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A Select Collection of Old English Plays.by Robert Dodsley.INTRODUCTION.THOMAS RAWLINS, author of "The Rebellion," was a medallist by profession, and afterwards became an engraver of the Mint, a vocation which, in his preface, he prefers to the threadba
- 701 CHURMS.Why then, I warrant ye, for we hold in our law that, _idem est non apparere et non esse_.GRIPE.Master Churms, I pray you, do so much as call my daughter hither. I will make her sure here to Peter Plod-all, and I'll desire you to be a witness.C
- 702 Will heavens still smile at Sophos' miseries, And give no end to my incessant moans?These cypress shades are witness of my woes; The senseless trees do grieve at my laments; The leafy branches drop sweet Myrrha's tears: For love did scorn me in
- 703 Well, trust him not: the tiger hides his claws, When oft he doth pretend[152] the greatest guiles.But stay: here comes Lelia's nurse._Enter_ NURSE.SOPHOS.Nurse, what news? How fares my love? NURSE.How fares she, quotha? marry, she may fare how she wi
- 704 PETER PLOD-ALL.Nay, he'll do more than that too, for he'll make himself like a devil, and fray the scholar that hankers about her out on's wits.PLOD-ALL.Marry, Jesus bless us! will he so? Marry, thou shalt have vorty s.h.i.+llings to give h
- 705 I'll warrant ye; fear it not.WILL CRICKET.Why, then, go you to Sir John, and I'll to my wench, and bid her give her maidenhead warning to prepare itself; for the destruction of it is at hand.[_Exeunt_._Enter_ LELIA _sola_. LELIA.How love and for
- 706 CHURMS.Bravely resolved, i' faith!LELIA.But, to be short-- I have a secret friend, that dwells from hence Some two days' journey, that's the most; And if you can, as well I know you may, Convey me thither secretly-- For company I desire no
- 707 Will not the presence of thy friend prevail, Nor hope expel these sullen fits?Cannot mirth wring if but a forged smile From those sad drooping looks of thine?Rely on hope, whose hap will lead thee right To her, whom thou dost call thy heart's delight
- 708 Zounds, he looks as though his mother were a midwife.SOPHOS.Now, gentle Jove, great monarch of the world, Grant good success unto my wand'ring hopes.CHURMS.Now Phoebus' silver eye is drench'd in western deep, And Luna 'gins to show her
- 709 SOPHOS.I'll prove as true as ever Troilus was.LELIA.And I as constant as Penelope.SOPHOS. Then let us solace, and in love's delight And sweet embracings spend the livelong night; And whilst love mounts her on her wanton wings, Let descant run on
- 710 Undone! what sudden accident hath chanced? Speak! what's the matter?NURSE.Alas! that ever I was born! My mistress and Master Churms are run away together.GRIPE.'Tis not possible; ne'er tell me: I dare trust Master Churms with a greater matt
- 711 Ay, here's my hand; I do consent, And think her happy in her happy choice; Yet half forejudge my hopes will be deceiv'd.But, Fortunatus, I must needs commend Thy constant mind thou bear'st unto thy friend: The after-ages, wond'ring at
- 712 Were Lelia here, I soon would knit the knot 'Twixt her and thee, that time could ne'er untie, Till fatal sisters victory had won, And that your gla.s.s of life were quite outrun.WILL CRICKET.Zounds, I think he be spurblind; why, Lelia stands har
- 713 MEMORIA.ANAMNESTES, _Memoria's page_.SOMNUS.Personae quarum mentio tantum fit. _Psyche_, _Acrasia_, _Veritas_, _Oblivio_._The scene is Microcosmus[167] in a grove. The time from morning till night_.LINGUA.ACTUS PRIMUS, SCAENA PRIMA.LINGUA _apparelled
- 714 Now the last sense I spake with was Olfactus Who, having smelt the meaning of my message, Straight blew his nose, and quickly puff'd me hither; But in the whirlwind of his furious blast, Had not by chance a cobweb held me fast, Mendacio had been with
- 715 MEN. Now, chaste Diana, grant my nets to hold.TAC. The blus.h.i.+ng[179] childhood of the cheerful morn Is almost grown a youth, and overclimbs[180]Yonder gilt eastern hills; about which time Gustus most earnestly importun'd me To meet him hereabouts
- 716 TAC. And many have been metamorphosed To stranger matters and more uncouth forms.OLF. I must go nearer him; he doth not hear.TAC. And yet methinks, I speak as I was wont; And-- OLF. Tactus, Tactus!TAC. Olfactus, as thou lov'st me, come not near me. O
- 717 VIS. Why, art thou mad?TAC. Friends, as you love your lives, Venture not once to come within my reach.GUS. Why dost threaten so?TAG. I do not threaten, But in pure love advise you for the best: Dare not to touch me, but hence fly apace; Add wings unto you
- 718 VIS. Had he not wings upon his feet and shoulders?MEN. Yes, yes, and a fine wand in his hand, Curiously wrapped with a pair of snakes.TAC. Will half content you? pish, 'twill ne'er be known.GUS. My life, 'twas Mercury.MEN. I do not know his
- 719 MEN. I long to see those hotspur Senses at it: they say they have gallant preparations, and not unlikely, for most of the soldiers are ready in arms, since the last field fought against their yearly enemy Meleager[201] and his wife Acrasia; that conquest
- 720 APP. True, but because they know a little thing drives me from them, therefore in midst of meat they present me with some sharp sauce or a dish of delicate anchovies, or a caviare,[215] to entice me back again.Nay, more: your old sires, that hardly go wit
- 721 COM. SEN. Crave my counsel! Tell me what manner of man he is? Can he entertain a man in his house? Can he hold his velvet cap in one hand, and vail[223] his bonnet with the other? Knows he how to become a scarlet gown? Hath he a pair of fresh posts at his
- 722 LINGUA, MENDACIO, COMMUNIS SENSUS, _and the rest_.LIN. Feign thyself in great haste.MEN. I warrant you, madam: I doubt 'tis in vain to run, by this they are all past overtaking.COM. SEN. Is not this Lingua, that is in such haste?PHA. Yes, yes, stand
- 723 MEM. I remember, in the country of Utopia[236] they use no other kind of artillery.COM. SEN. But what's become of Olfactus?MEN. He politicly leans to neither part, But stands betwixt the camps as at receipt, Having great swine[237] his pioneers to en
- 724 MEN. I cannot think such fellows have to do with Oblivio, since they never got anything to forget.ANA. Again, these prodigal swaggerers that are so much bound to their creditors, if they have but one cross about them, they'll spend it in wine upon Ob
- 725 COMMUNIS SENSUS, LINGUA, PHANTASTES, MEMORY, ANAMNESTES.COM. SEN. Lingua, the Senses, by our appointment, anon are to present their objects before us. Seeing, therefore, they be not in readiness, we license you in the meanwhile, either in your own person
- 726 That you may know what profit light doth bring, Note Lumen's words, that speaks next following.LUM. Light, the fair grandchild to the glorious sun, Opening the cas.e.m.e.nts of the rosy morn, Makes the abashed heavens soon to shun The ugly darkness i
- 727 COM. SEN. Phantastes!PHA. O sir, my left eye is my right in the gla.s.s, do you see? By these lips, my garters hang so neatly, my gloves and shoes become my hands and feet so well. Heuresis, tie my shoe-strings with a new knot--this point was scarce well-
- 728 ACTUS QUARTUS, SCAENA PRIMA.MENDACIO, ANAMNESTES, HEURESIS.MEN. Prythee, Nam, be persuaded: is't not better to go to a feast, than stay here for a fray?ANA. A feast? dost think Auditus will make the judges a feast?MEN. Faith, ay. Why should he carry
- 729 [_They fight, and are parted by_ MENDACIO.MEN. You shall not fight as long as I am here. Give over, I say.HEU. Mendacio, you offer me great wrong to hold me: in good faith, I shall fall out with you.MEN. Away, away, away; you are Invention, are you not?HE
- 730 PHA. Foh, foh, what a smell is here! Is this one of your delightful objects?OLF. It is your only scent in request, sir.COM. SEN. What fiery fellow is that, which smokes so much in the mouth?OLF. It is the great and puissant G.o.d of Tobacco.TOB. _Ladoch g
- 731 COM. SEN. Why in such anger, Tactus? what's the matter?TAC. My lord, I had thought, as other Senses did, By sight of objects to have prov'd my worth; Wherefore considering that, of all the things That please me most, women are counted chief, I h
- 732 Was this the care and labour thou hast taken To bring thy foes together to a banquet, To lose thy crown, and be deluded thus!Well, now I see my cause is desperate, The judgment's pa.s.s'd, sentence irrevocable, Therefore I'll be content and
- 733 APP. It smells well. I would fain begin to them.MEN. Nay, stay no longer, lest they have supped before thou come.APP. Mendacio, how shall I requite thy infinite courtesy?MEN. Nay, pray thee leave, go catch occasion by the foretop. But hear'st thou? A
- 734 [_They run about him, playing with him, and abusing him_.APP. To him, Mendacio, to him, to him.MEN. There, there, Appet.i.tus, he comes, he comes; ware, ware, he comes; ha, ha, ha, ha![VISUS _stumbles, falls down, and sits still_.SCAENA SEPTIMA. MENDACIO,
- 735 SCAENA NONA.APPEt.i.tUS: [_to him enter_] AUDITUS _with a candlestick_.APP. What, more anger? Auditus got abroad too?AUD. Take this abuse at base Olfactus' hands?What, did he challenge me to meet me here, And is not come? well, I'll proclaim the
- 736 SCAENA UNDECIMA.VISUS, SOMNUS.VIS. Sage Telemus, I now too late admire Thy deep foresight and skill in prophecy, Who whilom told'st me, that in time to come Ulysses should deprive me of my sight.And now the slave, that march'd in Outis' nam
- 737 SOM. What will he do? see that he escapes us not.TAC. 'Tis a good s.h.i.+rt: it fits me pa.s.sing well: 'Tis very warm indeed: but what's the matter?Methinks I am somewhat hotter than I was, My heart beats faster than 'twas wont to do,
- 738 VIS. Do you see the full moon yonder, and not the man in it? why, methinks 'tis too-too evident: I see his dog very plain, and look you, just under his tail is a thorn-bush of furze.GUS. 'Twill make a fine toothpick, that lark's heel there:
- 739 PHA. Faw, faw, she dreams now; she knows not what she says. I'll try her once again. Madam, what remedy can you have for your great losses?LIN. O, are you come, Acrasia? welcome, welcome! boy, reach a cus.h.i.+on, sit down, good Acrasia: I am so beho
- 740 EPILOGUE Judicious friends, it is so late at night, I cannot waken hungry Appet.i.te: Then since the close upon his rising stands, Let me obtain this at your courteous hands; Try, if this friendly opportunity Of your good-will and gracious plaudite, With
- 741 CLOWN. I have heard of many black-jacks, sir, but never of a blue-bottle.ILF. Well, sir, are you of the house?CLOWN. No, sir, I am twenty yards without, and the house stands without me.BAR. Prythee, tell's who owes[333] this building?CLOWN. He that d
- 742 ILF. There's ne'er a wanton wench that hears thee, but thinks thee a c.o.xcomb for saying so: marry none of them; if thou wilt have their true characters, I'll give it thee. Women are the purgatory of men's purses, the paradise of thei
- 743 SCAR. Ay, till death us depart,[342] love.CLARE. Why, then, I thank you, sir, and now I am like to have That I long look'd for--a husband.How soon from our own tongues is the word said Captives our maiden-freedom to a head!SCAR. Clare, you are now mi
- 744 Then he will be here forthwith: you, Master Baxter, Go usher hither straight young Katherine, Sir William here and I will keep this room, Till you return.[_Exit_ DOCTOR._Enter_ SCARBOROW.SCAR. My honourable[354] lord.LORD. 'Tis well-done, Scarborow.
- 745 _Enter_ FALCONBRIDGE.LORD. Now, death of me, shall I be cross'd By such a jack? he wed himself, and where he list: Sirrah malapert, I'll hamper you, You that will have your will, come, get you in: I'll make thee shape thy thoughts to marry
- 746 SCAR. I will not lie with her.ILF. _Caeteri volunt_, she'll say still; If you will not, another will.SCAR. Why did she marry me, knowing I did not love her?ILF. As other women do, either to be maintained by you, or to make you a cuckold. Now, sir, wh
- 747 _Enter_ CLOWN.CLOWN. From London am I come, Though not with pipe and drum, Yet I bring matter In this poor paper Will make my young mistress, Delighting in kisses, Do as all maidens will, Hearing of such an ill, As to have lost The thing they wish'd
- 748 Thou dying whilst I live, I am dead with woe._Enter_ THOMAS _and_ JOHN SCARBOROW.THOM. What means this outcry?JOHN. O ruthful spectacle!HAR. Thou wert not wont to be so sullen, child, But kind and loving to thy aged father: Awake, awake! if't be thy
- 749 I'd rather turn me back to find some comfort.JOHN. And that way sorrow's hurtfuller than this, My brother having brought unto a grave That murder'd body whom he call'd his wife, And spent so many tears upon her hea.r.s.e, As would have
- 750 WEN. An excellent health._Enter_ DRAWER.DRAW. Master Ilford, there's a couple of strangers beneath desires to speak with you.ILF. What beards have they? gentlemenlike-beards, or brokerlike-beards?DRAW. I am not so well acquainted with the art of face
- 751 WEN. Fit to be regarded.BAR. That shall command our souls.WEN. Our swords.BAR. Ourselves.ILF. To feed upon you, as Pharaoh's lean kine did upon the fat. [_Aside_.]SCAR. Master Gripe, is my bond current for this gentleman?ILF. Good security, you Egypt
- 752 SCAR. Your own, sir? what's your own?THOM. Our portions given us by our father's will.JOHN. Which here you spend.THOM. Consume.JOHN. Ways worse than ill. SCAR. Ha, ha, ha!_Enter_ ILFORD.ILF. Nay, nay, nay, Will: prythee, come away, we have a ful
- 753 BUT. The more's the pity.SIS. I know not what in course to take me to; Honestly I fain would live, what shall I do?BUT. Sooth, I'll tell you; your brother hath hurt us; we three will hurt you, and then go all to a 'spital together.SIS. Jest
- 754 [_Exeunt_.LORD. Why, now I see: what I heard of, I believed not, Your kinsman lives-- SIR WIL. Like to a swine.LORD. A perfect Epythite,[398] he feeds on draff, And wallows in the mire, to make men laugh: I pity him.SIR WIL. No pity's fit for him. LO
- 755 HAR. Nay, then, I tell thee they took into this wood.BUT. And I tell thee (setting thy wors.h.i.+p's knighthood aside) he lies in his throat that says so: had not one of them a white frock? did they not bind your wors.h.i.+p's knighthood by the
- 756 BUT. For kex,[404] dried kex, that in summer has been so liberal to fodder other men's cattle, and scarce have enough to keep your own in winter. Mine are precious cabinets, and must have precious jewels put into them, and I know you to be merchants
- 757 BUT. Why, look you, I had all this talk for your good!BAR. Hadst?BUT. For you know the knight is but a scurvy-proud-prating prodigal, licentious, unnecessary-- WEN. An a.s.s, an a.s.s, an a.s.s.BUT. Now you heard me tell him I had three wenches in store.
- 758 ILF. What, a G.o.d's name?THOM. About four thousand pound in her great chest.ILF. And I'll find a vent for't, I hope.JOHN. She is virtuous, and she is fair.ILF. And she were foul, being rich, I would be glad of her. BUT. Pish, pis.h.!.+JOHN
- 759 ILF. O, seal it with a kiss. Bless'd hour! my life had never joy till this._Enter_ WENTLOE _and_ BARTLEY _beneath_.BAR. Hereabout is the house, sure.WEN. We cannot mistake it; for here's the sign of the Wolf, and the bay-window._Enter_ BUTLER _a
- 760 ILF. Ha!SIS. Whose substance your enticements did consume.ILF. Worse than an ague.SIS. Which as you did believe, so they supposed.'Twas fitter for yourself than for another To keep the sister, had undone the brother. ILF. I am gulled, by this hand. A
- 761 SIS. Undone, undone!BUT. Why, mistress, how is't? how is't?SIS. My husband has forsook me.BUT. O perjury!SIS. Has ta'en my jewels and my bracelets from me. THOM. Vengeance, I played the thief for the money that bought 'em.SIS. Left me
- 762 THOM. At peace for what? For spending my inheritance?By yonder sun that every soul has life by, As sure as thou hast life, I'll fight with thee.SCAR. I'll not be mov'd unto't.THOM. I'll kill thee then, wert thou now clasp'd W
- 763 BUT. Your wife's come in, sir.SCAR. Thou li'st, I have not a wife. None can be call'd True man and wife, but those whom heaven install'd, Say-- KATH. O my dear husband!SCAR. You are very welcome. Peace: we'll have compliment.Who a
- 764 BUT. My coat, sir?SCAR. Ay, your coat, slave.BUT. 'Sfoot, when you ha't, 'tis but a threadbare coat, And there 'tis for you: know that I scorn To wear his livery is so worthy born, And live[s] so base a life; old as I am, I'll rat
- 765 [_Exeunt_._Enter_ SCARBOROW.SCAR. I'll parley with the devil: ay, I will, He gives his counsel freely, and the cause He for his clients pleads goes always with them: He in my cause shall deal then; and I'll ask him Whether a cormorant may have s
- 766 SCAR. And this divine did marry me, Whose tongue should be the key to open truth, As G.o.d's amba.s.sador. Deliver, deliver, deliver. [_Aside_.DOC. Master Scarborow.SCAR. I'll be with you straight, sir: Salvation to afflicted consciences, And no
- 767 WIFE. Given me a dowry too.BUT. And that he knew, Your sin was his, the punishment his due.SCAR. All this is here: Is heaven so gracious to sinners then?BUT. Heaven is, and has his gracious eyes, To give men life, not life-entrapping spies.SCAR. Your hand
- 768 --_Hawkins_. [Scarcely, for there are two sons recovered in that play, and the incident of finding a long-lost child is not an uncommon one in the drama. We have a daughter thus found in Pericles.--_Ebsworth_.][31] [Some of the old copies read _make_.][32
- 769 [71] [Furor Poeticus apostrophises Apollo, the Muses, &c., who are not present.][72] [Old copy, _Den_.][73] [Alluding to the blindness of puppies.][74] [Man.][75] [Old copy, _skibbered_.] [76] [i.e., my very mate.][77] [In old copy this line is given to P
- 770 AARON. Ay, some mad message from his mad grandfather.BOY. My lords, with all the humbleness I may, I greet your honours from Andronicus-- And pray the Roman G.o.ds confound you both. [_Aside_.DEMETRIUS. _Gramercy_, lovely Lucius; what's the news?BOY.
- 771 [156] [This must allude to some real circ.u.mstance and person.][157] [Attend.][158] [Bergen-op-Zoom.][159] [Old copy, _our_.][160] [Lap, long. See Nares, edit. 1859, _v. Lave-eared_.] [161] [Old copy, _seas_.][162] [Orcus.][163] [Worried.][164] [An answe
- 772 [195] Auditus is here called _Ears_, as Tactus is before called _Deed_.--_Pegge_. [But see note at p. 349.][196] Circles. So in Milton-- "Throws his steep flight in many an airy wheel."--_Steevens_.[197] [It is _Mendacio_ who speaks.] [198] Old
- 773 [232] i.e., Hedgehogs. See a note on Shakespeare's "Tempest," i. 28, edit. 1778.--_Steevens_.Again, in Erasmus's "Praise of Folie," 1549, sig. Q 2: "That the soule of Duns woulde a litle leve Sorbone College, and enter i
- 774 1579. See also Rich's "My Ladies Looking-gla.s.s," 1616, sig. B 3.][264] [Edits. give this speech to the Herald.][265] [The head.][266] A celebrated puppet-show often mentioned by writers of the times by the name of the Motion of Nineveh. S
- 775 [299] While he is speaking, c.r.a.pula, from the effects of over-eating, is continually coughing, which is expressed in the old copies by the words _tiff toff, tiff toff_, within brackets. Though it might not be necessary to insert them, their omission ou
- 776 [342] [Separate.] This is obviously quoted from the marriage ceremony: as Mr Todd has shown, the Dissenters in 1661 did not understand _depart_ in the sense of _separate_, which led to the alteration of the Liturgy, "till death us _do part_." In
- 777 Marston, in the "First Part of Antonio and Mellida," act v., makes Balurdo say: "No, I am not Sir Jeffrey Balurdo: I am not as well known by my wit as an _alehouse_ by a _red lattice_."[384] i.e., Defiles. See note on "Macbeth,&qu
- 778 [422] [Edits., _finisht_.] [423] i.e. Measure it out. Hesperiam metire jacens.--_Virgil_. --_Steevens_. [424] i.e., Facility; [Greek: euergos], facilis.--_Steevens_. [425] "Apud eosdem nasci Ctesias scribit, quam mantichoram appellat, triplici dentiu
- 779 A Select Collection of Old English Plays.VOL 11.by W. Carew Hazlitt.A WOMAN IS A WEATHERc.o.c.k._EDITION._ _A Woman is a Weather-c.o.c.ke. A New Comedy. As it was acted before the King in White-Hall. And diuers times Priuately at the White-Friers, by the
- 780 NEV. O heaven! we speak like G.o.ds and do like dogs.SCUD. What means my---- NEV. This day this Bellafront, the rich heir, Is married unto Count Frederick, And that's the wedding I was going to.SCUD. I prythee, do not mock me. Married!NEV. It is no m
- 781 PEN. Heart! I should follow you like a young rank wh.o.r.e, That runs proud of her love; pluck you by the sleeve, Whoe'er were with you, in the open street, With the impudency of a drunken oyster-wife; Put on my fighting waistcoat and the ruff, That
- 782 C. FRED. Young Master Abraham! cry ye mercy, sir.ABRA. Your lords.h.i.+p's poor friend, and Sir Abraham Ninny.The dub-a-dub of honour, piping hot Doth lie upon my wors.h.i.+p's shoulder-blade.SIR INN. Indeed, my lord, with much cost and labour w
- 783 CAPT. POUTS. Where?SIR J. WOR. Find them out, brave captain.Win honour and get money; by that time I'll get a daughter for my n.o.ble captain.CAPT. POUTS. Good, sir, good.SIR J. WOR. Honour is honour, but it is no money. This is the tumbler, then, mu
- 784 SIR J. WOR. These are impossibilities. Come, Sir Abraham.A little time will wear out this rash vow.ABRA. Shall I but hope?LUC. O, by no means. I cannot endure these round breeches: I am ready to swoon at them.KATE. The hose are comely. LUC. And then his l
- 785 NEV. Yes, sir; 'tis for the great marriage 'twixt---- SCUD. Pray, hold there; I know it too-too well.The tokens and the letters I have still.The dangers I have pa.s.s'd for her dear sake By day and night, to satisfy her wishes!That letter I
- 786 PEN. My honour'd lord, Say but the word, I'll force him from the door.C. FRED. I say the word: do it.SCUD. You, my lord's fine fool!ABRA. Ay, he, sir?SCUD. No! nor you, my lord's fool's fool. SIR INN. 'Ware, boy: come back.L.
- 787 SIR J. WOR. Take your revenge by law.STRANGE. It will be thought Your greatness and our money carries it: For some say some men on the back of law May ride and rule it like a patient a.s.s, And with a golden bridle in the mouth Direct it unto anything the
- 788 PEN. What's the matter?WAG. I am with child by you.PEN. By me? Why, by me? A good jest, i' faith.WAG. You'll find it, sir, in earnest.PEN. Why, do you think I am such an a.s.s to believe n.o.body has meddled with you but I? WAG. Do you wron
- 789 SCENE II._Music. Enter with table-napkins_, COUNT FREDERICK, SIR JOHN WORLDLY, NEVILL, PENDANT, SIR INNOCENT NINNY, LADY NINNY, SIR ABRAHAM. _Servants with wine, plate, tobacco, and pipes._ SIR J. WOR. Sir, had you borne us company to church, You had been
- 790 SCUD. Can you read anything, then, in this face?BEL. O basilisk! remove thee from my sight, Or thy heart's blood shall pay thy rash attempt!Ho! who attends us there?SCUD. Stir not a foot, And stop your clamorous acclamations, Or, by the bitterness of
- 791 ABRA. _Thy servant, Abraham, sends this foolish ditty_.PEN. You say true, in troth, sir.ABRA. _Thy servant, Abraham, sends this foolish dit- Ty unto thee, pity both him and it_. [_Write._ PEN. _Ty unto thee:_ well, if she do not pity both, 'tis pity
- 792 STRANGE. As true a rogue as thyself. Thou wrong'st me. Send your man away: go to, I have strange and welcome business to impart. The merchant is dead for shame: let's walk into the fields: send away your man.CAPT. POUTS. How?STRANGE. Here is a l
- 793 SCENE II._Enter_ CAPTAIN POUTS, _with a letter, and_ STRANGE, _like a soldier_.STRANGE. O, these are Lambeth fields.CAPT. POUTS. Strange murder'd on the weddingday by you, At his own bride's appointment, for my sake?STRANGE. As dead as charity.
- 794 Maybe he would vouchsafe to look on thee.Because he is a knight, is it thy terror?Why, peradventure, he is Knighthood's Mirror[56].PEN. D'ye hear, Sir Abraham?ABRA. Yes, with standing tears. WAG. Bevis[57] on Arundel, with Morglay in hand, Near
- 795 [49] [Old copy, _a_.][50] The old word for engineer: so in Heywood's "Edward IV., Part II.," 1600, sig. M 3-- "But it was not you At whom the fatal _enginer_ did aim."Ben Jonson uses it in his "Cataline," act iii. sc. 4-
- 796 NEV. Your wit is most active: I called him knave in regard of his long stay, sir, not his work.ABRA. But, d'ye hear, Master Nevill? did you bespeak a vizard with a most terrible countenance for me?NEV. A very devil's face: I fear nothing, but th
- 797 WAG. I should ne'er have known you by that, for you wear it on your head, and other folks in their pockets.L. NIN. Which is my lord, I pray?SIR J. WOR. The second man: Young Nevill leads.SIR INN. And where's Sir Abraham?SIR J. WOR. He with the t
- 798 OMNES. Yes, very well.KATH. O sister, here's the villain slander'd me.STRANGE. You see he cannot stand to't.ABRA. Is he hurt in the arm, too?STRANGE. Yes. ABRA. Why, then, by G.o.d's-lid, thou art a base rogue. I knew I should live to
- 799 OMNES. Young Strange!CAPT. POUTS. Heart! I was never sick before: help me now to a surgeon, or I shall swoon instantly.[_As two lead him, he speaks._ Thou wert born a woman-citizen; fare thee well.And farewell, love and women, ye diseases: My horse and sw
- 800 AMENDS FOR LADIES._EDITIONS._ _Amends for Ladies. A Comedie. As it was acted at the Blacke-Fryers, both by the Princes Servants, and the Lady Elizabeths. By Nat. Field.London: Printed by G. Eld, for Math. Walbancke, and are to be sold at his Shop at the n