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. Charissimi, Doctissimique, Domini, ex abundantia._
_Charitatis vestræ estote propitii in me jejunum_
_Miserum, pauperem, & omni consolatione exulem._
_Old K._ A pretty Scholar by my faith, Sir, but I'll to him agen.
_Sir Gr._ Does he beg or steal in this Language, can you tell Sir?
He may take away my good name from me, and I ne'er
The wiser.
_Old K._ He begs, he begs, Sir.
_Pris. Ecce, ecce, in occulis lachrymarum flumen, in ore_
_Fames sitisq; ignis in vultu, pudor & impudentia,_
_In omni parte necessitas & indigentia._
_Old K. Audi tu bonus socius, tu es Scholasticus, sic intelligo,_
_Ego faciam argumentum_, mark now Sir, now I fetch
Him up.
_Sir Gr._ I have been fetcht up a hundred times for this,
Yet I could never learn half so much.
_Old K. Audi, & responde, hoc est Argumentum, nomen est_
_Nomen, ergo, quod est tibi nomen? Responde nunc,_
_Responde argumentum meum._ Have I not put him to't, Sir?
_Sir Gr._ Yes Sir, I think so.
_Witty._ Step in, the rascal is put out of his pen'd Speech,
And he can go no farther.
_Old K. Cur non respondes?_
_Pris. Oh Domine, tanta mea est miseria._
_Witty._ So, he's almost in agen.
_Pris. Ut nocte mecum pernoctat egestas, luce quotidie_
_Paupertas habitat._
_Old K. Sed quod est tibi nomen: & quis dedit? Responde_
_Argumentum._
_Pris._ Hem, hem.
_Witty._ He's dry he hems, on quickly.
_Ruin._ Courteous Gentlemen, if the brow of a Military face may
not be offensive to your generous eye-balls, let his wounds
speak better than his words, for some branch or small sprig of
charity to be planted upon this poor barren soil of a Soldier.
_Old K._ How now, what Arms and Arts both go a begging?
_Ruin._ Such is the Post-progress of cold charity now a-days,
who (for heat to her frigid Limbs) passes in so swift a motion,
that two at the least had need be to stay her.
_Sir G._ Sir, lets reward um I pray you, and be gone. If any
quarrel should arise amongst us, I am able to answer neither
of them, his Iron and Steel tongue is as hard as the t'others
_Latine_ one.
_Old K._ Stay, stay Sir I will talk a little with him first,
Let me alone with both, I will try whether they
Live by their wits or no; for such a man I love,
And what? you both beg together then?
_Pris. Conjunctis manibus, profecto, Domine._
_Ruin._ With equal fortunes, equal distribution, there's not
the breadth of a swords point uneven in our division.
_Sir Gr._ What two qualities are here cast away upon two poor
fellows, if a man had um that could maintain um? what a double
man were that, if these two fellows might be bought and sodden,
and boil'd to a jelly, and eaten fasting every morning, I do
not think but a man should find strange things in his stomach.
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