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A50091	The excellent comedy called, The old law, or, A new way to please you by Phil. Massinger, Tho. Middleton, William Rowley ... ; together with an exact and perfect catalogue of all the playes, with the authors names, and what are comedies, tragedies, histories, pastoralls, masks, interludes, more exactly printed than ever before.; Old law	Massinger, Philip, 1583-1640.; Middleton, Thomas, d. 1627.; Rowley, William, 1585?-1642?	1656 (1656)	Wing M1048; ESTC R12634	55,222	95

Finis Actus Quarti Act. V. Scen. I. Sword and Mace carried before them Enter Simonides and the Courtiers Sim. BE ready with your Prisoner wee l sit instantly an rise before leaven or when we please Shall we not follow judges Cour. T is committed All to our power censure and pleasure now The Duke hath made us cheef Lords of this Sessions And we may speake by fits or sleep by turnes Sim. Leave that to us but what so ere we do The Prisoner shall be sure to be condemnd Sleeping or waking we are resolvd on that Before we set upon him Eugenia 2. Cour. Make you question If not Cleanthes and one enemy Nay a concealor of his father too A vild example in these dayes of youth Sim. If they were given to follow such examples But sure I think they are not how so ere 'T was wickedly attempted that 's my judgement And it shall passe whilst I am in power to sit Never by Prince were such yong judges made But now the cause requires it if you marke it He must make yong or none for all the old ones Her father he hath sent a fishing and my fathers one I humbly thanke his Highness Enter Eugenia 1. Cour. Widdows Eug. You almost hit my name no Gentlemen You come so wondrous neare it I admire you For your Judgement Sim. My wife that must be she Eug. My husband goes upon his last houre now 1. Cour. On his last legs I am sure Eug. September the seventeenth I will not bate an houre on t and to morrow His latest houres expired 2. Cour. Bring him to judgement The juries panneld and the verdict given Ever he appears we have tane course for that Sim. And Officers to attach the gray yong man The youth of fourscore be of comfort Lady We shall no longer bosome January For that I will take order and provide For you a lusty Aprill Lisander and Guardian Eug. The month that ought indeed To go before May 1. Cour. Doe as we have sayd Take a strong guard and bring him into Court Lady Eugenia see this charge performed That having his life forfeited by the Law Hee may relieve his soule Eug. Willingly From shaven chinns never came better Justice Then these new tucht by reason Sim. What you doe Doe suddenly wee charge you for we purpose to make but a short Sessions a new business Enter Hippolita 1. Cour. The faire Hippolita now what 's your suits Hip. Alas I know not how to stile you yet To call you judges doth not suit your yeares Nor heads and braines shew more antiquity Yet sway your selves with equity and truth And I 'le proclaime you reverent and repeat Once in my life time I have seene grave heads Plac't upon yong mens shoulders 2. Cour. Hark she flouts us And thinks to make us monstrous Hip Prove not so For yet me thinks you beare the shapes of men Though nothing more then meerly beautifeaus To make you appeare Angels but if Crimson Your name and power with blood and cruelty Suppress faire virtue and enlarge of old vice Both against Heaven and Nature draw your sword Make either will or humor turn the soule Of your created greatnesse and in that Oppose all goodnesse I must tell you there Y' are more then monstrous in the very act You change your selfe to Devils 1. Cour. Shee s a witch Harke she begins to conjure Sim. Time you see Is short much business now on foot shall I Give her her answer 2. Cour. None upon the Bench More learnedly can do it Sim. He he hem then list I wonder at thine impudence yong huswife That thou darst plead for such a base offender Conceale a father past his time to die What son and heire would have done this but he 1. Cour. I vow not I Hip. Because yee are paricides And how can comfort be derived from such That pitty not their fathers 2. Cour. You are fresh and faire practise yong womens ends when husbands are distrest provide them friends Sim. I 'le set him forward fee thee Some wives would pay for such a curtesie without fee. Hip. Times of amazement what duty goodness dwell I soaught for charity but knock at Hel Exit Enter Eugenia with Lisander Prisoner a Guard Simonides Eugenia come Command a second guard To bring Cleanthes in wee l not sit long My stomack strives to dinner Eug. Now servants may a Lady be so bold To call your power so low Sim. A Mistrissse may She can make all things low then in that language There can be no offence Eug. The times now come Of manumissions take him into bonds And I am then at freedome 2. Cour. This the man He● hath left of late to feed on snakes His beards turnd white again 1. Court I st possible these gowty legs danc't lately And shatterd in a Gilliard Eug. Jealousie And fear of death can worke strange prodigies 2. Cour. The nimble Fencer this that made me tear And traverse bout the Chamber Sim. I and gave me Those elbow Healths the hangman take him for t They had almost fetcht my heart out the Dutch Veny I swallowed pretty wel but the halfe pike Had almost prepard me but had I took Being swolne I had cast my Lungs out Florish Duk. A flemish Enter the Duke 2. Cour. Peace the Duke Nay bathe your seats whos 's that Duk. May 't please your Highnesse Sim. T is old Lisander Duk. And brought in by his wife a worthy president Of one that no way would offend the Law And should not passe away without remark You have been lookt for long Lis. But never fit To die till now my Lord my sins and I Have been but newly parted much a do I had to get them leave me or be taught That difficult lesson how to learn to die I never thought there had been such an act And t is the only discipline we are borne for All studdies as are are but as circular lines And death the center where they must all meet I now can looke uppon thee erring woman And not be vext with jealousie on yong men And no way envy their delicious health pleasure and strength all which were once mine owne And mine must be theirs one day Duk. You have tamd him Sim. And know how to dispose him that my Liege Hath been before determined you confesse Your selfe of full age Lis. Yes and prepard to inherit Hip. Your place above Duke away to death with him Sim. Of which the hangmans strength Cleanthes Guard Shall put him in possession t is still guard To take me willing and in mind to die And such are when the earth growes weary of them Most fit for heaven the Court shall make his Mittimus And send him thither presently i th mean time Enter a Guard with Cleanthes Hippollita weeping after him So see another person brought to the Barr. 1. Cour. The arch Malefactor 2. Cour. The grand offenders the most refractory To call good orders t is Cleanthes Hee Sim. That

folly what are you Sim. Well willers to your wife pray tend your booke sir We have nothing to say to you you may goe die For heere be those in place that can supply Lisan. What 's thy wild businesse heere Sim. Old man I 'le tell thee I come to beg the reversion of thy Wife I think these gallants be of my mind too but thou art but a dead Man therefore what should a man doe talking with thee Come Widdow stand to your tickling Lisan. Impious blood hounds Sim. Let the Ghost talke nere mind him Lisan. Shames of nature Sim. Alass poore Ghost consider what the man is Lisan. Monsters unnaturall you that have beene covetous Of your own fathers deaths gape yee for mine now Cannot a poore old man that now can reckon Een all the houres he has to live live quiet For such wild beasts as these that neither hold A certainty of good within themselves But scatter others comforts that are ripened For holy uses is hot youth so hasty It will not give an old man leave to die And leave a Widdow first but will make one The Husband looking on may your destructions Come all in hasty figures to your Soules Your wealth depart in hast to overtake Your honesties that died when you were infants May your male seed be hasty spend thrifts too Your daughters hastie sinners and diseas'd Ere they be thought at yeares to welcome misery And may you never know what leisure is But at repentance I am too uncharitable Too foule I must goe cleanse my selfe with prayers These are the Plagues of fondnesse to old men Wee 'r punisht home with what we doat upon Exit Sim So so the Ghost is vanish'd now your answer Lady Eug. Excuse me gentlemen 't were as much impudence In me to give you a kind answer yet As madnesse to produce a churlish one I could say now come a month hence sweet gentlemen Or two or three or when you will indeed But I say no such thing I set no time Nor is it mannerly to deny any I le carry an even hand to all the world Let other women make what hast they will What 's that to me but I profess unfainedly I le have my husband dead before I marry Nere looke for other answer at my hands Gentlemen Sim. Would he were hangd for my part looke for other Eug. I me at a word Sim. And I me at a blow then I le lay you o' th lips and leave you 1. Cour. Well struck Sim Sim. He that dares say hee ll mend it I le strike him 1. Cour. He would betray himselfe to be a brother That goes about to mind it Eug. Gentlemen you know my minde I bar you not my house But if you choose out houres more seasonably You may have entertainment Enter Parthenia Sim. What will she doe heerafter when sh is a widow Keeps open house already Exeunt Eug. How now Girle Parth. Those featherd fools that hither took their flight Have griev'd my father much Eug. Speak well of youth Wench While th' ast a day to live t is youth must make thee And when youth fails wise women will make it But alwayes take age first to make thee rich That was my counsell ever and then youth Will make thee sport enough all thy life after T is Times policy Wench what i st to bide A little hardness for a pair of years or so A man whose only strength lies in his breath Weaknes in all parts else thy bedfellow A cough o th Lungs or say a wheening matter Then shake off chains and dance all thy life after Parth. Every one to their liking● but I say An honest man's worth all be he yong or gray Yonder 's my Cozen Enter Hippolita Eug Art I must use thee now Dissembling is the best help for a vertue That ever woman had it saves their credit often Hip. How now Cozen What weeping Eug. Can you blame me when the time Of my dear Love and Husband now drawes on I study funerall rears against the day I must be a sad widow Hip. In troth Eugenia I have cause to weep to But when I visit I come comfortably And look to be so quited yet more sobbing Eug. Oh the greatest part of your affliction 's past The worst of mine 's to come I have one to die Your husbands father is dead and fixt In his eternall peace past the sharp tyrannous blow Hip. You must use patience Coze Eug. Tell me of patience Hip. You have example for t in me and many Eug. Yours was a father in law but mine a husbande On for a woman that could love and live With an old man mine is a jewell Cozen So quietly he lies by one so still Hip. Alas I have a secret lodg'd within me Which now will out in pity I can't hold Eugen. One that will not disturb me in my sleep After a whole month together lesse it be With those diseases age is subject to As aches coughes and pains and these heaven knows Against his will too hee s the quietest man Especially in bed Hip. Be comforted Eug How can I Lady None knowes the terror of an husbands losse But they that feare to lose him Hip. Fain would I keep it in but t will not be She is my kinswoman and i 'me pitifull I must impart a good if I kno wt once To them that stand in need on t I me like one Loves not to banquet with a joy alone My friends must partake too prithee cease Cozen If your love be so boundless which is rare in a yong woman in these dayes I tell you To one so much past service as your husband There is a way to beguile law and help you My husband found it out first Eug. Oh sweet Cozen Hip. You may conceale him and give out his death Within the time order his funerall too We had it so for ours I prayse heaven for t And hee s alive and safe Eug. O blessed Coze How thou reviv'st me Hip We daily see The good old man and feed him twice a day Me thinks it is the sweetest joy to cherish him That ever life yet shewd me Eug. So should I think A dainty thing to nurse an old man well Hip. And then we have his prayers and daily blessing And we two live so lovingly upon t His son and I and so contentedly You cannot think unlesse you tasted on t Eug. No I warrant you Oh loving Cozen What a great sorrow hast thou eas'd me of A thousand thanks goe with thee Hip. I have a suite to you I must not have you weepe when I am gone Exit Eug. No if I doe neer trust me Easie fool Thou hast put thy selfe into my power for ever Take heed of angring of me I conceal I fain a Funerall I keep my husband Lasse I have been thinking any time these two years I have kept him too long already I le goe count ore my Suitors that 's