English drama; Kings and rulers -- Succession -- Drama; Love -- Drama; Sicily (Italy) -- Drama; Tragicomedy
_King_. Is your Boy turn'd away?
_Are_. You did command Sir, and I obey you.
_King_. 'Tis well done: Hark ye further.
_Cle_. Is't possible this fellow should repent? Me thinks that
were not noble in him: and yet he looks like a mortified
member, as if he had a sick mans Salve in's mouth. If
a worse man had done this fault now, some Physical
Justice or other, would presently (without the help of
an Almanack) have opened the obstructions of his
Liver, and let him bloud with a Dog-whip.
_Di_. See, see, how modestly your Lady looks, as if she came
from Churching with her Neighbour; why, what a Devil
can a man see in her face, but that she's honest?
_Pha_. Troth no great matter to speak of, a foolish twinkling
with the eye, that spoils her Coat; but he must be a
cunning Herald that finds it.
_Di_. See how they Muster one another! O there's a Rank
Regiment where the Devil carries the Colours, and his Dam
Drum major, now the world and the flesh come behind with
the Carriage.
_Cle_. Sure this Lady has a good turn done her against her
will: before she was common talk, now none dare say,
Cantharides can stir her, her face looks like a Warrant,
willing and commanding all Tongues, as they will answer it,
to be tied up and bolted when this Lady means to let her
self loose. As I live she has got her a goodly protection,
and a gracious; and may use her body discreetly, for her
healths sake, once a week, excepting Lent and Dog-days:
Oh if they were to be got for mony, what a great sum would
come out of the City for these Licences?
_King_. To horse, to horse, we lose the morning, Gentlemen.
[_Exeunt_.
_Enter two_ Woodmen.
_1 Wood_.What, have you lodged the Deer?
_2 Wood_. Yes, they are ready for the Bow.
_1 Wood_. Who shoots?
_2 Wood_. The Princess.
_1 Wood_. No she'l Hunt.
_2 Wood_. She'l take a Stand I say.
_1 Wood_. Who else?
_2 Wood_. Why the young stranger Prince.
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