English drama -- Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600
_Acut_. I will sir;--twere best you gave me good words, but ile trie ye
farther yet;--fare ye well, sir.
_Scil_. I pray you remember me to him.--You see my anger is over
already. [_Exit[260] Acutus_.
_Grac_. Would ye not strike him? lets followe.
_Scil_. Indeede ye shall not, I hate it.
_Ser_. I will not be barren of my armorie, in my future perambulation
for the lower element.
_Grac_. You are too patient in wrongs, sir.--Zoundes I know not how to
picke a quarrell.
_Serv_. Sir, the grievous youth is inwardlye possest of a supple spirit,
he can brooke impugnying, but tis adverse to my spirit if I were armed.
_Enter Accutus_.
_Accut_. Save ye, gallants, sawe ye not a fellowe come halting this way
of late?
_Scil_. Hath he done any hurt, or is hee a friend of yours?
_Acut_. Hee's a Rascall and ile maintaine him so.
_Scil_. Hee's a verie Rascall indeede, and he used mee like a knave: if
ere I meete him, I shall hardly put it up; I have it in blacke and blue
to shew heere.
_Serv_. Say, I breath defyance to his front.
_Acut_. Challenge him the field.
_Scil_. Doos't thinke heele answere me? I'l challenge him at the
pich-fork, or the Flaile, or ile wrastle a fall with him for a bloody
nose; anye weapon I have bene brought up in ile--
_Accut_. What will ye? heere he is, you minime, that will be friend with
friends and foe with foes; and you that will defie _Hercules_, and
out-brave _Mars_ and feares not the Devil; passe, bladder, ile make ye
swell.
_Scil_. By Gods-lid, if I had knowne it had bene you, I would not have
said so to your face.
[_Exeunt_.
_Accut_. Away, with your Champion, goe.
_Grac_. This was excellentlye performed, ifaith a better breathing then
a game at bowles.
_Accut_. Theile give you the good salve at any time this month, for I am
sure they have salving enough for so long.
_Grac_. I pittie the foole yfaith, but the tother Horseleach I wish his
blowes trebled. I converst with him, but a Rogue so stuft with the
lybrary of new minted[261] words, so tearing the sence, I never met
with.
_Accut_. But now we have spoilde our determinate dinner at my hostesse
of the Hobbye; we shall nowe bee knowne.
_Grac_. That holds well still, I am taken for a prooved friend, and thou
shalt be disguised, till, I have wrought a league by vertue of a pottle
of Canarie.
_Acut_. Content, mine Host shall be accessarie and ile be a serviter to
observe myracles.
_Grac_. They are good subjects for idle houres:--but soft, what second
course is entring heere?
_Enter Phy., Bos, and Boy_.
_Phy_. _For I did but kisse her; Bos_, how lik'st thou my relish?
_Bos_. Oh sir, relish but your licour, as you doe your song, you may goe
drunke to bed any day in the weeke.
_Phy_. _Sister_,[262] _awake, close not, &c_. Does my face hold colour
still?
_Bos_. I, and you would but scaviage the pavilion of your nose.
_Gra_. I, marrie, _Accutus_, how lik'st thou this Gentlewoman Gallant?
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