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
_Swet._ Draw in, draw in: well have you fought, and worthy
_Romes_ noble recompence; look to your wounds,
The ground is cold and hurtful: the proud Queen
Has got a Fort, and there she and her Daughters
Defie us once again. To morrow morning
Wee'll seek her out, and make her know, our Fortunes
Stop at no stubborn walls: Come, sons of honor,
True virtues heirs; thus hatch'd with _Britain_ blood,
Let's march to rest, and set in gules like Suns.
Beat a soft march, and each one ease his neighbours. [_Exeunt._
_Actus Quartus. Scæna Prima._
_Enter_ Petillius, Junius, Decius, Demetrius _singing_.
Petill. _Smooth was his cheek,_
Dec. _And his chin it was sleek,_
Jun. _With whoop, he has done wooing._
Dem. Junius _was this Captains name,_
_A lad for a lasses viewing,_
Pet. _Full black his eye, and plump his thigh,_
Dec. _Made up for loves pursuing:_
Dem. _Smooth was his cheeck,_
Petill. _And his chin it was sleek,_
Jun. _With whoop, he has done wooing._
_Petill._ O my vex'd thief, art thou come home again?
Are thy brains perfect?
_Jun._ Sound as bels.
_Petill._ Thy back-worm
Quiet, and cast his sting, boy?
_Jun._ Dead, _Petillius_,
Dead to all folly, and now my anger only.
_Pet._ Why, that's well said: hang _Cupid_ and his quiver,
A drunken brawling Boy; thy honour'd saint
Be thy ten shillings, _Junius_, there's the money,
And there's the ware; square dealing: this but sweats thee
Like a Mesh nag, and makes thee look pin buttock'd;
The other runs thee whining up and down
Like a pig in a storm, fills thy brains full of madness,
And shews thee like a long _Lent_, thy brave body
Turn'd to a tail of green-fish without butter.
_Dec._ When thou lov'st next, love a good cup of Wine,
A Mistress for a King, she leaps to kiss thee,
Her red and white's her own; she makes good blood,
Takes none away; what she heats sleep can help,
Without a groping Surgeon.
_Jun._ I am counsell'd,
And henceforth, when I doat again,--
_Dem._ Take heed,
Ye had almost paid for't.
_Petill._ Love no more great Ladies,
Thou canst not step amiss then; there's no delight in 'em;
All's in the whistling of their snacht up silks;
They're only made for handsome view, not handling;
Their bodies of so weak and wash a temper,
A rough pac'd bed will shake 'em all to pieces;
A tough hen pulls their teeth out, tyres their souls;
_Plenæ rimarum sunt_, they are full of rynnet,
And take the skin off where they are tasted; shun 'em,
They live in cullisses like rotten cocks
Stew'd to a tenderness, that holds no tack:
Give me a thing I may crush.
_Jun._ Thou speak'st truly:
The Wars shall be my Mistriss now.
_Petil._ Well chosen,
For she's a bownsing lass, she'll kiss thee at night, boy,
And break thy pate i'th' morning.
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