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
_Alin._ I am hungry, and I am weary, and I cannot find him.
Keep my wits Heaven, I feel 'em wavering,
O God my head.
_Seb._ Boy, dost thou hear, thou stripling?
_Alin._ Now they will tear me, torture me, now _Roderigo_
Will hang [him] without mercy; ha?
_Cur._ Come hither.
A very pretty boy: what place is this, child?
And whither dost thou travel? how he stares!
Some stubborn Master has abus'd the boy,
And beaten him: how he complains! whither goest thou?
_Alin._ I go to _Segovia_ Sir, to my sick Mother,
I have been taken here by drunken thieves,
And (O my bones!) I have been beaten Sir.
Mis-us'd, and rob'd: extreamly beaten Gentlemen,
O God, my side!
_Seb._ What beasts would use a boy thus?
Look up, and be of good cheer.
_Alin._ O, I cannot.
My back, my back, my back.
_Cur._ What thieves?
_Alin._ I know not.
But they call the Captain _Roderigo_.
_Cur._ Look ye,
I knew we were thereabouts.
_Seb._ Do'st thou want any thing?
_Alin._ Nothing but ease, but ease, Sir.
_Cur._ There's some mony,
And get thee to thy Mother.
_Alin._ I thank ye Gentlemen.
_Seb._ This was extreamly foul, to vex a child thus.
Come, let's along, we cannot lose our way now. [_Ex._
_Alin._ Though ye are honest men, I fear your fingers,
And glad I am got off; O how I tremble!
Send me but once within his arms dear fortune,
And then come all the world: what shall I do now?
'Tis almost night again, and where to lodge me,
_Enter_ Juletta.
Or get me meat, or any thing, I [k]now not.
These wild woods, and the fancies I have in me,
Will run me mad.
_Jul._ Boy, Boy.
_Alin._ More set to take me?
_Jul._ Do'st thou hear boy? thou pointer.
_Alin._ 'Tis a boy too,
A Lacky Boy: I need not fear his fierceness.
_Jul._ Canst thou beat a Drum?
_Alin._ A Drum?
_Jul._ This thing, a Drum here.
Didst thou never see a Drum? Canst thou make this grumble?
_Alin. Julettas_ face, and tongue; is she run mad too?
Here may be double craft: I have no skill in't.
_Jul._ I'le give thee a royal but to go along with me.
_Alin._ I care not for thy royal, I have other business,
Drum to thy self, and daunce to it.
_Jul._ Sirrah, Sirrah.
Thou scurvy Sirrah; thou snotty-nos'd scab, do'st thou hear me?
If I lay down my Drum.
_Enter_ Roderigo, _and two Out-laws_.
_Alin._ Here comes more Company,
I fear a plot, Heaven send me fairly from it. [_Exit._
_Jul._ Basto; who's here?
_Lop._ Captain, do you need me farther?
_Rod._ No not a foot: give me the gown: the sword now.
_Jul._ This is the Devil thief, and if he take me,
Woe be to my Gally gaskins.
_Lop._ Certain Sir,
She will take her patches off, and change her habit.
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