Plays: Adapted for Family Reading, And the Use of Young Persons ..., volume 1
Plays: Adapted for Family Reading, And the Use of Young Persons ..., volume 1
Philip Massinger
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His jealous disposition breaks out in this scene with peculiar beauty. — GiFFORD. Digitized by CjOOQIC 268 THE BONDMAN. ACT IV. For which I am so overgone with grief, I dare not ask, without compassionate tears. The villain's name that robb'd thee of thy honour t For being train'd up in chastity's cold school. And taught by such a mistress as Cleora, 'Twere impious in me to think Timandra Fell with her own consent. Timand, How mean you, fell, sir ? I understand you not. Leost. I would thou dids...t not, Or that I could not read upon thy face. In blushing characters, the story of Libidinous rape : confess it, for you stand not Accountable for a sin, against whose strength Your o'ermatch'd innocence could make no resist-* ance ; Under which odds, I know, Cleora fell too. Heaven's help in vain invoked ; the amazed sun Hiding his face behind a mask of clouds. Nor daring to look on it ! In her sufferings All sorrow 's comprehended : what Timandra, Or the city, has endured, her loss consider'd.
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