Beaumont & Fletcher's Works (2 of 10) - the Humourous Lieutenant by John Fletcher;Francis Beaumont
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_Enter_ Lieutenant. _Lieu_. I know not: I am mall'd: we are bravely beaten, All our young gallants lost. _Leo_. Thou art hurt. _Lieu_. I am pepper'd, I was i'th' midst of all: and bang'd of all hands: They made an anvile of my head, it rings yet; Never so thresh'd: do you call this fame? I have fam'd it; I have got immortal fame, but I'le no more on't; I'le no such scratching Saint to serve hereafter; O' my conscience I was kill'd above twenty times, And yet I know not what a Devil's in't, I crawled away, and lived again still; I am hurt plaguily, But now I have nothing near so much pain Colonel, They have sliced me for that maladie. _Dem_. All the young men lost? _Lie_. I am glad you are here: but they are all i'th' pound sir, They'l never ride o're other mens corn again, I take it, Such frisking, and such flaunting with their feathers, And such careering with their Mistres favours; And here must he be pricking out for honour, And there got he a knock, and down goes pilgarlick, Commends his soul to his she-saint, and _Exit_. Another spurs in there, cryes make room villains, |
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