English drama -- Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600
_Lov_. Umh[88], play a healthe: soe; say, it shall goe rounde: goe to,
I say and I sayt, it shall goe round. Umh, where is this fidle? in the
ayre? I can perceave nothing. Where is my kinde friend and my fine
companion? come, we will be friends again; goe to, we will. Umh,
plaistered and bound up? bloody? how comes this? goe too and goe to; if
I have done any mischiefe or bene over valiant in my drinke to kill a
man or soe, why 'twas in my drinke, not I, and let my drinke be hangd
for't; or, I say and I sayt, let um stay till I am drunke againe and
then hange me; I care not, I shall not be sensible of it. Oh this sack!
it makes a coward a _Hector_: the _Greekes_ and _Troians_ drinke no
other; and that and a wench (for theres the divell out) made um cuffe
ten yeares together, till at length when they had bled more than they
coulde drinke they grew sober, the contented Cuckold tooke his wife home
againe and all were good frends[89]. [_Sease Musicke_] But stay, the
musikes husht; I hope theyle appeare; I doe feale no such paine in my
wounds that I had need of musicke to bring me to sleepe. Blesse me whose
this? ha[90]!
_Enter Grimes disguised_.
_Grimes_. How does your worshipp? Mr. Steward, dee feele your selfe at
ease? I am hartely sorry for your misfortune?
_Lov_. Misfortune? ha, what misfortune? now heaven and't be thy will--
_Grimes_. Pray heaven they be alive.
_Lov_. Ha, alive? in the name of drinke what have I don? where did you
find me, ha?
_Grimes_. Why, sir, comming out--umh, umh--
_Lov_. Out with't, man.
_Grimes_. Out of a bad-house, sir.
_Lov_. A Bawdie house, I warrant.
_Grimes_. Yes sir.
_Lov_. Why, now its out.
_Grimes_. I, and tis well your worships out.
_Lov_. Noe, noe, it had bin better had I never gon in; but on, on.
_Grimes_. You were, sir,--as they say, sir--you had gotten a Cup to
much.
_Lov_. Hang Cupps, my friend excepted; goe to; speake plaine; I was
drunke was I?
_Grimes_. Yes, sir; you were not able to stand when you came out, sir?
_Lov_. Out of the Bawdy-house? I beleave thee; nay, I am a right
_Lovell_ I, I look like a shotten herring now for't. _Jone's_ as good
as my lady in the darke wee me. I have no more Roe than a goose in me;
but on to the mischiefe, on.
_Grimes_. You beate the Bawd downe with the Chamber dore and bade her
keepe that for the Reckoning.
_Lov_. Umh, there was witt in my drinke, I perceive; on.
_Grimes_. Then, sir, you tooke up a Spitt.
_Lov_. A Spitt?
_Grimes_. Yes, sir, and broacht one of the wenches out.
_Lov_. How?
_Grimes_. Oh, sir, you made such a hole in her bakside[91] you might
have turnd--
[_Blows his nose_.
_Lov_. What? thy nose int?
_Grimes_. Had I been there it had been at your service.
_Lov_. Thanke thee; thou shouldst have lost nothing by it.
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