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
_1 Gent._ Is there no unkindness
You have conceiv'd from any friend or parent?
Or scorn from what ye lov'd?
_Schol._ No, truely Sir:
I never yet was master of a faith
So poor, and weak, to doubt my friend or kindred,
And what love is, unless it lie in learning
I think I am ignorant.
_1 Gent._ This man is perfect,
A civiller discourser I ne'r talk'd with.
_Mast._ You'l find it otherwise.
_2 Gent._ I must tell ye true, Sir,
I think ye keep him here to teach him madness.
Here's his discharge from my Lord Cardinal;
And come Sir, go with us.
_Schol._ I am bound unto ye,
And farewel Master.
_Master._ Farewel _Stephano_,
Alas poor man.
_1 Gent._ What flaws, and whirles of weather,
Or rather storms have been aloft these three daies;
How dark, and hot, and full of mutiny!
And still grows louder.
_Mast._ It has been stubborn weather.
_2 Gent._ Strange work at Sea, I fear me there's old tumbling.
_1 Gent._ Bless my old Unkles Bark, I have a venture.
_2 Gent._ And I more than I would wish to lose.
_Schol._ Do you fear?
_2 Gent._ Ha! how he looks!
_Mast._ Nay, mark him better Gentlemen.
_2 Gent._ Mercy upon me: how his eyes are altered!
_Mast._ Now tell me how ye like him: whether now
He be that perfect man ye credited?
_Schol._ Do's the Sea stagger ye?
_Mast._ Now ye have hit the nick.
_Schol._ Do ye fear the billows?
_1 Gent._ What ails him? who has stir'd him?
_Schol._ Be not shaken,
Nor let the singing of the storm shoot through ye,
Let it blow on, blow on: let the clouds wrastle,
And let the vapours of the earth turn mutinous,
The Sea in hideous mountains rise and tumble
Upon a Dolphins back, I'le make all tremble,
For I am _Neptune_.
_Mast._ Now what think ye of him?
_2 Gent._ Alas poor man.
_Schol._ Your Bark shall plough through all,
And not a Surge so saucy to disturb her.
I'le see her safe, my power shall sail before her.
_Down ye angry waters all,_
_Ye loud whistling whirlewinds fall;_
_Down ye proud Waves, ye storms cease;_
_I command ye, be at peace._
_Fright not with your churlish Notes,_
_Nor bruise the Keel of Bark that flotes:_
_No devouring Fish come nigh,_
_Nor Monster in my Empery,_
_Once shew his head, or terror bring;_
_But let the weary Saylor sing:_
_Amphitrite with white arms_
_Strike my Lute, I'le sing Charms._
_Mast._ He must have Musick now: I must observe him,
His fit will grow too full else. [_Musick, Song._
_2 Gent._ I must pity him.
_Mast._ Now he will in himself most quietly,
And clean forget all, as he had done nothing.
_1 Gent._ We are sorry, Sir: and we have seen a wonder;
From this hour we'll believe, and so we'll leave ye. [_Ex._
_Ped._ This was a strange fit.
_Mast._ Did ye mark him, Sir?
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