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 have forgot it quite; the burden on't was _Down_
_A down a_: and penn'd by no worse man, than
_Giraldo_, _Emilias_ Schoolmaster; he's as
Fantastical too, as ever he may goe upon's legs,
For in the next world will _Dido_ see _Palamon_, and
Then will she be out of love with _Æneas_.
_Doct._ What stuff's here? poor soul.
_Jay._ Ev'n thus all day long.
_Daugh._ Now for this Charm, that I told you of, you must
Bring a piece of silver on the tip of your tongue,
Or no ferry: then if it be your chance to come where
The blessed spirits, as there's a sight now; we Maids
That have our Livers, perisht, crackt to pieces with
Love, we shall come there, and do nothing all day long
But pick Flowers with _Proserpine_, then will I make
_Palamon_ a Nosegay, then let him mark me,--then.
_Doct._ How prettily she's amiss! note her a little farther.
_Da[u]._ Faith I'll tell you, sometime we goe to Barly-break,
We of the blessed; alas, 'tis a sore life they have i' th'
Other place, such burning, frying, boiling, hissing,
Howling, chatt'ring, cursing, oh they have shrowd
Measure, take heed; if one be mad, or hang, or
Drown themselves, thither they goe, _Jupiter_ bless
Us, and there shall we be put in a Cauldron of
Lead, and Usurers grease, amongst a whole million of
Cut-purses, and there boil like a Gamon of Bacon
That will never be enough. [_Exit._
_Doct._ How her brain coins!
_Daugh._ Lords and Courtiers, that have got Maids with child,
they are in this place, they shall stand in fire up to the
Navel, and in Ice up to th' heart, and there th' offending part
burns, and the deceiving part freezes; in troth a very grievous
punishment, as one would think, for such a Trifle, believe me
one would marry a leprous witch, to be rid on't I'll assure you.
_Doct._ How she continues this fancie! 'Tis not an engraffed
madness but a most thick, and profound melancholly.
_Daugh._ To hear there a proud Lady, and a proud City wife,
howl together: I were a beast, and Il'd call it good sport: one
cries, oh this smoak, another this fire; one cries oh that I
ever did it behind the Arras, and then howls; th' other curses
a suing fellow and her Garden-house.
Sings. _I will be true, my Stars, my Fate, &c._ [_Exit Daugh._
_Jay._ What think you of her, Sir?
_Doct._ I think she has a perturbed mind, which I cannot
minister to.
_Jay._ Alas, what then?
_Doct._ Understand you, she ever affected any man, e'r
She beheld _Palamon_?
_Jay._ I was once, Sir, in great hope she had fix'd her
Liking on this Gentleman my friend.
_Woo._ I did think so too, and would account I had a great
Pen'worth on't, to give half my state, that both
She and I at this present stood unfainedly on the
Same terms.
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