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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 V

Enter1 Nurse, withCupid as Ascanius.

Nurse.

• My Lord Ascanius, you must go with me.
• Cup Whither must I go? I'll stay with my mother,

Nurse.

• No, thou shalt go with me unto my house.
• I have an orchard that hath store of plums,
• Brown almonds, services, ripe figs, and dates,
• Dewberries, apples, yellow oranges;
• A garden where are bee-hives full of honey,
• Musk-roses, and a thousand sort of flowers;
• And in the midst doth run a silver stream,
• Where thou shalt see the red-gilld fishes leap,

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• White swans, and many lovely water-fowls.
• Now speak, Ascanius, will you go or no?

Cup.

• Come, come, I'll go. How far hence is your house?

Nurse.

• But hereby, child; we shall get thither straight.

Cup.

• Nurse, I am weary; will you carry me?

Nurse.

• Ay, so you'll dwell with me, and call me mother.

Cup.

• So you'll love me, I care not if I do,

Nurse.

• That I might live to see this boy a man!
• How prettily he laughs! Go [to], ye wag!1
• You'll be a twigger2 when you come to age.—

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• Say Dido what she will, I am not old;
• I'll be no more a widow: I am young;
• I'll have a husband, or else a lover.

Cup.

• A husband, and no teeth!

Nurse.

• O, what mean I to have such foolish thoughts?
• Foolish is love, a toy.—O sacred love!
• If there be any heaven in earth, 'tis love,
• Especially in women of your years.—
• Blush, blush for shame! why shouldst thou think of love?
• A grave, and not a lover, fits thy age.—

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• A grave! why, I may live a hundred years;
• Fourscore is but a girl's age: love is sweet—
• My veins are withered, and my sinews dry:

Cup.

• Come, nurse

Nurse.

• Well, if he come a-wooing, he shall speed:
• O, how unwise was I to say him nay!
• [Exeunt.

ACT V.

[1]Scene' the open country near Carthage.

[1]The reader will be reminded of Juliet's Nurse. The word to is inserted at the suggestion of a critic in the Athenum (No. 2977).

[2]Wencher.