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
_Mont._ I humbly pray you will be pleased to pardon,
And to give satisfaction to you Madam,
(Although I break my heart) I will confess
That I have wrong'd them too, and make submission.
_Lam._ No I'll spare that; go bid the Cook haste supper. [_Exit_ Mont.
_La-p._ Oh brave Lady, thou art worthy to have servants, to be
commandress of a Family, that knowest how to use and govern it.
_Lav._ You shall have many Mistresses that will so mistake, as to
take their Horse-keepers, and Footmen instead of their Husbands,
thou art none of those.
_Mal._ But she that can make distinction of men, and knows when she
hath gallants, and fellows of rank and quality in her house--
_Lam._ Gallants indeed, if it be the Gallants fashion
To triumph in the miseries of a man,
Of which they are the cause: one that transcends
(In spight of all that fortune hath, or can be done)
A million of such things as you, my doors
Stand open to receive all such as wear
The shape of Gentlemen, and my gentl[i]er nature
(I might say weaker) weighs not the expence
Of entertainment; think you I'll forget yet
What's due unto my self? do not I know,
That you have dealt with poor _Montague_, but like
Needy Commanders, cheating Citizens,
And perjur'd Courtiers? I am much mov'd, else use not
To say so much, if you will bear your selves
As fits such, you would make me think you are,
You may stay; if not, the way lies before you. [_Exit._
_Mal._ What think you of this Captain?
_La-p._ That this is a bawdy-house, with Pinacles and Turrets, in
which this disguised _Montague_ goes to Rut _gratis_, and that this
is a landed pandress, and makes her house a brothel for charity.
_Mal._ Come, that's no miracle; but from whence derive you the
supposition?
_Lav._ Observe but the circumstance; you all know that in the
height of _Mountagues_ prosperity, he did affect, and had his love
return'd by this Lady _Orleans_; since her divorcement, and his
decay of estate, it is known they have met, not so much as his boy
[is] wanting; and that this can be any thing else than a meer plot
for their night-work, is above my imagination to conceive.
_Mal._ Nay, it carries probability, let us observe it better, but
yet with such caution, as our prying be not discovered; here's all
things to be had without cost, and therefore good staying here.
_La-p._ Nay, that's true, I would we might wooe her twenty years,
like _Penelopes_ sutors; come _Laverdine_.
[_Exeunt_ Malli. La Poop.
_Lav._ I follow instantly, yonder he is.
_Enter_ Viramor.
The thought of this boy hath much cool'd my affection to his Lady,
and by all conjectures, this is a disguised whore; I will try if I
can search this Mine, Page--
_Ver._ Your pleasure, Sir?
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