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
_Pet. None, I thank ye_;
A modest and a decent resolution,
And well put on. Yes, I will leave ye, _Junius_,
And leave ye to the boys, that very shortly
Shall all salute ye, by your new sirname
Of _Junius None I thank ye_. I would starve now,
Hang, drown, despair, deserve the _forks_, lie open
To all the dangerous passes of a wench,
Bound to believe her tears, and wed her aches,
E'r I would own thy follies. I have found ye,
Your lays, and out-leaps _Junius_, haunts, and lodges:
I have view'd ye, and I have found ye by my skill
To be a fool o'th' first head, _Junius_,
And I will hunt ye: ye are in love, I know it:
Ye are an ass, and all the Camp shall know it.
A peevish idle boy; your Dame shall know it;
[A wronger of my care; your self shall know it.]
_Enter Corporal_ Judas, _and four Soldiers_.
_Jud._ A Bean? a Princely diet, a full Banquet,
To what we compass.
_1 Sold._ Fight like Hogs for Acorns?
_2 Sold._ Venture our lives for Pig-nuts?
_Pet._ What ail these Rascals?
_3 Sold._ If this hold, we are starv'd.
_Jud._ For my part, friends,
Which is but twenty Beans a day, a hard world
For Officers, and men of action;
And those so clipt by master Mouse, and rotten:
For understand 'em _French_ Beans, where the fruits
Are ripen'd like the people in old tubs.
For mine own part, I say, I am starv'd already.
Not worth another Bean, consum'd to nothing,
Nothing but flesh and bones left, miserable:
Now if this mustie provender can prick me
To honourable matters of atchievment, Gentlemen,
Why there's the point.
_4 Sold._ I'll fight no more.
_Petill._ You'll hang then,
A sovereign help for hunger. Ye eating Rascals,
Whose gods are Beef and Brewis, whose brave angers
Do execution upon these, and Chibbals:
Ye dogs heads i'th' porridge-pot; you fight no more?
Does _Rome_ depend upon your resolution
For eating mouldy Pie-crust?
_3 Sold._ Would we had it.
_Jud._ I may do service, Captain.
_Petill._ In a fish-market.
You, Corporal Curry-Comb, what will your fighting
Profit the Common-wealth? do you hope to triumph,
Or dare your vamping valour, goodman Cobler,
Clap a new [soal] to th' Kingdom? s'death, ye dog-whelps
You, fight, or not fight.
_Jud._ Captain.
_Petill._ Out, ye flesh-flies,
Nothing but noise and nastiness.
_Jud._ Give us meat,
Whereby we may do.
_Petill._ Whereby hangs your valour?
_Jud._ Good bits afford good blows.
_Petill._ A good position:
How long is't since thou eat'st last, wipe thy mouth,
And then tell truth.
_Jud._ I have not eat to th' purpose--
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