BENWASH

You must remember at what rate you bought they. I am your Merchant Ruben Rabshake, my wife, her sister Fetch me three hundred Dukets for this Gentleman. Gentleman, slave. Peace dog, you see gallants, we are not Italionat to lock our women up, we set they free, give open enter tainment. As I am from covetousness: how their eyes strike each other? Rabshake — Captain, your gold. I do not Like this fellows looks, Rabshake. Tush, my wifeman, thou hast forgotten how deer I bought my liberty, renounced my law, The Law of Moses, turned Turk, all to keep My bed free from these Mahometan Dogs. I would not be a monster Rabshake, a man-beast, A Cuckold. For commodity: thou seest rich shopkeepers set their wives at sale to draw in custom, utter their wares, yet keep that Jem untouched: all for profit man. No more villain: should I suspect my self to have that disease, I would run mad, first fury of my horns should light on thee: look too't, thou art no longer living then my wife is honest. It's right Captain. The fellow raves: talk to a Captain of equal sharing, I'll take order for landing the goods, & be with you present lie. Rabshake, thou knowest thy doom slave, look too't, thine eyes, villain thine eyes. yes, for these slaves, I will. As a hangman at and execution makes no other holy day in the year. I'll give thirty crowns for this old beast to be re venged on him. I am your first man, I'll give you 400 crowns for they Hear. Is it possible? Forgiveness honest wife, my chased, chased, wife. Better and better, I cannot but admire thy chastity A ladder of ropes, would he make that the beginning Lechery should be the end of, I'll hamper him, If he have any grace thy honesty overthrows him, My dull eyed villain Rabshake saw none of this, He's all for reminre, he would have me a cuckold by law forsooth, by statute law, I shall put you a book case, for he shall moot I'll prize him but to the present business. Noble Captain to ex press how much you are welcome, my wife and sister, laying all rites aside, and customary observes, come to invite you to a mean banquet sir. Are they gone? What hard fortune attends me? that none of their throats were cut, I might have seized their goods, not so much as the flesh biter, but is come of. And that was the reason you so willingly parted with they sir Here under this table, did you think I am so branch No roof would give me covering, I am but a pricket, A mere sorrel, my head's not hardened yet Though thanks unto your mastership your fire was not won ting Yet you can speak the whoremasters language passing well; what made you sir take my wife for a flesh-seller, a whore? By thee lecher, you know not this purse, this gold? You have your tricks to climb up cuckolds haven, Your ladder of ropes, you had best keep that hour, My wife this night expects you: my absence Will be enforced, she bid me tell you so, Insatiate goat thou thinkest our wives are such, As are your holy fisters, religious Votaries, Your spittle nuns, here take your ill God trash, May I but know thou once more tempst my wise, You shall not needs a ladder, I'll mount you sir a Christians I will, you oxgall, I will. Do you hear sir, hereafter know a Turks wife from You are one of those hold all women bound Under the domination of the Moon; All wavering, now you have seen one of the Sun sir, Constant you slave, and as she is, with us are millions more. Rare, does she plead chastity? Nay if the flesh take hold of him, he's passed read emp cion He's half a Turk already, it's as good as done Woman is hell out, in we never return. I'll gage a thousand Ducats on equal terms, Ilive to see him the Sultans Admiral. Christian or Turk you are more wise I know Then with religion to confine your Hope's. I have oft with laughter thought how innocent My thoughts when first I turned were, how scrupulous I was, when with one argument I was confirmed; as thus, If this religion were so damnable As others make it, that God which ows the right Profaned by this would soon destroy it quite. This gudgeon will not bite. The wind sits fair, the slaves are sending down Whom the next morn bears hence. And Ocean overwhelm thee, where is the fire slave? My bags, my obligations, my wife Agar I say, I shall run mad, I will scale the windows, burn for company, my money and my self will go together, what's here a ladder of ropes, Gallops breeches, burn on, burn on, findge all the world, consume it with thy flames, thou best of elements, burn on I say. As you are ministers of Lucifer let it burn on, it's mine own house, come but on my ground I'll have my acti on for't. Dogs, villains, thieves, down with him that lays a hand a to't, be joust you powers of heaven, and throw thy wild fire down upon the heads of these adulterers, room, room, room, I have it, I have it, room, room, room. I have it, I have it, here, her, nay come on, you have come off I am sure, here's evidence looks pale to think but on't, you do not know the tenant to this cottage, he was and upright dealer, he paid me to a hair, come forward and be hanged, I shall advance you in a ropes name, you have made no cuckold of me. I made my self one, pandred my own horns, now sirrah, you that go to't by art, put your cases one in the neck of another, your remembering in re what think the of this case. Then I am a Cornuto. The best is, the crest is mine own, I paid well for't. What wilt thou confess? that thou hast made a mere Ass of me, to pay thy journeyman wages before hand. This slave does not think I'll cut his throat for this, you have watched nearly sirrah, you have. Good, very good, my doubts are at end, but I shall hang you in suspense for this: you Manticora that plump upon raw flesh, here set your hand to this letter, that I may draw your Captain on again upon the breach, I'll blow you up else, why move you not, I am sure you laid your hand to the business when time was. She loves him still, I am a cuckold He has outgone me, do you hear; subscribe Move me no further. I tell thee I'll for give thee, give my revenge Scope but at him, thou art free. By that, and all that ties a virtuous mind, I vow and swear by written writ. Why, thou shalt be the messenger, nay the actor In my joust vengeance. You are deceived sir, he is at your elbow. You must be at your sweet meats: cannot Mutton serve your turn, but you must have sauce to it? I believe you wife, I believe you, and thou shalt ju stifie it to his teeth before the greatest Devil in hell. Rabshake give her a Mittimus, strangle her. I sware as I was a Turk, and I will cut your throat as I am a Jew. Stop her throat, I say, give no ear to her. Thou speakest charitably. Is she gone? is her lust satis fied now? Now for you M. Gallop: you gave it me with tilting, and I will return your courtesy. That were Lex talion indeed, one mark for another: but it will not serve the turn. Have at you. why now my brow begins to smooth. How likest this Tragedy, Rabshake? Tush, the best is behind man: dost think I do not bear a brain about me? Beware a politician, man: here, bind me, bind me, hard, hard. Here, take this dagger, stab me and ynch into the breast and arm. I cannot but laugh at the gentleman's lecherous voyage to Lucifer: there, there. Now Rabshake let me bind thee. Thou art not capable of the mystery, thou art shallow Rabshake. What dost thou mean by this? Thou hast mistaken me: know thou art all my care. Dear Rabshake, upon ̄ my knees I do entreat thee hear me. For whom have I taken thought, outwatched the night Out-toyl'd the day, but for my Rabshake? what friend, What kinsman, what heir had I but Rabshake? Nay, thou shouldst have had all in possession, my pur pose was to have lived a private life, done penance for my sins, and given thee all. They are thine own, on whom should I bestow the ̄ else? In spite of jealousy, without suspicion man: you be king bound, your head thrust in this circle, as if tied up for star ting, I had cried out thieves, murder, raised the street, transferred the act upon some stranger. Thou wrongest me to make question of't. God's-foot my self too. Here, here: Is thy head in? Have I caught you? are you in the noose? you have seen the play of Pedringano sir, Il'e play with you. Tush, you are my heir, Il'e hang you up a airing. You must have your chains, you shall be chained, I could even crack my sides with laughter. This will afford me mirth unto my dying day. The play of Ped ingano? how the we ell hangs! Would, would, would. Thieves, thieves: Murder, mur der. I shall betray my self with laughter. Were you caught Rynard? are you in the noose? Murder, murder, thiefs murder. Murder, murder, murder. Help me to a Surgean. Three strangers rushed in suddenly, we being at supper, all my servants forth, save honest Rabshake: and having rifled us, did act this horrid murder. My honest servant, honest Rabshake. That fellow in the stammell hose is one of them. Hear me before I die, I do confess Mine own hand did these murders. Dansiker Hath justly done me vengeance. I did them sir: the cause my wife proved false, untrue, Bear witness, though I lived a Turk, I die a Jew. I cannot choose but laugh to think how happy I am in my project: it will amaze thee when thou hearest it Rab shake, we shall so gull the innocent world, laugh at the silly world. Rabshake? Is this child of Adam coming yet? he that will eat of the forbidden fruit though he lose Paradise fort, is he coming. That's my deer precious villain, how sweet art thou Revenge? the thought of thee turns all my blood to air. All light Rabshake. I will make them abortives man, smother them in the womb. She shall down too, I will let her blood in a new vein she shall turn up the white of the eye, and die the death of a sinner. Tush, by equivocation man, I will not hurt her, but thou shalt by equivocation, behind the Arras, my deer Rabshake. The game is roused, take thy stand and strike Rab shake. So the hour of my redemption is at hand, for men worst hell, a whore. Good, excellent good. Rather by retail sir, retail. I see how it did work, I feel it.