English drama; Kings and rulers -- Succession -- Drama; Love -- Drama; Sicily (Italy) -- Drama; Tragicomedy
_Pha_. O they are two twin'd Cherries died in blushes,
Which those fair suns above, with their bright beams
Reflect upon, and ripen: sweetest beauty,
Bow down those branches, that the longing taste,
Of the faint looker on, may meet those blessings,
And taste and live.
_Meg_. O delicate sweet Prince;
She that hath snow enough about her heart,
To take the wanton spring of ten such lines off,
May be a Nun without probation.
Sir, you have in such neat poetry, gathered a kiss,
That if I had but five lines of that number,
Such pretty begging blanks, I should commend
Your fore-head, or your cheeks, and kiss you too.
_Pha_. Do it in prose; you cannot miss it Madam.
_Meg_. I shall, I shall.
_Pha_. By my life you shall not.
I'le prompt you first: Can you do it now?
_Meg_. Methinks 'tis easie, now I ha' don't before;
But yet I should stick at it.
_Pha_. Stick till to morrow.
I'le ne'r part you sweetest. But we lose time,
Can you love me?
_Meg_. Love you my Lord? How would you have me
love you?
_Pha_. I'le teach you in a short sentence, cause I will not
load your memory, that is all; love me, and lie with
me.
_Meg_. Was it lie with you that you said? 'Tis impossible.
_Pha_. Not to a willing mind, that will endeavour; if I do
not teach you to do it as easily in one night, as you'l
go to bed, I'le lose my Royal blood for't.
_Meg_. Why Prince, you have a Lady of your own, that
yet wants teaching.
_Pha_. I'le sooner teach a Mare the old measures, than teach
her any thing belonging to the function; she's afraid to
lie with her self, if she have but any masculine
imaginations about her; I know when we are married,
I must ravish her.
_Meg_. By my honour, that's a foul fault indeed, but time
and your good help will wear it out Sir.
_Pha_. And for any other I see, excepting your dear self,
dearest Lady, I had rather be Sir _Tim _the Schoolmaster,
and leap a Dairy-maid.
_Meg_. Has your Grace seen the Court-star _Galatea_?
_Pha_. Out upon her; she's as cold of her favour as an
apoplex: she sail'd by but now.
_Meg_. And how do you hold her wit Sir?
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