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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)

    The Millers daughter
    Here Enters Manuile to them.
    Trotter. Ah Sir you come too late.
    Manuile. What remedie Trotter.
    Em. Goe Trotter, my father calles.
    395Trotter. Would you haue me goe in, and leaue you two here?
    Em. Why, darest thou not trust me?
    Trotter. Yes faith, euen as long as I see you.
    Em. Goe thy waies I praye thee hartely.
    Trotter. That same word (hartely) is of great force.
    400I will goe: but I praye sir, beware you
    Come not too neere the wench.Exit Trotter.
    Manuile. I am greatly beholding to you
    Ah Maistres, somtime I might haue said my loue,
    But time and fortune hath bereued me of that,
    405And I am abiect in those gratious eyes
    That with remorse earst sawe into my griefe,
    May sit and sigh the sorowes of my heart.
    Em. In deede my Manuile hath some cause to doubt,
    When such a Swaine is riuall in his loue.
    410Manuile. Ah Em, were he the man that causeth this mistrust,
    I should esteeme of thee as at the first.
    Em. But is my loue in earnest all this while?
    Manuile. Beleeue me Em, it is not time to iest
    When others ioyes, what lately I possest.
    415Em. If touching loue, my Manuile charge me thus
    Vnkindly must I take it at his handes,
    For that my conscience cleeres me of offence.
    Manuile. Ah impudent and shamelesse in thy ill,
    That with thy cunning and defraudfull toung,
    420Seekese to delude the honest meaning minde:
    Was neuer heard in Manchester before,
    Of true louer then hath beene betwixte vs twaine:
    And for my parte how I haue hazarded
    Displeasure of my father and my freindes
    425Thy selfe can witnes. Yet notwithstanding this:
    Two genlemen attending on Duke William
    Mountney and Valingford, as I heard them named,
    Oft
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