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
_Dorilaus._ See how she blushes!
'Tis a good sign you'l mend your fault, how dost thou,
My good _Calista_?
_Cal._ Well, now I see you Sir;
I hope you bring a fruitfulness along with ye.
_Dor._ Good luck, I never miss, I was ever good at it:
Your mother groan'd for't wench, so did some other,
But I durst never tell.
_Cal._ How does your arm Sir?
_Cle._ Have you been let bloud of late?
_Dor._ Against my will Sir.
_Cal._ A fall dear Father?
_Dor._ No, a Gun, dear Daughter;
Two or three Guns; I have one here in my buttock,
'Twould trouble a Surgeons teeth to pull it out.
_Cal._ O me! O me!
_Dor._ Nay, if you fall to fainting,
'Tis time for me to trudge: art such a coward,
At the meer name of hurt to change thy colour?
I have been shot that men might see clean through me,
And yet I fainted not: besides my self,
Here are an hospital of hurt men for ye.
_Enter Servants, wounded in several places._
_Clean._ What should this wonder be?
_Cal._ I am amaz'd at it.
_Doril._ What think ye of these? they are every one hurt soundly,
Hurt to the proof, they are through, and through I assure ye;
And that's good game, they scorn your puling scratches.
_Cal._ Who did this Sir?
_Dor._ Leave crying, and I'le tell you,
And get your plaisters, and your warm stupes ready:
Have you ne're a Shepheard that can tarr us over?
'Twill prove a business else, we are so many.
Coming to see you, I was set upon,
I and my men, as we were singing frolickly,
Not dreaming of an ambush of base Rogues,
Set on i'th' forest, I have forgot the name--
_Cle._ 'Twixt this, and _Fountaine-Bleau_,
In the wild Forest?
_Dor._ The same, the same, in that accursed Forest,
Set on by villains, that make boot of all men,
The Peers of _France_ are pillage there, they shot at us,
Hurt us, un-hors'd us, came to the sword, there pli'd us,
Opprest us with fresh multitudes, fresh shot still,
Rogues that would hang themselves for a fresh doublet,
And for a Scarlet Cassock kill their Fathers.
_Cle._ Lighted you among these?
_Dor._ Among these murtherers,
Our poor blouds were ingag'd: yet we strook bravely,
And more than once or twice we made them shun us,
And shrink their rugged heads: but we were hurt all.
_Cle._ How came you off? for I even long to hear that.
_Dor._ After our prayers made to Heaven to help us,
Or to be mercifull unto our souls;
So near we were. Alas poor wench, wipe, wipe.
See Heaven sends remedy.
_Cal._ I am glad 'tis come Sir,
My heart was even a bleeding in my body.
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