Beaumont and Fletcher's Works, Vol. 08 of 10 — John Shaqi
Beaumont and Fletcher's Works, Vol. 08 of 10Fletcher, John
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Beaumont and Fletcher's Works, Vol. 08 of 10
Fletcher, John
English drama
_Petru._ If it be, I'll try all the Law i'th' Land, but I'll cut it
off: let's up, let's up, come.
_Jaq._ That you cannot neither.
_Petru._ Why?
_Jaq._ Unless you'll drop through the Chimney like a Daw, or force a
breach i'th' windows: you may untile the house, 'tis possible.
_Petru._ What dost thou mean?
_Jaq._ A moral, Sir, the Ballad will express it:
_The wind and the rain, has turned you back again,
And you cannot be lodged there._ The truth is, all the doors
Are baracadoed; not a Cathole, but holds a murd'rer in't.
She's victuall'd for this month.
_Petru._ Art not thou drunk?
_Soph._ He's drunk, he's drunk; come, come, let's up.
_Jaq._ Yes, yes, I am drunk: ye may go up, ye may
Gentlemen, but take heed to your heads: I say no more.
_Soph._ I'll try that. [_Exit_ Soph.
_Petron._ How dost thou say? the door fast lock'd fellow?
_Jaq._ Yes truly Sir, 'tis lock'd, and guarded too; and two as
desperate tongues planted behind it, as e'er yet batter'd: they stand
upon their honors, and will not give up without strange composition,
I'll assure you; marching away with their Pieces cockt, and Bullets
in their mouths, will not satisfie them.
_Petru._ How's this? how's this? they are--
Is there another with her?
_Jaq._ Yes marry is there, and an Enginier.
_Mor._ Who's that for Heavens sake?
_Jaq._ Colonel _Byancha_, she commands the works: _Spinola_'s but a
Ditcher to her, there's a half-moon: I am but a poor man, but if
you'll give me leave, I'll venture a years wages, draw all your force
before it, and mount your ablest Piece of battery, you shall not enter
it these three nights yet.
_Enter_ Sophocles.
_Petru._ I should laugh at that good _Jaques_.
_Soph._ Beat back again, she's fortified for ever.
_Jaq._ Am I drunk now, Sir?
_Soph._ He that dares most, go up now, and be cool'd.
I have scap'd a pretty scowring.
_Petru._ What are they mad? have we another _Bedlam_?
They do not talke I hope?
_Soph._ Oh terribly, extreamly fearful, the noise at _London-bridge_
is nothing near her.
_Petru._ How got she tongue?
_Soph._ As you got tail, she was born to't.
_Petru._ Lock'd out a doors, and on my wedding-night?
Nay, and I suffer this, I may goe graze:
Come Gentlemen, I'll batter; are these virtues?
_Soph._ Do, and be beaten off with shame, as I was: I went up, came
to th' door, knock'd, no body answer'd; knock'd louder, yet heard
nothing: would have broke in by force; when suddainly a Water-work
flew from the window with such violence, that had I not duck'd quickly
like a Fryer, _caetera quis nescit_? The chamber's nothing but a mere
_Ostend_, in every window Pewter Cannons mounted, you'll quickly find
with what they are charg'd, Sir.
_Petru._ Why then _tantara_ for us.
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