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
_Clow._ And i'th' end will hang by a twine thred.
_Foro._ Besides the Island has too many of the profession, they
hinder on[e] anothers market.
_Clow._ No, no, the pillory hinders their market.
_Foro._ You know there the jugling captain.
_Clow._ I there's a sure card.
_Foro._ Only the fore-man of their jury is dead, but he dyed
like a Roman.
_Clow._ Else 'tis thought he had made work for the hangman.
_Foro._ And the very _Ball_, of your false prophets, he's
quasht too.
_Clow._ He did measure the stars with a false yard, and may now
travail to _Rome_, with a morter on's head to see if he can
recover his money that way.
_Foro._ Come, come, lets fish for this casket, and to Sea
presently.
_Clow._ We shall never reach _London_, I fear;
My mind runs so much of hanging, landing at _Wapping_. [_Exeunt._
_Enter Mariana._
This well may be a day of joy long wish'd for
To my _Clarissa_, she is innocent.
Nor can her youth but with an open bosome
Meet _Hymens_ pleasing bounties, but to me
That am inviron'd with black guilt and horror
It does appear a funeral though promising much
In the conception were hard to mannage
But sad in [the] event, it was not hate
But fond indulgence in me to preserve
_Cesario's_ threatn'd life in open court
Then forc'd me to disclaime him, choosing rather
To rob him of his birthright, and honor
Than suffer him to run the hazard of
Inrag'd _Baptista's_ fury, while he lives;
I know I have a Son, and the Dukes sentence
A while deluded, and this tempest over,
When he assures himself despair hath seiz'd him. [_Knock within._
_Enter Baptista._
I can relieve and raise him--speak, who is it
That presses on my privacies? Sir your pardon.
You cannot come unwelcome, though it were
To read my secret thoughts.
_Bap._ Lady to you
Mine shall be ever open; Lady said I,
That name keeps too much distance, sister rather
I should have stil'd you, and I now may claime it,
Since our divided families are made one
By this blessed marriage; to whose honor comes
The Duke in person, waited on by all
The braveries of his Court, to witness it,
And then to be our ghests, is the bride ready
To meet and entertain him?
_Maria._ She attends the comming of your Son.
_Bap._ Pray you bring her forth.
The Duke's at hand--Musick, in her loud voyce,
Speaks his arrivall.
_Maria._ She's prepar'd to meet it. [--_Exit._
_Enter_ Mariana, Clarissa, _led by two Maids: at the other_
_door_, Baptista _meets with_ Mentivole, _led by two Cour[t]iers,_
_the Duke, Bishop; divers Attendants: (A Song) whilst_
_they salute_.
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