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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

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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