olicitous, when it not
concernes
thee?
Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association
oft _migniard_ handlings;
His pul? e lies in his palme: and I defend
All melting ioynts, and fingers, (that's my bargaine)
I doe defend 'hem, any thing like action.
But talke, Sir, what you will. V? e all the _Tropes_ 100
And _Schemes_, that Prince _Quintilian_ can afford you:
And much good do your _Rhetoriques_ heart. You are welcome, Sir.
_Ingine_, God b'w'you.
WIT. Sir, I mu? t condition
To haue this Gentleman by, a witne? ? e.
FIT. Well,
I am content, ? o he be ? ilent.
MAN. Yes, S r. 105
FIT. Come _Diuell_, I'll make you roome, ? treight.
But I'll ? hew you
Fir? t, to your Mi? tre? ? e, who's no common one,
You mu? t conceiue, that brings this game to ? ee her. [104]
I hope thou'? t brought me good lucke.
PVG. I ? hall do't. Sir.
[177] SD. ACT. . . . ] _Enter, behind_, ENGINE, _with a cloke on his
arm_, WITTIPOL, _and_ MANLY. G
[178] 5 [_Engine goes to Fitzdottrel and takes him aside. _ G
[179] 19 _Broker_ 1692, 1716 broker W
[180] 20 on 1641, f.
[181] 28 Marry 1692, f.
[182] 32 whether 1716
[183] 36 SN. 'say] say 1641, f. SN. om. G
[184] 37 _Fitz. _ [_after saying on the cloke. _] G
[185] 42 prettily 1641. f.
[186] 44 I', had] I'd 1716 I had W, G gi't] give it G
[187] 48 upon 1716, f.
[188] 50 _Cain_ 1692 _Cane_ 1716
[189] 51 with him] with W
[190] 53 too. [_comes forward. _] G SN. om. G
[191] 60 venturer G
[192] 62 You G?
[193] 70 comma om. after 'selfe' 1692, f. to W, G
[194] 80 SN. _Hee_ om. G
[195] 82 is om. 1641
[196] 85 may W, G
[197] 88 phant'sie W phantasy G o'ret. G
[198] 99 comma om. W, G
[199] 102 [_Opens the door of his house. _ G
[200] 103 b'w'] be wi' G
[201] 108 this om. 1641
[202] 109 [_They all enter the house. _ G
ACT. I. SCENE. V.
VVITTIPOL. MANLY.
_Ingine_, you hope o' your halfe piece? 'Tis there, Sir.
Be gone. Friend _Manly_, who's within here? fixed?
Wittipol _knocks his friend o' the bre? t_.
MAN. I am directly in a fit of wonder
What'll be the i? ? ue of this conference!
WIT. For that, ne'r vex your ? elfe, till the euent. 5
How like yo' him?
MAN. I would faine ? ee more of him.
WIT. What thinke you of this?
MAN. I am pa? t degrees of thinking.
Old _Africk_, and the new _America_,
With all their fruite of Mon? ters cannot ? hew
So iu? t a prodigie.
WIT. Could you haue beleeu'd, 10
Without your ? ight, a minde ? o ? ordide inward,
Should be ? o ? pecious, and layd forth abroad,
To all the ? hew, that euer ? hop, or ware was?
MAN. I beleeue any thing now, though I confe? ? e
His _Vices_ are the mo? t extremities 15
I euer knew in nature. But, why loues hee
The _Diuell_ ? o?
WIT. O S^r! for hidden trea? ure,
Hee hopes to finde: and has propos'd him? elfe
So infinite a Ma? ? e, as to recouer,
He cares not what he parts with, of the pre? ent, 20
To his men of Art, who are the race, may coyne him.
Promi? e gold-mountaines, and the couetous
Are ? till mo? t prodigall.
MAN. But ha' you faith,
That he will hold his bargaine?
WIT. O deare, Sir!
He will not off on't. Feare him not. I know him. 25
One ba? ene? ? e ? till accompanies another.
See! he is heere already, and his wife too.
MAN. A wondrous hand? ome creature, as I liue!
[203] SD. ACT. . . . ] om. SCENE III. _A Room in_ FITZDOTTREL'S _House_.
_Enter_ WITTIPOL, MANLY, _and_ ENGINE. G
[204] 2 SN. ] gone. [_Exit Engine. _] || fixed! [_knocks him on the
breast. _ G
[205] 4 'll] will G
ACT. I. SCENE. VI. [105]
FITZ-DOTTRELL. Mi? tre? ? e FITZ-DOTTRELL.
WITTIPOL. MANLY.
Come wife, this is the Gentleman. Nay, blu? h not.
M^rs. FI. Why, what do you meane Sir? ha' you your rea? on?
FIT. Wife,
I do not know, that I haue lent it forth
To any one; at lea? t, without a pawne, wife:
Or that I'haue eat or drunke the thing, of late, 5
That ? hould corrupt it. Wherefore gentle wife,
Obey, it is thy vertue: hold no acts
Of di? putation.
M^rs. FI. Are you not enough
The talke, of fea? ts, and meetingy, but you'll ? till
Make argument for fre? h?
FIT. Why, carefull wedlocke, 10
If I haue haue a longing to haue one tale more
Goe of mee, what is that to thee, deare heart?
Why ? hould? t thou enuy my delight? or cro? ? e it?
By being ?
olicitous, when it not concernes thee?
M^rs. FI. Yes, I haue ? hare in this. The ? corne will fall 15
As bittterly on me, where both are laught at.
FIT. Laught at, ? weet bird? is that the ? cruple? Come, come,
Thou art a _Niai? e_.
_A_ Niai? e _is a young Hawke, tane crying out of the ne? t. _
Which of your great hou? es,
(I will not meane at home, here, but abroad)
Your families in _France_, wife, ? end not forth 20
Something, within the ? euen yeere, may be laught at?
I doe not ? ay ? euen moneths, nor ? euen weekes,
Nor ? euen daies, nor houres: but ? euen yeere wife.
I giue 'hem time. Once, within ? euen yeere,
I thinke they may doe ? omething may be laught at. 25
In _France_, I keepe me there, ? till. Wherefore, wife,
Let them that li? t, laugh ? till, rather then weepe
For me; Heere is a cloake co? t fifty pound, wife,
Which I can ? ell for thirty, when I ha' ? eene
All _London_ in't, and _London_ has ? eene mee. 30
To day, I goe to the _Black-fryers Play-hou? e_,
Sit ithe view, ? alute all my acquaintance,
Ri? e vp betweene the _Acts_, let fall my cloake,
Publi? h a hand? ome man, and a rich ? uite
(As that's a ? peciall end, why we goe thither, 35
All that pretend, to ? tand for't o' the _Stage_)
The Ladies aske who's that? (For, they doe come [106]
To ? ee vs, _Loue_, as wee doe to ? ee them)
Now, I ? hall lo? e all this, for the fal? e feare
Of being laught at? Yes, wu? ? e. Let 'hem laugh, wife, 40
Let me haue ? uch another cloake to morrow.
And let 'hem laugh againe, wife, and againe,
And then grow fat with laughing, and then fatter,
All my young Gallants, let 'hem bring their friends too:
Shall I forbid 'hem? No, let heauen forbid 'hem: 45
Or wit, if't haue any charge on 'hem. Come, thy eare, wife,
Is all, I'll borrow of thee. Set your watch, Sir,
Thou, onely art to heare, not ? peake a word, _Doue_,
To ought he ? ayes. That I doe gi' you in precept,
No le? ? e then councell, on your wiue-hood, wife, 50
Not though he flatter you, or make court, or _Loue_
(As you mu? t looke for the? e) or ? ay, he raile;
What ere his arts be, wife, I will haue thee
Delude 'hem with a trick, thy ob? tinate ? ilence;
I know aduantages; and I loue to hit 55
The? e pragmaticke young men, at their owne weapons.
Is your watch ready? Here my ? aile beares, for you:
Tack toward him, ? weet _Pinnace_, where's your watch?
_He di? po? es his wife to his place, and ? ets his watch. _
WIT. I'le ? et it. Sir, with yours.
M^rs. FI. I mu? t obey.
MAN. Her mode? ty ? eemes to ? uffer with her beauty, 60
And ? o, as if his folly were away,
It were worth pitty.
FIT. Now, th'are right, beginne, Sir.
But fir? t, let me repeat the contract, briefely.
_Hee repeats his contract againe. _
I am, Sir, to inioy this cloake, I ? tand in,
Freely, and as your gift; vpon condition 65
You may as freely, ? peake here to my ? pou? e,
Your quarter of an houre alwaies keeping
The mea? ur'd di? tance of your yard, or more,
From my ? aid Spou? e: and in my ? ight and hearing.
This is your couenant?
WIT. Yes, but you'll allow 70
For this time ? pent, now?
FIT. Set 'hem ? o much backe.
WIT. I thinke, I ? hall not need it.
FIT. Well, begin, Sir,
There is your bound, Sir. Not beyond that ru? h.
WIT. If you interrupt me, Sir, I ? hall di? cloake you.
Wittipol _beginnes_.
The time I haue purcha? t, Lady, is but ? hort; 75
And, therefore, if I imploy it thriftily,
I hope I ? tand the neerer to my pardon.
I am not here, to tell you, you are faire,
Or louely, or how well you dre? ? e you, Lady,
I'll ? aue my ? elfe that eloquence of your gla? ? e, 80
Which can ? peake these things better to you then I.
And 'tis a knowledge, wherein fooles may be
As wi? e as a _Count Parliament_. Nor come I,
With any preiudice, or doubt, that you [107]
Should, to the notice of your owne worth, neede 85
Lea? t reuelation. Shee's a ? imple woman,
Know's not her good: (who euer knowes her ill)
And at all caracts. That you are the wife,
To ? o much bla? ted fle? h, as ? carce hath ? oule,
In ? tead of ? alt, to keepe it ? weete; I thinke, 90
Will aske no witne? ? es, to proue. The cold
Sheetes that you lie in, with the watching candle,
That ? ees, how dull to any thaw of beauty,
Pieces, and quarters, halfe, and whole nights, ? ometimes,
The Diuell-giuen _Elfine_ Squire, your husband, 95
Doth leaue you, quitting heere his proper circle,
For a much-wor? e i' the walks of _Lincolnes Inne_,
Vnder the Elmes, t'expect the feind in vaine, there
Will confe? ? e for you.
FIT. I did looke for this geere.
WIT. And what a daughter of darkne? ? e, he do's make you, 100
Lock'd vp from all ? ociety, or object;
Your eye not let to looke vpon a face,
Vnder a Conjurers (or ? ome mould for one,
Hollow, and leane like his) but, by great meanes,
As I now make; your owne too ? en? ible ? ufferings, 105
Without the extraordinary aydes,
Of ? pells, or ? pirits, may a? ? ure you, Lady.
For my part, I prote? t 'gain? t all ? uch practice,
I worke by no fal? e arts, medicines, or charmes
To be said forward and backward.
FIT. No, I except: 110
WIT. Sir I ? hall ease you.
_He offers to di? cloake him. _
FIT. Mum.
WIT. Nor haue I ends, Lady,
Vpon you, more then this: to tell you how _Loue_
Beauties good Angell, he that waits vpon her
At all occa? ions, and no le? ? e then _Fortune_,
Helps th' aduenturous, in mee makes that proffer, 115
Which neuer faire one was ? o fond, to lo? e;
Who could but reach a hand forth to her freedome:
On the fir?
His pul? e lies in his palme: and I defend
All melting ioynts, and fingers, (that's my bargaine)
I doe defend 'hem, any thing like action.
But talke, Sir, what you will. V? e all the _Tropes_ 100
And _Schemes_, that Prince _Quintilian_ can afford you:
And much good do your _Rhetoriques_ heart. You are welcome, Sir.
_Ingine_, God b'w'you.
WIT. Sir, I mu? t condition
To haue this Gentleman by, a witne? ? e.
FIT. Well,
I am content, ? o he be ? ilent.
MAN. Yes, S r. 105
FIT. Come _Diuell_, I'll make you roome, ? treight.
But I'll ? hew you
Fir? t, to your Mi? tre? ? e, who's no common one,
You mu? t conceiue, that brings this game to ? ee her. [104]
I hope thou'? t brought me good lucke.
PVG. I ? hall do't. Sir.
[177] SD. ACT. . . . ] _Enter, behind_, ENGINE, _with a cloke on his
arm_, WITTIPOL, _and_ MANLY. G
[178] 5 [_Engine goes to Fitzdottrel and takes him aside. _ G
[179] 19 _Broker_ 1692, 1716 broker W
[180] 20 on 1641, f.
[181] 28 Marry 1692, f.
[182] 32 whether 1716
[183] 36 SN. 'say] say 1641, f. SN. om. G
[184] 37 _Fitz. _ [_after saying on the cloke. _] G
[185] 42 prettily 1641. f.
[186] 44 I', had] I'd 1716 I had W, G gi't] give it G
[187] 48 upon 1716, f.
[188] 50 _Cain_ 1692 _Cane_ 1716
[189] 51 with him] with W
[190] 53 too. [_comes forward. _] G SN. om. G
[191] 60 venturer G
[192] 62 You G?
[193] 70 comma om. after 'selfe' 1692, f. to W, G
[194] 80 SN. _Hee_ om. G
[195] 82 is om. 1641
[196] 85 may W, G
[197] 88 phant'sie W phantasy G o'ret. G
[198] 99 comma om. W, G
[199] 102 [_Opens the door of his house. _ G
[200] 103 b'w'] be wi' G
[201] 108 this om. 1641
[202] 109 [_They all enter the house. _ G
ACT. I. SCENE. V.
VVITTIPOL. MANLY.
_Ingine_, you hope o' your halfe piece? 'Tis there, Sir.
Be gone. Friend _Manly_, who's within here? fixed?
Wittipol _knocks his friend o' the bre? t_.
MAN. I am directly in a fit of wonder
What'll be the i? ? ue of this conference!
WIT. For that, ne'r vex your ? elfe, till the euent. 5
How like yo' him?
MAN. I would faine ? ee more of him.
WIT. What thinke you of this?
MAN. I am pa? t degrees of thinking.
Old _Africk_, and the new _America_,
With all their fruite of Mon? ters cannot ? hew
So iu? t a prodigie.
WIT. Could you haue beleeu'd, 10
Without your ? ight, a minde ? o ? ordide inward,
Should be ? o ? pecious, and layd forth abroad,
To all the ? hew, that euer ? hop, or ware was?
MAN. I beleeue any thing now, though I confe? ? e
His _Vices_ are the mo? t extremities 15
I euer knew in nature. But, why loues hee
The _Diuell_ ? o?
WIT. O S^r! for hidden trea? ure,
Hee hopes to finde: and has propos'd him? elfe
So infinite a Ma? ? e, as to recouer,
He cares not what he parts with, of the pre? ent, 20
To his men of Art, who are the race, may coyne him.
Promi? e gold-mountaines, and the couetous
Are ? till mo? t prodigall.
MAN. But ha' you faith,
That he will hold his bargaine?
WIT. O deare, Sir!
He will not off on't. Feare him not. I know him. 25
One ba? ene? ? e ? till accompanies another.
See! he is heere already, and his wife too.
MAN. A wondrous hand? ome creature, as I liue!
[203] SD. ACT. . . . ] om. SCENE III. _A Room in_ FITZDOTTREL'S _House_.
_Enter_ WITTIPOL, MANLY, _and_ ENGINE. G
[204] 2 SN. ] gone. [_Exit Engine. _] || fixed! [_knocks him on the
breast. _ G
[205] 4 'll] will G
ACT. I. SCENE. VI. [105]
FITZ-DOTTRELL. Mi? tre? ? e FITZ-DOTTRELL.
WITTIPOL. MANLY.
Come wife, this is the Gentleman. Nay, blu? h not.
M^rs. FI. Why, what do you meane Sir? ha' you your rea? on?
FIT. Wife,
I do not know, that I haue lent it forth
To any one; at lea? t, without a pawne, wife:
Or that I'haue eat or drunke the thing, of late, 5
That ? hould corrupt it. Wherefore gentle wife,
Obey, it is thy vertue: hold no acts
Of di? putation.
M^rs. FI. Are you not enough
The talke, of fea? ts, and meetingy, but you'll ? till
Make argument for fre? h?
FIT. Why, carefull wedlocke, 10
If I haue haue a longing to haue one tale more
Goe of mee, what is that to thee, deare heart?
Why ? hould? t thou enuy my delight? or cro? ? e it?
By being ?
olicitous, when it not concernes thee?
M^rs. FI. Yes, I haue ? hare in this. The ? corne will fall 15
As bittterly on me, where both are laught at.
FIT. Laught at, ? weet bird? is that the ? cruple? Come, come,
Thou art a _Niai? e_.
_A_ Niai? e _is a young Hawke, tane crying out of the ne? t. _
Which of your great hou? es,
(I will not meane at home, here, but abroad)
Your families in _France_, wife, ? end not forth 20
Something, within the ? euen yeere, may be laught at?
I doe not ? ay ? euen moneths, nor ? euen weekes,
Nor ? euen daies, nor houres: but ? euen yeere wife.
I giue 'hem time. Once, within ? euen yeere,
I thinke they may doe ? omething may be laught at. 25
In _France_, I keepe me there, ? till. Wherefore, wife,
Let them that li? t, laugh ? till, rather then weepe
For me; Heere is a cloake co? t fifty pound, wife,
Which I can ? ell for thirty, when I ha' ? eene
All _London_ in't, and _London_ has ? eene mee. 30
To day, I goe to the _Black-fryers Play-hou? e_,
Sit ithe view, ? alute all my acquaintance,
Ri? e vp betweene the _Acts_, let fall my cloake,
Publi? h a hand? ome man, and a rich ? uite
(As that's a ? peciall end, why we goe thither, 35
All that pretend, to ? tand for't o' the _Stage_)
The Ladies aske who's that? (For, they doe come [106]
To ? ee vs, _Loue_, as wee doe to ? ee them)
Now, I ? hall lo? e all this, for the fal? e feare
Of being laught at? Yes, wu? ? e. Let 'hem laugh, wife, 40
Let me haue ? uch another cloake to morrow.
And let 'hem laugh againe, wife, and againe,
And then grow fat with laughing, and then fatter,
All my young Gallants, let 'hem bring their friends too:
Shall I forbid 'hem? No, let heauen forbid 'hem: 45
Or wit, if't haue any charge on 'hem. Come, thy eare, wife,
Is all, I'll borrow of thee. Set your watch, Sir,
Thou, onely art to heare, not ? peake a word, _Doue_,
To ought he ? ayes. That I doe gi' you in precept,
No le? ? e then councell, on your wiue-hood, wife, 50
Not though he flatter you, or make court, or _Loue_
(As you mu? t looke for the? e) or ? ay, he raile;
What ere his arts be, wife, I will haue thee
Delude 'hem with a trick, thy ob? tinate ? ilence;
I know aduantages; and I loue to hit 55
The? e pragmaticke young men, at their owne weapons.
Is your watch ready? Here my ? aile beares, for you:
Tack toward him, ? weet _Pinnace_, where's your watch?
_He di? po? es his wife to his place, and ? ets his watch. _
WIT. I'le ? et it. Sir, with yours.
M^rs. FI. I mu? t obey.
MAN. Her mode? ty ? eemes to ? uffer with her beauty, 60
And ? o, as if his folly were away,
It were worth pitty.
FIT. Now, th'are right, beginne, Sir.
But fir? t, let me repeat the contract, briefely.
_Hee repeats his contract againe. _
I am, Sir, to inioy this cloake, I ? tand in,
Freely, and as your gift; vpon condition 65
You may as freely, ? peake here to my ? pou? e,
Your quarter of an houre alwaies keeping
The mea? ur'd di? tance of your yard, or more,
From my ? aid Spou? e: and in my ? ight and hearing.
This is your couenant?
WIT. Yes, but you'll allow 70
For this time ? pent, now?
FIT. Set 'hem ? o much backe.
WIT. I thinke, I ? hall not need it.
FIT. Well, begin, Sir,
There is your bound, Sir. Not beyond that ru? h.
WIT. If you interrupt me, Sir, I ? hall di? cloake you.
Wittipol _beginnes_.
The time I haue purcha? t, Lady, is but ? hort; 75
And, therefore, if I imploy it thriftily,
I hope I ? tand the neerer to my pardon.
I am not here, to tell you, you are faire,
Or louely, or how well you dre? ? e you, Lady,
I'll ? aue my ? elfe that eloquence of your gla? ? e, 80
Which can ? peake these things better to you then I.
And 'tis a knowledge, wherein fooles may be
As wi? e as a _Count Parliament_. Nor come I,
With any preiudice, or doubt, that you [107]
Should, to the notice of your owne worth, neede 85
Lea? t reuelation. Shee's a ? imple woman,
Know's not her good: (who euer knowes her ill)
And at all caracts. That you are the wife,
To ? o much bla? ted fle? h, as ? carce hath ? oule,
In ? tead of ? alt, to keepe it ? weete; I thinke, 90
Will aske no witne? ? es, to proue. The cold
Sheetes that you lie in, with the watching candle,
That ? ees, how dull to any thaw of beauty,
Pieces, and quarters, halfe, and whole nights, ? ometimes,
The Diuell-giuen _Elfine_ Squire, your husband, 95
Doth leaue you, quitting heere his proper circle,
For a much-wor? e i' the walks of _Lincolnes Inne_,
Vnder the Elmes, t'expect the feind in vaine, there
Will confe? ? e for you.
FIT. I did looke for this geere.
WIT. And what a daughter of darkne? ? e, he do's make you, 100
Lock'd vp from all ? ociety, or object;
Your eye not let to looke vpon a face,
Vnder a Conjurers (or ? ome mould for one,
Hollow, and leane like his) but, by great meanes,
As I now make; your owne too ? en? ible ? ufferings, 105
Without the extraordinary aydes,
Of ? pells, or ? pirits, may a? ? ure you, Lady.
For my part, I prote? t 'gain? t all ? uch practice,
I worke by no fal? e arts, medicines, or charmes
To be said forward and backward.
FIT. No, I except: 110
WIT. Sir I ? hall ease you.
_He offers to di? cloake him. _
FIT. Mum.
WIT. Nor haue I ends, Lady,
Vpon you, more then this: to tell you how _Loue_
Beauties good Angell, he that waits vpon her
At all occa? ions, and no le? ? e then _Fortune_,
Helps th' aduenturous, in mee makes that proffer, 115
Which neuer faire one was ? o fond, to lo? e;
Who could but reach a hand forth to her freedome:
On the fir?
