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A01513	A hundreth sundrie flowres bounde vp in one small poesie Gathered partely (by translation) in the fyne outlandish gardins of Euripides, Ouid, Petrarke, Ariosto, and others: and partly by inuention, out of our owne fruitefull orchardes in Englande: yelding sundrie svveete sauours of tragical, comical, and morall discourses ...	Gascoigne, George, 1542?-1577.	1573 (1573)	STC 11635; ESTC S105691	86,900	410

SVPPOSES A Comedie written in the Italian tongue by Ariosto and Englished by George Gascoygne of Grayes Inne Esquire and there presented The names of the Actors BAlia the Nurse Polynesta the yong woman Cleander the Doctor suter to Polynesta Pasyphilo the Parasite Carion the Doctors man Dulypo fayned seruant and louer of Polynesta Erostrato fayned master and suter to Polynesta Dalio Crapyno seruantes to fayned Erostrato Scenaese a gentleman stranger Paquetto Petrucio his seruantes Damon father to Polynesta Neuola and two other his seruants Psyteria an olde hag in his house Phylogano a Scycilian gentleman father to Erostrato Lytio his seruant Ferrarese an Inkéeper of Ferrara The Comedie presented in Ferrara The Prologue or argument I Suppose you are assembled here supposing to reape the fruite of my trauayles and to be playne I meane presently to presente you vvith a Comedie called Supposes the verye name vvherof may peraduenture driue into euery of your heades a sundry Suppose to suppose the meaning of our supposes Some percase vvill suppose we meane to occupie your eares vvith sophisticall handling of subtill Suppositions Some other vvill suppose vve go about to discipher vnto you some queint conceiptes vvhich hitherto haue bene onely supposed as it vvere in shadovves and some I see smyling as though they supposed vve vvould trouble you vvith the vaine suppose of some vvanton Suppose But vnderstand this our Suppose is nothing else but a mystaking or imagination of one thing for an other for you shall see the master supposed for the seruant the seruant for the master the freeman for a slaue and the bondslaue for a freeman the stranger for a vvell knovven friend and the familiar for a stranger But vvhat I suppose that euen already you suppose me very fonde that haue so simply disclosed vnto you the subtilties of these our Supposes vvhere othervvise in deede I suppose you shoulde haue hearde almoste the laste of our Supposes before you coulde haue supposed anye of them arighte Let this then suffise Supposes Actus primus Scena j. BALIA the Nourse POLYNESTA the yong vvoman HEre is no body come foorth Polynesta let vs looke about to be sure least any man heare our talke for I thinke within the house the tables the plankes the beds the portals yea and the cupbords them selues haue eares Pol. You might as well haue sayde the windowes and the doores do you not sée howe they harken Ba. Well you iest faire but I would aduise you take héede I haue bidden you a thousande times beware you will be spied one day talking with Dulippo Po. And why should I not talke with Dulippo as well as with any other I pray you Ba. I haue giuen you a wherfore for this why many times but go too followe your owne aduise till you ouerwhelme vs all with soden mishappe Po. A great mishappe I promise you marie Gods blessing on their heart that sette suche a brouche on my cappe Ba. Well looke well about you a man would thinke it were inough for you secretly to reioyce that by my helpe you haue passed so many pleasant nightes togither and yet by my trouth I do it more than halfe agaynst my will for I would rather you had setled your fansie in some noble familie yea and it is no small griefe vnto me that reiecting the suites of so many nobles and gentlemen you haue chosen for your darling a poore seruaunt of your fathers by whome shame and infamie is the best dower you can looke for to attayne Po. And I pray you whome may I thanke but gentle nourse that continually praysing him what for his personage his curtesie and aboue all the extreme passions of his minde in fine you would neuer cease till I accepted him delighted in him and at length desired him with no lesse affection than he earst desired me Ba. I can not denie but at the beginning I did recommende him vnto you as in déede I may say that for my selfe I haue a pitiful heart séeing the depth of his vnbridled affection and that continually he neuer ceassed to fill mine eares with lamentable complaynts Po. Nay rather that he filled your pursse with bribes and rewards Ba. Well you may iudge of Nourse as you liste In déede I haue thought it alwayes a déede of charitie to helpe the miserable yong men whose tender youth consumeth with the furious flames of loue but be you sure if I had thought you would haue passed to the termes you nowe stande in pitie nor pencion peny nor pater noster shoulde euer haue made Nurse once to opē hir mouth in the cause Po. No of honestie I pray you who first brought him into my chamber who first taught him the way to my bed but you fie Nourse fie neuer speake of it for shame you will make me tell a wise tale anone Ba. And haue I these thanks for my good wil why then I sée wel I shall be counted the cause of all mishappe Po. Nay rather the author of my good happe gentle Nourse for I would thou knewest I loue not Dulipo nor any of so meane estate but haue bestowed my loue more worthily than thou déemest but I will say no more at this time Ba. Then I am glad you haue changed your minde yet Po. Nay I neither haue changed nor will change it Ba. Then I vnderstande you not how sayde you Po. Mary I say that I loue not Dulipo nor any suche as he and yet I neither haue changed nor wil change my minde Ba. I can not tell you loue to lye with Dulipo very well this geare is Gréeke to me either it hangs not well togither or I am very dull of vnder standing speake plaine I pray you Po. I can speake no plainer I haue sworne to the cōtrary Ba. Howe make you so deintie to tell it Nourse least she shoulde reueale it you haue trusted me as farre as may be I may shewe to you in things that touche your honor if they were knowne and make you strange to tell me this I am sure it is but a trifle in comparison of those things wherof heretofore you haue made me priuie Po. Well it is of greater importance than you thinke Nourse yet would I tell it you vnder condition and promise that you shall not tell it agayne nor giue any signe or token to be suspected that you know it Ba. I promise you of my honestie say on Po. Well heare you me then this yong man whome you haue alwayes taken for Dulipo is a noble borne Sicilian his right name Erostrato sonne to Philogono one of the worthiest men in that countrey Ba. How Erostrato is it not our neighbour whiche Po. Holde thy talking nourse and harken to me that I may explane the whole case vnto thée the man whome to this day you haue supposed to be Dulipo is as I say Erostrato a gentleman that came from Sicilia to studie in this Citie euen at his first arriuall met me in

of two thousand Ducats séem not sufficiēt I wil make it fiue hundreth more yea a thousand or what so euer he will demānd rather then faile go to Pasiphilo shew thy selfe frēdly in working this feate for me spare for no cost since I haue gone thus farre I wil be loth to be out bidden Go Pa. Where shall I come to you agayne Cle. At my house Pa. When Cle. When thou wilte Pa. Shall I come at dinner time Cle I would byd thée to dinner but it is a Saincts euen which I haue euer fasted Pa. Faste till thou famishe Cle. Harke Pa. He speaketh of a dead mans faste Cle. Thou hearest me not Pa. Nor thou vnderstandest me not Cle. I dare say thou art angrie I byd thée not to dinner but come if thou wilte thou shalt take such as thou findest Pa. What thinke you I know not where to dine Cle. Yes Pasiphilo thou art not to séeke Pa. No be you sure there are enowe will pray me Cle. That I knowe well enough Pasiphilo but thou canst not be better welcome in any place than to me I wil tarrie for thée Pa. Well since you will néedes I will come Cle. Dispatche then and bring no newes but good Pa. Better than my rewarde by the rood Cleander exit Pasiphilo restat Scena iij. PASIPHILO DVLIPO O Miserable couetous wretche he findeth an excuse by S Nicholas fast because I should not dine with him as though I should dine at his owne dishe he maketh goodly feasts I promise you it is no wonder though he thinke me bounde vnto him for my fare for ouer and besides that his prouision is as skant as may be yet there is great difference betwéene his diet and mine I neuer so much as sippe of the wyne that he tasteth I feede at the bords ende with broune bread Marie I reach always to his owne dishe for there are no more but that only on the table Yet he thinks that for one such diner I am bound to do him al the seruice that I can and thinks me sufficiently rewarded for all my trauell with one suche festiuall promotion and yet peraduenture some men thinke I haue great gaynes vnder him but I may say and sweare that this dosen yere I haue not gayned so muche in value as the poynts at my hose which are but thrée with codpéece poynt and al he thinks that I may féede vpon his fauour and fayre words but if I could not otherwise prouide for one Pasiphilo were in a wyse case Pasiphilo hath mo pastures to passe in than one I warrant you I am of housholde with this scholer Erostrato his riuale as wel as with Domine Cleander now with the one and then with the other according as I sée their Caters prouide good chéere at the market and I finde the meanes so to handle the matter that I am welcome to bothe If the one sée me talke with the other I make him beléeue it is to harken newes in the furtherance of his cause and thus I become a broker on both sides Well let them bothe apply the matter as well as they can for in déede I will trauell for none of them bothe yet wyll I séeme to worke wonders on eche hande But is not this one of Damons seruants that commeth foorth it is of him I shall vnderstande where his master is Whither goeth this ioyly gallante Du. I come to séeke some body that may accompany my master at dinner he is alone and would fayne haue good company Pa. Séeke no further you could neuer haue found one better than me Du. I haue no commission to bring so many Pa. How many I will come alone Du. How canst thou come alone that hast continually a legion of rauening wolues within thée Pa. Thou doest as seruants commonly doe hate all that loue to visite their maisters Du. And why Pa. Bicause they haue too many téeth as you thinke Du. Nay bicause they haue to many tongues Pa. Tongues I pray you what did my tongue euer hurt you Du. I speake but merily with you Pasiphilo goe in my maister is ready to dine Pa. What dyneth he so earely Du. He that riseth early dyneth early Pa. I woulde I were his man maister doctor neuer dyneth till noone and how dilicately then god knoweth I will be bould to goe in for I count my selfe bidden Du. You were best so Hard hap had I when I first begon this vnfortunate enterprise for I supposed the readiest medicine to my miserable effectes had bene to change name clothes credite with my seruant to place my selfe in Damons seruice thinking that as sheuering colde by glowing fire thurst by drinke hunger by pleasant repasts and a thousande suche like passions finde remedie by their contraries so my restles desire might haue founde quiet by continuall contemplation But alas I finde that only loue is vnsaciable for as the flie playeth with the flame till at last she is cause of hir owne decay so the louer that thinketh with kissing and colling to content his vnbrideled apetite is cōmonly sene the onely cause of his owne consumption Two yéeres are now paste since vnder the colour of Damons seruice I haue bene a sworne seruant to Cupid of whō I haue receiued as muche fauour grace as euer man founde in his seruice I haue frée libertie at al times to behold my desired to talke with hir to embrace hir yea be it spoken in secrete to lye with hir I reape the fruites of my desire yet as my ioyes abounde euen so my paines encrease I fare like the couetous man that hauing all the worlde at will is neuer yet content the more I haue the more I desire Alas what wretched estate haue I brought my selfe vnto if in the ende of all my farre fetches she be giuē by hir father to this olde doting doctor this buzard this bribing villaine that by so many meanes seketh to obtaine hir at hir fathers hands I know she loueth me best of all others but what may that preuaile when perforce she shal be constrained to marie another Alas the pleasant taste of my sugred ioyes doth yet remaine so perfect in my remēbrance that the least soppe of sorow séemeth more soure thā gall in my mouth if I had neuer knowen delight with better contentatiō might I haue passed these dreadful dolours And if this olde M. impsimus whom the pockes consume should wyn hir then may I saye farewell the pleasant talk the kind embracings yea farewel the sight of my Polynesta for he like a ielouse wretch will pen hir vp that I thinke the birdes of the aire shall not wynne the sighte of hir I hoped to haue caste a blocke in his waye by the meanes that my seruaunt who is supposed to be Erostrato and with my habite and credite is well estemed should proffer himselfe a suter at the least to counteruaile the doctors profers but my maister knowing the wealth of the one and doubting the

such affayres My spedie diligence is requisite I will applie effectually to doe What so your highnesse hath commaunded me Ioca. I wil goe in and pray the Gods therwhile With tender pitie to appease my griefe Iocasta goeth off the stage into hir pallace hir foure handmaides follovv hir the foure Chorus also follovve hir to the gates of hir pallace after comming on the stage take their place vvhere they continue to the end of the Tragedie SERVVS SOLVS THe simple man whose meruaile is so great At stately courts and princes regall seates With gasing eye but onely doth regarde The golden glosse that outwardly appeares The crownes bedeckt with pearle and precious stones The riche attire imbost with beaten golde The glittering mace the pompe of swarming traine The mightie halles heapt full of flattering frendes The huge chambers the goodly gorgeous beddes The gilted roofes embowde with curious worke The swéete faces of fine disdayning dames The vaine suppose of wanton raigne at luste But neuer viewes with eye of inward thought The painefull toile the great and greuous cares The troubles still the newe increasing feares That princes nourish in their iealous brestes He wayeth not the charge that Ioue hath laid On princes how for themselues they raigne not He wéenes the law must stoope to princely will But princes frame there noble wills to lawe He knoweth not that as the boystrous winde Doth shake the toppes of highest reared towres So doth the force of frowarde fortune strike The wighte that highest sits in haughtie state Lo Oedipus that sometime raigned king Of Thebane soyle that wonted to suppresse The mightiest Prince and kepe him vnder checke That fearfull was vnto his forraine foes Now like a poore afflicted prisoner In dungeon darke shut vp from chéerefull light In euery part so plagued with annoy As he abhorres to leade a longer life By meanes wherof the one against the other His wrathfull sonnes haue planted all their force And Thebes here this auncient worthy towne With threatning siege girt in on euerie side In daunger lyes to be subuerted quite If helpe of heauenly Ioue vpholde it not But as darke night succedes the shining day So lowring griefe comes after pleasant ioy Well now the charge hir highnesse did commaund I must fulfill though haplie all in vaine Seruus goeth off the stage by the gates called Electrae Antygone attended vvith .iij. gentlevvomen and hir gouernour commeth our of the Queene hir mothers Pallace BAILO ANTIGONE O Gentle daughter of King Oedipus O sister deare to that vnhappie wight Whom brothers rage hath reaued of his right To whom thou knowst in yong and tender yeares I was a friend and faithfull gouernour Come forth sith that hir grace hath graunted leaue And let me knowe what cause hath moued nowe So chaste a maide to set hir daintie foote Ouer the thresholde of hir secrete lodge Since that the towne is furnishte euerywhere With men of armes and warlike instrumentes Unto our eares there cōmes no other noyse But sounde of trumpe and neigh of trampling stedes Which running vp and downe from place to place With hideous cries betoken bloude and death The blasing sunne ne shineth halfe so brighte As it was wont to doe al dawne of daye The wretched dames throughout the wofull towne Together clustring to the temples goe Beseching Ioue by way of humble plainte With tender ruthe to pitie their distresse An. The loue I heare to my swéete Polynice My deare brother is onely cause hereof Bai. Why daughter knowst thou any remedie How to defend thy fathers citie here From that outrage and fierce repyning wrathe Which he against it iustly hath conceiued An. Oh gouernour might this my faultlesse bloude Suffise to stay my brethrens dyre debate With glad consent I coulde afford my life Betwixt them both to plant a perfect peace But since alas I cannot as I woulde A hote desire inflames my feruent mind To haue a sight of my swéete Pollynice Wherfore good guide vouchsafe to guide me up Into some tower aboute this hugie court From whence I may behold our enemies campe Therby at least to féede my hungry eyes But with the sight of my beloued brother Then if I die contented shall I die Bai. O princely dame the tender care thou takste Of thy deare brother deserueth double praise Yet crau'st thou that which cannot be obtainde By reason of the distance from the towne Unto the plaine where th armie lies incampt And furthermore besemeth not a maide To shew hir selfe in such vnsemely place Wheras among such yong and lustie troupes Of harebrainde souldiers marching to and fro Both honest name and honour is empairde But yet reioyce sith this thy great desire Without long let or yet without thy paine At wishe and will shall shortly be fulfillde For Palynice forthwith will hither come Euen I my selfe was lately at the campe Commaunded by the Quéene to bid him come Who laboureth still to linke in frendly league Hir iarring sonnes which happe so hoped for Eftsones I pray the gracious gods to graunt And sure I am that ere this houre passe Thou shalt him here in person safely sée Auti. O louing frend doest thou then warrant me That Polynice will come vnto this court Bai. Ere thou be ware thou shalt him here beholde Anti. And who alas doth warrant his aduenture That of Eteocles he take no harme Bai. For constant pledge he hath his brothers faith He hath also the truce that yet endures An. I feare alas alas I greatly feare Some trustlesse snare his cruell brother layes To trappe him in Bai. Daughter god knowes how willing I would be With swéete reliefe to comfort thy distresse But I cannot impart to thée the good Which I my selfe doe not as yet enioye The wailefull cause that moues Eteocles With Pollinyce to enter ciuill warres Is ouer great and for this onely cause Full many men haue broke the lawes of truth And topsy-turvy turned many townes To gredie daughter too too gredie is Desire to rule and raigne in kingly state Ne can he bide that swaise a realme alone To haue another ioynde with him therin Yet must we hope for helpe of heauenly powers Sith they be iuste their mercy is at hand To helpe the weake when worldly force doth faile An. As both my brethren be so both I beare As much goodwill as any sister may But yet the wrong that vnto Pollinyce This trothlesse tyrant hath vniustlie shewd Doth leade me more to wishe the prosperous life Of Pollinyce than of that cruell wretch Besides that Pollinyce whiles he remainde In Thebes here did euer loue me more Than did Eteocles whose swelling hate Is towardes me increased more and more Wherof I partly may assure my selfe Considering he disdaynes to visite me Yea happly he intends to reaue my life And hauing power he will not sticke to doe it This therefore makes me earnestly desire Oftymes to sée him yet euer as I thinke For to discharge the duetie of a