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MARCELIA; A TRAGICOMEDY, SELECTION by FRANCES BOOTHBY

First Line: WHAT STRANGE EFFECTS OF FORTUNE DO I PROVE!
Last Line: THE BRAVE, THEIR BODIES, MAKES THEIR TROUBLES URN.
Subject(s): FORTUNE; GRIEF; LOVE; SOUL; SORROW; SADNESS;

@3Marc@1. What strange effects of Fortune do I prove!
How variously she in my life doth move!
A Prince so brave, and in his Power so great,
Forc'd to beg favors humbly at my feet:
She never for thy glory more could do,
Then she in that, @3Marcelia@1, did for you.
Pride could not raise, nor swell my hopes more high,
Then she has given me Power to satisfie:
Nor can she bring my heart to more distress,
Then she has done in all my happiness:
Then bribes me with a Crown to be content,
And makes Ambition prove Loves Monument.
But love, if true, did never Power know,
That greater, then it self, could ever grow;
But that of Heaven; when it within the Soul
Does monstrous prove, and Virtue would controul.
No, no, I still must love whilst I have breath;
Nothing can give my passion date, but death.
But that @3Lotharicus@1 mayn't pleasure take,
To think that his doth sleep, and mine doth wake;
I'le force my courage, give me to thee King,
Though I shall be a heartless offering:
And on a Throne in secret mourn that Fate
Destroy'd his Love, and rais'd me to such State.
As Princes ought, I then will act my part,
Not make my face prospective to my heart;
Nor give the Kings contentment cause to doubt,
When his confin'd, my Love does wander out:
My griefs and passions all shall inward burn;
The brave, their bodies, makes their troubles Urn.



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