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An Humorous Day's Mirth (Quarto 1, 1599)
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1547Enter the Queene, Lemot, and all the rest of the
1548lordes, and the Countesse: Lemots
1549arme in a scarffe.
1550Lemot. haue at them yfayth with a lame counterfeite
1551humor: ake on rude arme, I care not for thy paine, I got it
1552nobly in the kings defence, and in the gardiance of my faire
1553Queenes right.
1555his right was that thou didst defend?
1557Lab. Keepe not the Queene too long without her
1558longing.
1559Foyes. No, for I tell you it is a daungerous thing.
1560Coun. Little care cruell men how women long.
1562breath, and burne the eares of my attentiue Queene.
Quee.
dayes mirth.
1563Quee. Tell me what ere it be, Ile beare it all.
1566sture now.
1567Quee. Tis well enough.
1569haue I for all my woundes: then thus the King inamou-
1570red of an other ladie compares your face to hers, and saies
1572sing big.
1574my beautie, that when he married me he thought diuine:
1576blasted, that did change them.
1582were in your griefes.
1585band, but hell hath no plague to such an one as I.
1587then did the king growe mightily in loue with the other la-
1592in al honored sort, yet Ile not wrōg my wife for al the world
1597Lem. But when he vewd her radient eyes againe, blinde
1598was hee strooken with her feruent beames: and now good
King
An humorous
1599King he gropes about in corners voide of the chearefull
1600light should guide vs all.
1604Lab. Could her eyes blind him?
1605Lem. Eyes or what it was I know not, but blind I am
1607Q. Come bring me to my Prince my lord that I may
1608leade him, none aliue but I may haue the honour to direct
1609his feete.
1610Lem. How lead him madam? why hee can go as right
1611as you, or any here, and is not blind of eyesight.
1612Quee. Of what then?
1616should cheerefully guide a worthie King, for he doth loue
1617her, and hath forced her into a priuate roome where now
1618they are.
1619Quee. What mocking chaunges is there in thy wordes
1622fore my words be halfe done.
1625ring that the King had forced her, as she was walking with
1626another Earle, ran straightwaies mad for her, and with a
1627friend of his, and two or three blacke ruffians more, brake
1630tion: with them I fought a while,, and got this wound, but
1632you to his ayde.
world
dayes mirth.
1643Le. From your good Lord.
1645Le. Tis all too true, come follow the Queen and I, where
1646I shall leade you.
1647Qu. O wretched Queene, what would they take from
1648him?