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<Text id=ChaBuDA> <Author>Chapman, george</Author> <Title>Bussy d'ambois</Title> <Edition>The Plays of George Chapman, The Tragedies. Allan Holaday, ed. Q1. Cambridge: D.S. Brewer, 1987</Edition> <Date>1607</Date> <body> <loc><locdoc>ChaBuDa1.1</locdoc> <div0 type=act n=1> <div1 type=scene n=1> <l n=1><sp>Buss </sp>Fortune, not reason, rules the state of things,</l> <l n=2>Reward goes backwards, honour on his head;</l> <l n=3>Who is not poor, is monstrous; only need</l> <l n=4>Gives form and worth to every human seed.</l> <l n=5>As cedars beaten with incessant storms,</l> <l n=6>So great men flourish; and do imitate</l> <l n=7>Unskilful statuaries, who suppose</l> <l n=8>(in forging a colossus) if they make him</l> <l n=9>Straddle enough, strut, and look big, and gape,</l> <l n=10>Their work is goodly: so our tympanous statists</l> <l n=11>(in their affected gravity of voice,</l> <l n=12>Sourness of countenance, manners' cruelty,</l> <l n=13>Authority, wealth, and all the spawn of f . . .
