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A pleasant conceited comedie, called, A knacke to know an honest man As it hath beene sundrie times plaied about the citie of London.; Knack to know an honest man.
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song Was well applied in this For like the antes they eate the gaine of mens wealth But flye them lyke the fiends when they are falne These Cicero and Aristotle tearm'd a troope of seruile Base dishonest men Stay here here cometh more stand by awhile VVee shall behold the world anatomiz'd Enter the other Senator reading a letter The Florentiens of late haue fought a field Wherein Lord Lelio hath deserued well For why his countrie scornes to succour him Lord Brishio tendeth on the Millane camp And hath atchieued many a worthie deed I ioy to heare of Brishios good successe Your marchandise are solde and we haue sent Bils of Exchange to receiue the monie A merrier heart hath Treuerey for that How now you sausie youths stand backe I say What make you lingering here about my doores Zep I hope your Lordship knowes vs well Senat I would you knew your selues as well as I Go get you hēce it is for yong men to ply their books To practise musicke and delight in armes And not to loiter vp and downe the streets Orph. Dishonest Lord our father in thy wants Did vse thee better And wilt thou leaue his sonnes in miserie Senat When Brishio and I meete we le talke of that Let him come craue himselfe I le answere him Zeph Why he is banisht and may not returne Senat The better cause haue I to cast him off I will not rase my house to raise you vp Let me see you are two good tall youths And fit for souldiers goe you to Millane to VVhere your father is liue by the warres And do not vex vs in peace for you get not a pennie of mee Exit Senat. Orph. These strange repulses make me desperate Speake brother Zepherus what shall we do Sem How now yong gallants what distempers you But grieue not thus at worldly chances If sinne were dead vertue were neuer seene Are you the sonnes of Brishio gentle friends Zep VVe are the sonnes of haplesse Brishio Sem And these ranke churles whom earst your father tide By many great deserts vnto his house Haue left you thus in your extremities Giue me your hands you relikes of renowme Now haue I got an Empire to my minde A vent for my religious charitie Hold take these iewels buy you what you want But heedfully beware of gourmandize Lead you a sober decent comely life Remember truly the effects of things Before you shall affect and make your choice Heare in a word who made the planets seuen First sent downe loue and charitie from heauen But auarice was christned in hell Speake holy men haue I not counceld well Orp What man art thou that fauourst miserie Sem Euen he that thankes my God That sends mee ought whereby to succour you And call me Penitent experience Who giues thee thankes for what thy father did VVho giues thee thankes for what thy brother did And charge you both as you are noble borne To let me see your weapons presently Zep. Take them and vse them gentle minded man Sem Here are the blades well polisht faire and bryght Were it not pittie Sirs that these swordes Should rust within their sheathes of blisse While some Venetian letcher and his mate Should rauish thy sister and deflower thy neece Orp What swords are these frind reporte the truth Sem. This night Annetta and faire Lucida If gods and frindes forsake them in their wantes By lawlesse rauishers will be surprised I meane to succour them if you refuse Giue me my Iewels for I will succour none That leaues their sisters in extremitie Or. God leaue vs if we forsake our frindes Or leaue our sister in extremitie Semp. Then take more Iewels heire tall men And vnderneath this wall watch all this night If any man shall attempt to breake your sisters doore Be stout assaile him kill him for his cause is bad Zep Lead vs the way and we will follow thee For in our sisters cause we le spend our blood Sem. The gaine is yours the glory must be Gods Who made you to defend the innocenets Exit omnis Enter Forsa Duke of Myllan with Brishio and his traine Enter Medesa Duke of Florence with Lelio and his traine at the other doore For. Now Brishio since thy country Venice scorneth thee And thou an abiect wretch exild from thence Yet I haue made thee champion of my right If thou expect the cause it is for dowrie The which the Florentines denies to pay In right of marriage with faire Orrelio my wedded wife For this thou fightes now get the victory And thou hast purchast Country lyfe and friends Br. Reason no more my Lord For vertue plucketh occasiō ere he draweth his sword Look on great Princes and see an old man fight Euen as the candel falling downe aside Then burneth brightest when it gins to fayle In age so I will shewe greate valor And will not now submit Fo. I take thy word God mantaine now the right Me. Now Lelio I haue laid the burden of my warre on thee Thou art the champion of my weale or woe Deceiue not my firme hope but in a manly fight Attempt the winning of this happie day Le. By those moyst teares which with a mournful hart I often shed vpon Sempronios herst And by the loue I beare Annetta faire Naught but my death shall make me lose thy right More then my life I cannot hazard mighty Florentine Mede I like thy courage gentleman charge the combatants Here sound Trompets Le. Whom doe my eyes behold art thou not Brishio my father Who forsaking weale and friends Madest thy choyse of baleful banishment Rather then liue and seeme banisht Bri. Art not thou Lelio whom my zealous prayers Haue alwaies wisht and wild thy greatest good Cease trumpets cease we two must neuer fight Le. What meaneth thy champion Medesa to faynt Me. What meanes thy champion Forsa that he faints Brish To combate with my sonne were worse then death Lelio To combate with my father were my death Forsa Father and sonnes both champions in our wars Mede Brother and brother causer of the same Forsa What fauor merit they who loue so well Med. What infamy deserue we that contend See Forsa these champions are so kinde they cannot fight Shall wee contend for tytles wretchedly While meaner men contend in perfectt loue Lelio A pardon Medesa all the world beside Had not this man this father of my wife Incountred me I would haue died and perisht in thy cause Bri. A pardon Forsa had not this vertuous husband of my child Incountred me I would haue died and perisht in thy cause For. Rise combatants you teach vs what to do Come Medesa Ioyne you hands And let these two which loue so well Be Iudges of our warres and let it end Me. Brother content Now champions end debate What you conclude shall make a peace with vs Bris See see my sonne our loue hath well nigh made their peace Princes are you agreed to
Where are the keyes that lockt the vpper loft Ph. Fast vnderneath the pillow where you sleepe Se. Go fetch them hether le ts see them straight Goe call vp my neighbors Fayries haunt my house Exit Phillida Ser. This ring was yesterday night vpon this thumbe Yet hath two deuils gotten it abroad And gotten passage through my castell gates And here a worse then Lucifer him selfe Doth bring it backe to haunt me with suspect Enter Annetta Lucida and Gnatto An. Hie thee good Gnatto bring vs to the house If yet my brothers bide with Seruio I le to the Duke and moue Fortunio For what they did was in my honors right See where old Seruio sits Gnat. T is such a wold fraud foole I am loth to speake Enter Phillida with the keies Phil Father heere are the keies Fetch forth the prisoners let me see their lookes Exit Phillyda â—n God speed you Sir in the way of honistie My mistresse would know whether her brethren bee prisoners in your house or no. Seruio I tell her and I hope ere noone to see them hanged Gnat. I told you what would come out He spake as though hee would spit his stomp in my mouth Enter Phillida Phil. Alas alas father we are all vndone Orphinio and Zepherius are fled Ser. Tell me that my soule hathe left my flesh How when where whether howe should they bee gone Gna. Fine and braue mistresse your brethren are gone Ser. Villaine why did they passe you minkes you Minion you haue let them loose Phil. Good father do not censure me amisse Ser. Hence callet harlot worse then nought For thou hast lost me and my prisoners I am vndon my credit 's crackt my honor 's lost gone I am a reprobate and cast away I le to the Duke Packe thou to hell thou wretch come not in my sight But get thee gone Exit Seruio and Phillida An How glad am I my brethren are escapt Come sirra vex the silly wretch no more Exit omnis Enter Orphinio Zepherius and Lelio Zeph. Good fortune to our brother Lelio Le. O happie relickes of a worthy man Young Zepherius and kinde Orphinio How wends the word in Venice with our frends How fares Annetta how liues Lucida Or. The worse doth still preuaile Marchetto hath attempted thy faire wife Fortunio sought to rauish Lucida And we rescuing them haue hardely scapt with lyfe Le. Like as the Palme vnto the Egyptian sagges That in three hundred daies and sixtie fiue Is seemliest and fully brought to passe Euen so your tydings to sad Lelio Importeth my excreding yeare of griefe That hath three hundred woes and sixtie fiue And sixtie fiue three hundred sorrowes more Zep. To greeue thy sorrowes without mending them is vanitie Lelio behold occasion fauoures thee Le. Why are your swords vnsheathd you noble frinds Doth pittie moue you by a blessed death to ende my wooes O welcome is that sword that slyts this hart Orp. Tho u seest our Father in declyning age Is banisht quite for sauing of thy life And we his sonnes vnlesse he doth returne Are neuer like to visit Venice more Resolue you then to hye you backe againe And by thy head reuoke our exiled Sire Or by our swords prepare thy selfe to dye Le. Is this the cause that makes you so vnkinde Will Lelios head or heart or any part Be comforters to Brishio and his sonnes Put vp your swords wee will not square for this That I may see my father ere I go And thank him for his many curtesies Enter Brishio Zep. See where he comes occasion fauours thee Bri. God blesse my sonnes ryse ryse speake to me Haue you not some Venetian frinds vnkinde Or. Their friendship with thy fortunes tooke an end Bri. I thought on lesse but why is Lelio so discontent Tut giue ouer man the streame wil run with vs at last Le. I come to thanke my father for his loue And pray him by those armes he honors most To daigne my dutiful and kind adew Le. Why whether goes my sonne so suddenly Bri. To Venice father to redeeme your banishment Bri. I am not banisht you wrong my fames Liuing for him I liue at libertie Zep. But Lelio must not liue vnlesse he be resolu'd To hie to Venice that thou maiest returne Le. These are thy children Brishio these exceede In kindnesse towards thee and towards mee Oh honors to your father and to mee Let me imbrace you for your curtesie Brishio fare well accept a thousand thankes Bri. Why who willes thee hence Zep. Father they will him hence that will be actors In his Tragedie vnlesse he to Venice go speedily And quit thee from this exile with his head Bri. These are not Brishios sonnes bids Lelio hence These are not Brishios sonnes that draw their swords Thou art my sonne these two are fortunes slaues Avant vaine boyes come not in my sight By heauen and heauens adorning sunne These are no sonnes of mine that sinne so much Or. Ashamd we beg a pardon at thy hands Br. Ashamd I beg a pardon at thy handes In rendring nature that hath lost thy power To breed such manslayers in an honest stocke Le. O bend not those knees to which nature bends Zep. O Lelio sue our pardons plead for vs Our iudgements were disgraced by our loues Le. Ryse father of kinde sonnes sonnes kinde to father Brothers vnkinde in kindnesse to your brother I kind to churlish of my kinde Do yeeld kind death to saue your liues Br Sweare puytence lewd boyes Submit to Lelio humbly on your knee Else will I neuer blesse you gracelesse youthes Or. We humbly craue submission of our brother Br. And thou my sonne nay more then sonne my frind Here plight thy fayth to bide and stay with me Or I shall thinke my loue but spent in vaine Le I vow to be as sequest to my Father And with my heart I do forgiue my brothers Bri. Then will I now incorporate these Lads And hug them in my arme and hold them deare Now wil I hold a festiuall to day For Lelio Zepherius and Orphinio Le. And I with fauour of my noble Lord Will first giue order to my souldiers And then returne to Brishio in his tent Br. Be carefull of thy charge my noble sonne I will not hinder thee in vertuous things But let vs meete againe before we march For I haue many things for to impart to thee Le. My busines past I will reuisit thee Exit omnes manit Lelio Le. In what a world of troubles am I tost To Venice Lelio rid thy fathers cares I but Brishio will accuse thy breach of faith But while I heere remayne his griefes increase I am resolud father frinds farewell I will to Venice with a merry hart And in what eare disguise I can prouide Visit Annetta my distressed wife And so redeeme my fathers banishment Exit Lelio Enter the Duke of Venice with the Senator Seruio bound Duke Bring tortors forth bring me