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
_Old Mer._ Your Daughter, what a-stirs here wi' y'r daughter?
Let her go, think no more on her, but sing loud. If both my
sons were on the gallows, I would sing _down, down, down_: they
fall down, and arise they never shall.
_Merch._ Oh might I behold her once again,
And she once more embrace her aged sire.
_Old Mer._ Fie, how scurvily this goes: and she once more
embrace her aged sire? you'll make a dog on her, will ye; she
cares much for her aged sire, I warrant you. She cares not for
her Daddy, nor she cares not for her Mammy. For she is, she is,
she is[, she is] my Lord of _Low-gaves_ Lassie.
_Merch._ For this thy scorn I will pursue
That son of thine to death.
_Old Mer._ Do, and when you ha kill'd him,
Give him flowers i'now Palmer, give him flowers i'now,
Give him red and white, and blue, green, and yellow.
_Merch._ I'll fetch my Daughter.
_Old Mer._ I'll hear no more o' your Daughter, it spoils my
mirth.
_Merch._ I say I'll fetch my Daughter.
_Old Mer._ Was never man for Ladies sake, _down, down_,
Tormented as I [poore] Sir _Guy_? _de derry down_,
For _Lucies_ sake, that Lady bright, _down, down_,
As ever men beheld with eye? _de derry down_.
_Merch._ I'll be reveng'd by heaven. [_Exeunt._ Finis _Act. Secund._
_Musick._
_Wife._ How dost thou like this _George_?
_Cit._ Why this is well Cunnie: but if _Ralph_ were hot once:
thou shouldst see more.
_Wife._ The Fidlers go again Husband.
_Cit._ I _Nell_, but this is scurvy Musick: I gave the whoreson
gallows money, and I think he has not got me the Waits of
_Southwark_, if I hear him not anan, I'll twinge him by the
ears.
[You] Musicians play _Baloo_.
_Wife._ No good _George_, let's ha _Lachrymæ_.
_Cit._ Why this is it Cunny.
_Wife._ It's all the better _George_: now sweet Lamb, what
story is that painted upon the cloth? the confutation of Saint
Paul?
_Cit._ No Lamb, that's _Ralph_ and _Lucrece_.
_Wife. Ralph_ and _Lucrece_? which _Ralph_? our _Ralph_?
_Cit._ No Mouse, that was a _Tartarian_.
_Wife._ A _Tartarian_? well, I wo'd the Fidlers had done, that
we might see our _Ralph_ again.
_Actus Tertius. Scæna Prima._
_Enter_ Jasper _and_ Luce.
_Jasp._ Come my [deere deere], though we have lost our way,
We have not lost our selves: are you not weary
With this nights wandring, broken from your rest?
And frighted with the terror that attends
The darkness of this wild unpeopled place?
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