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The Custom of the Country
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Once famed for its obscenity, this vigorous and enjoyable play traces the fortunes of two brothers shipwrecked in a foreign land. By turns poignant and risqué, sentimental and satiraical, its beautifully crafted plot embodies the collaborative art of its authors. It was given a staged reading in 1998 as part of the Globe Education's on-going program to record with professional casts all non-Shakespearean plays of the English Renaissance.
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ACTUS QUINTUS
Enter RUTILLIO and DUARTE [disguised]
Rutillio | You like the letter |
Duarte | Yes, but I must tell you, |
You tempt a desperate hazard to solicit | |
The mother (and the griev'd one too, tis rumour'd) | |
Of him you slew so lately. | |
Rutillio | I have told you |
Some proofs of her affection, and I know not | |
A nearer way to make her satisfaction | |
For a lost son than speedily to help her | |
To a good husband; one that will beget | |
Both sons and daughters, if she be not barren. | |
I have had a breathing now, and have recover'd | |
What I lost in my late service â 'twas a hot one, | |
It fir'd and fir'd me; but all thanks to you, sir, | |
You have both freed and cool'd me. | |
Duarte | What is done, sir, |
I thought well done, and was in that rewarded, | |
And therefore spare your thanks. | |
Rutillio | I'll no more whoring. |
This fencing 'twixt a pair of sheets more wears one | |
Than all the exercise in the world besides; | |
To be drunk with good canary, a mere julep | |
Or like gourd-water to't; twenty surfeits | |
Come short of one night's work there. If I get this lady | |
(As ten to one I shall: I was ne'er denied yet), | |
I will live wondrous honestly, walk before her, | |
Gravely and demurely, and then instruct my family. | |
You are sad. What do you muse on, sir? | |
Duarte | Truth, I was thinking |
What course to take for the delivery of your letter, | |
And now I have it. But, faith, did this lady | |
(For do not gull yourself) for certain know | |
You kill'd her son? | |
Rutillio | Give me a book, I'll swear't: |
Denied me to the officers that pursued me; | |
Brought me herself to th' door; then gave me gold | |
To bear my charges; and shall I make doubt then | |
But that she lov'd me? I am confident, | |
Time having ta'en her grief off that I shall be | |
Most welcome to her, for then to have woo'd her | |
Had been unseasonable. | |
Duarte | Well, sir, there's more money |
To make you handsome. I'll about your business. | |
You know where you must stay. | |
Rutillio | There you shall find me. |
[DUARTE withdraws] | |
Would I could meet my brother now, to know | |
Whether the J... |
Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Preface
- A Note from the Co-ordinator
- The Custom of the Country
- Editor's Introduction
- The Custom of the Country
- Dramatis Personae
- Prologue
- Actus Primus
- Actus Secundus
- Actus Tertius
- Actus Quartus
- Actus Quintus
- Epilogue
- Another Prologue
- Another Epilogue
- Glossary
- Synopsis
- Textual Notes