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I wonder that My Lord so much affects him. In fire and water works, And deal in'em When the trade has given you over, as appears (by the increase of your high forehead. I had had and ignorant nurse else I have tide sir My Ladies garter, and can guess. I would bring you on your knees, were I a woman. Look up deer Lady, sad news never came sherd with loud applause. Thou art and ass, And this is a sweet burden. It may be you both be God in court, Though bred up in the City, for your mother's, As I have herd loved the lobby, and there nightly Are seen strange apparitions, and who knows But that some noble fawn, heated with wine, And cloyed with partridge, had a kind of longing To trade in sprats? this needs no exposition, But can you yield a reason for your wishes? You are fools, And ignorant of your happiness, ere I was Sworn to the pantofle, I have herd my tutor Prove it by logic, that a servants life Was better then his Master's, and by that I learn from him, if that my memory fall not, I'll make it good. Thus then from the king To the beggar, by gradation all are servants, And you must grant the slavery is less To study to please one, then many. Well then, and first to you Sir, you complain You serve one Lord, but your Lord serves a thousand, Beside his passion (that are his worst Master's) You must humour him, and he is bound to sooth Every gri me Sir above him, if he frown, For the least neglect you fear to lose your place, But if, and with all slavish observation, From the mignions self, to the groom of his close stool, He hourly seeks not favour, he is sure To be eas' of his office, though perhaps he bought it. Nay more, that high disposer of all such That are subordinate to him, serves, and fears The fury of the manyheaded monster, The giddy multitude And as a horse Is still a horse, for all his golden trappings, So your men of purchased titles, at their best are But servingmen in rich liveries. Why thou dull pate, As I could thee, of my tutor. I am cut of the governor. This is a pend speech, And serves as a perpetual preface to A dinner made of fragments. Fear not my brave Lord Your noble father; fighting is to him Familiar as eating. He can teach Our modern Duellists how to cleave a button, And in a new way, never yet found out By old Caranza. Let me fight for my Mistress.
Plot summary
Plot — The Unnatural Combat
Malefort Junior, son of the Admiral, has committed treason by allying himself with pirates and threatening the ruin of Marseilles. The Admiral is suspected of complicity and imprisoned. Theocrine, his daughter, reluctantly offers herself to Beaufort Junior, son of the Governor of Marseilles, if he will only persuade his father to allow hers a hearing. Beaufort Senior can refuse his son nothing, so the Admiral gets his opportunity to protest his innocence. Malefort Junior ‘challenges his father to a duel over a wrongdoing which he will not specify. The Admiral refuses to be held accountable by his son, and accepts the challenge. Malefort Junior is killed: the threat to Marseilles is over, and Admiral Malefort is lauded a hero. Malefort suggests that Theocrine should marry Beaufort Junior; Beaufort Senior half-heartedly agrees and invites them to a nuptial feast. The Governor's table is open to any former soldier who needs a free ~ meal, a custom regularly invoked by Belgarde, who is unemployed in peacetime and angry at being denied - his -back pay. Fearing embarrassment at the feast, Beaufort Senior has his steward discourage Belyarde with the suggestion that he is underdressed for the ===== PAGE 200 ===== occasion; but the upshot is that Belgarde turns up in a suit of armour and declares his worthiness. His plain- speaking wins him respect and a gift of money from the Governor. He spends it all on new clothes, but the signs of prosperity attract his creditors, and he is still unable to pay them. People are noticing Malefort’s excessive solicitude towards his daughter. This comes to a head when Beaufort Junior takes her off to woo her in private, with a priest ready to perform the marriage. Malefort reacts by calling off the marriage and taking Theocrine home. He harbours an incestuous passion for his daughter, who is very like his dead second wife. Struggling to conquer the urge, he confesses to his friend Montreville and asks him to abduct her: he cannot be tempted if he never sees her again. Beaufort Junior realizes something is wrong and has Belgarde muster troops to besiege Montreville’s fort. Montreville demands sexual favours from Theocrine, and reveals her father’s secret. Meanwhile Malefort reasons from classical precedent that incest is not wicked after all, and goes to fetch his daughter back. Montreville denies him access and reveals that he has.a long-standing grudge: Theocrine’s mother was his mistress before Malefort stole her, poisoning his…