Rule a Wife, and Have a Wife eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 132 pages of information about Rule a Wife, and Have a Wife.

Rule a Wife, and Have a Wife eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 132 pages of information about Rule a Wife, and Have a Wife.

Alonzo: 

      How it angers me,
      This fellow at first fight should win a Lady,
      A rich young wench, and I that have consum’d
      My time and art in searching out their subtleties,
      Like a fool’d Alchymist blow up my hopes still? 
      When shall we come to thy house and be freely merry?

Michael Perez: 

      When I have manag’d her a little more,
      I have an house to entertain an army.

Alonzo: 

      If thy wife be fair, thou wilt have few less
      Come to thee.

Michael Perez: 

      But where they’l get entertainment is the point Signior. 
      I beat no Drum.

Alonzo: 

      You need none but her taber,
      May be I’le march after a month or two,
      To get me a fresh stomach.  I find Coronel
      A wantonness in wealth, methinks I agree not with,
      ’Tis such a trouble to be married too,
      And have a thousand things of great importance,
      Jewels and plates, and fooleries molest me,
      To have a mans brains whimsied with his wealth: 
      Before I walk’d contentedly.

      [Enter Servant.]

Servant: 

      My Mistris Sir is sick, because you are absent,
      She mourns and will not eat.

Michael Perez: 

      Alas my Jewel,
      Come I’le goe with thee, Gentlemen your fair leaves,
      You see I am ti’d a little to my yoke,
      Pray pardon me, would ye had both such loving wives.

Juan de Castro: 

      I thank ye
          
                                             [Exit Perez, Servant.

      For your old boots, never be blank Alonzo,
      Because this fellow has outstript thy fortune,
      Tell me ten daies hence what he is, and how
      The gracious state of matrimony stands with him,
      Come, let’s to dinner, when Margarita comes
185] We’l visit both, it may be then your fortune.

[Exeunt.

      [Enter Margarita, Altea, and Ladies.]

Margarita: 

      Is he come?

Altea: 

      Yes Madam, h’as been here this half hour,
      I have question’d him of all that you can ask him,
      And find him as fit as you had made the man,
      He will make the goodliest shadow for iniquity.

Margarita: 

      Have ye searcht him Ladies?

Omnes: 

      Is a man at all points, a likely man.

Margarita: 

      Call him in Altea.
          
                                                     [Exit Lady.

      [Enter Leon, Altea.]

      A man of a good presence, pray ye come this way,
      Of a lusty body, is his mind so tame?

Altea: 

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