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A77567	Five nevv playes, viz. The English moor, or the mock-marriage. The love-sick court, or the ambitious politique: Covent Garden weeded. The nevv academy, or the nevv exchange. The queen and concubine. / By Richard Brome.	Brome, Richard, d. 1652?; Brome, Richard, d. 1652? English Moor.; Brome, Richard, d. 1652? Love-sick court.; Brome, Richard, d. 1652? Covent Garden weeded.; Brome, Ricahrd, d. 1652?. New academy.; Brome, Richard, d. 1652? Queen and concubine.	1659 (1659)	Wing B4872; Thomason E1782_1; Thomason E1782_2; Thomason E1782_3; Thomason E1782_4; Thomason E1782_5; ESTC R209758	271,627	554

then burn up higher still and higher You warm you at such fire 't is we walk through 't The hobnayl'd Common wealth must tread it out Andr. So now away with him Hang him first d' ye hear He has the bast clothes that will encourage The Hangman the better to turn the rest after him Enter Eulalia Lodovico Enl. Whither away with him Pog. So now you see what 's become of your fine speeches Eul. Will ye 'gainst all my Counsels and requests Persist to pull destruction by taking others lives upon your own And seem to carry it as in care for me Pog. No 't is in care of our selves because we know Not to breed our Children honestly without you Eul. Have I not often councell'd and entreated You would forbear Lol. Your councels and entreats We are bound to disobey by Proclamation For we must grant you nothing Andr. VVell found out Pog. And therefore if you say Hang not this man We are bound to hang him we will shew our selves the Kings Subjects not yours Lod. If you can answer 't to the King 't is well His Majesty is here at hand Eul. Go leave him unto me Andr. The King at hand 't is time for us to look about us Lol. Must not we be hang'd now Pog. It will be so without all peradventure Eul. Release your Prisoner set him free and go send the rest of the confederats Exeunt Guard Alphonso kneeles Alph. I was not bound till now I have no power to move or stir a limb O sacred Queen use mercy in adjudging me To present death to quit me of the torment That rages all upon me all within me The sight of you has shot more paines into me Then I have drops of blood O let me die Eul. I cannot give thee death nor will my prayers Be prevalent for thy cure poor sinful man Till thou layst ope the cause of thy disease Thy hainous sin by fair and free confession Alph. I hope no cure and therefore ask no life But the Kings Justice to afford me death That is no less deserved then desir'd For I confess This my Device was but To make my way to you t' have murder'd you Enter two Lieutenants Doctor and Midwife Wrought thereunto by Alinda's Instigation More I confess The Evidence against you Whereby you were despos'd was false And all these witnesses which now do bring Addition to my torment did I hire Both for their perjury past and for their late Attempt upon your life with the Queens money Eul. Do you confess it Omn. Heaven Pardon our misdeed it is most true Eul. Heaven grant you all your cures Omn. All blessings on the Queen Eul. All was confess'd before by Fabio and Strozzo And you do well to seem so penitent I do forgive you and will plead your pardon unto the King Alph. Your sacred mercy Madam shall save a life then to be spent in Praises and Prayers for your Grace Eul. Go and pray for grace to mend your lives Exeunt offenders So let 's now to the King Lod. Now look you about you cast your Coats and instantly Hast to the Curat hee 's preparing sports In speech and Dance to entertain the King Go and assist him that must be the way To gain your Pardons Andr. Come then let 's away No longer Brothers of the Bench wee 'l be But of the Revels for his Majesty Scoen. VIII. Recorders Enter King Horatio Sforza Petruccio King These troubles over let us now Surveigh this part of my Possession I never saw before I could contemplate This late neglected peece of my Estate To be the happiest sure it is no less To those that think on earth there 's happiness The Air disperseth pleasure and the Earth Of fresh delight to every step gives birth Here plentie grows and above it content Ore spreads the Face of all the Continent Eulalia thou art happy and didst rise Not fall from Court into this Paradise Thy can it move my admiration much Thy vertue wrought the change and made it such Sfor. My Lord the King is sad what shall we do Hor. I am as sad as he and should be dead If he were dead and therefore no fit member To make Him merry I try your vein with him Tell him your Daughters dying that may cheer him Sfor. Are you so tart Court Blain-worm King Yet can I smile in midst of grief to think How the Court malice hath been wav'd and punished By Rustical simplicitie Petr. The Sun Appears again in the Kings smiles observe Hor. I thank your Majestie that sweet smile reviv'd me King Who smil'd Hor. not I I 'm sure did you or you There could be no such thing who dares be merry when the King 's sad Shalmes Petr. Yes here are some now coming I hear 'm that are merry in hope to make the King so Scoen. IX. Enter Curat richly rob'd and Crown'd with Bays playing on a Fiddle many School Boys with Skaerfes and Nosegays c. then follow Gonzago dress'd and Crown'd as Queen of the Girles following her at last Eulalia supported by Lodovico and Andrea Alphanso Strozzo Fabio D. Midwife The former being all pass'd over the Stage they kneel to the King King O my Enlalia Eul. Still the most humble Handmaid To your high Majestie King Thy words are sweet Yet to my guiltie sense they are not less Then thunder bolts fram'd of the wrongs I shot Against the Heavenly Region of thy mind And 't is but Justice that the repercussion Do strike me dead Eul. No Passion mighty Sir Hor. O my sweet Queen but I am thunder struck Andr. Old Lad art there still sick o th' Kings disease aside Eul. If I may presume of any favour vouchsafe a glance on these Alphonso Stro. Fab. Doctor and Mid. Besech your Highness Enter Curat Gonzago in his hand veil'd three or four Lasses Cur. Thus have you seen great King in best array Nostri Discipuli have made Holy-day Whilst I their Paedagogue or pettie King Present in hand this little Royal Thing Yclep'd their Queen or Mistriss certe fallor For that 's the Royal School Mistress as we call her And this her under Usher vey'ld is she Dreading the Power of shinning Majesty Might dazle her Dancing for nunc est saltandum And here are Lads and Lasses that at Random Have left their works as we the School Templum To follow us 't is Regis ad Exemplum The youth's are muffled for their better graces Though you may like their feet youl 'd blame their Faces But I le not trouble you with long Oration Because I had but short precogitation Dance Hor. His Highness thanks you and hath here dispos'd An hundred Duccats in this Purse inclos'd Drink it amongst ye to the Kings well faring And see there be no falling out i th' sharing So make your Exit Cur. Non simus ingrati Rex Regina semper sint Beati Exeunt Curat and Lasses Eul. Stay you a while Manent Fabio

air Have made it turn more pretious and more fair He spake with such a full and easie strain With such a soft and such a flowing vein As if 't were Nature all yet there was Art Yet there was Skill in every limb and Part So gently came all that he thought or writ As if he made it not but did repeat His fancy like the blood did alwayes flow Yet full of life and full of spirts too His wit and Angels did in this agree Their motion is most nimble quick and free And perfect too And as the world was made Which no delayes of spring and summer had No ages or increases but on all At first a ripeness and full growth did fall So all that from his happy Pen did come Was ripe and grown at first and left no room For after change no second hand could give More strength to it or it more strength receive When he doth speak of love himself he arms With such resistless and such conquering charms Acts such sweet hopes such innocent fears and joyes That we or love his Mistress or his voice As eccho did When he would make us smile Thousand Anacreons play about his style When he commands our sorrow straight our eyes Into salt streams our hearts to sighings rise When he doth laugh again the clouds are gone Our minds into a sudden calmness run He so dispos'd our thoughts as when the hand Or eye of the chief Gen'ral doth command Whole Armies act what his example led Follow his postures with such willing speed Into obedience with such easiness fall As if one soul and spring did move them all When he strook vice he let the person go Wounded not men but manners nor did do Like him who when he painted heaven hel Amongst the damned shades and those that fell Did draw his Enemies face that all might say Who there condemned by the Painter lay But as the Surgeon at once hides and cures And bindeth up the limb which most indures The sore and pain so he with gentle hand Did heal the wound and yet conceal the man His Scenes mens Actions Tempers Humours shew And copy out what the great world doth do His words are like the shapes which Angels take And for themselves of finest air do make That are so much like men that clearest eyes Cannot discern where the smal difference lies THE English Moor OR THE MOCK-MARRIAGE A Comaedy as it was often acted with general applause by her Majesties Servants Innocens permitte jocos cur ludere nobis Non liceat LONDON Printed by J. T. for A. C. and Henry Broom and are to be sold at the Gun in Ivie-lane 1658 Prologue MOst noble fair and curteous to ye all Welcome and thanks we give that you would call And visit your poor servants that have been So long and pitiless unheard unseen Welcome you 'l say your money that does do Dissembling is a fault we say so too And your long absence was no fault of your But our sad fate to be so long obscure Jove and the Muses grant and all good Men We feel not that extremity again The thought of which yet chills us with a fear That we have bought our liberty too dear For should we fall into a new restraint Our hearts must break that did before but faint You noble great and good ones that vouchsafe To see a Comedy and sometimes laugh Or smile at wit and harmeless mirth As thus ye have begun to grace and succour us Be further pleas'd to hold us still upright For our relief and for your own delight To move for us to those high powers whom we submit unto in all humility For our proceeding and we 'le make it good To utter nothing may be understood Offensive to the state manners or time We will as well look to our necks as climb You hear our sute obtain it if you may Then find us money and we 'le find you play Drammatis Personae Meanwell Two old Gentlemen and friends supposed to have been kill'd in a Duel Rashley Arthur Meanwels Son in love with Lucy Theophilus Rashleys Son in love with Milicent Quicksands an old Usurer Testy an old angry Justice Winlose a decayed Gentleman Vincent Two gallants undone by Quicksands Edmund Nath. Banelass a Wencher Host Drawer Ralph Meanwels servant Arnold Rashleys servant Buzard Quicksands servant Dionisia Meanwels daughter Lucy Rashleys daughter Milicent Testys Neece Phillis Winlose daughter Madge Quicksands servant The Scene London THE ENGLISH-MOOR or the Mock-Marriage Act. 1. Scene 1. Arthur Dionysia Ar. DEar Sister bear with me Di. I may not brother What! suffer you to pine and peak away In your unnatural melancholy fits Which have already turn'd your purer blood Into a toad-pool dye I am asham'd Upon my life almost to call you brother But nature has her swing in me I must Therefore I crave you as you are my brother To shake this dull and muddy humor off By visiting the streets and quit your chamber Which is a sickness to you Ar. O my sister Di. I can say O my brother too to shew you How it becomes you I have the same cause Equally with your self to spend my life In sollitary mourning and would do it Could it make good our loss My honor'd Father A tear has scap'd me there But that 's by th'by And more of anger 'gainst his enemy And his for ever curs'd posterity That rob'd us of a Father then of sorrow For what we know is unrecoverable But to sit grieving over his Memory In a resolved silence as you do Killing your own blood while a vein holds any Proceeding from the flesh that drew out his Is meerly idle Mingle then your grief With thought of brave revenge And do it not In private Meditation in your Chamber But bear it out till it proceed to Action Ar. By powring blood on blood Di. By quenching fire Of high revenge with base unmanly blood By stopping of our Fathers cureless wounds Which still bleed fresh in our vex'd memories With the proud flesh of him that butcher'd ours Ar. We know he lives not that has slain our Father Or if he lives t is where I cannot reach him He nere saw English harbour since his sword Unfortunately had the better of my father Di. But his son lives Ar. Good sister cool thy passion With reasonable means Di. O where 's the spirit That my slain father had Have you no part of 't Must I now play the Man whilst you inherit Onely my Mothers puling disposition Ar. I know thy drift good sister Dionisia Is not unto revenge or blood but to stir up Some motion in me to prevent the danger A sad retiredness may bring upon me Di. Bee 't as you think it so you will abroad And make the house no longer dark with sighing Ent. Rafe Now Sir the newes with you Ra. Newes worth your hearing Meerly to laugh at Good for nothing else Di. Is the old Ruffian tane and

That you are a monstrous cuckold and deserve it Quic. Knowing my safety then and their foul errors Have I not cause to laugh Yes in abundance Now note my plot the height of my invention I have already given out to some That I have certain knowledge you are dead And have had private burial in the countrey At which my shame not grief forbad my presence Yet some way to make known unto the world A husbands duty I resolve to make A certain kind of feast which shall advance My joy above the reach of spight or chance Mil. May I partake Sir of your rich conceit Quic. To morrow night expires your limited moneth Of vow'd virginity It shall be such a night In which I mean thy beauty shall break forth And dazle with amazement even to death Those my malicious enemies that rejoyc'd In thy suppos'd escape and my vexation I will envite 'hem all to such a feast As shall fetch blushes from the boldest guest I have the first course ready Mil. And if I a side one knocks Fail in the second blame my houswifery Qui. Away some body comes I guess of them That have jeer'd me whom I must jeer again Ex. Mil. Gallants y' are welcom I was sending for ye En. Nat. Nat. To give us that we come for Vin. Ed. Qui. What may that be Vin. Trifles you have of ours Qui. Of yours my Masters Ed. Yes you have in mortgage Three-score pound Land of mine inheritance Vin. And my Annuity of a hundred Marks Nat. And Jewels Watches Plate and cloaths of mine Pawn'd for four hundred pound Will you restore all Qui. You know all these were forfeited long since Yet I 'le come roundly to you Gentlemen Ha' you brought my moneys and my interest Nat. No surely But we 'le come as roundly to you As moneyless Gentlemen can You know Good Offices are ready money Sir Qui. But have you Offices to sell good Sirs Nat. We mean to do you Offices worth your money Qui. As how I pray you Nat. Marry Sir as thus We 'le help you to a man that has a friend Vin. That knows a party that can go to the house Ed. Where a Gentleman dwelt that knew a Scholar Nat. That was exceeding wel acquainted with a Traveler Vi. That made report of a great Magician beyond the Seas Ed. That might ha' been as likely as any man in all the world Nat. To have helpt you to your wife again Qui. You are the merriest mates that ere I cop'd withal But to be serious Gentlemen I am satisfied Concerning my lost Wife She has made even With me and all the World Nat. What is she dead Qui. Dead Dead And therefore as men use to mourn For kind and loving wives and call their friends Their choicest friends unto a solemn banquet Serv'd out with sighs and sadness while the widowers Blubber and bath in tears which they do seem To wring out of their fingers ends and noses And after all the demure ceremony Are subject to be thought dissemblers I To avoid the scandal of Hypocresie Because 't is plain she lov'd me not invite You and your like that lov'd her and not me To see me in the pride of my rejoycings You shall find entertainment worth your company And that let me intreat to morrow night Nat. You shall ha' mine Vin. To morrow night say you Quic. Yes gallants fail not as you wish to view Your mortgages and pawns again Adieu Exit Nat. We came to jear the Jew and he jears us Vin. How glad the raschal is for his Wives death Nat. An honest man could not have had such luck Ed. He has some further end in 't could we guess it Then a meer merriment for his dead wives riddance Vin. Perhaps he has got a new Wife and intends To make a funeral and a Marriage feast In one to hedge in charges Ed. He 'il be hang'd rather then marry again Nat. Zooks would he had some devilish jealous hilding 'T would be a rare addition to his mirth For us to bring our antick in betwixt 'em Of his changling Bastard Vin. How ere we 'll grace his feast with our presentment Nat. When 's the Buzzard Vin. We left him with his foster father Arnold Busy at rehearsal practising their parts Ed. They shall be perfect by to morrow night Nat. If not unto our profit our delight Exeunt omnes ACT 4. SCENE 3. Theophilus Lucy Lu. Brother be comforted The. Let not the name Or empty sound of comfort mix with th' air That must invade these ears They are not capable Or if they be they dare not for themselves Give the conveyance of a sillable Into my heart that speak not grief or sorrow Lu. Be griev'd then I le grieve with you For each sigh You waste for Millicents untimely death I le spend a tear for your as fruitless sorrow The. That 's most unsutable y' are no company For me to grieve with if you grieve for me Take the same cause with me you are no friend Or sister else of mine It is enough To set the world a weeping Lu. So it is All but the stony part of 't The. Now you are right Her husband 's of that part He cannot weep by nature But I le find A way by art in Chymistry to melt him At least extract some drops But do you weep Indeed for Millicent What all these tears Lu. All for your love The. She is my love indeed and was my wife But for the empty name of marriage onely But now she 's yours for ever You enjoy her In her fair blessed memory in her goodness And all that has prepar'd her way for glory The. Let me embrace thee sister How I reverence Any fair honour that is done to her Now thou shalt weep no more Thou hast given me comfort In shewing me how she 's mine And tears indeed Are all too weak a sacrifice for her But such as the heart weeps Enter Page Lu. Sit down brother Sing boy the mornful song I bad you practise Song The. Call you this mournful T is a wanton air Go y' are a naughty child indeed I le whip you If you give voice unto such notes Lu. I know not brother how you like the air But in my mind the words are sad Pray read 'em The. They are sad indeed How now my boy dost weep I am not angry now Pa. I do not weep Sir for my self But ther 's a youth without A handsome youth whose sorrow works in me He sayes he wants a service and seeks yours The. Dost thou not know him Pa. No but I pity him The. O good boy that canst weep for a strangers misery The sweetness of thy dear compassion Even melts me too What does he say he is Pa. T is that Sir that will grieve you when you hear it He is a poor kinsman to the gentlewoman Lately deceas'd that you so lov'd and mourn for The. And dost thou let him stay without so long Merciless Villain

Guiltie or no Sfor. No Sir nor dares there be Such a suggestion in the heart of Hell And were he there that thought or could but dream Of such a Scandal I 'ld squeeze it out on 's Brains Petr. Then I must hold you to your promise Sir Enter Guard Sfor. A wrestling towards away west away Nay then I am betray'd Petr. Forbear I pray Guard retire Sfor. He comes but to insult and to torment me Petr. My Lord you much forget is not this Passion Sfor. Passion of heart he hopes not for Salvation That hears with patience but the repetition Of such a Blasphemie I must not die Until the world be vindicated from The redamnation such an error threatens Petr. You see I could oppress you but all forbear the roome Exit Guard Sfor. Do you come to mad me Petr. If you will be calm I le tell you what I come for Sfor. As setled as a Rock beneath a mountain Here will I sit and hear thy loudest malice Petr. If this man be not innocent vertue lives not Sfor. Now tell me what you come for and be sure You ask no more abominable questions VVhilst calmly I clear these thus By the Honour And faith of a true Souldier I am clear Of these suggested crimes which before Heaven Which knows my Innocencie I do not urge To save my life from the Kings violent Fury Nor any way to close with thee in Friendship Now that my fortune is at worst So speak 'T is long a coming I begin to think It is some good you are so loath to utter 't Petr. It is if you can apprehend it so My Lord I take you for my friend and come To make my moan to you insomuch as now I do conceive you Noble Vertuous Honest Sfor. Foh this is worse than all the rest this stinks Of the Court-putrefaction Flatterie grossly But on I prithee talk is such a noveltie I will hear any thing Petr. I could not see your vertue when it shin'd Thorow the radiant favours of the King It dazled me with envie then but now Like the red Sun through cold and mystie vapours I can behold it at the full Sfor. So so umh whu so much for my vertues What 's your business now Petr. I say I come to make my moan to you Groaning beneath a weightie Injury The King has thrown upon me Sfor. Has denyed him Something I warrant that he would have begg'd The making of a Knight or some such foolerie What was 't Petr. In putting a base office on me Sfor. Is the great Marshals and chief Generals Office become so base Petr. No Sir the Hangmans Office Read that I am commanded there and warranted VVith present speed to bring your Head to him Sfor. A prayer or two by his great leave and yours And you shall have it instantly Petr. My Lord you shall not undervalue 't so That Honour which has won me to you shall Work better for your preservation I have much more to tell you and strong Reasons Why you should live of the Queens infinite wrongs And yours wrought by your Daughters cruel Ambition Sfor. This is a nobleness beyond Example Sure now you are honest Petr. There you see my strength If now for truth and Honours cause I strain A point of Loyaltie you will engage Your Honour to secure me Sfor. I hold my Honour equal to the best And prize it still so far above my life That to save Kingdoms I le not forfeit it Here in the sight of Heaven I do engage it For your securitie Petr. I ask no better Keeper Enter Keeper Keep My Lord Petr. Dismiss that Guard and give us way Keep I shall Petr. Now come my Lord vertue may be cast by But never overcome by Tyrannie Sfor. VVars Sword Laws Axe or Tyrannies fell Knife May overcome my Person not my life For that is yours Petruccio Exeunt Ambo ACT. III Scoen. I. Enter Enlalia Eul. TUrn'd out of all and cast into the world And that forbidden too to pitie me No sucour no relief to be afforded Heaven still is where it was and cannot lose The Providence it ever had let those That think me wretched now consider that And be with me converted to a Faith That will proclaim us happy What 's my loss VVhat was the State and glory of a Court But steps and lights through dangerous Ambition To ends beyond our selves in whose atchievements VVe make our selves but nothing to ourselves And all that we are then is to the world VVhich renders us great Titles which tane off VVe then return unto our selves again And all the world is ours I was not great Till now nor could I confidently say Any thing was mine own till I had nothing They do but sleep that live in highest Pompe And all their happiness is but a dream VVhen mine is reall nay nay I can prove it Their costly fare breeds riot mine content Their rich Attire is but mere Pageantry Made to please their eyes mine keeps me warm And healthful when a cold becomes their sickness They boast of Honour and Gentilitie For their Attendants then when the chief Honour Of the best woman meek obedience Is my own handmaid and my Patience A sweeter servant than Gentilitie Continually my other for Councel and defence what have I now They have the helps of worldly wise mens brains And I the comforts of my fruitfull Prayers They have tall big-bon'd servants for defence I the strongst guard of all mine innocence Birds chirp What Musick had the Court compar'd to this Or what comparison can all their sports And Revells hold with those of Kids and Fawnes And frisking Lambs upon the countrey lawnes VVhich are my hourly pleasant entertainments In all my wanderings in which I have not Hunger'd at any time but I have found Meat which I duely earn'd nor ever thirsted But I have found a Spring that has refresh'd me And am no sooner weary then I finde A shelter or a shade to rest me in As now in which a slumber 'gins to creep Over mine Eyes more soft then any sleep Could these my Senses when I lay of late On Down beneath the Canopy of State falls asleep Scoen. II. Enter Genius Sleep in thy Sainted Innocence Whilst Angels watch in thy defence Sleep whilst I charm these bubling Streams With Musick to make sweet thy Dreams Thy Dreams which truly shall relate The Passages of thy Estate Dumb shew Enter Alinda Flavello two Lieutenants Doctor Midwife Exeunt Lieutenants Doctor Midwife Enter Sforza at the other end raging and the Jaylor with mute action Enter King Petruccio Alinda whispers the King he gives a Warrant and Signet to Petruccio Exit Petruccio King kisses Alinda graces Flavello Exeunt All this as the Genius speaks Note first thy Foes in Court conspire Against thy Life and Villains hire To act thy Tragedy Loe those the perjur'd Evidence That suggested thine offence Are hir'd the second time to be Co-actors in thy

shall have Madam Alin. You made not choise of men of Resolution Flav. They were the same exasperate cashier'd Souldiers That sware so valiantly against Eulalia Alin. Many that pass for Souldiers dare swear valiantly That dare not fight Flav. Many that dare not fight Dare do a murther Madam such a tame one too I am confident they have kill'd her however I have done my best Alin. Thou hast done nothing whilst that woman lives The work was not so course that your own hand Could have disdain'd it Sir if you had lov'd me So leave me negligent Fellow Flav. Her first months Majesty hath wip'd out The memorie of all her former dayes I must not lose her though this hand then soon Must do the work be 't not already done Exit King How cheers my love what ominous aspect Hath wrought this sad Eclipse upon that Beautie VVhose radiancie onely is my life Cast by this veil of sadness quit my fears And from my Browes wipe off a score of years No what must then remove it or dispell These Clouds that from the anguish of thy heart Do cast this shadow ore my happiness Alin. I must not will not name it but you said You would do something which it seems Your wavering love neglects King Can I neglect A duty that belongs to my Alinda Speak it again and by my first nights bliss I had with thee by this kiss and by this I le treble in performance all my promises Alin. Y' are dull in your performances I will Not name a request the second time although my life Your dignitie and your Kingdoms safetie Lie on the rack for 't King She will not name 't again Her last request was for the head of Sforza Her arrogant proud Father whose perversness Checq'd at her due promotion and whose life Swolne up with Popularitie was my danger Threatning no less then ruine on my State She will not name 't again poor tender soul Lest she might fall into th' interpretation Of an unnatural child yet for my safetie She suffers in desire to have it done I have prevented her desire 't is done I know Petruccio his Antagonist Who had my warrant and Signet for it VVould not be slack in th' execution Come sweet be fearless that which your mild goodness Is now so timerous to name is done Alin. Is she pursu'd and put to death King What she Alind. Nay I have said again King Sforza my dearest life th' unnatural Homicide That sought thy life and mine is put to death Alin. VVhat my dear Father King VVas it not your Desire Enter Petruccio Here comes sure Testimony speak Petruccio I will not ask Is 't done but speak the manner How Sforza di'd Petr. A self-wil'd obstinate man Such as he liv'd he di'd and gracious Madam That a more bloody Spectacle should not move Your tender nature to compunction I brought But this inseparate Adjunct of his malicious Head a Jewel Against you the King and the whole Kingdoms good Alin. This is a token most infallible The Jewel that none but the cold hand of Death Could ravish from him 'T is done The fear of him is like a storm blown ore 'T is done but this is yet but part of that full satisfaction That must confirm my safetie Pray my Lord side You fatal instrument of my Fathers blood Let me not look upon you King Nay Alinda Exit Petruccio You must not be so sad your gentle sorrow In those obsequious Tears express'd shew nature And Filial pietie as he was your Father But think upon your wrongs my dangers and your own Alin. Alas my Lord think you withall a Father Is not so early forgot But sorrow leave me And do you give me leave to think that now It is no less a Childs part to embrace Revenge then sorrow for a Fathers loss King How means my love Alin. She lives that was his Ruine You may remember whom I mean Eulalia Till now I had no Plea against her life Onely my care of you might wish her Death For your security Her fowl Adultery And secret Practices against your Crown Were nothing unto me compar'd with this Now I have lost a Father she the cause He suffers she survives where are your Laws King Sweet be content Alin. Content your self great Sir With your black infamie sit down content On your Majestick Throne the President Of Capital contented Cuckolds do Till all your Subjects dance the Hornpipe too King Nay dear Alinda do but think Alin. Think what VVhat on a course to be reveng'd on you To serve you in that kind my self Kin. O torment Alin. Or rather let me think your lustful purpose VVas but to rob me of my Virgin-Honour And that you put her by but for a time Until my youth had quench'd your Appetite Then to recal her home to your embraces She is your wife it seems then still not I King You have awak'd me from a Lethargie In which I was confounded now I see She and mine Honour cannot live at once She dies Alinda Alin. And you may consider A little further yet Sir if you please You Father and maintain a Son your own I cannot safely say and therefore more Is my vexation who demeans himself Not towards me like one that were your wife King Hee 's also doom'd already my Alinda Alin. It may prevent a greater strife hereafter Should he but live t' inherit Lands and Titles That must belong to yours and my succession King Thy wisdom inspir'd me all shall be Be thou but my Alinda rul'd by thee Alin. Seal you that Grant with this kiss I Seal mine My glories were eclips'd but now they shine ACT. IV. Scoen. I. Enter Poggio Lollio two Countrey-men with Eulalia Eul. Y' Are welcome Friends your prayers and good wishes Are comforts to me yet without danger of the Proclamation Pog. Madam the Court in all the Braverie It boasts and borrows cannot so rejoyce In the bright shining Beauty of their Queen As we in your enjoying in this plainness Their Bells and Bonfires Tilts and Tournaments Their Feasts and Banquets Musicks and costly shews How ere unpaid for shall not outpass our loves Eul. Be you as confident I will not wrong A man among you therefore pray reserve What is your own and warrant your own safety Pogg. But how you 'll live we know not we are now In our old former Health the Countrey 's cur'd Your Practice at an end unless you had The common gift of most Physitians To make as many sick as you make sound You will not find a Patient in seven years Eul. But I have other Arts sufficient skill In works of several kinds the Needle Loome The Wheel the Frame the Net-Pin and choice of Fingers works are most familiar with me Lol. And can you handle the Bobbins well good Woman Make statute-Lace you shall have my Daughter Pogg. And mine to make Tape-Purles can you do it Eul. Yes and teach all your children works to