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
_Thom._ But this word.
_Alice._ I cannot, nor I will not, good Lord. [_Exit._
_Hyl._ Well, you shall hear more from me.
_Thom._ We'll go visit,
'Tis Charity; besides, I know she is there;
And under visitation I shall see her;
Will ye along?
_Hyl._ By any means.
_Thom._ Be sure then
I be a civil man: I have sport in hand, Boys,
Shall make mirth for a Marriage-day.
_Hyl._ Away then. [_Exeunt._
SCENE III.
_Enter three Physicians with an Urinal._
_1 Phy._ A Pleurisie, I see it.
_2 Phy._ I rather hold it
For _tremor Cordis_.
_3 Phy._ Do you mark the _Fæces_?
'Tis a most pestilent contagious Feaver,
A surfeit, a plaguey surfeit; he must bleed.
_1 Phy._ By no means.
_3 Phy._ I say bleed.
_1 Phy._ I say 'tis dangerous;
The Person being spent so much before-hand,
And Nature drawn so low, Clysters, cool Clysters.
_2 Phy._ Now with your favours I should think a Vomit:
For take away the Cause, the Effect must follow,
The Stomach's foul and fur'd, the pot's unflam'd yet.
_3 Phy._ No, no, we'll rectifie that part by mild means,
Nature so sunk must find no violence.
_Enter a Servant._
_Serv._ Will't please ye draw near? the weak Gentleman
Grows worse and worse still.
_1 Phy._ Come, we will attend him.
_2 Phy._ He shall do well, my friend.
_Serv._ My Masters love, Sir.
_1._ Excellent well I warrant thee, right and straight, friend.
_3 Phy._ There's no doubt in him, none at all, ne'r fear him.
[_Exeunt._
SCENE IV.
_Enter_ Valentine, _and_ Michael.
_Mich._ That he is desperate sick I do believe well,
And that without a speedy cure it kills him,
But that it lyes within the help of Physick
Now to restore his health, or art to cure him;
Believe it you are cozen'd; clean beside it.
I would tell ye the true cause too, but 'twould vex ye,
Nay, run ye mad.
_Val._ May all I have restore him!
So dearly and so tenderly I love him,
I do not know the cause why, yea my life too.
_Mich._ Now I perceive ye so well set, I'll tell you,
_Hei mihi quod nullis Amor est medicabilis herbis._
_Val._ 'Twas that I only fear'd: good friend go from me,
I find my heart too full for further conference;
You are assur'd of this?
_Mich._ 'Twill prove too certain,
But bear it nobly, Sir, Youth hath his errours.
_Val._ I shall do, and I thank ye; 'pray ye no words on't.
_Mich._ I do not use to talk, Sir. [_Exit._
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