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
_Fis._ Oh, such a syllable would make him to forswear
Ever to breath in your sight.
_Lat._ How then?
_Fis._ Sir, he if you do please to give him any thing,
Must have't convey'd under a paper.
_Rus._ Or left behind some book in his study.
_Bub._ Or in some old wall.
_Fis._ Where his familiars may tell him of it, and that pleases him,
Sir.
_Bub._ Or else I'le go and assay him.
_Lat._ Take gold with you.
_Rus._ That will not be amiss; give it the Boy, Sir,
He knows his holes, and how to bait his Spirits.
_Pip._ We must lay in several places, Sir.
_Rus._ That's true, that if one come not, the other may hit.
_Lat._ Well, go then, is he so learned, Gentlemen?
_Fis._ The very top of our profession; mouth of the fates,
Pray Heaven his Spirits be in a good humor to take,
They'l fling the gold about the house else.
_Bub._ I, and beat the Fryer if he go not well
Furnisht with holy-water.
_Fis._ Sir, you must observe him.
_Bub._ Not cross him in a word, for then he's gone.
_Fis._ If he do come, which is a hazard, yet--
Mass he's here, this is speed.
_Enter_ Norb[re]t, Russ, Pippeau.
_Nor._ Where is our Scheme,
Let's see, dispatch, nay fumbling now, who's this?
_Rus._ Chief Gentleman of the Dukes Chamber, Doctor.
_Nor._ Oh, let him be, good even to him, he's a courtier,
I'le spare his complement, tell him: what's here?
The geniture Nocturnal, Longitude
At forty nine and ten minutes? How are the cardins?
_Fis._ Libra in twenty four, forty four minutes,
And Capricorn.
_Nor._ I see it, see the Planets,
Where, how are they dispos'd? the Sun and _Mercury_,
Mars with the Dragons tail in the third house,
And _pars Fortunæ_ in the _Imo Cœli_,
Then _Jupiter_ in the twelfth, the _Cacodemon_.
_Bub._ And _Venus_ in the second _Inferna Porta_.
_Nor._ I see it, peace, then _Saturn_ in the Fifth,
_Luna_ i'th' Seventh, and much of _Scorpio_,
Then _Mars_ his _Gaudium_, rising in th'ascendent,
And joyn'd with _Libra_ too, the house of _Venus_,
And [_Imum_] _Cœli_, _Mars_ his exaltation
In the seventh house, _Aries_ being his natural house
And where he is now seated, and all these shew him
To be the Almuten.
_Rus._ Yes, he's Lord of the Geniture,
Whether you examine it by _Ptolomeys_ way,
Or _Messethales_, _Lael_, or _Alkindus_.
_Fis._ No other Planet hath so many dignities
Either by himself, or in regard of the Cusps.
_Nor._ Why hold your tongue then if you know it; _Venus_
The Lady of the Horoscope, being _Libra_,
The other part, _Mars_ rules: So that the geniture,
Being Nocturnal, _Luna_ is the highest,
None else being in sufficient dignity,
She being in _Aries_ in the Seventh house,
Where _Sol_ exalted, is the Alchoroden.
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