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
_Enter Jailor, Daughter, Maid._
_Doct._ You'll find it so; she comes, pray honor her.
_Jail._ Come, your Love _Palamon_ stays for you child,
And has done this long hour, to visit you.
_Daugh._ I thank him for his gentle patience,
He's a kind Gentleman, and I am much bound to him,
Did you never see the horse he gave me?
_Jail._ Yes.
_Daugh._ How do you like him?
_Jail._ He's a very fair one.
_Daugh._ You never saw him dance?
_Jail._ No.
_Daugh._ I have often,
He dances very finely, very comely,
And for a Jigg, come cut and long tail to him,
He turns ye like a Top.
_Jail._ That's fine indeed.
_Daugh._ He'll dance the _Morris_ twenty mile an hour.
And that will founder the best hobby-horse
(If I have any skill) in all the parish,
And gallops to the turn of _Light a'love_,
What think you of this horse?
_Jail._ Having these virtues
I think he might be brought to play at Tennis.
_Daugh._ Alas that's nothing.
_Jail._ Can he write and read too?
_Daugh._ A very fair hand, and casts himself th' accounts
Of all his Hay and Provender: that Hostler
Must rise betime that cozens him; you know
The Chesnut Mare the Duke has?
_Jail._ Very well.
_Daugh._ She is horribly in love with him, poor beast,
But he is like his Master, coy and scornful.
_Jail._ What Dowry has she?
_Daugh._ Some two hundred Bottles,
And twenty strike of Oats; but he'll ne'er have her;
He lisps, in's neighing, able to entice
A Millers Mare,
He'll be the death of her.
_Doct._ What stuff she utters!
_Jail._ Make curt'sie, here your love comes.
_Woo._ Pretty soul
How doe ye? that's a fine Maid, there's a curt'sie.
_Daugh._ Yours to command i'th' way of honesty;
How far is't now to th' end o'th' world my Masters?
_Doct._ Why a days journey wench.
_Daugh._ Will you go with me?
_Woo._ What shall we do there wench?
_Daugh._ Why play at Stool-ball.
What is there else to do?
_Woo._ I am content
If we shall keep our wedding there.
_Daugh._ 'Tis true
For there I will assure you, we shall find
Some blind Priest for the purpose, that will venture
To marry us, for here they are nice and foolish;
Besides, my Father must be hang'd to morrow
And that would be a blot i'th' business.
Are not you _Palamon_?
_Woo._ Do not you know me?
_Daugh._ Yes, but you care not for me; I have nothing
But this poor Petticoat, and two course Smocks.
_Woo._ That's all one, I will have you.
_Daugh._ Will you surely?
_Woo._ Yes, by this fair hand will I.
_Daugh._ We'll to bed then.
_Woo._ Ev'n when you will.
_Daugh._ Oh Sir, you would fain [b]e nibling.
_Woo._ Why do you rub my kiss off?
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