They came to craue his good will Valinford It is giuen vs to vnderstand that your daughter Is sodenly become both blind and deafe Miller Marie God for bid I haue sent for her in deed She hath kept her chamber this three daies It were no litle griefe to me if it should be so Manuile This is Gods iudgement for her trecherie Enter Trotter leading Em Miller Gentlemen I feare your wordes are two true See where Trotter comes leading of her What ayles my Em not blind I hope Em Mountney and Valingford both together And Manuile to whom I haue faithfullie vowed my loue Now Em suddenly helpe thy selfe Mountney This is no desembling Valingford Valingford If it be it is cunningly contriued of all sides Em Trotter lend me thy hand And as thou louest me keepe my counsell And iustifie what so euer I saie and I le largely requite thee Trotter Ah that 's as much as to saie you would tell a monstrous Terrible horrible outragious lie And I shall sooth it no berladie Em My present extremitie wills me if thou loue me Trotter Trotter That same word loue makes me to doe any thing Em Trotter where 's my father He thrusts Em vpon her father Trotter Why what a blynd dunce are you can you not see He standeth right before you Em Is this my father Good father giue me leaue to sit Where I may not be disturbed Sith God hath visited me both of my sight and hearing Miller Tell me sweete Em how came this blindnes Thy eyes are louely to looke on And yet haue they lost the benefit of their sight What a griefe is this to thy poore father Em Good father let me not stand as an open gazing stock to euerie one But in a place a lone as fits a creature so miserable Miller Trotter lead her in the vtter ouerthrowe Of poore Goddardes ioy and onely solace Exit the Miller Trotter and Em Manuile Both blind and deafe then is she no wife for me And glad am I so good occasion is hapned Now will I awaie to Manchester And leaue these gentlemen to their blind fortune Exit Manuile Mountney Since fortune hath thus spitefully crost our hope Let vs leaue this guest and harken after our King Who is at this daie landed at Lirpoole Exit Mountney Valingford Goe my Lord I le follow you VVell now Mountney is gone I le staie behind to solicit my loue For I imagine that I shall find this but a fained inuention Thereby to haue vs leaue off our sutes Enter Marques Lubeck and the King of Denmark angerly with some attendants Zweno K. VVell Lubeck well it is not possible But you must be concenting to this acte Is this the man so highly you extold And playe a parte so hatefull with his friend Since first he came with thee into the court What entertainement and what countenance He hath receiued none better knowes than thou In recompence whereof he quites me well To steale awaie faire Mariana my prisoner Whose raunsome being lately greed vpon I am deluded of by this escape Besides I know not how to answere it When shee shal be demaunded home to Swethia Lubeck My gracious Lord coniecture not I pray Worser of Lubeck than he doth deserue Your highnes knowes Mariana was my loue Sole paragon and mistres of my thoughts Is it likely I should know of her departure Wherein there is no man iniured more than I Zweno That carries reason Marques I confesse Call foorth my daughter Yet I am perswaded That shee poore soule suspected not her going For as I heare shee likewise loued the man Which he to blame did not at all regard Rocilia My Lord here is the Princesse Mariana It is your daughter is conueyed away Zweno What my daughter gone Now Marques your villanie breakes foorth This match is of your making gentle sir And you shall dearly know the price thereof Lubeck Knew I thereof or that there was intent In Robert thus to steale your highnes daughter Let heauens in Iustice presently confound me Zweno Not all the protestations thou canst vse Shall saue thy life Away with him to prison And minion otherwise it cannot be But you are an agent in this trecherie I will reuenge it throughly on you both Away with her to prison Here 's stuffe in deede My daughter stolen away It booteth not thus to disturbe my selfe But presently to send to English William To send me that proud knight of Windsor hither Here in my Court to suffer for his shame Or at my pleasure to be punished there Withall that Blanch be sent me home againe Or I shall fetch her vnto Windsors coste Yea and VVilliams too if he denie her mee Exit Zweno Enter VVilliam taken with souldiers William Could any crosse could any plague be worse Could heauen or hell Did both conspire in one To afflict my soule inuent a greater scourge Then presently I am tormented with Ah Mariana cause of my lament Ioy of my hart and comfort of my life For thee I breath my sorrowes in the ayre And tyre my selfe for silently I sigh My sorrowes afflictes me soule with equall passion Souldier Go to sirha put vp it is to small purpose VVilliam Hence villaines hence dare you lay your hands Vpon your Soueraigne Souldier Well sir we will deale for that But here comes one will remedie all this Enter Demarch Souldier My Lord watching this night in the campe We tooke this man and know not what he is And in his companie was a gallant dame A woman faire in outward shewe shee seemde But that her face was maskte we could not see The grace and fauour of her countenance Demarch Tell me good fellow of whence and what thou art Souldier Why do you not answere my Lord He takes scorne to answere Demarch And takest thou scorne to aunswer my demaund Thy proud behauiour verie well deserues This misdemeanour at the worst be construed Why doest thou neither know nor hast thou heard That in the absence of the Saxon Duke Demarch is his especiall Substitute To punish those that shall offend the lawes William In knowing this I know thou art a traytor A rebell and mutenous conspirator Why Demarch knowest thou who I am Demarch Pardon my dread Lord the error of my sence And misdemeaner to your princely excellencie Willi. Why Demarch what is the cause my subiects are in armes Demarch Free are my thoughts my dread and gratious Lord From treason to your state and common weale Only reuengement of a priuate grudge By Lord Dirot lately profered me That standes not with the honor of my name Is cause I haue assembled for my guard Some men in armes that may withstand his force Whose setled malice aymeth at my life VVilliam Where is Lord Dirot Demarch In armes my gratious Lord Not past two miles from hence As credibly I am assertained VVilliam Well come let vs goe I feare I shall find traytors of you both Exit Enter the Citizen of Manchester
soyle And from her eyes do dart such golden beames That holdes my harte in her subiection Manuile He ruminates on my beloued choyce God graunt he come not to preuent my hope But here 's another him I le listen to Enter Mountney disguised at another dore L. Mountney Nature vniust in vtterance of thy arte To grace a pesant with a Princes fame Pesant am I so to misterme my loue Although a millers daughter by her birth Yet may her beautie and her vertues well suffice To hyde the blemish of her birth in hell Where neither enuious eyes nor thought can perce But endlesse darknesse euer smother it Goe William Conqueror and seeke thy loue Whilest I drawe back and court mine owne the while Decking her bodie with such costly robes As may become her beauties worthynes That so thy labors may be laughed to scorne And she thou seekest in forraine regions Be darkened and eclipst when she arriues By one that I haue chosen neerer home Manuile What comes he to to intercept my loue Then hye thee Manuile to forestall such foes Exit Manuile Mountney What now Lord Valingford are you behind The king had chosen you to goe with him Valingford So chose he you therefore I marueile much That both of vs should linger in this sort What may the king imagine of our staye Mountney The king may iustly think we are to blame But I immagined I might well be spared And that no other man had borne my mind Valingford The like did I in frendship then resolue What is the cause of your vnlookt for stay Mountney Lord Valingford I tell thee as a friend Loue is the cause why I haue stayed behind Valinford Loue my Lord of whome Mountney Em the millers daughter of Manchester Valingford But may this be Mountney Why not my Lord I hope full well you know That loue respectes no difference of state So beautie serue to stirr affection Valingford But this it is that makes me wonder most That you and I should be of one conseite In such a straunge vnlikly passion Mountney But is that true my Lord I hope you do but iest Valingford I would I did then were my griefe the lesse Mountney Nay neuer grieue for if the cause be such To ioyne our thoughts in such a Simpathy All enuie set asyde let vs agree To yeeld to eythers fortune in this choyce Valingford Content say I and what so ere befall Shake hands my Lord and fortune thriue at all Exeunt Enter Em and Trotter the Millers man with a kerchife on his head and an Vrinall in his hand Em Trotter where haue you beene Trotter Where haue I bene why what signifies this Em A kerchiefe doth it not Trotter What call you this I praye Em I saie it is an Vrinall Trotter Then this is mystically to giue you to vnderstand I haue beene at the Phismicaries house Em How long hast thou beene sicke Trotter Yfaith euen as long as I haue not beene halfe well And that hath beene a long time Em A loytering time I rather immagine Trot. It may be so but the Phismicary tels me that you can help me Em Why any thing I can do for recouerie of thy health Be right well assured of Trot. Then giue me your hand Em To what end Trot. That the ending of an old indenture Is the beginning of a new bargaine Em What bargaine Trot. That you promised to do any thing to recouer my helth Em On that condition I giue thee my hand Trot. Ah sweete Em Here he offers to kisse her Em How now Trotter your maisters daughter Trot. Yfaith I aime at the fairest Ah Em sweet Em fresh as the flowre That hath poure to wound my harte And ease my smart of me poore theefe In prison bounde Em So all your ryme lies on the grounde But what meanes this Trot. Ah marke the deuise For thee my loue full sicke I was in hazard of my life Thy promise was to make me whole and for to be my wife Let me inioye my loue my deere And thou possesse thy Trottter here Em But I meant no such matter Trot. Yes woos but you did I le goe to our Parson Sir Iohn And he shall mumble vp the marriage out of hand Em But here comes one that will forbid the Banes Here Enters Manuile to them Trotter Ah Sir you come too late Manuile What remedie Trotter Em Goe Trotter my father calles Trotter Would you haue me goe in and leaue you two here Em Why darest thou not trust me Trotter Yes faith euen as long as I see you Em Goe thy waies I praye thee hartely Trotter That same word hartely is of great force I will goe but I praye sir beware you Come not too neere the wench Exit Trotter Manuile I am greatly beholding to you Ah Maistres somtime I might haue said my loue But time and fortune hath bereued me of that And I am abiect in those gratious eyes That with remorse earst sawe into my griefe May sit and sigh the sorowes of my heart Em In deede my Manuile hath some cause to doubt When such a Swaine is riuall in his loue Manuile Ah Em were he the man that causeth this mistrust I should esteeme of thee as at the first Em But is my loue in earnest all this while Manuile Beleeue me Em it is not time to iest VVhen others ioyes what lately I possest Em If touching loue my Manuile charge me thus Vnkindly must I take it at his handes For that my conscience cleeres me of offence Manuile Ah impudent and shamelesse in thy ill That with thy cunning and defraudfull toung Seekese to delude the honest meaning minde Was neuer heard in Manchester before Of truer loue then hath beene betwixte vs twaine And for my parte how I haue hazarded Displeasure of my father and my freindes Thy selfe can witnes Yet notwithstanding this Two genlemen attending on Duke William Mountney and Valingford as I heard them named Oft times resort to see and to be seene Walking the streete fast by thy fathers dore VVhose glauncing eyes vp to the windowes cast Giues testes of their Maisters amorous hart This Em is noted and too much talked on Some see it without mistrust of ill Others there are that scorning grynne thereat And saith there goes the millers daughters wooers Ah me whome chiefely and most of all it doth concerne To spend my time in griefe and vexe my soule To thinke my loue should be rewarded thus And for thy sake abhore all women kind Em May not a maide looke vpon a man Without suspitious iudgement of the world Manuile If sight do moue offence it is the better not to see But thou didst more vnconstant as thou art For with them thou hadst talke and conference Em May not a maide talke with a man without mistrust Manuile Not with such men suspected amorous Em I grieue to see my Manuiles ielosie Manuile Ah Em faithfull loue is full of ielosie So did I
loue thee true and faithfully For which I am rewarded most vnthankfully Exit in a rage Manet Em And so awaie what in displeasure gone And left me such a bitter sweete to gnawe vpon Ah Manuile little wottest thou How neere this parting goeth to my heart Vncourteous loue whose followers reapes reward Of hate disdaine reproach and infamie The fruit of frantike bedlome ielozie Here enter Mountney to Em But here comes one of these suspitious men VVitnes my God without desert of me For onely Manuile honor I in harte Nor shall vnkindnes cause me from him to starte Mountney For this good fortune Venus be thou blest To meete my loue the mistres of my heart Where time and place giues oportunitie At full to let her vnderstand my loue He turnes to Em offers to take her by the hand shee goes from him Faire mistres since my fortune sorts so well Heare you a word What meaneth this Nay stay faire Em Em I am going homewards syr Mountney Yet stay sweete loue to whom I must disclose The hidden secrets of a louers thoughts Not doubting but to finde such kinde remorse As naturally you are enclyned to Em The Gentle-man your friend Syr I haue not seene him this foure dayes at the least Mountney What 's that to me I speak not sweete in person of my friend But for my selfe whom if that loue deserue To haue regard being honourable loue Not base affects of loose lasciuious loue Whome youthfull wantons play and dally with But that vnites in honourable bands of holy rytes And knits the sacred knot that Gods Here Em cuts him off Em What meane you sir to keepe me here so long I cannot vnderstand you by your sygnes You keepe a pratling with your lippes But neuer a word you speake that I can heare Mountney What is shee deafe a great impediment Yet remedies there are for such defects Sweete Em it is no little griefe to mee To see where nature in her pryde of art Hath wrought perfections ritch and admirable Em Speake you to mee Sir Mountney To thee my onely ioy Em I cannot heare you Mountney Oh plague of Fortune Oh hell without compare What bootes it vs to gaze and not enioy Em Fare you well Sir Exit Em Manet Mountney Mountney Fare well my loue Nay farewell life and all Could I procure redresse for this infirmitie It might be meanes shee would regard my sute I am acquainted with the Kings Phisitions Amongst the which there 's one mine honest friend Seignior Alberto a verie learned man His iudgement will I haue to help this ill Ah Em faire Em if Art can make thee whole I le buy that sence for thee although it cost mee deere But Mountney stay this may be but deceit A matter fained onely to delude thee And not vnlike perhaps by Valingford He loues faire Em as well as I As well as I ah no not halfe so well Put case yet may he be thine enimie And giue her counsell to dissemble thus I le try the euent and if it fall out so Frindship farewell Loue makes me now a foe Exit Mountney Enter Marques Lubeck and Mariana Mariana Trust me my Lord I am sorie for your hurt Lubeck Gramercie Madam but it is not great Onely a thrust prickt with a Rapiers point Mariana How grew the quarrel my Lord Lubeck Sweet Ladie for thy sake There was this last night two maskes in one company My selfe the formost The other strangers were Amongst the which when the Musick began to sound the Measures Eche Masker made choice of his Ladie And one more forward than the rest stept towards thee Which I perceiuing thrust him aside and tooke thee my selfe But this was taken in so ill parte That at my comming out of the court gate with iustling togither It was my chaunce to be thrust into the arme The doer thereof because he was the originall cause of the disorder At that inconuenient time was presently committed And is this morning sent for to aunswer the matter And I think here he comes What Sir Robert of Windsor how now Sir Robert Yfaith my Lord a prisoner but what ayles your arme Lubeck Hurte the last night by mischaunce Sir Robert What not in the maske at the Court gate Lubeck Yes trust me there Sir Rob. Why then my Lorde I thank you for my nights lodging Lubeck And I you for my hurt if it were so Keeper awaie I discharge you of your prisoner Exit the Keeper Sir Robert Lord Marques you offerd me disgrace to shoulder me Lubeck Sir I knew you not and therefore you must pardon me And the rather it might be alleaged to me of Meare simplisitie to see another daunce with my Maistris disguysed and I my selfe in presence but seeing it Was our happs to damnifie each other vnwillingly Let vs be content with our harmes And laye the fault where it was and so become friendes Sir Robert Yfaith I am content with my nights lodging If you be content with your hurt Lubeck Not content that I haue it but content To forget how I came by it Sir Robert My Lord here comes Ladie Blannch le ts away Enter Blaunch Lubeck With good will Ladie you will staie Exit Lubeck and Sir Robert Mariana Madam Blaunch Mariana as I am grieued with thy presence So am I not offended for thy absence And were it not a breach to modestie Thou shouldest know before I left thee Mariana How neare is this humor to madnesse If you hould on as you begyn you are in a pretie waie to scoulding Blannch To scoulding huswife Mariana Maddam here comes one Here enters one with a letter Blaunch There doth in deed Fellow wouldest thou haue any thing with any bodie here Messenger I haue a letter to deliuer to the Ladie Mariana Blaunch Giue it me Messen. There must none but shee haue it Blaunch snatcheth the letter from him Et exit messenger Go to foolish fellow And therefore to ease the anger I sustaine I le be so bolde to open it what 's here Sir Robert greets you well Your Maistries his loue his life Oh amorous man How he entertaines his new Maistres And bestowes on Lubeck his old friend A horne night capp to keepe in his witt Mariana Maddam though you haue discourteously Read my letter yet I praye you giue it me Blaunch Then take it there and there and there She teares it Et exit Blannch Mariana How farr doth this differ from modestie Yet will I gather vp the peeces which happelie May shew to me the intent thereof Though not the meaning She gathers vpp the peeces and ioynes them Mariana Your seruant and loue sir Robert of Windsor Alius William the Conqueror wisheth long health and happinesse Is this William the Conqueror shrouded vnder The name of sir Robert of VVindsor Were he the Monarch of the world He should not disposesse Lubeck of his Loue Therefore I will to the Court and there if I can Close
some place for to meete the man For my conueiance from the Denmarke Court Which determined vpon he will appoynt some certaine time For our departure whereof you hauing intelligence You may soone set downe a plot to were the English Crowne And than Blanch What then Mariana If Sir Robert proue a King and you his Queene How than Blanch Were I assured of the one as I am perswaded Of the other there were some possibilitie in it But here comes the man Mariana Madam begon and you shall see I will worke to your desire and my content Exit Blanch William Con Ladie this is well and happelie met Fortune hetherto hath beene my foe And though I haue oft sought to speake with you Yet still I haue beene crost with sinister happs I cannot Madame tell a louing tale Or court my Maistres with fabulous discoursies That am a souldier sworne to followe armes But this I bluntly let you vnderstand I honor you with such religious Zeale As may become an honorable minde Nor may I make my loue the seege of Troye That am a straunger in this Countrie First what I am I know you are resolued For that my friend hath let you that to vnderstand The Marques Lubeck to whome I am so bound That whilest I liue I count me onely his Mariana Surely you are beholding to the Marques For he hath beene an earnest spokes-man in your cause William And yealdes my Ladie then at his request To grace Duke VVilliam with her gratious loue Mariana My Lord I am a prisoner and hard it were To get me from the Courte VVilliam An easie matter to get you from the Court If case that you will thereto giue consent Mariana Put case I should how would you vse me than William Not otherwise but well and honorably I haue at Sea a shipp that doth attend Which shall foorthwith conducte vs into England Where when we are I straight will marrie thee We may not stay deliberating long Least that suspition enuious of our weale Set in a foote to hinder our pretence Mariana But this I think were most conuenient To maske my face the better to scape vnknowen VVilliam A good deuise till then Farwell faire loue Mariana But this I must intreat your grace You would not seeke by lust vnlawfully To wrong my chast determinations VVilliam I hold that man most shameles in his sinne That seekes to wrong an honest Ladies name Whome he thinkes worthie of his mariage bed Mariana In hope your othe is true I leaue your grace till the appoynted tyme Exit Mariana William O happie William blessed in thy loue Most fortunate in Marianaes loue Well Lubeck well this courtesie of thine I will requite if God permit me life Exit Enter Valingford and Mountney at two sundrie dores looking angerly each on other with Rapiers drauen Mountney Valingford so hardlie I disgest an iniurie Thou hast profered me as were not that I detest to doe what stands Not with the honor of my name Thy death should paie thy ransome of thy fault Valingford And Mountney had not my reuenging wrath Incenst with more than ordinarie loue beene such for to depriue thee of thy life Thou hadst not liude to braue me as thou doest wretch as thou arte wherein hath Valingford offended thee That honourable bond which late we did confirme In presence of the Gods When with the Conqueror we arriued here For my part hath beene kept inuiolably Till now too much abused by thy villanie I am inforced to cancell all those bands By hating him which I so well did loue Mountney Subtil thou art and cunning in thy frawd That giuing me occasion of offence Thou pickst a quarrell to excuse thy shame Why Valingford was it not enough for thee To be a ryuall twixt me and my loue But counsell her to my no small disgrace That when I came to talke with her of loue Shee should seeme deafe as fayning not to heare Valingford But hath shee Mountney vsed thee as thou sayest Mountney Thou knowest too well shee hath Wherein thou couldest not do me greater iniurie Valingford Then I perceiue we are deluded both For when I offered many gifts of Gold and Iewels To entreat for loue shee hath refused them with a coy disdaine Alledging that shee could not see the Sunne The same coniectured I to be thy drift That fayning so shee might be ridd of mee Mountney The like did I by thee But are not these naturall impediments Validgford In my coniecture merely counterfeit Therefore le ts ioyne hands in frindship once againe Since that the iarre grewe only by coniecture Mountney With all my heart Yet le ts trye the truth hereof Valingf. With right good will We wil straight vnto her father And there to learne whither it be so or no Exeunt Enter VVilliam and Blanch disguised with a maske ouer her face William Come on my loue the comfort of my life Disguised thus we may remaine vnknowen And get we once to Seas I force not then We quickly shall attaine the English shore Blaunch But this I vrge you with your former oath You shall not seeke to violate mine honour Vntill our marriage rights be all performed VVilliam Mariana here I sweare to thee by heauen And by the honour that I beare to Armes Neuer to seeke or craue at hands of thee The spoyle of honourable chastitie Vntill we do attaine the English coast Where thou shalt be my right espoused Queene Blanch In hope your oath proceedeth from your heart Le ts leaue the Court and betake vs to his power That gouernes all things to his mightie will And will reward the iust with endlesse ioye And plague the bad with most extreame annoy William Lady as little tarriance as wee may Lest some misfortune happen by the way Exit Blanch William Enter the Miller his man Trotter Manuile Miller I tell you sir it is no little greefe to mee You should so hardly conseit of my daughter Whose honest report though I saie it Was neuer blotted with any title of defamation Manuile Father Miller the repaire of those gentlemen to your house Hath giuen me great occasion to mislike Miller As for those gentlemen I neuer saw in them Any euill intreatie But should they haue profered it Her chaste minde hath proofe enough to preuent it Trotter Those gentlemen are as honest as euer I sawe For yfaith one of them gaue me sixe pence To fetch a quart of Seck See maister here they come Enter Mountney and Valingford Miller Trotter call Em now they are here together I le haue this matter throughly debated Exit Trotter Mountney Father well met We are come to conferre with you Manuile Nay with his daughter rather Valingford Thus it is father we are come to craue your frindship in a matter Miller Gentlemen as you are straungers to me Yet by the waie of courtesie you shall demaund Any reasonable thing at my hands Manuile What is the matter so forward