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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A53060	Playes written by the thrice noble, illustrious and excellent princess, the Lady Marchioness of Newcastle.	Newcastle, Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of, 1624?-1674.; Newcastle, William Cavendish, Duke of, 1592-1676.	1662 (1662)	Wing N868; ESTC R17289	566,204	712

expresse himself in such high poetical Raptures for his discourse is plain and ordinary Nobilissimo Nay sometimes his discourse is extraordinary as when he hath Wars but Nurse thou art old and the fire of love if ever thou hadst any is put out by old Father Times extinguisher Doltche True love never dyes nor can time put it out Nobilissimo 'T is true but Nurse seems by her speech as if she had never known true love for true love as it alwaies burns clear so it alwaies flames high far infinite is the fewel that feeds it Nurse Well well young Lovers be not so confident but let me advise you to ballance reason on both sides with hopes and doubts and then the judgement will be steady Nobilissimo But in the scales of love Nurse nothing must be but confidence Nurse Yes there must be temperance or love will surfeit and dye with excess Doltche Love cannot surfeit no more than souls with grace or Saints of Heaven Ex. Scene 37. Enter Madamosel Caprisia alone CApris. My smiles shall be as Baits my eyes as Angels where every look shall be a hook to catch a heart I 'l teach my tongue such art to plant words on each heart as they shall take deep root from whence pure love shall spring my lips shall be as flowery banks whereon sweet Rhethorick grows and cipherous fancy blows from which banks love shall wish to gather Posies of kisses where every single kisse shall differ as Roses Pinks Violets Primroses and Daffidillies and the breath therefrom shall be as fragant as the touch soft thereon and as the Sun doth heat the Earth so shall my imbraces heat my Lovers thoughts with self-conceit which were before like water frozen with a dejected and despairing cold Hay ho Ex. ACT V. Scene 38. Enter Monsieur Profession and Madamosel Solid PRofession Dear Mistress you are the only She that is fit to be crown'd the sole Empresse of the World Solid Let me tell you Sir I had rather be a single Shepheardesse than the sole Empress of the World for I would not be a Mistress of so much power to be as a Servant to so much trouble Profession But put the case Alexander were alive and would crown you Empress of the World you would not refuse that honour but accept of it for the sake of renown Solid Yes I should refuse it for if I could not get renown by my own merits I should wish to dye in Oblivion for I care not Nay I despise such honours and renowns as comes by derivations as being deriv'd from another and not inherent in my self and it is a poor and mean renown that is gain'd or got only by receiving a gift from a fellow-creature who gives out of passion appetite partiality vain-glory or fear and not for merit or worthsake wherefore no gifts but those that comes from the Gods or Nature are to be esteem'd or received with thanks but were to be refused had man the power to chose or to deny Profession Sweet Mistress nature hath crown'd you with beauty and wit and the Gods hath given you a noble soul Solid I wish they had for the Gods gifts are not like to mans and natures crown is beyond the golden crown of Art which are greater glories than Power Wealth Title or Birth or all the outward honours gain'd on Earth but I desire the Gods may crown my soul with reason and understanding Heaven crown my mind with Temperance and Fortitude Nature crown my body with Health and Strength time crown my life with comely and discreet age Death crown my separation with peace and rest and Fame crown my memory with an everlasting renown thus may my creation be to a happy end Profession Gods Fortune and Fates hath joyned to make me happy in your love and that which will make me absolutely happy is that I shall marry you and imbrace you as my wife Solid The absolute happiness is when the Gods imbraces man with mercy and kisses him with love Ex. Scene 39. Enter Madamosel Caprisia CApris. Hay ho who can love and be wise but why do I say so For reason loves wisely 't is only the mistaken senses that loves foolishly indeed the sense doth not love but fondly and foolishly affects for it 't is an humoursome and inconstant appetite that proceeds from the body and not that noble passion of true love which proceeds from the soul But O! what a ridiculous humour am I fallen into from a cholerick humour into an amorous humour Oh! I could tear my soul from my body for having such whining thoughts and such a mean submissive croaching feigning flattering humour and idle mind a cholerick humour is noble to this for it is commanding and seems of an heroick spirit but to be amorous is base beastly and of an inconstant nature Oh! How apt is busie life to go amisse What foolish humours in mans mind there is But O! The soul is far beyond the mind As much as man is from the beastly kind Ex. Scene 40. Enter Madamosel Volante and Doctor Freedom DOctor Are you weary of your life that you send me for you said you would not send for me untill you had a desire to dye Volante True Doctor and if you cannot cure me kill me Doctor In my conscience you have sent for me to play the wanton Volante Why Doctor If I do not infringe the rules and laws of modesty or civility I cannot commit wanton faults Doctor Yes faith your tongue may play the wanton Volante Indeed Doctor I had rather tell a wanton truth than a modest lye Doctor Well what is your disease Volante Nay that you must guesse I can only tell my pains Doctor Where is your pain Volante In my heart and head Doctor Those be dangerous parts but after what manner are your pains Volante On my heart there lyes a weight as heavy as the World on Atlas shoulders and from my melancholly mind arises such damps of doubts as almost quenches out the fire of life did not some hope though weak which blows with fainting breath keep it alive or rather puffs than blows which intermitting motions makes my pulse unequal and my bloud to ebbe and flow as from my heart unto my face and from my face unto my heart again as for my head it feels drousie and my spirits are dull my thoughts uneasily doth run crossing and striving to throw each other down this causes broken sleeps and frightfull dreams and when I awake at every noyse I start with fears my limbs doth shake Doctor VVhy this disease is love wherefore I cannot cure you for love no more than wit can neither be temper'd nor yet be rul'd for love and wit keeps neither moderate bounds nor spares diet but dyes most commonly of a surfeit Volante O yes discretion can cure both Doctor Then send for Monsieur Discretion and hear what he sayes to you for your disease is past my skil Volante By your industry

Procurer LAdy Wanton Prethy my Lady Procurer go into the Country with us since we shall have such good Company this Summer as Monsieur Amorous we will be so merry and have such sports and pastimes as you shall not repent your journey Procurer Faith Madam I cannot besides you have no use of me now Wanton I am not as many others are that when they can make no more use of a friend they strive to shun their Company Procurer Well if I can go with you I will but I doubt I cannot at lest I cannot stay above a week or such a time with you Wanton Nay if I once get you there I will make you stay Exeunt Scene 28. Enter Mistriss Single alone MIstriss Single What a troublesome life is a Married life bless me Heaven who would Marry Enter Raillery Jester at her last words Fool. That would you if you could get a Husband for Maids long to be Wives and Wives longs to be Widows that they might Marry again Single That is because Maids do not know the vexations of Marriage which Wives do Fool. Faith Women take a pleasure in being vext crost and injured for then they have a ground for their anger and revenge is the sweetest and dearest imployment they have or would wish to have otherwise they would be dull and idle without it and to prove it Widows are as earnest and industrious to Marry as Maids and all is because they would be vext and crost Single And are not men as desirous and hasty to Marry as Women Fool. Yes those that are Fools Single Why then you should marry if any VVoman would have you Fool. Such Fools as I never or very seldom Marry for though we are Christened Fools we were Born VVise where other men were Born Fools but Christened VVise as bearing the name of VVise and understanding Men so as they have only the name but not the wisdome the Truth is we Fool and other men are fool'd Single Then VVomen are Born VVise for they Fool Men Fool. Nay saith poor Souls they are for the most part double fool'd first thinking they fool and then in being fooled Enter a Maid of the Lady Jealousy's Maid Mistriss my Lady is very angry that you let your Lute-Master stay whilst you talk to the fool she says you will be as much a fool as he with talking so often with him Single Tell my Sister I shall learn more good from the fool than the fidler Fool. Mark you that Maid Maid I mark that Children and Fools keep company together Fool. And the Maids and the Master Exeunt ACT IV. Scene 29. Enter two Maids of the Lady Hypocondria 1 MAid Alas my poor Lady looks as if she would drop to the earth so pale and ill 2 Maid How should she be otherwise for she smothers in her grief and dares not discover it and then she seldom sleeps or eats or drinks and is so restless as she cannot sit still but walks about her Chamber Exeunt Scene 30. Enter the Lady Hypocondria and a Doctor LAdy Hypocondria O Master Doctor what do you think of my Husband I hope he is in no danger is he Doctor I dare assure you Madam he will be very well again for he is only weak and faint with loss of blood for he taking the wound to be slight did not take care to stop it soon enough whereupon his Spirits with his blood issued out so much as makes him so weak as you see he is forc'd to keep his Bed Hypocondria But Doctor Spirits is life and if he wants the one he must soon lose the other Doctor 'T is true if there were no Spirits left but let me tell you Madam there is more danger when the Body hath too many Spirits than when there is but a few for many Spirits make the Body too hot by giving the Pulse too quick a motion which quick motion fires the heart so much as the blood becomes boyling hot which Perboyls the Liver and the rest of the vital parts and melts the fat wastes the flesh and weakens the Sinnews or Nerves as being boyled as to a soft tender quaking Jelly that is the cause that the Sick is so weak they cannot stand having not that tough strength in their Sickness and some after their sickness and shall continue weak untill such time as the Sinnews and Nerves grow harder and tough again and many times from the boyling blood there arises such gross and so many Vapours which Vapours is Smoak as they stifle the life or at least disquiet the Brain Hypocondria But will you assure me Doctor Doctor As far as Human skill can assure you I will The Doctor goes out The Lady Hypocondria alone Hypocondria Fair Iuno hear me send to thy Brother Pluto to imprison Death in his dark Vault or at least for to forbid him to touch my Husband and fair Goddess send health to raise his weary limbs from off his hated Couch if not give order to grim Death to strike me too for thou hast power on all as being chief in power Enter her Maid Maid Madam my Master desires you would be pleased to come to him Exeunt Scene 31. Enter Monsieur Disguise alone MOnsieur Disguise I will not only make me a Garland but a Bower of Willow where I will sit and lament all forsaken Lovers nay I will sit and Curse so long till I have laid those Curses so thick together as neither sighs nor tears nor prayers shall dissolve them Exit Scene 32. Enter the Lady Procurer and Monsieur Amorous LAdy Procurer I am come to bring you good news Monsieur Amorous Amorous What is that my comfortable Lady Procurer The Lady Wanton is come to Town Amorous Pluto Procurer What do you swear because she is come to Town Amorous No I swear because I must go out of Town Procurer I hope you will not go out of the Town now she is come to town Amorous Alas my occasions are such as I shall be utterly ruined if I stay Procurer Then let me tell you the Lady Chastity begins to listen to your Sute Amorous And is there hopes I shall enjoy her Procurer I cannot tell Amorous Nay Dear Lady speak some comfort Procurer It is a folly if you must go into the Country Amorous Neptune shall swallow the Country rather than I will endanger to lose a Paradise Procurer But if you stay you will be ruined Amorous I rather shall be ruined if I go for now I have considered it I find I have such potent affairs here in the City as they will force me to stay Procurer O Iupiter how Inconstant is Mankind for what they have enjoyed they despise and what they cannot get they earnestly desire and are restless in the pursute Amorous What say you Procurer I say you are an unthankfull Man and not worthy of a Ladyes favour as to forsake her that loves you and seek her that hates you for know the Lady Chastity scorns