A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 15Dodsley, Robert
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A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 15
Dodsley, Robert
English drama
+Duke.+ What makes you thus incens'd against him?
+Ama.+ Heaven knows I have too much cause, sir. I have
Lov'd him long, and the day he was your prisoner,
Should have been our wedding. News being brought
To me in my own country, that he was
To die, in flying haste I took this tedious
Journey; with sorrow and with joy I here
Arrived; tears in my eyes for his approaching
Death, smiles on my cheeks to think of dying
With him; but when I came unto the prison gate
I met the jailor, and he told me all,
Then let me in, and to
Rejoice my eyes, I saw two devils lie
In chains together, and not half so fast
As chain'd in love.
All my intended kisses then I chang'd
Into as many curses on his heart,
Which with my eyes I spoke as well as tongue.
+Duke.+ Alas! poor injur'd maid, we must be one
Another's
Petitioners; thy fate is mine;
That woman which you saw with him has prov'd
As false to me, as he to you.
+Ama.+ For heaven's
Sake, sir, let 'em die both; no sight would please
Us like their blood; the jailor
Told me they lie as close together all day
As if they were not two.
+Duke.+ O, curse on 'em!
+Ama.+ O, the devil take 'em! pray, sir, give order
That they may be brought immediately
To execution.
+Duke.+ I will.
+Ama.+ I'll go call the jailor, sir. [_Steps to the prison._
_Enter +Jailor+._
+Duke.+ Jailor, let the prisoners be brought to
Execution straight, I'll be there myself.
+Ama.+ And I too, sir.
+Duke.+ You shall; we'll go together. [_Exeunt._
ACT V.
_Enter +All Ladies+, +Nurses+, +Pinguister+, and
+Lean-man+, as in the vault; +Philidor+ as a Crier._
+Phil.+ _O yes, O yes, O yes! did any man hear tale_
Or tidings of three nurses, called Three Flanders
Mares, with three sucking colts?--
+All Nurses.+ Hark, we are cried
In the streets.
+Phil.+ And also six maiden ladies, that should
Have been married to a certain
Promising gentleman?--
+All Ladies.+ Devil! we are
Cried too.
+Phil.+ Also a very lean gentleman,
That must be fatter before he's married?--
+Lean-man.+ Hark, that is I?
+Phil.+ And the hugest loss of
All is one Master Pinguister, a lovely
Fat gentleman, whom all that knew him, doubt him
To be dead upon some privy-house; because
He purged every day for love, by reason
Mistress Mirida would not marry him till
A certain measure that she[75] has will come
About his waist--
_Enter +Mirida+._
+Ping.+ Crier, I am here, I am here.
+Phil.+ If any can bring news of the six aforesaid
Virgin ladies, or of the three Flanders nurses
And colts, to one Master Philidor, a very
Conscientious young man--
+Omnes.+ A pox take him!
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