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
_Lu._ All, all, and Jewels, I am monstrous weary,
Prethee let's go to bed.
_Mi._ Prethee lets see it first.
_Lu._ To morrow's a new day sweet.
_Mi._ Yes to melt it,
But let's agree to night, how it shall be handled,
I'll have a new gown.
_Lur._ 'Shat have any thing.
_Mi._ And such a riding suit as Mistress _Newloves_:
What though I be no Gentlewoman born,
I hope I may atchieve it by my carriage.
_Lu._ Thou sayst right.
_Mi._ You promis'd me a horse too, and a lackquay.
_Lur._ Thou shalt have horses six, and a postilion.
_Mi._ That will be stately sweet heart, a postilion.
_Lu._ Nay, we'll be in fashion; he shall ride before us
In winter, with as much dirt would dampe a musket;
The inside of our coach shall be of scarlet.
_Mi._ That will be dear.
_Lu._ There is a dye projecting
Will make it cheap, wench, come thou shalt have any thing.
_Mi._ Where is this chest, I long, sweet, to behold
Our Indies.
_Boy._ Mistress lets melt it first, and then 'tis fit
You should dispose it, then 'tis safe from danger.
_Mi._ I'll be a loving Mistress to my boy too.
Now fetch it in and lets rejoyce upon't.
_Boy._ Hold your light Mistress, we may see to enter.
_Mi._ Ha what's here? call you this a chest?
_Boy._ We ha mist Sir.
Our haste and want of light made us mistake.
_Mi._ A very Coffin.
_Lu._ How! a Coffin? Boy, 'tis very like one.
_Boy._ The devil ow'd us a shame, and now he has paid us.
_Mi._ Is this your Treasure?
_Boy._ Bury me alive in't.
_Lu._ It may be there is no room.
_Mi._ Nay, I will search it:
I'll see what wealth's within,--a womans face,
And a fair womans.
_Boy._ I cannot tell sir,
Belike this was the sadness that possest 'em;
The plate stood next, I'm sure.
_Lur._ I shake, I shake Boy, what a cold sweat--
_Boy._ This may work, what will become on's Sir?
_Mi._ She is cold, dead cold: de'e find 'your conscience,
De'e bring your Gillians hither--nay, she's punish'd,
You conceal'd love's cas'd up?
_Lur._ 'Tis _Maria_, the very same, the Bride, new horror!
_Mi._ These are fine tricks, you hope she's in a sound
But I'll take order she shall ne'r recover
To bore my Nose, come, take her up and bury her
Quickly, or I'll cry out; take her up instantly.
_Lu._ Be not so hasty fool, that may undo us;
We may be in for murther so; be patient,
Thou seest she's dead, and cannot injure thee.
_Mi._ I am sure she shall not.
_Boy._ Be not, Sir, dejected,
Too much a strange mistake! this had not been else,
It makes me almost weep to think upon't.
_Lu._ What an unlucky thief am I!
_Mi._ I'll no considering, either bestir your self, or--
_Lu._ Hold.
_Mi._ Let it not stay, to smell then, I will not
Indure the stink of a Rival.
_Lu._ Would 'twere there again.
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