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
_Dori._ Faith I would have had him rosted like a warden in a
brown paper, and no more talk on't: or a feather stuck in's
head, like a Quail: or a hanged him in a Dog-coller: what
should he be beheaded? we shall have it grow so base shortly,
Gentlemen will be out of love with it.
_Nis._ I wonder from whence this of the Dwarf's first sprung?
_Dor._ From an old leacherous pair of breeches that lay upon a
wench to keep her warm: for certainly they are no mans work:
and I am sure a Monkey would get one of the guard to this
fellow, he was no bigger than a small Portmanteu, and much
about that making if'tad legs.
_Age._ But Gentlemen, what say you to the _Prince_?
_Nis._ I, concerning his being sent I know not whither.
_Dorialus._ Why then he will come home I know not when: you
shall pardon me, I'll talk no more of this subject, but say,
gods be with him where ere he is, and send him well home again:
For why, he is gone, or when he will return, let them know that
directed him: Only this, there's mad Morisco's in the state;
but what they are, I'll tell you when I know. Come, let's go,
hear all, and say nothing.
_Agen._ Content. [_Exeunt._
_Enter Timantus, and Telamon._
_Tela. Timantus_, is the _Duke_ ready yet?
_Tima._ Almost.
_Tela._ What ails him?
_Tima._ Faith I know not, I think he has dreamt he's but
eighteen: has been wors[e] since he sent you forth for the
frizling iron.
_Tel._ That cannot be, he lay in Gloves all night, and this
morning I brought him a new _Periwig_, with a lock at it, and
knockt up a swing in's chamber.
_Tim._ O but since, his Taylor came, and they have fallen out
about the fashion on's cloaths: and yonders a fellow come, has
board a hole in's ear; and he has bespoke a Vaulting-horse, you
shall see him come forth presently: he looks like Winter, stuck
here and there with fresh flowers.
_Tela._ Will he not Tilt think you?
_Tima._ I think he will.
_Tela._ What does he mean to doe?
_Tim._ I know not: but by this light I think he is in love; he
wou'd ha' bin shav'd but for me.
_Tela._ In love with whom?
_Tim._ I could guess, but you shall pardon me: he will take me
along with him some-whither.
_Tela._ I overheard him ask your opinion of some bodies beauty.
_Tima._ Yes, there it goes, that makes him so youthfull, and
h'as layd by his Crutch, and halts now with a leading staff.
_Enter Leontine with a staff and a looking glass._
_Leon. Timantus_.
_Tim._ Sir.
_Leon._ This Feather is not large enough.
_Tim._ Yes faith, 'tis such [a] one as the rest of the young
Gallants wear.
_Leon. Telamon_, does it doe well?
_Tela._ Sir, it becomes you, or you become it, the rareliest--
_Leon._ Away, dost think so?
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