English drama -- Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600
_Bon_. Why doe you inquire, good puff past?
_Suc_. My blade
Is of the _Bilbo_[116] mettle; at its splendor
My foes does vanish.
_Bon_. Ile try that presently;--feare nothing, ladyes.
_Suc_. Death! now I thinke out, I did breake my blade this morning on
foure that did waylay me: Ile goe fetch another, and then I am for you.
_Crac_. Take myne, Captaine.
_Suc_. Hold your peace, be wise: that fellow
In the blew garment has a countenance
Presages losse of limme if we encounter.--
Ile meet you presently.
_Bon_. It shall not serve your turne yet: Ile not blunt
My sword upon such stock fish. _Grimes_, bestow
Thy timber on them.
_Grimes_. Come, sir. [_beats them_.
_Suc_. Take me without a weapon? this cudgell sure
Is Crabb tree, it tasts so sourely.
[_Exeunt_.
_Bel_. Oh, my Deare _Bonvill_.
_Bon_. Mistrisse, I sent an advocate to plead
My guiltless cause: you, too[117] severe a Judge
Forbad him audience; I am therefore come
Once more to prove my innocence.
_Cla_. Come, without Ceremony
Forgive you her and she shall pardon you
Most willingly.
_Bon_. Can you have soe much mercy,
You soe much goodnes?
_Bel_. Noe soule long tir'd with famine, whom kind death
Has new enfranchisd from the loathed flesh,
With happier expedition enters heaven
Then mine thy bosome, _Bonvill_. Let our loves,
Like plants that by their cutting downe shoot up,
Straiter and taller flourish: we are now
Inseperable.
_Cla_. Your good fates, though I
Repine not at them, makes my unhappy fortunes
Appeare farr more disastrous.
_Bon_. Whats thy misfortune?
_Bel_. Alas, my mother has crost her in her affection as she did us.
_Bon_. She shall
Crosse ours no more. _Belisia_, if youle
Be ruld by me you shall away with me;
None but you sister shall be privy to it,
And sheele keepe Councell.
_Bel_. Ile goe any whither
To enjoy thy presence; theres no heaven without it.
_Bon_. You shalbe advertisd where she remaines,
And certifie us how your mother takes it:
When we are married we shall live to thanke you.
_Cla_. Will you leave me, then?
_Bel_. Prethee, poore heart, lament not; we shall meet,
And all these stormes blowe over.
_Cla_. Your tempests past; mine now begins to rise
But Ile allay its violence with my eyes.
_Exeunt omnes_.
_Actus Quartus_.
SCENE 1.
_Enter Magdalen, Timothy and Alexander_.
_Ma_. Run, good sweet _Timothy_; search the barnes, the stab[les], while
I looke in the Chambers. Should she be lost or come to any harme my lady
will hang us all. Why dost not fly?
_Tim_. Hey day, if her feet walke as fast as thy tongue, sh[e's] far
enough ere this time. What a stir you make! Were you, as shee is, with
your sweet heart, you would [be] pursud, would you? You would be hangd
as soone. Al[as], good gentlewoman, heaven speed her!
_Ma_. You will not goe then?
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