Beaumont & Fletcher's Works (2 of 10) - the Humourous Lieutenant eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 122 pages of information about Beaumont & Fletcher's Works (2 of 10).

Beaumont & Fletcher's Works (2 of 10) - the Humourous Lieutenant eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 122 pages of information about Beaumont & Fletcher's Works (2 of 10).

Dem.  Away, and fool to them are so affected:  O thou art gone, and all my comfort with thee!  Wilt thou do one thing for me?

Leo.  All things i’th’ World, Sir, Of all dangers.

Dem.  Swear.

Leo.  I will.

Dem.  Come near me no more then.

Leo.  How?

Dem.  Come no more near me:  Thou art a plague-sore to me. [Exit.

Leo.  Give you good ev’n Sir; If you be suffer’d thus, we shall have fine sport.  I will be sorry yet.

Enter 2 Gentlemen.

1 Gent.  How now, how does he?

Leo.  Nay, if I tell ye, hang me, or any man else That hath his nineteen wits; he has the bots I think, He groans, and roars, and kicks.

2 Gent.  Will he speak yet?

Leo.  Not willingly: 
Shortly he will not see a man; if ever
I look’d upon a Prince so metamorphos’d,
So juggl’d into I know not what, shame take me;
This ’tis to be in love.

1 Gent.  Is that the cause on’t?

Leo.  What is it not the cause of but bear-baitings? 
And yet it stinks much like it:  out upon’t;
What giants, and what dwarffs, what owls and apes,
What dogs, and cats it makes us? men that are possest with it,
Live as if they had a Legion of Devils in ’em,
And every Devil of a several nature;
Nothing but Hey-pass, re-pass:  where’s the Lieutenant
Has he gather’d up the end on’s wits again?

1 Gent.  He is alive:  but you that talk of wonders, Shew me but such a wonder as he is now.

Leo.  Why? he was ever at the worst a wonder.

2 Gent.  He is now most wonderful; a Blazer now, Sir.

Leo.  What ails the Fool? and what Star reigns now Gentlemen We have such Prodigies?

2 Gent.  ’Twill pose your heaven-hunters; He talks now of the King, no other language, And with the King as he imagines, hourly.  Courts the King, drinks to the King, dies for the King, Buys all the Pictures of the King, wears the Kings colours.

Leo.  Does he not lye i’th’ King street too?

1 Gent.  He’s going thither,
Makes prayers for the King, in sundry languages,
Turns all his Proclamations into metre;
Is really in love with the King, most dotingly,
And swears Adonis was a Devil to him: 
A sweet King, a most comely King, and such a King—­

2 Gent.  Then down on’s marrow-bones; O excellent King Thus he begins, Thou Light, and Life of Creatures, Angel-ey’d King, vouchsafe at length thy favour; And so proceeds to incision:  what think ye of this sorrow?

1 Gent.  Will as familiarly kiss the King[’s] horses As they pass by him:  ready to ravish his footman.

Leo.  Why, this is above Ela?  But how comes this?

1 Gent.  Nay that’s to understand yet, But thus it is, and this part but the poorest, ’Twould make a man leap over the Moon to see him act these.

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