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Hercules Furens, Thyestes, Troas

Heywood, Jasper (1535-1598)
  
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[dedication]

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[THE FIRST TRAGEDIE OF SENECA ENTITVLED Hercules Furens.]
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THE FIRST ACTE.
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THE SECOND ACTE.
  
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Chorus.
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THE THYRDE ACTE.
  
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Chorus.
  
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THE FOVRTHE ACTE.
  
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Chorus.
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THE FIFTHE ACTE.
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THE SECOND TRAGEDIE OF SENECA ENTITVTULED Thyestes, faythfully Englished by Iasper Heywood Felow of Alsolne Colledge in Oxenforde.
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THE FIRST ACTE.
  
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Chorus
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THE SECONDE ACTE.
  
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Chorus.
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THE THYRDE ACTE.
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[THE FIRST SCENE.]
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THE SECOND SCENE.
  
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Chorus.
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THE FOVRTHE ACTE.
  
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Chorus.
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THE FIFTE ACTE.
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[THE FIRST SCEANE]
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THE SECONDE SCEANE
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THE THIRDE SCEANE.
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THE FOVRTH SCENE, Added to the Tragedy by the Translatour.
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THE SIXTE TRAGEDIE OF THE MOST GRAVE & prudēt Author LVCIVS ANNÆVS SENECA, entituled TROAS, vvith diuers and sundrye Additions to the same, by IASPER HEYVVOOD.
  
The Argument.
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THE FIRST ACTE.
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[THE FIRSTE SCENE.]
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THE SECOND SCENE.
  
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Chorus added to the Tragedy by the Translator.
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THE SECOND ACTE.
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The first Scene.
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THE SECOND SCENE.
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THE THIRD SCENE.
  
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Chorus.
  
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THE THIRD ACTE.
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[THE FIRST SCENE.]
  
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THE SECOND SCENE.
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THE THIRD SCENE.
  
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Chorus altered by the translatour.
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THE FOVRTH ACTE.
  
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Chorus.
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THE FIFTH ACTE.

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These three staues following are added by the translatour.

O dreadful day, alas, the sory time.
Is come of al the mothers ruthful woe,
Astianax (alas) thy fatal line
Of life is worne, to death strayght shalt thou goe,
The sisters haue decreed it should be so,
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There may no force (alas) escape there hand,
There mighty Ioue their will may not withstand,
To se the mother, her tender child forsake,
What gentle hart that may from teares refrayne
Or whoso fierce that would no pity take,
To see (alas) this guiltles infant slayne,
For sory hart the teares myne eyes do stayne
To thinke what sorrow shall her hart oppresse,
Her litle child to leese remedilesse,
The double cares of Hectors wife to wayle,
Good Ladies haue your teares in readines.
And you with whom should pity most preuayle.
Rue on her griefe: bewayle her heauines.
With sobbing hart, lament her deepe distresse,
When she with teares shall take leaue of her son,
And now (good Ladies) heare what shall be done.
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