Our son is fat and scant of breath.
[60]: Middleton, the Honest Whore.
[61]: Beaumont and Fletcher, Valentinian; Thierry and Theodoret. Voir dans Massinger, the Picture: c'est la Barberine de Musset. La crudité, l'énergie extraordinaire et repoussante montreront la différence des deux siècles.
[62]: Massinger, Duke of Milan.
[63]:
For with this arm I'll swim through seas of blood,
Or make a bridge arch'd with the bones of men,
But I will grasp my aims in you, my dearest,
Dearest and best of women!
(Massinger, Duke of Milan, acte II, sc. i.)
I'll follow him to hell, but I will find him,
And there live a fourth fury to torment him.
Then, for this cursed hand and arm that guided
The wicked steel, I'll have them joint by joint,
With burning irons sear'd off, which I will eat,
I being a vulture fit to taste such carrion.
(Ibid., acte V, sc. ii.)
[64]: Massinger, The Fatal Dowry; Webster and Ford, A late meurther of the soun upon the mother; Ford, 'Tis a pity she is a whore. Voir encore The Broken Heart, de Ford, et les sublimes scènes d'agonie et de folie.