With as much truth as ever lover did Amph. So have I you with equal constancy Amar. Well Sir now you are satisfied pray Let me be so too and let Zoranzo's Head be struck off quickly I see he 's mean as well as false to Quit me for a woman that dos not Love him Amph. Hold Amarissa hear me speak before Zoranzo dies and be assur'd he Loves you still Amar. VVou'd you deceive me too Amph. Indeed I dont when we were Going to dye you may remember that VVe whisper'd then we call'd Heaven And our selves to witness That both our Loves were true Mine to Archimedes his to you Amar. Can you forgive me Sir Kneels Zo. I cannot answer yet Thy civility has took away my speech Duke Dear Amphelia how came this sad Mistake 'twixt you and I. Amph. I 'le tell you Sir in part when you were In this last War my woman receiv'd A Letter from one of the Gentlemen of your Chamber wherein he did assure Her that you had a new Mistriss in That Country and therefore bid her tell Me of it that I might by degrees Wean my affection from so false a man As you Duke Here has been some foule play for This very man you spoke of receiv'd A Letter from your woman wherein she Bid him assure me that you were Prov'd false in my absence and Lov'd my Cozen Ortellus Guard Go fetch them both hither Immediately they shall dye without Mercy Ortell Nay then I had as good discover 'T will fall the heavier on me else Sir let the Guard stay And I will tell you all 'T is I have sow'd the seeds of this mistake I long have lov'd Amphelia for which cause I tried this way to draw her heart from you I knew this Gentleman of your Bed-chamber Was in Love with Amphelia's woman Therefore I brib'd her to write to him To assure the Duke that Amphelia lov'd me And that she shou'd also charge him to Write another Letter to her wherein he Shou'd complain of the Dukes falling in Love with another woman in that Country I knew your spirits both to be So great that neither of you wou'd Stoop to one another when you were Both possest of eithers falseness and So it prov'd for when the Duke heard You Lov'd me he brought a fair New Mistriss over with him to let you See hee did contemn you and so Amphelia Sir when she heard you Lov'd another assured me then that she Lov'd me which now I see was only To make you think how much she Scorn'd you though still her heart Was true and so was yours now Sir I humbly beg your Pardon Duke 'T will be in vain my Lord I cannot Grant it Oh Amphelia how many Hours of joy we two have lost Amph. Base Lord. Enter Artabella Artab O Sir I heard that people were to dye To day let me be one I pray Amph. Not for the World sweet innoâ—â—â—â— Arta. Oh Madam you are she the Duke Loves pray spare your Pitty Sir can You have the heart to let me live And see you Married to another Amph. Have patience sweet young Maid I will not Marry him you wo'not blame Me if I love him though Arta. No for then I shou'd condemn my Fault in you Duke But sure Amphelia you did but jest In telling her you wou'd not Marry me Amph. Indeed Sir I am in earnest Consider 'T is but justice she loves you as well As I her heart was quiet till you Troubl'd it Duke All this is true but how will your Love shew if you refuse to marry me Amph. Not less at all but make my Pitty more Duke If I wou'd marry her I cant beleive That she wou'd be thus kind to you Amph. Yes I dare say she wou'd ask her and try Duke Well Artabella will you Marry me Arta. You never hated me till now can you Beleive I 'de wrong so blest a Woman as Amphelia Amph. See Sir wou'd it be justice now in me She will not wound my heart shou'd I kill hers Duke But consider 't is you I Love not her Amph. That 's her misfortune Sir yet she Deserves asmuch as I I can but love You so do's she Duke Dear Amphelia marry me Amph. I cannot out of pitty Sir Duke Talke not of pitty if thou wilt shew Me none Amp. My pitty is her due my love is yours Duke O Amphelia this was a cruell way to Make me happy thou 'dst better still Have kept my joyes unknown Then let the knowing of it be my death Once more my dear Amphelia marry me Amph. Do not Petition her you may command In any thing but this Duke Monster of Villaines thou hast caus'd All this Excecutioner immediately strike Off his head Ortell I 'me sure you will not let me dye Duke Impudent Villain dispatch him straight Ortell Hold Sir 't is only I can make you three Happy which if you do not confess When you have heard me speake Then let me dye Duke Well let 's hear it Ortell Promise me my life first if I do Duke Well you shall have it Ortell Then know the Lady Artabella is Your Sister Duke Ha. Ortell I say your Sister you do remember That you had one once Duke Yes I do but she was lost at three Years old Ortell 'T is true 't was thought so but thus It is when 't was reported you were Slain in the Battail I straight convey'd away this Lady Then a Child because she shou'd not Stand 'twixt me and the Dukedome I being Then acquainted with the Mother to Arbatus I brought this Lady and gave Her a summ of Money to adopt her for Her Childe with willingness my offer She imbrac ' d the more because her Son Arbatus had then been lost About seaven years thought to have Been cast a way at Sea though afterwards Return'd home I had enjoyn'd her Secresy which she kept therefore She told Arbatus 't was his Sister Enter Arbatus Duke And is she then my Sister Oh Arbatus welcome welcome I have a crowd of Joyes about my heart To tell thee Arba. What! that you have broke my Sisters heart Duke Thou hast no Sister 'T is I possess that Blessing Artabella is my Sister how Blest a sound is sister to my Eares I 'le give command no other word but Sister shall be spoke throughout My Dukedome I 'le have it taught to Infants so that when nature lends Their sucking tongues a meanes to Speak one word they all shall Babble Sister instead of Nurse I 'le Have the name ingrav'd in Gold on Every Post and Pillar in the Streetes And passers by shall worship it Arba. I am amaz'd Enter Philidor and Mirida Duke Welcome Philidor Phili. I am glad to see joy in your lookes Again Sir the time is long since I have seen you smile Duke Philidor all that is Joy I have within This Breast it o're flowes and runs Into my Eyes This is my Sister oh What a word is Sister And this my Dear and true Amphelia Come Mirida shall be thine to day too Mir. Hold Sir I forbid that banes Phi. Troth so do I too you alwaies Take the words out of my mouth You and I Marry kether Mir. No faith wee 'l be hang'd first I 'de Rather hear along Sermon then Hear a Person ask me Mirida Will you have this man for your Wedded Husband to have and to hold From this day forward and so forth Phi. Right for better for worse in Sickness or in Health Mir. I and perhaps after we have been Married half a year with ones Husband falls into a deep Consumption And will not do one the favour to Dye neither then we must be Ever feeding him with Caudle Oh from a husband in a Consumption Deliver me Phi. And think how weary I shou'd be Of thee Mirida when once we were Chain'd together the very name of Wife wou'd be a vomit to me then Nothing but where 's my wife call My wife to Dinner call my wife to Suppeâ— And then at night come wife will you Go to Bed Mir. I and that wou'd be so troublesome To be call'd by ones husband every night To go to Bed Oh that dull dull Name of Husband Duke Indeed you two are well met The World has not two more such I am confident Mir. The more the pitty Sir Phili. No Sir if you please never propose Marrying to us till both of us have Committed such faults as are death By the Law then instead of Hanging us Marry us Miri And then you shall hear how Earnestly we shall Petition your Highness to be hang'd rather then Marryed Duke No man can judge which is the Wildest of these two Now brave Arbatus in all my Dukedome There is but one gift worthy thy Receiving and that 's my Sister Here Sir take her as freely as Heaven Gave her me Arba. D' yee forgive me Sir Duke Or not my self Arbatus This day Hymen shall light his Torch for all Phi. With your Pardon Sir not for me And my Female Mir. No faith I 'le blow it out if he dos Arta. Sir thought in my own desires Shou'd have chose the man that You have given me yet I beg We may not Marry yet we have Call'd Brother and Sister so long That yet needs must think we Are so still Arba. Pray Madam let 's think so as Little a while as we can that fancy May not keep my joy in Prison Duke Let 's to the Temple now and there thank Heaven for these unexpected Joyes Each day the gods shall lend me in this life I 'le thank them for a Sister and a Wife Exeunt FINIS
Lord to give the Lye to Petty-coates Ortell Why did you deny your being in the Prison Amph. Not for fear of you I was with the brave Prisoner what then Ortell You went to make love to him you had Best use your Time well 't will be short And sweet your dear will not be so Proper a man by the head within this Two dayes False woman you have a Heart that flyes from one mans breast To another all the inconstancy of your Sex is Constancy to this of yours you Have deceiv'd the Duke already that Might have been my warning Amph. Faith and so it might the Duke in all Things so farr Excells you that you were A fool to think when once my heart Bid him farwell that it design'd no Better a Change then you troth you 'r Mistaken it had a further Journy to Make and so took your Breast for an Inn only to Lye by the way Ortell Base woman is 't not enough that You have fool'd me but you must mock Me too heaven hold my hand from Murthering thee Amph. Fright those that fear you Exit Ortell Cursed of all fool'd men like me light Heavy on thee Reveng begins to fill My heart and I will poure it out on This base woman I know the way I 'le to the Duke Enter Duke I am glad I have met your Highness for I have business to impart to you that Concerns Your Life Duke What is 't Ortellus Ortell Know Sir Amphelia that Duke Loves you Ortell No Sir she Loves the Prisoner Duke 'T is impossible Ortell 'T is very true Sir I caught her coming from him She is designeing his Escape and for ought I know her Love to him may put other Thoughts into her head Duke What d' yee mean Ortell She may designe your Life a woman that Is ill Exceeds a man in Mischiefe Duke My Lord I thank your Care if you can Track her further pray let me know in The mean time I shall prevent her Ill intentions Ortell My dilligence shall not be wanting so Since I can have no Love Revenge Shall be my Mistris Exit Duke Oh Amphelia why dost thou take such Paines to break my heart when 't is to Easily done She needs not secretly contrive My death since half a word from her Commands my life her face and heart Sure cannot be a kin Nature Mistooke Or else she was too blame to give one Woman to so great Extreames Enter Arbatus See here comes the Brother to wrong'd Artabella The horror of that sin growes bigger in me That I with a deludeing Love shou'd foole An Innocent to shew an outward scorn To false Amphelia for when I heard she Lov'd Ortellus I straight made Love to This young woman and brought her from Her own Countrey only to make Amphelia Think I lov'd another Arbat I hope I don't disturb your Highness Duke No Arbatus you are alwaies welcome to me Arba. Sir I should ask you a question Duke You freely may Arba. Not but I think my Sister far unworthy Either in Birth or Fortune to be call'd Your Wife Yet since you have been Pleas'd to grace her with your Love so Far as saying she shall be your Dutchess be pleas'd to tell me why It is not so she has been here so Long that people now begin to say you Mean her for your Mistress shou'd my Eares meet that sound from any Tongue I 'de Duke Hold Arbatus I 'me sure I have given no Cause as yet to doubt my kindness to Your Sister Arba. Pardon me Sir in your delay you have My Sister has no Dowry but her Vertue Youth and some small stock of Beauty These if you lov'd her for you wou'd Not waste by letting time rob her and You at once Duke Sir business of great importance has Hitherto defer'd my Marriage beleive Me you shall find me just Arba. A Princes word must not be question'd I have done Duke Oh Amphelia what dos thou make me do Exit Arba. Let him take heed if he dos fool my Sister were He ten thousand Dukes I 'de cut his throat Exit Enter Philidor alone Philli. I have been quite at tother end ot'h Town to put my children out to new Nurses for I am known so to every Nurse Here about that they will as soon nurse A Cats kitten as any child of mine this Is a very pleasant life I lead neither Is this the worst part of it for there are A certain flock of women that I have Promis'd Marriage I expect a volly of Shot from them too soon as they find Me out wou'd Wives and Children were as hard to come by as Money then wou'd I turn Usurer and let 'um out to use for To say truth I have enough to spare Enter Six Ladies one after another So here comes one of my promis'd Virgins Nay a second too a third a fourth A fifth a sixth Welcome blessed Half dozen now will I go Muster my Nurses and children to and go against the Great Turk I am glad to see they have Brought ne'r a Coffin for I expect nothing But death from them I wonder they do'nt Begin to Ring my Funeral peal See every one of them Beckons to me as much As to say I 'de speak with you in private But the Devil take me if e're a one Of them do I find by this they wou'd Not have their business known to One another this may be a means for me To get off for this time Ladies you all Look as if you had something to say to me Pray make me so happy as to let me know What 't is They dare not speak aloud aside Will you Madam or you or you Madam Or you Madam not one of you tell me What the honour of these Visits mean I see I am troublesome to you all therefore I le not be longer Rude and so I take My leave This was good luck that They shou'd come altogether for I had Beckon him Rather be alone six hours with the Devil Then with e're a one of them half an Houre I 'le stand close in this corner Till they are all gone 1 Lady Now the Pox take him for a cunning Rogue 2 Lady A Plague take him 3 Lady The Devil take him 4 Lady If there be e're a Divel worse then another Take him thou 5 Lady Oh that I had him alone 6. Lady Was there ever such a Rascal Exeunt at several doors Phil. So the cost is clear again peeps out Enter Mirida S'death here comes another O 't is none Of that gange though Mirida I 'le lay my head ne're a Girle in Christendome of my age can say what I can I 'me now but five years i' th Teens and I have fool'd five several men Phili. A brave wench by this light sure 't is I In Petty coates Mirida My humour is to love no man but to Have as many Love me as they please Come Cut or Long tail Phili. A most Divine wench Mirida
you lead me one half of the way Exeunt Ping. Agreed Sir take you her hand first a Very timely Proposition for my Purge Workes again save me where abouts Is the Closset goes out and comes in again What a loose must I run to overtake them Now else I shall not lead my Mistriss the Last half way deliver me from Love And Purges Enter all again with a Coffin Philidor and Mirida shut them into the Vault Phili. So there let u'm converse with the dead A while I had rather have 'um there then Above ground here will I keep 'um till They have all quitted me under their hands And Seals Mir. Oh the sport that we shall have by and by Well but I must go home a little my Father will miss me where shall we Meet again Phi. Just here Mir. I 'le not fail Exeunt Enter Amarissa just arriv'd Amar. I am come to late and yet too soon am here Since dear Zoranzo's death is now so near On the same block with him I 'le lay my head That our two bodies may have but one bed Thus are our Nuptial joyes decreed by fate Our Wedding and our Burial bare one date Sure I am the first of maids that ever gave Her body to her Lover in a Grave Alas in cold embraces we must meet With Icy kisses in a winding sheet Yet though this life denies us time to love The other life will not so cruel prove Our souls so fast in Lovers knots wee 'l tye That when the headsman strikes they both shall fly Twind in one another through the air And be at rest whilst other Souls despair Enter Iaylor This is the Prison and here 's the Jaylor I beleive Pray Sir do you belong Unto the Prison Iaylor Belong Yes I am the Keeper of it Amar. Is not here one Zoranzo a Prisoner Iaylor Yes but he wont be here long for he Is to dye anon Amar. Ah me Sir I am his Sister pray help Me to him that I may speak with him Before that cruel hour I love him So that I must needs dye with him I 'le Petition the Duke that I may sure he 'le Not deny me that request Iay. I can tell you a way that you may be sure To have that favour granted Amar. Tell it me and I 'le thank ye Iay. Why if you 'l try to convey him out of Prison As another Lady has already you may Bare them company too Amar. Why has there any Lady endeavor'd it Iay. Yes one that is his Mistriss and they are Both to dye together Amar. Ha! What is 't I hear his Mistriss Say you Iay. Yes Mistriss they both lye as Contentedly By one another as if they were not two Amar. Curse him good heaven ye cannot throw Too many curses on him here Jaylor Take this and let me speak with the Prisoner Iay. Madam you shall Enter Zoranzo and Amphelia as in Prison in Chains Zo. Amarissa are my eyes false or is it Truly she Ama. Your Eyes are true but 't is your heart That 's false Zo. I am deceiv'd that cannot be her tongue Ama. Shou'd it speak otherwise to thee I de Tear it out Devil Zoranzo curst Pair of Vipers that in chains of death Can practise Lust as if no end were nigh Do not my wrongs startle thy guilty Soul to think of all the torments it must Have that cou'd with so much falseness Murther Love when thou art gone to Hell as go thou must 't will be a task For all the Devils there to torture thee enough Thy sin is such were I thy headsman When thou com'st to dye I 'de be a week A cutting off thy head twixt every stroke I 'de stop and then I 'd hollow Amarissa In thy Eares thy Guilt wou'd be an Eccho To my wrongs and answer to my cry Wrong'd Amarissa which injur'd name Repeated to thy Eares wou'd make Thy Soul think Hell not half such pain Farwel Zoranzo I 'le come see your Head struck off and your Ladies Zo. Base Amarissa that can conclude me False because she saw this Lady lye In Chaines by me and cou'd not ask me how We came together Thus to revile me and Not know the truth I 'le scorn to tell Her now Enter Duke Amar. O Sir be pleas'd to hear a Maids Petition Though a Stranger to you Duke Fair Maid what is 't Amar. Zoranzo that 's Condemn'd to Dye may Duke Not Live if that be your request pray Do not ask I shan't grant it Amar. No Sir 't is that he may have a Thousand Deaths instead of One or one that has More pain then Thousands Duke What makes you thus incenc'd against him Amar. Heaven knows I have too much cause Sir I have Lov'd him long and the day he was Your Prisoner shou'd have been our Wedding news being brought to me In my own Country that he was to Dye In flying hast I took this tedious journey With Sorrow and with Joy I here arriv'd Tears in my eyes for his approaching Death Smiles in my Cheeks to think Of dyeing with him but when I came Unto the Prison gate I met the Jaylor and He told me all then let me in and to rejoyce My Eyes I saw two Devils lye in Chains together and not half so fast As Chain'd in Love all my intended Kisses then I chang'd into as many curses On his heart which with my eyes I Spoke as well as tongue Duke Alas poor injur'd Maid we must be one another's Petiters thy fate is mine That woman which you saw with him Has prov'd as false to me as he to you Amar. For Heavens sake Sir let 'um Dye both No sight wou'd please us like their Blood the Jaylor told me they lye as Close together all day as if they were not two Duke Oh curse on'um Amar. Oh the Devil take 'um pray Sir give Order that they may be brought Immediately to Excecution Duke I will Ama. I 'le go call the Jaylor Sir steps to th' Prison Enter Iaylor Duke Jaylor let the Prisoner be brought to Excecution straight I 'le be there my self Amar. And I too Sir Duke You shall wee 'l go together Exeunt ACT V. Enter all Ladies Nurses Pinguister Lean-man as in the Vault Philidor as a Cryer Phili. O Yes O yes o yes did any man hear Tale or Tidings of Three Nurses call'd Three Flanders Mares with Three Sucking Colts All Nu. Hark we are Cry'd in the Streets Phi. And also six Maiden Ladies that shou'd Have been all Married to a certain Promising Gentleman All La. Devil we are Cry'd too Phi. Also a very Lean Gentleman that must Be Patter before he 's Married Le. ma. Hark that 's I. Phi. And the hugest Loss of all is one Mr. Pinguister a lovely Fat Gentleman Whom all that knew him doubt him To be Dead upon some Privy house Because he Purg'd every day for Love By reason Mrs. Mirida will not Marry him Till a certain Measure that he has