Anonymous

The Player's Tragedy. Or, Fatal Love, a New Novel

London

Randal Taylor

1693

"Each day he came to her to seek a cure for those Wounds she had made in his tender Bosome, and each day he enlarg'd 'em, by beholding the relentless cause of all his sufferings; which were now arriv'd to that heighth, that he was neither able to bear 'em, nor yet knew how to remove them."

With indignation our young Souldier (for Montano was a Captain in the Gensdarm's of the Houshold) saw himself out-rival'd by a Player, and wou'd often have attack'd him as a Souldier ought, had not his Honour curb'd his Passion, by remembring him 'twas below him to use him so much like a Gentleman. This made him for a great while forbear all other Resentment, than the justest and highest contempt of him, still pursuing the flying Bracilla with all the assiduity and fire of Love. Each day he came to her to seek a cure for those Wounds she had made in his tender Bosome, and each day he enlarg'd 'em, by beholding the relentless cause of all his sufferings; which were now arriv'd to that heighth, that he was neither able to bear 'em, nor yet knew how to remove them.
(pp. 19-20)

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Anonymous, The Player's Tragedy. Or, Fatal Love, a New Novel (London: Printed, and Sold by Randal Taylor, 1693)

06/15/2013