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
_On._ Burn eyes out in your sockets, sink and stink:
Teeth I will pick ye to the very bones,
Hang hair like Hemp, or like the _Isling_ Curs,
For never Powder, nor the Crisping-iron
Shall touch these dangling locks--oh--Ruby lips,
Love hath to you been like Wine-vinegar,
Now you look wan and pale, lips, ghosts ye are,
And my disgrace sharper than Mustard-seed.
_Cra._ How like a Chaundler he do's vent his passions,
_Risum teneatis_?
_On._ Well sung the Poet,
Love is a golden _[b]ubo_, full of Dreams:
That ripen'd breaks, and fills us with extreams.
_Tut._ A gold buble, pupill, Oh gross _solæcisme_
To chaster eares that understand the _Latine_.
_On._ I will not be corrected now:
I am in love, revenge is now the Cud
That I do chaw: I'll challenge him.
_Cra._ I marry Sir.
_Unc._ Your honor bids you Nephew, on, and prosper.
_On._ But none will bear it from me, times are dangerous.
_Cra._ Carry it your self man.
_On._ Tutor, your counsel: [I'll] do nothing Sir
Without him.
_Unc._ This may rid thee, (valiant Cuz.)
Whom I have kept this forty year my Ward:
Fain would I have his state, and now of late
He did inquire at _Ephesus_ for his age,
But the Church Book being burnt with _Dian's_ Temple
He lost his ayme: I have try'd to famish him,
Marry he'll live o'th stones: and then for Poysons,
He is an Antidote 'gainst all of 'em;
He sprung from _Mithridates_; he is so dry and hot,
He will eat Spiders faster than a Monkey:
His Maw (unhurt) keeps Quicksilver like a bladder,
The largest dose of _Camphire_, _Opium_,
Harmes not his Brain; I think his Skul's as empty
As a suckt Egg; _Vitriol_ and Oyle of _Tartar_
He will eat tosts of: _Henbane_ I am sure
And _Hemlock_ I have made his Pot-herbs often.
_Cra._ If he refuse you, yours is then the honor:
If he accept, he being so great, you may
Crave both to choose the Weapon, time, and place,
Which may be ten years hence, and _Calicut_,
Or underneath the line to avoid advantage.
_On._ I am resolved.
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