Beaumont and Fletcher's Works, Vol. 10 of 10 — John Shaqi
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
_Thier._ And you could, Dove-like to a single object,
Bind your loose spirits to one, nay, such a one
Whom only eyes and ears must flatter good,
Your surer sence made useless, my self, nay
As in my all of good, already known.
_Ordel._ Let proof plead for me; let me be mew'd up
Where never eye may reach me, but your own;
And when I shall repent, but in my looks, if sigh.
_Thier._ Or shed a tear that's warm.
_Ordel._ But in your sadness.
_Thier._ Or when you hear the birds call for their mates,
Ask if it be _St. Valentine_, their coupling day.
_Ordel._ If any thing may make a thought suspected
Of knowing any happiness but you,
Divorce me, by the Title of Most Falshood.
_Thier._ Oh, who would know a wife, that might have such a friend?
Posterity henceforth, lose the name of blessing
And leave the earth inhabited to people heaven.
_Enter_ Theodoret, Brunhalt, Martel, Protaldye.
_Mart._ All happiness to _Thierry_ and _Ordella_.
_Thier._ 'Tis a desire but borrowed from me, my happiness
Shall be the period of all good mens wishes,
Which friends, nay dying Fathers shall bequeath,
And in my one give all: is there a duty
Belongs to any power of mine, or love
To any virtue I have right to? here, place it here,
_Ordella's_ name shall only bear command,
Rule, Title, Sovereignty.
_Brun._ What passion sways my Son?
_Thier._ Oh Mother, she has doubled every good
The travel of your bloud made possible
To my glad being.
_Prot._ He should have done
Little to her, he is so light hearted.
_Thier._ Brother, friends, if honor unto shame
If wealth to want inlarge the present sense,
My joyes are unbounded, instead of question
Let it be envy, not bring a present
To the high offering of our mirth, Banquets, and Masques;
Keep waking our delights, mocking nights malice,
Whose dark brow would fright pleasure from us,
Our Court be but one st[a]ge of Revels, and each [e]ye
The Scene where our content moves.
_Theod._ There shall want
Nothing to express our shares in your delight, Sir.
_Mart._ Till now I ne'er repented the estate
Of Widower.
_Thier._ Musick, why art thou so slow voic'd? it staies thy presence
My _Ordella_, this chamber is a sphere
Too narrow for thy all-moving virtue.
Make way, free way I say;
Who must alone, her Sexes want supply,
Had need to have a room both large and high.
_Mart._ This passion's above utterance.
_Theod._ Nay, credulity. [_Exit all but_ Thierry, Brunhalt.
_Brun._ Why Son what mean you, are you a man?
_Thier._ No Mother I am no man, were I a man,
How could I be thus happy?
_Brun._ How can a wife be author of this joy then?
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