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A19975
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Humour out of breath A comedie diuers times latelie acted, by the Children of the Kings Reuells. Written by Iohn Day.
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Day, John, 1574-1640?
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1608
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It shall be done my Lord Oct. Nay you sir too shall taste of the same sauce away with both Flamineo Come my sonnes Le ts leauy present armes gaynst Mantua Being scarce come home we must abroad againe The Common good 's a carefull Princes payne Exeunt Enter Anthonio Lucida Hermia and Lords Anth. You that in all my banisht pilgrimage Would neuer alienate your naturall loues But in desire to see me reinstalld Haue thrust out proude Octauioes substitute And seated me in antient dignity I am yours and ready at your best dispose Lord Your owne my liege we like inferiour lights Take life from your reflection for like stars Vnto the sunne are Counsellours to Kings He feeds their orbes with fier and their shine Contend to make his glory more diuine And such are we to great Anthonio Anth. The veynes and arteries of Anthonio Through which the bloud of greatnesse flows in vs Our life and cause efficient of our state And these our prety partners in exile Lord We ha yet performd but the least part of duetie Your reinstalment it rests that with our bloud VVe keepe out innouative violence Ant. You new-create me and breath second life Into my dying bosome knew my soone Of this vnlookt-for Fortune but ill Fate Has playd the Traytor and giuen vp his life To coward treason A shout within Enter Aspero and Florimell with their Pages Asp. Vdsfoot what offence haue I committed against the state that these yron-handed Plebeians so applaud me for Flo. T is a signe they loue you Asp. I had rather thy should hate me it makes mee suspect my bosome for they loue none but the masters of factions treasons and innouasions Flo. Then you doe not loue the Commons Asp. Yes as wise men doe their flattering wiues only for show the popular voyce is like a crie of bauling hounds and they get the foote of a fantasticke and popular-affecting statesman they neuer leaue him till they haue chac'd him into disgrace then like hounds are at a losse and with their losse see I haue found my father safety attend you Anth. Welcome thou hope of Mantua and of vs VVe now are honors new beginners boy And may we better thriue then heretofore Asp. Neuer doubt it father I haue attractiue stuffe that will draw customers Anth. VVhat Lady 's that Flo. One that has playd the part of a Constable brought you home a Runaway Asp. A friend of mine Father but daughter to your Arch-enemy Anth. Octauioes daughter Asp. Yes faith you are out with the Father and I le see if I can fall in with the daughter Flo. And am I not a good child to leaue my fathers loue at sixe and seauen and hazard my honor vpon your sonnes naked promise and your hopefull acceptance Asp. She has followed me through much danger Anth. The better welcome I loue her for 't Asp. Like her and you please I d'e haue no body loue her but my selfe Anth. And Lady though your Father be our foe The vertuous loue betwixt our sonne and you May nerethelesse retaine his simpathie Flo. Shall nerethelesse retaine his simpathy Anthonio know I am loues resolute Confirmd and grounded in affection I lou'd your sonne not for he was a Prince But one no better then his present fortunes I le loue him still since first I lou'd him so Let Father friends and all the world say no Asp. There 's mettle Father how can wee choose but get cocking children when father and mother too are both of the game Enter Messenger Mess. To armes my Lord Octauio comes in armes To giue a proud assault vnto the Citty Asp. Proud his assault as proud be our resist Vye shot for shot and stake downe life for life Our brest 's as bold as theirs our bloud as deepe All that wee 'l loose or this our gettings keepe Her Come brother talke not of deuouring war Say messenger comes not Octauioes sonnes Mess. They do as proudly as the morning Sunne Beating the azurd pauement of the heauen Her Then feare not father my sister and my selfe Will be your champions and defend the Citty Flo. Why Ladies haue you such large interest in our brothers Fr. Princesse we haue within there reach our shields When beauty fights the God of battaile yeelds Exeunt Enter Francisco Hippolito Flamineo Iulio Enter Anthonio Aspero Florimell two Pages Lords and Messenger aboue Flo. They offer parlee let mee answer them Brothers how now who made you souldiers Faith een my father as he made you louers What hath he chang'd your shepheards hooks to swords Of Amoradoes made you armed knights O seld-seene metamorphosis J haue knowne Souldiers turne louers but for amorous louers To re-assume their valour t is a change Like winter-thunder and a thing as strange Fr. Our sister prisoner Hip. Tell me Florimell Dost thou liue there enforc'd or of free-will Flo. Free will brothers mine owne free will all free in Mantua here 's free will yfaith speake am I not a free-woman Pa. As if you had seru'd for 't any man may set vp vnder hir copy without a protection Fr. J wag are you there too Pa. Yes faith my Lord my Lady has had my attendaunce to a hayre Flo. You lie boy Pa. If not mine some bodies els there 's one has done Asp. What haue I done sirra Pa. Nay nothing but what my Lady was very well content with Fr. VVhy sister shame you not to set your loue On one that is our Fathers enemie Flo. Shame not a whit but come your wenches brothers I make no question I haue won my wager Are they as faire as I Hip. Leaue that to triall Aspero make surrender of our sister Asp. And haue her in quiet possession what do you thinke me Fr. We thinke thee a proud villain and our foe Flo. By heauen th' are villains all that thinke him so Hip. Why doe you loue him Flo. I should curse my selfe if I should hate him Fr. Bring the ladders forth Brauely assault to separate their liues As they are sealing the walls the Ladies come forth Her Stand proud Francisco Pa. Sand O excellent word in a woman Luc. Hold Hippolito Pa. Hold vp with that word and t is as good as the other Fr. VVhat nymphe or goddesse in my Hermiaes shape Stands to debar my entrance to the towne Pa. Madam I wonder they enter not Flo. Why boy it seemes they dare not Pa. O cowards and haue two such fayre breaches already Fr. Immortall Pallas that art more diuine In my loues beautie that thou cloth'st thee in With drawe thy selfe and giue our fury limits Her I will but first Francisco take my shielde Luc. And mine as challenge to a single combat Her Read the conditions and returne your answers Flo. VVell done yfaith wenches O that the olde gray-beard my Father were here I de haue about with him as I am honourable Fr. VVhat 's here A shepheard wooing of a Country maide As she sits angling by a Riuers side By them an aged man making a net The Motto Sic this Emblems morrall is The former loue I had with Lucida And this hope tells me that 's faire Lucida Hip. Brother my shield the like presents to me But holds far more familiar reference Here doth the amorous shepheard kisse the Nymph Which she with a chast blush consents vnto And see a gloomy man clad like a pilgrim Comes in and seperates their sweete delights The Motto Sic I so my Father came and banisht me from beautious Hermia and this hope tells me is faire Hermia Fr. The more I looke the more me thinkes t is she Hip. The more I think the more I find t is she Fr. VVhat should I thinke to proue it is not she Flo. Looke thinke find proue doe what you can These are the wenches that you courted than Then hony bees lay by your smarting stings and buz sweet loue into your Ladies eares Tell them of kisses and such prety things These drumming dub adubs loues pleasure feares Fr. O heauen oh fortune and most happie stars Do I find loue where I expected wars Hip. I that but now was all for war and death am made all loue wars humour 's out of breath Enter Octauio Iulio and others Oct. How my sonnes loue the daughters of my foe it cannot be Iul. Then question them your selfe Oct. VVhy how now sonnes is this your worth in armes Fr. VVhy are we not in armes father Hip. Yes and in such armes as no Coward but woulde venture life to march in Oct. Then boies you loue the daughters of Anthonio Fr. VVe lik'd them first Hip. VVE keepe that liking still Oct. And you will loue them Flo. Father infaith they will Oct. I run away are you there whome has your Ladyship got to your husband Flo. One that I stumbled on at Blindman buffe a proper man a man euery ynch of him and you would say so and you knewe but as much as I meane to know ere I haue done with him Oct. Is he not sonne vnto Anthonio Asp. Great Duke I am and prostrate on my knee I beg a peace which if your spleene deny I proudlie stand where erst I mildly kneel'd and east downe bold defiance from theis walls Oct. No more your loues make my proud hart asham'd Your consort 's sweet and I le not be a meane To make it iar what my sonnes like shall stand By my consent allowed and perfected all hate is banisht and reuenge lies dead Asp. Then stead of speares let Hymens torches flame VVith hallowed incence and the God of spright Swell vp your vaines with amorous delight and so that vp our single Comedy VVith Plautus phrase Si placet plaudite Exeunt Omnes FINIS