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
_Come all sad and solemn Shows,_
_That are quick-ey'd pleasures foes;_
_We convent nought else but woes._
_We convent_, &c.
_3 Qu._ This funeral path, brings to your houshold[s] grave[:]
Joy seize on you again: peace, sleep with him.
_2 Qu._ And this to yours.
_1 Qu._ Yours this way: Heavens lend
A thousand differing ways to one sure end.
_3 Qu._ This world's a City full of straying streets,
And Death's the Market-place, where each one meets.
[_Exeunt severally._
_Actus Secundus. Scæna Prima._
_Enter Jaylor and Wooer._
_Jail._ I may depart with little, while I live, something I
May cast to you, not much: Alas the Prison I
Keep, though it be for great ones, yet they seldom
Come; before one _Salmon_, you shall take a number
Of Minnows: I am given out to be better lin'd
Than it can appear, to me report is a true
Speaker: I would I were really, that I am
Deliver'd to be: Marry, what I have (be it what
It will) I will assure upon my daughter at
The day of my death.
_Wooer._ Sir, I demand no more than your own offer,
And I will estate your Daughter, in what I
Have promised.
_Jail._ Well, we will talk more of this, when the solemnity
Is past; But have you a full promise of her?
_Enter Daughter._
When that shall be seen, I tender my consent.
_Wooer._ I have Sir; here she comes.
_Jail._ Your friend and I have chanced to name
You here, upon the old business: but no more of that.
Now, so soon as the Court-hurry is over, we will
Have an end of it: I' th' mean time look tenderly
To the two prisoners. I can tell you they are Princes.
_Daugh._ These strewings are for their Chamber; 'tis pity they
Are in prison, and 'twere pity they should be out: I
Do think they have patience to make any adversity
Asham'd; the prison it self is proud of 'em; and
They have all the world in their Chamber.
_Jail._ They are fam'd to be a pair of absolute men.
_Daugh._ By my troth, I think Fame but stammers 'em, they
Stand a grief above the reach of report.
_Jail._ I heard them reported in the battel, to be the only doers.
_Daugh._ Nay, most likely, for they are noble sufferers; I
Marvel how they would have look'd, had they been
Victors, that with such a constant Nobility, enforce
A freedom out of bondage, making misery their
Mirth, and affliction a toy to jest at.
_Jail._ Doe they so?
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