The Works of Beaumont & Fletcher; the Text Formed From a New Collation of the Early Editions
The Works of Beaumont & Fletcher; the Text Formed From a New Collation of the Early Editions
Fletcher, John, 1729-1785
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Enter Phil aster and Bellario. Phi. And thou shalt find her honourable, boy ; Full of regard unto thy tender youth, For thine own modesty ; and, for my sake, Apter to give than thou wilt be to ask, Ay, or deserve. BeL Sir, you did take me up When I was nothing ; and only yet am something By being yours. You trusted me imknown ; And that which you were apt to conster "^ A simple innocence in me, perhaps Might have been craft, the cunning of a boy Hardened in hes and theft : yet ventured you To p...art my miseries and me ; for which, I never can expect to serve a lady That bears more honour in her breast than you. Phi. But, boy, it will prefer thee. Thou art young, And bear'st a childish overflowing love To them that clap thy cheeks and speak thee fair yet ; But when thy judgment comes to rule those passions, ^ were apt to co7ister^ Theobald printed " are apt to construe now," — " are " being the reading of fol. 1679, "construe" (which his successors retained) a wanton alteration of the old and common form, and *' now " an insei'tion of his own to support the metre.
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