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
_Isab._ I'll ne'r live with him,
I crave your loves all to make known my cause,
That so a fair Divorce may pass between us,
I am weary of my life: in danger hourly.
_Bar._ You see how rude you are, I will not miss ye,
Unsufferable rude: I'll pay him soundly,
You should be whipt in Bedlam: I'll reward him.
_2 Gentlew._ Whipping's too good.
_Lop._ I think I am alive still,
And in my wits.
_Bar._ I'll put a trick upon him,
And get his goods confiscate: you shall have 'em;
I will not fail at nine.
_Lop._ I think I am here too,
And once I would have sworn I had taken her napping,
I think my name is _Lopez_.
_Gent._ Fie for shame, Sir,
You see you have abus'd her, fouly wrong'd her,
Hung scandalous and course opinions on her,
Which now you find but children of suspition:
Ask her forgiveness, shew a penitence,
She is my kinswoman, and what she suffers
Under so base and beastly jealousies,
I will redress else, I'll seek satisfaction.
_Bar._ Why, every boy i' th' Town will piss upon thee.
_Lop._ I am sorry for't.
_1 Gentlew._ Down o' your marrow-bones.
_Lop._ Even sorry from my heart: forgive me sweet wife,
Here I confess most freely I have wrong'd ye,
As freely here I beg a pardon of ye,
From this hour no debate, no cross suspition--
_Isab._ To shew ye Sir I understand a wives part,
Thus I assure my love, and seal your pardon.
_2 Gentlew._ 'Tis well done, now to bed, and there confirm it.
_Gent._ And so good night.
_Bar._ Aware relapses, _Lopez_. [_Exeunt._
_Lop._ Now _Isabella_ tell me truth, and suddainly,
And do not juggle with me, nor dissemble,
For as I have a life ye dye then: I am not mad,
Nor does the Devil work upon my weakness,
Tell me the trick of this, and tell me freely.
_Isab._ Will then that satisfie ye?
_Lop._ If ye deal ingeniously.
_Isab._ I'll tell ye all; and tell ye true and freely.
_Bartello_ was the end of all this jealousie,
His often visitations brought by you, first
Bred all these fits, and these suspitions:
I knew your false key, and accordingly
I fram'd my plot, to have you take him finely,
Too poor a pennance for the wrong his wife bears,
His worthy virtuous wife: I felt it sensibly
When ye took off the string, and was much pleas'd in't,
Because I wish'd his importunate dotage paid well,
And had you staid two minutes more, ye had had him.
_Lop._ This sounds like truth.
_Isab._ Because this shall be certain,
Next time he comes, as long he cannot tarry,
Your self shall see, and hear, his lewd temptatio[n]s.
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