Beaumont and Fletcher's Works, Vol. 09 of 10Fletcher, John
General
Beaumont and Fletcher's Works, Vol. 09 of 10
Fletcher, John
English drama
_3._ Doe, and see what follows: I'll spend an hundred pound,
and be two I care not: but I'll undoe thee.
_2._ Peach, Oh disgrace! Peach in thy face, and doe the worst
thou canst: I am a true-man, and a free-man: peach!
_1._ Nay, look, you will spoil all.
_2._ Peach!
_1._ Whilst you two brawl together, the Prince will lose his
life.
_3._ Come, give me your hand, I love you well, are you for the
action?
_2._ Yes: but Peach provokes me, 'tis a cold fruit, I feel it
cold in my stomach still.
_3._ No more, I'll give you Cake to digest it.
_Enter the Fourth._
_4._ Shut up my shop, and be ready at a call boys, and one of
you run over my old tuck with a few ashes, 'tis grown odious
with tosting Cheese: and burn a little Juniper in my Murrin,
the Maid made it her Chamber-pot: an hour hence I'll come
again; and as you hear from me, send me a clean shirt.
_3._ The Chandler by th[e] Wharf, and it be thy Will.
_2._ Gossip, good morrow.
_4._ Oh good morrow Gossip: good morrow all, I see ye of one
mind you cleave so close together: come 'tis time, I have
prepared [a] hundred if they stand.
_1._ 'Tis well done: shall we sever, and about it?
_3._ First, let's to the Tavern, and a pint a piece will make
us Dragons.
_2._ I will have no mercy, come what will of it.
_4._ If my tuck hold, I'll spit the Guard like Larks with sage
between 'em.
_2._ I have a foolish Bill to reckon with 'em, will make some
of their hearts ake, and I'll lay it on: now shall I fight,
'twill do you good to see me.
_3._ Come, I'll do something for the Town to talk of when I am
rotten: pray God there be enough to kill, that's all. [_Exeunt._
_Enter_ Dorialus, Nisus, Agenor.
_Age._ How black the day begins!
_Dor._ Can you blame it, and look upon such a deed as shall be
done this morning?
_Nis._ Does the Prince suffer to day?
_Dor._ Within this hour they say.
_Agen._ Well, they that are most wicked are most safe: 'twill
be a strange justice, and a lamentable, gods keep us from the
too soon feeling of it.
_Doria._ I care not if my throat were next: for to live still,
and live here, were but to grow [f]at for the Shambles.
_Nis._ Yet we must do it, and thank 'em too, that our lives may
be accepted.
_Age._ Faith I'll go starve [my] self, or grow diseas'd to
shame the hangman; for I am sure he shall be my Herald, and
quarter me.
_Dor._ I, a plague on him, he's too excellent at Arms.
_Nisus._ Will you go see this sad sight, my Lord _Agenor_?
_Age._ I'll make a mourner.
_Dor._ If I could do him any good, I would goe,
The bare sight else will but afflict my spirit,
My prayers shall be as near him as your eyes:
As you find him setled, remember my love and service to his Grace.
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
Reviews
Reviews
No reviews yet
Be the first to share your thoughts on this work.
Elsewhere in the archive
Join the Discussion
Join the discussion
Sign in to leave a comment or review.
Sign InorCreate an account