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
_Foro._ A most ungratefull calling.
_Mule._ There's money for your direction; the price of the Oxe
Sir?
_Foro._ A hundred French crowns, for it must be a
_Lincolne_-shire Oxe, and a prime one: For a rare and monstrous
spectacle, to be seen at _Madrill_.
_Enter Clown, Hostess, and Bianca._
_Hostes._ Pray forbear sir, we shall have a new quarrell.
_Clow._ You durst not meet me 'ith field, I am therefore come
to spoyl your market.
_Foro._ What's the newes with you sir.
_Clow._ Gentlemen, you that come hither to be most abominably
cheated, listen, and be as wise as your planet will suffer you,
keep your mony, be not gul'd, be not laught at.
_Pedant._ What means this? would I had my mony again in my
pocket.
_Host._ The fellow is full of malice, do not mind him.
_Clow._ This profest cheating rogue was my master, and I
confess my self a more preternotorious rogue than himself, in
so long keeping his villainous counsell.
_Foro._ Come, come, I will not hear you.
_Clow._ No couz'ner, thou wouldest not hear me, I do but dare
thee to suffer me to speak, and then thou and all thy divells
spit fire, and spout _Aqua fortis_.
_Foro._ Speak on, I freely permit thee.
_Clow._ Why then know all you simple animals, you whose purses
are ready to cast the calf; if they have not cast it already,
if you give any credit to this jugling rascal, you are worse
than simple widgins, and will be drawn into the net by this
decoy duck, this tame cheater.
_Foro._ Ha, ha, ha, pray mark him.
_Clow._ He does profess Physicke, and counjuring; for his
Physick; he has but two medicines for all manner of diseases;
when he was i'th' low countryes, he us'd nothing but butter'd
beer, colour'd with Allegant, for all kind of maladies, and
that he called his catholick med'cine; sure the Dutch smelt out
it was butter'd beer, else they would never have endur'd it
for the names sake: then does he minister a grated Dogs turd
instead of Rubarb, many times of Unicornes horn, which working
strongly with the conceit of the Patient, would make them
bescummer to the height of a mighty purgation.
_Foro._ The rogue has studied this invective.
_Clow._ Now for his conjuring, the witches of _Lapland_ are the
divells chare-women to him, for they will sell a man a wind to
some purpose; he sells wind, and tells you fortie lyes over and
over.
_Hostess._ I thought what we should find of him.
_Host._ Hold your prating, be not you an heretick.
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