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
_Boy._ We must bury her.
_Lur._ But were o'th sudden, or with what providence,
That no eyes watch us.
_Mi._ Take a Spade and follow me,
The next fair ground we meet, make the Church-yard;
As I live, I'll see her lodg'd. [_Exit._
_Lu._ It must be so,
How heavy my heart is, I ha no life left.
_Boy._ I am past thinking too, no understanding,
That I should miss the right Chest.
_Lu._ The happy Chest.
_Boy._ That, which I saw and markt too.
_Lu._ Well passion wo'not help us,
Had I twenty falls for this!
_Boy._ 'Twas my fault sir.
And twenty thousand fears for this, oth'devil,
Now could I curse, well, we have her now,
And must dispose her.
_Enter Mistress._
_Mi._ Hang both for two blind buzzards, here's a Spade
Quickly or I'll call the neighbors.
There's no remedy,
Would the poor hungry prisoners had this pastie. [_Exeunt._
_Enter Justice, and a Servant with a light._
_Ser._ 'Twas a strange mischance Sir.
_Ju._ Mischance, sayst? No 'twas happiness to me,
There's so much charge say'd, I have her portion,
I'll marry twenty more on such conditions.
_Ser._ Did it not trouble you Sir,
To see her dead?
_Ju._ Not much, I thank my conscience;
I was tormented till that happen'd, furies
Were in my brain to think my self a Cuckold
At that time of the night:
When I come home, I charge you shut my doors,
Locks, bolts, and bars, are little enough to secure me.
_Ser._ Why, and please you?
_Ju._ Fool to ask that question;
To keep out women, I expect her Mother
Will visit me with her clamors, oh I hate
Their noise, and do abhor the whole sex heartily;
They are all walking Devils, Harpyes: I will study
A week together how to rail sufficiently,
Upon 'em all, and that I may be furnish'd,
Thou shalt buy all the railing Books and Ballads,
That Malice hath invented against women,
I will read nothing else, and practise 'em,
Till I grow fat with curses.
_Ser._ If you'll go
To th'charge, let me alone to find you Books.
_Ju._ They come neer us.
_Ser._ Whats that?
_Ju._ Where? hold up the Torch Knave.
_Ser._ Did you hear nothing, 'tis a ----
_Ju._ Why dost make a stand?
_Ser._ Whats that?
_Ju._ Where, where, dost see any thing?
We are hard by the Church-yard, and I was never
Valiant at midnight in such irksome places;
They say Ghosts walk sometimes, hark, de'e hear nothing?
_Enter Lurcher, Boy, and Mistress._
_Mi._ No farther, dig here, and lay her in quickly.
_Lur._ What light is that Boy, we shall be discover'd;
Set the Coffin up an end, and get behind me,
There's no avoiding.
_Boy._ Oh!
_Ju._ Where's that groan? I begin to be afraid.
_Ser._ What shall we do Sir?
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