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
_Leu._ Up, up again _Timantus_,
There is no way but this, believe me.
Now if--Fie, fie _Timantus_, is there no
Usage can recover thee from baseness? wert thou
Longer to converse with men, I would have chid
Thee for this: be all thy faults forgiven.
_Tim._ Oh spare me Sir, I am not fit for death.
_Leu._ I think th[o]u art not, yet trust me, fitter than for
life: Yet tell me e'r thy breath be gone, know'st of any other
plots against me?
_Tim._ Of none.
_Leu._ What course wouldst thou have taken, when thou hadst
kill'd me?
_Tim._ I would have ta'en your Page, and married her.
_Leu._ What Page?
_Tim._ Your boy there. [_Dies._
[Urania _sounds_.
_Leu._ Is he fall'n mad in death, what does he mean?
Some good god help me at the worst: how dost thou?
Let not thy misery vex me, thou shalt have
What thy poor heart can wish: I am a Prince,
And I will keep thee in the gayest cloaths,
And the finest things, that ever pretty boy had given him.
_Ura._ I know you well enough,
Feth I am dying, and now you know all too.
_Leu._ But stir up thy self; look what a Jewel here is,
See how it glisters: what a pretty shew
Will this make in thy little ear? ha, speak,
Eat but a bit, and take it.
_Ura._ Do you not know me?
_Leu._ I prethee mind thy health: why that's well said my good
boy, smile still.
_Ura._ I shall smile till death an I see you, I am _Urania_,
your Sister-in-law.
_Leu._ How?
_Ura._ I am _Urania_.
_Leu._ Dulness did seize me, now I know thee well;
Alas, why cam'st thou hither?
_Ura._ Feth for love, I would not let you know till I was
dying; for you could not love me, my Mother was so naught.
_Leu._ I will love thee, or any thing: what? wilt
Thou leave me as soon as I know thee?
Speak one word to me: alas she's past it,
She will ne'er speak more.
What noise is that? it is no matter who
_Enter_ Ismenus _with the Lords_.
Comes on me now. What worse than mad are you
That seek out sorrows? if you love delights
Begone from hence.
_Isme._ Sir, for you we come, as Soldiers to revenge the wrongs
you have suffer'd under this naughty creature: what shall be
done with her? say, I am ready.
_Leu._ Leave her to Heaven, brave Cosin, they shall tell her
how she has sinn'd against 'em, my hand shall never be stain'd
with such base bloud: live wicked Mother: that reverend Title
be your pardon, for I will use no extremity against you, but
leave you to Heaven.
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