_Doct_. O stay, my Lorte, me pray you on knee von staie. _Alp_. What's the matter, Doctor? _Doct_. O me bret be garr for haste. _Con_. What ayles the hastie Doctor? _Doct_. My Lort be garr he lyes falslie in his troate; Me proove by the duell dat he be the fallce knave. _Alp_. Who is it, man, with whom thou art so bold? _Doct_. My Lorte, if me make my contrack of marriage, if me be not as loose as de vide worlde, if me doe not alleadge-- _Alp_. I pray thee, man, what meanest thou? _Doct_. Be garr, enforme your grace vot he dare I will proove by good argument and raison dat he is de falce beggerlie Jeweller, dat I no point marrie _Cornelia_. Vat say you now? _Cass_. My Lord, no doubt some man hath guld the Doctor, Supposing he should be enforste to wed her That is my wife and ever scorned him. _Doct_. Vat you say? de Marshan tell a me I marrie _Cornelia_ spit my nose. _Alp_. The Marchant I perceive hath trimde you, Doctor. And comb'd you smoothelie. Faith, I can him thanke That thus revives our meeting with such mirth. _Doct_. O be bright de heaven, est a possible! and by heaven I be revenge dat vile Marshan, me make de medecine drie up de Sea, seaven towsand, towsand million d'stlloe, fife hundred, hundred dram _Fuffian, Marquerite, Balestiae, Hematete, Cortemedian, Churchacholl, Pantasite, Petrofidem, Hynape_, and by garr de hot Pepre; me make de vinde, de grease collicke puffe, blowe by garr, teare de Sayle, beate de maste, cracke de Ship in towsand towsand peeces! _Exit_. _Alp_. Farewell, gentle Doctor Doddipoll. And now, deere Ladie, let us celebrate Our happie royall nuptials and my sonnes With this our sweete and generall amitie Which heaven smile on with his goulden eye. _Finis Actus Quinti & ultimi_. _Imprinted at London by Thomas Creede, for Richard Olive_, dwelling in Long-lane. 1600. INTRODUCTION TO _THE DISTRACTED EMPEROR_. In the Appendix to Vol. II. I have given some account of this anonymous play, which is here printed for the first time from Egerton MS. 1994. As the play bears no title in the MS., I have named it at a venture "The Distracted Emperor."