Emil. I cannot tell you more, but I will never do a thing shall give you cause to think otherwise.
Court. You so surprise me with my happiness
My Joy’s too great and sudden to express.
The two next extracts from the same play may serve as specimens of Newcastle’s verse. In each case the speaker is a sane man feigning madness. In the first he is addressing his lady-love.
Do you gaze upon me? I come to bring you news from Lucifer:
In my Love’s despair I fell
Down to that Furnace we call Hell:
The first strange thing that I did mark
Was many fires, and yet ’twas dark:
Instead of costly Arras there
The walls poor sooty hangings wore;