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Scena. 6.
Cassandra, in blacke.Cas.
The heauy chardge, that Nature bindes me too,
I haue perform'd, ingrau'd my Brother is:
O woulde to God (to ease, my ceaseles woo)
My wretched bones, intombed were with his.
But O in vaine, this bootelesse wish, I vse,
I, poore I must lyue in sorrowe, ioynde with shame:
And shall he lyue? that dyd vs both abuse?
And quench through rule, the coles of iust reuenge?
O: no, I wyll nowe hye me to the King:
To whome, I wyll, recount my wretched state,
Lewde Promos rape, my Brothers death and all:
And (though with shame, I maye this tale relate)
To prooue that force, enforced me to fall:
When I haue showne, Lorde Promos fowle misdeedes,
This knife foorthwith, shall ende my woe and shame,
My gored harte, which at his feete then bleedes,
To scorge his faultes, the King wyll more inflame.
I nowe aduise, my iourney, to the King:
Yet ere I go, as Swans sing at their ende,
In solemne Song, I meane my knell to ryng.
Cassandraes Song.
Sith fortune thwart, doth crosse my ioyes with care,
Sith that my blisse, is chaungde to bale by fate:
Sith frowarde chaunce, my dayes in woe doth weare,
Sith I alas, must mone without a mate.
I wretch haue vowde, to sing both daye and night,
O sorrowe slaye, all motions of delight.
Sith that my blisse, is chaungde to bale by fate:
Sith frowarde chaunce, my dayes in woe doth weare,
Sith I alas, must mone without a mate.
I wretch haue vowde, to sing both daye and night,
O sorrowe slaye, all motions of delight.
Come grieslie griefe, torment this harte of mine,
Come deepe dispaire, and stoppe my loathed breath:
Come wretched woe, my thought of hope to pine:
Come cruell care, preferre my sute to death.
Death, ende my wo, which sing both daye and night,
O sorrowe slaye, all motions of delight.
Come deepe dispaire, and stoppe my loathed breath:
Come wretched woe, my thought of hope to pine:
Come cruell care, preferre my sute to death.
Death, ende my wo, which sing both daye and night,
O sorrowe slaye, all motions of delight.
Exit.
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