Gallathea

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

Title page (1592)

Act IV

Is any cozened of a tear
Which as a pearl disdain does wear?
Here stands the thief; let her but come
Hither, and lay on him her doom.

• CUPID, TELUSA, EUROTA, LARISSA, enter singing.
  TELUSA:
  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,—
  ALL THREE:
  Let her come
  Hither, and lay on him her doome.
  EUROTA:
  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?
  ALL THREE:
  Here stands the thiefe, let her but come
  Hither, and lay on him her doome.
  LARISSA:
  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!
  ALL 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

External links

Encyclopedic article on Gallathea on Wikipedia