A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 8 eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 460 pages of information about A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 8.

A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 8 eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 460 pages of information about A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 8.

TEN.  Chill save thee, chill spare thee, chill keep thee from wasting.

MON.  So did not he. 
Go to then, seeing that my mother’s will is such,
To put it in adventure I may not grutch.

TEN.  O my sweeting, my darling, my chewel, my joy,
My pleasure, my treasure, mine own pretty boy.

MON.  How now? what mean you by this, Tenacity.

TEN.  O, forbid me not to kiss my sweet Money. 
Varewell, Vortune; and, Vortune, che thank thee alway. 
Come on, surrah, chill make you vast, bum vay.

MON.  What, with ropes? what needs that?

TEN.  Vor vear of robbing by the highway.
La, mi, fa, sol, fa; sol, mi, fa, re, mi.

    [Exit TENACITY, and goeth to the inn for his ass.

SCENE IV.

    Enter PRODIGALITY, DICK DICER, VANITY, and
    [to them afterwards] TOM TOSS.

PROD.  O monstrous, vile, filthy luck! see, in the twinkling of an eye,
Scarce knowing which way, I have quite lost my Money.

DICK.  Out of all doubt, Prodigality, he is not gone yonder way.

PROD.  Then seek some other course, make here no stay. 
He must be found out, there is no remedy. 
Thou know’st in what pickle we stand without Money.

DICK.  Why, sure, Prodigality, it can be no other,
But he is returned to Fortune his mother.

PROD.  Thinkest thou so? 
Thou, Fortune, hearest thou? by fair means, I advise thee,
Restore my Money to me again:  deal plainly and wisely;
Or by this sharp-edged sword, shalt see me play a proud part,
For I will have him again, in spite of thy heart.

VAN.  Whom have we there, that keepeth such a coil.

PROD.  Even he that will not put up such a foil.

VAN.  What’s the matter?

PROD.  Vanity, to that dame thy mistress commend me,
Tell her—­tell her, it doth not a little offend me,
To have my money in such great despite,
Taken so from me without any right. 
What though it were once her own proper gift? 
Yet given, ’tis mine own, there is no other shift. 
Therefore charge her, in the name of Prodigality,
That he be restor’d to me incontinently,
Lest she repent it—­

VAN.  These be sore and cruel threat’nings, marry. 
Is your haste so great, that by no means you may tarry?

PROD.  I will not tarry, and therefore make haste.

VAN.  Soft, sir, a little, there is no time pass’d. 
You may tarry, you must tarry, for aught as I know: 
Nay, then you shall tarry, whether you will or no.
          
                                  [Exit.

DICER.  ’Zwounds, sir, he mocks you.

PROD.  Gibe not with me, you whoreson rascal slave! 
For money I come, and money will I have. 
Sirrah Vanity, Vanity!  What, Vanity! 
Speak and be hang’d, Vanity!  What, will’t not be?

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