The White Devil by John Webster
page 17 of 204 (08%)
page 17 of 204 (08%)
|
Flam. [With a relish as curious as a vintner going to taste new wine.]
[To Camillo.] I am opening your case hard. Cam. A virtuous brother, o' my credit! Flam. He will give thee a ring with a philosopher's stone in it. Cam. Indeed, I am studying alchemy. Flam. Thou shalt lie in a bed stuffed with turtle's feathers; swoon in perfumed linen, like the fellow was smothered in roses. So perfect shall be thy happiness, that as men at sea think land, and trees, and ships, go that way they go; so both heaven and earth shall seem to go your voyage. Shalt meet him; 'tis fix'd, with nails of diamonds to inevitable necessity. Vit. How shalt rid him hence? Flam. [I will put brize in 's tail, set him gadding presently.] I have almost wrought her to it; I find her coming: but, might I advise you now, for this night I would not lie with her, I would cross her humour to make her more humble. |
|