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
_Mast._ Take Wine and purge it.
_Boats._ I have had a thousand pils of Sack, a thousand;
A thousand pottle Pills.
_Gun._ Take more.
_Boats._ Good Doctor,
Your patient is easily perswaded.
_Mast._ The next fair open weather
Methinks this _Jew_
If he were truly known to founder'd Courtiers,
And decay'd Ladies that have lost their fleeces
On every bush, he might pick a pretty living.
_Boats._ The best of all our gallants, should be glad of him;
For if you mark their marches, they are tender,
Soft, soft, and tender; then but observe their bodies,
And you shall find 'em cemented by a Surgeon,
Or some Physitian for a year or two,
And then to th' tub again, for a new pickle.
This _Jew_ might live a _Gentile_ here.
[_Ent. 2 Cittizens at both doors, saluting afar off._
_Ses._ What are these?
Stand close and mark?
_Boats._ These are no men, th' are motions.
_Ses._ What sad and ruthful faces!
_Boats._ How they duck!
This senceless, silent courtesie methinks,
Shews like two _Turks_, saluting one another,
Upon two _French_ Porters backs.
_Ses._ They are my Countrey-men,
And this, some forc'd infliction from the tyrant;
What are you, why is this? why move thus silent
As if you were wandring shadows? why so sad?
Your tongues seal'd up; are ye of several Countries?
You understand not one another?
_Gun._ That's an _Englishman_,
He looks as though he had lost his dog.
_Ses._ Your habits
Shew ye all _Neopolitanes_; and your faces
Deliver you oppressed things; speak boldly:
Do you groan and labor under this stiff yoak?
_Mast._ They shake their heads and weep.
_Ses._ Oh misery!
Give plenteous sorrow, and no tongues to shew 'em!
This is a studied cruelty.
_1 Cit._ Begone Sir,
It seems you are a stranger, and save your self.
_2 Cit._ You wonder here at us; as much we wonder
To hear you speak so openly, and boldly,
The Kings command being publisht to the contrary;
'Tis death here, above two, to talk together;
And that must be but common salutation neither,
Short, and so part.
_Boats._ How should a man buy mustard,
If he be forc'd to stay the making of it?
_Within 1._ Clear all the streets before the King.
_1 Cit._ Get off Sir,
And shift as we must do. [_Exeunt Citizens._
_Ses._ I'll see his glory.
_Mast._ Stand fast now and like men. [_Flourish Colours._
_Enter_ Castruccio _like the King, in the midst of a Guard._ Villio.
_Cast._ Begin the game, Sir,
And pluck me down the Row
Of houses there.
They hide the view o'th' hill; and sink those Merchants,
Their ships are foul and stink.
_Mast._ This is a sweet youth.
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