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
_Tho._ Your weasel face must needs be ferretting
About the Farthing-ale;
Do as I bid ye,
Or by this light--
_Hyl._ Come then.
_Thom._ Stand close and mark me.
_Fran._ All this forc'd foolery will never do it.
_Enter_ Alice _and_ Mary.
_Ali._ I hope we bring ye health, Sir: how is't with ye?
_Ma._ You look far better trust me, the fresh colour
Creeps now again into his cheeks.
_Ali._ Your enemy
I see has done his worst. Come, we must have ye
Lusty again, and frolick man; leave thinking.
_Ma._ Indeed it does ye harm, Sir.
_Fran._ My best visitants,
I shall be govern'd by ye.
_Ali._ You shall be well then,
And suddenly, and soundly well.
_Ma._ This Air, Sir,
Having now season'd ye, will keep ye ever.
_Tho._ No, no, I have no hope, nor is it fit friends,
My life has been so lewd, my loose condition,
Which I repent too late, so lamentable,
That any thing but curses light upon me,
Exorbitant in all my wayes.
_Ali._ Who's that, Sir,
Another sick man?
_Ma._ Sure I know that voice well.
_Tho._ In all my courses, careless disobedience.
_Fran._ What a strange fellow's this?
_Tho._ No counsel friends,
No look before I leapt.
_Ali._ Do you know the voyce, Sir?
_Fra._ Yes, 'tis a Gentlemans that's much afflicted
In's mind: great pity Ladies.
_Ali._ Now heaven help him.
_Fra._ He came to me, to ask free pardon of me,
For some things done long since, which his distemper
Made to appear like wrong, but 'twas not so.
_Ma._ O that this could be truth.
_Hyl._ Perswade your self.
_Tho._ To what end Gentlemen, when all is perish'd
Upon a wrack, is there a hope remaining?
The Sea, that ne'r knew sorrow, may be pitiful,
My credit's split, and sunk, nor is it possible,
Were my life lengthened out as long as--
_Ma._ I like this well.
_Sam._ Your mind is too mistrustful.
_Tho._ I have a vertuous Sister, but I scorn'd her,
A Mistris too, a noble Gentlewoman,
For goodness all out-going.
_Alice._ Now I know him.
_Tho._ With these eyes friends, my eyes must never see more.
_Alice._ This is for your sake _Mary_: take heed Cousin,
A man is not so soon made.
_Tho._ O my fortune!
But it is just, I be despis'd and hated.
_Hyl._ Despair not, 'tis not manly: one hours goodness
Strikes off an infinite of ills.
_Alice._ Weep truly
And with compassion, Cousin.
_Fra._ How exactly
This cunning young Thief playes his part!
_Ma._ Well _Tom_,
My _Tom_ again, if this be truth.
_Hyl._ She weeps Boy.
_Tho._ O I shall die.
_Ma._ Now Heaven defend.
_Sam._ Thou hast her.
_Tho._ Come lead me to my Friend to take his farewel,
And then what fortune shall befal me, welcome,
How does it show?
_Hyl._ O rarely well.
_Ma._ Say you so, Sir.
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