and speak it to thy self Gob. Sir you shall know your sins before you do 'em if you kill me Arb. I will not stay then Gob. Know you kill your Father Arb. How Gob. You kill your Father Arb. My Father though I know 't for a lie made out of fear to save thy stained life the very reverence of the word comes cross me and ties mine arm down Gob. I will tell you that shall heighten you again I am thy Father I charge thee hear me Arb. If it should be so as 't is most false and that I should be found a Bastard issue the despised fruit of lawless lust I should no more admire all my wild passions but another truth shall be wrung from thee if I could come by the Spirit of pain it should be poured on thee till thou allow'st thy self more full of lies than he that teaches thee Enter Arane Ara. Turn thee about I come to speak to thee thou wicked man hear me thou tyrant Arb. I will turn to thee hear me thou Strumpet I have blotted out the name of Mother as thou hast thy shame Ara. My shame thou hast less shame than any thing why dost thou keep my Daughter in a prison why dost thou call her Sister and do this Arb. Cease thy strange impudence and answer quickly if thou contemnest me this will ask an answer and have it Ara. Help me Gentle Gobrias Arb. Guilt dâ—aâ— not help guilt though they grow together in doing ill yet at the punishment they sever and each flies the noise of other think not of help answer Ara. I will to what Arb. To such a thing as if it be a truth think what a creature thou hast made thy self that didst not shame to do what I must blush only to ask thee tell me who I am whose son I am without all circumstance be thou as hasty as my Sword will be if thou refusest Ara. Why you are his son Arb. His Son swear swear thou worse than woman damn'd Ara. By all that 's good you are Arb. Then art thou all that ever was known bad now is the cause of all my strange mis-fortunes come to light what reverence expectest thou from a child to bring forth which thou hast offended heaven thy husband and the Land adulterous witch I know now why thou wouldst have poyson'd me I was thy lust which thou wouldst have forgot then wicked Mother of my sins and me show me the way to the inheritance I have by thee which is a spacious world of impious acts that I may soon possess it plagues rot thee as thou liv'st and such diseases as use to pay lust recompence thy deed Gob. You do not know why you curse thus Arb. Too well you are a pair of Vipers and behold the Serpent you have got there is no beast but if he knew it has a pedigree as brave as mine for they have more descents and I am every way as beastly got as far without the compass of Law as they Ara. You spend your rage and words in vain and rail upon a guess hear us a little Arb. No I will never hear but talk away my breath â—â—d die Gob. Why but you are no Bastard Arb. How 's that Ara. Nor child of mine Arb. Still you go on in wonders to me Gob. Pray you be more patient I may bring comfort to â—ou Arb. I will kneel and hear with the obedience of a â—hild good Father speak I do acknowledge you so you â—â—ring comfort Gob. First know our last King your supposed Father â—as old and feeble when he married her and almost all â—he Land thought she was past hope of issue from him Arb. Therefore she took leave to play the whore because â—he King was old is this the comfort Ara. What will you find out to give me satisfaction â—hen you find how you have injur'd me let fire consume â—e if ever I were a whore Gob. For-bear these starts or I will leave you wedded to despair as you are now if you can find a temper my breath shall be a pleasant western wind that cools and blasts not Arb. Bring it out good Father I 'le lie and listen here â—s reverently as to an Angel if I breath too loud tell me for I would be as still as night Gob. Our King I say was old and this our Queen desir'd to bring an heir but yet her husband she thought was past â—t and to be dishonest I think she would not if she would have been the truth is she was watcht so narrowly and had so slender opportunities she hardly could have been but yet her cunning found out this way she feign'd her self with child and posts were sent in hast throughout the Land and humble thanks was given in every Church and prayers were made for her safe going and delivery she feign'd now to grow bigger and perceiv'd this hope of issue made her fear'd and brought a far more large respect from every man and saw her power increase and was resolv'd since she believ'd she could not hav 't indeed at least she would be thought to have a child Arb. Do I not hear it well nay I will make no noise at all but pray you to the point quickly as you can Gob. Now when the time was full she should be brought to bed I had a Son born which was you this the Queen hearing of mov'd me to let her have you and such reasons she shewed me as she knew would tie my secrecie she swore you should be King and to be short I did deliver you unto her and pretended you were dead and in mine own house kept a funeral and had an empty cossin put in Earth that night this Queen feign'd hastily to labour and by a pair of women of her own which she had charm'd she made the world believe she was delivered of you You grew up as the Kings Son till you were six years old then did the King dye and did leave to me Protection of the Realm and contrary to his own expectation left this Queen truely with child indeed of the fair Princess Panthea then she could have torn her hair and did alone to me yet durst not speak in publick for she knew she should be found a traytor and her tale would have been thought madness or any thing rather than truth This was the only cause why she did seek to poyson you and I to keep you safe and this the reason why I sought to kindle some sparks of love in you to fair Panthea that she might get part of her right again Arb. And have you made an end now is this all if not I will be still till I be aged till all my hairs be Silver Gob. This is all Arb. And is it true say you too Madam Ara. Yes heaven knows it is most true Arb. Panthea then is not my Sister Gob. No. Arb. But can you prove this Gob. If you will give consent else who dares go
Money again then good sweet Doctor Wilt thou have twenty shillings a day for vexing me Doct. That shall not serve ye Sir Drums afar off Nor. Than forty shall Sir A low March And that will make ye speak well hark the Drums Cast They begin to beat to th' field Oh noble Dane Never was such a stake I hope of innocence Plaid for in Malta and in bloud before Ast It makes us hang our heads all Nor. A bold villain If there be treason in it accuse poor Ladies And yet they may do mischief too I 'll be with ye If she be innocent I shall find it quickly And something then I 'll say Ast Come lean on us Sir Nor. I thank ye Gentlemen and Domine Doctor Pray bring a little sneezing powder in your pocket For fear I sound when I see my bloud Doct. You are pleasant Exeunt Scaena Quinta Enter two Marshals 1. Are the Combatants come in The Scaffold set out and the stairs 2 Yes 1 Make the field clear there 2. That 's done too 1. Then to the prisoner the grand Master's coming Let 's see that all be ready there 2. Too ready How ceremonious our very ends are 〈◊〉 Alas sweet Lady If she be innocent Florish No doubt but justice will direct her Champion Away I hear 'em come 1. Pray heaven she prosper Enter Valetta Norandine Astor Castriot c. Val. Give Captain Norandine a chair Nor. I thank your Lordship Val. Sit Sir and take your ease your hurts require it You come to see a womans cause decided That 's all the knowledge now or name I have for her They say a false a base and treacherous woman And partly prov'd too Nor. Pity it should be so And if your Lordship durst ask my opinion Sure I should answer no so much I honor her And answer 't with my life too But Gomera As a brave Gentleman the other valiant And if he be not good dogs gnaw his flesh off And one above 'em both will find the truth out He never fails Sir Val. That 's the hope rests with me Nor. How nature and his honor struggle in him A sweet clear noble Gentleman Within make room there Guard Make room there Val. Go up and what you have to say say there Enter Oriana Ladies Executioner Abdella and Guard Ori. Thus I ascend nearer I hope to heaven Nor doe I fear to tread this dark black Mansion The Image of my grave each foot we move Goes to it still each hour we leave behind us Knols sadly toward it My noble Brother For yet mine innocence dares call ye so And you the friends to virtue that come hither The Chorus to this Tragick Scaene behold me Behold me with your Justice not with Pity My cause was ne'r so poor to ask compassion Behold me in this spotless White I wear The Emblem of my life of all my actions So ye shall find my story though I perish Behold me in my Sex I am no Soldier Tâ—â—ler and full of fears our blushing Sex is Unhardned with relentless thoughts unhatcht With bloud and bloudy practice alas we tremble But when an angry dream afflicts our fancies Die with a tale well told had I been practis'd And known the way of mischief travell'd in it And given my bloud and honor up to reach it Forgot Religion and the line I sprung on Oh heaven I had been fit then for thy justice And then in black as dark as Hell I had howl'd here Last in your own opinions weigh mine innocence Amongst ye I was planted from an Infant Would then if heaven had so been pleas'd I had perish'd Grew up and goodly ready to bear fruit The honourable fruit of marriage And am I blasted in my bud with Treason Boldly and basely of my fair name ravish'd And hither brought to find my rest in ruine But he that knows all he that rights all wrongs And in his time restores knows me I have spoken Val. If ye be innocent heaven will protect ye And so I leave ye to his Sword strikes for ye Farewell Ori. Oh that went deep farewel deer brother And howsoe'r my cause goes see my body Upon my knees I ask it buried chastely For yet by holy truth it never trespass'd Ast Justice sit on your cause and heaven fight for ye Nor. Two of ye Gentlemen do me but the honor To lead me to her good my Lord your leave too Val. You have it Sir Nor. Give me your fair hands fearless As white as this I see your Innocence As spotless and as pure be not afraid Lady You are but here brought to your nobler fortune To add unto your life immortal story Vertue through hardest things arrives at happiness Shame follow that blunt sword that looses you And he that strikes against you I shall study A curse or two for him once more your fair hands I never brought ill luck yet be fearless happy Ori. I thank ye noble Captain Nor. So I leave ye Val. Call in the Knights severally Enter severally Gomera and Miranda Ori. But two words to my champion And then to heaven and him I give my cause up Val. Speak quickly and speak short Ori. I have not much Sir Noble Gomera from your own free virtue You have undertaken here a poor Maids honor And with the hazard of your life and happily You may suspect the cause though in your true worth You will not shew it therefore take this testimony And as I hope for happiness a true one And may it steel your heart and edge your good sword Ye fight for her as spotless of these mischiefs As heaven is of our sins or truth of errors And so defie that treacherous man and prosper Nor. Blessing o' thy heart Lady Val. Give the signal to ' em Low Alarms Nor. 'T is bravely fought Gomera follow that blow Well struck again boy look upon the Lady And gather spirit brave again lye close Lye close I say he fights aloft and strongly Close for thy life a vengeance o' that fell buffet Retire and gather breath ye have day enough Knights Look lovely on him Lady to 't again now Stand stand Gomera stand one blow for all now Gather thy strength together God bless the woman Why where 's thy noble heart heaven bless the Lady All. Oh oh Val. She is gone she is gone Nor. Now strike it Hold hold he yields hold thy brave sword he 's conquer'd He 's thine Gomera now be joyful Lady What could this thief have done had his cause been equal He made my heart-strings tremble Val. Off with his Caske there And Executioner take you his head next Abdel. Oh cursed fortune Gom. Stay I beseech ye Sir and this one honor Grant me I have deserv'd it that this villain May live one day to envy at my justice That he may pine and dye before the sword fall Viewing the glory I have won her goodness Val. He shall and you the harvest of your valour Shall
good Captain we cannot tell whether we shall have any more such Adue dear Captain Exit Bac. Bes I will make better use of this than of my Sword A base spirit has this vantage of a brave one it keeps alwayes at a stay nothing brings it down not beating I remember I promis'd the King in a great Audience that I would make my back-biters eat my sword to a knife how to get another sword I know not nor know any means left for me to maintain my credit but impudence therefore I will out-swear him and all his followers that this is all that 's left uneaten of my sword Exit Bessus Enter Mardonius Mar. I 'le move the King he is most strangely alter'd I guess the cause I fear too right Heaven has some secret end in 't and 't is a scourge no question justly laid upon him he has followed me through twenty Rooms and ever when I stay to wait his command he blushes like a Girl and looks upon me as if modesty kept in his business so turns away from me but if I go on he follows me again Enter Arbaces See here he is I do not use this yet I know not how I cannot chuse but weep to see him his very Enemies I think whose wounds have bred his fame if they should see him now would find tears i' their eyes Arb. I cannot utter it why should I keep A breast to harbour thoughts I dare not speak Darkness is in my bosom and there lie A thousand thoughts that cannot brook the light How wilt thou vex'em when this deed is done Conscience that art afraid to let me name it Mar. How do you Sir Arb. Why very well Mardonius how dost thou do Mar. Better than you I fear Arb. I hope thou art for to be plain with thee Thou art in Hell else secret scorching flames That far transcend earthly material fires Are crept into me and there is no cure Is it not strange Mardonius there 's no cure Mar. Sir either I mistake or there is something hid That you would utter to me Arb. So there is but yet I cannot do it Mar. Out with it Sir if it be dangerous I will not shrink to do you service I shall not esteem my life a weightier matter than indeed it is I know it is subject to more chances than it has hours and I were better lose it in my Kings cause than with an ague or a fall or sleeping to a Thief as all these are probable enough let me but know what I shall do for you Arb. It will not out were you with Gobrias And bad him give my Sister all content The place affords and give her leave to send And speak to whom she please Mar. Yes Sir I was Arb. And did you to Bacurius say as much About Tigranes Mar. Yes Arb. That 's all my business Mar. O say not so You had an answer of this before Besides I think this business might Be utter'd more carelesly Arb. Come thou shalt have it out I do beseech thee By all the love thou hast profest to me To see my Sister from me Mar. Well and what Arb. That 's all Mar. That 's strange I shall say nothing to her Arb. Not a word But if thou lovest me find some subtil way To make her understand by signs Mar. But what shall I make her understand Arb. O Mardonius for that I must be pardon'd Mar. You may but I can only see her then Arb. 'T is true Bear her this Ring then and One more advice thou shalt speak to her Tell her I do love My kindred all wilt thou Mar. Is there no more Arb. O yes and her the best Better than any Brother loves his Sister That 's all Mar. Methinks this need not have been delivered with such a caution I 'le do it Arb. There is more yet Wilt thou be faithul to me Mar. Sir if I take upon me to deliver it after I hear it I 'le pass through fire to do it Arb. I love her better than a Brother ought Dost thou conceive me Mar. I hope you do not Sir Arb. No thou art dull kneel down before her And ne'r rise again till she will love me Mar. Why I think she does Arb. But better than she does another way As wives love Husbands Mar. Why I think there are few Wives that love their Husbands better than she does you Arb. Thou wilt not understand me is it sit This should be uttered plainly take it then Naked as it is I would desire her love Lasciviously lewdly incestuously To do a sin that needs must damn us both And thee too dost thou understand me now Mar. Yes there 's your Ring again what have I done Dishonestly in my whole life name it That you should put so base a business to me Arb. Didst thou not tell me thou wouldst do it Mar. Yes if I undertook it but if all My hairs were lives I would not be engag'd In such a case to save my last life Arb. O guilt ha how poor and weak a thing art thou This man that is my servant whom my breath Might blow upon the world might beat me here Having this cause whil'st I prest down with sin Could not resist him hear Mardonius It was a motion mis-beseeming man And I am sorry for it Mar. Heaven grant you may be so you must understand nothing that you can utter can remove my love and service from my Prince But otherwise I think I shall not love you more For you are sinful and if you do this crime you ought to have no Laws For after this it will be great injustice in you to punish any offender for any crime For my self I find my heart too big I feel I have not patience to look on whilst you run these forbidden courses Means I have none but your favour and I am rather glad that I shall lose 'em both together than keep 'em with such conditions I shall find a dwelling amongst some people where though our Garments perhaps be coursâ—â— we shall be richer far within and harbour no such vices in 'em the Gods preserve you and mend Arb. Mardonius stay Mardonius for though My present state requires nothing but knaves To be about me such as are prepar'd For every wicked act yet who does know But that my loathed Fate may turn about And I have use for honest men again I hope I may I prethee leave me not Enter Bessus Bes Where is the King Mar. There Bes An 't please your Majesty there 's the knife Arb. What knife Bes The Sword is eaten Mar. Away you fool the King is serious And cannot now admit your vanities Bes Vanities I 'me no honest man if my enemies have not brought it to this what do you think I lie Arb. No no 't is well Bessus 't is very well I 'm glad on 't Mar. If your enemies brought it to this your enemies are Cutlers come leave the King Bes
't To which I dedicate my beaten body I must trouble you a little further Gentlemen o' th' Sword 2 No trouble at all to us Sir if we may Profit your understanding we are bound By vertue of our calling to utter our opinions Shortly and discreetly Bes My forest business is I have been kick'd 2 How far Sir Bes Not to flatter my self in it all over my sword forc'd but not lost for discreetly I rendred it to save that imputation 1 It shew'd discretion the best part of valour 2 Brother this is a pretty cause pray ponder on 't Our friend here has been kick'd 1 He has so brother 2 Sorely he saies Now had he set down here Upon the meer kick 't had been Cowardly 1 I think it had been Cowardly indeed 2 But our friend has redeem'd it in delivering His sword without compulsion and that man That took it of him I pronounce a weak one And his kicks nullities He should have kick'd him after the delivering Which is the confirmation of a Coward 1 Brother I take it you mistake the question For say that I were kick'd 2 I must not say so Nor I must not hear it spoke by the tongue of man You kick'd dear brother you 're merry 1 But put the case I were kick'd 2 Let them put it that are things weary of their lives and know not honour put the case you were kick'd 1 I do not say I was kickt 2 Nor no silly creature that wears his head without a Case his soul in a Skin-coat You kickt dear brother Bes Nay Gentlemen let us do what we shall do Truly and honesty good Sirs to the question 1 Why then I say suppose your Boy kick't Captain 2 The Boy may be suppos'd is liable 1 A foolish forward zeal Sir in my friend But to the Boy suppose the Boy were kickt Bes I do suppose it 1 Has your Boy a sword Bes Surely no I pray suppose a sword too 1 I do suppose it you grant your Boy was kick't then 2 By no means Captain let it be supposed still the word grant makes not for us 1 I say this must be granted 2 This must be granted brother 1 I this must be granted 2 Still this must 1 I say this must be granted 2 I give me the must again brother you palter 1 I will not hear you wasp 2 Brother I say you palter the must three times together I wear as sharp Steel as another man and my Fox bites as deep musled my dear brother But to the cause again Bes Nay look you Gentlemen 2 In a word I ha' done 1 A tall man but intemperate 't is great pity Once more suppose the Boy kick'd 2 Forward 1 And being thorowly kick'd laughs at the kicker 2 So much for us proceed 1 And in this beaten scorn as I may call it Delivers up his weapon where lies the error Bes It lies i' th' beating Sir I found it four dayes since 2 The error and a sore one as I take it Lies in the thing kicking Bes I understand that well 't is so indeed Sir 1 That is according to the man that did it 2 There springs a new branch whose was the foot Bes A Lords 1 The cause is mighty but had it been two Lords And both had kick'd you if you laugh 't is clear Bes I did laugh But how will that help me Gentlemen 2 Yes it shall help you if you laught aloud Bes As loud as a kick'd man could laugh I laught Sir 1 My reason now the valiant man is known By suffering and contemning you have Enough of both and you are valiant 2 If he be sure he has been kick'd enough For that brave sufferance you speak of brother Consists not in a beating and away But in a endgell'd body from eighteen To eight and thirty in a head rebuk'd With pots of all size degrees stools and bed-staves This showes a valiant man Bes Then I am valiant as valiant as the proudest For these are all familiar things to me Familiar as my sleep or want of money All my whole body's but one bruise with beating I think I have been endgell'd with all nations And almost all Religions 2 Embrace him brother this man is valiant I know it by my self he 's valiant 1 Captain thou art a valiant Gentleman To bide upon a very valiant man Bes My equall friends o'th'Sword I must request your hands to this 2 'T is fit it should be Bes Boy get me some wine and pen and Ink within Am I clear Gentlemen 1 Sir the world has taken notice what we have done Make much of your body for I 'll pawn my steel Men will be cover of their legs hereafter Bes I must request you goe along and testife to the Lord Bacurius whose foot has struck me how you find my cause 2 We will and tell that Lord he must be rul'd Or there are those abroad will rule his Lordship Exeunt Enter Arbaces at one door and Gob. and Panthea at another Gob. Sir here 's the Princess Arb. Leave us then alone For the main cause of her imprisonment Must not be heard by any but her self Exit Gob. You 're welcome Sister and would to heaven I could so bid you by another name If you above love not such sins as these Circle my heart with thoughts as cold as snow To quench these rising flames that harbour here Pan. Sir does it please you I should speak Arb. Please me I more than all the art of musick can Thy speech doth please me for it ever sounds As thou brought'st joyfull unexpected news And yet it is not fit thou shouldst be heard I pray thee think so Pan. Be it so I will Am I the first that ever had a wrong So far from being sit to have redress That 't was unfit to hear it I will back To prison rather than disquiet you And wait till it be fit Arb. No do not goe For I will hear thee with a serious thought I have collected all that 's man about me Together strongly and I am resolv'd To hear thee largely but I do beseech thee Do not come nearer to me for there is Something in that that will undoe us both Pan. Aâ—as Sir am I vâ—nome Arb. Yes to me Though of thy self I think thee to be In equall degree of heat or cold As nature can make yet as unfound men Convert the sweetest and the nourishing'st meats Into diseases so shall I distemper'd Do thee I pray thee draw no nearer to me Pan. Sir this is that I would I am of late Shut from the world and why it should be thus Is all I wish to know Arb. Why credit me Panthea Credit me that am thy brother Thy loving brother that there is a cause Sufficient yet unsit for thee to know That might undoe thee everlastingly Only to hear wilt thou but credit this By Heaven 't is true believe it if thou canst Pan. Children and fools
Artillery that a Gentleman a dear friend of your Lordships sent me with to get it mended Sir for if you mark the nose is somewhat loose Bac. A friend of mine you Rascal I was never wearier of doing any thing than kicking these two Foot-balls Enter Servant Serv. Here is a good Cudgel Sir Bac. It comes too late l'me weary pray thee do thou beat them 2 Sword My Lord this is soul play i'saith to put a fresh man upon us men are but men Sir Bac. That jest shall save your bones Captain Rally up your rotten Regiment and be gone I had rather thrash than be bound to kick these Rascals till they cry'd ho Bessus you may put your hand to them now and then you are quit Farewel as you like this pray visit me again 't will keep me in good health Exit Bac. 2 Sword H 'as a devilish hard foot I never felt the like 1 Sword Nor I and yet I am sure I have felt a hundred 2 Sword If he kick thus i' th' Dog-daies he will be dry foundred what cure now Captain besides Oyl of Baies Bes Why well enough I warrant you you can go 2 Sword Yes heaven be thanked but I feel a shrowd ach sure h 'as sprang my huckle-bone 1 Sword I ha' lost a hanch Bes A little butter friend a little butter butter and parseley and a soveraign matter probatum est 2 Sword Captain we must request your hand now to our honours Bes Yes marry shall ye and then let all the world come we are valiant to our selves and there 's an end 1 Sword Nay then we must be valiant O my ribs 2 Sword O my small guts a plague upon these sharptoed shooes they are murtherers Exeunt clear Enter Arbaces with his sword drawn Arb. It is resolv'd I bare it whilst I could I can no more I must begin with murther of my friends and so go on to that incestuous ravishing and end my life and sins with a forbidden blow upon my self Enter Mardonius Mar. What Tragedy is near That hand was never wont to draw a sword but it cry'd dead to something Arb. Mardonius have you bid Gobrias come Mar. How do you Sir Arb. Well is he coming Mar. Why Sir are you thus why do your hands proclaim a lawless War against your self Arb. Thou answerest me one question with an other is Gobrias coming Mar. Sir he is Arb. 'T is well I can forbear your questions then be gone Mar. Sir I have mark't Arb. Mark less it troubles you and me Mar. You are more variable than you were Arb. It may be so Mar. To day no Hermit could be humbler than you were to us all Arb. And what of this Mar. And now you take new rage into your eyes as you would look us all out of the Land Arb. I do confess it will that satisfie I prethee get thee gone Mar. Sir I will speak Arb. Will ye Mar. It is my duty I fear you will kill your self I am a subject and you shall do me wrong in 't 't is my cause and I may speak Arb. Thou art not train'd in sin it seems Mardonius kill my self by Heaven I will not do it yet and when I will I 'le tell thee then I shall be such a creature that thou wilt give me leave without a word There is a method in mans wickedness it grows up by degrees I am not come so high as killing of my self there are a hundred thousand sins 'twixt me and it which I must doe and I shall come to 't at last but take my oath not now be satisfied and get thee hence Mar. I am sorry 't is so ill Arb. Be sorry then true sorrow is alone grieve by thy self Mar. I pray you let me see your Sword put up before I go I 'le leave you then Arb. Why so what folly is this in thee is it not as apt to mischief as it was before can I not reach it thinkst thou these are toyes for Children to be pleas'd with and not men now I am safe you think I would the book of fate were here my Sword is not so sure but I would get it out and mangle that that all the destinies should quite forget their sixt decrees and hast to make us new for other fortunes mine could not be worse wilt thou now leave me Mar. Heaven put into your bosome temperate thoughts I 'le leave you though I fear Arb. Go thou art honest why should the hasty error of my youth be so unpardonable to draw a sin helpless upon me Enter Gobrias Gob. There is the King now it is ripe Arb. Draw near thou guilty man that art the authour of the loathedst crime five ages have brought forth and hear me speak curses more incurable and all the evils mans body or his Spirit can receive be with thee Gob. Why Sir do you curse me thus Arb. Why do I curse thee if there be a man subtil in curses that exceeds the rest his worst wish on thee thou hast broke my heart Gob. How Sir have I preserv'd you from a child from all the arrows malice or ambition could shoot at you and have I this for my pay Arb. 'T is true thou didst preserve me and in that wert crueller than hardned murtherers of infants and their Mothers thou didst save me only till thou hadst studied out a way how to destroy me cunningly thy self this was a curious way of torturing Gob. What do you mean Arb. Thou knowst the evils thou hast done to me dost thou remember all those witching letters thou sent'st unto me to Armenia fill'd with the praise of my beloved Sister where thou extol'st her beauty what had I to do with that what could her beauty be to me and thou didst write how well she lov'd me dost thou remember this so that I doted something before I saw her Gob. This is true Arb. Is it and when I was return'd thou knowst thou didst pursue it till thou woundst me into such a strange and unbeliev'd affection as good men cannot think on Gob. This I grant I think I was the cause Arb. Wert thou Nay more I think thou meant'st it Gob. Sir I hate to lie as I love Heaven and honesty I did it was my meaning Arb. Be thine own sad judge a further condemnation will not need prepare thy self to dy Gob. Why Sir to dy Arb. Why shouldst thou live was ever yet offender so impudent that had a thought of Mercy after confession of a crime like this get out I cannot where thou hurl'st me in but I can take revenge that 's all the sweetness left for me Gob. Now is the time hear me but speak Arb. No yet I will be far more mercifull than thou wert to me thou didst steal into me and never gav'st me warning so much time as I give thee now had prevented thee for ever Notwithstanding all thy sins if thou hast hope that there is yet a prayer to save thee turn
Now you may kiss me 'T is the first kiss I ever askt I swear to ye Arn. That I dare do sweet Lady Hip. You do it well too You are a Master Sir that makes you coy Arn. Would you would send your people off Hip. Well thought on Wait all without Exit Zab. and Servants Zab. I hope she is pleas'd throughly Hip. Why stand ye still here 's no man to detect ye My people are gone off come come leave conjuring The Spirit you would raise is here already Look boldly on me Arn. What would you have me do Hip. O most unmanly question have you do Is' t possible your years should want a Tutor I 'le teach ye come embrace me Arn. Fye stand off And give me leave more now than e're to wonder A building of so goodly a proportion Outwardly all exact the frame of Heaven Should hide within so base inhabitants You are as fair as if the morning bare ye Imagination never made a sweeter Can it be possible this frame should suffer And built on slight affections fright the viewer Be excellent in all as you are outward The worthy Mistress of those many blessings Heaven has bestowed make 'em appear still nobler Because they are trusted to a weaker keeper Would ye have me love ye Hip. Yes Arn. Not for your beauty Though I confess it blowes the first fire in us Time as he passes by puts out that sparkle Nor for your wealth although the world kneel to it And make it all addition to a woman Fortune that ruines all makes that his conquest Be honest and be vertuous I 'le admire ye At least be wise and where ye lay these nets Strow over 'em a little modesty 'T will well become your cause and catch more Fools Hip. Could any one that lov'd this wholesome counsel But love the giver more you make me fonder You have a vertuous mind I want that ornament Is it a sin I covet to enjoy ye If ye imagine I am too free a Lover And act that part belongs to you I am silent Mine eyes shall speak my blushes parly with ye I will not touch your hand but with a tremble Fitting a Vestal Nun not long to kiss ye But gently as the Air and undiscern'd too I 'le steal it thus I 'le walk your shadow by ye So still and silent that it shall be equal To put me off as that and when I covet To give such toyes as these Arn. A new temptation Hip. Thus like the lazie minutes will I drop 'em Which past once are forgotten Arn. Excellent vice Hip. Will ye be won look stedfastly upon me Look manly take a mans affections to you Young women in the old world were not wont Sir To hang out gaudy bushes for their beauties To talk themselves into young mens affections How cold and dull you are Arn. How I stagger She is wise as fair but 't is a wicked wisdom I 'le choak before I yield Hip. Who waits within there Zabulon within Make ready the green Chamber Zab. It shall be Madam Arn. I am afraid she will injoy me indeed Hip. What Musick do ye love Arn. A modest tongue Hip. We 'l have enough of that sye sye how lumpish In a young Ladyes arms thus dull Arn. For Heaven sake Profess a little goodness Hip. Of what Country Arn. I am of Rome Hip. Nay then I know you mock me The Italians are not frighted with such bug bears Prethee go in Arn. I am not well Hip. I 'le make thee I 'le kiss thee well Arn. I am not sick of that sore Hip. Upon my Conscience I must ravish thee I shall be famous for the first example With this I 'le tye ye first then try your strength Sir Arn. My strength away base woman I abhor thee I am not caught with stales disease dwell with thee Exit Hip. Are ye so quick and have I lost my wishes Hoe Zabulon my servants Enter Zabulon and Servants Zab. Call'd ye Madam Hip. Is all that beauty scorned so many su'd for So many Princes by a stranger too Musâ— I endure this Zab. Where 's the Gentleman Hip. Go presently pursue the stranger Zabulon He has bâ—oke from me Jewels I have given him Charge him with theft he has stoln my love my freedome Draw him before the Governour imprison him Why dost thou stay Zab. I 'le teach him a new dance For plaâ—â—â— fast and loose with such a Lady Come fellows come I 'le execute your anger And to the sail Hip. His scorn shall feel my vengeance Exeunt Scena Tertia Enter Sulpicia and Jaques Sul Shall I never see a lusty man again Ja. Faith Mistress You do so over labour 'em when you have 'em And so dâ—y sounder 'em they cannot last Sul. Where 's the French-man Ja. Alas he 's all to fitters And lyes taking the height of his fortune with a Syringe He 's chin'd he 's chin'd good man he is a mourner Sul. What 's become of the Dane Ja. Who goldy-locks He 's soul i' th' touch-hole and recoils again The main Spring 's weaken'd that holds up his coâ—k He lies at the sign of the Sun to be new breech'd Sul. The Rutter too is gone Ja. O that was a brave Rascal He would labour like a Thrasher but alas What thing can ever last he has been ill mew'd And drawn too soon I have seen him in the Hospital Sul. There was an English-man Ja I there was an English-man You 'l sâ—ant find any now to make that name good There were those English that were men indeed And would perform like men but now they are vanisht They are so taken up in their own Country And so heatâ—n of their speed by their own women When they come here they draw their legs like Hackneys Drink and their own devices have undone ' em Sul I must have one that 's strong no life in Lisbon else Perfect and young my Custom with young Ladies And â—â—gh sâ—d City dames will fall and break else I want my self too in mine age to nourish me They are all sunk I mantain'd now what 's this business What goodly fellow 's that Enter Rutilio and Officers Rut. Why do you dâ—ag me Pox o' your justice let me loose 1 Offi. Not so Sir Rut. Cannot a man fall into one of your drunken Collars And venture the breaking on 's neck your trap-doors open But he must be us'd thus rascally 1 Offi. What made you wandring So late i' th' night you know that is imprisonment Rut May be I walk in my sleep â— Offi. May be we 'l walk ye What made you wandring Sir into that vault Where all the City store and the Munition lay Râ—t I fell into it by chance I broke my shins sor't Your worships feel not that I knockt my head Against a hundred pasts would you had had it Cannot I break my neck in my own defence 2 Offi. This will not serve you cannot put it off so Your
wench then Though of this age Lieu. No sure I should have spoil'd ye Ant. Well goe thy waies of all the lusty lovers That e're I saw wilt have another potion Lieu. If you will be another thing have at ye Ant. Ha ha ha give me thy hand from henceforth thou art my souldier Do bravely I 'le love thee as much Lieu. I thank ye But if you were mine enemy I would not wish it ye I beseech your Grace pay me my charge 2 Gent. That 's certain Sir H 'as bought up all that e're he found was like ye Or any thing you have lov'd that he could purchase Old horses that your Grace has ridden blind and foundr'd Dogs rotten hawks and which is more than all this Has worn your Graces Gauntlet in his Bonnet Ant. Bring in your Bills mine own love shall be satisfi'd And sirrah for this potion you have taken I 'le point ye out a portion ye shall live on Men. 'T was the best draught that e're ye drunk Lieu. I hope so Ant. Are the Princes come toth ' Court Men. They are all and lodg'd Sir Ant. Come then make ready for their entertainment Which presently we 'l give wait you on me Sir Lieu. I shall love drink the better whilst I live hoyes Exeunt SCENA III. Enter Demetrius and Leontius Dem. Let me but see her dear Leontius Let me but dye before her Leo. Would that would doe it If I knew where she lay now with what honestie You having slung so main a mischief on her And on so innocent and sweet a Beauty Dare I present your visit Dem. I 'le repent all And with the greatest sacrifice of sorrow That ever Lover made Leo. 'T will be too late Sir I know not what will become of you Dem. You can help me Leo. It may be to her sight what are you nearer She has sworn she will not speak to ye look upon ye And to love ye again O she cries out and thunders She had rather love there is no hope Dem. Yes Leontius There is a hope which though it draw no love to it At least will draw her to lament my fortune And that hope shall relieve me Leo. Hark ye Sir hark ye Say I should bring ye Dem Do not not trifle with me Leo. I will not trifle both together bring ye You know the wrongs ye ' done Dem. I do confess ' em Leo. And if you should then jump into your fury And have another querk in your head Dem. I 'le dye first Leo. You must say nothing to her for 't is certain The nature of your crime will admit to excuse Dem. I will not speak mine eyes shall tell my penance Leo. You must look wondrous sad too Dem. I need not look so I am truly sadness sâ—lf Leo. That look will do it Stay here I 'le bring her to you instantly But take heed how you bear your self sit down there The more humble you are the more she 'l take compassion Women are per'lous thing to deal upon Exit Dem. What shall become of me to curse my fortune Were but to curse my Father that 's too impious But under whatsoever fate I suffer Bless I beseech thee heaven her harmless goodness Enter Leontius and Celia Leo. Now arm your self Cel. You have not brought him Leo. Yes faith And there he is you see in what poor plight too Now you may doe your will kill him or save him Cel. I will goe back Leo. I will be hang'd then Lady Are ye a coward now Cel. I cannot speak to him Dem. O me Leo. There was a sigh to blow a Church down So now their eyes are fixt the small shot playes They will come toth ' batterie anon Cel. He weeps extreamly Leo. Rail at him now Cel. I dare not Leo. I am glad on 't Cel. Not dare believe his tears Dem. You may blest beauty For those thick streams that troubled my repentance Are crept out long agoe Leo. You see how he looks Cel. What have I to doe how he looks how lookt he then When with a poisoned tooth he bit mine honour It was your counsel too to scorn and slight him Leo. I if ye saw sit cause and you confest too Except this sin he was the bravest Gentleman The sweetest noblest I take nothing from ye Not from your anger use him as you please For to say truth he has deserved your justice But still consider what he has been to you Cel. Pray do not blind me thus Dem. O Gentle Mistris If there were any way to expiate A sin so great as mine by intercession By prayers by daily tears by dying for ye O what a joy would close these eyes that love ye Leo. They say women have tender hearts I know not I am sure mine melts Cel. Sir I forgive ye heartily And all your wrong to me I cast behind me And wish ye a fit beauty to your vertues Mine is too poor in peace I part thus from you I must look back gods keep your grace he 's here still Ex Dem. She has forgiven me Leo. She has directed ye Up up and follow like a man away Sir She lookt behind her twice her heart dwells here Sir Ye drew tears from her too she cannot freeze thus The door 's set open too are ye a man Are ye alive do ye understand her meaning Have ye bloud and spirit in ye Dem. I dare not trouble her Leo. Nay and you will be nipt i' th' head with nothing Walk whining up and down I dare not I cannot Strike now or never faint heart you know what Sir Be govern'd by your fear and quench your fire out A Devil on 't stands this door ope for nothing So get ye together and be naught now to secure all Will I go fetch out a more soveraign plaister Exeâ—â—â— SCENA IV. Enter Antigonus Seleucus Lysimachus Ptolomy Lieutenant Gentlemen Lords Ant. This peace is fairly made Seleu. Would your Grace wish us To put in more take what you please we yield it The honour done us by your son constrains it Your noble son Ant. It is sufficient Princes And now we are one again one mind one body And one sword shall strike for us Lys Let Prince Demetrius But lead us on for we are his vowed servants Against the strength of all the world we 'l buckle Ptol. And even from all that strength we 'l catch at â—ctoâ— Sel. O had I now recover'd but the fortune I lost in Antioch when mine Unckle perish'd But that were but to surfeit me with blessings Lys You lost a sweet child there Sel. Name it no more Sir This is no time to entertain such sorrows Will your Majesty do us the honour we may see the Prince And wait upon him Enter Leon. Ant. I wonder he stayes from us How now Leontius where 's my son Sel. Brave Captain Lys Old valiant Sir Leo. Your Graces are welcom Your son and 't please you Sir is new cashiered
strong forces And if thou serv'st an use must not all justifie it Sep. I am Rogue enough Pho. Thou wilt be more and baser A poor Rogue is all Rogues open to all shames Nothing to shadow him dost thou think crying Can keep thee from the censure of the Multitude Or to be kneeling at the altar save thee 'T is poor and servile Wert thou thine own Sacrifice 'T would seem so low people would spit the fire out Achil. Keep thy self glorious still though ne're so stain'd And that will lessen it if not work it out To goe complaining thus and thus repenting Like a poor Girl that had betrai'd her maidend-head Sep. I 'le stop mine ears Achil. Will shew so in a Souldier So simply and so ridiculously so tamely Pho. If people would believe thee 't were some honesty And for thy penitence would not laugh at thee As sure they will and beat thee for thy poverty If they would allow thy foolery there were some hope Sep. My foolery Pho. Nay more than that thy misery Thy monstrous misery Achil. He begins to hearken Thy misery so great men will not bury thee Sep. That this were true Pho. Why does this conquering Caesar Labour through the worlds deep Seas of toyls and troubles Dangers and desperate hopes to repent afterwards Why does he slaughter thousands in a Battel And whip his Country with the sword to cry for 't Thou killd'st great Pompey he 'l kill all his kindred And justifie it nay raise up Trophies to it When thou hear'st him repent he 's held most holy too And cry for doing daily bloody murthers Take thou example and go ask forgiveness Call up the thing thou nam'st thy conscience And let it work then 't will seem well Septinius Sep. He does all this Achil. Yes and is honour'd for it Nay call'd the honour'd Caesar so maist thou be Thou wert born as near a Crown as he Sep. He was poor Pho. And desperate bloody tricks got him this credit Sep. I am afraid you will once more Pho. Help to raise thee Off with thy pining black it dulls a Souldier And put on resolution like a man A noble Fate waits on thee Sep. I now feel My self returning Rascal speedily O that I had the power Achil. Thou shalt have all And do all through thy power men shall admire thee And the vices of Septinius shall turn vertues Sep. Off off thou must off off my cowardize Puling repentance off Pho. Now thou speakst nobly Sep. Off my dejected looks and welcom impudence My daring shall be Deity to save me Give me instructions and put action on me A glorious cause upon my swords point Gentlemen And let my wit and valour work you will raise me And make me out-dare all my miseries Pho. All this and all thy wishes Sep. Use me then Womanish fear farewell I 'le never melt more Lead on to some great thing to wake my spirit I cut the Cedar Pompey and I 'le fell This huge Oak Caesar too Pho. Now thou singst sweetly And Ptolomy shall crown thee for thy service Achil. He 's well wrought put him on apace for cooling Exeunt Actus Quintus Scena Prima Enter Caesar Antony Dolabella Ant. THE tumult still encreases Caesar O my fortune My lustfull folly rather but 't is well And worthily I am made a bondmans prey That after all my glorious victories In which I pass'd so many Seas of dangers When all the Elements conspir'd against me Would yield up the dominion of this head To any mortal power so blind and stupid To trust these base Egyptians that proclaim'd Their perjuries in noble Pompeys death And yet that could not warn me Dol. Be still Caesar Who ever lov'd to exercise his fate Where danger look't most dreadful Ant. If you fall Fall not alone let the King and his Sister â—e buried in your ruines on my life They both are guilty reason may assure you Photinus nor Achillas durst attempt you Or shake one Dart or sword aim'd at your safety Without their warrant Caesar For the young King I know not How he may be misled but for his Sister Unequall'd Cleopatra 't were a kind Of blasphemy to doubt her ugly treason Durst never dwell in such a glorious building Nor can so clear and great a spirit as hers is Admit of falsehood Ant. Let us seize on him then And leave her to her fortune Ptol. If he have power Use it to your security and let His honesty acquit him if he be false It is too great an honour he should dye By your victorious hand Caesar He comes and I Shall do as I find cause Enter Ptolomy Achoreus Apollodorus Ptol. Let not great Caesar Impute the breach of hospitality To you my guest to me I am contemn'd And my rebellious subjects lift their hands Against my head and would they aim'd no farther Provided that I fell a sacrifice To gain you safety that this is not feign'd The boldness of my innocence may confirm you Had I been privy to their bloody plot I now had led them on and given fair gloss To their bad cause by being present with them But I that yet taste of the punishment In being false to Pompey will not make A second fault to Caesar uncompel'd With such as have not yet shook off obedience I yield my self to you and will take part In all your dangers Caesar This pleads your excuse And I receive it Ach. If they have any touch Of justice or religion I will use The authority of our Gods to call them back From their bad purpose Apo. This part of the palace Is yet defensible we may make it good Till your powers rescue us Caesar Caesar besieg'd O stain to my great actions 't was my custom An Army routed as my feet had wings To be first in the chase nor walls nor Bulworks Could guard those that escap'd the Battels fury From this strong Arm and I to be enclos'd My heart my heart but 't is necessity To which the Gods must yield and I obey 'Till I redeem it by some glorious way Exeunt SCENA II. Enter Photinus Achillas Septinius Souldiers Pho. There 's no retiring now we are broke in The deed past hope of pardon if we prosper 'T will be stil'd lawfull and we shall give laws To those that now command us stop not at Or loyalty or duty bold ambition To dare and power to do gave the first difference Between the King and subject Caesars Motto Aut Caesar aut Nihil each of us must claim And use it as our own Achil. The deed is bloody If we conclude in Ptolomies death Pho. The better The globe of Empire must be so manur'd Sep. Rome that from Romulus first took her name Had her walls water'd with a Crimson showr Drain'd from a Brothers heart nor was she rais'd To this prodigious height that overlooks Three full parts of the Earth that pay her tribute But by enlarging of her marrow bounds By
's word sometime what faith have I brâ—ke In what observance fail'd Let me consider Enter Don John and Frederick For this is monstrous usage Fred. Let them talk We 'll ride on fair and softly Fran. Well Constantia Fred. Constantia what 's this fellow stay by all means Fran. Ye have spun your self a fair thread now Fred. Stand still John Fran. What cause had you to fly what fear possest ye Were you not safely lodg'd from all suspicion Us'd with all gentle means did any know How ye came thither or what your sin was Fred. John I smell some juggling John John Yes Frederick I fear it will be found so Fran. So strangely Without the counsel of your friends so desperately To put all dangers on ye Fred. 'T is she Fran. So deceitfully After a strangers lure John Did ye mark that Frederick Fran. To make ye appear more monster and the Law More cruel to reward ye to leave all All that should be your safegard to seek evils Was this your wisdom this your promise well He that incited ye Fred. Mark that too John Yes Sir Fran. ' Had better have plough'd farther off now Lady What will your last friend he that should preserve ye And hold your credit up the brave Antonio Think of this slip he 'll to Petrucchio And call for open justice John 'T is she Frederick Fred. But what that he is John Fra. I do not doubt yet To bolt ye out for I know certainly Ye are about the Town still ha no more words Exit Fred. Well John Very well Fred. Discreetly John Finely carried Fred. You have no more of these tricks John Ten to one Sir I shall meet with 'em if ye have Fred. Is this honest John Was it in you a friends part to deal double I am no Ass Don Frederick Fred. And Don John It shall appear I am no fool Disgrace me to make your self a lecher 'T is boyish 't is base John 'T is false and most unmanly to upbraid me Nor will I be your bolster Sir Fre. Thou wanton boy thou hadst better have been Eunuch Thou common womans courtesie than thus Lascivious basely to have bent mine honour A friend I 'e make a horse my friend first John Holla holla Ye kick too fast Sir what strange brains have you got That dare crow out thus bravely I better been an Eunuch I privy to this dog trick clear your self For I know where the wind sits and most nobly Or as I have a life Fred. No more they 're horses A noise within like horses Nor shew no discontent to morrow comes Let 's quietly away if she be at home Our jealousies are put off John The fellow Enter Duke Petrucchio We have lost him in our spleens like fools Duke Come Gentlemen Now set on roundly suppose ye have all Mistresses And mend your pace according Petr. Then have at ye Exeunt Actus Quartus Scena Prima Enter Duke Petrucchio Frederick and John Petr. NOW to Bologna my most honoured Brother I dare pronounce ye a hearty and safe welcome Our loves shall now way-lay ye welcome Gentlemen John The same to you brave Sir Don Frederick Will ye step in and give the Lady notice Who comes to honour her Petr. Bid her be sudden We come to see no curious wench a night-gown VVill serve the turn here 's one that knows her nearer Fred. I 'le tell her what ye say Sir Exit Fred. Duke My dear brother Ye are a merry Gentleman Petr. Now will the sport be To observe her alterations how like a wildfire She 'll leap into your bosom then seeing me Her conscience and her fears creeping upon her Dead as a fowl at souse she 'll sink Duke Fair Brother I must intreat you Petr. I conceive your mind Sir I will not chide her yet ten Duckets Duke She falls upon her knees ten more she dare not Duke I must not have her frighted Petr. VVell you shall not Enter Frederick and Peter But like a Summers evening against heat Mark how I 'le guild her cheeks John How now Fred. Ye may Sir Not to abuse your patience noble friends Nor hold ye oft with tedious circumstance For you must know Petr. VVhat Duke VVhere is she Fred. Gone Sir Duke How Petr. VVhat did you say Sir Fred. Gone by Heaven removed The woman of the house too John Well Don Frederick Fred. Don John it is not well but Pet. Gone Fred. This fellow Can testifie I lye not Peter Some four hours after My Master was departed with this Gentleman My fellow and my self being sent of business As we must think of purpose Petr. Hang these circumstances They appear like Owls to ill ends John Now could I eat The Devil in his own broth I am so tortur'd Gone Petr. Gone Fred. Directly gone fled shifted what would you have me say Duke Well Gentlemen Wrong not my good opinion Fred. For your Dukedom I will not be a Knave Sir John He that is A rot run in his bloud Petr. But hark ye Gentlemen Are ye sure ye had her here did ye not dream this John Have you your nose Sir Petr. Yes Sir John Then we had her Petr. Since you are so short believe your having her Shall suffer more construction John Let it suffer But if I be not clear of all dishonour Or practice that may taint my reputation And ignorant of where this Woman is Make me your Cities monster Duke I believe ye John I could lye with a Witch now to be reveng'd Upon that Rascal did this Fred. Only thus much I would desire your Grace for my mind gives me Before night yet she is yours stop all opinion And let no anger out till full cause call it Then every mans own work 's to justifie him And this day let us give to search my man here Tells me by chance he saw out of a window Which place he has taken notice of such a face As our old Landladies he believes the same too And by her hood assures it Let 's first thither For she being found all 's ended Duke Come for Heavens sake And Fortune and thou be'st not ever turning If there be one firm step in all thy reelings Now settle it and save my hopes away friends Exeunt SCENE II. Enter Antonio and his Servant Ant. With all my Jewels Ser. All Sir Ant. And that mony I left i' th' trunk Ser. The Trunk broke and that gone too Ant. Francisco of the plot Ser. Gone with the wench too Ant. The mighty pox go with 'em belike they thought I was no man of this world and those trifles Would but disturb my conscience Ser. Sure they thought Sir You would not live to persecute ' em Ant. Whore and Fidler Why what a confort have they made Hen and Bacon Well my sweet Mistris well good Madam mar-tail You that have hung about my neck and lick't me I 'le try how handsomely your Ladyship Can hang upon a Gallows there 's your Master-piece
and stand upon your guard And while your Brother is continue arm'd And yet this fear is needless for I know My Rollo though he dares as much as man So tender of his yet untainted valour So noble that he dares do nothing basely You doubt him he fears you I doubt and fear Both for others safety and not mine own Know yet my sons when of necessity You must deceive or be deceiv'd 't is better To suffer Treason than to act the Traytor And in a War like this in which the glory Is his that 's overcome consider then What 't is for which you strive is it the Dukedom Or the command of these so ready subjects Desire of wealth or whatsoever else Fires your ambition This still desp'rate madness To kill the people which you would be Lords of With fire and sword to lay that Country waste Whose rule you seek for to consume the treasures Which are the sinews of your Government In cherishing the factions that destroy it Far far be this from you make it not question'd Whether you have interest in that Dukedom Whose ruine both contend for Otto I desire but to enjoy my own which I will keep Rol. And rather than posterity shall have cause To say I ruin'd all divide the Dukedom I will accept the moiety Ott. I embrace it Soph. Divide me first or tear me limb by limb And let them find as many several Graves As there are villages in Normandy And 't is less sin than thus to weaken it To hear it mention'd doth already make me Envy my dead Lord and almost Blaspheme Those powers that heard my prayer for fruitfulness And did not with my first birth close my womb To me alone my second blessing proves My first of misery for if that Heaven Which gave me Rollo there had staid his bounty And Otto my dear Otto ne're had been Or being had not been so worth my love The stream of my affection had run constant In one fair current all my hopes had been Laid up in one and fruitful Normandy In this division had not lost her glories For as 't is now 't is a fair Diamond Which being preserv'd intire exceeds all value But cut in pieces though these pieces are Set in fine gold by the best work-mans cunning Parts with all estimation So this Dukedom As 't is yet whole the neighbouring Kings may covet But cannot compass which divided will Become the spoil of every barbarous foe That will invade it Gis How this works in both Bal. Prince Rollo's eyes have lost their fire Gis And anger that but now wholly possessed Good Otto hath given place to pity Aub. End not thus Madam but perfect what 's so well begun Soph. I see in both fair signs of reconcilement Make them sure proofs they are so the Fates offer To your free choice either to live Examples Of Piety or wickedness if the later Blinds so your understanding that you cannot Pierce through her painted out side and discover That she is all deformity within Boldly transcend all precedents of mischief And let the last and the worst end of tyrannies The murther of a Mother but begin The stain of bloud you after are to heighten But if that vertue and her sure rewards Can win you to accept her for your guide To lead you up to Heaven and there fix you The fairest Stars in the bright Sphere of honour Make me the parent of an hundred sons All brought into the world with joy not sorrow And every one a Father to his Country In being now made Mother of your concord Rol. Such and so good loud fame for ever speak you Bal. I now they meet like Brothers The Brothers cast away their Swords and embrace Gis My hearts joy flows through my eyes Aub. May never Womans tongue Hereafteâ— be accus'd for this ones Goodness Otto If we contend from this hour it shall be How to o'recome in brotherly affection Rol. Otto is Rollo now and Rollo Otto Or as they have one mind rather one name From this attonement let our lives begin Be all the rest forgotten Aub. Spoke like Rollo Soph. And to the honour of this reconcilement We all this night will at a publick Feast With choice Wines drown our late fears and with Musick Welcome our comforts Bald. Sure and certain ones Exeunt Manent Grandpree Verdon Trevile and Duprete Grand Did ever such a hopeful business end thus Ver. 'T is fatal to us all and yet you Grandpree Have the least cause to fear Grand Why what 's my hope Ver. The certainty that you have to be hang'd You know the Chancellours promise Grand Plague upon you Ver. What think you of a Bath and a Lords Daughter To entertain you Grand Those desires are off Frail thoughts all friends no Rollians now nor Ottoes The sev'ral court'sies of our swords and servants Defer to after consequence let 's make use Of this nights freedom a short Parliament to us In which it will be lawful to walk freely Nay to our drink we shall have meat too that 's No usual business to the men o' th' sword Drink deep with me to night we shall to morrow Or whip or hang the merrier Tre. Lead the way then Exeunt Actus Secundus Scena Prima Enter Latorch and Rollo Lato. WHY should this trouble you Rol. It does and must do till I find ease Lato. Consider then and quickly And like a wise man take the current with you Which once turn'd head will sink you blest occasion Offers her self in thousand safeties to you Time standing still to point you out your purpose And resolution the true child of Vertue Readie to execute what dull cold weakness Has crept into your bosom whose meer thoughts Like tempests plowing up the sayling Forests Even with their swing were wont to shake down hazards What is' t your Mothers tears Rol. Pray thee be patient Lat. Her hands held up her prayers or her curses Oh power of paper dropt through by a woman Take heed the Souldiers see it not 't is miserable In Rollo below miserable take heed your friends The sinews of your cause the strength you stir by Take heed I say they find it not take heed Your own repentance like a passing-bell Too late and too loud tell the world y' are perisht What noble spirit eager of advancement Whose imployment is his plough what sword whose sharpness Waits but the arm to wield it or what hope After the world has blown abroad this weakness Will move again or make a wish for Rollo Rol. Are we not friends again by each oath ratified Our tongues the Heralds to our hearts Lat. Poor hearts then Rol. Our worthier friends Lat. No friends Sir to your honour Friends to your fall where is your understanding The noble vessel that your full soul sail'd in Rib'd round with honours where is that 't is ruin'd The tempest of a womans sighs has sunk it Friendship take heed Sir is
Guard Qu. What e'r it be I 'll meet it I was not born to fear Who 's that Beliza Euph. My worthiest noblest Mistriss Exit Qu. Stay her ha All of you look as you were rooted here And wanted motion what new Gorgons head Have you beheld that you are all turn'd Statues This is prodigious has none a tongue To speak the cause Leo. Could every hair great Queen Upon my head yield an articulate sound And altogether speak they could not yet Express the villany we have discoverd And yet when with a few unwilling words I have deliver'd what must needs be known You 'll say I am too eloquent and wish I had been born without a tongue Qu. Speak boldly For I unmov'd with any loss will hear Leo. Then know we have found out the Ravisher Of my poor Sister and the place and means By which th' unfortunate though fair Beliza Hath met a second violence Euph. This confirms what but before I doubted to my ruine My Lady ravish'd Qu. Point me out the villain That guilty wretched monster that hath done this I hat I may look on him and in mine eye He reads his Sentence Leo. That I truly could Name any other but the Prince that heard You have it all Qu. Wonder not that I shake The miracle is greater that I live Having endur'd the thunder that thy words Have thrown upon me dar'st thou kneel with hope Of any favor but a speedy death And that too in the dreadful'st shape that can Appear to a dispairng leprous soul If thou hast any no libidinous beast Thy lust hath alter'd so thy former Being By Heaven I know thee not The. Although unworthy Yet still I am your Son Qu. Thou lyest lyest falsly My whole life never knew but one chaste bed Nor e'r desir'd warmth but from lawful fires Can I be then the Mother to a Goat Whose lust is more insatiate than the grave And like infectious air ingenders plagues To murder all that 's chaste or good in Woman The gods I from my youth have serv'd and fear'd Whose holy Temples thou hast made thy Brothels Could a Religious Mother then bring forth So damn'd an Atheist read but o'r my life My actions manners and made perfect in them But look into the story of thy self As thou art now not as thou wert Theanor And reason will compel thee to confess Thou art a stranger to me Ag. Note but now heavy The weight of guilt is it so low hath sunk him That he wants power to rise up in defence Of this bad cause Qu. Perswade me not Euphanes This is no Prince nor can claim part in me My Son was born a Free-man this a Slave To beastly passions a Fugitive And run away from virtue bring bonds for him By all the honour that I owe to Justice He loses me for ever that seeks to save him â—ind him I say and 'ts like a wretch that knows He stands condemn'd before he hears the Sentence With his base Agents from my sight remove him And lodge them in the Dungeon As a Queen And Patroness to Justice I command it Thy tears are like unseasonable showrs And in my heart now steel'd can make no entrance Thou art cruel to thy self Fool 't is not want In me of soft compassion when thou left'st To be a Son I ceas'd to be a Mother Away with them The children I will leave To keep my name to all posterities Shall be the great examples of my Justice The government of my Countrey which shall witness How well I rul'd my self bid the wrong'd Ladies Appear in Court to morrow we will hear them And by one Act of our severity For fear of punishment or love to virtue Teach others to be honest all will shun To tempt her Laws that would not spare her Son Ex. Scaena Tertia Enter Onos Uncle and Tutor Vnc. Nay Nephew Tut. Pupill hear but reason On. No I have none and will hear none oh my honor My honor blasted in the bud my youth My hopeful youth and all my expectation Ever to be a man are lost for ever Vnc. Why Nephew we as well as you are dub'd Knights of the Pantofle Tut. And are shouted at Kick'd scorn'd and laugh'd at by each Page and Groom Yet with erected heads we bear it Onos Alas You have years and strength to do it but were you As I a tender gristle apt to bow You would like me with Cloaks envelloped Walk thus then stamp then stare Vnc. He will run mad I hope and then all 's mine Tut. Why look you Pupil There are for the recovery of your honor Degrees of Medicines for a tweak by the Nose A man 's to travel but six months then blow it And all is well again the Bastinado Requires a longer time a year or two And then 't is buried I grant you have been baffl'd 'T is but a journey of some thirty years And it will be forgotten Onos Think you so Tut. Assuredly Vnc. He may make a shorter cut But hang or drown himself and on my life 'T will no more trouble him Onos I could ne'r endure Or Hemp or Water they are dangerous tools For youth to deal with I will rather follow My Tutors counsel Tut. Do so Onos And put in For my security that I 'll not return In thirty years my whole ' state to my Uncle Vnc. That I like well of On. Still provided Uncle That at my coming home you will allow me To be of age that I may call to account This Page that hath abus'd me Vnc. 'T is a match On. Then Corinth thus the bashful Lamprias Takes leave of thee and for this little time Of thirty years will labour all he can Though he goes young forth to come home a man Ex. Scaena Quarta Enter Euphanes and Marshal Euph. Are your Prisoners ready Mar. When it shall please the Queen To call them forth my Lord. Euph. Pray you do me the favour To tell me how they have born themselves this night Of their imprisonment Mar. Gladly Sir your Brother With the other Courtiers willingly receiv'd All courtesies I could offer eat and drank And were exceeding merry so dissembling Their guilt or confident in their innocence That I much wondred at it But the Prince That as born highest should have grac'd his fall With greatest courage is so sunk with sorrow That to a common judgement he would seem To suffer like a Woman but to me That from the experience I have had of many Look further in him I do find the deep Consideration of what 's past more frights him Than any other punishment Euph. That is indeed True magnanimity the other but A desperate bastard valour Mar. I pressed to him And notwithstanding the Queens strict command Having your Lordships promise to secure me Offer'd to free him from his bonds which he Refus'd with such a sorrow mixt with scorn That it amaz'd me yet I urg'd his Highness To give one Reson for
than other to deserve a favour Bloud has been spilt many brave spirits lost And more unless she had been kept close from their violence Had like to have followed therefore for due prevention Of all such hazards and unnoble actions This last Edict was publish'd which thou Silvio Like a false man a bad man and a Traitor Hast rent a-peeces and contemn'd for which cause Thou standest a guilty man here now Enter Claudio Clark Speak Silvio What canst thou say to avoid the hand of Justice Sil. Nothing but I confess submit and lay my head to it Bel. Have ye no eyes my Lords no understandings The Gentleman will cast himsel away Cast himself wilfully are you or you guilty No more is he no more taint sticks upon him I drew him thither 't was my way betrai'd him I got the entrance kept I entertain'd him I hid the danger from him forced him to me Poor gentle soul he 's in no part transgressing I wrote unto him Sil. Do not wrong that honor Cast not upon that pureness these aspersions It was my love my violence My life must answer it I broke in to her Tempted the Law solicited unjustly Bel. As there is truth in Heaven I was the first cause How could this man have come to me left naked Without my counsel and provision What hour could he find out to pass the Watches But I must make it sure first Reverend Judges Be not abus'd nor let an innocent life lie Upon your shaking Conscience I did it My love the main wheel that set him a going His motion but compell'd Sil. Can ye believe this And know with what a modesty and whiteness Her life was ever ranck'd Can you believe this And see me here before ye young and wilful Apt to what danger Love dares thrust me on And where Law stops my way apt to contemn it If I were bashful old or dull and sleepy In Loves allarms a woman might awake me Direct and clew me out the way to happiness But I like fire kindled with that bright beauty Catch hold of all occasions and run through ' em Bel. I charge ye as your honest souls will answer it Sil. I charge ye as you are the friends to virtue That has no pattern living but this Lady Bel. Let not his blood Sil. Let not her wilfulness For then you act a Scene Hell will rejoyce at Bel. He is clear Sil. She is as white in this as Infants Cla. The god of Love protect your cause and help ye Two nobler pieces of affection These eyes ne'er look'd on if such goodness perish Let never true hearts meet again but break Exit 1 Lord. A strange exemple of strong love a rare one 2 Lord. Madam we know not what to say to think on Duch. I must confess it strikes me tender too Searches my Mothers heart you found 'em there Bar. Yes certain Madam Dutch And so linked together Bar. As they had been one piece of Alablaster Dutch Nothing dishonourable Sil. So let my soul have happiness As that thought yet durst never seek this bosom Dutch What shall I do ' has broke my Law abus'd me Fain would I know the truth either confess it And let me understand the main offender Or both shall feel the torture Sil. Are ye a Mother The Mother of so sweet a Rose as this is So pure a Flower and dare ye lose that nature Dare ye take to your self so great a wickedness Oh holy Heaven of thinking what may ruine This goodly building this Temple where the gods dwell Give me a thousand tortures I deserve 'em And shew me death in all the shapes imagin'd Bel. No death but I will answer it meet it seek it No torture but I 'll laugh upon 't and kiss it 1 Lord. This is no way 2 Lord. They say no more for certain Than their strong hearts will suffer Dutch I have bethought me No Lords although I have a Child offending Nature dares not forget she is a Child still Till now I never look'd on love imperious I have bethought me of a way to break ye To separate though not your loves your bodies Silvio attend I 'll be your Judge my self now The sentence of your death because my Daughter Will bear an equal part in your afflictions I take away and pardon this remains then An easie and a gentle punishment And this shall be fulfill'd because unnobly You have sought the love and marriage of a Princess The absolute and sole Heir of this Dukedom By that means as we must imagine strongly To plant your self into this rule hereafter We here pronounce ye a man banish'd from us Sil. For ever banish'd Lady Dutch Yet more mercy But for a year and then again in this place To make your full appearance yet more pitty If in that time you can absolve a question Writ down within this scrowl absolve it rightly This Lady is your wife and shall live with ye If not you loose your head Sil. I take this honor And humbly kiss those Royal hands Dutch Receive it Bartello to your old guard take the Princess And so the Court break up Sil. Farewel to all And to that spotless heart my endless service Exit 1 Lord. What will this prove 2 Lord. I 'll tell you a year hence Sir Exeunt Scaena Sexta Enter Penurio Isabella Claudio Pen. Are you pleas'd now have not I wrought this wonder Non eben fatto Signieur Cla. Rarely Penurio Pen. Close close then and work wax Cla. I am studying for thee A dinner that shall victual thee for ten year Pen. Do you hear Mistriss You know what a dundir whelp my Master is I need not preach to ye how unfit and wanting To give a woman satisfaction How he stinks and snores a Bull 's a better bed-fellow And for his love never let that deceive ye Isab Nay sure he loves me not Pen. If he could coyn ye Or turn ye into mettal much might be then He loves not any thing but what is traffique I have heard him swear he would sell ye to the Grand Signior Isab The Turk Pen. The very Turke and how they would use ye Isab I 'll fit him for 't the Turk Pen. I know the price too Now ye have time to pay him pay him home Mistriss Pay him o' th' pate clout him for all his courtesies Here 's one that dances in your eyes young delicate To work this vengeance if ye let it slip now There is no pittying of ye od's precious Mistriss Were I his wife I would so mall his Mazard 'T is charity meer charity pure charity Are you the first has it not been from Eves time Women would have their safe revenges this way And good and gracious women excellent women Is' t not a handsome Gentleman a sweet Gentleman View him from head to foot a compleat Gentleman When can ye hope the like again I leave ye And my revenge too with ye I know my office I
'll carry it Ru. Does this become you Princess Arm. The Captain 's jealous Jealous of that he never durst deserve yet Goe freely goe I 'll give thee leave Ru. Your leave Sir Arm. Yes my leave Sir I 'll not be troubled neither Nor shall my heart ake or my head be jealous Nor strange suspitious thoughts reign in my memory Go on and do thy worst I 'll smile at thee I kiss your fair hand first then farewel Captain Exit Quisar What a pure soul inherits here what innocence Sure I was blind when I first lov'd this fellow And long to live in that fogg still how he blusters Ru. Am I your property or those your flatteries The banquets that ye bid me to the trust I build my goodly hopes on Quisar Be more temperate Ru. Are these the shews of your respect and favour What did he here what language had he with ye Did ye invite could ye stay no longer â—o be so gracious in your eye Quisar You are too forward Ru. Why at these private hours Quisar You are too saucy Too impudent to task me with those errors Do ye know what I am Sir and my prerogative Though you be a thing I have call'd by th' name of friend â— never taught you to dispose my liberty â—ow durst you touch mine honor blot my meanings â—nd name an action and of mine but noble Thou poor unworthy thing how have I grac'd thee â—ow have I nourisht thee and raised thee hourly Are these the gratitudes you bring Ruy Dias The thanks the services I am fairly paid Was 't not enough I saw thou wert a Coward â—nd shaddowed thee no noble sparkle in thee Daily provok'd thee and still found thee coward â—ais'd noble causes for thee strangers started at Yet still still still a Coward ever Coward And with those taints dost thou upbraid my virtues Ruy. I was too blame Lady Quisar So blindly bold to touch at my behaviour Durst thou but look amiss at my allowance If thou hadst been a brave fellow thou hadst had some licence Some liberty I might have then allowed thee For thy good face some scope to have argued with me But being nothing but a sound a shape The meer sign of a Soldier of a Lover The dregs and draffy part disgrace and jealousie I scorn thee and contemn thee Ru. Dearest Lady If I have been too free Quisar Thou hast been too foolish And go on still I 'll study to forget thee I would I could and yet I pity thee Exit Ru. I am not worth it if I were that 's misery The next door is but death I must aim at it Exit Actus Quartus Scaena Prina Enter King and Governor like a Moor-Priest Kin. SO far and truly you have discovered to me The former currents of my life and fortune That I am bound to acknowledge ye most holy And certainly to credit your predictions Of what are yet to come Gov. I am no lyer 'T is strange I should and live so near a neighbor But these are not my ends Kin. Pray ye sit good father Certain a reverend man and most religious Gov. I that belief 's well now and let me work then I 'll make ye curse Religion e'r I leave ye I have liv'd a long time Son a mew'd up man Sequester'd by the special hand of Heaven From the worlds vanities bid farewel to follies And shook hands with all heats of youth and pleasures As in a dream these twenty years I have slumber'd Many a cold Moon have I in meditation And searching out the hidden Wils of heaven Lain shaking under many a burning Sun Has fear'd my body and boil'd up my blood Feebl'd my knees and stampt a Meagerness Upon my figure all to find out knowledge Which I have now attained to thanks to heaven All for my countreys good too and many a vision Many a mistick vision have I seen Son And many a sight from heaven which has been terrible Wherein the Goods and Evils of these Islands Were lively shadowed many a charge I have had too Still as the time grew ripe to reveal these To travel and discover now I am come Son The hour is now appointed My tongue is touch'd and now I speak Kin. Do Holy man I 'll hear ye Gov. Beware these Portugals I say beware 'em These smooth-sac'd strangers have an eye upon ' em The cause is now the God's hear and believe King King I do hear but before I give rash credit Or hang too light on belief which is a sin father Know I have found 'em gentle faithful valiant And am in my particular bound to 'em I mean to some for my most strange deliverance Gov. Oh Son the future aims of men observe me Above their present actions and their glory Are to be look'd at the Stars shew many turnings If you could see mark but with my eyes pupil These men came hither as my vision tells me Poor weather-beaten almost lost starv'd feebled Their vessels like themselves most miserable Made a long sute for traffique and for comfort To vent their childrens toys cure their diseases They had their sute they landed and to th' rate Grew rich and powerful suckt the fat and freedom Of this most blessed Isle taught her to tremble Witness the Castle here the Citadel They have clapt upon the neck of your Tidore This happy Town till that she knew these strangers To check her when she 's jolly King They have so indeed Father Gov. Take heed take heed I find your fair delivery Though you be pleas'd to glorifie that fortune And think these strangers gods take heed I say I find it but a handsome preparation A fair-fac'd Prologue to a further mischief Mark but the end good King the pin he shoots at That was the man deliver'd ye the mirror Your Sister is his due what 's she your heir Sir And what 's he a kin then to the kingdom But heirs are not ambitious who then suffers What reverence shall the gods have and what justice The miserable people what shall they do King He points at truth directly Gov. Think of these Son The person nor the manner I mislike not Of your preserver nor the whole man together Were he but season'd in the Faith we are In our Devotions learn'd King You say right Father Gov. To change our Worships now and our Religion To be traytor to our God King You have well advised me And I will seriously consider Father In the mean time you shall have your fair access Unto my Sister advise her to your purpose And let me still know how the gods determine Gov. I will but my main end is to advise The destruction of you all a general ruine And when I am reveng'd let the gods whistle Exeunt Enter Ruy Dias and Pyniero Ruy. Indeed I am right glad ye were not greedy And sudden in performing what I will'd you Upon the person of Armufia I was afraid for I well