The Dramatic Works of James Sheridan Knowles Volume 3 - Softcover

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1843 edition. Excerpt: ... or where, or upon what occasion, I can't recal, nor rest until I do. Farewell, and pardon me. 'Tis very strange! Goesout. Iso. jo Fernando, who is lost in thought. Dear husband, what is it possesses you? Fern. Nothing! Iso. O, love, be honest!--It is best Always.--If evil comes of it, at worst We have been honest--that will comfort us. Come!--I will show you, what I teach, I do. I don't believe our union will be blest. You start!--and you yourself did tell me so, And now I tell it you!--I don't believe it. What then?--Do I repent our union? No! My heart has had its wish--I am thy wife. Knew I that I should die the very moment The priest should bless us and declare us one, I had married thee and yielded up my spirit, Thanking the gracious Heavens, most bountiful, Which for that little moment made thee mine. Then cheer thee, love; and be assured of this--Were we to live the three-score years and ten, And then to die, being what now we are, We could not die more happy. Lose not now With care for by-and-by, whate'er may come; But leave't with trust to Heaven! Fern. I'll do thy will! I'll be myself!--The ball-room!--Come, love, come! SCENE II.--A Ball-Room. Fernando, Isoline, and Others discovered, --A Dance. Fern. Surely the lightsomest, most graceful form, And act of merriment! I'd give the world To have the mood of him who danced just now. How he did seem to poise him in the air, As he could hang there at his will, by which Alone he seem'd to come to earth again! He did not spring, but fly from step to step! With joints that had not free-er play'd, methinks, Were hinges made of air and theirs were such! Yet could they plant themselves, I warrant me, To meet a shock! These spirits are fine things, Subtle as quicksilver; only they freeze...