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
_Enter_ Laverdine _and_ Veramour _like a woman_.
_Lav._ This is the Gentlewoman.
_Mont._ 'Tis my Page, Sir.
_Ver._ No Sir, I am a poor disguis'd Lady,
That like a Page have followed you full long for love god-wot.
_Omnes._ A Lady--_Laverdine_--yes, yes, 'tis a Lady.
_Mont._ It may be so, and yet we have lain together,
But by my troth I never found her, Lady.
_L. Orl._ Why wore you boys cloaths?
_Ver._ I'll tell you, Madam,
I took example by two or three Plays, that methought
Concerned me.
_Mont._ Why made you not me acquainted with it?
_Ver._ Indeed Sir, I knew it not my self,
Until this Gentleman open'd my dull eyes,
And by perswasion made me see it.
_Ami._ Could his power in words make such a change?
_Ver._ Yes, as truly woman as your self, my Lord.
_Lav._ Why, but hark you, are not you a woman?
_Ver._ If hands and face make it not evident, you shall see more.
_Mai._ Breeches, breeches, _Laverdine_.
_La-p._ 'Tis not enough, women may wear those cases.
Search further Courtier.
_Omnes._ Ha, ha, ha.
_La-p._ Oh thou fresh-water Gudgeon, wouldst thou come
To point of Marriage with an _Ignoramus_?
Thou shouldst have had her Urin to the Doctors,
The foolishest Physitian could have made plain
The liquid _Epicæne_; a blind man by the hand
Could have discovered the ring from the stone.
Boy, come, to Sea with me, I'll teach thee to climb,
And come down by the Rope, nay to eat Rats.
_Ver._ I shall devour my Master before the prison then,
Sir, I have began my Trade.
_Mal._ Trade? to the City, child, a flat-cap will become thee.
_Mont._ Gentlemen, I beseech you molest your selves no further,
For his preferment it is determin'd.
_Lav._ I am much ashamed, and if my cheek
Gives not satisfaction, break my head.
_Mont._ Your shame's enough, Sir.
_Ami. Montague_, much joy attend thy marriage-bed;
By thy example of true goodness, envy is exil'd,
And to all honest men that truth intend,
I wish good luck, fair fate be still thy friend. [_Exeunt._
Upon an Honest Man's Fortune.
By Mr. _JOHN FLETCHER_.
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