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A93166
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The brothers, a comedie, as it was acted at the private house in Black Fryers Written by James Shirley. Never printed before.
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Shirley, James, 1596-1666.
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shall be sad to know I did deserve an Enemy or he want A Charity at death Fer. Thy cruell Enemy And my best friend hath took Eternall leave And 's gone to heaven I hope excuse my tears It is a tribute I must pay his memory For I did love my Father Felis. Ha! your Father Fer. Yes Felisarda he is gone that in The morning promis'd many years but death Hath in few hours made him as stiff as all The winds and winter had thrown cold upon him And wisper'd him to marble Felis. Now trust me My heart weepes for him but I understand Not hovv I vvas concern'd in his displeasure And in such height as you profess Fer. He did Command me on his blessing to forsake thee Was 't not a cruell precept to inforce The soul and curse his Son for honest love Felis. This is a wound indeed Fer. But not so mortall For his last breath was Balsom pour'd upon it By which he did reverse his malediction And I that groan'd beneath the weight of that Anathema sunk almost to despair Where night and heavy shades hung round about me Found my self rising like the morning Star To view the World Felis. Never I hope to be Eclips'd agen Fer. This was a welcom blessing Fe. Heaven had a care of both my joyes are mighty Vouchsafe me sir your pardon if I blush And say I love but rather than the peace That should preserve your bosom suffer for My sake 't were better I were dead Fer. No live And live for ever happy thou deserved'st it It is Fernando doth make hast to sleep In his forgotten dust Felis. Those accents did Not sound so cheerfully Fer. dost love me Felis. Sir Fer. Do not I prethee do not I am lost Alas I am no more Fernando there Is nothing but the Empty name of him That did betray thee place a guard about Thy heart be time I am not worth this sweetness Felis. Did not Fernando speak all this alas He knew that I was poor before and needed not Despise me now for that Fer. Desert me goodness When I upbraid thy wants 'T is I am poor For I ha' not a stock in all the World Of so much dust as would contrive one narrow Cabin to shroud a worm my dying Father Hath given away my Birthright to Francisco I 'm disinherited thrown out of all But the small Earth I borrow thus to walk on And having nothing left I come to kiss thee And take my everlasting leave of thee too Farewell this will perswade thee to consent To my Eternall absence Felis. I must beseech you stay a little sir And clear my faith Hath your displeased Father Depriv'd you then of all and made Francisco The Lord of your Inheritance without hope To be repair'd in Fortune Fer. 'T is sad truth Felis. This is a happiness I did not look for Fer. A happiness Felis. Yes Sir a happiness Fer. Can Felisarda take delight to hear What hath undone her servant Felis. Heaven avert it But 't is not worth my grief to be assur'd That this will bring me nearer now to him Whom I most honor of the World and t is My pride if you exceed me not in Fortune That I can boast my heart as high and rich With noble flame and every way your equall And if you be as poor as I Fernando I can deserve you now and love you more Than when your expectation carried all The pride and blossoms of the spring upon it Fer. Those shadowes will not feed more than our fancies Two poverties will keep but a thin table And while wee dream of this high nourishment Wee do but starve more gloriously Felis. 'T is ease And wealth first taught us art to surfet by Nature is wise not costly and will spread A table for us in the Wilderness And the kind Earth keep us alive and healthfull With what her bosom doth invite us to The brooks not there suspected as the Wine That somtime Princes quaff are all transparent And with their pretty murmurs call to tast 'em In every tree a Chorister to sing Health to our loves our lives shall there be free As the first knowledge was from sin and all Our dreams as Innocent Fer. Oh Felisarda If thou didst own less Virtue I might prove Unkind and marry thee but being so rich In goodness it becomes me not to bring One that is poor in every vvorth to vvast So excellent a Dower be free and meet One that hath Wealth to cherish it I shall Undo thee quite but pray for me as I That thou maist change for a more happy Bridgroom I dare as soon be guilty of my death As make thee miserable by expecting me Farwell and do not wrong my soul to think That any storm could separate us two But that I have no fortune now to serve thee Felis. This will be no exception sir I hope When wee are both dead yet our bodies may Be cold and strangers in the Winding sheet We shall be married when our spirits meets Exeunt Act V. Enter Carlos Pedro Pe. Your daughter does not use me well Don Carlos Car. I know not what to think Some great misfortune must be the cause Ped. Not yet appear they might And they had crept like Tortoyses Ariv'd Before this time Car. There is some strange disaster Ped. The Coach orethrown and both their lives Endanger'd can but excuse 'm Enter Alsimira Oh my Lord Don Carlos Ped. The Tragick voice of women stricks mine eare Car. Alsimira Ped. Madam Car. Where is our Daughter Alsi. My fear almost distracts me she is gone Stoln ravish'd from me Ped. Ha Alst. An armed Troop In Visards forc'd her from my coach and heaven Knows where they have hurried the poor Jacinta Car. A troop of armed Devils Ped. Let them be A legion they are all damn'd Al. Nay they were men and mortall sure Ped. I w'on'ot leave one soul amongst them all Car. Mine is in torment I' th' hope height of my ambition To be thus cros'd how scap'd you Alsi. Alas I was not young enough I offer'd My self to bear her company and suffer As much as she did but one boysterous fellow With a starch'd voice and a worse vizard took me Just here above my Sciatica and quoited me Into the coach agen upon my head I had alarum in 't for half an hour And so I scap'd with life Ped. Did they use her with any rigor Alsi. To say truth they were gentle enough to her Ped. That mollifies and they may live Car. Hell overtake 'em le ts return they had better Committed incest than this rape Ped. They had better ravish'd Proserpine before Don Lucifer's own face I am all fury Exeunt Enter Alberto and Estefania Alb. Pardon my dear Jacinta It was love That threw me on this act I had no patience To see thee forc'd into a mariage By a covetous Father whose devotion Is only Wealth and Title I esteem No danger if at