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  • Title: Fair Em (Quarto 2, 1631)
  • Editors: Brett Greatley-Hirsch, Kevin A. Quarmby
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    Author: Anonymous
    Editors: Brett Greatley-Hirsch, Kevin A. Quarmby
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    Fair Em (Quarto 2, 1631)

    The Millers daughter
    Manuile. What comes he to, to intercept my loue?
    320Then hye thee Manuile to forestall such foes.Exit Manuile.
    Mountney. What now Lord Valingford are you behinde?
    The king had chosen you to goe with him.
    Valingford. So chose he you, therefore I maruell much
    That both of vs should linger in this sort.
    325What may the king imagine of our stay?
    Mountney. The king may iustly think we are to blame:
    But I imagin'd I might well be spared
    And that no other man had borne my minde.
    Valingford. The like did I: in frendship then resolue
    330What is the cause of your vnlookt for stay?
    Mountney. Lord Valingford I tell thee as a friend,
    Loue is the cause why I haue stayed behind.
    Valinford. Loue my Lord? of whom?
    Mountney. Em the millers daughter of Manchester.
    335Valingford. But may this be?
    Mountney. Why not my Lord? I hope full well you know
    That loue respectes no difference of state
    So beautie serue to stir affection.
    Valingford. But this it is that makes me wonder most,
    340That you and I should be of one conceit
    In such a strange vnlikely passion.
    Mountney. But is that true? my Lord: I hope you do but iest.
    Valingford. I would I did: then were my griefe the lesse.
    Mountney. Nay neuer grieue: for if the cause be such
    345To ioyne our thoughts in such a Sympathy:
    All enuie set aside: let vs agree
    To yeeld to eithers fortune in this choyce.
    Valingford. Content say I, and what so ere befall,
    Shake hands my Lord and fortune thriue at all.Exeunt.
    350Enter Em, and Trotter the Millers man with a kerchife on
    his head, and an Vrinall in his hand.
    Em. Trotter where haue you beene?
    Trotter. Where haue I beene? why, what signifies this?
    Em. A kerchiefe, doth it not?
    Trotter.