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stay. [Exit Page.]--I fear I shall begin my unfortu-

nate journey this night, though the darkness of the 15

night, and the roughness of the waters, might easily
dissuade an unwilling man.

Savil. Sir, your father's old friends hold it the
sounder course for your body and estate to stay at

home, and marry and propagate--and govern in 20

your country--than to travel for diseases, and return
following the court in a night-cap, and die without
issue.

E. Love. Savil, you shall gain the opinion of a better

servant in seeking to execute, not alter, my will, how- 25

soever my intents succeed.

Y. Love. Yonder's Mistress Younglove, brother, the
grave rubber of your mistress' toes.

Enter ABIGAIL, the waiting woman.

E. Love. Mistress Younglove-----

Abigail. Master Loveless, truly we thought your 30

sails had been hoist: my mistress is persuaded you
are sea-sick ere this.

E. Love. Loves she her ill-taken-up resolution so
dearly? Didst thou move her for me?

Abig. By this light that shines, there's no removing 35

her, if she get a stiff opinion by the end. I attempted
her to-day, when they say a woman can deny nothing.

E. Love. What critical minute was that?

Abig. When her smock was over her ears; but she

was no more pliant than if it hung about her heels. 40

E. Love. I prithee, deliver my service, and say, I
desire to see the dear cause of my banishment: and
then France.

Abig. I'll do 't. Hark hither; is that your brother?

____________________
21 travel for diseases... without issue] So QQ1, 2. In Q2 the words
for diseases . . . nightcap occupy exactly one line; hence they were probably
omitted unintentionally by the compositor of Q3, and so in all subsequent
eds. until Dyce's. The traveller follows the court as a suitor, his own
property being all consumed, and in a nightcap because he is a chronic
invalid.
21 your] So all QQ. except Q6 your own; F. our.
27 Mistress Younglove] So QQI, 2, 3, F., here, and in the stage-direction,
and in E. Loveless' greeting; the other old eds. Abigail in all three cases.
34 for me] QQ1, 2, Ed. 10, Dyce: the rest from me.
40 about] So all old eds., which Colman and Weber altered to above.

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Publication Information: Book Title: The Maid's Tragedy; Philaster; A King and No King; The Scornful Lady; The Custom of the Country. Contributors: Francis Beaumont - author, John Fletcher - author. Publisher: George Bell and Sons & A. H. Bullen. Place of Publication: London. Publication Year: 1904. Page Number: 364.
    
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