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
_Ju._ What is it? Treason?
_Lur._ 'Tis little better, I can tell you I have lodg'd
A crew of the most rank and desperate villains:
They talk of robberies and waies they did 'em;
And how they left men bound i[n] their studies.
_Ju._ With Books and Ballads?
_Lur._ That Sir, that, and murders,
And thousand knaveries more, they're very rich Sir,
In Money, Jewels, Chains, and a hundred more
Devices.
_Ju._ Happy, happy Constable, I meet ye
At the back door, get ready knaves.
_Lur._ Not a man I beseech you,
I have privately appointed strength about me,
They cannot start, your men would breed suspition;
All my desire is, you would come alone;
That you might have the hope of the enterprise,
That you might hear 'em first, and then proceed, Sir.
_Ju._ I come, I come.
_Lur._ 'Tis very well. [_Exit._
_Ju._ Keep all my doors fast, 'tis something late.
_Lur._ So, so, and please your worship I[le] direct you.
_Enter Boy._
_Boy._ My Master staies, I doubt his lime-twigs catch not,
If they doe, all's provided; but I all
This while forget my own state, fair _Maria_
Is certainly alive, I met her in
Another habit, with her Nurse, 'twas she:
There is some trick in't, but when this is over,
I'll find it out, this project for the Usurer
May have good effect; however, 'twill be sport
To mortifie him a little;
_Enter_ Lurcher.
He's come without him:
Have you fail'd, Sir?
_Lur._ Prosper'd? my little Ingineer; away,
He is i'th' next room, be not you seen, sirrah. [_Exit._
_Boy._ The pitfall's ready, never Justice
Was catcht in such a nooze: e'er he get out,
He shall run through a scouring purgatory,
Shall purge him to the quick, 'tis night already. [_Exit._
_Enter_ Algripe _and_ Lurcher.
_Lur._ Come softly, yet Sir, softly, are you not weary?
_Ju._ Th'ast brought me into a melancholy place,
I see no creature.
_Lur._ This is, Sir, their Den
Where they suppose themselves secure, I am faint,
With making haste; but I must be thus troubled,
And therefore never go without a Cordial; [_Seems to drink._
Without this I should dye;
How it refreshes me
Already! will't please your worship? I might have had
The manners to ha' let you drink before me;
Now am I lusty.
_Ju._ 'T[h]as a good taste.
_Lur._ Taste? how d'ye find the virtue, nay Sir, spare it not:
My wife has the Receipt, does it not stir
Your Worships body? when you come to examine,
'Twill make you speak like thunder.
_Ju._ Hoy he.
_Lur._ It works already.
_Ju._ Is there never a chair, I was wearier than I thought,
But who shall we have to take 'em. Mr. Constable?
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