Bussy d'Ambois
| dc.contributor | Smith, M.W.A. |
| dc.contributor.author | Chapman, George |
| dc.coverage.placeName | Cambridge |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2018-07-27 |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2022-08-19T14:47:23Z |
| dc.date.available | 2022-08-19T14:47:23Z |
| dc.date.created | 1987 |
| dc.date.issued | 1993-06-10 |
| dc.identifier | ota:1534 |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14106/1534 |
| dc.description.abstract | Mode of access: Online. OTA website Modern English spelling |
| dc.format.extent | Text data (1 file : ca. 142 KB) |
| dc.format.medium | Digital bitstream |
| dc.language | English |
| dc.language.iso | eng |
| dc.publisher | University of Oxford |
| dc.relation.ispartof | Oxford Text Archive Core Collection |
| dc.rights | Distributed by the University of Oxford under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. |
| dc.rights.uri | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/ |
| dc.rights.label | PUB |
| dc.subject.lcsh | Plays -- England -- 17th century |
| dc.subject.lcsh | Tragedies -- England -- 17th century |
| dc.title | Bussy d'Ambois |
| dc.type | Text |
| has.files | yes |
| branding | Oxford Text Archive |
| branding | Oxford Text Archive |
| files.size | 146374 |
| files.count | 1 |
| otaterms.date.range | 1900-1999 |
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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 . . .
