The Tragedy of M.Arden
To parte from any thing may doo thee good.
Rede
He is comming from Shorlow as I vnderstand,
Here ile intercept him, for at his house
He neuer will vouchafe to speake with me:
If prayers and faire intreaties will not serue,
Or make no battry in his flintye breast.
Here enters Fra. Ard. and Michaell.
Ile cursse the carle and see what that wil doo.
Se where he comes, to further my intent,
M. Arden I am now bound to the sea,
My comming to you was about the plat of ground,
Which wrongfully you detaine from me.
Although the rent of it be very small,
Yet will it helpe my wife and children:
Which here I leaue in Feuershame God knowes,
Needy and bare, for Christs sake let them haue it.
Ard.
Francklin hearest thou this fellow speake?
That which he craues I dearely bought of him,
Although the rent of it was euer mine.
Sirra you, that aske these questions,
If with thy clamarous impeaching tongue
Thou raile on me, as I haue heard thou dost,
Ile lay thee vp so close a twelue months day,
As thou shalt neither see the Sonne nor Moone,
Looke to it, for as surely as I liue,
Ile banish pittie if thou vse me thus.
Rede.
What wilt thou do me wrong, & threat me too?
Nay then Ile tempt thee, Arden doo thy worst,
God I beseech thee show some miracle,
On thee or thine, in plauging thee for this.
That plot of ground, which thou detaines from me,
I speake it in an agony of spirite,
Be ruinous and fatall vnto thee:
Either there be butcherd by thy dearest freends,
Or els be brought for men to wonder at.
Or thou or thine miscary in that place.
