A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 13Dodsley, Robert
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A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 13
Dodsley, Robert
English drama
+Rose.+ Ask the captain why I am sad?
+Quart.+ Faith, gentlemen,
I disciplin'd him for his rudeness.
+Plot.+ Why, these
Are judgments, Roseclap, for dear reckonings.
+Tim.+ Art thou the half-crown fellow of the house?
+Rose.+ Sir, I do keep the ordinary.
+Tim.+ Let's have wine enough;
I mean to drink a health to a lady.
+Plot.+ Still
Will you betray your fortune? One of them
Will go and tell her who you are, and spoil
The marriage.
+Tim.+ No; peace! Gentlemen, if you'll
Go in, we'll follow.
+Rose.+ Please you enter, dinner
Shall straight be set upon the board.
+Bright.+ We'll expect you. Come, gentlemen.
[_Exeunt +Bright+, +Newcut+, +Salewit+, +Quartfield+,
and +Roseclap+._
+Tim.+ But, Master Francis, was that
The business, why she call'd you back?
+Plot.+ Believe it;
Your mother's smock shin'd at your birth, or else
You wear some charm about you.
+Tim.+ Not I, truly.
+Plot.+ It cannot be she should so strangely doat
Upon you else. 'Slight! had you stay'd, I think
She would have woo'd you herself.
+Tim.+ Now I remember,
One read my fortune once, and told my father,
That I should match a lady.
+Plot.+ How things fall out!
+Tim.+ And did she ask you who I was?
+Plot.+ I told her you were a young knight.
+Tim.+ Good.
+Plot.+ Scarce come to th' years of your discretion yet.
+Tim.+ Good still.
+Plot.+ And that a great man
Did mean to beg you[220]----for his daughter.
+Tim.+ Most rare: this afternoon's the time.
+Plot.+ Faith, she
Looks you should use a little courtship first;
That done, let me alone to have the priest
In readiness.
+Tim.+ But were I not best ask my friends' consent?
+Plot.+ How! Friends' consent? that's fit
For none but farmers' sons and milkmaids. You shall not
Debase your judgment. She takes you for a wit,
And you shall match her like one.
+Tim.+ Then I will.
+Plot.+ But no more words to th' gallants.
+Tim.+ Do you think I am a sieve, and cannot hold?
_Enter +Roseclap+._
+Rose.+ Gentlemen, the company are sat.
+Tim.+ It shall be yours.
+Plot.+ Nay, sir, your fortune claims precedency. [_Exeunt._
SCENE VII.
_+Warehouse+, +Seathrift+, +Cypher+._
+Ware.+ Fetch'd abroad by two gallants, say you?
+Cyph.+ Yes, sir,
As soon as you were gone: he only stay'd
To put on other clothes.
+Sea.+ You say, my son went with 'em too?
+Cyph.+ Yes, sir.
+Ware.+ And whither went they?
+Cyph.+ I follow'd 'em to Roseclap's ordinary.
+Ware.+ And there you left 'em?
+Cyph.+ Yes, sir, just before
I saw some captains enter.
+Sea.+ Well, I give
My son for lost, undone past hope.
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