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
_Pro._ If wearing it may do you any honor,
I shall be glad to grace you, there it is Sir.
_Mart._ Now get you home, and tell your Lady Mistris,
Shee has shot up a sweet mushrum; quit your place too,
And say you are counsel'd well, thou wilt be beaten else
By thine own lanceprisadoes; when they know thee,
That tuns of oyl of roses will not cure thee;
Goe get you to your foyning work at Court,
And learn to sweat again, and eat dry mutton;
An armor like a frost will search your bones
And make you roar you rogue; Not a reply,
For if you doe, your ears goe off.
_Prot._ Still patience. [_Exeunt._
[_Loud musick, A Banquet set out._
_Enter Thierry, Ordella, Brunhalt, Theodoret, Lecure,_
_Bawd[b]er, &c._
_Thier._ It is your place, and though in all things else
You may and ever shall command me, yet
In this I'll be obeyed.
_Ordella._ Sir, the consent,
That made me yours, shall never teach me to
Repent I am so; yet be you but pleas'd
To give me leave to say so much; The honor
You offer me were better given to her,
To whom you owe the power of giving.
_Thier._ Mother,
You hear this and rejoyce in such a blessing
That payes to you so large a share of duty,
But fie no more, for as you hold a place
Nearer my heart than she, you must sit nearest
To all those graces, that are in the power
Of Majesty to bestow.
_Brun._ Which I'll provide,
Shall be short liv'd _Lecure_.
_Lecure._ I have it ready.
_Brun._ 'Tis well, wait on our cup.
_Lecure._ You honor me.
_Thier._ We are dull,
No object to provoke mirth.
_Theod. Martell_,
If you remember Sir, will grace your Feast,
With some thing that will yield matter of mirth,
Fit for no common view.
_Thier._ Touching _Protaldye_.
_Theod._ You have it.
_Brun._ What of him? I fear his baseness [_aside._
In spight of all the titles that my favours
Have cloth'd him, which will make discovery
Of what is yet conceal'd.
_Enter Martell._
_Theod._ Look Sir, he has it,
Nay we shall have peace when so great a soldier
As the renoun'd _P[ro]taldye_, will give up
His sword rather then use it.
_Brun._ 'Twas thy plot,
Which I will turn on thine own head. [_aside._
_Thie._ Pray you speak,
How won you him to part from't?
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