English drama -- 17th century; English poetry -- Early modern, 1500-1700
_Go._ And do the costly garments--the title and fame
of a lady, the fashion, observation, and reverence proper
to such preferment--no more inflame you than such
convenience as my poor means and industry can offer
to your virtues? 65
_Mi._ I have observed that the bridle given to those
violent flatteries of fortune is seldom recovered; they
bear one headlong in desire from one novelty to another,
and where those ranging appetites reign, there is ever
more passion than reason: no stay, and so no happiness.
These hasty advancements are not natural. Nature
hath given us legs to go to our objects; not wings to fly
to them. 73
_Go._ How dear an object you are to my desires I
cannot express; whose fruition would my master's
absolute consent and yours vouchsafe me, I should be
absolutely happy. And though it were a grace so far
beyond my merit, that I should blush with unworthiness
to receive it, yet thus far both my love and my means
shall assure your requital: you shall want nothing fit for
your birth and education; what increase of wealth and
advancement the honest and orderly industry and skill
of our trade will afford in any, I doubt not will be
aspired by me; I will ever make your contentment the
end of my endeavours; I will love you above all; and
only your grief shall be my misery, and your delight my
felicity. 87
_To._ Work upon that now. By my hopes, he wooes
honestly and orderly; he shall be anchor of my hopes!
Look, see the ill-yoked monster, his fellow!
_Enter_ QUICKSILVER _unlaced, a towel about his neck, in
his flat-cap, drunk_.
_Qu._ Eastward-ho! _Holla, ye pampered jades of
Asia!_[31]
_To._ Drunk now downright, o' my fidelity!
_Qu._ (Ump).[32] Pull eo, pullo! showse, quoth the
caliver. 95
_Go._ Fie, fellow Quicksilver, what a pickle are you in!
_Qu._ Pickle? pickle in thy throat; zounds, pickle!
Wa, ha, ho! good-morrow, knight Petronel: morrow,
lady goldsmith; come off, knight, with a counterbuff,
for the honour of knighthood.
_Go._ Why, how now, sir? do ye know where you
are? 102
_Qu._ Where I am? why, 'sblood! you jolthead, where
I am!
_Go._ Go to, go to, for shame; go to bed and sleep out
this immodesty: thou shamest both my master and his
house.
_Qu._ Shame? what shame? I thought thou wouldst
show thy bringing-up; and thou wert a gentleman as I
am, thou wouldst think it no shame to be drunk. Lend
me some money, save my credit; I must dine with the
serving-men and their wives--and their wives, sirrah! 112
_Go._ E'en who you will; I'll not lend thee threepence.
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