The Merry Devil eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 49 pages of information about The Merry Devil.

The Merry Devil eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 49 pages of information about The Merry Devil.

Jerningham
Call softly for your sister.

Clare
Milliscent!

Milliscent
Aye, brother, here.

Brian
Maister Clare!

Clare
I told you it was Brian.

Brian.  Who’s that?  Maister Jerningham:  you are a couple of hot-shots; does a man commit his wench to you, to put her to grass at this time of night

Jerningham
We heard a noise about her in the chase,
And fearing that our fathers had pursued us,
Severd our selves.

Clare
Brian, how hapd’st thou on her?

Brian
Seeking for stealers are abroad to night,
My hound stayed on her, and so found her out.

Clare
They were these stealers that affrighted us;
I was hard upon them, when they horst their Deer,
And I perceive they took me for a keeper.

Brian
Which way took they?

Jerningham
Towards Enfield.

Brian
A plague upon ’t, that’s that damned Priest, and Blague of
the George, he that serves the good Duke of Norfolk.

[A noise within:  Follow, follow, follow.]

Clare
Peace, that’s my father’s voice.

Brian
Z’ownds, you suspected them, and now they are here indeed.

Milliscent
Alas, what shall we do?

Brian
If you go to the lodge, you are surely taken;
Strike down the wood to Enfield presently,
And if Mounchensey come, I’ll send him t’yee. 
Let me alone to bussle with your father;
I warrant you that I will keep them play
Till you have quit the chase; away, away!

[Exeunt all but Brian.]

Who’s there?

[Enter the Knights.]

Sir Raph
In the king’s name, pursue the Ravisher!

Brian
Stand, or I’ll shoot.

Sir Arthur
Who’s there?

Brian
I am the keeper that do charge you stand;
You have stolen my Deer.

Sir Arthur
We stolen thy Deer? we do pursue a thief.

Brian
You are arrant thieves, and ye have stolen my Deer.

Sir Raph
We are Knights; Sir Arthur Clare, and Sir Raph Jerningham.

Brian
The more your shame, that Knights should be such thieves.

Sir Arthur
Who, and what art thou?

Brian
My name is Brian, keeper of this walk.

Sir Arthur
O Brian, a villain! 
Thou hast received my daughter to thy lodge.

Brian
You have stolen the best Deer in my walk to night.  My Deer!

Sir Arthur
My daughter! 
Stop not my way!

Brian
What make you in my walk? you have stolen the best Buck in
my walk to night.

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