English drama -- 17th century; English poetry -- Early modern, 1500-1700
_Pe._ Thanks, kind Captain Seagull, she's one I love
dearly, and must not be known till we be free from
all that know us. And so, gentlemen, here's to her
health. 78
_Ambo._ Let it come, worthy colonel; we do hunger
and thirst for it.
_Pe._ Afore heaven! you have hit the phrase of one
that her presence will touch from the foot to the forehead,
if ye knew it.
_Sp._ Why, then, we will join his forehead with her
health, sir; and Captain Scapethrift, here's to 'hem
both.
_Enter_ SECURITY _and_ BRAMBLE.
_Sec._ See, see, Master Bramble, 'fore heaven! their
voyage cannot but prosper; they are o' their knees
for success to it!
_Br._ And they pray to god Bacchus. 90
_Sec._ God save my brave colonel, with all his tall
captains and corporals. See, sir, my worshipful learned
counsel, Master Bramble, is come to take his leave of
you.
_Pe._ Worshipful Master Bramble, how far do you draw
us into the sweet-briar of your kindness! Come, Captain
Seagull, another health to this rare Bramble, that hath
never a prick about him.
_Sea._ I pledge his most smooth disposition, sir. Come,
Master Security, bend your supporters, and pledge this
notorious health here. 101
_Sec._ Bend you yours likewise, Master Bramble; for it
is you shall pledge me.
_Sea._ Not so, Master Security; he must not pledge his
own health.
_Sec._ No, Master Captain?
_Enter_ QUICKSILVER _with_ WINNY _disguised_.
Why, then, here's one is fitly come to do him that
honour.
_Qu._ Here's the gentlewoman your cousin, sir, whom,
with much entreaty, I have brought to take her leave of
you in a tavern; ashamed whereof, you must pardon
her if she put not off her mask. 112
_Pe._ Pardon me, sweet cousin; my kind desire to see
you before I went, made me so importunate to entreat
your presence here.
_Sec._ How now, Master Francis? have you honoured
this presence with a fair gentlewoman?
_Qu._ Pray, sir, take you no notice of her, for she will
not be known to you.
_Sec._ But my learned counsel, Master Bramble here,
I hope he may know her. 121
_Qu._ No more than you, sir, at this time; his learning
must pardon her.
_Sec._ Well, God pardon her for my part, and I do, I'll
be sworn; and so, Master Francis, here's to all that are
going eastward to-night towards Cuckold's Haven;[69] and
so to the health of Master Bramble.
_Qu._ I pledge it, sir. Hath it gone round, Captain?
_Sea._ It has, sweet Frank; and the round closes with
thee. 130
_Qu._ Well, sir, here's to all eastward and toward
cuckolds, and so to famous Cuckold's Haven, so fatally
remembered.
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