Part 20 (1/2)
_Mem._ Great Lady, How humbly I am bound--
_Who._ You shall not kneel, Sir, Come, I have done you wrong; stand my Souldier, And thus I make amends-- [_Kisses him._
_Eumen._ A Plague confound ye, Is this your state?
_2 Capt._ 'Tis well enough.
_Mem._ O Lady, Your Royal hand, your hand my dearest beauty Is more than I must purchase: here divine one, I dare revenge my wrongs: ha?
_1 Capt._ A d.a.m.n'd foul one.
_Eume._ The Lees of Baudy prewns: mourning Gloves?
All spoil'd by Heaven.
_Mem._ Ha! who art thou?
_2 Capt._ A shame on ye, Ye clawing scabby Wh.o.r.e.
_Mem._ I say, who art thou?
_Eumen._ Why 'tis the Princess, Sir.
_Mem._ The Devil, Sir, 'Tis some Roguey thing.
_Who._ If this abuse be love, Sir, Or I that laid aside my modesty--
_Eumen._ So far thou't never find it.
_Mem._ Do not weep, For if ye be the Princess, I will love ye, Indeed I will, and honour ye, fight for ye, Come, wipe your eyes; by Heaven she stinks; who art thou?
Stinks like a poyson'd Rat behind a hanging?
Woman, who art? like a rotten Cabbage.
_2 Capt._ Y'are much to blame, Sir, 'tis the Princess.
_Mem._ How?
She the Princess?
_Eumen._ And the loving Princess.
_1 Capt._ Indeed the doating Princess.
_Mem._ Come hither once more, The Princess smells like mornings breath, pure Amber, Beyond the courted _Indies_ in her spices.
Still a dead Rat by Heaven; thou a Princess?
_Eumen._ What a dull Wh.o.r.e is this!
_Mem._ I'le tell ye presently, For if she be a Princess, as she may be And yet stink too, and strongly, I shall find her; Fetch the _Numidian_ Lyon I brought over, If she be sprung from the Royal blood, the Lyon, He'l do you reverence, else--