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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.
    Mariana. Why do you poste mee to another then?
    Lubeck. He is my friend, and I do loue the man.
    Mariana. Then will Duke William robb me of my Loue?
    Lubeck. No as his life Mariana he doth loue.
    720Mariana. Speake for yourselfe 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 handes:
    725He for hopes that comfort at your hands.
    Mariana. Leaue of my Lord, here comes the Ladie Blaunch.
    Enter Blaunch 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.
    Blaunch. 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.
    Blaunch. 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.
    745Blaunch. What of all this?
    Mariana. The next tyme 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 shal demaund, so far foorth
    750As it be no impeachment to my chastitie:
    And to conclude, poynt some place for to meete the man,
    For
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