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A21238	The Queenes Maiesties entertainement at VVoodstock	Elizabeth I, Queen of England, 1533-1603. aut; Gascoigne, George, 1542?1577, attributed name. aut; Ferrers, George, 1500?-1579, attributed name. aut	1585 (1585)	STC 7596; ESTC S113259	26,813	50

me leaue whose friendship tride doth bid you bend your eare to that I say The trueth whereof cannot be wel denide though flaming loue in heate seeme to say nay Immortal states as you know mine to be from passions blind affects are quite and free If you may so consent to Parentes minde wherwith is ioyn'd the wealth of countries soyle As loue cannot accuse you for vnkinde ne yet complaine himselfe to haue the foyle Considering he whereon your Loue is bent may haue your loue though you herein relent If you forsake not forst by greater cause loue then of some vnkindnes might you blame But weight of greater worth forbidding pause if you withstand you blemish much your name It were no loue that stood so in your sight but might be tearm'd meere madnes out of right Returne againe with parent whence you came regard the state which birth hath brought you to Relent to loue that wil augment your fame and yet this knight cannot if you so do Condemne you much although you him forsake sith of two gods the greater you doe take Your Fathers reason springs from such a ground as cannot wel by reason be deny'de If he for you so fit a match haue found as for your birth no fitter may be spi'de What haue you then against him to withstand since nought but good can come from parents hand Set al aside and onely this obserue to seeke you out your knight he tooke no paine Yours was the toile you did from countrey swerue you trauail'de stil in rest he did remaine So that of you if loue craue further ayde you answere may he hath his wages payde But though you may thus checke his loue you 'le say how shal I choake the loue which flames in me That do my best so keepes me at the bay as ties me fast when loose I faine would be So that I find the goale must there be woon where fancy fights and loue the broyle begun Your countenance seemes to yeeld debarre al dout let meaner loue to greater quickly yeeld Your good it is these reasons goe about let common care giue priuate wil the field Why stand you stil as one in sodain traunce giue place to that your honour may aduaunce Gaudina Th' assault is great yet loue bids keep the field what al this time hath my long trauel won If now by light attempt I hap to yeeld these reasons helte before my flight begon What is now said but then the same was true the ground is old though floures be fresh and new When he by slight was so withdrawen from me then did my loue condemne these reasons all And shall I now sith nothing els I see by yeelding thus procure both present thral I rather choose to wander with him stil then so to change and countermaund my wil I feele a false alarme as though there were a fitter match to be found out for mee No Contarenus no I smel this geare to try if so I would relent from thee No our consents haue ioynd this faithfull linke til thou saiest nay I wil not from thee shrinke And yet in thee if slender shewes take place I le neuer yeeld for honor of my kind Let men remoue and slightly turne their face in womans brest more stay they stil shal find My parents pardon me my countrey stay for what is said from Loue I wil not stray Occan. You see how sore my headstrong daughter's bent she wil not yeeld for ought that can be said VVere it not good that to the knight we went to see if his desire might be delaide I see by him the meane must first begin to quench the flame my daughter frieth in Queen If it seeme good to you as 't doth to me to him where as he is we wil repaire For at his hand this must be wrought I see if he himselfe wil yeeld to countries care Com Sir and you Madam let vs retire we haue to deale with him whom you desire Gaudi. You may so with perswasions deale I think as he to your demaund may seeme to yeeld But inwardly that he from me wil shrink no reason can such ground bring for her shield Yet to doe that which both you do desire apart with you my selfe I wil retire Exeunt Heere the Pages abiding vse a prety act of sport but because the matter wil be full without it I haue thought good not to trouble you with suche Parenthesis but making their speeches ended I wil only recite the introduction to their comming in Alexandro But yonder comes the Fairy Queene and brings with her in trayne My Lord the Duke with merry looke I hope weis home againe Occa. the Duke Eambia the Fairy Queene Contarenus Gaudina Roxa Niphe Queen You heare Sir Knight the parents iust request you see the force whereon his reasons stand Affections staies what wisedome thinks for best the matter rests al onely in your hand By nature you are farther to forsee you are therefore to strike the stroke not she Occa. You know of old what led me so to let the great desire wherwith you both so brent Against your worth my wil was neuer set to further Countries good was mine intent Which sith in me so constantly doth dwell to yeeld therto me thinks you might do wel Gaudi Yet Contarenus think what is in you if vertues worth and waight in you be great And such as none but blind can disallow why should perswasions then vs two defeate As who say any els might better seeme then you and I to rule so great a realme Birth beares me out and vertue beares vp you and why should any then therof mislike As certaine proofe shal stil preuaile I trow before that is vncertein how to like You are to choose my friend make answere so as you do not procure vs endles wo Conta. The choise is hard in midst of such extreames my Lord and Prince pretending Countries good On th' other side affections dazeling beames which stil wil shine though clypsed with a cloude Layeth in myne eye my Ladies due desart which nought but death can seuer from my heart What flashing flames did she at first abide when as on me her loue she did bestow What constance stil in her wrought on my side to keepe that loue whereto my life I owe What griefe did then consume her careful heart when as my Lord wil'd me from Court depart What was the zeale that made her so forsake the blisse which princely Court to her could bring And for my Loue such passing paines to take to find me out where bruite of me shoulde ring Now should I swerue whom she so long hath sought death were too smal did I but fault in thought How can I leaue her thus and not deserue to be enrould with those infamous men Whom Loue because they did from him so swerue hath painted out by Poets publike pen In hel to haue their wel deseruing hire for so defrauding loue of iust desire Yet pardon

me Madam for waighing both if any harme do rise the griefe is mine You to displease the god knowe I am loth for whom my heart disdaines not any pine Set loue aside til reason hath found out what is the best in that we goe about Against our Loue our Countries good is laid for whose auaile we ought not death refuse Then death for loue in Countries cause bewraid ought to reioyce and seeke no other scuce Yet leauing Loue for countries cause I die who wil not weep such happe on me to lie Because my Lord your father may well know that vertue is the linke of this our Loue And not affection blind which leades vs so as being bent we cannot once remoue Marke Madam what I say and yeeld consent it is your loue that causeth me relent Without my Lord your parents free good wil at home with him what can his child enioy And thus to liue in state a wanderer stil as you do now what more may breed annoy Good Madam though I loue as no man more yeeld yet to him withstand him not so sore You shal obteine such one by his foresight as he shal like and countries weale shal craue You must regard the common weales good plight and seeke the whole not onely one to saue If you doe well I cannot doe amisse though loosing you I lose mine onely blisse I doe foresee the griefe that wil insue when I shal find my selfe of you bereft VVhen careful mind my late mishap shal rue that voyd of you and of your sight am left A double death my doleful dayes shal feele yet I resigne my right to countries weale Qu. A noble speech confirming what was said that vertues worth was causer of your loue For sure my Lord it cannot be denaide but that this minde a stony heart myght moue Which to his praise doth yeeld to Countries good the thing which to possesse so neere he stood Occa. Wel Conta I must needs esteeme you of such worth as your estate doth beare And if it might so to all others seem you best deserue the garland for to weare But sith the fates against your vertues bend your vertue wils you this to condiscend Whereto this farre I yeeld if that you please with me againe to Countrey to resort You shal in noble state there liue at ease and spend your daies in most delightful sport And as for loue I banish't you my lande euen so for loue in grace stil shal you stand Cont. My Lord what you haue done your state maintains exiling me that did offend your eye My life must be in course of restlesse paines for her whom care of countrey doth denye Good hap light on the land where I was borne though I doe liue in wretched state forlorne Gaudin. Alas that such a spirit cannot perswade Alas that state and vertue sunder so Alas of worth no more account is made but thus from thee my loue must I needes goe Well sith he yeelds which hath most right in me Ah Countries good I yeeld my selfe to thee Occa. Now haue I that which though I bought with pain I think it light the gain thereof so great Now I receiue you to my grace againe whereof before Loue sought you to defeat The second mends the former fault doth heale since you giue place to care of Countries weale Queen Wel now the force wherto your fate made way is wel expired you haue the heauens to friend Who though they saw you runne so long astray yet haue they giuen your care a ioyful end Thinke on and thanke it is a special grace first so to stray then so to end your race Your peace is wrought Madam retire with me to place where I do dwel from whence you may To Countrey make repaire when time shal be til when my Lord if you with me wil stay What things shal need for that your home retire I wil supply your want to your desire Occa. Your goodnes hath so bound both her and me as while we liue we be yours to command By you is wrought this wished worke I see by power diuine and by no mortal hand Passe on Madam let vs be of your trayne the causer of our ioy the healer of our payne Queen And you sir knight whose honest yeelding made the good consent which past to help this yll You may remaine as I before haue said where I do dwel with hearty great good will And euer haue the Fairy Queene to friend for vertues sake which I in you do finde Conta. Madam I am your owne stil to command as one you see of hap bereaued quite Resolu'd not to returne to countries land sith I haue lost what was my whole delight When resting pawse hath stay'd my troubled heart I will retire and draw my selfe apart And now sith cause of such importaunce moues my woful heart thus to forgo his loue Most worthy Dame sith chaunce so parts our loues that from my sight your presence must remoue Graunt me herein sith now the last I see let not your loue all whole depart from mee Waigh wel the cause that mou'd me to relent which may perhaps imprint more deep conceite What man as I his loue so firmly bent would yeeld the hold once maister of the baite The gods preserue your honour stil in health my priuate good my common countries wealth And if your mind were set that home you will it were but labour lost if I gainsaide And absent if your loue continue still my gayne is great who stil this ground haue laide That honest loue might thinke it no disgrace though they that loue do hap to sunder place Gaudi. Wel Contarenus wel what shal ensue you are the cause whose yeelding makes me yeeld Yet of my word for euer hold this true wheron you may assured comfort build Til death my soule and body shal depart your loue shal lodge in some part of my heart Griefe calles me hence Exit Conta. Such is my recompence Nowe doe I feele the pangs the Sea men bide which hauing harbour nigh in hope to land By turning winde are driuen to try the tide and trust the Seas thereby to voyd the sand Now doe I feele the depth of mothers paine for death of child she hop'd to see againe Was euer man more neere his hauen of blisse his ship driuen forth with wind that fill'd the sayle Had euer man such cause of hopelesse misse as I which at the fal so soon did faile Did Fortune ere so sodain shew her power as in her mirth so soon againe to lower When I had liu'd so long in strange exile in desart wastes commaunded stil to dwel Disfauored of my prince alas the while and bard my Ladies sight my heauiest hel Againe at last though to her paine we met so Loue in her surmounted lucklesse let Which loue as it did worke in her to ease so Fathers search which sought to salue his losse Hath bred vs both more cause

of great displease and tied vs thus to trie more bitter crosse By duety she is forced to relent and leaues to loue a leasure to repent Yet can I not Gaudina blame therefore her hearty loue her toyling tractes bewayles She is the lodge where vertue makes her store it was her syre that bred my doleful daies Most happy he that on her ioue can hit most haplesse I for so forgoing it And so farre went I yet as one that spied her whole estate depend vpon my graunt Though my mishap herein be not denied yet of her spide my selfe may iustly vaunt To worke her good my life I would forgoe as I haue done though to my endlesse woe Niphe and Roxane entreth Rox. Friend Niphe could we two haue euer once surmised that such euent would fall to this exceeding loue Or that blind Cupid could so quickly be suppressed which to all reason first so strongly gaue the gloue Ni. I neuer thought but that there might fal out some turn the streame did run so strong it threatned stil to stay The flame so flashing hot could not so alwaies burn but being closely kept would burst some other way Contar. What Niphe art thou here and heard'st my plaint with silent voyce couldst thou such griefe abide Which heretofore when fortune gaue the taint from sounding shril couldst not thine anguish hide Oh helpe in sound to shew my sorrowing state which seem'd to thee most happy but of late Niphe I wil good sir doe al that lieth in me to ease your care whose case doth touch me neere To finde you out by lande and eke by Sea my selfe did toyle twixt hope and trembling feare Whose shaking off in sort as now we see is sowre to you and nothing sweet to mee But sith you may with licence of my Lord returne againe from whence you were exilde Why wil you not with him therein accord me thinks refusing that you are beguilde There whom you loue you may haue still in sight which step in loue was neuer holden light Conta. Can I beholde another to embrace where I my selfe my Loue haue alwayes cast Would not my griefe bewray it selfe in place to see my Loue so cleerely from me past Good Niphe helpe this is my last request to shew my griefe good Niphe doe thy best Niphes song O silly Bird what feeles thy heauy brest which seeking foode to feed thy young withall At thy returne doest find thy empty nest and none therein to answere at thy call How can thy heart but melt away for griefe forgoing them to thee of late so liefe How could'st thou Thisby stay by trembling hand from reauing thee thy then so lothsome life When dead on ground thy Pyrramus gan stand who hop'd forthwith to haue thee to his wife The neerer hope the fuller fraught with gall when trust in hope to rest hath sodaine fall Poore Contarenus how hath Fortune fickle dame procur'd thy griefe in offring thee her hand VVhich in thy cause doth now deserue most blame when she would seem thy special friend to stand O ye that trust the whirling of her wheele beware the wrench at turning of her heele And you that looke aloft beyond degree when fayrest wind doth fill your flying sayle Hold fast for feare your footing ficklest bee when hope wil seeme to helpe you to preuayle So did she here with Contarenus play from whom she fled when she made shew of stay Conta. I thank thee Niphe for thy mournful song the tune whereof delights the doleful eares Of such as iustly may complaine the wrong whose griefe dammes vp the floud of trickling teares Farewell to both sith I must needs depart beare witnes of my woe and careful heart And tel my Lady deere that I intend henceforth to seeke if I may meet her friend Loricus whom the Hermit did commend I le bid him thinke and hope one day to find Reward for that his faithful seruice long til when we both may plaine of fortunes wrong Yet say I wil abide hers to command where so aduentures hard shal carry me Not leauing loue by Sea nor yet by land though that I loue I neuer hap to see Oh careful heart opprest with such desires as lacks the ioyes that lyking aye requires Yet this I am assur'de her Princely heart where she hath lou'd wil neuer quite forget I know in her I shal haue stil apart in honest sort I know she loues me yet These thoughts in me mainteine the hope of life which other waies by death should end the strife Exit Contar. Rox. Wel then I see our fortune must deuide we must againe to Countries land retire This knight delights in sorrowing to abide For missing her which was his whole desire My selfe haue felt such trauel on their traine as I am glad home to returne agayne The Gods send al good speed that tarry here and chiefly her which gouernes al the rest As for my selfe I wil spread farre and neere for princely prayse that she deserueth best And that God loued vs which made vs stay where vertuous Queene doth stately scepter sway Finis Imprinted at London for Thomas Cadman 1585