.
HODGE. He skill of the stars! there's good-man Car of Fulhum, he
that carried us to the strong Ale, where goodyTrundell had her maid got
with child:O he knows the 'll tickle you Charles Waine in nine
degrees. That same man will tell you goody Trundell when her Ale shall
miscarry, only by the stars.
SECOND SMITH. Aye, that's a great virtue; indeed I think Thomas be
no body parison to him.
FIRST SMITH. Well, masters, come, shall we to our hammers?
HODGE. Aye, content; first let's take our morning's draught, and then
to work roundly.
SECOND SMITH. Aye, agreed; go in, Hodge.
[Exit omnes.]
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Cromwell
SCENE II. The same.
[Enter young Cromwell.]
CROMWELL. Good morrow, morn, I do salute thy brightness. The
night seems tedious to my troubled soul, Whose black obscurity binds in
my mind A thousand sundry cogitations: And now Aurora, with a lively
dye, fort to my spirit that mounts on high-- Too high indeed, my
state being so mean. My study, like a mineral of gold, Makes my heart
proud, wherein my hopes enrolled; My books is all the wealth I do
possess.
[Here within they must beat with their hammers.]
And unto them I have engaged my heart. O learning, how divine thou
seems to me: Within whose arms is all felicity. Peace with your hammers!
leave your knocking there: You do disturb my study and my rest. Leave
off, I say, you mad me with the
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