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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)

    of Manchester.
    355Trotter. What call you this I pray?
    Em. I say it is an Vrinall.
    Trotter. Then this is mystically to giue you to vnderstand
    I haue beene at the Phismicaries house.
    Em. How long hast thou beene sicke?
    360Trotter. Yfaith, euen as long as I haue not beene halfe well,
    And that hath beene a long time.
    Em. A loytering time I rather immagine.
    Trot. It may bee so: but the Phismicary tels me that you can (help me.
    Em. Why, any thing I can doe for recouerie of thy health
    365Be right well assured of.
    Trot. Then giue me your hand.
    Em. To what end.
    Trot. That the ending of an old indenture
    Is the begining of a new bargaine.
    370Em. What bargaine?
    Trot. That you promised to do any thing to recouer my health.
    Em. On that condition I giue thee my hand,
    Trot. Ah sweet Em.Here he offers to kisse her.
    Em. How now Trot? your masters daughter?
    375Trot. Yfaith I aime at the fairest,
    Ah Em. sweet Em, fresh as the flower:
    That hath power to wound my hart.
    And ease my smart, of me poore theefe,
    In prison bound.
    380Em. So all your rime lies on the ground.
    But what meanes this?
    Trot. Ah marke the deuise,
    For thee my loue full sicke I was, in hazard of my life
    Thy promise was to make me whole and for to be my wife.
    385Let mee inioy my loue my deere,
    And thou possesse thy Trotter here.
    Em. But I meant no such matter.
    Trot. Yes woos but you did, Ile goe to our Parson Sir Iohn,
    And he shall mumble vp the marriage out of hand.
    390Em. But here comes one that will forbid the Banes.
    Here
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