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
_Pal._ If he keep touch, he dies for't. [_Exit._
_Scæna Quarta._
_Enter Jaylors daughter._
_Daugh._ I am very cold, and all the Stars are out too,
The little Stars, and all, that look like aglets:
The Sun has seen my Folly: _Palamon_;
Alas no; he's in heaven; where am I now?
Yonder's the sea, and there's a Ship; how't tumbles
And there's a Rock lies watching under water;
Now, now, it beats upon it; now, now, now,
There's a leak sprung, a sound one, how they cry!
Upon her before the wind, you'll loose all els:
Up with a course or two, and tack about Boys.
Good night, good night, y'are gone; I'm very hungry,
Would I could find a fine Frog; he would tell me
News from all parts o'th' world, then would I make
A Careck of a Cockle-shell, and sayll
By East and North East to the King of _Pigmies_,
For he tels fortunes rarely. Now my Father
Twenty to one is trust up in a trice
To morrow morning, I'll say never a word.
_Sing._
_For I'll cut my green coat, afoot above my knee,_
_And I'll clip my yellow locks; an inch below mine eie._
_hey, nonny, nonny, nonny._
_He's buy me a whit Cut, forth for to ride_
_And I'll goe seek him, throw the world that is so wide._
_hey nonny, nonny, nonny._
O for a prick now like a Nightingale, to put my brest
Against. I shall sleep like a Top else. [_Exit._
_Scæna_ [5].
_Enter a Schoolmaster 4. Countrymen: and Baum._
_2. or 3., with a Taborer._
_Sch._ Fy, fy, what tediosity, & disensanity is here among ye?
have my Rudiments bin labour'd so long with ye? milk'd unto
ye, and, by a figure, even the very plumbroth & marrow of my
understanding laid upon ye? and do you still cry where, and
how, & wherefore? you most course freeze capacities, ye jave
Judgements, have I said thus let be, and there let be, and then
let be, and no man understand me, _prob deum, medius fidius_,
ye are all dunces: For why here stand I. Here the Duke comes,
there are you close in the Thicket; the Duke appears, I meet
him, and unto him I utter learned things, and many figures,
he hears, and nods, and hums, and then cries rare, and I goe
forward, at length I fling my Cap up; mark there; then do you
as once did _Meleager_, and the _Bore_ break comely out before
him: like true lovers, cast your selves in a Body decently, and
sweetly, by a figure trace, and turn Boys.
_1._ And sweetly we will doe it Master _Gerrold_.
_2._ Draw up the Company, Where's the Taboror?
_3._ Why _Timothy_?
_Tab._ Here my mad boys, have at ye.
_Sch._ But I say where's their wom[e]n?
_4._ Here's _Friz_ and _Maudline_.
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