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Gallathea or Galatea is an Elizabethan era stage play, a comedy by John Lyly.
Act I
[edit]Act II
[edit]Act III
[edit]Act IV
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Which as a pearl disdain does wear?
Here stands the thief; let her but come
Hither, and lay on him her doom.
- CUPID, TELUSA, EUROTA, LARISSA, enter singing.TELUSA:
O yes, O yes, if any maid,
Whom lering Cupid has betraid
To frownes of spite, to eyes of scorne,
And would in madness now see torne
The boy in pieces,—ALL THREE:
Let her come
Hither, and lay on him her doome.EUROTA:
O yes, O yes, has any lost
A heart, which many a sigh hath cost;
Is any cozened of a teare,
Which (as a pearle) disdaine does weare?ALL THREE:
Here stands the thiefe, let her but come
Hither, and lay on him her doome.LARISSA:
Is any one undone by fire,
And turn'd to ashes through desire?
Did ever any lady weepe,
Being cheated of her golden sleepe?
Stolne by sicke thoughts!ALL THREE:
The pirat's found,
And in her teares hee shal be drown'd.
Reade his inditement, let him heare
What hee's to trust to: boy give eare.- Scene ii, line 1
Act V
[edit]External links
[edit] Encyclopedic article on Gallathea on Wikipedia