Wit Without Money - The Works of Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher by Francis Beaumont
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_Luce._ I know the cause of all this sadness now, your sister has ingrost all the brave Lovers. _Isab._ She has wherewithall, much good may't do her, prethee speak softly, we are open to mens ears. _Luce._ Fear not, we are safe, we may see all that pass, hear all, and make our selves merry with their language, and yet stand undiscovered, be not melancholy, you are as fair as she. _Isab._ Who I? I thank you, I am as haste ordain'd me, a thing slubber'd, my sister is a goodly portly Lady, a woman of a presence, she spreads sattens, as the Kings ships do canvas every where, she may spare me her misen, and her bonnets, strike her main Petticoat, and yet outsail me, I am a Carvel to her. _Luce._ But a tight one. _Isab._ She is excellent, well built too. _Luce._ And yet she's old. _Isab._ She never saw above one voyage _Luce_, and credit me after another, her Hull will serve again, a right good Merchant: she plaies, and sings too, dances and discourses, comes very near Essays, a pretty Poet, begins to piddle with Philosophic, a subtil Chymick Wench, and can extract the Spirit of mens Estates, she has the light before her, and cannot miss her choice for me, 'tis reason I wait my mean fortune. |
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