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
_Jac._ Very well;
Pray Gentlewoman what would you have me say?
_Clora._ Do not you know, Sir?
_Jac._ Not so well as you
That talk continually.
_Fran._ You have hit her, Sir.
_Clora._ I thank him, so he has,
Fair fall his sweet face for't.
_Jac._ Let my face
Alone, I would wish you, lest I take occasion
To bring a worse in question.
_Clora._ Meaning mine?
Brother, where was your friend brought up? h'as sure
Been a great lover in his youth of pottage,
They lye so dull upon his understanding.
_Fab._ No more of that, thou'lt anger him at heart.
_Clo._ Then let him be more manly, for he looks
Like a great School-boy that had been blown up
Last night at dust-point.
_Fran._ You will never leave
Till you be told how rude you are, fye _Clora_.
Sir will it please you sit?
_Clora._ And I'le sit by you.
_Jac._ Woman be quiet, and be rul'd I would wish you.
_Clora._ I have done, Sir Captain.
_Fab._ Art thou not asham'd?
_Jac._ You are an asse, I'le tell you more anon,
You had better have been hang'd than brought me hither.
_Fab._ You are grown a sullen fool; either be handsom,
Or by this light I'le have wenches bait thee;
Go to the Gentlewoman, and give her thanks,
And hold your head up; what?
_Jac._ By this light I'le brain thee.
_Fra._ Now o' my faith this Gentleman do's nothing
But it becomes him rarely; _Clora_, look
How well this little anger, if it be one,
Shews in his face.
_Clo._ Yes, it shews very sweetly.
_Fra._ Nay do not blush Sir, o' my troth it does,
I would be ever angry to be thus.
_Fabritio_, o' my conscience if I ever
Do fall in love, as I will not forswear it
Till I am something wiser, it must be,
I will not say directly with that face,
But certainly, such another as that is,
And thus dispose my chance to hamper me.
_Fab._ Dost thou hear this, and stand still?
_Jac._ You will prate still;
I would you were not women, I would take
A new course with ye.
_Clora._ Why couragious?
_Jac._ For making me a stone to whet your tongues on.
_Clora._ Prethee sweet Captain.
_Jac._ Go, go spin, go hang.
_Clo._ Now could I kiss him.
_Jac._ If you long for kicking,
You'r best come kiss me, do not though, I'de wish ye,
I'le send my Foot-man to thee, he shall leap thee,
And thou wantst horsing: I'le leave ye Ladies.
_Fra._ Beshrew my heart you are unmannerly
To offer this unto a Gentleman
Of his deserts, that comes so worthily
To visit me, I cannot take it well.
_Jac._ I come to visit you, you foolish woman?
_Fra._ I thought you did Sir, and for that I thank you,
I would be loth to lose those thanks; I know
This is but some odd way you have, and faith
It do's become you well to make us merry;
I have heard often of your pleasant vein.
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