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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.
    If case that you will thereto giue consent.
    Mariana. Put case I should, how would you vse me than?
    790William. Not otherwise but well and honorably.
    I haue at Sea a shipp that doth attend,
    Which shall foorthwith conducte vs into England
    Where when we are, I straight will marrie thee.
    We may not stay deliberating long
    795Least that suspition, enuious of our weale
    Set in a foote to hinder our pretence.
    Mariana. But this I think were most conuenient
    To maske my face the better to scape vnknowen.
    William. A good deuise: till then, Farwell faire loue.
    800Mariana. But this I must intreat your grace,
    You would not seeke by lust vnlawfully
    To wrong my chast determinations.
    William. I hold that man most shameles in his sinne
    That seekes to wrong an honest Ladies name
    805Whome he thinkes worthie of his mariage bed.
    Mariana. In hope your othe is true,
    I leaue your grace till the appoynted tyme.
    Exit Mariana.
    William. O happie William, blessed in thy loue:
    810Most fortunate in Marianaes loue,
    Well Lubeck well, this courtesie of thine
    I will requite if God permit me life. Exit.
    Enter Valingford and Mountney at two sundrie dores, looking
    angerly each on other with Rapiers drauen.
    815Mountney. Ualingford, so hardlie I disgest an iniurie
    Thou hast profered me, as were not that I detest to doe what stands
    Not with the honor of my name,
    Thy death should paie thy ransome of thy fault.
    Ualingford. And Mountney, had not my reuenging wrath
    820Incenst with more than ordinarie loue
    beene such for to depriue thee of thy life,
    Thou hadst not liude to braue me as thou doest wretch as thou arte,
    wherein hath Ualingford offended thee?
    That
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