Beaumont and Fletcher's Works, Vol. 09 of 10Fletcher, John
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Beaumont and Fletcher's Works, Vol. 09 of 10
Fletcher, John
English drama
_Ment. Clarissas_, troth and mine,
_Cesario_, are recorded in a character
So plain and certain, that except the hand
Of heaven, which writ it first, would blot it out again,
No humane power can raze it.
_Ces._ But say you so too young Lady?
_Cla._ I should else betray
My heart to falshood, and my tongue to perjury.
_Ces._ Madam, you know the sentence.
_Bap._ From the Duke,
I have particular comforts which require
A private [e]are.
_Mar._ I shall approve it gladly
We are resolv'd _Cesario_.
_Bap._ Be not insolent upon a Princes favor.
_Cla._ Loose no glory,
Your younger years have purchast.
_Ment._ And deserved too, y'have many worthy freinds.
_Bap._ Preserve and use them. [_Exeunt. Manet Cesar._
_Ces._ Good, very good, why here's a complement
Of mirth in desperation, I could curse
My fate: O with what speed men tumble down
From hopes that soar too high. _Biancha_ now
May scorn me justly too, _Clarissa_ married,
_Alberto's_ widdow resolute, _Biancha_
Refus'd, and I forsaken: let me study,
I can but die a Batchelor that's the worst on't. [_Exit._
_Enter Host, Taylor, Muliter, Dancer, Pedant, Coxcombe._
_Host._ Come Gentlemen,
This is the day that our great artist hath
Promis'd to give all your severall suits satisfaction.
_Dancer._ Is he stirring?
_Host._ He hath been at his book these t[w]o hours.
_Pedant._ He's a rare Physitian.
_Host._ Why I'll tell you,
Were _Paracelsus_ the German now
Living, he'd take up his single rapier against his
Terrible long sword, he makes it a matter of nothing
To cure the gout, sore eyes he takes out as familiarly,
Washes them, and puts them in again,
As you'd blanch almonds.
_Tay._ They say he can make gold.
_Host._ I, I, he learnt it of Kelly in Germanny.
There's not a Chymist
In christendome can goe beyond him for multiplying.
_Pedant._ Take heed then;
He get not up your daughters belly my Host.
_Host._ You are a merry Gentleman
And the man of art will love you the better.
_Dancer._ Does he love mirth and crotchets?
_Host._ O he's the most courteous Physitian,
You may drink or drab in's company freely,
The better he knows how your disease grows,
The better he knows how to cure it.
_Danc._ But I wonder my Host
He has no more resort of Ladyes to him.
_Host._ Why Sir?
_Dan._ O divers of them have great beleif in conjurers:
Lechery is a great help to the quality.
_Host._ He's scarce known to be in town yet,
Ere long we shall have 'em come
Hurrying hither in Fetherbeds.
_Dan._ How? bedridden?
_Host._ No sir, in fetherbeds that move upon 4 wheels in
Spanish caroches.
_Ped._ Pray accquaint him we give attendance.
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