Beaumont & Fletcher's Works (1 of 10) - the Custom of the Country by John Fletcher;Francis Beaumont
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And run through all these follies you call fortunes,
Yet never fixt on any good and constant, But what I made myself: why should I grieve then At that I may mould any way? _Arn._ You are wide still. _Rut._ You love a Gentlewoman, a young handsom woman, I have lov'd a thosand, not so few. _Arn._ You are dispos'd. _Rut._ You hope to Marry her; 'tis a lawful calling And prettily esteem'd of, but take heed then, Take heed dear Brother of a stranger fortune Than e're you felt yet; fortune my foe is a friend to it. _Arn._ 'Tis true I love, dearly, and truly love, A noble, vertuous, and most beauteous Maid, And am belov'd again. _Rut._ That's too much o' Conscience, To love all these would run me out o' my wits. _Arn._ Prethee give ear, I am to Marry her. _Rut._ Dispatch it then, and I'le go call the Piper. _Arn._ But O the wicked Custom of this Country, The barbarous, most inhumane, damned Custom. |
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