Beaumont & Fletcher's Works (1 of 10) - the Custom of the Country by John Fletcher;Francis Beaumont
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_Rut_. How now, what livery's this? do you call this a wedding?
This is more like a funeral. _Char_. It is one, And my poor Daughter going to her grave, To his most loath'd embraces that gapes for her. Make the Earles bed readie, is the marriage done Sir? _Rut_. Yes they are knit; but must this slubberdegullion Have her maiden-head now? [_Char_.] There's no avoiding it. _Rut_. And there's the scaffold where she must lose it. [_Char_.] The bed Sir. _Rut_. No way to wipe his mouldy chaps? _Char_. That we know. _Rut_. To any honest well-deserving fellow, And 'twere but to a merry Cobbler, I could sit still now, I love the game so well; but that this puckfist, This universal rutter--fare ye well Sir; And if you have any good prayers, put 'em forward, There may be yet a remedie. _Char_. I wish it, [_Exit_ Rut. And all my best devotions offer to it. |
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