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
_Mir._ Well; I do take thee upon meer Compassion;
And I do think, I shall love thee. As a Testimony,
I'le burn my book, and turn a new leaf over,
But these fine clothes you shall wear still.
_Ori._ I obey you, Sir, in all.
_Nant._ And how! how, daughters! what say you to these Gentlemen?
What say ye, Gentlemen, to the Girles?
_Pen._ By my troth--if she can love me.
_Lil._ --How long?
_Pin._ Nay, if once ye love.
_Lil._ Then take me,
And take your chance.
_Pin._ Most willingly, ye are mine, Lady:
And if I use ye not, that ye may love me.
_Lil._ A Match i' faith.
_Pin._ Why now ye travel with me.
_Ros._ How that thing stands!
_Bel._ It will if ye urge it.
'Bless your five wits.
_Ros._ Nay, 'prethee stay, I'le have thee.
_Bel._ You must ask me leave first.
_Ros._ Wilt thou use me kindly;
And beat me but once a week?
_Bel._ If ye deserve no more.
_Ros._ And wilt thou get me with child?
_Bel._ Dost thou ask me seriously?
_Ros._ Yes indeed do I.
_Bel._ Yes, I will get thee with child: come presently,
And 't be but in revenge, I'le do thee that courtesie.
Well, if thou wilt fear God, and me; have at thee.
_Ros._ I'le love ye, and I'le honour ye.
_Bel._ I am pleas'd then.
_Mir._ This _Wild-Goose Chase_ is done, we have won o' both sides.
Brother, your love: and now to Church of all hands;
Let's lose no time.
_Pin._ Our travelling, lay by.
_Bel._ No more for _Italy_; for the _Low-Countries_. [_Exeunt._
APPENDIX
_In the following references to the text the lines are numbered
from the top of the page, including titles, acts, stage
directions, &c., but not, of course, the headline or mere
'rules.' Where, as in the lists of Persons Represented,_
_there are double columns, the right-hand column is numbered
after the left._
It has not been thought necessary to record the correction of every
turned letter nor the substitution of marks of interrogation for marks
of exclamation and _vice-versâ_. Full-stops have been silently inserted
at the ends of speeches and each fresh speaker has been given the
dignity of a fresh line: in the double-columned folio the speeches are
frequently run on. Only misprints of interest in the Quartos and the
First Folio are recorded.
ADDENDA TO RECORD OF VARIANTS IN VOL. II.
THE ELDER BROTHER.
p. =450.=
p. =5=, l. 38. _Add_ C.
p. =9=, l. 40. _Add_ BCD.
p. =12=, l. 36. _Add_ BD. l. 40. _Add_ A.
p. =13=, l. 9. _Add_ BCD.
p. =15=, l. 12. _Add_ B.
p. =16=, l. 18. _Add_ A.
p. =17=, l. 3. _Add_ A.
p. =19=, l. 2. _Add_ B.
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