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
_Pi._ To you, Sir.
_Mir._ Gentle Lady.
_Ros._ She is fair indeed.
_Lil._ I have seen a fairer, yet
She is well.
_Ros._ Her clothes sit handsom too.
_Lil._ She dresses prettily.
_Ros._ And by my faith she is rich, she looks still sweeter.
A well bred woman, I warrant her.
_Lil._ Do you hear, Sir;
May I crave this Gentlewomans name?
_Pi. Mariana_, Lady.
_Lil._ I will not say I ow ye a quarel Monsieur
For making me your Stale: a noble Gentleman
Would have had more courtesie; at least, more faith,
Than to turn off his Mistris at first trial:
You know not what respect I might have shew'd ye;
I find ye have worth.
_Pi._ I cannot stay to answer ye;
Ye see my charge: I am beholding to ye
For all your merry tricks ye put upon me,
Your bobs, and base accounts: I came to love ye,
To wooe ye, and to serve ye; I am much indebted to ye
For dancing me off my legs; and then for walking me;
For telling me strange tales I never heard of,
More to abuse me; for mistaking me,
When ye both knew I was a Gentleman,
And one deserv'd as rich a match as you are.
_Lil._ Be not so bitter, Sir.
_Pi._ You see this Lady:
She is young enough, and fair enough to please me,
A woman of a loving mind, a quiet,
And one that weighs the worth of him that loves her,
I am content with this, and bless my fortune,
Your curious Wits, and Beauties.
_Lil._ Faith see me once more.
_Pi._ I dare not trouble ye.
_Lil._ May I speak to your Lady?
_Pi._ I pray ye content your self: I know ye are bitter,
And in your bitterness, ye may abuse her;
Which if she comes to know, (for she understands ye not)
It may breed such a quarrel to your kindred,
And such an indiscretion fling on you too;
For she is nobly friended.
_Lil._ I could eat her.
_Pi._ Rest as ye are, a modest noble Gentlewoman,
And afford your honest neighbours some of your prayers. [_Exit._
_Mir._ What think you now?
_Lil._ Faith she's a pretty Whiting;
She has got a pretty catch too.
_Mir._ You are angry;
Monstrous angry now; grievously angry;
And the pretty heart does swell now.
_Lil._ No in troth, Sir.
_Mir._ And it will cry anon; a pox upon it:
And it will curse it self: and eat no meat, Lady;
And it will fight.
_Lil._ Indeed you are mistaken;
It will be very merry.
_Ros._ Why, Sir, do you think
There are no more men living, nor no handsomer
Than he, or you, By this light there be ten thousand?
Ten thousand thousand: comfort your self, dear Monsieur,
Faces, and bodies, Wits, and all Abiliments
There are so many we regard 'em not.
_Enter_ Belleur, _and two Gentlemen_.
_Mir._ That such a noble Lady, I could burst now,
So far above such trifles?
_Bel._ You did laugh at me,
And I know why ye laughed.
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