Excerpt from The Comedies and Tragedies of George Chapman, Vol. 2 of 3: Now First Collected With Illustrative Notes and a Memoir of the Author I would not with it cut, vnlette by nature; Yet to prepare mee for that potfible Fortune, Tis good to get refolued tpirits about mee.' I followed b'ambois to this greene Retreat A man of fpirit beyond the reach of feare, Who (ditcontent with his neglected worth) Neglects the light, and loues obtcure Abodes But he is yoong and haughtie, apt to take Fire at aduancement, to beare tlate and flourith In his Rife therefore thall my bounties thine: None lothes the world fo much, nor loues to tcoffe it, But gold and grace will make him turfet of it. What, b'ambois 2 Buy. He fir. Monf. Turn'd to Earth, aliue? Vp man, the Sunne thines on thee. Bufi'. Let it thine. I am no more to play in't, as great men are. Mon]. Think'tt thou men great in (late, motes in the funne They fay to that would haue thee freeze in thades, That (like the grotfe Sicilian Gurmunditl) Emptie their Notes in the Cates they loue, That none may eat but they. Do thou but bring Light to the Banquet Fortune tets before thee, And thou wilt loth leane Darkenetfe like thy Death, Who would beleeue thy Mettall could let floth Rutt and contume it 1 If T/zemi/locles Had lined obfcur'd thus in th' Athenian tlate, Xerxes had made both him and it his tlaues. If braue Camillus had lurckt to in Rome, He had not nue times beene dirflator there, Nor foure times triumpht. If Epaminondas (who liu'd twice twentie yeeres obfcurd in Thebs) Had liu'd to tiil], he had beene ilill vnnam'd. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.