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._ It shall be welcome; come, let's keep up thus still,
And be as we appear; Heavens hand may bless us. [_Exeunt._
SCENE III.
_Enter_ Alphonso, _Master and Keepers_.
_Mast._ Yes, Sir, here be such people; but how pleasing
They will appear to you.
_Alph._ 'Pray let me see 'em,
I come to that end; 'pray let me see 'em all.
_Mast._ They will confound ye, Sir, like Bells rung backward,
They are nothing but Confusion, and meer Noises.
_Alph._ May be I love a noise; but hark ye, Sir,
Have ye no Boys? handsome young Boys?
_Mast._ Yes, one, Sir,
A very handsome Boy.
_Alph._ Long here?
_Mast._ But two days;
A little crazed; but much hope of recovery.
_Alph._ I, that Boy, let me see, may be I know him,
That Boy I say; this is the Boy he told me of,
And it must need be she; that Boy, I beseech ye, Sir,
That Boy I come to see.
_Mast._ And ye shall see him;
Or any else: but pray be not too violent.
_Alph._ I know what to do, I warrant ye; I am for all fancies;
I can talk to 'em, and dispute.
_1 Keep._ As madly;
For they are very mad, Sir.
_Alph._ Let 'em be horn-mad.
_1 Keep._ We have few Citizens: they have Bedlams of their own, Sir,
And are mad at their own charges.
_Alph._ Who lyes here?
_Mast._ 'Pray ye do not disturb 'em, Sir, here lie such youths
Will make you start if they but dance their trenchmores,
Fetch out the Boy, Sirrah; hark!
[_Shake Irons within. English mad-men, Scholar, Parson, Jenkin._
_Alph._ Heigh Boys.
_Eng._ Bounce,
Clap her o'th' star-board; bounce, top the Can.
_Schol._ Dead ye dog, dead, do ye quarrel in my Kingdom?
Give me my trident.
_Eng._ Bounce, 'twixt wind and water,
Loaden with Mackrel; O brave meat.
_Schol._ My Sea horses;
I'll charge the Northern Wind, and break his Bladder.
_Pars._ I'll sell my Bells before I be out-brav'd thus.
_Alph._ What's he? what's he?
_Mast._ A Parson, Sir, a Parson
That run mad for tyth Goslings.
_Alph._ Green sawce cure him.
_Pars._ I'll curse ye all, I'll excommunicate ye;
Thou _English_ Heretick, give me the tenth Pot.
_Eng._ Sue me, I'll drink up all, bounce I say once more.
O have I split your Mizen? blow, blow thou West-wind,
Blow till thou rive, and make the Sea run roaring.
I'll hiss it down again with a Bottle of Ale.
_Schol. Triton_, why _Triton_.
_Eng. Triton_'s drunk with _Metheglin_.
_Seb._ Strike, strike the surges, strike.
_Eng._ Drink, drink, 'tis day light;
Drink, didle, didle, didle, drink, _Parson_, proud _Parson_;
A Pigs tail in thy teeth, and I defie thee.
_Par._ Give me some porridg, or I'll damn thee, _English_.
_Alph._ How comes this _English_ mad man here?
_Mast._ Alas, that's no question;
They are mad every where, Sir;
Their fits are cool now, let 'em rest.
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