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  • Title: Fair Em (Quarto 2, 1631)
  • Editors: Brett Greatley-Hirsch, Kevin A. Quarmby
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    Author: Anonymous
    Editors: Brett Greatley-Hirsch, Kevin A. Quarmby
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    Fair Em (Quarto 2, 1631)

    of Manchester.
    Blaunch. There doth indeed. Fellow wouldest thou haue any
    Thing with any body here?
    Messenger. I haue a letter to deliuer to the Ladie Mariana.
    575Blaunch. Giue it me.
    Messen. There must none but shee haue it.
    Blaunch snatcheth the letter from him, Et exit messenger.
    Go to foolish fellow.
    And therefore to ease the anger I sustaine,
    580Ile be so bold to open it, whats here?
    Sir Robert greets you well?
    Your Maistries, his loue, his life; Oh amorous man,
    How he entertaines his new Maistres;
    And bestowes on Lubeck his odde friend
    585A horne night cap to keepe in his wit.
    Mariana. Madam though you haue discourteously
    Read my letter, yet I pray you giue it me.
    Blaunch. Then take it there, and there, and there.
    She teares it. Et exit Blaunch.
    590Mariana. How far doth this differ from modestie:
    Yet will I gather vp the peeces, which haply
    May shew to me the intent thereof
    Though not the meaning.
    She gathers vp the peeces and ioynes them.
    595Mariana. Your seruant and loue sir Robert of Windsor
    Alius William the Conqueror, wisheth long health and happinesse.
    Is this William the Conqueror, shrouded vnder
    The name of sir Robert of Windsor?
    Were he the Monarch of the world
    600He should not disposesse Lubeck of his loue.
    Therefore I will to the Court, and there if I can
    Close to be freinds with Ladie Blaunch,
    And thereby keepe Lubeck my loue for my selfe:
    And further the Ladie Blanch in her sute as much as I may.Exit.
    605Enter Em solus.
    Em. Ielousie that sharps the louers sight,
    And makes him conceiue and conster his intent,
    Hath
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