The False One eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 84 pages of information about The False One.

The False One eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 84 pages of information about The False One.
we goe, I’le leave this lesson, And let him study it:  first Rogue, then Pander, Next Devil that will be; get thee from mens presence, And where the name of Souldier has been heard of Be sure thou live not:  to some hungry desert Where thou canst meet with nothing but thy conscience, And that in all the shapes of all thy vill[anie]s Attend thee still, where bruit Beasts will abhor thee, And even the Sun will shame to give thee light, Goe hide thy head:  or if thou think’st it fitter Goe hang thy self.

  Dol. Hark to that clause.

  Sce. And that speedily,
  That nature may be eas’d of such a Monster. [Exit.

Sep. Yet all this moves not me:  nor reflects on me:  I keep my gold still, and my confidence, Their want of breeding makes these fellows murmur, Rude valors, so I let ’em pass; rude honours:  There is a wench yet, that I know, affects me And company for a King:  a young plump villain, That when she sees this gold, she’l leap upon me.

    Enter Eros.

  And here she comes:  I am sure of her at midnight,
  My pretty Eros welcom.

  Eros.  I have business.

  Sep. Above my love, thou canst not.

  Eros.  Yes indeed Sir,
  Far, far above.

  Sep. Why, why so coy? ’pray ye tell me
  We are alone.

  Eros.  I am much asham’d we are so.

  Sep. You want a new Gown now, & a handsom Petticoat,
  A Skarf, and some odd toyes:  I have gold here ready,
  Thou shal[t] have any thing.

  Eros.  I want your absence: 
  Keep on your way, I care not for your company.

  Sep. How? how? you are very short:  do you know me Eros
  And what I have been to ye?

  Eros.  Yes I know ye: 
  And I hope I shall forget ye:  Whilst you were honest
  I lov’d ye too.

  Sep. Honest? come prethee kiss me.

Eros.  I kiss no knaves, no Murderers, no Beasts, No base betrayers of those men that fed ’em, I hate their looks; and though I may be wanton, I scorn to nourish it with bloody purchase, Purchase so foully got; I pray ye unhand me I had rather touch the plague, than one unworthy:  Goe seek some Mistris that a horse may marry, And keep her company, she is too good for ye. [Exit.
Sep. Marry this goes near; now I perceive I am hatefull, When this light stuff can distinguish, it grows dangerous, For mony, seldom they refuse a Leper:  But sure I am more odious, more diseas’d too: 

    Enter three lame Souldiers.

  It sits cold here; what are these? three poor Souldiers? 
  Both poor and lame:  their misery may make ’em
  A little look upon me, and adore me,
  If these will keep me company, I am made yet.

  1 Sol. The pleasure Caesar sleeps in, makes us miserable,
  We are forgot, our maims and dangers laugh’d at;
  He Banquets, and we beg.

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