A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 14
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A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 14
English drama
DRAW. I say, the gentlemen paid well for their sport, and I know
no reason why we should lose our reckoning.
LOVE. What do you take me for, my friend?
DRAW. In troth, I take you for nothing; but I would be loth to
take you for that use I think they make shift with you for.
FAITH. Madam, this is that rascally captain's plot.
LOVE. Patience, patience! O, for a bite at the slave's heart.
Friend, mistake me not, my name is Loveall, a lady: send one
along with me, and you shall have your money.
DRAW. You must pardon me, madam, I am but a servant: if you be a
lady, pray sit in an inner room, and send home your woman for the
money: the sum is six pounds, and be pleased to remember the
waiters.
LOVE. Go, Faithful, go fetch the money. O, revenge, revenge!
shall I lose my honour, and have no revenge?
[_Exeunt omnes._
ACT IV., SCENE 1.
_Enter_ WANTON, CAPTAIN, CARELESS, _and_ WILD.
WAN. By all that a longing bride hopes for, which I am not, I am
better pleased with this revenge than mine own plot, which takes
as I could wish. I have so anointed my high priest with sack,
that he would have confuted Baal's priest; and now he does so
slumber in his ale, and calls to bed already--swears the sun is
set.
CAPT. Faith, wench, her abusing of me made me leave her for the
reckoning.
CARE. Yes, faith, they have treated her upsey[254] whore, lain
with her, told, and then pawned her.
WAN. Yes, yes, you are fine things: I wonder women can endure
you; for me, I expect you worse, and am armed for't.
WILD. Faith, let's send and release her; the jest is gone far
enough; as I live, I pity her.
WAN. Pity her! hang her, and rid the country of her. She is a
thing wears out her limbs as fast as her clothes; one that never
goes to bed at all, nor sleeps in a whole skin, but is taken to
pieces like a motion, as if she were too long; she should be
hanged for offering to be a whore.
CAPT. As I live, she's in the right. I peeped once to see what
she did before she went to bed; by this light, her maids were
dissecting her; and when they had done, they brought some of her
to bed, and the rest they either pinned or hung up, and so she
lay dismembered till morning; in which time her chamber was
strewed all over, like an anatomy-school.
WAN. And when she travels anywhere, she is transported with as
great a care and fear of spoiling, as a juggler's motion, when he
removes from fair to fair.
CARE. She is a right broken gamester who, though she lacks
wherewithal to play, yet loves to be looking on.
_Enter_ WANTON'S MAID.
BAWD. He is awake, and calls for you impatiently: he would fain
be in bed; the company is all gone.
WAN. Are you instructed?
BAWD. Let me alone, I'll warrant you for my part.
WAN. Farewell then; you are all ready. Who plays master
constable?
CAPT. I, I; and Ned Jolly the sumner.[255]
WAN. Farewell, farewell then.
[_Exit_ WANTON _and_ BAWD.
WILD. It is a delicate wench.
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