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
_Eug._ Forbear,
Thou wert but now as welcome to this house
As certain cures to sick men, and just now
This sudain alteration makes thee look
Like plagues come to infect it; if thou knewst
How loathsome thou wilt be, thou wouldst intreat
These wals, or posts to help thee to a hurt,
Past thy d[i]ssimulation.
_Mar._ Gentle Madam
Call 'em not in?
_Eug._ I will not yet, this place
I know to be within the reach of tongue,
And ears, thou canst not force me; therefore hear me
What I will tell thee quickly, thou art born
To end some way more disesteem'd than this,
Or which is worse, to dye of this hurt yet.
Come Gentlemen.
_Enter_ Leocadia.
_Mar._ Good Madam.
_Eug._ Gentlemen.
_Leoc._ Madam how is't? is _Mark-antonio_ well?
Methinks your looks are alter'd, and I see
A strange distemper in you.
_Eug._ I am wrought
By that dissembling man, that fellow worth
Nothing but kicking.
_Enter_ Philippo _and_ Theodosia.
_Leo._ Gentle Madam speak
To me alone let not them understand
His fault, he will repent [it] I dare swear.
_Eug._ I'll tell it you in private.
_Phil. Mark-antonio_,
How do you?
_Mar._ Stand farther off I pray you
Give me some ayre.
_Theo._ Good Brother, will he scape,
The Surgeons say there is no danger.
_Phil._ Scape?
No doubt he will.
_Leo._ Alas will he not leave
This trying all; Madam, I do beseech you
Let me but speak to him, you and these by,
And I dare almost promise you to make him
Shew himself truly sorrowful to you, besides a story I shall
open to you,
Not put in so good words but in it self
So full of chance, that you will easily
Forgive my tediousness, and be well pleas'd
With that so much afflicts me.
_Eug._ Good Sir do.
_Leo._ And I desire no interruption
Of speech may trouble me till I have said
What I will quickly do.
_Theo._ What will she say.
_Eug._ Come Gentlemen, I pray you lend your ears,
And keep your voyces.
_Leo._ Signior _Mark-antonio_
How do you do?
_Mar._ Oh the Surgeons.
_Leoc._ Let me tell you
Who know as well as you, you do dissemble,
It is no time to do so; leave the thoughts
Of this vain world, forget your flesh and blood,
And make your spirit an untroubled way
To pass to what it ought.
_Mar._ Y're not in earnest?
Why I can walk Sir, and am well.
_Leoc._ 'Tis true
That you can walk, and do believe y're well:
It is the nature, as your Surgeons say
Of these wounds, for a man to go, and talk,
Nay merrily, till his last hour, his minute:
For heaven sake Sir, sit down again.
_Mar._ Alass
Where are the Surgeons?
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