English drama -- Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600
_Flor_. _Cornelia_, do you serve the Prince with wine?
[_Shee puts the powder into the Cup and gives it the Prince_.
_Alber_. I thanke you, Lady;
Earle _Cassimeere_, I greete you, and remember
Your faire _Hyanthe_.
_Cass_. I thanke your honour.
[_Sing boyre a &c_.
_Flor_. Fill my Lord _Cassimere_ his right of wine.
_Cass_. _Cornelia_, I give you this dead carowse.
_Corn_. I thanke your Lordship.
[_Sing boyre a &c_.
_Alber_. What smoake? smoake and fire.
_Cass_. What meanes your honour?
_Alber_. Powder, powder, _Etna_, sulphure, fier: quench it, quench it.
_Flor_. I feare the medcine hath distemper'd him.--O villaine Doctor!
_Alber_. Downe with the battlements, powre water on!
I burne, I burne; O give me leave to flie
Out of these flames, these fiers that compasse me.
[_Exit_.
_Cass_. What an unheard off accident is this?
Would God, friend _Flores_, t'had not happen'd here.
_Flor_. My Lord, 'tis sure some Planet[53] striketh him;
No doubt the furie will away againe.
_Cass_. Ile follow him. [_Exit_.
_Lass_. What hellish spright ordain'd this hatefull feast
That ends with horror thus and discontent?
_Flor_. I hope no daunger will succeede therein;
However, I resolve me to conceale it.--
My Lord, wilt please you now to change this habit,
And deck your selfe with ornaments more fit
For celebration of your marriage?
_Lass_. I, I, put on me what attire you will;
My discontent, that dwels within me still.
[_Exeunt_
[SCENE 2.]
_Enter Haunce solus_.
_Hans_. Whom shall a man trust? a Painter? No: a servant? No:
a bed fellowe? No:
For, seeming for to see, it falls out right:
All day a Painter, and an Earle at night.
_Enter Doctor_.
_Doct_. Ho, _Zaccharee_, bid _Ursula_ brushe my two, tree fine Damaske
gowne; spread de rishe coverlet on de faire bed; vashe de fine plate;
smoake all de shambra vit de sweete perfume.
_Hans_. Heer's the Doctor: what a gaping his wisedom keepes i'the
streete! As if he could not have spoken all this within.
_Doct_. Ho, _Zaccharee_, if de grand patient come, you finde me signior
_Flores_.
_Hans_. By your leave, maister Doctor.
_Doct_. _Hans_, my very speciall friend; fait and trot, me be right
glad for see you veale.
_Hans_. What, do you make a Calfe of me, M. Doctor?
_Doct_. O no, pardona moy; I say vell, be glad for see you vell, in good
health.
_Hans_. O, but I am sick, M. Doctor; very exceeding sick, sir.
_Doct_. Sick? tella me, by garr; me cure you presently.
_Hans_. A dead palsey, M. Doctor, a dead palsey.
_Doct_. Veare? veare?
_Hans_. Heere, M. Doctor; I cannot feele, I cannot feele.
_Doct_. By garr, you be de brave, merry man; de fine proper man; de very
fine, brave, little, propta sweet Jack man; by garr, me loov'a you, me
honour you, me kisse'a your foote.
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