Beaumont and Fletcher's Works, Vol. 10 of 10Fletcher, John
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Beaumont and Fletcher's Works, Vol. 10 of 10
Fletcher, John
English drama
_Thou Deity, swift winged Love,_
_Sometimes below, sometimes above,_
_Little in shape, but great in power,_
_Thou that mak'st a heart thy Tower,_
_And thy loop-holes Ladies eyes,_
_From whence thou strik'st the fond and wise._
_Did all the Shafts in thy fair Quiver_
_Stick fast in my ambitious Liver;_
_Yet thy power would I adore._
_And call upon thee to shoot more,_
_Shoot more, shoot more._
_Enter one like a_ Cupid, _offering to shoot at him_.
_Pas._ I prethee hold though, sweet Celestial boy;
I'm not requited yet with love enough,
For the first Arrow that I have within me;
And if thou be an equal Archer _Cupid_,
Shoot this Lady, and twenty more for me.
_La._ Me Sir?
_1 Gent._ 'Tis nothing but device, fear it not Lady;
You may be as good a Maid after that shaft, Madam,
As e'er your mother was at twelve and a half:
'Tis like the boy that draws it, 'tas no sting yet.
_Cup._ 'Tis like the miserable Maid that draws it--_Aside._
That sees no comfort yet, seeing him so passionate.
_Pas._ Strike me the Duchess of _Valois_ in love with me,
With all the speed thou canst, and two of her Women.
_Cu._ You shall have more. [_Exit._
_Pas._ Tell 'em I tarry for 'em.
_1 Gent._ Who would be angry with that walking trouble now?
That hurts none but it self?
_Sold._ I am better quieted.
_Pas._ I'll have all women-kind struck in time for me
After thirteen once:
I see this _Cupid_ will not let me want,
And let him spend his forty shafts an hour,
They shall be all found from the Dukes Exchequer;
He's come already.
_Enter again the same_ Cupid, _two Brothers, six Women Maskers_,
Cupid's _Bow bent all the way towards them, the first woman
singing and playing, a Priest_.
SONG.
_Oh turn thy bow,_
_Thy power we feel and know,_
_Fair_ Cupid _turn away thy Bow:_
_They be those golden Arrows,_
_Bring Ladies all their sorrows,_
_And till there be more truth in men,_
_Never shoot at Maid agen._
_Pas._ What a felicity of whores are here!
And all my Concubines struck bleeding new:
A man can in his life time make but one woman,
But he may make his fifty Queans a month.
_Cu._ Have you remembred a Priest, honest brothers?
_1 Bro._ Yes Sister, and this is the young Gentleman,
Make you no question of our faithfulness.
_2 Bro._ His growing shame, Sister, provokes our care:
_Priest._ He must be taken in this fit of Love, Gentlemen.
_1 Bro._ What else Sir, he shall do't.
_2 Bro._ Enough.
_1 Bro._ Be chearful wench. [_A dance._ Cupid _leading_.
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