Category: Plays/Films/Dramas
LINCOLN. My lord mayor, you have sundry times Feasted myself and many courtiers more: Seldom or never can we be so kind To make requital of your courtesy. But leaving this, I hear my cousin Lacy Is much affected to your daughter Rose.
_1st Mast._ Hither from foreign courts have princes come, And with our duke did acts of State commence, Here that great cardinal had first audience, The grave Campayne; that duk...
36. SCENE II. _An Apartment in Bethlem Monastery._Ans._ You press me to an act, both full of danger, And full of happiness; for I behold Your father’s frowns, his threats, nay, perhaps death To him that dare do this: yet, nobl...
27. SCENE I.--_A Room in_ BELLAFRONT’S _House_._Enter_ ROGER _with a stool, cushion, looking-glass and chafing-dish; these being set down, he pulls out of his pocket a phial with white colour in it, and two boxes, one with w...
56. SCENE II.--_Outside the House of_ FORTUNATUS._Shad._ It comes to nothing, sir, for you have lost your wits; and when a man’s wits are lost, the man is like twenty pounds’ worth of tobacco, which mounts into th’ air, and pr...
62. SCENE II.--_An open Space near London: a Prison and a Pair of_Andel._ Your life? you think then that I am a true doctor indeed, that tie up my living in the knots of winding sheets: your life? no, keep your life, but deliver your purse: y...
45. SCENE I.--_A Room in_ MATHEO’S _House_._Mat._ To keep the fashion; it’s your only fashion now, of your best rank of gallants, to make their tailors wait for their money; neither were it wisdom indeed to pay them upon...
57. SCENE I.--_London. The Court of_ ATHELSTANE.ORLE. Begone: leave that with me, and leave me to myself; if the king ask for me, swear to him I am sick, and thou shalt not lie; pray thee leave me.
71. SCENE I.--_Edmonton. The Street.Old Banks. My horse this morning runs most piteously of the glanders, whose nose yesternight was as clean as any man’s here now coming from the barber’s; and this, I’ll take my...
65. SCENE I.--_The Fields near Edmonton.Mother Sawyer. And why on me? why should the envious world Throw all their scandalous malice upon me? ’Cause I am poor, deformed, and ignorant, And like a bow buckled and bent t...
40. SCENE I.--_A Room in_ MATHEO’S _House_._Mat._ Dost know me? my cloak, prithee, lay’t up. Yes, faith, my winding-sheet was taken out of lavender, to be stuck with rosemary[247]: I lacked but the knot here, or here; ye...
21. SCENE V.--_An Open Yard before the Hall._King._ Well, Lacy, though the fact was very foul Of your revolting from our kingly love And your own duty, yet we pardon you. Rise both, and, Mistress Lacy, thank my lord mayor...
28. SCENE I.--CANDIDO’S _Shop_._Fus._ ’Sfoot, I lack ’em all; nay, more, I lack money to buy ’em. Let me see, let me look again: mass, this is the shop. [_Aside._] What coz! sweet coz! how dost, i’faith, sinc...
1. SCENE I.--_A Street in London.LINCOLN. My lord mayor, you have sundry times Feasted myself and many courtiers more: Seldom or never can we be so kind To make requital of your courtesy. But leaving this, I he...
64. SCENE II.--_Edmonton. A Room in_ CARTER’S _House_._Car._ No gentleman I, Master Thorney; spare the Mastership, call me by my name, John Carter. Master is a title my father, nor his before him, were acquainted with; honest Hertf...
42. SCENE I.--_An Apartment in_ HIPPOLITO’S _House_._Orl._ This madam: my poor mistress has a waste piece of ground, which is her own by inheritance, and left to her by her mother. There’s a lord now that goes about not to take i...
74. SCENE II.--_London. The neighbourhood of Tyburn._Just._ Sir Arthur, though the bench hath mildly censured your errors, yet you have indeed been the instrument that wrought all their misfortunes; I would wish you paid down you...
59. SCENE I.--_A Wilderness._Andel._ Indeed the devil and the pick-purse should always fly together, for they are sworn brothers: but Madam Covetousness, I am neither a devil as you call me, nor a jeweller...
53. SCENE II.--_Outside the House of_ FORTUNATUS._Shad._ Ay, master, and we are both forsworn, as all such wooden knights be, for we both took an oath--marry it was not corporal, you may see by our cheeks, that we would not fa...
38. SCENE II.--_An Apartment in the_ DUKE’S _Palace_._Lod._ Oh ’tis rare sucking a sweet honey comb! pray Heaven his old wife be buried deep enough, that she rise not up to call for her dance! The poor fiddlers’ instruments would...
73. SCENE I.--_The Witch’s Cottage.Mother Sawyer. Still wronged by every slave, and not a dog Bark in his dame’s defence? I am called witch, Yet am myself bewitched from doing harm. Have I given up myself to thy...
18. SCENE II.--_A Street near St. Faith’s Church._Hodge._ Come, Ralph; stand to it, Firk. My masters, as we are the brave bloods of the shoemakers, heirs apparent to Saint Hugh, and perpetual benefactors to all good fellows, t...
26. SCENE V.--CANDIDO’S _Shop_._Vio._ Come, you put up your wares in good order here, do you not, think you? one piece cast this way, another that way! you had need have a patient master indeed.
72. SCENE II. _A Bedroom in_ CARTER’S _House. A bed thrust forth,_Kath._ My good sweet brother,-- For now my sister must grow up in you,-- Though her loss strikes you through, and that I feel The blow as deep, I pray thee be not cruel To kill...
63. SCENE I.--_The neighbourhood of Edmonton. A Room in the House ofFrank. Come, wench; why, here’s a business soon dispatched: Thy heart I know is now at ease; thou need’st not Fear what the tattling gossips in their cups Can speak against thy...
31. SCENE I.--_A Chamber in_ HIPPOLITO’S _House_.SER. So, this is Monday morning, and now must I to my huswifery.--[_Sets out a table, on which he places a skull, a picture of_ INFELICE, _a book, and a taper_.]--Would I had be...
7. SCENE I.--_A Room in_ EYRE’S _House_.SKIP. _Ick sal yow wat seggen, Hans; dis skip, dot comen from Candy, is al vol, by Got’s sacrament, van sugar, civet, almonds, cambrick, end alle dingen, towsand towsand ding. N...
37. SCENE I.--_A Hall in_ HIPPOLITO’S _House_._Lod._ Oh, a morning to tempt Jove from his ningle,[231] Ganymede; which is but to give dairy-wenches green gowns as they are going a-milking. What, is thy lord stirring yet?
61. SCENE I.--_London. The Court of Athelstane._Agrip._ Your majesty fights with no mortal power. Shame, and not conquest, hangs upon this strife. O, touch me not, you add but pain to pain, The more you cut, the more they gr...
10. SCENE IV.--_London: a Room in_ EYRE’S _House_._Marg._ I pray thee, run--do you hear?--run to Guildhall, and learn if my husband, Master Eyre, will take that worshipful vocation of Master Sheriff upon him. Hie thee, good Firk.
33. SCENE III. CANDIDO’S _Shop_._Vio._ Now, as you ever hope to win my favour, Throw both your duties and respects on him, With the like awe as if he were your master, Let not your looks betray it with a smile...
47. SCENE III.--_A Room in_ MATHEO’S _House_._Lod._ Gentlemen, you all know Signor Candido, the linen-draper, he that’s more patient than a brown baker, upon the day when he heats his oven, and has forty scolds about him.
58. SCENE II.--_The same._Music sounding still; a curtain being drawn_, ANDELOCIA _is discovered sleeping in_ AGRIPYNE’S _lap; she has his purse, and she and another lady tie another like it in its plac...
67. SCENE I.--_The Village Green._Cud._ If you were wise, a word would serve; but as you are, I must be forced to tell you again, I have a little private business, an hour’s work; it may prove but an half hour’...
16. SCENE V.--_Another Room in the same House._L. Mayor._ Believe me, on my credit, I speak truth: Since first your nephew Lacy went to France, I have not seen him. It seemed strange to me, When Dodger told me that he staye...
23. SCENE II.--_Another Street._Fus._ There’s for thy pains [_Gives money_]. Godamercy, if ever I stand in need of a wench that will come with a wet finger,[123] porter, thou shalt earn my money before any cl...
43. SCENE II.--_A Room in Matheo’s House._Orl._ He has given up his cloak, and his rapier is bound to the peace: If you look a little higher, you may see that another hath entered into hatband for him too. Six and four...
66. SCENE II.--CARTER’S _House_._Car._ Nor you me justly. Wedding and hanging are tied up both in a proverb; and destiny is the juggler that unties the knot. My hope is, you are reserved to a richer fortune th...
60. SCENE II.--_London._ _The Court of_ ATHELSTANE._Linc._ No other prison held her but your court, There in her chamber hath she hid herself These two days, only to shake off that fear, Which her late violent rapture cast upon...
54. SCENE III.--_A Wood in Cyprus._Music sounds. Enter_ VICE _with a gilded face, and horns on her head; her garments long, painted before with silver half-moons, increasing by little and little till they come t...
4. SCENE III.--_An open Yard before_ EYRE’S _House_._Eyre._ Where be these boys, these girls, these drabs, these scoundrels? They wallow in the fat brewiss[24] of my bounty, and lick up the crumbs of my table, yet will not rise t...
22. SCENE I.--_A Street in Milan._Enter at one side a Funeral (a coronet lying on the hearse, scutcheon and garlands hanging on the sides), attended by_ GASPARO TREBAZZI, _Duke of Milan_, CASTRUCHIO, SINEZI, PI...
50. SCENE I.--_A Wood in Cyprus._Fort._ Ha, ha, ha, that’s true, my best way out is my best way out, but how that out will come in, by this maggot I know not. I see by this we are all worms’ meat. Well, I am v...
39. SCENE III.--_A Room in_ CANDIDO’S _House_. CANDIDO, _the ~Bride~ and_Lod._ It’s rather a long pike-staff against so many bucklers without pikes;[242] they sit for all the world like a pair of organs, and he’s the tall great roaring pipe i’ th’ m...
41. SCENE II.--_Before_ CANDIDO’S _Shop_._Lod._ Come, come, come, what do ye lack, sir? what do ye lack, sir? what is’t ye lack, sir? Is not my worship well suited? did you ever see a gentleman better disguised?
44. SCENE III.--_Before_ CANDIDO’S _Shop_. CANDIDO _and his ~Bride~_Bots._ We want tools, gentlemen, to furnish the trade: they wear out day and night, they wear out till no metal be left in their back. We hear of two or three new wenches are c...
68. SCENE II.--_The neighbourhood of Edmonton._Frank._ Prithee no more! those tears give nourishment To weeds and briers in me, which shortly will O’ergrow and top my head; my shame will sit And cover all that can be seen o...
69. SCENE III.--_A Field with a clump of trees._Sus._ Tush! I fear none; To leave you is the greatest hurt I can suffer: Besides, I expect your father and mine own To meet me back, or overtake me with you; They began to stir...
52. Act II. sc. ii., _q.v._Fortune._ Stay, Fortunatus, once more hear me speak; If thou kiss Wisdom’s cheek and make her thine, She’ll breathe into thy lips divinity, And thou like Phœbus shalt speak ora...
12. SCENE I.--_A Street in London.Ham. Yonder’s the shop, and there my fair love sits. She’s fair and lovely, but she is not mine. O, would she were! Thrice have I courted her, Thrice hath my hand been moistened...
55. SCENE I.--_The Court at Babylon._[365Sold. Art thou that Fortunatus, whose great name, Being carried in the chariot of the winds, Hast filled the courts of all our Asian kings With love and envy, whose dear presenc...
11. SCENE V.--_A Room at Old Ford._L. Mayor._ Now, by my troth, I’ll tell thee, Master Eyre, It does me good, and all my brethren, That such a madcap fellow as thyself Is entered into our society.
30. SCENE III.--_A Chamber in_ BELLAFRONT’S _House_._Bell._ [_Sings._] The courtier’s flattering jewels, Temptations only fuels, The lawyer’s ill-got moneys, That suck up poor bees’ honeys: The citizen’s sons riot, The gallant’s...
35. SCENE I.--_A Hall in the_ DUKE’S _Palace_._Geo._ Oh yes, of all countries some; but especially mad Greeks, they swarm. Troth mistress, the world is altered with you; you had not wont to stand thus with a paper humbly co...
46. SCENE II.--_An Apartment in the_ DUKE’S _Palace_._Orl._ I beseech your grace, though your eye be so piercing as under a poor blue coat to cull out an honest father from an old serving-man, yet, good my lord, discover not the p...
51. Scene III._2nd King._ Thou painted strumpet, that with honeyed smiles, Openest the gates of Heaven and criest, “Come in;” Whose glories being seen, thou with one frown, In pride, lower th...
34. SCENE IV.--_Grounds near the_ DUKE’S _Palace_._Doct._ I sent for him my lord, at last he came, And did receive all speech that went from me, As gilded pills made to prolong his health. My credit with him wrought it; for som...
9. SCENE III.--_London: a Room in the_ LORD MAYOR’S_L. Mayor._ Good Master Scott, I have been bold with you, To be a witness to a wedding-knot Betwixt young Master Hammon and my daughter. O, stand aside; see where the lovers come.
24. SCENE III.--_A Chamber in the Duke’s Palace._Duke._ Give charge that none do enter, lock the doors-- [_Speaking as he enters._ And fellows, what your eyes and ears receive, Upon your lives trust not the gadding air To car...
70. SCENE IV.--_Before_ SIR ARTHUR CLARINGTON’S _House_._Cud._ A bowl, I prithee, and a little for my horse; he’ll mount the better. Nay, give me: I must drink to him, he’ll not pledge else. [_Drinks._] Here, Hobby [_Holds the bowl t...
20. SCENE IV.--_A Great Hall._Eyre._ Come, my fine Hodge, my jolly gentlemen shoemakers; soft, where be these cannibals, these varlets, my officers? Let them all walk and wait upon my brethren; for my meani...
29. SCENE II.--_An outer Apartment in_ BELLAFRONT’S _House_._Mis. F._ O Roger, Roger, where’s your mistress, where’s your mistress? there’s the finest, neatest gentleman at my house, but newly come over: Oh, where is she, where is she, w...
14. SCENE III.--_The Same._Serv._ Why, you must make them in all parts like this shoe; but, at any hand, fail not to do them, for the gentlewoman is to be married very early in the morning.
2. SCENE I.--_A Garden at Old Ford.Rose. Here sit thou down upon this flow’ry bank, And make a garland for thy Lacy’s head. These pinks, these roses, and these violets, These blushing gilliflowers, these marigold...
13. SCENE II. _London: a Street before_ HODGE’S _Shop_.[81] “Forward, Firk, thou art a jolly youngster. Hark, ay, master, I bid you cut me a pair of vamps for Master Jeffrey’s boots.” Vamps; upper leathers of a shoe.
6. SCENE V.--_Another part of the Field._Sybil._ Upon some, no; forester, go by; no, faith, mistress. The deer came running into the barn through the orchard and over the pale; I wot well, I looked as pale as a new ch...
17. SCENE I.--_A Room in_ EYRE’S _House_._Eyre._ Away with these ifs and ands, Hans, and these et caeteras! By mine honour, Rowland Lacy, none but the king shall wrong thee. Come, fear nothing, am not I Sim Eyre? Is no...
25. SCENE IV.--_A Street._Cas._ At Signor Candido’s house, the patient man, nay, the monstrous patient man; they say his blood is immoveable, that he has taken all patience from a man, and all constancy...
15. SCENE IV.--_London: a Room in the_ LORD MAYOR’S _House_._Rose._ Sweet Lacy, since fair opportunity Offers herself to further our escape, Let not too over-fond esteem of me Hinder that happy hour. Invent the means, And Rose will follo...
32. SCENE II. _A Street._Fus._ Hold up your hands, gentlemen, here’s one, two, three [_Giving money_]--nay, I warrant they are sound pistoles, and without flaws; I had them of my sister and I know she...
8. SCENE II.--_London: a Room in_ LINCOLN’S _House_._Dodger._ My lord, upon the eighteenth day of May The French and English were prepared to fight; Each side with eager fury gave the sign Of a most hot encounter. Five long hours...
48. SCENE I.--_A Street._Lod._ Any man that has borne office of constable, or any woman that has fallen from a horse-load to a cart-load,[306] or like an old hen that has had none but rotten eggs in he...
3. SCENE II.--_A Street in London._Lacy._ How many shapes have gods and kings devised, Thereby to compass their desired loves! It is no shame for Rowland Lacy, then, To clothe his cunning with the gentle craft,...
5. SCENE IV.--_A Field near Old Ford._Ham._ Cousin, beat every brake, the game’s not far, This way with wingèd feet he fled from death, Whilst the pursuing hounds, scenting his steps, Find out his highway to destru...
19. SCENE III.--_A Street in London._Nobleman._ One of the merriest madcaps in your land. Your grace will think, when you behold the man, He’s rather a wild ruffian than a mayor. Yet thus much I’ll ensure your maj...