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
_Lil._ O excellently: I am never weary that way:
A hundred mile a day is nothing with me.
_Bel._ I'le travel under ground: do you hear (sweet Lady?)
I find it will be dangerous for a woman.
_Ros._ No danger, Sir, I warrant; I love to be under.
_Bel._ I see she will abuse me all the world over:
But say we pass through _Germany_, and drink hard?
_Ros._ We'll learn to drink and swagger too.
_Bel._ She'l beat me.
Lady, I'le live at home.
_Ros._ And I'le live with thee;
And we'll keep house together.
_Bel._ I'le keep hounds first;
And those I hate right heartily.
_Pin._ I go for _Turky_,
And so it may be up into _Persia_.
_Lil._ We cannot know too much, I'le travel with ye.
_Pin._ And you'l abuse me?
_Lil._ Like enough.
_Pin._ 'Tis dainty.
_Bel._ I will live in a bawdy-house.
_Ros._ I dare come to ye.
_Bel._ Say, I am dispos'd to hang my self?
_Ros._ There I'le leave ye.
_Bel._ I am glad I know how to avoid ye.
_Mir._ May I speak yet?
_Fac._ She beckons to ye.
_Mir._ Lady, I could wish, I knew to recompence,
Even with the service of my life, those pains,
And those high favours you have thrown upon me;
Till I be more desertful in your eye;
And till my duty shall make known I honour ye:
Noblest of women, do me but this favour,
To accept this back again, as a poor testimony.
_Ori._ I must have you too with 'em; else the will,
That says they must rest with ye, is infring'd, Sir;
Which pardon me, I dare not do.
_Mir._ Take me then;
And take me with the truest love.
_Ori._ 'Tis certain,
My Brother lov'd ye dearly, and I ought
As dearly to preserve that love. But, Sir,
Though I were willing, these are but your Ceremonies.
_Mir._ As I have life, I speak my soul.
_Ori._ I like ye.
But how you can like me, without I have Testimony,
A Stranger to ye.
_Mir._ I'le marry ye immediately,
A fair State I dare promise ye.
_Bel._ Yet she'll couzen thee.
_Ori._ Would some fair Gentleman durst promise for ye.
_Mir._ By all that's good.
_Enter_ La-Castre, Nantolet, Lugier, & de-Gard.
_All._ And we'll make up the rest, Lady.
_Ori._ Then _Oriana_ takes ye; nay, she has caught ye;
If ye start now let all the world cry shame on ye:
I have out travell'd ye.
_Bel._ Did not I say she would cheat thee?
_Mir._ I thank ye, I am pleas'd, ye have deceiv'd me;
And willingly I swallow it, and joy in't;
And yet perhaps I know ye: whose plot was this?
_Lug._ He is not asham'd that cast it: he that executed,
Followed your Fathers will.
_Mir._ What a world's this, nothing but craft, and cozenage!
_Ori._ Who begun, Sir?
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