Beaumont and Fletcher's Works, Vol. 05 of 10Fletcher, John
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Beaumont and Fletcher's Works, Vol. 05 of 10
Fletcher, John
English drama
_Jul._ Reward me for 'em.
Or if I had such tricks, you could discover
So weak, and sleightly woven, you might look through,
All the young Girls should hoot me out o' th' Parish;
You are my Master, but you own an anger
Becomes a School-Boy that hath lost his Apples;
Will ye force things into our knowledges?
_Alph._ Come hither, _Juletta_, thou didst love me.
_Jul._ And do stil[l],
You are my Ladies Father, and I reverence ye.
_Alph._ Thou would'st have pleas'd my humour.
_Jul._ Any good way,
That carried not suspicion in't, or flattery,
Or fail of trust.
_Alph._ Come, come, thou wouldst have--
_Jul._ Stay, Sir.
_Alph._ And thou hast felt my bounty for't, and shalt do.
Dost thou want Cloaths or Money?
_Jul._ Both.
_Alph._ 'Shalt have both.
_Jul._ But not this way, I had rather be an Adamite,
And bring Fig-tree leaves into fashion again.
If you were young, Sir,
Handsome, and fitted to a Womans appetite;
And I a giddy-headed Girl, that car'd for nothing,
Much might be done; then you might fumble with me,
And think to grope out matters of some moment,
Which now you will put too short for;
For what you have seen hitherto
And know by me, has been but honest service,
Which I dare pin i'th' market-place to answer;
And let the World, the Flesh, and Devil examine it,
And come you in too, I dare stand your strictest.
And so much good may do you, with your dreams of courtesie.
_Alph._ This is most monstrous.
_Enter Porter, and Servants._
_Seb._ Sure she does not know, Sir;
She durst not be so confident, and guilty.
_Alph._ How now, what news? what hopes and steps discovered?
Speak any thing that's good, that tends to th' matter;
Do you stand staring still?
_1 Serv._ We are no gods, Sir,
To say she is here or there, or what she is doing;
But we have search'd.
_Port._ I am sure she is not i'th' Cellar;
For look you, Sir, if she had been i'th' Cellar--
_Alph._ I am sure thou hast been there.
_Port._ As I carried the matter,
For I search'd every piece of Wine; yes sure, Sir,
And every little Terse, that could but testifie;
And I drew hard to bolt her out.
_Alph._ Away with him;
Fling him i'th' Hay-mow, let him lye a mellowing;
He stinks of Muskadel like an _English Christmas_;
Are these your cares? your services?
_2 Serv._ Pray ye hear, Sir,
We have found where she went out, her very footing.
_Alph._ Where, where? go on.
_Cur._ Observe then with more stayedness.
_2 Ser._ Searching the Garden at the little Postern
That opens to the Park, we first discovered it.
_Alph._ A little foot?
_1 Serv._ It must be hers, or none, Sir.
_Alph._ How far beyond that?
_1 Serv._ To the Park it leads us,
But there the ground being hard, we could not mark it.
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