Ambrose Philips As a Dramatist a Contribution to the History of English Litera
Ambrose Philips As a Dramatist a Contribution to the History of English Litera
Kathe Wellhausen
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Van. : Yet, I will punish; meditate strange Torments! — Then give thee to the Justice of the Gods. Cart. : Thus, Vanoc, do I mock thy treasur'd Rage. — My Heart springs forward, to the Dagger's Point. Van. : Quick; — Wrest it from her! — Drag her hence to Chains. — 57 — Cart. : There needs no second stroke. — ■ Adieu, rash Man! — My Woes are at an End: — Thine but begun; — and lasting as ^hy Life! — - ' All the chief persons of the play, except Gwendolen and Yvor, are historical and figure in H...olinshed's Chronicles of England . . . Vol. I. Vanoc, Prince of the Cornavians is in Holinshed called Venutius, ruler of the Jugants; in the "Valiant Welshman" it is Venusius, duke of Yorke, Cartismand's husband. I shall quote the passages of Holinshed which I have been able to trace in Philips' work-^): "... But herewith began trouble to be raised in another part : for after that Caratac was taken, the chiefest and most skillful capteine which the Britains had, was one Venutius, a ruler of the people named Jugants, a man that remained a long time faithful to the Romans, and by their power was defended from hiS enimies, who had married with Cartimanda queene of the Brigants or Jorke- shire men.
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