Act III, scene i

   

[Buffy’s House]

[Enter Angelus]

 
1 Angelus

Now is the winter of our discontent
Made glorious summer by this Sun of Dale;
And all the clouds that lour'd upon our house
In the deep bosom of the ocean buried.
Now are our brows bound with victorious wreaths;
I have made the beast with two backs and
Have felt my loathsome soul torn asunder.
Our bruised arms hung up for monuments;
Our stern alarums changed to merry meetings,
Our dreadful marches to delightful measures.
Grim-visaged war hath smooth'd his wrinkled front;
And now, instead of mounting barded steeds
To fright the souls of fearful adversaries,
He capers nimbly in a lady's chamber
And therefore, since I have proved a lover,
To entertain these fair well-spoken days,
I am determined to prove a villain

   

[Enter Jenny, Angelus kills Jenny]

 
2 Jenny

O wherefore, Nature, didst thou vamps frame?
Since vamps vile hath here deflower'd my life:
Which is--no, no--which was the fairest
That lived, that loved, that liked, that look'd
with cheer.
Come, tears, confound;
Thus die I, thus, thus, thus.
Now am I dead,
Now am I fled;
My soul is in the sky:
Tongue, lose thy light;
Moon take thy flight:
Now die, die, die, die, die.

[Dies]

  Angelus

No die, but an ace, for her; for she is but one.
I want for many.

[Enter Mayor and minions]

 
3 Mayor

What another one, devouring demon
At this pace, the town shall empty,
Ere I accend.
And for that offence
Immediately I do exile you hence:
Let Angelus hence in haste,
Else, when he's found, that hour is his last.
Bear hence this body and attend our will:
Mercy but murders, pardoning those that kill.

[Angelus attacks Mayor]


Now, now, temper temper, neither a borrower or a lender be,
Shoo, into the woods with you.

[Exit Angelus]


And now then troops, let’s all remember
Be thou familiar, but by no means vulgar.
Those friends thou hast, and their adoption tried,
Grapple them to thy soul with hoops of steel;
But do not dull thy palm with entertainment
Of each new-hatch'd, unfledged comrade. Beware
Of entrance to a quarrel, but being in,
Bear't that the opposed may beware of thee.
Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice;
Take each man's censure, but reserve thy judgment.
Costly thy habit as thy purse can buy,
not express'd in fancy; rich, not gaudy;
For the apparel oft proclaims the man,
Neither a borrower nor a lender be;
For loan oft loses both itself and friend,
And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry.
This above all: practice good dental hygiene,
One and all.

[Exit Mayor and minions]

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