English drama -- Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600
_Flor_. You are a sweet smell-feast,[57] Doctor; that I see.
Ile [have] no such tub-hunters use my house.
Therefore be gone, our marriage feast is dasht.
_Doct_. Vat speake a me de feast? me spurne a, me kick a de feast; be
garr, me tell a me do de grand grace, de favor for suppa, for dina, for
eata with dee; be garrs blur, we have at home de restorative, de
quintessence, de pure destill goulde, de Nector, de Ambrosia.
_Zacharee_, make ready de fine partricke, depaste de grand _Otamon_.
_Han_. _Zacharee_ is not heere, sir, but Ile do it for you. What is that
_Otomon_, sir?
_Doct_. O de grand Bayaret de Mahomet, de grand Turgur, be garr.
_Ha_. O a Turkie, sir, you would have rosted, would you? Call you him
an _Otoman_?
_Doct_. Have de whole ayre of Fowle at commaund?
_Flor_. You have the foole[58] at command, sir: you might have bestowed
your selfe better. Wil't[59] please you walke, M. Doct. Dodypoll.
[_Exeunt all but the Doctor_.
_Doct_. How? Doddie poole? garrs blurr, Doctor Doddie, no point poole.
You be paltrie Jacke knave, by garr: de doctor is nicast, de doctor is
rage, de doctor is furie, be gar, the doctor is horrible, terrible
furie. Vell, derre be a ting me tinke; be gars blur, me know, me be
revenge me tella de Duke. Vell, me say no more: chok a de selfe, foule
churle, fowle, horrible, terrible pigge, pye Cod.
[_Exit_.
[SCENE 2.]
_Lea_. I wonder what varietie of sights
Retaines your father and the prince so long
With signior _Flores_?
_Hya_. O signior _Flores_ is a man so ample
In every complement of entertainement,
That guests with him are, as in Bowers enchanted,
Reft of all power and thoughts of their returne.
_Enter the Duke and Hardenbergh_.
_Lean_. Be silent, heere's the Duke.
_Alp_. Aye me beholde
Your sonne, Lord _Hardenbergh_, courting _Hyanthe_.
_Har_. If he be courting tis for you, my liege.
_Alph_. No, _Hardenbergh_; he loves my sonne too well
--My faire _Hyanthie_, what discourse is it
Wherewith _Leander_ holdes you this [thus?] attentive?
Would I could thinke upon the like for you.
_Hya_. You should but speake and passe the time, my lord.
_Alp_. Passe-time that pleaseth you is the use of time:
Had I the ordering of his winged wheele
It onely should serve your desires and mine.
What should it do if you did governe it.
_Hya_. It should go backe againe and make you yong.
_Alph_. Swounds, _Hardenbergh_.
_Hard_. To her againe, my Lord.
_Alp_. _Hyanthe_, wouldst thou love me, I would use thee
So kindlie that nothing should take thee from me.
_Hya_. But time would soone take you from me, my lord.
_Alp_. Spight on my soule: why talke I more of time?
Shee's too good for me at time, by heaven.
_Har_. I, and place to (my Lord) I warrant her.
_Omnes_. Stop, stop, stop!
_Enter Alberdure mad; Motto and others following him_.
_Mott_. O stay, my Lord.
_Albe_. _Hyanthe, Hyanthe_, ô me, my love!
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