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Philaster - Love Lies a Bleeding by Francis Beaumont;John Fletcher
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And so high and glowing, that other Kingdoms far
and Forreign
Shall read it there, nay travel with it, till they find
No tongue to make it more, nor no more people;
And then behold the fall of your fair Princess.

_King_. Has she a boy?

_Cle_. So please your Grace I have seen a boy wait
On her, a fair boy.

_King_. Go get you to your quarter:
For this time I'le study to forget you.

_Meg_. Do you study to forget me, and I'le study
To forget you.

[_Ex_. King, Meg. _and_ Guard.

_Cle_. Why here's a Male spirit for _Hercules_, if ever there
be nine worthies of women, this wench shall ride
astride, and be their Captain.

_Di_. Sure she hath a garrison of Devils in her tongue, she
uttereth such balls of wild-fire. She has so netled the
King, that all the Doctors in the Country will scarce
cure him. That boy was a strange found out antidote to
cure her infection: that boy, that Princess boy: that brave,
chast, vertuous Ladies boy: and a fair boy, a well spoken
boy: All these considered, can make nothing else--but
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