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
_Lap._ How? why there was the Carpenter,
An unknown thing; an odoriferous Pamphlet,
Yet no more Paper, by all computation,
Than _Ajax Telamon_ would use at once,
Your Herring prov'd the like, able to buy
Another _Fishers_ Folly, and your _Pasquil_
Went not below the mad-caps of that time,
And shall my elaborate _Kick_ come behind, think you?
_Clow._ Yes, it must come behind, 'tis in _Italica_ too,
According to your humor.
_Lap._ Not in sale, Varlet.
_Clow._ In sale, Sir? it shall sail beyond 'em all I tro.
_Lap._ What have you there now? oh Page 21.
_Clow._ That Page is come to his years, he should be a Serving man.
_Lap._ Mark how I snap up the _Duello_ there:
One would not use a dog so,
I must needs say; but's for the common good.
_Clow._ Nay Sir, your Commons seldom fight at sharp,
But buffet in a Warehouse.
_Lap._ This will save
Many a Gentleman of good bloud from bleeding, Sirs,
I have a curse from many a Barber-Surgeon;
They'd give but too much money to call't in;
Turn to Page 45. see what you find there.
_Clow._ Oh, out upon him,
Page 45. that's an old thief indeed.
_Enter Duke, the Lady his Sister, 1 Gent._
_Lap._ The Duke, clap down your Books; away _Galoshio_.
_Clow._ Indeed I am too foul to be i' th' presence,
They use to shake me off at the chamber door still. [_Ex._
_Lady._ Good my Lord, grant my suit: let me not rise
Without the comfort on't: I have not often
Been tedious in this kind.
_Duke._ Sister, you wrong your self,
And those great virtues that your Fame is made of,
To waste so much breath for a murderers life.
_Lad._ You cannot hate th' offence more than I do, Sir,
Nor the offender, the respect I owe
Unto his absent brother, makes me a suitor,
A most importunate Sister, make me worthy
But of this one request.
_Duke._ I am deaf
To any importunacy, and sorry
For your forgetfulness; you never injur'd
Your worth so much, you ought to be rebuk'd for't:
Pursue good ways, end as you did begin,
'Tis half the guilt to speak for such a sin.
_La._ This is loves beggery right, that now is ours,
When Ladies love, and cannot shew their powers. [_Ex._
_Du. La Nove?_
_1 Gent._ My Lord.
_Duke._ Are these our new Attendants?
_Lap._ We are my Lord, and will endure as much
As better men, my Lord, and more I trust.
_Duke._ What's he?
_1 Gent._ My Lord, a decay'd Gentleman,
That will do any service.
_Duke._ A decay'd one?
_1 Gent._ A renounc'd one indeed: for this place only.
_Duke._ We renounce him then; go, discharge him instantly.
He that disclaims his gentry for meer gains,
That man's too base to make a vassal on.
_Lap._ What says the Duke?
_1 [Gent.]_ Faith little to your comfort, Sir,
You must be a Gentleman agen.
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