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
_2. Daugh._ A trick Sir, that we us'd,
A certain policy conducted 'em
Unto our snare: we have done ye no small service;
These us'd as we intend, we are for th' battel,
_Car._ As you intend? taken by treachery?
_1. Daugh._ Is't not allow'd?
_Car._ Those that should gild our Conquest,
Make up a Battel worthy of our winning,
Catch'd up by craft?
_2. Daugh._ By any means that's lawfu[l].
_Car._ A womans wisdom in our triumphs? out,
Out ye sluts, ye follies; from our swords
Filch our revenges basely? arm again, Gentlemen:
Soldiers, I charge ye help 'em.
_2. Daugh._ By ---- Uncle,
We will have vengeance for our rapes.
_Car._ By ----
You should have kept your legs close then: dispatch there.
_1. Daug._ I will not off thus.
_Car._ He that stirs to execute,
Or she, though it be your selves, by him that got me,
Shall quickly feel mine anger: one great day given us,
Not to be snatch'd out of our hands but basely;
And we must shame the gods from whence we have it,
With setting snares for Soldiers? I'll run away first,
Be hooted at, and children call me coward,
Before I set up scales for Victories:
Give 'em their swords.
_2 Daugh._ O gods.
_Car._ Bear off the women
Unto their Mother.
_2 Dau._ One shot, gentle Uncle.
_Car._ One cut her fiddle-string: Bear 'em off I say.
_1 Dau._ The ---- take this fortune.
_Car._ Learn to spin,
And curse your knotted hemp: go Gentlemen, [_Exeunt Daughters._
Safely go off, up to your Troops: be wiser,
There thank me like tall Soldiers: I shall seek ye. [_Exit Caratach._
_Cur._ A noble worth.
_Dec._ Well _Junius_.
_Jun._ Pray ye no more.
_Cur._ He blushes, do not load him.
_Dec._ Where's your love now? [_Drums loud again._
_Jun._ Puffe, there it flies: Come, let's redeem our follies.
[_Exeunt Junius, Curius, Decius._
_Dru._ Awake, Sir; yet the _Roman_ Bodie's who[l]e,
I see 'em clear again.
_Pen._ Whole? 'tis not possible:
_Drusus_ they must be lost.
_Dru._ By ---- they are whole, Sir,
And in brave doing; see, they wheel about
To gain more ground.
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