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
_Ver._ In truth, I think in conscience [I] shall dye for you:
Good Master weep not, do you want aught, Sir?
Will you have any money, here's some Silver;
And here's a little Gold, 'twill serve to play,
And put more troublesome thoughts out of your mind:
I pray Sir take it, I'll get more with singing.
And then I'll bring it you, my Lady ga't me,
And--it was not covetousness,
But I forgot to tell you sooner on't.
_Mont._ Alas boy, thou art not bound to tell it me,
And less to give it, buy thee Scarfs and Garters,
And when I have money, I will give thee a sword:
Nature made thee a beauteous Cabinet
To lock up [all] the goodness of the earth.
_Enter Charlote._
_Ver._ I have lost my voice with the very sight of this
Gentlewoman: good Sir steal away, you were wont to be a curious
avoider of womens company.
_Mont._ Why boy, thou dar'st trust me any where, dar'st thou not?
_Ver._ I had rather trust you by a roaring Lion, than a ravening
woman.
_Mont._ Why boy?
_Ver._ Why truly she devours more mans flesh--
_Mont._ I, but she roars not boy.
_Ver._ No Sir, why she is never silent but when her mouth is full.
_Charl._ Monsieur _Montague_.
_Mont._ My sweet fellow, since you please to call me so.
_Ver._ Ah my conscience, she wou'd be pleas'd well enough to call
you bed-fellow: oh Master, do not hold her by the hand so: a woman
is a Lime-bush, that catcheth all she toucheth.
_Charl._ I do most dangerously suspect this boy to be a wench; art
thou not one? come hither, let me feel thee.
_Ver._ With all my heart.
_Charl._ Why dost thou pull off thy Glove?
_Ver._ Why, to feel whether you be a boy, or no.
_Charl._ Fie boy, go too. I'll not look your head, nor comb your
locks any more, if you talk thus.
_Ver._ Why, I'll sing to you no more then.
_Charl._ Fie upon't, how sad you are! a young Gentleman that was
the very Sun of _France_.
_Mont._ But I am in the eclipse now.
_Cha[r]l._ Suffer himself to be over-run with a Lethargy of
melancholy and discontent! rouze up thy spirit, man, and shake it
off:
A Noble Soul is like a Ship at Sea,
That sleeps at Anchor when the Ocean's calm;
But when she rages, and the wind blows high,
He cuts his way with skill and Majesty.
I would turn a Fool, or Poet, or any thing, or marry, to
make you merry; prethee let's walk: good _Veramour_, leave
thy Master and me, I have earnest business with him.
_Ver._ Pray do you leave my Master, and me: we were very merry
before you came, he does not covet womens company.
What have you to do with him? come Sir will you go?
And I'll sing to you again:
I'faith his mind is stronger than to credit Womens vows, and too
pure to be capable of their loves.
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