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
_Dor._ Now out upon thee Monster.
_Tom._ Still hoping of your pardon.
_Seb._ There needs none man:
A straw on pardon: prethee need no pardon:
I'le aske no more, nor think no more of marriage,
For o' my conscience I shall be thy Cuckold:
There's some good yet left in him: bear your self well,
You may recover me, there's twenty pound Sir,
I see some sparkles which may flame again,
You may eat with me when you please, you know me. [_Exit_ Seb.
_Dor._ Why do you lye so damnably, so foolishly?
_Tom._ Do'st thou long to have thy head broke? hold thy peace
And do as I would have thee, or by this hand
I'le kill thy Parrat, hang up thy small hand,
And drink away thy dowry to a penny.
_Dor._ Was ever such a wilde Asse?
_Tom._ Prethee be quiet.
_Dor._ And do'st thou think men will not beat thee monstrously
For abusing their wives and children?
_Tom._ And do'st thou think
Mens wives and children can be abus'd too much?
_Dor._ I wonder at thee.
_Tom._ Nay, thou shalt adjure me
Before I have done.
_Dor._ How stand ye with your mistress?
_Tom._ I shall stand nearer
E're I be twelve hours older: there's my business,
She is monstrous subtile _Dol_.
_Dol._ The Devil I think
Cannot out-subtile thee.
_Tom._ If he play fair play,
Come, you must help me presently.
_Dor._ I discard ye.
_Tom._ Thou shalt not sleep nor eat.
_Dor._ I'le no hand with ye,
No bawd to your abuses.
_Tom._ By this light _Dol_,
Nothing but in the way of honesty.
_Dor._ Thou never knew'st that road: I hear your vigils.
_Tom._ Sweet honey _Dol_, if I do not marry her,
Honestly marry her, if I mean not honourably,
Come, thou shalt help me, take heed how you vex me,
I'le help thee to a husband too, a fine Gentleman,
I know thou art mad, a tall young man, a brown man,
I swear he has his maidenhead, a rich man.
_Dor._ You may come in to dinner, and I'le answer ye.
_Tom._ Nay I'le go with thee _Dol_: four hundred a year wench.
[_Exeunt_.
SCENE III.
_Enter_ Michael, _and_ Valentine.
_Mich._ Good Sir go back again, and take my counsel,
Sores are not cur'd by sorrows, nor time broke from us,
Pull'd back again by sighs.
_Val._ What should I do friend?
_Mich._ Do that that may redeem ye, go back quickly,
_Sebastians_ Daughter can prevail much with her,
The Abbess is her Aunt too.
_Val._ But my friend then
Whose love and loss is equal ty'd.
_Mich._ Content ye,
That shall be my task if he be alive,
Or where my travel and my care may reach him,
I'le bring him back again.
_Val._ Say he come back
To piece his poor friends life out? and my Mistress
Be vow'd for ever a recluse?
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