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
_4._ Content; the sports once ended, we'll perform. Away
Boys and hold.
_Arc._ By your leaves honest friends: Pray you w[h]ither goe you.
_4._ Whither? Why, what a question's that!
_Arc._ Yes, 'tis a question, to me that know not.
_3._ To the _Games_, my Friend.
_2._ Where were you bred you know it not?
_Arc._ Not far Sir,
Are there such _Games_, to day?
_1._ Yes marry are there:
And such as you never saw; The _Duke_, himself
Will be in person there.
_Arc._ What pastimes are they?
_2._ Wrastling, and Running; 'Tis a pretty Fellow.
_3._ Thou wilt not goe along.
_Arc._ Not yet Sir.
_4._ Well Sir
Take your own time, come Boys.
_1._ My mind misgives me
This fellow has a veng'ance trick o'th hip,
Marke how his Bodi's made for't.
_2._ I'll be hang'd though
If he dare venture, hang him plumb-porredge,
He wrestle? He rost eggs. Come lets be gon Lads. [_Exeunt 4._
_Arc._ This is an offer'd oportunity
I durst not wish for. Well, I could have wrestled,
The best men call'd it excellent, and run
Swifter, than wind upon a feild of Corn
(Curling the wealthy ears) never flew: I'll venture,
And in some poor disguize be there, who knows
Whether my brows may not be girt with garlands?
And happiness prefer me to a place,
Where I may ever dwell in sight of her. [_Exit Arcite._
_Scæena_ [4].
_Enter Jailors Daughter alone._
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