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A01773 The Hollander A comedy written 1635. The author Henry Glapthorne. And now printed as it was then acted at the Cock-pit in Drury lane, by their Majesties Servants, with good allowance. And at the court before both their Majesties. Glapthorne, Henry. 1640 (1640) STC 11909; ESTC S103204 43,077 72

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and yet prove it and you shall prove your selfe a so you shall There had been another touch for him cosen Fortresse but I fear'd hee would have understood me now ere you shall prove it Fort. Silence cosen Sconce let 's heare the whiffler if he cannot verifie his words sink me my Jo he shall taste arme of dangerfield Free Out of your words sir I le prove it Diabolicall no cause Naturall begets the most contemn'd effect Without a passage through the meanes the fire cannot produce another fire untill it be apply'd to subject apt to take Its flaming forme nor can a naturall cause Worke at incompetent space how then can this Neither consign'd to th' matter upon which Its operation is to cause effect Nay at so farre a distance worke so great And admirable a cure beyond the reach And law of nature yet by you maintain'd A naturall lawfull agent what dull sence can credit it Scon. Very authenticke this well if the divell have tane the paines to be my surgion my arme I feare will be possest I feele an evill spirit in it already Fort. Respect the Doctors answer Doct. Sir you speake reason I must confesse but every cause Workes not the same way we distinguish thus Some by a Physicall and reall touch Produce So Carvers hewing the rough Marble Frame a well polish'd statue but there is A virtuall contact too which other causes Imploy in acting their more rare effects So the bright Sun does in the solid earth By the infusive vertue of his raies Convert the for did substance of the mold To Mines of mettall and the piercing ayre By cold reflexion so ingenders Ice And yet you cannot say the chilly hand Of ayre or quickning fingers of the Sunne Really touch the water or the earth The Load-stone so by operative force Causes the Iron which has felt his touch To attract another Iron nay the Needle Of the ship guiding compasse to respect The cold Pole Articke just so the salve workes Certaine hidden causes convay its powerfull Vertue to the wound from the annointed Weapon and reduce it to welcome soundnesse Scon. The salve is legitimate agen Cosen Fortresse O rare Doctor Mix. Nay you shall heare him tickle the gentlemen I warrant you Free This Mr. Doctor is A weake evasion and your purities Have small affinity the glorious Sunne As t is a generall instrument of heaven In all its great productions and the Ayre An Elementall agent naturally Ingender Mettalls in the earth and Ice On the selfe frisling waters The Load-stone As t is a simple body may afford That vertue to the steele by secret power Of all-commanding nature But that this This weapon salve a compound should affect More than the purest bodies can by wayes More wonderfull than they doe as apply'd Unto a sword a body voyd of life Yet it must give life or at least preserve it Scon. Pish he talkes like an Apothecary to the Doctor Doct. You mistake it does not T is the blood sticking to the sword atchieves The cure there is a reall simpathy Twixt it and that which has the juyce of life Moystens the body wounded Fort. Rare Paracelsian thy Annalls shall be cut in Brasse by Pen of steele Free You may as well Report a reall simpathy betweene The nimble soule in its swift flight to heaven And the cold carkasse it has lately left As a loath'd habitation blood when like The sap of Trees which weepes upon the Axe Whose cruell edge does from the aged Trunke Dissever the green Branches from the Veines Ravish'd forgoes his Native heate and has No more relation to the rest than some Desertlesse servant whom his Lord casts off Has to his vertuous fellowes Enter Mistris Know-worth Know Mr. Free-wit return'd agen and in discourse With Mr. Doctor I le not disturbe your conference Doct. So please your Ladyship we had even done I am glad she 's come to rescue me Scon. There was a touch for him Cosen Fortresse victus victa victum he lookes like a Schoole-boy vanquish'd at capping verses harke you sir repent your errour and in time you may bee sav'd you see the vertue of the salve the Doctor had dress'd his Speaking weapon with it It hurt you and it has cured you Beware you fall not into a relapse there was another touch for him Cosen Fortresse Doctor give your hand father I should have said some fam'd Historian some Gallo-Belgicus shal Chronicle thee and thy salve there was a touch for him Cosen Fortresse Come you shall see my Mistris Exeunt Sconce Fortresse Mixum and Doctor Know Mr. Freewit have you yet found the injur'd Woman out I motioned at last parting Free Truely Mistris had she bin worthy the seeking your Command should not have beene protracted but 'T were a staine to my owne honour to be inquisitive After a prostitute and a blot to your Discretion should nice judgements know you enjoyn'd me So manifest a folly Know 'T was a greater to be the authour of her shame Whom now you slight so infinitely Free Could I slight her more 'T were a due justice which I owe my selfe In hazarding the forfeit of your love Undone by her but your most serious thoughts Will sure convert your soule from the intent Of my most certaine ruine which your last Discourse perhaps for triall of my faith Seem'd to invert upon me Know You mistake needlesse are second trialls when a first Proves you perfidious doubtlesse you confirm'd Your love to her with the same sad protests You 've done to me yet left her for her sake And in revenge of womans innocence martyr'd by you I here to heaven pronounce a sure disjunction Of our loves and vowes for ever Free O reserve that breath Which ought like sacred incense to be spent Onely on heaven or in delivering notes May charme the world to peace when raging warres Or Earth quakes have affrighted it Confirm't On no such use horrid and ominous As if it threatned thunder to the earth Or would infect the genius of the ayre With Mists contagious as if compos'd Of Viper steame O had you were wont To be so good that vertue would have sigh'd At the unwelcome spectacle if you Had appeard woman in a passion Though of the slightest consequence O do not Renounce that Saint-like temper it will be A change hereafter burthenous to your soule As sinne to one who all his life time blest With peace of Conscience at his dying minute Falls into mortall enmity with heaven And perishes eternally Know These words Have not the effectuall Oratory you first had When I was confident as day of light Your youth had beene as destitute of vice As of deformity So a sweet streame Whose bubling harmony allur'd the Birds To court its moving musicke when it mixes With impure waters with the noyse affrights The eares before delighted in it Free This is too severe a Justice and extends To cruelty had some intemperate rage Purpled my hand