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. Tom Puppie._
Leave this way to abuse me: I have found ye,
But for your mothers sake I will forgive ye.
Your subtil understanding may discover
(As you think) some trim toy to make you merry;
Some straw to tickle ye; but do not trust to't;
Y' are a young man, and may do well: be sober:
Carry your self discreetly.
_Enter_ Decius, Demetrius, Curius.
_Jun._ Yes forsooth.
_Dem._ How does the brave _Petillius_?
_Jun._ Monstrous merry:
We two were talking what a kind of thing
I was when I was in love; what a strange monster
For little Boys and Girls to wonder at;
How like a fool I lookt.
_Dec._ So they do all,
Like great dull slavering fools.
_Jun. Petillius_ saw too.
_Pet._ No more of this, 'tis scurvie, peace.
_Jun._ How nastily,
Indeed, how beastly all I did became me!
How I forgot to blow my nose! there he stands,
An honest and a wise man; if himself
(I dare avouch it boldly, for I know it)
Should find himself in love--
_Petill._ I am angry.
_Jun._ Surely his wise self would hang his beastly self,
His understanding-self so mawl his ass-self--
_Dec._ He's bound to do it; for he knows the follies,
The poverties, and baseness that belongs to't,
H'as read upon the reformations long.
_Petill._ He has so.
_Jun._ 'Tis true, and he must do't:
Nor is it fit indeed any such coward--
_Petill._ You'll leave prating.
_Jun._ Should dare come near the Regiments, especially
Those curious puppies (for believe there are such)
That only love behaviours: those are dog-whelps,
Dwindle away, because a Woman dies well;
Commit with passions only: fornicate
With the free spirit merely: you, _Petillius_,
For you have long observ'd the World.
_Petill._ Dost thou hear?
I'll beat thee damnably within these three hours:
Go pray; may be I'll kill thee. Farewel Jack-daws. [_Exit._
_Dec._ What a strange thing he's grown!
_Jun._ I am glad he is so;
And stranger he shall be before I leave him.
_Cur._ Is't possible her mere death--
_Jun._ I observ'd him,
And found him taken, infinitely taken
With her bravery, I have follow'd him,
And seen him kiss his sword since, court his scabbard,
Call dying, dainty deer; her brave mind, Mistriss;
Casting a thousand ways, to give those forms,
That he might lie with 'em, and get old Armors:
He had got me o' th' hip once: it shall go hard, friends,
But he shall find his own coin.
_Enter_ Macer.
_Dec._ How now _Macer_?
Is Judas yet come in? [_Enter_ Judas.
_Mac._ Yes, and has lost
Most of his men too. Here he is.
_Car._ What news?
_Jud._ I have lodg'd him; rouze him he that dares.
_Dem._ Where, _Judas_?
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