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
_Old K._ Do not say so for shame, she'll laugh at thee,
A wife ne'er looks for't, 'tis a batchelors penny,
He may giv't to a begger-wench, i'th' progress time,
And ne'er be call'd to account for't. [_Ex._
_Sir Gr._ Would I had known so much,
I could ha' stopt a beggers mouth by th' way.
_Enter Page and Fidlers boy_.
That rail'd upon me, 'cause I'd give her nothing--
What, are they come?
_Pag._ And plac'd directly, Sir,
Under her window.
_Sir Gr._ What may I call you, Gentleman?
_Boy._ A poor servant to the Viol, I'm the Voice, Sir.
_Sir Gr._ In good time Master _Voice_?
_Boy._ Indeed good time does get the mastery.
_Sir Gr._ What Countreyman, Master _Voice_.
_Boy._ Sir, born at _Ely_, we all set up in _El[y,]_
But our house commonly breaks in _Rutland-shire_.
_Sir Gr._ A shrewd place by my faith, it may well break your voice,
It breaks many a mans back; come, set to your business.
SONG.
_Fain would I wake you, Sweet, but fear_
_I should invite you to worse chear;_
_In your dreams you cannot fare_
_Meaner than Musick; no compare;_
_None of your slumbers are compil'd_
_Under the pleasure makes a Child;_
_Your day-delights, so well compact,_
_That what you think, turns all to act:_
_I'd wish my life no better play,_
_Your dream by night, your thought by day._
_Wake gently, wake,_
_Part softly from your dreams;_
_The morning flies_
_To your fair eyes,_
_To take her special beams._
_Sir Gr._ I hear her up, here Master _Voice_,
Pay you the Instruments, save what you can,
_Enter Neece above._
To keep you when you're crackt. [_Exit Boy._
_Neece._ Who should this be?
That I'm so much beholding to, for sweetness?
Pray Heaven it happens right.
_Sir Gr._ Good morrow, Mistriss.
_Neece._ An ill day and a thousand come upon thee.
_Sir Gr._ 'Light, that's six hundred more than any
Almanack has.
_Neece._ Comes it from thee? it is the mangiest Musick
That ever woman heard.
_Sir Gr._ Nay, say not so, Lady,
There's not an itch about 'em.
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