Volume 5

The works of Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher / Adorn'd with cuts.

  • Francis Beaumont
Date:
1711
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: The works of Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher / Adorn'd with cuts. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Hoft. F aith Mailer Baily, How have ye done? And how Man? Bail. Good fweet Hoflefs, What fhail we have to Dinner? Hoflefs. How does your Woman, And a fine Woman (he is, and a good Woman $ Lord, how you bear yoifr Years ? Bail. Is’t Veal or Mutton, Beef, Bacon, Pork, Kid, Pheafant, or all thefe. And are they ready all? Hojl. The hours that have been Between us two, the merry hours: Lord! Bail. Hoflefs, Dear Hoflefs do but hear 5 I am hungry. ♦] Hoflefs, Ye are merrily difpofed. Sir. Bail. Monflrous hungry, And hungry after much Meat, I have brought hither Right worfhipful to pay the reckoning, Mony enough too with ’em, defire enough To have the befl Meat, and of that enough too: Come to the point fweet Wench, and fo 1 kifs thee. Hoflefs. Ye fhail have any thing, and inflantly. E’er you can lick your Ears, Sir. Bail. Portly Meat, Bearing fubflantiai fluff, and fit for Hunger, I do befeech jye Hoflefs firfl, then fome light Garnilh9 Two Pheafants in a Difli, if ye have Leverits, Rather for way of Ornament, than Appetite, They may be look’d upon, or Larks*, for Fifb, As there is no great need, fo I would not wifh ye To ferve above four Difhes, but thofe full ones; Ye have no Cheefe of Parma ? Hoflefs. Very old, Sir. Bail. The lefc will ferve us, fome ten Pound. Hoflefs. Alas, Sir, We have not half thefe Dainties, Bail. Peace good Hoflefs, And make us hope ye have. Hoflefs. Ye fhail have all, Sir, Bail. That may be got for Mony* ^ ^ ’ Enter