English drama -- Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600
_Burb_. And tis most true that I love _Bellamira_.
Now, if thou art in favor of thy wench,
Many a meeting thou mayst helpe me to
And learne besides what sutors seeke her love
And whom she most affects. These things once knowne
Twere worth a Dukedome, _Peter_.
_Pet_. Sbloud, give me
A Dukedome and Ile warrant you the knowledge
Of these things ten times o're.
_Rod_. Theres Angels for thee, _Peter_, thinke on them
And doe thy best to helpe thy master's love.--
Well howsoever I smooth it to the Duke,
My thoughts are bent on his destruction.
_Pet_. You have my heart
In your purse; Ile doe anything for you.
_Bur_. And thou shalt want no gold; and so farwel.
[_Exeunt_.
_Pet_. I cannot chuse to farewell, and have the good Angels to comfort
me; yet I am melancholy. Heeres gold to make me merry: O but (hey ho)
heres love to make me sad. To avoyd prolixity I am crost with a Sutor
that wants a piece of his toung, and that makes him come lisping home.
They call him _Cavaliero Bowyer_; he will have no nay but the wench. By
these hilts, such another swash-buckler lives not in the nyne quarters
of the world. Why, he came over with the Earle of Pembrooke, and he
limps and he limps & he devoures more French ground at two paces then
will serve _Thomasin_ at nineteene. If ever he speake French, to avoyd
prolixity, he will murder the toung. Ile provide for him; theres but
small choice. Either he shall renounce the wench or forsake his lame
legs, his lisping toung and his life to: for by S. _Denis_ I had rather
dye in a ditch then be bobd[111] of my fayre _Thomasin_.
[_Exit_.
[SCENE 2.]
_Enter at one dore_ Philip _and_ Roderick, _a drummer
before them with his Drum at his back: at the other
dore_ Ferdinand _and_ Pembrooke _with their Drummes_.
_Ferd_. Whither goes royall _Philip_ thus prepard?
_Phil_. On what adventure goes Prince _Ferdinand_?
_Ferd_. To conquer all the world, fayre _Katharine_,
Whose beauty in mine eye surmounts it far.
Vertue and love conducts me to your sister.
_Phil_. On the like voyage are my fortunes bound,
I goe to winne thy sister.
_Ferd_. Some fayre Starre
On our great hopes shine fayre and debonaire.
_Pem_. Amen, sayth _Pembroke_.
_Rod_. Amen, sayth _Rodoricke_,
_Ferd_. This way my Love dwels.
_Phil_. In this ayre breathes mine.
_Both_. Farewell.
_Phil_. Prince _Ferdinand_ if these cross loves
Enjoy a wisht success, peace here shall dwell.
_Ferd_. And we be friendly Brothers.
_Phil_. True.
_Ferd_. Farewell.
[_Exeunt Philip and Rodoricke_.
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