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
_Rod._ Let her do what she please: No, no _Alinda_
You cannot cozen me again in a Boys figure,
Nor hide the beauty of that face in patches,
But I shall know it.
_Jul._ A boy his face in patches?
_Rod._ Nor shall your tongue again bewitch mine anger,
If she be found i'th' woods, send me word presently,
And I'le return; she cannot be far gone yet:
If she be not, expect me, when ye see me;
Use all your service to my friend _Alphonso_,
And have a care to your business: farewel,
No more, farewel. [_Exeunt._
_Jul._ I am heartily glad thou art gone yet.
This boy in patches, was the boy came by me,
The very same, how hastily it shifted!
What a mop-eyed ass was I, I could not know her,
This must be she, this is she, now I remember her,
How loth she was to talk too, how she fear'd me:
I could now piss mine eyes out for meer anger:
I'le follow her, but who shall vex her Father then?
One flurt at him, and then I am for the voyage,
If I can cross the Captain too: Come Tabor. [_Exit._
SCENE IV.
_Enter_ Jaques, _and 1 Out-Law_.
_Jaq._ Are they all set?
_1 Out-l._ All, and each quarter quiet.
_Jaq._ Is the old man asleep?
_1 Out-l._ An hour agoe Sir.
_Jaq._ We must be very carefull in his absence,
And very watchfull.
_1 Out-l._ It concerns us nearly,
He will not be long from us.
_Jaq._ No, he cannot.
_1 Out-l._ A little heat of love, which he must wander out.
[_Drum a far off._
And then again: hark.
_Ja[q]._ What?
_1 Out-l._ 'Tis not the wind sure:
That's still and calm, no noise, nor flux of waters.
_Jaq._ I hear a Drum, I think.
_1 Out-l._ That, that;
It beats again now.
_Jaq._ Now it comes nearer: sure we are surprized, Sir;
Some from the Kings command: we are lost, we are dead all.
_1 Out-l._ Hark, hark, a charge now: my Captain has betray'd us,
And left us to this ruine, run away from us.
_Enter two Out-Laws._
_Lop._ Another beats o' that side.
_2 Out-l._ Fly, flie, _Jaques_,
We are taken in a toyle: snapt in a pitfal;
Methinks I feel a Sword already shave me.
_3 Out-l._ A thousand horse and foot, a thousand pioneers,
If we get under-ground, to fetch us out again;
And every one an Axe to cut the woods down.
_Lop._ This is the dismalst night-- [_Exit._
_Enter_ Alpho[n]so.
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