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
_Jul._ Thou shalt go,
I must needs have thee as a witness with me
Of my repentance; as thou lov'st me go.
_Ang._ Well I will go, since you will have it so,
But if I prove a fool too, look to have me
Curse you continually, and fearfully.
_Jul._ And if thou seest me fall again, good _Angelo_
Give me thy counsel quickly lest I perish.
_Ang._ Pray Heaven I have enough to save my self,
For as I have a soul, I had rather venture
Upon a savage Island, than this woman. [_Exeunt._
SCENE II.
_Enter Father, and Servant._
_Fath._ From whom Sir, comes this bounty? for I think
You are mistaken.
_Serv._ No Sir, 'tis to you
I am sure my Mistris sent it.
_Fath._ Who's your Mistris,
That I may give her thanks?
_Serv._ The vertuous Widow.
_Fath._ The vertuous widow Sir? I know none such:
Pray what's her name?
_Ser._ Lælia.
_Fath._ I knew you err'd,
'Tis not to me I warrant ye; there Sir,
Carry it to those she feeds fat with such favours,
I am a stranger to her.
_Serv._ Good Sir take it,
And if you will, I'le swear she sent it to you,
For I am sure mine eye never went off ye
Since you forsook the Gentlemen you talk'd with
Just at her door.
_Fath._ Indeed I talkt with two
Within this half hour in the street.
_Serv._ 'Tis you Sir,
And none but you I am sent to: wiser men
Would have been thankful sooner, and receiv'd it,
'Tis not a fortune every man can brag of,
And from a woman of her excellence.
_Fa._ Well Sir, I am Catechiz'd; what more belongs to't?
_Serv._ This only Sir; she would intreat you come
This evening to her without fail.
_Fath._ I will.
_Serv._ You ghess where.
_Fath._ Sir I have a tongue else. [_Exit Ser._
She is down-right Devil; or else my wants
And her disobedience have provok't her
To look into her foul self, and be sorry.
I wonder how she knew me? I had thought
I had been the same to all, I am to them
That chang'd me thus: Heaven pardon me for lying,
For I have paid it home: many a good man
That had but found the profit of my way
Would forswear telling true again in hast.
_Enter_ Lodovico, _and_ Piso.
Here are my praters; now if I did well
I should belabour 'em, but I have found
A way to quiet 'em, worth a thousand on't.
_Lod._ If we could get a fellow that would do it.
_Fat._ What villany is now in hand?
_Pis._ 'Twill be hard to be done in my opinion
Unless we light upon an _English-man_
With seven-score surfeits in him.
_Lod._ Are the _English-men_ such stubborn drinkers?
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