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Excerpt: ... been shipwrecked. CERIMON. Philemon, ho! Enter Philemon. PHILEMON. Doth my lord call? CERIMON. Get fire and meat for these poor men: 'T has been a turbulent and stormy night. SERVANT. I have been in many; but such a night as this, Till now, I ne'er endured. CERIMON. Your master will be dead ere you return; There's nothing can be minister'd to nature That can recover him. To Philemon. Give this to the 'pothecary, And tell me how it works. Exeunt all but Cerimon. Enter two Gentlemen. FIRST GENTLEMAN. Good morrow. SECOND GENTLEMAN. Good morrow to your lordship. CERIMON. Gentlemen, Why do you stir so early? FIRST GENTLEMAN. Sir, Our lodgings, standing bleak upon the sea, Shook as the earth did quake; The very principals did seem to rend, And all-to topple: pure surprise and fear Made me to quit the house. SECOND GENTLEMAN. That is the cause we trouble you so early; 'Tis not our husbandry. CERIMON. O, you say well. FIRST GENTLEMAN. But I much marvel that your lordship, having Rich tire about you, should at these early hours Shake off the golden slumber of repose. 'Tis most strange, Nature should be so conversant with pain. Being thereto not compell'd. CERIMON. I hold it ever, Virtue and cunning were endowments greater Than nobleness and riches: careless heirs May the two latter darken and expend; But immortality attends the former, Making a man a god. 'Tis known, I ever Have studied physic, through which secret art, By turning o'er authorities, I have, Together with my practice, made familiar To me and to my aid the blest infusions That dwell in vegetives, in metals, stones; And I can speak of the disturbances That nature works, and of her cures; which doth give me A more content in course of true delight Than to be thirsty after tottering honour, Or tie my treasure up in silken bags, To please the fool and death. SECOND GENTLEMAN. Your honour has through Ephesus pour'd forth Your charity, and hundreds call themselves Your creatures, who by you have...
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