Beaumont and Fletcher's Works, Vol. 07 of 10Fletcher, John
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Beaumont and Fletcher's Works, Vol. 07 of 10
Fletcher, John
English drama
_Pac._ This is he apprehends whores in the way of justice, and
lodges 'em in his own house, in the way of profit: he with
him, is the Grand Don _Vitelli_, 'twixt whom and _Fernando_
_Alvarez_, the mortal hatred is; he is indeed my Don's Bawd,
and does at this present, lodge a famous Curtizan of his,
lately come from _Madrid_.
_Vit._ Let her want nothing _Signior_, she can aske:
What loss or injury you may sustain
I will repair, and recompence your love:
Only that fellows coming I mislike,
And did fore-warn her of him: bear her this
With my best love, at night I'll visit her.
_Alg._ I rest your Lordships Servant.
_Vit._ Good ev'n, Signiors:
Oh _Alvarez_, thou hast brought a Son with thee
Both brightens, and obscures our Nation,
Whose pure strong beams on us, shoot like the Suns
On baser fires: I would to heaven my bloud
Had never stain'd thy bold unfortunate hand,
That with mine honor I might emulate,
Not persecute such virtue: I will see him,
Though with the hazard of my life: no rest
In my contentious spirits, can I find
Till I have gratify'd him in like kind. [_Exit._
_Alg._ I know you not: what are ye? hence ye base _Besegnios_.
_Pac. Mary Catzo Signior Alguazier_, d'ye not know us? why,
we are your honest neighbors, the Cobler, Smith, and Botcher,
that have so often sate snoaring cheek by joll with your
Signiorie, in rug at midnight.
_Laz._ Nay, good Signior, be not angry: you must understand, a
Cat, and such an Officer see best in the dark.
_Met._ By this hand, I could find in my heart to shooe his head.
_Pac._ Why then know you, _Signior_; thou mongril, begot at
midnight, at the Goal gate, by a Beadle, on a Catchpoles wife,
are not you he that was whipt out of _Toledo_ for perjury.
_Men._ Next; condemn'd to the Gallies for pilfery, to the Buls
pizel.
_Met._ And after call'd to the Inquisition, for Apostacie.
_Pac._ Are not you he that rather than you durst goe an
industrious voyage being press'd to the Islands, skulk'd
till the Fleet was gone, and then earn'd your Royal a day by
squiring puncks, and puncklings up and down the City?
_Laz._ Are not you a _Portuguize_ born, descended o' the
_Moors_, and came hither into _Sevil_ with your Master, an
arrant Tailor, in your red Bonnet, and your blue Jacket,
lousie, though now your block-head be cover'd with the
_Spanish_ block, and your lashed Shoulders with a Velvet Pee.
_Pac._ Are not you he that have been of thirty callings, yet
ne'r a one lawful? that being a Chandler first, profess'd
sincerity, and would sell no man Mustard to his Beef on the
Sabbath, and yet sold Hypocrisie all your life time?
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