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Title: Rule a Wife, and Have a Wife
Beaumont & Fletcher's Works (3 of 10)

Author: Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher

Release Date: January 1, 2005 [EBook #14549]

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170] Rule a Wife, and have a Wife

The works of Beaumont and Fletcher, edited by A.R. Walker

Actus Primus

Scena Prima

[Enter _Juan de Castro_, and _Michael Perez_.]

Michael Perez:

Are your Companies full, Colonel?

Juan de Castro:

No, not yet, Sir:
Nor will not be this month yet, as I reckon;
How rises your Command?

Michael Perez:

We pick up still, and as our monies hold out,
We have men come, about that time I think
We shall be full too, many young Gallants go.

Juan de Castro:

And unexperienced,
The Wars are dainty dreams to young hot spirits,
Time and Experience will allay those Visions,
We have strange things to fill our numbers,
There's one _Don Leon_, a strange goodly fellow,
Recommended to me from some noble Friends,
For my _Alferes_, had you but seen his Person,
And what a Giants promise it protesteth.

Michael Perez:

I have heard of him, and that he hath serv'd before too.

Juan de Castro:

But no harm done, nor never meant, _Don Michael_,
That came to my ears yet, ask him a question,
He blushes like a Girl, and answers little,
To the point less, he wears a Sword, a good one,
And good Cloaths too, he is whole skin'd, has no hurt yet,
Good promising hopes, I never yet heard certainly
Of any Gentleman that saw him angry.

Michael Perez:

Preserve him, he'll conclude a peace if need be,
Many as strong as he will go along with us,
That swear as valiantly as heart can wish,
Their mouths charg'd with six oaths at o