Beaumont and Fletcher's Works, Vol. 09 of 10 — John Shaqi
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
_Pris._ A good resolution, _profecto_, let every man beg his
own way, and happy man be his dole.
_Witty._ Well, here's your double share, and single brains
_Pol, oedipol_, here's toward, a _Castor ecastor_ for you,
I will endure it a fortnight longer, but by these just five
ends.--
_Pris._ Take heed, five's odd, put both hands together, or
severally, they are all odd unjust ends.
_Witty. Medius fi[d]ius_, hold your tongue, I depose you from
half a share presently else, I will make you a participle, and
decline you, now you understand me, be you a quiet Conjunction
amongst the undeclined; you and your _Latine_ ends shall go
shift, _Solus cum solo_ together else, and then if ever they
get ends of Gold and Silver, enough to serve that Gerundine
maw of yours, that without _Do_ will end in _Di_ and _Dum_
instantly.
_Enter Old Knight and_ Sir Gregory.
_Ruin._ Enough, enough, here comes company, we lose five shares
in wrangling about one.
_Witty._ My Father, put on _Priscian_, he has _Latine_
fragments too, but I fear him not, I'll case my face with a
little more hair and relieve.
_Old K._ Tush Nephew (I'll call you so) for if there be
No other obstacles than those you speak of
They are but Powder-charges without pellets,
You may safely front 'em; and warrant your own danger.
_Sir Gr._ No other that I can perceive i'faith, Sir, for I put
her to't, and felt her as far as I could, and the strongest
repulse was, she said, she would have a little Soldier in me,
that (if need were) should defend her reputation.
_Old K._ And surely, Sir, that is a principle
Amongst your principal Ladies, they require
Valour, either in a friend or a Husband.
_Sir Gr._ And I allow their requests i'faith, as well as any
womans heart can desire, if I knew where to get valour, I would
as willingly entertain it as any man that blows.
_Old K._ Breaths, breaths Sir, that's the sweeter phrase.
_Sir Gr._ Blows for a Soldier, i'faith Sir, and I'm in
Practise that way.
_Old K._ For a Soldier, I grant it.
_Sir Gr._ 'Slid, I'll swallow some bullets, and good round ones
too, but I'll have a little Soldier in me.
_Ruin._ Will you on and beg, or steal and be hang'd.
_Sir Gr._ And some Scholar she would have me besides,
Tush, that shall be no bar, 'tis a quality in a
Gentleman, but of the least question.
_Pris. Salvete Domini benignissimi, munificentissimi._
_Old K. Salvete dicis ad nos? jubeo te salvere_,
Nay, Sir, we have _Latine_, and other metall in us too.
Sir, you shall see me talk with this fellow now.
_Sir Gr._ I could find in my heart to talk with him too,
If I could understand him.
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