A King, and No King by Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher
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p. 221, l. 4. A] in your pocket slave, my key you. B and G] in
your pocket slave, my toe. l. 5. A] with't. l. 11. A--G] doing
nothing. l. 12. A _omits_ this stage-direction. B] Enter Servant,
Will. Adkinson. l. 13. A--D] Here's. l. 14. A] I am. A] prethee.
l. 15. A] beate um. l. 17. A _omits_] Sir. l. 18. A _omits_]
Captain, Rally. A] up with your. F] rally upon. l. 20. A] cride
hold. l. 22. E and F] vit me. l. 23. A, B and G] breath. A
_omits_] Exit Bac. l. 25. A] Ime sure I ha. l. 26. B--F] a kicke.
B--F] a will. l. 27. C--F] beside. l. 29. A, B and G] yes, God be
thanked. l. 33. A, B, C and G] is a. l. 34. A] hands.
p. 222, l. 2. A _omits_] clear. G] Exeunt omnes. l. 4. A--D and G]
bore. After this line A _Adds_]--Hell open all thy gates, And I will
thorough them; if they be shut, Ile batter um, but I will find the
place Where the most damn'd have dwelling; ere I end, Amongst them all
they shall not have a sinne, But I will call it mine: l. 5. A--D and
G] friend. A, B and G] to an. l. 13. B, C and D] a comming. l. 14.
A--G] does your hand. l. 19. This line from 'I can' and the next line
are given by A to Mardonius. l. 24. A] humblier.
p. 223, l. 4. A, B and G _omit_] and. l. 12. A] thinkest. l. 13.
G] these are tales. l. 15. A--D and G] should get. l. 17. A]
Farre other Fortunes. l. 19. A, B and G] God put. G] temporall.
l. 20. A _Adds_] Exit. B and. G _Add_] Exit Mar. l. 21. A--D and
G] errors. l. 27. A, B and G _omit_] more. l. 35. A--D and G
_omit_] my.
p. 224, l. 4. F] knowest. l. 9. A] doest. l. 12. A] and I when I.
F] knowest. l. 16. B and F] meanst. l. 17. A, B, C and G] a lie.
A, B and G] God and. l. 22. A, B and G] wouldst. l. 28. A]
gavest. l. 31. A] your selfe. B and G] it thy selfe. l. 38. A and
G] know it. l. 39. E and F] staind.
p. 225, l. 7. A, B, C and G] allowest. l. 15. C--F] doest ...
doest. l. 17. A--D and G] Cease thou strange. l. 18. A]
contemn'st. ll. 20 and 21. Folio _misprints_] dear ...
punishnment. l. 35. A and C] expects. B] expectes. D] expectst.
G] expect'st. l. 39. A] thou wicked.
p. 226, l. 10. A, B, C and G] of a law. l. 19. A _omits_] you.
ll. 25 and 26. A--G] Land as she. l. 29. A _misprints_] _Arb_. l.
31. A--D and G _omit_] a.
p. 227, l. 2. A] opportunitie. ll. 4 and 5. A, B and G] and God
was humbly thankt in every Church, That so had blest the Queene,
and prayers etc. l. 12. A--D and G] quicke. l. 14. A] abed. l.
16. A] sware. l. 20. A] the Queene. l. 23. A--G] yeare. l. 28. A]
her talke. l. 32. A] sparke. l. 35. A, B and G] till I am. A] are
silver. l. 37. A _omits_] too. I. 38. A, B and G] yes God knowes.
p. 228, l. 2. A by mistake _omits_] _Gob_. A] dare. l, 3. A]
them. l. 4. A--G] waites. l. 7. A] Ent. Mar. Bessus, and others.
l. 8. A _omits_] _Arb_. A] Mardonius, the best. B _misprints_]
_Mar_. l. 11. E and F] happie. l. 14. A] On, call. l. 19. A
_omits_] _Exit a Gent_. l. 24. A _omits_] I swear it must not be;
nay, trust me. l. 26. B and C] beare. l. 28. A] but you are not.
p. 229, l. 1. A] I say she. l. 8. A] Armenian king. I. 15. Folio
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24. A and G] He shall. B] A shall. C] An shall. l. 25. A--G]
shall. l. 26. F _omits_] that. l. 31. A _misprints_] thinke. l.
35. In place of this stage-direction A after the word 'Queen' in
l. 33 _reads_] Enter Pan.
p. 230, l. 6. A gives this speech to Mardonius. l. 7. A _omits_]
at first. l. 8. In A this stage-direction occurs after 'Queen' in
the following line. l. 14. A and F] Maist. G] May'st. l. 17. F]
them. l. 20. A--G] your Queene. l. 23. A--G _Add_] Finis.
A KING AND NO KING. VERSE AND PROSE VARIATIONS [1].
p. 152, ll. 8 and 9. A--D and G] 3 ll. _dare, day, I_. l. 27. A]
2 ll. _of, thus_. ll. 33--35. A] 3 ll. _Earth, Prince, Acts_.
p. 157, l. 20. A] 2 ll. _king, away_.
p. 159, ll. 3--8. A--D and G] 8 ll. _praise, worthy, death, lies,
there, though, dust, envy_. ll. 11 and 12. A--D and G] 3 ll.
_ windes, I, speake_. ll. 29--38. A--D and G] 14 ll. _lives, said,
truth, bin, see, parts, world, farre, yeares, mee, thee, wilt, I,
thus_. l. 40 and p. 160, ll. 1--4. A--D and G] 6 ll. _Take,
which, love, I, mee, eare_.
p. 160, ll. 6 and 7. A, B and G] 2 ll. _Mardonius, Jewell_.
p. 161, ll. 21 and 22. A--D and G] 3 ll. _newes, not, Gobrias_.
ll. 27--33. A--D and G] 9 ll. _farre, sinnes, teares, feele,
brest, stand, eyes, world, me_. ll. 37--39 and p. 162, ll. 1--7.
A--D and G] 14 ll. _know, died, life, pardon'd, fit, olde,
thence, out, there, live, me, deathes, life, him_.
p. 163, ll. 16--22. A, B, C and G] 9 ll. _of_ (C = _halfe_),
_ free, thine, prisoner, force, me, unwilling, Tigranes, there_.
D] 7 ll. _halfe, free, thine, force, me, Tigranes, there_.
p. 164, ll. 1 and 2. A--D and G] 2 ll. _health, jealous_. ll.
25--35 and p. 165, ll. 1 and 2. A--D and G] 16 ll. _regard,
prisoner, escape, prisoner, woman, me, say, her, Lord, grace,
arme, womanhood, death, sonne, why, speake_.
p. 165, ll. 14--17. A--D and G] 5 ll. _Time, know, thinke, heart,
urgd_. ll. 35 and 36. A--D and G] 2 ll. _it, believ'd_. ll. 38
and 39. A--D and G] 3 ll. _you, die, uncredited_ (D = _should_).
p. 166, ll. I and 2. A--D and G] 4 ll. _Then, me, King, plots_ (D
adds l. 3). ll. 5--8. A--D and G] 5 ll. _me, content, power, me,
done_. ll. 19--23. A--and G] Prose. ll. 25 and 26. A] _These,
these_.
p. 167, ll. 9 and 10. A] 2 ll. _well, so_. l. 19. A--D and G] 2
ll. _readie, morrow_. ll. 21--28. A] 10 ll. _hereafter, office,
discourse, how, victorie, doe, danger, long, while, beate_. ll.
21--24. B--D and G] 4 ll. _hereafter, office, discourse,
victory_. ll. 25--28. B--D and G] Prose.
p. 168, ll. 11 and 12. A--D and G] 2 ll. _Bessus, nothing_. ll.
39 and 40. A--D and G] 2 ll. _kindnesses, name_.
p. 169, ll. 2--5. A--D and G] 5 ll. _letter, enough, you, me,
me_. ll. 25 and 26. A and G] 2 ll. _Already, foolish_. ll. 37--40
and p. 170, ll. 1--4. A--D and G] 12 ll. _Lord, live, um, Just,
um, mee, heare, way, care, you, enjoyes, worth_.
p. 170, ll. 5--10. A--D and G] Prose. ll. 13--18. A--D and G] 8
ll. _you, power, leave, like, him, humours, lesse, offer'd_. ll.
27--29. A] 2 ll. _pleasure, Madam_.
p. 171, ll. 10--15. A--D and G] 9 ll. _unreasonably, seeme, ill,
ought, faire, good, prayer, me, you_. ll. 31--40 and p. 172, ll.
1--6. A--D] 24 ll. _weepe, words, sorrow, me, him, Thalestris,
me, sweare, slay, thee, himselfe, me, yet, face, you, eares,
eyes, him, hope, dead, him, fast, ceremony, him_.
p. 172, ll. 15--21. A--D and G] 11 ll. _not, desire, others, me_
(or _not_), _wrong, birth, injure, hither, commanded, ready,
servand_.
p. 174, l. 20. A--D] 2 ll. _king, now_. ll. 23--29. A--D and G]
11 ll. _full, subjects, love, height, you, me, warre, imagine,
word, blouds, peace_.
[Footnote 1: The prose printings of E and F have not been
recorded.]
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deliverance_. ll. 11--22. A--D and G] 17 ll. _wrong, spectacle,
people, me, deserved, you, dwels, man, compare, selfe, you, too,
name, fall, loves, content, worke_. ll. 35 and 36. A--D and G] 2
ll. _Children, is_.
p. 176, ll. 23--35. A--D and G] 14 ll. _Sir, hands, know, her,
home, stubbornnesse, like, her, Jewell, mad, sister, is, Land,
another_.
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passe, constraint, so, speake, health, love, againe_.
p. 178, ll. 16 and 17. A--D and G] 3 ll. _die, returne, life_.
ll. 30--32. A--D and G] 4 ll. _ill, kneele, gaine, you_.
p. 179, ll. 21--25. A--D and G] 7 ll. _earth, alas, command, me,
short, sister brought_.
p. 180, l. 31. A--D and G] 7 ll. _Gobrias, meane_.
p. 191, ll. 35 and 36. A--D and G] 2 ll. _utterd, careleslie_.
p. 192, ll. 9--12. E and F] 3 ll. _And, love, thou_. ll. 10--12.
A--D and G] 3 ll. _Advice, love, thou_. ll. 16 and 17. A--D and
G] 3 ll. _This, caution, it_ (G _Adds_ l. 18). ll. 20 and 21.
A--D and G] 2 ll. _it, it_.
p. 194, ll. 5 and 6. A] 2 ll. _cutlers, King_. l. 22. A] 2 ll.
_will, whatsoever_.
p. 195, ll. 21 and 22. A] 2 ll. _in-, Monsters_.
p. 196, l. 38, and p. 197, ll. 1--3. A] Prose.
p. 197, ll. 4 and 5. A] 3 ll. _you, Spaconia, thus_.
p. 199, ll. 9 and 10. B--D and G] 3 ll. _Ladie, passe, King_. ll.
12 and 13. A and G] 2 ll. _from, remov'd_.
p. 201, ll. 7 and 8. A] 2 ll. _All, folly_. l. 15. A] 2 ll. _Sir,
warrant_. ll. 39 and 40.
p. 202, ll. 19--22. A] Prose.
p. 204, l. 6. A--D and G] 2 ll. _false, letter_. ll. 36--38. A] 2
ll. _Truth, Prince_.
p. 205, ll. 26 and 27. A--D and G] 3 ll. _Another, distance,
opinion_.
p. 207, ll. 11--13. A--D and G] 3 ll. _Toge-, man, brother_. I.
24. A--D and G] 2 ll. _Sir, since_.
p. 209, ll. 31 and 32. A] 2 ll. _me, brother_.
p. 212, ll. ii and 12. A] 3 ll. _Panthea, gaze, out_. ll. 23 and
24. A] 2 ll. _you, gone_.
Act 5 is in verse in Quartos A, B, C and D, in prose in Quartos E
and F from p. 214, I. 22. As the Second Folio also prints it in
prose it has been decided to give here the verse of Quarto A
(1619) in full.
Actus Quinti Scaena Prima.
_Enter Mardonius, and Ligones_.
_Mar_.
Sir, the King has seene your Commission, and beleeves it, and
freely by this warrant gives you leave to visit Prince
_Tigranes_ your noble Master.
_Lig_.
I thanke his Grace, and kisse his hands.
_Mar_.
But is the maine of all your businesse
Ended in this?
_Lig_.
I have another, but a worse; I am asham'd, it is a businesse.--
_Mar_.
You serve a worthy person, and a stranger I am sure you are; you
may imploy mee if you please, without your purse, such Officers
should ever be their owne rewards.
_Lig_.
I am bound to your noblenesse.
_Mar_.
I may have neede of you, and then this curtesie,
If it be any, is not ill bestowed:
But may I civilly desire the rest?
I shall not be a hurter, if no helper.
_Lig_.
Sir, you shall know I have lost a foolish daughter,
And with her all my patience; pilferd away
By a meane Captaine of your Kings.
_Mar_.
Stay there Sir:
If he have reacht the noble worth of Captaine,
He may well claime a worthy gentlewoman,
Though shee were yours, and noble.
_Lig_.
I grant all that too: but this wretched fellow
Reaches no further then the emptie name,
That serves to feede him; were he valiant,
Or had but in him any noble nature,
That might hereafter promise him a good man;
My cares were something lighter, and my grave
A span yet from me.
_Mar_.
I confesse such fellowes
Be in all royall Campes, and have, and must be
To make the sinne of coward more detested
In the meane Souldier, that with such a foyle
Sets of much valour: By description
I should now guesse him to you. It was _Bessus_,
I dare almost with confidence pronounce it.
_Lig_.
Tis such a scurvy name as _Bessus_, and now I thinke tis hee.
_Mar_.
Captaine, doe you call him?
Beleeve me Sir, you have a miserie
Too mighty for your age: A pox upon him,
For that must be the end of all his service:
Your daughter was not mad Sir?
_Lig_.
No, would shee had beene,
The fault had had more credit: I would doe something.
_Mar_.
I would faine counsell you; but to what I know not:
Hee's so below a beating, that the women
Find him not worthy of their distaves; and
To hang him, were to cast away a rope,
Hee's such an ayrie thin unbodied coward,
That no revenge can catch him:
He tell you Sir, and tell you truth; this rascall
Feares neither God nor man, has beene so beaten:
Sufferance has made him wanscote; he has had
Since hee was first a slave, at least three hundred daggers
Set in his head, as little boyes doe new knives in hot meat;
Ther's not a rib in's bodie a my conscience,
That has not beene thrice broken with drie beating;
And now his sides looke like to wicker targets,
Everie way bended:
Children will shortly take him for a wall,
And set their stone-bowes in his forhead: is of so low a sence,
I cannot in a weeke imagine what should be done to him.
_Lig_.
Sure I have committed some great sinne,
That this strange fellow should be made my rod:
I would see him, but I shall have no patience:
_Mar_.
Tis no great matter if you have not, if a laming of him, or such
a toy may doe you pleasure Sir, he has it for you, and Ile helpe
you to him: tis no newes to him to have a leg broke, or a
shoulder out, with being turnd ath' stones like a Tanzie: Draw
not your sword, if you love it; for my conscience his head will
breake it: we use him ith' warres like a Ramme to shake a wall
withall; here comes the verie person of him, doe as you shall
find your temper I must leave you: but if you doe not breake him
like a bisket, you are much too blame Sir. _Ex. Mardo. Enter
Bessus and Sword-men_.
_Lig_.
Is your name Bessus?
_Bes_.
Men call me Captaine Bessus.
_Lig_.
Then Captaine _Bessus_ you are a ranke rascall, without more
exordiums, a durty frozen slave; and with the favour of your
friends here, I will beate you.
_2_.
Pray use your pleasure Sir, you seem to be a gentleman.
_Lig_.
Thus Captaine _Bessus_, thus; thus twinge your nose, thus kicke
you, and thus tread you.
_Bess_.
I doe beseech you yeeld your cause Sir quickly.
_Lig_.
Indeed I should have told you that first.
_Bess_.
I take it so.
_1_.
Captaine, a should indeed, he is mistaken:
_Lig_.
Sir you shall have it quickly, and more beating,
You have stolne away a Lady Captaine Coward,
And such a one.
_Bes_.
Hold, I beseech you, hold Sir,
I never yet stole any living thing
That had a tooth about it.
_Lig_.
Sir I know you dare lie
With none but Summer Whores upon my life Sir.
_Bes_.
My meanes and manners never could attempt
Above a hedge or hey-cocke.
_Lig_.
Sirra that quits not me, where is this Ladie,
Doe that you doe not use to doe, tell truth,
Or by my hand Ile beat your Captaines braines out.
Wash um, and put um in againe, that will I.
_Bes_.
There was a Ladie Sir, I must confesse
Once in my charge: the Prince _Tigranes_ gave her
To my guard for her safetie, how I usd her
She may her selfe report, shee's with the Prince now:
I did but waite upon her like a Groome,
Which she will testifie I am sure: If not,
My braines are at your service when you please Sir,
And glad I have um for you?
_Lig_.
This is most likely, Sir I aske your pardon,
And am sorrie I was so intemperate.
_Bes_.
Well, I can aske no more, you would thinke it strange Now to have
me beat you at first sight.
_Lig_.
Indeed I would but I know your goodnes can forget
Twentie beatings. You must forgive me.
_Bes_.
Yes, ther's my hand, goe where you will, I shall thinke
You a valiant fellow for all this.
_Lig_.
My daughter is a Whore,
I feele it now too sencible; yet I will see her,
Discharge my selfe of being Father to her,
And then backe to my Countrie, and there die;
Farewell Captaine.
_Exit_.
_Bes_.
Farewell Sir, farewell, commend me to the Gentlewoman I praia.
_1_.
How now Captaine, beare up man.
_Bes_.
Gentlemen ath' sword your hands once more, I have
Beene kickt againe, but the foolish fellow is penitent,
Has ask't me mercy, and my honor's safe.
_2_.
We knew that, or the foolish fellow had better a kick't
His Grandsire.
Confirme, confirme I pray.
_1_.
There be our hands againe.
_2_.
Now let him come, and say he was not sorry,
And he sleepes for it.
_Bes_.
Alas good ignorant old man, let him goe,
Let him goe, these courses will undoe him.
_Exeunt_.
_Enter Ligones, and Bacurius_.
_Bac_.
My Lord your authoritie is good, and I am glad it is so, for my
consent would never hinder you from seeing your owne King. I am a
Minister, but not a governour of this state; yonder is your King,
Ile leave you.
_Exit_.
_Lig_.
There he is indeed, _Enter Tig. and Spaco_.
And with him my disloyall childe.
_Tig_.
I doe perceive my fault so much, that yet
Me thinkes thou shouldst not have forgiven me.
_Lig_.
Health to your Maiestie.
_Tig_.
What? good Ligones, welcome; what businesse brought thee hether?
_Lig_.
Severall Businesses.
My publique businesse will appeare by this:
I have a message to deliver, which
If it please you so to authorise, is
An embassage from the Armenian state,
Unto _Arbaces_ for your libertie:
The offer's there set downe, please you to read it.
_Tig_.
There is no alteration happened
Since I came thence?
_Lig_.
None Sir, all is as it was.
_Tig_.
And all our friends are well.
_Lig_.
All verie well.
_Spa_.
Though I have done nothing but what was good,
I dare not see my Father: it was fault
Enough not to acquaint him with that good.
_Lig_.
Madam I should have scene you.
_Spa_.
O good Sir forgive me.
_Lig_.
Forgive you, why I am no kin to you, am I?
_Spa_.
Should it be measur'd by my meane deserts,
Indeed you are not.
_Lig_.
Thou couldst prate unhappily
Ere thou couldst goe, would thou couldst doe as well.
And how does your custome hold out here. _Spa_. Sir.
_Lig_.
Are you in private still, or how?
_Spa_.
What doe you meane?
_Lig_.
Doe you take money? are you come to sell sinne yet? perhaps I can
helpe you to liberall Clients: or has not the King cast you off yet? O
thou wild creature, whose best commendation is, that thou art a young
Whore. I would thy Mother had liv'd to see this: or rather would I had
dyed ere I had seene it: why did'st not make me acquainted when thou
wert first resolv'd to be a Whore? I would have seene thy hot lust
satisfied more privately. I would have kept a dancer, and a whole
consort of Musitions in mine owne house, onely to fiddle thee. _Spa_.
Sir I was never whore.
_Lig_.
If thou couldst not say so much for thy selfe thou shouldst be
Carted.
_Tig._
_Ligones_ I have read it, and like it,
You shall deliver it.
_Lig_.
Well Sir I will: but I have private busines with you.
_Tig_.
Speake, what ist?
_Lig_.
How has my age deserv'd so ill of you,
That you can picke no strumpets in the Land,
But out of my breed.
_Tig_.
Strumpets good _Ligones_?
_Lig_.
Yes, and I wish to have you know, I scorne
To get a Whore for any Prince alive,
And yet scorne will not helpe me thinkes: My daughter
Might have beene spar'd, there were enough beside.
_Tig_.
May I not prosper, but Shee's innocent
As morning light for me, and I dare sweare
For all the world.
_Lig_.
Why is she with you then?
Can she waite on you better then your men,
Has she a gift in plucking off your stockings,
Can she make Cawdles well, or cut your Comes,
Why doe you keepe her with you? For your Queene
I know you doe contemne her, so should I
And every Subject else thinke much at it.
_Tig_.
Let um thinke much, but tis more firme then earth
Thou seest thy Queene there.
_Lig_.
Then have I made a faire hand, I cald her Whore,
If I shall speake now as her Father, I cannot chuse
But greatly rejoyce that she shall be a Queene: but if
I should speake to you as a Statesman shee were more fit
To be your Whore.
_Tig_.
Get you about your businesse to _Arbaces_,
Now you talke idlie.
_Lig_.
Yes Sir, I will goe.
And shall she be a Queene, she had more wit
Then her old Father when she ranne away:
Shall shee be a Queene, now by my troth tis fine,
Ile dance out of all measure at her wedding:
Shall I not Sir?
_Tigr_.
Yes marrie shalt thou.
_Lig_.
He make these witherd Kexes beare my bodie
Two houres together above ground.
_Tigr_.
Nay, goe, my businesse requires haste.
_Lig_.
Good God preserve you, you are an excellent King.
_Spa_.
Farewell good Father.
_Lig_.
Farewell sweete vertuous Daughter;
I never was so joyfull in my life,
That I remember: shall shee be a Queene?
Now I perceive a man may weepe for joy,
I had thought they had lied that said so.
_Exit_.
_Tig_.
Come my deare love.
_Spa_.
But you may see another
May alter that againe.
_Tigr_.
Urge it no more;
I have made up a new strong constancie,
Not to be shooke with eyes; I know I have
The passions of a man, but if I meete
With any subject that shall hold my eyes
More firmely then is fit; Ile thinke of thee,
and runne away from it: let that suffice.
_Exeunt_.
_Enter Bacurius, and a servant_.
_Bac_.
Three gentlemen without to speake with me?
_Ser_.
Yes Sir.
_Bac_.
Let them come in.
_Ser_.
They are enterd Sir already.
_Enter Bessus, and Swordmen_.
_Bac_.
Now fellowes, your busines, are these the Gentlemen.
_Bess_.
My Lord I have made bold to bring these Gentlemen my Friends ath'
sword along with me.
_Bac_.
I am afraid youle fight then.
_Bes_.
My good Lord I will not, your Lordship is mistaken,
Feare not Lord.
_Bac_.
Sir I am sorrie fort.
_Bes_.
I can aske no more in honor, Gentlemen you heare my Lord is sorrie.
_Bac_.
Not that I have beaten you, but beaten one that will be beaten:
one whose dull bodie will require launcing: As surfeits doe the
diet, spring and full. Now to your swordmen, what come they for
good Captaine Stock-fish?
_Bes_.
It seemes your Lordship has forgot my name.
_Bac_.
No, nor your nature neither, though they are things fitter I
confesse for anything, then my remembrance, or anie honestmans,
what shall these billets doe, be pilde up in my Wood-yard?
_Bes_.
Your Lordship holds your mirth still, God continue it: but for
these Gentlemen they come.
_Bac_.
To sweare you are a Coward, spare your Booke, I doe beleeve it.
_Bes_.
Your Lordship still drawes wide, they come to vouch under their
valiant hands, I am no Coward.
_Bac_.
That would be a shew indeed worth seeing: sirra be wise and take
money for this motion, travell with it, and where the name of
_Bessus_ has been knowne, or a good Coward stirring, twill yeeld
more then a tilting. This will prove more beneficiall to you, if
you be thriftie, then your Captaineship, and more naturall; Men
of most valiant hands is this true?
_2_.
It is so most renowned,
Tis somewhat strange.
_1_.
Lord, it is strange, yet true; wee have examined from your Lordships
foote there to this mans head, the nature of the beatings; and we doe
find his honour is come off cleane, and sufficient: This as our swords
shall helpe us.
_Bac_.
You are much bound to you bilbow-men, I am glad you are straight again
Captaine: twere good you would thinke some way to gratifie them, they
have undergone a labour for you _Bessus_, would have puzzled _hercules_,
with all his valour.
_2_.
Your Lordship must understand we are no men ath' Law, that take pay
for our opinions: it is sufficient wee have cleer'd our friend.
_Bac_.
Yet here is something due, which I as toucht in conscience will
discharge Captaine; Ile pay this rent for you.
_Bess_.
Spare your selfe my good Lord; my brave friends aime at nothing but
the vertue.
_Bac_.
Thats but a cold discharge Sir for their paines.
_2_.
O Lord, my good Lord.
_Bac_.
Be not so modest, I will give you something.
_Bes_.
They shall dine with your Lordship, that's sufficient.
_Bac_.
Something in hand the while; ye rogues, ye apple-squiers: doe you
come hether with your botled valour, your windie frothe, to limit
out my beatings.
_1_.
I doe beseech your Lordship.
_2_.
O good Lord.
_Bac_.
Sfoote, what a many of beaten slaves are here? get me a cudgell
sirra, and a tough one.
_2_.
More of your foot, I doe beseech your Lordship.
_Bac_.
You shall, you shall dog, and your fellow beagle.
_1_.
A this side good my Lord.
_Bac_.
Off with your swords, for if you hurt my foote, Ile have you
fleade you rascals.
_1_.
Mines off my Lord.
_2_.
I beseech your Lordship stay a little, my strap's tied to my
codpiece point: Now when you please.
_Bac_.
Captaine, these are your valiant friends, you long for a little
too?
_Bess_.
I am verie well, I humblie thanke your Lordship.
_Bac_.
Whats that in your pocket slave, my key you mungrell? thy
buttocks cannot be so hard, out with't quicklie.
_2_.
Here tis Sir, a small piece of Artillerie, that a gentleman a
deare friend of your Lordships sent me with to get it mended Sir;
for it you marke, the nose is somewhat loose.
_Bac_.
A friend of mine you rascall, I was never wearier of doing
nothing, then kicking these two foote-bals.
_Ser_.
Heres a good cudgell Sir.
_Bac_.
It comes too late; I am wearie, prethee doe thou beate um.
_2_.
My Lord this is foule play ifaith, to put a fresh man upon us;
Men, are but men.
_Bac_.
That jest shall save your bones, up with your rotten regiment,
and be gone; I had rather thresh, then be bound to kicke these
raskals, till they cride hold: _Bessus_ you may put your hand to
them now, and then you are quit. Farewell, as you like this,
pray visit mee againe, twill keepe me in good breath.
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