English drama -- Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600
_Bow_. And you squeeze me I may haps grow saucy with you, you whorson
burnd Pudding pye, you drye Parsnip. Kisse me, Thomasin. So, dare you
stand to your word now and squeeze me.
_Pet_. Stumps, I challenge thee for this indignity. Bowyer, I will gyrd
my selfe with thy guts. I am a souldiour and a Captayne.
_Bow_. Captayne? s'hart, and thou hast under thy charge any other then
Pigmies I am a Gogmagog. Dost thou heare, sowgelder? and I do not with
sixe Cranes (wel marshald) overrunne thee and thy hundred and fifty, say
Dick Bowyer's a coward.
_Pet_. For that word draw.
_Tho_. Hold, Gentlemen.
_Bow_. Peace, good Thomasin, silence, sweet socket [sucket?]. Peter,
dost see this sword? this sword kild Sarlaboys, that was one Rogue: now
it shall kill thee, that's two Rogues. Whorson puttock[128], no garbage
serve you but this? have at you!
_As they fight enters Pembrooke_.
_Pem_. Who's this at enmity within our Camps?
What! Bowyer and the servant to great Burbon?
Both sheathe your weapons: by our martiall law
This act is death.
_Bow_. Ile be hangd then. Dost thou heare, noble Generall? Dicke Bowyer
knowes what belongs to service: we did not draw of any malice, by this
element of iron & steele, but to measure which of our swords were
longest.--Ile save you for once, you Sarazen, because I see youle hang
scurvily: but the next time--
_Pem_. Good Captayne Bowyer, let our English troops
Keepe a strong watch to night: my throbbing heart,
Like to a Scritchowle in the midnight houre,
Bodes some black scene of mischiefe imminent.
_Bow_. Never feare, Generall: if Julius Caesar rise up against us, e're
he do my Lord any wrong, zounds Ile be cut smaller then pot-hearbs. Ile
to the trenches: come, Thomasin.--Leere not, Lobster, lest I thump that
russeting[129] face of yours with my sword hilt till that it looke as
pyde colourd as the Rainbow. By Jesu, Ile do it, and therefore follow me
not.
[_Exeunt_.
_Pem_. Why should this loade of griefe lye on my heart
With such a ponderous waight? I know no cause,
Unlesse it be by thinking on the wrong
My friend receyves in the unmatched love
Which Katherine beares me: yet my fayth is sound,
And like a solid Rock shall check her teares.
Katharine loves me; yet, for my friends delight,
Pembrooke will hate her love and flye her sight.
[_Exit_.
[SCENE 2.]
_Enter Burbon, Navar, Philip, Bellamira, Rodoricke, and attendants_.
_Bur_. Navar, you sprinckle me with foule reproch
And dimme the luster of our royall name
With colours of dishonour.
_Nav_. Heare me, Burbon.
_Bur_. What words can satisfy so great a wrong?
Have you not, with consent of all your Lords,
Promis'd your daughter to this generous prince?
_Nav_. Their true love forst us to it.
_Bur_. True love? 'tis faynd.
_Phil_. Ha, Burbon!
_Bel_. Gentle Philip--
_Phil_. With my sword
Ile prove my love unfayned, thee a false Lord.
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