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
_Fer._ At more leisure,
I will enquire the manner, and the means,
I cannot spare so much time now from my
More strickt embraces: _Virolet_, welcome too,
This service weighs down your intended Treason;
You long have been mine enemy, learn now
To be my friend and loyal, I ask no more,
And live as free as _Ferrant_; let him have
The forty thousand crowns I gladly promis'd,
For my _Ascanio_'s freedom, and deliver
His Father, and his wife to him in safety,
Something hath passed which I am sorry for,
But 'twill not now be help'd; come my _Ascanio_,
And reap the harvest of my winter travels. [_Flourish Cornets._
My best _Ascanio_, my lov'd _Ascanio_.
_Vir._ My Lord, all former passages forgot, [_Exit_ Fer., _Ascanio._
I am become a suitor.
_Ron._ To me _Virolet_?
_Vir._ To you, yet will not beg the courtesie,
But largely pay you for it.
_Ron._ To the purpose.
_Vir._ The forty thousand crowns the King hath given me,
I will bestow on you, if by your means
I may have liberty for a divorce
Between me and my wife.
_Ron._ Your _Juliana_?
That for you hath indur'd so much, so nobly?
_Vir._ The more my sorrow; but it must be so.
_Ron._ I will not hinder it: without a bribe,
For mine own ends, I would have further'd this.
I will use all my power.
_Vir._ 'Tis all I aske:
Oh my curs'd fate, that ever man should hate
Himself for being belov'd, or be compell'd
To cast away a Jewel, Kings would buy,
Though with the loss of Crown and Monarchy! [_Exeunt._
_Enter_ Sesse, _Master, Boatswain, Gunner._
_Sesse._ How do I look?
_Mast._ You are so strangely alter'd.
We scarce can know you, so young again, and utterly
From that you were, figure, or any favour;
Your friends cannot discern you.
_Sesse._ I have none,
None but my fair revenge, and let that know me!
You are finely alter'd too.
_Boats._ To please your humour,
But we may pass without disguise, our living
Was never in their element.
_Gun._ This Jew sure,
That alter'd you, is a mad knave.
_Ses._ Oh! a most excellent fellow.
_Gun._ How he has mew'd your head, has rub'd the snow off,
And run your beard into a peak of twenty.
_Boats._ Stopt all the crannies in your face.
_Mast._ Most rarely.
_Boats._ And now you look as plump, your eies as sparkling,
As if you were to leap into a Ladies saddle.
Has he not set your nose awry?
_Ses._ The better.
_Boats._ I think it be the better, but 'tis awry sure;
_North and by East_, I, there's the point it stands in;
Now halfe a _point to the Southward_.
_Ses._ I could laugh,
But that my business requires no mirth now;
Thou art a merry fellow.
_Boats._ I would the Jew Sir,
Could steer my head right, for I have such a swimming in't,
Ever since I went to Sea first.
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