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
_Fr._ Most vertuous Maid, I have done, forgive my follies:
Pardon, O pardon, I now see my wickedness,
And what a monstrous shape it puts upon me,
On your fair hand I seal.
_Enter_ Ju.
_Ju._ Down with the door.
_Ma._ We are betraid, oh _Frank, Frank_.
_Fr._ I'll dye for ye
Rather than you shall suffer, I'll-- [_Enter all._
_Ju._ Now enter.
Enter sweet Gentlemen, mine eyes, mine eyes,
Oh how my head [a]kes.
_1._ Is it possible?
_2._ Hold her, she sinks.
_Ma._ A plot upon my honor
To poyson my fair name, a studied villany,
Farewell, as I have hope of peace, I am honest.
_Ju._ My brains, my brains, my monstrous brains, they bud sure.
_Nu._ She is gone, she is gone.
_Ju._ A handsome riddance of her.
Would I could as easily lose her memory.
_Nur._ Is this the sweet of Marriage, have I bred thee
For this reward?
_1._ Hold, hold, he's desperate too.
_Ju._ Be sure ye hold him fast, we'll bind him over
To the next Sessions, and if I can, I'll hang him.
_Fr._ Nay then I'll live to be a terror to thee,
Sweet Virgin Rose farewell: heaven has thy beauty,
That's only fit for heaven. I'll live a little
To find the Villain out that wrought this injury,
And then most blessed soul, I'll climb up to thee.
Farewell, I feel my self another creature. [_Exit._
_La._ Oh misery of miseries.
_Nu._ I told ye Madam.
_La._ Carry her in, you will pay back her portion?
_Ju._ No not a penny, pay me back my credit,
And I'll condition wi'ye.
_La._ A sad wedding,
Her grave must be her Bridal bed: oh _Mall_,
Would I had wed thee to thy own content,
Then I had had thee still.
_Ju._ I am mad, farewell,
Another wanton wife will prove a hell. [_Exeunt._
_Actus Secundus._
_Enter_ Tom. Lurch, _and his Boy_.
_Lur._ What hast thou done?
_Boy._ I have walked through all the lodgings.
A silence as if death dwelt there inhabits.
_Lur._ What hast thou seen?
_Boy._ Nought but a sad confusion
Every thing left in such a loose disorder
That were there twenty theeves, they would be laden.
_Lu._ 'Tis very well, I like thy care, but 'tis strange
A wedding night should be so solitary.
_Boy._ Certainly there is some cause, some death or sickness
Is faln suddenly upon some friend,
Or some strange news is come.
_Lu._ Are they all a bed?
_Boy._ I think so, and sound asleep, unless it be
Some women that keep watch in a low parlor,
And drink, and weep, I know not to what end.
_Lur._ Where's all the plate?
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