...Nash's withdrawal of his apology, see Hazlitt in ?.] " TVhv Is't damnation to despair and dic \Vhen life is my true happiness' disease ? My soul! my soul! thy safety makes me fly The faulty means that miyht my pain appease. Divines aud dyini; men may talk of hell, But in my heart her several torments...

...Testament." 1600. 4°. commencement. [As to Nash's withdrawal of his apology, see Hazlitt in v.] " Why is't damnation to despair and die When life is my true happiness' disease ? My soul ! my soul 1 thy safety makes me fly The faulty means that might my piiin appease. Divines and dyin<* men may...

...curious if Shakspere had introduced the allusion to Leicester'. Two lines in the Yorkshire Tragedy — ' Divines and dying men may talk of hell, But in my heart her several torments dwell' — are taken from Nash's Pieree Pcnniksse (1592). The idea is also to be found in Marlowe's Doctor...

...thousand torches ushering the way.' A finely expressed thought in an earlier scene of the same act — ' Divines and dying men may talk of hell, But in my heart the several torments dwell' — recalls similar passages in >farlowe's Doctor Faustvs (cf. vol. ip...

...expense, Both to consume his credit and his house, etc. and the subsequent speech of the husband : Divines and dying men may talk of hell, But in my heart her several torments dwell, etc., can, as I think, hardly have been written by any other than Shakspeare. But the character of...

...devils, That stretch him, and make him give ; And I in want: Not able for to live, nor to redeem him. Divines and dying men may talk of hell, But in my heart her several torments dwell : s Slavery and misery! Who in this case Would not take up money on his soul, Pawn his salvation, live...

...Why is't damnation to despair and die When life ia ray true happiness" disease ? My soul I my soul I thy safety makes me fly The faulty means that might...torments dwell. Ah worthless wit, to train me to this woe I Deceitful arts that nourish discontent 1 I Ml thrive the folly that bowitch'd me BO I Vain thoughts,...

...And every ereature shall be purified. All places shall be Hell that are not Heaven. 3farloae, Faust, Divines and dying men may talk of hell, But in my heart her several torments dwell. Sh. i'ork. Tray. A dungeon horrible on all sides round As one great furnace flamed ; yet from those...

...When life U my trno happiness' disease ? My soul ! my. soul ! thy safety makes me fly Tkefautty meant that might my pain appease ; Divines and dying men...hell ; But in my heart her several torments dwell. Ah worthiess wit, to train me to this woe ! Deceitful arts that nourish discontent ! Ill thrive the folly...

...the very climax, of a couplet from Nash's ' Pierce Penniless ' into the hero's desperate ravings : Divines and dying men may talk of hell, But in my heart its several torments dwell. 1 The peculiar power displayed in the short and stabbing daggerthrusts...