Edwin the Fair Author:Henry Taylor Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: SCENE III. WARLEWOOD CHASE. EVENING. Dunstan. (Alone.) Spirit of speculation, rest, oh rest! And push not from her place the spirit of prayer ! God, thou '... more »st given unto me a troubled being— So move upon the face thereof, that light May be, and be divided from the darkness ! Arm thou my soul that I may smite and chase The spirit of that darkness, whom not I But Thou thro' me compellest.—Mighty power, Legions of piercing thoughts illuminate, Hast Thou committed to my large command, Weapons of light and radiant shafts of day, And steeds that trample on the tumbling clouds. But with them it hath pleased Thee to let mingle Evil imaginations, corporal stings, A host of Imps and Ethiops, dark doubts, Suggestions of revolt.—Who is 't that dares— Enter Gurmo. Oh ! is it thou ? What saith my Lord Archbishop ? Gurmo. He will be there. DUNSTAN. At Sheen to-morrow ? Gurmo. DUNSTAN. And what my Lady, the Queen Mother 1 Gurmo. Here To-night. DUNSTAN. I wished not she should come so soon. No matter—let her choose—To-night then be it. Go, get thee to the hollow of yon tree, And bellow there as is thy wont. Gurmo. How long ? DUNSTAN. Till thy lungs crack. Get hence. [Exit Gurmo. And if thou bellowest otherwise than Satan, It is not for the lack of Satan's sway 'Stablished within thee. [Strange howls are heard from the tree. Well said, Satan ! Ay ! Thou feel'st the red-hot pincers at thy nose. And call'st thou this a fraud, thou secular lack-brain 1 Thou loose lay-priest, I tell thee it is none. Do I not battle wage in very deed With Satan ? Yea, and conquer ! And who 's he Saith falsehood is delivered in these howls, Which do but to the vulgar ear translate Truths else to them ineffable '( Where 's Satan ? His presence, life and kingdom ...« less