The Scornful Lady by Francis Beaumont;John Fletcher
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_Roger._ I knew a worshipfull and a Religious Gentleman of your name in the Bishoprick of _Durham_. Call you him Cousen? _Wel._ I am only allyed to his vertues Sir. _Roger._ It is modestly said: I should carry the badge of your Christianity with me too. _Wel._ What's that, a Cross? there's a tester. _Roger._ I mean the name which your God-fathers and God-mothers gave you at the Font. _Wel._ 'Tis _Harry_: but you cannot proceed orderly now in your Catechism: for you have told me who gave me that name. Shall I beg your name? _Roger._ _Roger._ _Wel._ What room fill you in this house? _Roger._ More rooms than one. _Wel._ The more the merrier: but may my boldness know, why your Lady hath sent you to decypher my name? _Roger._ Her own words were these: To know whether you were a formerly denyed Suitor, disguised in this message: for I can assure you she delights not in _Thalame_: _Hymen_ and she are at variance, I shall return with much hast. [_Exit_ Roger. |
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