CHORVS.
O Fearefull frowning NEMESIS,
Daughter of IVSTICE, most seuere,
That art the worlds great Arbitresse,
And Queene of causes raigning heere.
Delia and Rosamond augmented Cleopatra by Samuel Daniel.
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- Delia and Rosamond augmented Cleopatra by Samuel Daniel.
- Author
- Daniel, Samuel, 1562-1619.
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- 1594. Printed at London :: [By James Roberts and Edward Allde] for Simon Waterson, and are to be sold in Paules Church-yarde at the signe of the Crowne,
- [1594]
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- Cleopatra, -- Queen of Egypt, d. 30 B.C. -- Drama.
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Whose swift-sure hand is euer neere
Eternill iustice, righting wrong:
Who neuer yet-deserrest long
The proudes decay, the weakes redresse.
But through thy powre euery where,
Doost raze the great, and raise the lesse.
The lesse made great, doost ruine to,
To shew the earth what heauen can doe.
Thou from dark-clos'd eternitie,
From thy black clowdy hidden seate,
The worlds disorders doost discry:
Which when they swell so proudly great,
Reuersing th'order nature set,
Thou giu'st thy all-confounding doome,
Which none can know before it come.
Th' ineuitable destinie,
Which neyther wit nor strength can let,
Fast chayn'd vnto necessitie,
In mortall things doth order so,
Th'alternate course of weale or wo.
O low the powres of heauen do play
With trauailed mortalitie:
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And doth their weakenes still betray,
In theyr best prosperitie.
When beeing listed vp so hie,
They looke beyond themselues so sarre,
That to themselues they take no care:
Whilst swift confusion downe doth lay,
Theyr late proude mounting vanitie:
Bringing theyr glory to decay.
And with the ruine of theyr fall,
Extinguish people, state and all.
But is it iustice that all wee
Th'innocent poore multitude,
For great mens faults should punishs be,
And to destruction thus pursude.
O why should th'heauens vs include,
Within the compasse of theyr sall,
Who of themselues procured all?
Or doe the Gods (in close) decree,
Occasion take how to extrude
Man from the earth with crueltie?
Ah no, the Gods are euer iust,
Our faults excuse theyr rigor must.
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This is the period Fate set downe,
To Egipts fat prosperity:
Which now vnto her greatest growne,
Must perrish thus, by course must die.
And some must be the causers why
This reuolution must be wrought:
As borne to bring theyr state to nought.
To change the people and the crowne,
And purge the worlds iniquitie:
Which vice so farre hath ouer-growne.
As wee, so they that treate vs thus,
Must one day perrish like to vs.