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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.
    Mariana. Why do you post mee to another then?
    Lubeck. He is my friend, and I do loue the man.
    Mariana. Then will Duke William rob me of my loue?
    Lubeck. No as his life Mariana he doth loue.
    720Mariana. Speake for your selfe my Lord let him alone.
    Lubeck. So do I Madam, for he and I am one.
    Mariana. Then louing you I do content you both.
    Lubeck. In louing him you shall content vs both.
    Me, for I craue that fauour at your hands:
    725He for hopes that comfort at your hands.
    Mariana. Leaue of my lord, here comes the Ladie Blanch.
    Enter Blanch to them.
    Lubeck. Hard hap to breake vs of our talke so soone,
    Sweet Mariana, doe remember me.Exit Lubeck.
    730Mariana. Thy Mariana cannot chuse but remember thee.
    Blanch. Mariana well met, you are verie forward in your loue?
    Mariana. Madam be it in secret spoken to your selfe,
    If you wil but follow the complot I haue inuented
    You will not think me so forward
    735As your selfe shall proue fortunate.
    Blanch. As how?
    Mariana. Madam as thus: It is not vnknowen to you
    That Sir Robert of Windsor,
    A man that you do not little esteeme,
    740Hath long importuned me of loue:
    But rather then I will be found false
    Or vniust to the Marques Lubeck,
    I will as did the constant ladie Penelope
    Vndertake to effect some great taske.
    745Blanch. What of all this?
    Mariana. The next time that Sir Robert shall come
    In his woonted sort to solicit me with loue,
    I will seeme to agree and like of any thing
    That the Knight shall demaund, so far forth
    750As it be no impeachment to my chastitie:
    And to conclude, point some place for to meet the man,
    For