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
_Cesar._ Nay Sir, I will instruct you in a way
To kill me honorably.
_Alber._ That were most strange.
_Cesar._ I am turning Pirate, You may be imployed
By the Duke to fetch me in; and in a Sea-fight
Give me a noble grave.
_Alber._ Questionless he's mad: I would give any Doctor
A thousand crowns to free him from this sorrow.
_Cesar._ Here's the Physitian.----_Shewes a Poniard._
_Alber._ Hold Sir, I did say
To free you from the sorrow, not from life.
_Cesar._ Why life and sorrow are unseparable.
_Alber._ Be comforted _Cesario_, _Mentivole_
Shall not marry _Clarissa_.
_Cesar._ No Sir, ere he shall, I'll kill him.
_Alb[e]r._ But you forfeit your own life then.
_Cesar._ That's worth nothing.
_Alber. Cesario_, be thy self, be mine _Cesario_:
Make not thy self uncapable of that portion
I have full purpose to confer upon thee,
By falling into madness: bear thy wrongs
With noble patience, the afflicted's friend
Which ever in all actions crowns the end.
_Ces._ You well awak'd me; nay recover'd me
Both to sence and full life, O most noble sir,
Though I have lost my fortune, and lost you
For a worthy Father: yet I will not lose
My former virtue, my integrity
Shall not yet forsake me; but as the wild Ivy,
Spreads and thrives better in some pittious ruin
Of tower, or defac'd Temple, than it does
Planted by a new building; so shall I
Make my adversity my instrument
To winde me up into a full content.
_Alber._ 'Tis worthily resolv'd; our first adventure
Is to stop the marriage; for thy other losses,
Practis'd by a womans malice, but account them
Like conjurers winds rais'd to a fearfull blast,
And do some mischeif, but do never last. [_Exeunt._
_Enter Forobosco and Clown._
_Clow._ Now sir, will you not acknowledge that I have mightily
advanc'd your practice?
_Forobos._ 'Tis confest, and I will make thee a great man for't.
_Clow._ I take a course to do that my self, for I drink sack in
abundance.
_Foro._ O my rare rascall! We must remove.
_Clow._ Whither?
_Foro._ Any whither: _Europe_ is too little to be coz'ned by
us, I am ambitious to go to the _East-Indies_, thou and I to
ride on our brace of Elephants.
_Clow._ And for my part I long to be in _England_ agen; you
will never get so much as in _England_, we have shifted many
countryes, and many names: but trance the world over you shall
never purse up so much gold as when you were in _England_, and
call'd your self Doctor _Lambe_-stones.
_Foro._ 'Twas an atractive name I confess, women were then my
only admirers.
_Clow._ And all their visits was either to further their lust,
or revenge injuries.
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