Beggars Bush: A Comedy: From the Works of Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher (Volume 2 of 10) — John Shaqi
Beggars Bush: A Comedy: From the Works of Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher (Volume 2 of 10)Fletcher, John
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Beggars Bush: A Comedy: From the Works of Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher (Volume 2 of 10)
Fletcher, John
Comedy plays; English drama -- 17th century
_Hub._ I understand no word he says; how long
Has she been here?
_Snap._ Lo-lo-long enough to be ni-ni-nigled, and she ha' go-go-go-good
luck.
_Hub._ I must be better inform'd, than by this way.
Here was another face too, that I mark'd
Of the old mans: but they are vanish'd all
Most suddenly: I will come here again,
O, that I were so happy, as to find it,
What I yet hope: it is put on.
_Hem._ What mean you Sir,
To stay there with that stammerer?
_Hub._ Farewell friend,--
It will be worth return, to search: Come,
Protect us our disguise now, pre'thee _Hemskirk_
If we be taken, how do'st thou imagine
This town will use us, that hath stood so long
Out against _Wolfort_?
_Hem._ Ev'n to hang us forth
Upon their walls a sunning, to make Crows meat,
If I were not assur'd o' the _Burgomaster_,
And had a pretty excuse to see a niece there,
I should scarce venture.
_Hub._ Come 'tis now too late
To look back at the ports: good luck, and enter. [_Exeunt._
SCENA II.
_Enter_ Goswin.
_Gos._ Still blow'st thou there? and from all other parts,
Do all my agents sleep, that nothing comes?
There's a conspiracy of windes, and servants,
If not of Elements, to ha' me break;
What should I think unless the Seas, and Sands
Had swallow'd up my ships? or fire had spoil'd
My ware-houses? or death devour'd my Factors?
I must ha' had some returns.
_Enter_ Merchants.
_1 Mer._ 'Save you Sir.
_Gos._ 'Save you.
_1 Mer._ No news yet o' your Ships?
_Gos._ Not any yet Sir.
_1 Mer._ 'Tis strange. [_Exit._
_Gos._ 'Tis true Sir: what a voyce was here now?
This was one passing bell, a thousand ravens
Sung in that man now, to presage my ruins.
_2 Mer._ _Goswin_, good day, these winds are very constant.
_Gos._ They are so Sir; to hurt--
_2 Mer._ Ha' you had no letters
Lately from _England_, nor from _Denmark_?
_Gos._ Neither.
_2 Mer._ This wind brings them; nor no news over land,
Through _Spain_, from the _Straights_?
_Gos._ Not any.
_2 Mer._ I am sorry Sir. [_Exit._
_Gos._ They talk me down: and as 'tis said of Vulturs
They scent a field fought, and do smell the carkasses
By many hundred miles: So do these, my wracks
At greater distances. Why, thy will Heaven
Come on, and be: yet if thou please, preserve me;
But in my own adventure, here at home,
Of my chast love, to keep me worthy of her,
It shall be put in scale 'gainst all ill fortunes:
I am not broken yet: nor should I fall,
Me thinks with less than that, that ruins all. [_Exit._
SCENA III.
_Enter_ Van-dunck, Hubert, Hemskirk, _and_ Margaret, Boors.
_Van._ Captain, you are welcom; so is this your friend
Most safely welcom, though our Town stand out
Against your Master, you shall find good quarter:
The troth is, we not love him: _Margaret_ some wine,
Let's talk a little treason, if we can
Talk treason, 'gainst the traitors; by your leave, Gentlemen,
We, here in _Bruges_, think he do's usurp,
And therefore I am bold with him.
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