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
_Enter Hostess and Servants with meat._
_Inc._ Why do you ask Sir?
_Phi._ 'Cause it might concern you,
It does not me.
_Inc._ Oh here's your meat come.
_Phi._ Thanks,
I welcome it at any price.
_Inc._ Some stools here,
And bid mine Host bring Wine, I'll try your Kid,
If he be sweet: he looks well, yes, he is good;
I'll carve you Sir.
_Phi._ You use me too too Princely:
Tast, and carve too.
_Inc._ I love to do these Offices.
_Phi._ I think you do: for whose sake?
_Inc._ For themselves Sir,
The very doing of them is reward.
_Phi._ 'Had little faith would not believe you, Sir.
_Inc._ Gossip, some Wine.
_Enter_ Diego _with Wine._
_Die._ Here 'tis: and right _St. Martyn_.
_Inc._ Measure me out a glass.
_Phi._ I love the humanity
Us'd in this place:
_Inc._ Sir, I salute you here.
_Phil._ I kiss your hands Sir.
_Inc._ Good wine, it will beget an appetite:
Fill him, and sit down, Gossip, entertain
Your noble guest here, as becomes your title.
_Die._ Please you to like this Wine Sir?
_Phi._ I dislike
Nothing mine Host, but that I may not see
Your conceal'd guest: here's to you.
_Die._ In good faith Sir;
I wish you as well as him: would you might see him
_Inc._ And wherefore may he not:
_Die._ 'Has lock'd himself Sir
Up, and has hir'd both the beds o' my wife
At extraordinary rate.
_Phil._ I'll give as much
If that will do't, for one, as he for both;
What say you mine Host, the door once open
I'll fling my self upon the next bed to him
And there's an end of me till morning; noise
I will make none
_Die._ I wish your worship well--but
_Inc._ His honor is engag'd: And my she-Gossip
Hath past her promise, hath she not?
_Die._ Yes truly:
_Inc._ That toucheth to the credit of the house:
Well, I will eat a little, and think: how say you Sir
Unto this brawn o'th' Hen?
_Phi._ I ha' more mind
To get this bed Sir.
_Inc._ Say you so: Why then
Giv't me agen, and drink to me: mine Host
Fill him his Wine: thou'rt dull, and dost not praise it,
I eat but to teach you the way Sir.
_Phil._ Sir:
Find but the way to lodge me in this chamber
I'll give mine Host two Duckets for his bed,
And you Sir two _Reals_: here's to you--
_Inc._ Excuse me,
I am not mercenary: Gossip pledge him for me,
I'll think a little more; but ev'n one bit
And then talk on: you cannot interrupt me.
_Die._ This piece of wine Sir, cost me--
_Inc._ Stay: I have found:
This little morsel, and then: here's excellent garlick:
Have you not a bunch of grapes now: or some Bacon
To give the mouth a relish?
_Die._ Wife, do you hear?
_Inc._ It is no matter: Sir give mine Host your Duckets.
_Die._ How Sir?
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