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
_Enter Baptista and Mentivole._
_Ces._ How far am I grown behind hand with fortune!
_Bap._ Here's _Cesario_!
My son Sir, is to morrow to be married
Unto the fair _Clarissa_.
_Ces._ So.
_Ment._ Wee hope you'll be a guest there.
_Ces._ No I will not grace your triumph so much.
_Bap._ I will not tax your breeding.
But it alters not your birth Sir, fare you well.
_Ment._ Oh Sir, doe not greive him,
He has too much affliction already. [_Exeunt._
_Enter a Sailor._
_Ces._ Every way scorn'd and lost,
Shame follow you
For I am grown most miserable.
_Sail._ Sir do you know a Ladies son in town here
They cal _Cesario_?
_Cesar._ There's none such I assure thee.
_Sail._ I was told you were the man.
_Cesar._ What's that to thee?
_Sail._ A ---- on't. You are melancholy, will you drink Sir?
_Cesar._ With whom?
_Sail._ With me Sir; despise not this pitch'd Canvas; the
time was we have known them lin'd with Spanish Duckets;
I have news for you:
_Cesar._ For me!
_Sail._ Not unless you'll drink;
We are like our Sea provision, once out of pickle,
We require abundance of drink; I have news to tell you,
That were you Prince,
Would make you send your mandate
To have a thousand bonfires made i'th' City
And pist out agen with nothing but Greek wine.
_Cesar._ Come, I will drink with thee howsoever.
_Sail._ And upon these terms I will utter my mind to you. [_Exeunt._
_Actus Quintus. Scæna Prima._
_Enter Alberto, Prospero, Juliana and Sailors._
_Sail._ Shall we bring your necessaries ashore my Lord?
_Alb._ Do what you please, I am land-sick, worse by far
Than ere I was at sea.
_Pros._ Collect your self.
_Alber._ O my most worthy _Prospero_, my best friend,
The noble favor I receiv'd from thee
In freeing me from the Turks I now accompt
Worse than my death; for I shall never live
To make requitall; what do you attend for?
_Sail._ To understand your pleasure.
_Alber._ They do mock me;
I do protest I have no kind of pleasure
In any thing i'th' world, but in thy friendship,
I must ever except that.
_Pros._ Pray leave him, leave him.---- [_Exeunt Sailors._
_Alber._ The news I heard related since my landing
Of the division of my Family,
How is it possible for any man
To bear't with a set patience?
_Pros._ You have suffer'd
Since your imprisonment more waighty sorrows.
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