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
_Mar._ Take heed, blush not too deep; let me advise you
In your answer, 't must be done heedfully.
_Ant._ I should not see a Masculine in peace
Out of that house.
_Am._ Alas, I'm a child, Sir,
Your hates cannot last till I wear a sword.
_Ant._ Await me for your answer.
_Mar._ He must see her,
To manifest his shame: 'tis my advantage;
While our bloud's under us, we keep above:
But then we fall, when we do fall in love. [_Exeunt._
_Actus Tertius. Scæna Prima._
_Enter_ Julio _and_ Franio.
_Fra._ My Lord, my Lord, your house hath injur'd me,
Rob'd [me] of all the joys I had on earth.
_Jul._ Where wert thou brought up (fellow?)
_Fra._ In a Mill.
You may perceive it by my loud exclaims,
Which must rise higher yet.
_Jul._ Obstreperous Carle,
If thy throats tempest could o'erturn my house,
What satisfaction were it for thy child:
Turn thee the right way to thy journeys end.
Wilt have her where she is not?
_Fra._ Here was she lost,
And here must I begin my footing after;
From whence, until I meet a pow'r to punish,
I will not rest: You are not quick to grief.
Your hearing's a dead sense. Were yours the loss,
Had you a Daughter [stoln], perhaps be-whor'd,
(For to what other end should come the thief?)
You'ld play the Miller then, be loud and high.
But being not a sorrow of your own,
You have no help nor pity for another.
_Jul._ Oh, thou hast op'd a Sluce was long shut up,
And let a floud of grief in; a buried grief
Thy voice hath wak'd again: a grief as old
As likely 'tis thy child is; friend, I tell thee,
I did once lose a Daughter.
_Fra._ Did you, Sir?
Beseech you then, how did you bear her loss?
_Jul._ With thy grief trebled.
_Fra._ But was she stolen from you?
_Jul._ Yes, by devouring thieves, from whom cannot
Ever return a satisfaction:
The wild beasts had her in her swathing clothes.
_Fra._ Oh much good do 'em with her.
_Jul._ Away tough churle.
_Fra._ Why, she was better eaten than my child,
Better by beasts, than beastly men devoured,
They took away a life, no honor from her:
Those beasts might make a Saint of her, but these
Will make my child a devil but was she, Sir,
Your only Daughter?
_Enter_ Gilian.
_Jul._ I ne'r had other (Friend.)
_Gill._ Where are you (man?) your business lies not here,
Your Daughters in the Pound, I have found where;
'Twill cost [you] dear, her freedom.
_Fra._ I'll break it down,
And free her without pay:
Horse-locks nor chains shall hold her from me.
_Jul._ I'll take this relief.
I now have time to speak alone with grief. [_Exit._
_Fra._ How? my Landlord? he's Lord of my Lands
But not my Cattle: I'll have her again (_Gill._)
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