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
_Wild._ Do, and I'll wonder too to see this company
At peace one with another; 'tis not worth
Your admiration, I was never dead yet;
Y' re merry Aunt, I see, and all your company:
If ye be not, I'll fool up, and provoke ye:
I will do any thing to get your love again:
I'll forswear Midnight Taverns and Temptations;
Give good example to your Grooms, the Maids
Shall go to bed, and take their rest this year;
None shall appear with blisters in their bellies.
_Lur._ And when you will fool again, you may go ring.
_Wild._ Madam, have mercy.
_La._ Your submission, Sir,
I gladly take; we will
Enquire the reason of this habit afterwards;
Now you are soundly sham'd, well, we restore you
Where's _Toby_?
Where's the Coachman?
_Nur._ He's a bed, Madam.
And has an ague, he says.
_Lur._ I'll be his Physitian.
_La._ We must afoot then.
_Lur._ E'er the Priest ha done
_Toby_ shall wait upon you with his Coach,
And make your _Flanders_ Mares dance back agen we'ye,
I warrant you Madam you are mortified,
Your sute shall be granted too.
_Wild._ Make, make room afore the[re].
_La._ Home forward with glad hearts, home child.
_Ma._ I wait you.
_Ha._ On joyfully, the cure of all our grief,
Is owing to this pretty little Thief. [_Exeunt omnes._
APPENDIX.
_In the following references to the text the lines are numbered
from the top of the page, including titles, acts, stage
directions, &c., but not, of course, the headline or mere
'rules.' Where, as in the lists of Persons Represented,_
_there are double columns, the right-hand column is
numbered after the left._
It has not been thought necessary to record the correction of every
turned letter nor the substitution of marks of interrogation for
marks of exclamation and _vice versâ_. Full-stops have been silently
inserted at the ends of speeches and each fresh speaker has been given
the dignity of a fresh line: in the double-columned folio the speeches
are frequently run on. Misprints in the Quartos and the First Folio
are recorded when they appear to be interesting. A word or two from
the printed text is attached to the variants recorded below in cases
where the variant, by itself, would not be sufficiently clear. Altered
punctuation is shown, usually, by printing the old punctuation between
the preceding and following words.
=A= = First folio. =B= = Second folio.
MAID IN THE MILL.
p. =1=, ll. 3-53. _Not in_ A.
p. =2=, l. 2 A] Ismena l. 33. B] unhappy?
p. =3=, l. 36. A] fight arm'd,
p. =4=, l. 2. _Colon supplied from_ A. l. 5. B _omits_] the belly
p. =5=, l. 1. B _omits_] I ... leggs l. 19. A] cause
p. =6=, l. 6. _Parenthesis supplied after_ ruine, _from_ A. l. 25. B]
drives whiteness l. 27. A _omits_] not l. 33. B] _Mer._ l. 38. A] such
a one
p. =7=, l. 37. B] to
p. =9=, l. 18. A] we are
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