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
Can you endure a Drum?
Leon:
It makes my head ake.
Juan de Castro:
Are you not valiant when you are drunk?
Leon:
I think not, but I am loving Sir.
Juan de Castro:
What a lump is this man,
Was your Father wise?
Leon:
Too wise for me I'm sure,
For he gave all he had to my younger Brother.
Juan de Castro:
That was no foolish part I'le bear you witness.
Canst thou lye with a woman?
Leon:
I think I could make shift Sir,
But I am bashfull.
Juan de Castro:
In the night?
Leon:
I know not,
Darkness indeed may do some good upon me.
Juan de Castro:
Why art thou sent to me to be my officer,
I, and commended too, when thou darst not fight?
Leon:
There be more officers of my opinion,
Or I am cozen'd Sir, men that talk more too.
Juan de Castro:
How wilt thou scape a bullet?
Leon:
Why by chance,
178] They aim at honourable men, alas I am none Sir.
Juan de Castro:
This fellow has some doubts in's talk that strike me,
[Enter _Alonzo_.]
He cannot be all fool: welcom _Alonzo_.
Alonzo:
What have you got there, temperance into your company?
The spirit of peace? we shall have wars
[Enter _Cacafogo_.]
By th'ounce then. O here's another pumpion,
Let him loose for luck sake, the cram'd son
Of a stay'd Usurer, _Cacafogo_, both their brains butter'd,
Cannot make two spoonfulls.
Cacafogo:
My Father's dead: I am a man of war too,
Monyes, demesns; I have ships at sea too,
Captains.
Juan de Castro:
Take heed o'th' Hollanders, your ships may leak else.
Cacafogo:
I scorn the Hollanders, they are my drunkards.
Alonzo:
Put up your gold Sir, I'le borrow it else.
Cacafogo:
I am satisfied, you shall not,
Come out, I know thee, meet mine anger instantly.
Leon:
I never wrong'd ye.
Cacafogo:
Thou hast wrong'd mine honor,
Thou look'dst upon my Mistris thrice lasciviously,
I'le make it good.
Juan de Castro:
Do not hea[t] your self, you will surfeit.
Cacafogo:
Thou wan'st my mony too, with a pair of base bones,
In whom there was no truth, for which I beat thee,
I beat thee much, now I will hurt thee dangerously.
This shall provoke thee.
[He strikes.
Alonzo:
You struck too low by a foot Sir.
Juan de Castro:
You must get a ladder when you would beat
This fellow.
Leon:
I cannot chuse but kick again, pray pardon me.
Cacafogo:
Had'st thou not ask'd my pardon, I had kill'd thee,
I leave thee as a thing despis'd, _assoles manus a vostra siniare_
_a Maistre_.
[Exit _Cacafogo_.
Alonzo:
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