A Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 3 eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 319 pages of information about A Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 3.

A Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 3 eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 319 pages of information about A Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 3.

Pes.  A pox on you!  What are you?  Swounds, I think I am haunted with spirits.

Alb.  Weepe not, Hyanthe; I will weepe for thee,
Lend me thy eyes.  No, villaine, thou art he
That in the top of Eruines hill
Daunst with the Moone and eate up all the starres,
Which made thee like Hyanthe shine so faire;
But, villaine, I will rip them out of thee.

    Enter Motto and others.

Pea.  Slid, holde your hands.

Alb[68].  I come with thunder.

Pea.  Come and you dare.

Mott.  Holde, villaine; tis the young prince Alberdure.

Pea.  Let the young prince hold then; slid, I have no starres in my bellie, I; let him seeke his Hyanthe where he will.

Alb.  O this way by the glimmering of the Sunne
And the legieritie[69] of her sweete feete
She scowted on, and I will follow her. 
I see her, like a goulden spangle, sit
Upon the curled branch of yonder tree. 
Sit still, Hyanthe; I will flie to thee.
                                    Exit.

Mott.  Follow, follow, follow!

Exeunt all but Peas.

Enter Flores and Hance.[70]

Pea.  Together and be hanged.  O heere comes more; pray God I have better lucke with these two.  By your leave, sir, do you know one Maist. Flores, I pray?

Flo.  What wouldst thou have with him?

Pea.  Faith, Sir, I am directed to you by Lady Fortune with a peece of plate.  I doe hope you will use plaine dealing, being a Jeweller.

Flo.  Where hadst thou this?

Pea.  In a very strange place, sir.

Han.  He stole it, sir, I warrant you.

Flo.  I never sawe a Jemme so precious,
So wonderful in substance and in Art. 
Fellow, confesse preciselie where thou hadst it.

Pea.  Faith, sir, I had it in a cave in the bottome of a fine greene hill where I found a company of Fairies, I thinke they call them.

Flo.  Sawst thou any more such furniture there?

Pea.  Store, sir, store.

Flo.  And canst thou bring me thither?

Pea.  With a wet finger[71], sir.

Han.  And ha they good cheere, too?

Pea.  Excellent.

Han.  O sweete thiefe!

Flo.  Tis sure some place enchanted, which this ring
Will soone dissolve and guard me free from feare. 
—­Heer’s for the cup; come, guide me quickly thither. 
Ah, could I be possest of more such Jemmes,
I were the wealthiest Jeweller on earth.

Exeunt.

[SCENE 5.]

Enter Enchanter, leading Luc. and Lass. bound by
spirits; who being laid down on a green banck,
the spirits fetch in a banquet
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