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
_Alph._ Do for heavens sake,
And see but how I'll hug him.
_San[c]h._ Yet take warning.
_Ped._ Faith Gentlemen, this is a needless quarrel.
_Sanch._ And do you desire to make one?
_Ped._ As a friend Sir,
To tell you all this anger is but lost Sir,
For _Leonardo_ is from home.
_Alph._ No, no Sir.
_Ped._ Indeed he is.
_Sanch._ Where dare he be, but here Sir,
When men are wrong'd, and come for satisfactions.
_Ped._ It seems he has done none Sir; for his business
Clear of those cares, hath carried him for sometime
To _Barcelona_: if he had been guilty,
I know he would have stayd, and clear'd all difference
Either by free confession, or his sword.
_Sanch._ This must not be.
_Ped._ Sure as I live, it is Sir.
_Alph._ Sure, as we all live,
He's run away for ever: _Barcelona_!
Why? 'tis the key for _Italy_, from whence
He stole first hither.
_Sanch._ And having found his knaveries
Too gross to be forgiven, and too open,
He has found the same way back again: I believe too
The good grass Gentleman, for his own ease,
Has taken one o'th' Fillyes: Is not his stuff sold.
_Alph._ I fear his worships shoos too; to escape us,
I do not think he has a dish within doors,
A louse left of his linnage.
_Ped._ Ye are too wide Sir.
_Alph._ Or one poor wooden spoon.
_Ped._ Come in and see Sir.
_Alph._ I'll see his house on fire first.
_Ped._ Then be pleased Sir
To give better censure.
_Sanch._ I will after him,
And search him like conceal'd land, but I'll have him,
And though I find him in his shrift, I'll kill him.
_Alph._ I'll bear ye company.
_Sanch._ Pray have a care then,
A most [especiall] care, indeed a fear,
Ye do not anger me.
_Alph._ I will observe ye,
And if I light upon him handsomly.
_Sanch._ Kill but a piece of him, leave some _Alphonso_
For your poor Friends.
_Ped._ I fear him not for all this.
_Alph._ Shall we first go home,
For it may prove a voyage, and dispose
Of things there; heaven knows what may follow.
_Sanch._ No,
I'll kill him in this shirt I have on: let things
Govern themselves, I am master of my honor
At this time, and no more; let wife, and land,
Lie lay till I return.
_Alph._ I say amen to't:
But what care for our monies?
_Sanch._ I will not spend
Above three shillings, till his head be here,
Four is too great a sum for all his Fortunes.
Come take me up instantly.
_Alph._ Farewell to you Sir,
And if your friend be in a featherbed,
Sow'd up to shrowd his fears, tell him 'tis folly,
For no course but his voluntary hanging
Can get our pardons. [_Exeunt._
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