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
_Ped._ He might have cozen'd me with his behaviour.
_Mast._ Many have sworn him right, and I have thought so:
Yet on a sudden, from some word, or other,
When no man could expect a fit, he has flown out:
I dare not give him will.
_Enter_ Alinda.
_Ped._ Pray Heaven recover him.
_Alin._ Must I come in too?
_Mast._ No, my pretty Lad;
Keep in thy Chamber Boy; 'shalt have thy supper.
_Ped._ I pray ye what is he, Sir?
_Mast._ A strange Boy, that last night
Was found i'th' Town, a little craz'd, distracted,
And so sent hither.
_Ped._ How the pretty Knave looks,
And plays, and peeps upon me! sure such eyes
I have seen, and lov'd: what fair hands! certainly--
_Mast._ Good Sir, you'l make him worse.
_Ped._ I pray believe not.
Alas, why sho[u]ld I hurt him? how he smiles!
The very shape, and sweetness of _Alinda_:
Let me look once again: were it in such clothes
As when I saw her last; this must be she.
How tenderly it stroaks me!
_Mast._ Pray ye be mild Sir;
I must attend elsewhere. [_Exit._
_Ped._ Pray ye be secure Sir,
What would ye say? how my heart beats and trembles!
He holds me hard by th' hand; O my life, her flesh too!
I know not what to think: her tears, her true ones;
Pure orient tears: Hark, do you know me little one?
_Alin._ O _Pedro Pedro_!
_Ped._ O my soul!
_Gent._ What fit's this?
The Pilgrim's off the hooks too.
_Alin._ Let me hold thee,
And now come all the world, and all that hate me.
_Ped._ Be wise, and not discovered: O how I love ye!
How do ye now?
_Alin._ I have been miserable;
But your most vertuous eyes have cur'd me, _Pedro_:
Pray ye think it no immodesty, I kiss ye,
My head's wild still.
_Ped._ Be not so full of passion,
Nor do not hang so greedily upon me;
'Twill be ill taken.
_Alin._ Are ye weary of me?
I will hang here eternally, kiss ever,
And weep away for joy.
_Enter Master._
_Master._ I told ye Sir,
What ye would do: for shame do not afflict him;
You have drawn his fit upon him fearfully:
Either depart, and presently; I'le force ye else.
Who waits within?
_Enter two Keepers to fetch 'em off._
_Ped._ Alas good Sir.
This is the way never to hope recovery.
_Mast._ Stay but one minute more, I'le complain to the Governour,
Bring in the boy: do you see how he swells, and tears himself?
Is this your cure? Be gone; if the boy miscarry
Let me ne'r find you more, for I'le so hamper ye--
_Gent._ You were to blame: too rash.
_Ped._ Farewel for ever. [_Exeunt._
_Actus Quartus. Scena Prima._
_Enter_ Alphonso, _Gent._ Juletta.
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