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
_Gill._ You are not mad upon the sudden now.
_Fra._ No _Gill_. I have been mad these five hours:
I'll sell my Mill, and buy a Roring.
I'll batter down his house, and make a Stewes on't.
_Gill._ Will you gather up your wits a little
And hear me? the King's near by in progress,
Here I have got our supplication drawn,
And there's the way to help us.
_Fra._ Give it me (_Gill._)
I will not fear to give it to the King:
To his own hands (God bless him) will I give it,
And he shall set the Law upon their shoulders,
And hang 'em all that had a hand in it.
_Gill._ Where's your Son?
_Fra._ He shall be hang'd in flitches:
The Dogs shall eat him in _Lent_, there's Cats-meat
And Dogs-meat enough about him.
_Gill._ Sure the poor Girl is the _Counts_ whore by this time.
_Fra._ If she be the _Counts_ whore, the whores _Count_
Shall pay for it: He shall pay for a new Maiden-head.
_Gill._ You are so violous: this I'm resolv'd,
If she be a whore once, I'll renounce her,
You know, if every man had his right,
She's none of our child, but a meer foundling,
(And I can guess the owner for a need too)
We have but foster'd her.
_Fra. Gill._ no more of that,
I'll cut your tongue out, if you tell those tales.
Hark, hark, these _Toaters_ tell us the King's coming:
Get you gone; I'll see if I can find him. [_Exeunt._
_Enter_ Lisauro, Tersa, Pedro, _and_ Moncado.
_Lis._ Does the King remove to day?
_Ter._ So saies the Harbengers,
And keeps his way on to _Valentia_,
There ends the progress.
_Ped._ He hunts this morning Gentlemen,
And dines i'th' fields: the Court is all in readiness.
_Lis. Pedro_, did you send for this Tailor? or you _Moncado_?
This light _French_ Demi-launce that follows us.
_Ped._ No, I assure ye on my word, I am guiltless,
I owe him too much to be inward with him.
_Mon._ I am not quit I am sure: there is a reckoning
Of some four scarlet cloaks, and two lac'd suits
Hangs on the file still, like a fearful Comet
Makes me keep off.
_Lis._ I am in too Gentlemen,
I thank his faith, for a matter of three hundred.
_Ter._ And I for two, what a devil makes he this way?
I do not love to see my sins before me.
_Ped._ 'Tis the vacation, and these things break out
To see the Court, and glory in their debtors.
_Ter._ What do you call him for? I never love
To remember their names that I owe money to,
'Tis not gentile; I shun 'em like the plague ever.
_Lis._ His name's _Vertigo_: hold your heads, and wonder,
A French-man, and a founder of new Fashions:
The revolutions of all shapes and habits
Run madding through his brains. [_Enter_ Vertigo.
_Mon._ He is very brave.
_Lis._ The shreds of what he steals from us, believe it,
Makes him a mighty man: he comes, have at ye.
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