KING. And leave th' unhappy nymph for you. But O! QUEEN. Forbear, my lord, to grieve, And know your Rosamond does live. If 'tis joy to wound a lover, How much more to give him ease? When his passion we discover, Oh how pleasing 'tis to please! The bliss returns, and we receive Transports greater than we give. KING. O quickly relate This riddle of fate! My impatience forgive, Does Rosamond live? QUEEN. The bowl, with drowsy juices fill'd, In borrow'd death has clos'd her eyes: For ever from my fancy fled May the whole world believe her dead, [Aside. That no foul minister of vice Its broken passion to renew, But let me live and die with you. QUEEN. How does my heart for such a prize Tho' distant ages, yet unborn, But see your slave, while yet I speak, Believe your Rosamond alive. KING. O happy day! O pleasing view! My queen forgives— QUEEN. My lord is true. KING. No more I'll change, QUEEN. No more I'll grieve: BOTH. But ever thus united live." SIR TRUSTY, awaking. In which world am I! all I see, Ev'ry thicket, bush and tree, So like the place from whence I came, SCENE IV. GRIDELINE and SIR TRUSTY. GRIDELINE. Have I then liv'd to see this hour, bow'r? And took thee in the very SIR TRUSTY. Widow Trusty, why so fine? Why dost thou thus in colours shine? Thou shou❜dst thy husband's death bewail In sable vesture, peak, and veil. GRIDELINE. Forbear these foolish freaks, and see How our good king and queen agree. Why shou'd not we their steps pursue, And do as our superiors do? SIR TRUSTY. Am I bewitch'd, or do I dream? I know not who, or where I am, Or what I hear, or what I see, But this I'm sure, howe'er it be, It suits a person in my station T'observe the mode and be in fashion. Then let not Grideline the chaste Offended be for what is past, And hence anew my vows I plight To be a faithful courteous knight. GRIDELINE. I'll too my plighted vows renew, Since 'tis so courtly to be true. Since conjugal passion Is come into fashion, And marriage so blest on the throne is, Like a Venus I'll shine, Be fond and be fine, And Sir Trusty shall be my Adonis. SIR TRUSTY. And Sir Trusty shall be thy Adonis. The KING and QUEEN advancing. KING. Who to forbidden joys wou'd rove, Chearful days, and blissful nights, BOTH. Who to forbidden joys wou'd rove, That knows the sweets of virtuous love? a Who to forbidden joys. So careful was this excellent man, to set our passions on the side of truth," even in his gayest and slightest compositions. THE DRUMMER, OR THE HAUNTED HOUSE. A Comedy. AS IT IS ACTED AT THE THEATRE ROYAL, IN DRURY LANE, BY HIS MAJESTY'S SERVANTS. -Falsis terroribus implet Ut magus With a PREFACE by Sir RICHARD STEELE, in an EPISTLE DEDICATORY to Mr. CONGREVE, Occasioned by Mr. TICKELL'S PREFACE to the four Volumes of Mr. ADDISON'S Works. VOL. I.-12 |