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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.
    500Em. Fare you well Sir.Exit Em. Manet Mountney.
    Mountney. Fare well my loue. Nay farewell life and all.
    Could I procure redresse for this infirmitie,
    It might be meanes shee would regard my sute.
    I am acquainted with the Kings Phisitions:
    505Amongst the which, theres one mine honest friend,
    Seignior Alberto, a verie learned man.
    His iudgement will I haue to help this ill.
    Ah Em, faire Em, if Art can make thee whole:
    Ile buy that sence for thee, although it cost mee deere.
    510But Mountney: stay, this may be but deceit,
    A matter fained onely to delude thee.
    And not vnlike, perhaps by Ualingford,
    He loues faire Em as well as I.
    As well as I? ah no, not halfe so well.
    515Put case, yet may he be thine enimie,
    And giue her counsell to dissemble thus.
    Ile try the euent, and if it fall out so?
    Frindship farewell: Loue makes me now a foe.Exit Mountney.
    Enter Marques Lubeck, and Mariana.
    520Mariana. Trust me my Lord, I am sorie for your hurt.
    Lubeck. Gramercie Madam: but it is not great:
    Onely a thrust, prickt with a Rapiers point.
    Mariana. How grew the quarrel my Lord?
    Lubeck. Sweet Ladie, for thy sake.
    525There was this last night two maskes in one company,
    My selfe the formost: The other strangers were:
    Amongst the which, when the Musick began to sound the Measures,
    Eche Masker made choice of his Ladie:
    And one more forward than the rest stept towards thee:
    530Which I perceiuing, thrust him aside, and tooke thee my selfe.
    But this was taken in so ill parte,
    That at my comming out of the court gate, with iustling togither,
    It was my chaunce to be thrust into the arme.
    The doer thereof because he was the originall cause of the disorder
    535At that inconuenient time, was presently committed,
    And
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