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._ Thou shalt not dye though:
Boy see your Master safe delivered,
He's ready to lye in.
_Host._ Good night.
_Jac._ Good morrow,
Drink till the Cow come home, 'tis all pay'd boyes.
_Lod._ A pox of Sack.
_Host._ Marry [God] bless my Buts, Sack is a Jewel,
'Tis comfortable, Gentlemen.
_Jac._ More Beer boy,
Very sufficient single Beer.
_Boy._ Here Sir.
How is it Gentlemen?
_Jac._ But ev'n so, so.
_Host._ Go before finely _Robin_, and prepare
My wife, bid her be right and streight, I come boy.
And Sirrah, if they quarrel, let 'em use
Their own discretions, by all means, and stir not,
And he that's kill'd shall be as sweetly buried;
Captain, adieu, adieu sweet bully Captain,
One kiss before I dye, one kiss.
_Jac._ Farewel Boy.
_Host._ All my sweet boys farewel. [_Exit Host._
_Lod._ Go sleep, you are drunk.
_Ja._ Come gentlemen, I'le see you at your lodging,
You look not lustily, a quart more.
_Lod._ No Boy.
_Piso._ Get us a Torch.
_Boy._ 'Tis day Sir.
_Jac._ That's all one.
_Piso._ Are not those the stars, thou scurvy Boy?
_Lod._ Is not Charles-wain there, tell me that, there?
_Jac._ Yes;
I have paid 'em truly: do not vex him Sirrah.
_Piso._ Confess it Boy, or as I live I'le beat
Mid-night into thy brains.
_Boy._ I do confess it.
_Piso._ Then live, and draw more small Beer presently.
_Jac._ Come Boyes, let's hug together, and be loving,
And sing, and do brave things cheerly my hearts,
A pox o' being sad; now could I fly
And turn the world about upon my finger,
Come ye shall love me, I am an honest fellow:
Hang care and fortune, we are friends.
_Lod._ No Captain.
_Jac._ Do not you love me? I love you two dearly.
_Piso._ No by no means; you are a fighting Captain,
And kill up such poor people as we are, by th' dozens.
_Lod._ As they kill flyes with Fox-tails, Captain.
_Jac._ Well Sir.
_Lod._ Me thinks now as I stand, the Captain shews
To be a very mercifull young man.
(And pre'thee _Piso_, let me have thy opinion).
_Piso._ Then he shall have mercy, that merciful is,
Or all the Painters are Apocrypha.
_Jac._ I am glad you have your wits yet, will ye go?
_Piso._ You had best say we are drunk.
_Jac._ Ye are.
_Lod._ Ye lye.
_Jac._ Y'are rascals, drunken rascals.
_Piso._ 'Tis sufficient.
_Jac._ And now I'le tell you why, before I beat ye,
You have been tampring any time these three days,
Thus to disgrace me.
_Piso._ That's a lye too.
_Jac._ Well Sir,
Yet I thank fate I have turn'd your points on you,
For which I'le spare ye somewhat, half a beating.
_Piso._ I'le make you fart fire Captain, by this hand,
And ye provoke, do not provoke I'de wish you.
_Jac._ How do you like this?
_Lod._ Sure I am inchanted.
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