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
_Enter_ Rosalure, Lilia, _Servant_.
_Ros._ Pray ye, where's my friend, Sir?
_Fac._ She is within, Ladies, but here's another Gentlewoman,
A stranger to this Town: so please you visit her,
'Twill be well taken.
_Lil._ Where is she?
_Fac._ There, above, Ladies.
_Ser._ 'Bless me: what thing is this? two Pinacles
Upon her pate! Is't not a glode to catch Wood-cocks?
_Ros._ Peace, ye rude knave.
_Ser._ What a bouncing Bum she has too!
There's Sail enough for a Carrack.
_Ros._ What is this Lady?
For as I live, she's a goodly woman.
_Fac._ Ghess, ghess.
_Lil._ I have not seen a nobler Presence.
_Ser._ 'Tis a lustie wench: now could I spend my forty-pence,
With all my heart, to have but one fling at her;
To give her but a washing blow.
_Lil._ Ye Rascal.
_Ser._ I that's all a man has, for's good will: 'twill be long enough,
Before ye cry come _Anthonie_, and kiss me.
_Lil._ I'le have ye whipt.
_Ros._ Has my friend seen this Lady?
_Fac._ Yes, yes, and is well known to her.
_Ros._ I much admire her Presence.
_Lil._ So do I too:
For I protest, she is the handsomest,
The rarest, and the newest to mine eye
That ever I saw yet.
_Ros._ I long to know her;
My friend shall do that kindness.
_Ori._ So she shall Ladies,
Come, pray ye come up.
_Ros._ O me.
_Lil._ Hang me if I knew her:
Were I a man my self, I should now love ye;
Nay, I should doat.
_Ros._ I dare not trust mine eyes;
For as I live ye are the strangest alter'd,
I must come up to know the truth.
_Ser._ So must I, Lady;
For I am a kind of unbeliever too.
_Lil._ Get ye gone, Sirrah;
And what ye have seen, be secret in: you are paid else,
No more of your long tongue.
_Fac._ Will ye go in Ladies,
And talk with her? These venturers will come straight:
Away with this fellow.
_Lil._ There, Sirrah, go, disport ye.
_Ser._ I would the trunk-hos'd-woman would go with me. [_Exit._
SCENE V.
_Enter_ Mirabel, Pinac, Belleur.
_Pin._ Is she so glorious handsom?
_Mir._ You would wonder:
Our Women look like Gipsies, like Gills to her:
Their Clothes and fashions beggerly, and Bankrupt:
Base, old, and scurvy.
_Bel._ How looks her face?
_Mir._ Most heavenly:
And the becoming-motion of her bodie
So sets her off.
_Bel._ Why then we shall stay.
_Mir._ Pardon me:
That's more than I know: if she be that woman,
She appears to be.
_Bel._ As 'tis impossible.
_Mir._ I shall then tell ye more.
_Pin._ Did ye speak to her?
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