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
_Clow._ Not for a Million, enfringe my oath? there's a toy
call'd a Vow, has past between us, a poor trifle, Sir; Pray do
me the part and office of a Gentleman, if you chance to meet a
Footman by the way, in Orange tawny ribbands, running before an
empty Coach, with a Buzard i'th' Poop on't, direct him and his
horses toward the new River by _Islington_, there they shall
have me looking upon the Pipes, and whistling.
[_Exit_ Clow.
_Cun._ A very good note; this love makes us all Monkeyes, But
to my work: 'Scarfe first? and now a Diamond? these should be
sure signs of her affections truth; Yet I'll go forward with my
surer proof: [_Exit._
_Enter_ Neece, _and Sir_ Gregory.
_Neece._ Is't possible?
_Sir Greg._ Nay, here's his Letter too, there's a fine Jewel in't,
Therefore I brought it to you.
_Neece._ You tedious Mongril! Is't not enough
To grace thee, to receive this from thy hand,
A thing which makes me almost sick to do,
But you must talk too?
_Sir Greg._ I ha' done.
_Neece._ Fall back,
Yet backer, backer yet, you unmannerly puppy,
Do you not see I'm going about to read it?
_Sir Greg._ Nay, these are golden dayes, now I stay by't,
She was wont not to endure me in her sight at all,
The World mends, I see that.
_Neece._ What an ambiguous Superscription's here!
_To the best of Neeces._ Why that title may be mine,
And more than her's:
Sure I much wrong the neatness of his art;
'Tis certain sent to me, and to requite
My cunning in the carriage of my Tokens,
Us'd the same _Fop_ for his.
_Sir Greg._ She nodded now to me, 'twill come in time.
_Neece._ What's here? an entire _Rubye_, cut into a heart,
And this the word, _Istud Amoris opus_?
_Sir Greg._ Yes, yes, I have heard him say, that love is
the best stone-cutter.
_Neece._ Why thou sawcy issue of some travelling Sow-gelder,
What makes love in thy mouth? Is it a thing
That ever will concern thee? I do wonder
How thou dar'st think on't! hast thou ever hope
To come i' the same roome where lovers are;
And scape unbrain'd with one of their velvet slippers?
_Sir Greg._ Love tricks break out I see, and you talk of slippers once,
'Tis not far off to bed time.
_Neece._ Is it possible thou canst laugh yet?
I would ha' undertook to ha' kill'd a spider
With less venome far, than I have spit at thee.
_Sir Greg._ You must conceive,
A Knight's another manner a piece of flesh.
_Neece._ Back, Owles-face.
_Within. O. K._ Do, do.
_Neece._ 'Tis my Unckles voice, that.
Why keep you so far off, _Sir Gregory_?
Are you afraid, Sir, to come near your Mistriss?
_Sir Greg._ Is the proud heart come down? I lookt for this still.
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