Beaumont and Fletcher's Works, Vol. 04 of 10Fletcher, John
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Beaumont and Fletcher's Works, Vol. 04 of 10
Fletcher, John
English drama
_Lat._ I'me glad to hear their Secretary say so,
My learned Father _Russe_, where's _la Fiske_,
Monsieur _de Bube_, how do they?
_Rus._ At their studyes,
They are the Secretaries of the Stars, Sir,
Still at their books, they will not be pull'd off,
They stick like cupping glasses; if ever men
Spoke with the tongue of destiny, 'tis they.
_Lat._ For loves sake let's salute 'em.
_Rus._ Boy, go see,
Tell them who's here, say, that their friends do challenge
Some portion of their time, this is our minute,
Pray 'em they'l spare it: they are the Sun and Moon
Of knowledge; pity two such noble lights
Should live obscur'd here in an University,
Whose beams were fit to'illumine any court
Of Christendom.
_Enter la_ Fisk, _de_ Bube, _and_ Pippeau.
_Lat._ The Duke will shortly know 'em.
_Fis._ Well, look upon the Astrolabe; you'l find it
Four Almucanturies at least.
_Bub._ It is so.
_Rus._ Still of their learned stuff, they care for nothing,
But how to know, as negli[g]ent of their bodies
In dyet, or else, especially in their cloaths,
As if they had no change.
_Pip._ They have so little
As well may free them from the name of shifters.
_Fis._ Monsieur _Latorch_?
_Lat._ How is it, learned Gentlemen, with both your vertues?
_Bub._ A most happy hour, when we see you, Sir.
_Lat._ When you hear me then
It will be happier; the Duke greets you both
Thus, and though you may touch no mony, Father,
Yet you may take it.
_Rus._ 'Tis his highness bounty,
But yet to me, and these that have put off
The world, superfluous.
_Fis._ We have heard of late of his highness good success.
_Bub._ And gratulate it.
_Lat._ Indeed he hath scap'd a strange Conspiracy,
Thanks to his Stars; which Stars he prayes by me,
You would again consult, and make a Judgement
On what you lately erected for my love.
_Rus._ Oh, Sir, we dare not.
_Fis._ For our lives.
_Bub._ It is the Princes Scheam.
_Lat._ T'incounter with that fear,
Here's to assure you, his Signet, write your names,
And be secured all three.
_Bu[b]._ We must intreat some time, Sir.
_Lat._ I must then intreat it, be as present as you can.
_Fis._ Have you the Scheam here?
_Lat._ Yes.
_Rus._ I would you had Sir another warrant.
_Lat._ What would that do?
_Rus._ Marry we have a Doctor Sir, that in this business
Would not perform the second part.
_Lat._ Not him that you writ to me of?
_Rus._ The very same.
_Lat._ I should have made it, Sir, my suit to see him,
Here is a warrant Father, I conceiv'd
That he had solely applyed himself to Magick.
_Rus._ And to their studies too Sir, in this field
He was initiated, but we shall hardly
Draw him from his chair.
_Lat._ Tell him he shall have gold.
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