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
_Daugh._ I can tell your fortune.
You are a fool: tell ten, I have poz'd him: Buz
Friend you must eat no white bread, if you do
Your teeth will bleed extremely, shall we dance ho?
I know you, y'are a Tinker: Sir, ha Tinker
Stop no more holes, but what you should.
_Sch. Dii boni._ A Tinker Damzell?
_Daug._ Or a Conjurer: raise me a devill now; and let him play.
_Quipassa_, o'th' bels and bones.
_Sch._ Go take her, and fluently persuade her to a peace:
_Et opus exegi, quod nec Jovis ira, nec ignis._
Strike up, and lead her in.
_2._ Come Lass, lets trip it.
_Daugh._ I'll lead. [_Wind Horns._
_3._ Doe, doe.
_Sch._ Persuasively, and cunningly: away boys,
[_Ex. all but Schoolemaster._
I hear the horns: give me some
Meditation, and mark your Cue;
_Pallas_ inspire me.
_Enter Thes. Pir. Hip. Emil. Arcite: and train._
_Thes._ This way the Stag took.
_Sch._ Stay, and edifie.
_Thes._ What have we here?
_Per._ Some Countrey sport, upon my life Sir.
_Thes._ Well Sir, goe forward, we will edifie.
Ladies sit down, we'll stay it.
_Sch._ Thou doughtie Duke all hail: all hail sweet Ladies.
_Thes._ This is a cold beginning.
_Sch._ If you but favor; our Country pastime made is,
We are a few of those collected here
That ruder Tongues distinguish villager,
And to say veritie, and not to fable;
We are a merry rout, or else a rable
Or company, or by a figure, _Chorus_
That for thy dignitie will dance a Morris.
And I that am the rectifier of all
By title Pedagogus, that let fall
The Birch upon the breeches of the small ones,
And humble with a Ferula the tall ones,
Doe here present this Machine, or this frame
And daintie Duke, whose doughtie dismall fame
From _Dis_ to _Dedalus_, from post to pillar
Is blown abroad; help me thy poor well willer,
And with thy twinckling eyes, look right and straight
Upon this mighty Morr--of mickle waight
Is--now comes in, which being glew'd together
Makes Morris, and the cause that we came hither
The body of our sport of no small study
I first appear, though rude, and raw, and muddy,
To speak before thy noble grace, this tenner:
At whose great feet I offer up my penner.
The next the Lord of May, and Lady bright,
The Chambermaid, and Servingman by night
That seek out silent hanging: Then mine Host
And his fat Spouse, that welcomes to their cost
The gauled Traveller, and with a beck'ning
Informes the Tapster to inflame the reck'ning:
Then the beast eating Clown, and next the fool,
The _Bavian_, with long tail, and eke long tool
_Cum multis aliis_, that make a dance,
Say I, and all shall presently advance.
_Thes._ I, I by any means, dear _Domine_.
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