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  • Title: Fair Em (Quarto 1, 1593)
  • Editor: Brett Greatley-Hirsch

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    Author: Anonymous
    Editor: Brett Greatley-Hirsch
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    Fair Em (Quarto 1, 1593)

    of Manchester.
    355Trotter. What call you this I praye?
    Em. I saie 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 be so: but the Phismicary tels me that you can help me
    Em. Why, any thing I can do 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 beginning of a new bargaine.
    370Em. What bargaine?
    Trot. That you promised to do anything to recouer my helth.
    Em. On that condition I giue thee my hand.
    Trot. Ah sweete Em. Here he offers to kisse her.
    Em. How now Trotter? your maisters daughter?
    375Trot. Yfaith I aime at the fairest,
    Ah Em, sweet Em: fresh as the flowre:
    That hath poure to wound my harte,
    And ease my smart, of me poore theefe,
    In prison bounde.
    380Em. So all your ryme lies on the grounde.
    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 me inioye my loue my deere,
    And thou possesse thy Trottter 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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