Gallathea

Gallathea or Galatea is an Elizabethan era stage play, a comedy by John Lyly.

Act IV

 * C UPID, T ELUSA , E UROTA , L ARISSA , enter singing.T ELUSA: O yes, O yes, if any maid, Whom lering Cupid has betraid To frownes of spite, to eyes of scorne, And would in madness now see torne The boy in pieces,—A LL THREE: Let her come Hither, and lay on him her doome.E UROTA: O yes, O yes, has any lost A heart, which many a sigh hath cost; Is any cozened of a teare, Which (as a pearle) disdaine does weare?A LL THREE: Here stands the thiefe, let her but come Hither, and lay on him her doome.L ARISSA: Is any one undone by fire, And turn'd to ashes through desire? Did ever any lady weepe, Being cheated of her golden sleepe? Stolne by sicke thoughts!A LL THREE: The pirat's found, And in her teares hee shal be drown'd. Reade his inditement, let him heare What hee's to trust to: boy give eare.
 * Scene ii, line 1