Beaumont and Fletcher's Works, Vol. 06 of 10Fletcher, John
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Beaumont and Fletcher's Works, Vol. 06 of 10
Fletcher, John
English drama
_Hum._ I take your gentle offer, and withal
Yield love again for love reciprocal.
_Enter_ Luce.
_M[e]r._ What _Luce_, within there?
_Luce._ Call'd you Sir?
_Mer._ I did
Give entertainment to this Gentleman,
And see you be not froward: to her, Sir:
My presence will but be an eye-soar to you. [_Exit._
_Hum._ Fair Mistriss _Luce_, how do you, are you well?
Give me your hand, and then I pray you tell,
How doth your little Sister, and your Brother?
And whether you love me or any other.
_Luce._ Sir, these are quickly answer'd.
_Hum._ So they are,
Where Women are not cruel: but how far
Is it now distant from the place we are in,
Unto that blessed place your Fathers Warren.
_Luce._ What makes you think of that, Sir?
_Hum._ Even that face,
For stealing Rabbets whilome in that place,
God _Cupid_, or the Keeper, I know not whether,
Unto my cost and charges brought you thither,
And there began.
_Lu[ce]._ Your game, Sir.
_Hum._ Let no game,
Or any thing that tendeth to the same,
Be evermore remembred, thou fair killer
For whom I sate me down and brake my Tiller.
_Wife._ There's a kind Gentleman, I warrant you, when will you
do as much for me _George_?
_Luce._ Beshrew me Sir, I am sorry for your losses,
But as the proverb says, _I cannot cry_,
I would you had not seen me.
_Hum._ So would I.
Unless you had more maw to do me good.
_Luce._ Why, cannot this strange passion be withstood,
Send for a Constable and raise the Town.
_Hum._ Oh no, my valiant love will batter down
Millions of Constables, and put to flight,
Even that great Watch of Midsummer day at night.
_Luce._ Beshrew me, Sir, 'twere good I yielded then,
Weak Women cannot hope, where valiant men
Have no resistance.
_Hum._ Yield then, I am full
Of pity, though I say it, and can pull
Out of my pocket thus a pair of Gloves.
Look _Lucy_, look, the dogs tooth, nor the Doves
Are not so white as these; and sweet they be,
And whipt about with silk, as you may see:
If you desire the price, sute from your eye,
A beam to this place, and you shall espie
_F. S._ which is to say my sweetest Honey,
They cost me three and two pence, or no money.
_Luce._ Well Sir, I take them kindly, and I thank you;
What would you more?
_Hum._ Nothing.
_Lu._ Why then farewel.
_Hum._ Nor so, nor so, for Lady I must tell,
Before we part, for what we met together,
God grant me time, and patience, and fair weather.
_Luce._ Speak and declare your mind in terms so brief.
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