porting
_Squirell_
in the?
Ben Jonson - The Devil's Association
om.
G
[374] 5 disheartening G
[375] 9 () ret. G
[376] 17 () ret. G
[377] 24 [_Exit. _ G
ACT. IJ. SCENE. VI.
WITTIPOL. MANLY. Mi? tre? ? e FITZ-DOTTREL.
PVG.
This was a fortune, happy aboue thought, [122]
That this ? hould proue thy chamber: which I fear'd
Would be my greate? t trouble! this mu? t be
The very window, and that the roome.
MAN. It is.
I now remember, I haue often ? eene there 5
A woman, but I neuer mark'd her much.
WIT. Where was your ? oule, friend?
MAN. Faith, but now, and then,
Awake vnto tho? e obiects.
WIT. You pretend ? o.
Let mee not liue, if I am not in loue
More with her wit, for this direction, now, 10
Then with her forme, though I ha' prais'd that prettily,
Since I ? aw her, and you, to day. Read tho? e.
_Hee giues him a paper, wherein is the copy of a Song. _
They'll goe vnto the ayre you loue ? o well.
Try 'hem vnto the note, may be the mu? ique
Will call her ? ooner; light, ? hee's here. Sing quickly. 15
M^rs. FIT. Either he vnder? tood him not: or el? e,
The fellow was not faithfull in deliuery,
Of what I bad. And, I am iu? tly pay'd,
That might haue made my profit of his ? eruice,
But, by mi? -taking, haue drawne on his enuy, 20
And done the wor? e defeate vpon my ? elfe.
Manly _? ings_, Pug _enters perceiues it_.
How! Mu? ique? then he may be there: and is sure.
PVG. O! Is it ? o? Is there the enter-view?
Haue I drawne to you, at la? t, my cunning _Lady_?
The _Diuell_ is an _A? ? e_! fool'd off! and beaten! 25
Nay, made an in? trument! and could not ? ent it!
Well, ? ince yo' haue ? howne the malice of a woman,
No le? ? e then her true wit, and learning, Mi? tre? ? e,
I'll try, if little _Pug_ haue the malignity
To recompence it, and ? o ? aue his danger. 30
'Tis not the paine, but the di? credite of it,
The _Diuell_ ? hould not keepe a body intire.
WIT. Away, fall backe, ? he comes.
MAN. I'll leaue you, Sir,
The Ma? ter of my chamber. I haue bu? ine? ? e.
WIT. M^rs!
M^rs. FI. You make me paint, S^r.
WIT. The'are faire colours, 35
_Lady_, and naturall! I did receiue
Some commands from you, lately, gentle _Lady_, [123]
_This Scene is acted at two windo's as out of_
_two contiguous buildings. _
But ? o perplex'd, and wrap'd in the deliuery,
As I may feare t'haue mi? -interpreted:
But mu? t make ? uit ? till, to be neere your grace. 40
M^rs. FI. Who is there with you, S^r?
WIT. None, but my ? elfe.
It falls out. _Lady_, to be a deare friends lodging.
Wherein there's ? ome con? piracy of fortune
With your poore ? eruants ble? affections.
M^rs. FI. Who was it ? ung?
WIT. He, _Lady_, but hee's gone, 45
Vpon my entreaty of him, ? eeing you
Approach the window. Neither need you doubt him,
If he were here. He is too much a gentleman.
M^rs. FI. Sir, if you iudge me by this ? imple action,
And by the outward habite, and complexion 50
Of ea? ine? ? e, it hath, to your de? igne;
You may with Iu? tice, ? ay, I am a woman:
And a ? trange woman. But when you ? hall plea? e,
To bring but that concurrence of my fortune,
To memory, which to day your ? elfe did vrge: 55
It may beget ? ome fauour like excu? e,
Though none like rea? on.
WIT. No, my tune-full Mi? tre? ? e?
Then, ? urely, _Loue_ hath none: nor _Beauty_ any;
Nor _Nature_ violenced, in both the? e:
With all who? e gentle tongues you ? peake, at once. 60
I thought I had inough remou'd, already,
That ? cruple from your bre? t, and left yo' all rea? on;
When, through my mornings per? pectiue I ? hewd you
A man ? o aboue excu? e, as he is the cau? e,
Why any thing is to be done vpon him: 65
And nothing call'd an iniury, mi? -plac'd.
I'rather, now had hope, to ? hew you how _Loue_
By his acce? ? es, growes more naturall:
And, what was done, this morning, with ? uch force
Was but deuis'd to ? erue the pre? ent, then. 70
That ? ince _Loue_ hath the honour to approach
_He grows more familiar in his Court-? hip. _
The? e ? i? ter-? welling bre? ts; and touch this ? oft,
And ro? ie hand; hee hath the skill to draw
Their _Nectar_ forth, with ki? ? ing; and could make
More wanton ? alts, from this braue promontory, 75
Downe to this valley, then the nimble _Roe_;
_playes with her paps, ki? ? eth her hands, &c. _
Could play the hopping _Sparrow_, 'bout the? e nets;
And ?
porting _Squirell_ in the? e cri? ped groues;
Bury him? elfe in euery _Silke-wormes_ kell,
Is here vnrauell'd; runne into the ? nare, 80
Which euery hayre is, ca? t into a curle,
To catch a _Cupid_ flying: Bath himselfe
In milke, and ro? es, here, and dry him, there;
Warme his cold hands, to play with this ? mooth, round, [124]
And well torn'd chin, as with the _Billyard_ ball; 85
Rowle on the? e lips, the banks of loue, and there
At once both plant, and gather ki? ? es. _Lady_,
Shall I, with what I haue made to day here, call
All ? en? e to wonder, and all faith to ? igne
The my? teries reuealed in your forme? 90
And will _Loue_ pardon mee the blasphemy
I vtter'd, when I ? aid, a gla? ? e could ? peake
This beauty, or that fooles had power to iudge it?
_Doe but looke, on her eyes! They doe light--
All that_ Loue's _world comprizeth! 95
Doe but looke on her hayre! it is bright,
As_ Loue's _? tarre, when it ri? eth!
Doe but marke, her fore-head's ? moother,
Then words that ? ooth her!
And from her arched browes, ? uch a grace 100
Sheds it ? elfe through the face;
As alone, there triumphs to the life,
All the gaine, all the good, of the elements ? trife! _
_Haue you ? eene but a bright Lilly grow,
Before rude hands haue touch'd it? 105
Haue you mark'd but the fall of the Snow,
Before the ? oyle hath ? much'd it?
Haue you felt the wooll o' the Beuer?
Or Swans downe, euer?
Or, haue ? melt o' the bud o' the Bryer? 110
Or the Nard i' the fire?
Or, haue ta? ted the bag o' the Bee?
O, ? o white! O, ? o ? oft! O, ? o ? weet is ? hee! _
[378] SD. ACT. . . . ] om. SCENE II. Manly's _Chambers in Lincoln's Inn,
opposite_ Fitzdottrel's _House. Enter_ WITTIPOL _and_ MANLY. G
[379] 12 SN. ] [_Gives him the copy of a song. _ G
[380] 15 _Mrs. _ FITZDOTTREL _appears at a window of her house fronting
that of Manly's Chambers_. G
[381] 21 worst W || SN. _enters_] _enters and_ 1716, W || Manly . . . ]
_Manly sings. Enter_ PUG _behind_. G
[382] 23 interview W, G
[383] 24 least W
[384] 27 you've 1716, W
[385] 32 entire W, G || [_Aside and exit. _ G
[386] 33 I'll] I W, G
[387] 34 [_Exit_. G
[388] 35 M^rs! ] Mis! 1641 the rest as in 2. 2. 41 || They're 1716, W
they are G || _Mrs. Fitz. _ [_advances to the window. _] G
[389] 35, 36 The'are . . . receiue] one line 1692, 1716, W
[390] 37 SN. om. G
[391] 39 t'] to 1692, f.
[392] 62 y'all 1716, W
[393] 64 he's W, G
[394] 71, 76 SN. om. G
[395] 75 'salts 1692 'saults 1716
[396] 81 is, cast] is cast 1716, W
[397] 88 I've W
[398] 98 head's] head 1641
[399] 100 a om. 1641
[400] 106 of the] the 1641
[401] 108, 112 o'] of W
[402] 108 Beuer] beaver W, G
[403] 110 smelt o'ret. G
ACT. II. SCENE. VII.
FITZ-DOTTRELL. WITTIPOL. PVG.
_Her hu? band appeares at her back. _
Is shee ? o, Sir? and, I will keepe her ? o.
If I know how, or can: that wit of man
Will doe't, I'll goe no farther. At this windo'
She ? hall no more be _buz'd_ at. Take your leaue on't.
If you be ? weet meates, wedlock, or ? weet fle? h, 5
All's one: I doe not loue this _hum_ about you.
A flye-blowne wife is not ? o proper, In: [125]
For you, S^r, looke to heare from mee.
_Hee ? peakes out of his wiues window. _
WIT. So, I doe, Sir.
FIT. No, but in other termes. There's no man offers
This to my wife, but paies for't.
WIT. That haue I, Sir.
FIT. Nay, then, I tell you, you are.
WIT. What am I, Sir? 11
FIT. Why, that I'll thinke on, when I ha' cut your throat.
WIT. Goe, you are an _A? ? e_.
FIT. I am re? olu'd on't, Sir.
WIT. I thinke you are.
FIT. To call you to a reckoning.
WIT. Away, you brokers blocke, you property. 15
FIT. S'light, if you ? trike me, I'll ? trike your Mi? tre? ? e.
_Hee ? trikes his wife. _
WIT. O! I could ? hoote mine eyes at him, for that, now;
Or leaue my teeth in'him, were they cuckolds bane,
Inough to kill him. What prodigious,
Blinde, and mo? t wicked change of fortune's this? 20
I ha' no ayre of patience: an my vaines
Swell, and my ? inewes ? tart at iniquity of it.
I ? hall breake, breake.
_The_ Diuell _? peakes below_.
PVG. This for the malice of it,
And my reuenge may pa? ? e! But, now, my con? cience
Tells mee, I haue profited the cau? e of Hell 25
But little, in the breaking-off their loues.
Which, if some other act of mine repaire not,
I ? hall heare ill of in my accompt.
Fitz-dottrel _enters with his wife as come downe_.
FIT. O, Bird!
Could you do this? 'gain? t me? and at this time, now?
When I was ? o imploy'd, wholly for you, 30
Drown'd i' my care (more, then the land, I ? weare,
I'haue hope to win) to make you peere-le? ? e? ? tudying,
For footemen for you, fine pac'd hui? hers, pages,
To ? erue you o' the knee; with what Knights wife,
To beare your traine, and ? it with your foure women 35
In councell, and receiue intelligences,
From forraigne parts, to dre? ? e you at all pieces!
Y'haue (a'mo? t) turn'd my good affection, to you;
Sowr'd my ? weet thoughts; all my pure purpo? es:
I could now finde (i' my very heart) to make 40
Another, _Lady Dutche? ? e_; and depo? e you.
[374] 5 disheartening G
[375] 9 () ret. G
[376] 17 () ret. G
[377] 24 [_Exit. _ G
ACT. IJ. SCENE. VI.
WITTIPOL. MANLY. Mi? tre? ? e FITZ-DOTTREL.
PVG.
This was a fortune, happy aboue thought, [122]
That this ? hould proue thy chamber: which I fear'd
Would be my greate? t trouble! this mu? t be
The very window, and that the roome.
MAN. It is.
I now remember, I haue often ? eene there 5
A woman, but I neuer mark'd her much.
WIT. Where was your ? oule, friend?
MAN. Faith, but now, and then,
Awake vnto tho? e obiects.
WIT. You pretend ? o.
Let mee not liue, if I am not in loue
More with her wit, for this direction, now, 10
Then with her forme, though I ha' prais'd that prettily,
Since I ? aw her, and you, to day. Read tho? e.
_Hee giues him a paper, wherein is the copy of a Song. _
They'll goe vnto the ayre you loue ? o well.
Try 'hem vnto the note, may be the mu? ique
Will call her ? ooner; light, ? hee's here. Sing quickly. 15
M^rs. FIT. Either he vnder? tood him not: or el? e,
The fellow was not faithfull in deliuery,
Of what I bad. And, I am iu? tly pay'd,
That might haue made my profit of his ? eruice,
But, by mi? -taking, haue drawne on his enuy, 20
And done the wor? e defeate vpon my ? elfe.
Manly _? ings_, Pug _enters perceiues it_.
How! Mu? ique? then he may be there: and is sure.
PVG. O! Is it ? o? Is there the enter-view?
Haue I drawne to you, at la? t, my cunning _Lady_?
The _Diuell_ is an _A? ? e_! fool'd off! and beaten! 25
Nay, made an in? trument! and could not ? ent it!
Well, ? ince yo' haue ? howne the malice of a woman,
No le? ? e then her true wit, and learning, Mi? tre? ? e,
I'll try, if little _Pug_ haue the malignity
To recompence it, and ? o ? aue his danger. 30
'Tis not the paine, but the di? credite of it,
The _Diuell_ ? hould not keepe a body intire.
WIT. Away, fall backe, ? he comes.
MAN. I'll leaue you, Sir,
The Ma? ter of my chamber. I haue bu? ine? ? e.
WIT. M^rs!
M^rs. FI. You make me paint, S^r.
WIT. The'are faire colours, 35
_Lady_, and naturall! I did receiue
Some commands from you, lately, gentle _Lady_, [123]
_This Scene is acted at two windo's as out of_
_two contiguous buildings. _
But ? o perplex'd, and wrap'd in the deliuery,
As I may feare t'haue mi? -interpreted:
But mu? t make ? uit ? till, to be neere your grace. 40
M^rs. FI. Who is there with you, S^r?
WIT. None, but my ? elfe.
It falls out. _Lady_, to be a deare friends lodging.
Wherein there's ? ome con? piracy of fortune
With your poore ? eruants ble? affections.
M^rs. FI. Who was it ? ung?
WIT. He, _Lady_, but hee's gone, 45
Vpon my entreaty of him, ? eeing you
Approach the window. Neither need you doubt him,
If he were here. He is too much a gentleman.
M^rs. FI. Sir, if you iudge me by this ? imple action,
And by the outward habite, and complexion 50
Of ea? ine? ? e, it hath, to your de? igne;
You may with Iu? tice, ? ay, I am a woman:
And a ? trange woman. But when you ? hall plea? e,
To bring but that concurrence of my fortune,
To memory, which to day your ? elfe did vrge: 55
It may beget ? ome fauour like excu? e,
Though none like rea? on.
WIT. No, my tune-full Mi? tre? ? e?
Then, ? urely, _Loue_ hath none: nor _Beauty_ any;
Nor _Nature_ violenced, in both the? e:
With all who? e gentle tongues you ? peake, at once. 60
I thought I had inough remou'd, already,
That ? cruple from your bre? t, and left yo' all rea? on;
When, through my mornings per? pectiue I ? hewd you
A man ? o aboue excu? e, as he is the cau? e,
Why any thing is to be done vpon him: 65
And nothing call'd an iniury, mi? -plac'd.
I'rather, now had hope, to ? hew you how _Loue_
By his acce? ? es, growes more naturall:
And, what was done, this morning, with ? uch force
Was but deuis'd to ? erue the pre? ent, then. 70
That ? ince _Loue_ hath the honour to approach
_He grows more familiar in his Court-? hip. _
The? e ? i? ter-? welling bre? ts; and touch this ? oft,
And ro? ie hand; hee hath the skill to draw
Their _Nectar_ forth, with ki? ? ing; and could make
More wanton ? alts, from this braue promontory, 75
Downe to this valley, then the nimble _Roe_;
_playes with her paps, ki? ? eth her hands, &c. _
Could play the hopping _Sparrow_, 'bout the? e nets;
And ?
porting _Squirell_ in the? e cri? ped groues;
Bury him? elfe in euery _Silke-wormes_ kell,
Is here vnrauell'd; runne into the ? nare, 80
Which euery hayre is, ca? t into a curle,
To catch a _Cupid_ flying: Bath himselfe
In milke, and ro? es, here, and dry him, there;
Warme his cold hands, to play with this ? mooth, round, [124]
And well torn'd chin, as with the _Billyard_ ball; 85
Rowle on the? e lips, the banks of loue, and there
At once both plant, and gather ki? ? es. _Lady_,
Shall I, with what I haue made to day here, call
All ? en? e to wonder, and all faith to ? igne
The my? teries reuealed in your forme? 90
And will _Loue_ pardon mee the blasphemy
I vtter'd, when I ? aid, a gla? ? e could ? peake
This beauty, or that fooles had power to iudge it?
_Doe but looke, on her eyes! They doe light--
All that_ Loue's _world comprizeth! 95
Doe but looke on her hayre! it is bright,
As_ Loue's _? tarre, when it ri? eth!
Doe but marke, her fore-head's ? moother,
Then words that ? ooth her!
And from her arched browes, ? uch a grace 100
Sheds it ? elfe through the face;
As alone, there triumphs to the life,
All the gaine, all the good, of the elements ? trife! _
_Haue you ? eene but a bright Lilly grow,
Before rude hands haue touch'd it? 105
Haue you mark'd but the fall of the Snow,
Before the ? oyle hath ? much'd it?
Haue you felt the wooll o' the Beuer?
Or Swans downe, euer?
Or, haue ? melt o' the bud o' the Bryer? 110
Or the Nard i' the fire?
Or, haue ta? ted the bag o' the Bee?
O, ? o white! O, ? o ? oft! O, ? o ? weet is ? hee! _
[378] SD. ACT. . . . ] om. SCENE II. Manly's _Chambers in Lincoln's Inn,
opposite_ Fitzdottrel's _House. Enter_ WITTIPOL _and_ MANLY. G
[379] 12 SN. ] [_Gives him the copy of a song. _ G
[380] 15 _Mrs. _ FITZDOTTREL _appears at a window of her house fronting
that of Manly's Chambers_. G
[381] 21 worst W || SN. _enters_] _enters and_ 1716, W || Manly . . . ]
_Manly sings. Enter_ PUG _behind_. G
[382] 23 interview W, G
[383] 24 least W
[384] 27 you've 1716, W
[385] 32 entire W, G || [_Aside and exit. _ G
[386] 33 I'll] I W, G
[387] 34 [_Exit_. G
[388] 35 M^rs! ] Mis! 1641 the rest as in 2. 2. 41 || They're 1716, W
they are G || _Mrs. Fitz. _ [_advances to the window. _] G
[389] 35, 36 The'are . . . receiue] one line 1692, 1716, W
[390] 37 SN. om. G
[391] 39 t'] to 1692, f.
[392] 62 y'all 1716, W
[393] 64 he's W, G
[394] 71, 76 SN. om. G
[395] 75 'salts 1692 'saults 1716
[396] 81 is, cast] is cast 1716, W
[397] 88 I've W
[398] 98 head's] head 1641
[399] 100 a om. 1641
[400] 106 of the] the 1641
[401] 108, 112 o'] of W
[402] 108 Beuer] beaver W, G
[403] 110 smelt o'ret. G
ACT. II. SCENE. VII.
FITZ-DOTTRELL. WITTIPOL. PVG.
_Her hu? band appeares at her back. _
Is shee ? o, Sir? and, I will keepe her ? o.
If I know how, or can: that wit of man
Will doe't, I'll goe no farther. At this windo'
She ? hall no more be _buz'd_ at. Take your leaue on't.
If you be ? weet meates, wedlock, or ? weet fle? h, 5
All's one: I doe not loue this _hum_ about you.
A flye-blowne wife is not ? o proper, In: [125]
For you, S^r, looke to heare from mee.
_Hee ? peakes out of his wiues window. _
WIT. So, I doe, Sir.
FIT. No, but in other termes. There's no man offers
This to my wife, but paies for't.
WIT. That haue I, Sir.
FIT. Nay, then, I tell you, you are.
WIT. What am I, Sir? 11
FIT. Why, that I'll thinke on, when I ha' cut your throat.
WIT. Goe, you are an _A? ? e_.
FIT. I am re? olu'd on't, Sir.
WIT. I thinke you are.
FIT. To call you to a reckoning.
WIT. Away, you brokers blocke, you property. 15
FIT. S'light, if you ? trike me, I'll ? trike your Mi? tre? ? e.
_Hee ? trikes his wife. _
WIT. O! I could ? hoote mine eyes at him, for that, now;
Or leaue my teeth in'him, were they cuckolds bane,
Inough to kill him. What prodigious,
Blinde, and mo? t wicked change of fortune's this? 20
I ha' no ayre of patience: an my vaines
Swell, and my ? inewes ? tart at iniquity of it.
I ? hall breake, breake.
_The_ Diuell _? peakes below_.
PVG. This for the malice of it,
And my reuenge may pa? ? e! But, now, my con? cience
Tells mee, I haue profited the cau? e of Hell 25
But little, in the breaking-off their loues.
Which, if some other act of mine repaire not,
I ? hall heare ill of in my accompt.
Fitz-dottrel _enters with his wife as come downe_.
FIT. O, Bird!
Could you do this? 'gain? t me? and at this time, now?
When I was ? o imploy'd, wholly for you, 30
Drown'd i' my care (more, then the land, I ? weare,
I'haue hope to win) to make you peere-le? ? e? ? tudying,
For footemen for you, fine pac'd hui? hers, pages,
To ? erue you o' the knee; with what Knights wife,
To beare your traine, and ? it with your foure women 35
In councell, and receiue intelligences,
From forraigne parts, to dre? ? e you at all pieces!
Y'haue (a'mo? t) turn'd my good affection, to you;
Sowr'd my ? weet thoughts; all my pure purpo? es:
I could now finde (i' my very heart) to make 40
Another, _Lady Dutche? ? e_; and depo? e you.
