The Works of Christopher Marlowe, Vol. 2 (of 3)Marlowe, Christopher
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The Works of Christopher Marlowe, Vol. 2 (of 3)
Marlowe, Christopher
English drama -- Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600
_Bar._ Or climb up to my counting-house window:
you know my meaning.
_Pilia._ I know enough, and therefore talk not to me
of your counting-house. The gold, or know, Jew, it is in
my power to hang thee. 41
_Bar._ I am betrayed. [_Aside._
'Tis not five hundred crowns that I esteem,
I am not moved at that: this angers me,
That he who knows I love him as myself,
Should write in this imperious vein. Why, sir,
You know I have no child, and unto whom
Should I leave all but unto Ithamore?
_Pilia._ Here's many words, but no crowns: the crowns!
_Bar._ Commend me to him, sir, most humbly, 50
And unto your good mistress, as unknown.
_Pilia._ Speak, shall I have 'em, sir?
_Bar._ Sir, here they are.
O, that I should part with so much gold! [_Aside._
Here, take 'em, fellow, with as good a will----
As I would see thee hang'd [_Aside_]; O, love stops my breath:
Never loved man servant as I do Ithamore.
_Pilia._ I know it, sir.
_Bar._ Pray, when, sir, shall I see you at my house?
_Pilia._ Soon enough, to your cost, sir. Fare you well. 60
[_Exit._
_Bar._ Nay, to thine own cost, villain, if thou com'st.
Was ever Jew tormented as I am?
To have a shag-rag knave to come,--
Three hundred crowns,--and then five hundred crowns!
Well, I must seek a means to rid 'em all,
And presently; for in his villainy
He will tell all he knows, and I shall die for it.
I have it:
I will in some disguise go see the slave,
And how the villain revels with my gold. 70
[_Exit._
SCENE VI.
_Enter_[132] BELLAMIRA, ITHAMORE,
_and_ PILIA-BORSA.
_Bell._. I'll pledge thee, love, and therefore drink it off.
_Itha._ Say'st thou me so? have at it; and do you hear?
[_Whispers._
_Bell._ Go to, it shall be so.
_Itha._ Of that condition I will drink it up.
Here's to thee.
_Bell._[133] Nay, I'll have all or none.
_Itha._ There, if thou lov'st me do not leave a drop.
_Bell._ Love thee! fill me three glasses.
_Itha._ Three and fifty dozen, I'll pledge thee.
_Pilia._ Knavely spoke, and like a knight at arms.
_Itha._ Hey, _Rivo[134] Castiliano_! a man's a man. 10
_Bell._ Now to the Jew.
_Itha._ Ha! to the Jew, and send me money he were best.
_Pilia._ What would'st thou do if he should send thee none?
_Itha._ Do nothing; but I know what I know; he's a murderer.
_Bell._ I had not thought he had been so brave a man.
_Itha._ You knew Mathias and the Governor's son; he
and I killed 'em both, and yet never touched 'em.
_Pilia._ O, bravely done.
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