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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

hang'd that slew My Father or his son Brain-battered or His Daughter made a prostitute to shame Ar. How merciless are your wishes Ra. Lady no But as I was hankring at an ordinary In quest of a new Master for this here Will never last to a new livory Less he were merrier I heard the bravest noise Of Laughter at a wicked accident Of Marriage that was chopt up this Morning Di. What marriage Quickly Ra. Who do you think Has married fair Mistris Millicent Di. Theophilus I can name him though his father Was fatal unto mine was sure to her Ra. Yes but without a Priest She has slipt his hold And is made fast enough unto another For which fine Mr. The so whines and chafes And hangs the head More then he would do For 's father were he hanged as you did wish For laughing newes eene now Ther 's sport for you Di. It does me good to hear of any cross That may torment their family I wish Joy to the man that did beguile him of her What ere he be Ar. But who has married her Ra. Thence springs the jest Old Mr. Quicksands Sir The bottomless devourer of young Gentlemen He that has liv'd till past three-score a batcheler By three-score i' the hundred he that has Undone by Mortgages and under-buyings So many Gentlemen that they all despair'd Of means to be reveng'd Ar. But where 's your Jest Ra. The Jest is that they now have found that means As they suppose by making of him Cuckold They are laying their heads together in every corner Contriving of his horns and drinking healths To the success And there were sport for you now If you were any body Ar. I 'le abroad however Di. That 's nobly said Take courage with you Brother Ar. And yet me thinks I know not how to look The wide world in the face thus on the sudden I would fain get abroad yet be unknown Ra. For that Sir look you I have here by chance A false beard which I borrowed with a purpose To ha' worn 't and put a jest upon your sadness Ar. Does it do well with me Ar. puts on the beard Ra. You 'l never have One of your own so good you look like Hector Ar. Go fetch my sword and follow me Di. Be sure you carry a strict eye o're his actions And bring me a true account Ra. I warrant you Mistriss Di. Do and I 'le love thee everlastingly Why now you are my brother Ar. Farewel Sister Exit Ar. Ra. Di. I hope he has some stratagem a foot In our revenge to make his honour good It is not grief can quit a fathers blood Exit ACT 1. SCENE 2. Nathaniel Phillis Nat. Prithee be and answered and hang off o' me I ha' no more to say to you in the way You wot on Phillis Phi. Nor do I seek to you In that way which you wot on wanton Sir But to be honest and to marry me You have done too much the tother way already Nat. I wish you were more thankful Mrs. Phillis To one has taught you a trade to live upon You are not th' first by twenty I have taught it That thrive well i' the world Phi. There are so many Such teachers in the world and so few Reformers that the world is grown so full Of female frailties the poor Harlotries Can scarce already live by one another And yet you would have me thrust in among 'em Nat. I do not urge you Take what course you please But look not after me I am not mark'd For Matrimony I thank my stars Phi. Should I run evil courses you are the cause And may in time curse your own act in it You 'l find th' undoing of an honest Maid Your heaviest sin upon your bed of sickness T will cost your soul the deepest groan it fetches And in that hope I leave you Exit Nat. Farewel wag-tail Marry thee quoth a That 's wise work indeed If we should marry every Wench we lie with 'T were after six a week with some of us Marry love forbid when two is enough to hang one Vin. Nat we have sought diligently for fear Enter Vincent and Edmond The news that is abroad should flie before us Nat. What news What flying fame do you labour with Ed. News that makes all the Gallants i' the Town Fly out o' their little wits They are so eager Upon the joy I mean such youthful Gallants As have or sold or mortgag'd or been cheated By the grave patron of Arch-cosonage Whose sad misfortune we are come to sing Shall I need to name him to thee Nat. Who the old Rascal Quicksands speak good Vince What! has he hangd himself speak quickly prithe Vin. Worse worse by half man Durst thou hear a news Whose mirth will hazzard cracking of a rib Nat. I and 't be two Here 's hoopes enough besides To hold my drink in Pray thee speak what mischief Is come upon him Ed. I pray thee guess again Nat. Has somebody over-reach'd him in his way Of damnable extortion and he cut his throat Or swallowed poison Vin. Ten times worse then that too Nat. Is he then hoisted into the Star-Chamber For his notorious practises or into The high Commission for his blacker arts Ed. Worse then all this Nat. Pax keep it to your self then If you can think it be too good for me Why did you set me a longing you cry worse And ten times worse and know as well as I The worse it is to him the better wel-come Ever to me And yet you tell me nothing Vin. He has married a young wife Nat. Has he Cadzooks Ed. We bring you no comfort we Nat. Nere go fine sport Ha ha ha What is she Would he had my wench was here eene now What is she he has married quickly prithe Vin. One much too good for him Ed. The beauteous Millicent Driven by the tempest of her Uncles will Is like a pinnace forc'd against the Rock Nat. But he will never split her that 's the best on 't I hope she 'le break his heart first Gentlemen I thank you for your news and know what I Will presently go do Vin. Pray stay a little Ed. And take us with you What will you go do Nat. That which we can all at once Do not hold me Vin. We came to cast a plot w' ye Nat. Cast a pudding How long ha' they been married Ed. But this morning Nat. You 'l ha' me come too late Ne're go 't is a shame he was not Cuckolded 'Fore Dinner Vin. That had been a fine first course At a wedding feast indeed A little patience Nat. Pray let me take my course 'fore supper yet Ed. The business 'longs to us as much as you He has wrong'd us all alike He has cozened us As much as you Nat. He has made me so poor That my poor whore eene now claim'd marriage of me Vin. The case is ours His wrongs are common to us So shall his wife be

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

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