[The Works of Charles Lamb in Four Volumes, Volume 4 by Charles Lamb]@TWC D-Link bookThe Works of Charles Lamb in Four Volumes, Volume 4 PROLOGUE, SPOKEN BY MR 133/217
Stay, sir. I hope you have made your will. If not,'tis no great matter. A broken cavalier has seldom much He can bequeath; an old worn peruke, A snuffbox with a picture of Prince Rupert, A rusty sword he'll swear was used at Naseby, Though it ne'er came within ten miles of the place; And if he's very rich, A cheap edition of the _Icon Basilike_, Is mostly all the wealth he dies possest of. You say few prayers, I fancy;-- So to it again.
[_They fight again._ LOVEL _is disarmed._ _Lovel_.
You had best now take my life.
I guess you mean it. _John_ (_musing_).
No:--Men will say I fear'd him, if I kill'd him. Live still, and be a traitor in thy wish, But never act thy thought, being a coward. That vengeance, which thy soul shall nightly thirst for, And this disgrace I've done you cry aloud for, Still have the will without the power to execute. So now I leave you, Feeling a sweet security.
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