A Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 3 — John Shaqi
A Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 3
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A Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 3
English drama -- Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600
_Eug_. No, no my Lord, you will have _Clarence_ there.
_Mom_. Alas poore Gentleman, I must tell you now,
He's extreame sicke, and was so when he writt,
Tho he did charge me not to tell you so;
And for the World he cannot come abroade.
_Eug_. Is this the man that without passion loves?
_Mom_. I doe not tell you he is sicke with love;
Or if he be, tis wilfull passion.
Which he doth choose to suffer for your sake,
And cood restraine his sufferance with a thought,
Vppon my life, he will not trouble you;
And therefore, worthy Neece, faile not to come.
_Eug_. I will on that condition.
_Mom_. Tis perform'd.
For were my friend well, and cood comfort me,
I wood not now intreate your company,
But one of you I must have, or I die:
Oh such a friend is worth a monarchy.
[_Exeunt_.
(SCENE 2.)
_Enter Lord Furnifall, Rudsbie, Goosecappe, Foulweather, Bullaker_.
_Fur_. Nay, my gallants, I will tell you more.
_All_. Forth, good my Lord.
_Fur_. The evening came, and then our waxen starres
Sparkled about the heavenly Court of _Fraunce_,
When I then young and radiant as the sunne
Gave luster to those lamps, and curling thus
My golden foretoppe stept into the presence,
Where set with other princely Dames I found
The Countesse of _Lancalier_, and her neece,
Who as I told you cast so fix'd an eye
On my behaviours, talking with the King.
_All_. True, my good Lord.
_Fur_. They rose when I came in, and all the lights
Burn'd dim for shame, when I stood up, and shin'd.
_Foul_. O most passionate description, sir _Cutt_.
_Rud_. True, of a candles end.
_Goos_. The passingst description of a candle that ever lived,
sir _Cutt_.
_Fur_. Yet aym'd I not at them, nor seemed to note
What grace they did me, but found courtly cause
To talke with an accomplisht gentleman
New come from Italy; in quest of newes
I spake _Italian_ with him.
_Rud_. What so young?
_Fur_. _O rarissime volte cadono nel parlar nostro familiare_.
_Foul_. Slid, a cood speake it, Knight, at three yeeres old.
_Fur_. Nay, gentle Captaine, doe not set me forth;
I love it not, in truth I love it not.
_Foul_. Slight, my Lord, but truth is truth, you know.
_Goos_. I dare ensure your Lordship, Truth is truth, and I have heard in
_France_, they speake _French_ as well as their mother tongue, my Lord.
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