The Scornful Lady by Francis Beaumont;John Fletcher
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hundred pounds a year; we will be freely merry, shall we not?
_Capt_. Merry as mirth and wine, my lovely _Loveless_. _Poet_. A serious look shall be a Jury to excommunicate any man from our company. _Tra_. We will not talk wisely neither? _Young Lo_. What think you Gentlemen by all this Revenue in Drink? _Capt_. I am all for Drink. _Tra_. I am dry till it be so. _Poet_. He that will not cry Amen to this, let him live sober, seem wise, and dye o'th' _Coram_. _Young Lo_. It shall be so, we'l have it all in Drink, let Meat and Lodging go, they are transitory, and shew men meerly mortal: then we'l have Wenches, every one his Wench, and every week a fresh one: we'l keep no powdered flesh: all these we have by warrant, under the title of things necessary. Here upon this place I ground it, The obedience of my people, and all necessaries: your opinions Gentlemen? _Capt_. 'Tis plain and evident that he meant Wenches. _Sav_. Good Sir let me expound it? _Capt_. Here be as sound men, as your self Sir. |
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