Rule a Wife, and Have a Wife: Beaumont & Fletcher's Works (3 of 10)Fletcher, John
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Rule a Wife, and Have a Wife: Beaumont & Fletcher's Works (3 of 10)
Fletcher, John
Comedy plays; Drama
All, all, and we'l remove too, to confirm him,
They'l into th' country suddenly again
After they are matcht, and then she'l open to him.
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Michael Perez:
The whole possession wife? look what you doe,
A part o'th' house.
Estifania:
No, no, they shall have all,
And take their pleasure too, 'tis for our 'vantage.
Why, what's four daies? had you a Sister Sir,
A Niece or Mistris that required this courtesie,
And should I make a scruple to do you good?
Michael Perez:
If easily it would come back.
Estifania:
I swear Sir,
As easily as it came on, is't not pity
To let such a Gentlewoman for a little help--
You give away no house.
Michael Perez:
Clear but that question.
Estifania:
I'le put the writings into your hand.
Michael Perez:
Well then.
Estifania:
And you shall keep them safe.
Michael Perez:
I am satisfied; wou'd I had the wench so too.
Estifania:
When she has married him,
So infinite his love is linkt unto her,
You, I, or any one that helps at this pinch
May have Heaven knows what.
Michael Perez:
I'le remove the goods straight,
And take some poor house by, 'tis but for four days.
Estifania:
I have a poor old friend; there we'l be.
Michael Perez:
'Tis well then.
Estifania:
Goe handsom off, and leave the house clear.
Michael Perez:
Well.
Estifania:
That little stuff we'l use shall follow after;
And a boy to guide ye, peace and we are made both.
Margarita:
Come, let's goe in, are all the rooms kept sweet wench?
Estifania:
They are sweet and neat.
[Exit _Perez_.
Margarita:
Why where's your Husband?
Estifania:
Gone Madam.
When you come to your own he must give place Lady.
Margarita:
Well, send you joy, you would not let me know't,
Yet I shall not forget ye.
Estifania:
Thank your Ladyship.
[Exeunt.
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Actus Tertius
Scena Prima.
[Enter _Margarita_, _Altea_, and _Boy_.]
Altea:
Are you at ease now, is your heart at rest,
Now you have got a shadow, an _umbrella_
To keep the scorching worlds opinion
From your fair credit.
Margarita:
I am at peace _Altea_,
If he continue but the same he shews,
And be a master of that ignorance
He outwardly professes, I am happy,
The pleasure I shall live in and the freedom
Without the squint-eye of the law upon me,
Or prating liberty of tongues, that envy.
Altea:
You are a made woman.
Margarita:
But if he should prove now
A crafty and dissembling kind of Husband,
One read in knavery, and brought up in the art
Of villany conceal'd.
Altea:
My life, an innocent.
Margarita:
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