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
Duke of Medina:
Have you no mercy?
Margarita:
Now you are frighted throughly,
232] And find what 'tis to play the fool in folly,
And see with clear eyes your detested folly,
I'le be your guard.
Duke of Medina:
And I'le be your true servant,
Ever from this hour vertuously to love ye,
Chastly and modestly to look upon ye,
And here I seal it.
Margarita:
I may kiss a stranger, for you must now be so.
[Enter _Leon_, _Juan_, _Alonzo_, _Sanchio_.]
Leon:
How do you my Lord,
Me thinks you look but poorly on this matter.
Has my wife wounded ye, you were well before,
Pray Sir be comforted, I have forgot all,
Truly forgiven too, wife you are a right one,
And now with unknown nations I dare trust ye.
Juan de Castro:
No more feign'd fights my Lord, they never prosper.
Leon:
Who's this? the Devil in the vault?
Altea:
'Tis he Sir, and as lovingly drunk, as though he had studied it.
Cacafogo:
Give me a cup of Sack, and kiss me Lady,
Kiss my sweet face, and make thy Husband cuckold,
An Ocean of sweet Sack, shall we speak treason?
Leon:
He is Devilish drunk.
Duke of Medina:
I had thought he had been a Devil.
He made as many noises and as horrible.
Leon:
Oh a true lover Sir will lament loudly,
Which of the butts is your Mistris?
Cacafogo:
Butt in thy belly.
Leon:
There's two in thine I am sure, 'tis grown so monstrous.
Cacafogo:
Butt in thy face.
Leon:
Go carry him to sleep,
A fools love should be drunk, he has paid well for't too.
When he is sober let him out to rail,
Or hang himself, there will be no loss of him.
[Exit _Caca._ and Servant.
[Enter _Perez_, and _Estifania_.]
Leon:
Who's this? my Mauhound cousin?
Michael Perez:
Good Sir, 'tis very good, would I had a house too,
For there is no talking in the open air,
233] My Tarmogant Couz, I would be bold to tell ye,
I durst be merry too; I tell you plainly,
You have a pretty seat, you have the luck on't,
A pretty Lady too, I have mist both,
My Carpenter built in a mist I thank him,
Do me the courtesie to let me see it,
See it but once more. But I shall cry for anger.
I'le hire a Chandlers shop close under ye,
And for my foolerie, sell sope and whip-cord,
Nay if you do not laugh now and laugh heartily,
You are a fool couz.
Leon:
I must laugh a little,
And now I have done, couz thou shalt live with me,
My merry couz, the world shall not divorce us,
Thou art a valiant man, and thou shalt never want,
Will this content thee?
Michael Perez:
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