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Project Gutenberg's Beggars Bush, by Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net Title: Beggars Bush From the Works of Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher (Vol. 2 of 10) Author: Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher Release Date: April 30, 2004 [EBook #12221] Language: English Character set encoding: ASCII *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK BEGGARS BUSH *** Produced by Jonathan Ingram, Jonathan Ingram, Charles M. Bidwell and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team. BEGGARS BUSH, A COMEDY. Persons Represented in the Play. Wolfort, _an usurper of the Earldom of_ Flanders. Gerrard, _falsely called_ Clause, _King of the Beggars, Father in Law to_ Florez. Hubert, _an honest Lord, a friend to_ Gerrard. Florez, _falsely called_ Goswin, _a rich Merchant of_ Bruges. Hempskirke, _a Captain under_ Wolford. Herman _a Courtier_,} _inhabitants of_ _A_ Merchant, } Flanders. Vandunke, _a drunken Merchant friend to_ Gerrard, _falsely called Father to_ Bertha. Vanlock, _and_ 4 Merchants, _of_ Bruges. Higgen, } Prigg, }_Three Knavish Beggars_. Snapp, } Ferret, }_Two Gentlemen disguised under those Ginkes, } names of_ Gerrard's _party_. Clown. Boores. Servants. Guard. _A_ Sailor. _WOMEN_. Jaculin, _Daughter to_ Gerrard, _beloved of_ Hubert. Bertha _called_ Gertrude, _Daughter to the Duke of_ Brabant, _Mistress to_ Florez. Margaret, _Wife to_ Vandunke. Mrs Frances, _a frow Daughter to_ Vanlock. _The Scene_ Flanders. _ACTUS PRIMUS. SCENA PRIMA_. _Enter a_ Merchant _and_ Herman. _Mer._ Is he then taken? _Her._ And brought back even now, Sir. _Mer_. He was not in disgrace? _Her_. No man more lov'd, Nor more deserv'd it, being the only man That durst be honest in this Court. _Mer_. Indeed We have heard abroad, Sir, that the State hath suffered A great change, since the Countesses death. _Her_. It hath, Sir. _Mer_. My five years absence hath kept me a stranger So much to all the occurents of my Country, As you shall bind me for some short relation To make me understand the present times. _Her_. I must begin then with a War was made And seven y
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