There Erode ragis ageyne and then seyth thus:
"Out velen wrychis har apon[43] you I cry,
My wyll utturly loke that yt be wroght,
Or apon a gallowse bothe you schall dye
Be Mahownde most myghtyst that me dere hath boght."
At length the knights consent to slay the children, and Herod says,
"And then wyll I for fayne trypp lyke a doo."
The bodies of the children are brought to him in carts; but he is told that all his deeds are come to nothing, as the child whom he particularly sought after had escaped into Egypt. He once more falls into a violent passion, orders his palfrey to be saddled, and hurries away in pursuit of the infant. Here the piece ends. It was performed by the taylors and shearmen in the year 1534; but the composition is of much greater antiquity.
Scene 2. Page 179.
Ham. ... Give me that man
That is not passion's slave, and I will wear him
In my heart's core, ay in my heart of heart.
From this speech Anthony Scoloker, in his Daiphantus, or The passions of love, 1604, 4to, has stolen the following line:
"Oh, I would weare her in my heart's-heart-gore."