The Online Library of Liberty

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• Publisher's Notice
• To My Worthy Friend , Master Thomas Hammon, of Gray's Inn , &c.
• Persons Represented.
• The Jew of Malta.
• Act the First.
• Scene I.
• Scene II.
• Act the Second.
• Scene I.
• Scene II.
• Scene III.
• Act the Third.
• Scene I.
• Scene II.
• Scene III.
• Scene IV.
• Scene V.
• Scene VI.
• Act the Fourth.
• Scene I.
• Scene II.
• Scene III.
• Scene IV.
• Scene V.
• Scene VI.
• Act the Fifth.
• Scene I.
• Scene II.
• Scene III.
• Scene IV.
• Scene V.
• Edward the Second.
• Act the First.
• Scene I.
• Scene II.
• Scene III.
• Scene IV.
• Act the Second.
• Scene I.
• Scene II.
• Scene III.
• Scene IV.
• Scene V.
• Act the Third.
• Scene I.
• Scene II.
• Scene III.
• Act the Fourth.
• Scene I.
• Scene II.
• Scene III.
• Scene IV.
• Scene V.
• Scene VI.
• Act the Fifth.
• Scene I.
• Scene II.
• Scene III.
• Scene IV.
• Scene V.
• Scene VI.
• The Massacre At Paris.
• Scene I.
• Scene II.
• Scene III.
• Scene IV.
• Scene V.
• Scene VI.
• Scene VII.
• Scene VIII.
• Scene IX.
• Scene X.
• Scene XI.
• Scene XII.
• Scene XIII.
• Scene XIV.
• Scene XV.
• Scene XVI.
• Scene XVII.
• Scene XVIII.
• Scene XIX.
• Scene XX.
• Scene XXI.
• Scene XXII.
• Scene XXIII.
• Scene XXIV.
• The Tragedy of Dido, Queen of Carthage.
• Act I.
• Scene I.
• Scene II.
• Act II.
• Scene I.
• Act III.
• Scene I.
• Scene II.
• Scene III.
• Scene IV.
• Act IV.
• Scene I.
• Scene II.
• Scene Iii
• Scene IV.
• Scene V
• Act V.
• Scene I.

SCENE IV.

Enter1 the Queen her Son, Kent,Mortimer, and SirJohnHainault.

Queen.

• Now, lords, our loving friends and countrymen,
• Welcome to England all, with prosperous winds!
• Our kindest friends in Belgia have we left,
• To cope with friends at home; a heavy case
• When force to force is knit, and sword and glaive
• In civil broils make kin and countrymen
• Slaughter themselves in others, and their sides
• With their own weapons gored! But what's the help?
• Misgoverned kings are cause of all this wreck;
• And, Edward, thou art one among them all,

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• Whose looseness hath betrayed thy land to spoil,
• Who made the channel2 overflow with blood
• Of thine own people; patron shouldst thou be,
• But thou——

Y. Mor.

• Nay, madam, if you be a warrior,
• You must not grow so passionate in speeches.
• Lords,
• Sith that we are by sufferance of heaven
• Arrived, and armèd in this prince's right,
• Here for our country's cause swear we to him

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• All homage, fealty, and forwardness;
• And for the open wrongs and injuries
• Edward hath done to us, his queen and land,
• We come in arms to wreak it with the sword;
• That England's queen in peace may repossess
• Her dignities and honours: and withal
• We may remove these flatterers from the king,

Sir J.

• Sound trumpets, my lord, and forward let us march.
• Edward will think we come to flatter him.

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Kent.

• I would he never had been flattered more!
• [Exeunt.

[1]Scene: the neighbourhood of Harwich.

[2]Kennel