The story of your favor if I mistake it Or grow a truant in the study of it A great correction Lady Quisar Let 's toth ' banquet And have some merrier talk and then to Court Where I give audience to my general Suiters Pray heaven my womans wit hold there brave Captain You may perchance meet something that may startle ye I 'll say no more come be not sad I love ye Exeunt Enter Pyniero Armusia Soza Christophero and Emanuel Py. You are wellcome Gentlemen most worthy welcom And know there 's nothing in our power may serve ye But you may freely challenge Arm. Sir we thank ye And rest your servants too Py. Ye are worthy Portugals You shew the bravery of your minds and spirits The nature of our Country too that brings forth Stirring unwearied soules to seek adventures Minds never satisfied with search of honor Where time is and the Sun gives light brave Countrymen Our names are known new worlds disclose their riches Their beauties and their prides to our embraces And we the first of Nations find these wonders Arm. These noble thoughts Sir have intic'd us forward And minds unapt for ease to see these miracles In which we find report a poor relater We are arriv'd among the blessed Islands Where every wind that rises blows perfumes And every breath of air is like an Incence The treasure of the Sun dwells here each Tree As if it envied the old Paradice Strives to bring forth immortal fruit the Spices Renewing nature though not deifying And when that falls by time scorning the earth The sullen earth should taint or suck their beauties But as we dreamt for ever so preserve us Nothing we see but breeds an admiration The very rivers as we float along Throw up their pearls and curle their heads to court us The bowels of the earth swell with the births Of thousand unknown gemms and thousand riches Nothing that bears a life but brings a treasure The people they shew brave too civil manner'd Proportioned like the Masters of great minds The Women which I wonder at Py. Ye speak well Ar. Of delicate aspects fair clearly beauteous And to that admiration sweet and courteous Py. And is not that a good thing brave Armusia You never saw the Court before Ar. No certain But that I see a wonder too all excellent The Government exact Chr. Ye shall see anon That that will make ye start indeed such beauties Such riches and such form Enter Bakam Syana Governor Soz. We are fire already The wealthy Magazine of nature sure Inhabits here Arm. These sure are all Ilanders Py. Yes and great Princes too and lusty lovers Ar. They are goodly persons What might he be Signior That bears so proud a state Py. King of Bakam A fellow that sarts terror Em. He looks highly Sure he was begot o' th' top of a Steeple Chr. It may well be For you shall hear him ring anon Py. That is Syana And a brave temper'd fellow and more valiant Soz. What rugged face is that Py. That 's the great Governor The man surpriz'd our Friend I told ye of him Ar. ' Has dangerous eyes Py. A perilous Thief and subtile Chr. And to that subtilty a heart of Iron Py. Yet the young Lady makes it melt Ar. They start all And thunder in the eyes Ba. Away ye poor ones Am I in competition with such bubbles My virtue and my name rank'd with such trifles Sy. Ye speak loud Ba. Young-man I will speak louder Can any man but I deserve her favor You petty Princes Py. He will put 'em all in 's pocket Sy. Thou proud mad thing be not so full of glory So full of vanity Ba. How I contemn thee And that sort-keeping fellow Py. How the Dog looks The bandog Governor Gov. Ha Why Ba. Away thing And keep your rank with those that fit your royalty Call out the Princess Gov. Dost thou know me bladder Thou insolent impostume Ba. I despise thee Gov. Art thou acquainted with my nature baby With my revenge for Injuries darst thou hold me So far behind thy file I cannot reach thee What canst thou merit Ba. Merit I am above it I am equal with all honors all atchievements And what is great and worthy the best doer I keep at my command fortune 's my servant 'T is in my power now to despise such wretches To look upon ye slightly and neglect ye And but she daines at some hours to remember ye And people have bestowed some Titles on ye I should forget your names Sy. Mercy of me What a blown fool has self affection Made of this fellow did not the Queen your Mother Long for bellows and bagpipes when she was great with ye She brought forth such a windy birth Gov. 'T is ten to one She eat a Drum and was deliver'd of alarum Or else he was swadled in an old saile when he was young Sy. He swells too mainly with his meditations Faith talk a little handsomer ride softly That we may be able to hold way with ye we are Princes But those are but poor things to you talk wiser 'T will well become your mightiness talk less That men may think ye can do more Gov. Talk truth That men may think ye are honest and believe ye Or talk your self asleep for I am weary of you Ba. Why I can talk and do Gov. That wou'd do excellent Ba. And tell you only I deserve the Princess And make good only I if you dare you sir Or you Syanas Prince Py. Here 's a storm toward Methinks it sings already to him Governor Gov. Here lies my proof Drawâ Sy. And mine Gov. I 'll be short with ye For these long arguments I was never good at Py. How white the boaster looks Enter Ruy Dias Quisara Quisana Panura Ar. I see he lacks faith Ru. For shame forbear great Princes rule your angers You violate the freedom of this place The state and Royalty Gov. He 's well contented It seems and so I have done Ar. Is this she Signior Py. This is the Princess Sir Ar. She is sweet and goodly An admirable form they have cause to justle Quisar Ye wrong me and my court ye forward Princeâ Comes your Love wrapt in Violence to seek us Is' t fit though you be great my presence should be Stain'd and polluted with your bloody rages My privacies affrighted with your Swords He that loves me loves my command be temper'd Or be no more what ye profess my Servants Omnes We are calme as peace Ar. What command she carries And what a sparkling Majesty flies from her Quisar Is it ye love to do ye shall find danger And danger that shall start your resolutions But not this way 't is not contention Who loves me to my face best or who can flatter most Can carry me he that deserves my favor And will enjoy what I bring love and Majesty Must win me with his worth must travel for me Must put his
my self a Husband and a guest Exeunt Actus Quintus Scaena Prima Enter Montague and Charlotte Charl. WEll now I am sure you are mine Mont. I am sure I am glad I have one to own then you 'll find me honest As these days go enough poor without question Which beggars hold a virtue give me meat and I Shall do my work else knock my shooes off And turn me out again Char. You are a merry fellow Mont. I have no great cause Char. Yes thy love to me Mont. That 's as we make our game Char. Why you repent then Mont. Faith no worse than I am I cannot be Much better I expect not I shall love you And when you bid me go to bed obey Lie still or move as you shall minister Keep a four-Nobles Nag and a Jack Merling learn to love Ale and play at Two-hand Irish And there 's then all I aim at Char. Nay sweet fellow I 'll make it something better Mont. If you do you 'll make me worse Now I am poor and willing to do well Hold me in that course of all the Kings creatures I hate his coin keep me from that and save me For if you chance out of your housewivery To leave a hundred pound or two bestow it In Plumb-broth e'r I know it else I take it Seek out a hundred men that want this money Share it among 'em they 'll cry noble Montague And so I stand again at livery Char. You have pretty fancies Sir but married once This charity will fall home to your self Mont. I would it would I am afraid my looseness âs yet scarce stopt though it have nought to work on But the meer air of what I have had Char. Pretty Mont. I wonder sweet heart why you 'll marry me I can see nothing in my self deserves it Unless the handsome wearing of a band For that 's my stock now or a pair of garters Necessity will not let me loose Char. I see Sir a great deal more a handsome man a Husband To make a right good woman truly happy Mont. Lord where are my eyes either you are foolish As wenches once a year are or far worse Extreamly virtuous can you love a poor man That relies on cold meat and cast stockings One only suit to his back which now is mâwing But what will be the next coat will pose Tristram If I should leavy from my friends a fortune I could not raise ten groats to pay the Priest now Char. I 'll do that duty 't is not means nor money Makes me pursue your love were your mind bankrupt I would never love you Enter Lamira Mont. Peace wench here 's my Lady Lam. Nay never shrink i' th' wetting for my presence D' ye find her willing Montague Mont. Willing Madam Lam. How dainty you make of it do not I know You two love one another Mont. Certain Madam I think ye 'ave revelations of these matters Your Ladyship cannot tell me when I kist her Lam. But she can Sir Mont. But she will not Madam For when they talk once 't is like Fairy-Money They get no more close kisses Lam. Thou art wanton Mont. Heaven knows I need not yet I would be lusty But my Provender scarce pricks me Lam. It shall be mended Montague I am glad you are grown so merry Mont. So am I too Madam Lam. You two will make a pretty handsome Consort Mont. Yes Madam if my Fiddle fail me not Lam. Your Fiddle why your Fiddle I warrant thou meanest madly Mont. Can you blame me alas I am in love Char. 'T is very well Sir Lam. How long have you been thus Mont. How thus in love Lam. You are very quick Sir no I mean thus pleasant Mont. Ever since I was poor Lam. A little wealth would change you then Mont. Yes Lady into another suit but never more Into another man I 'll bar that mainly The wealth I get hence-forward shall be charm'd For ever hurting me I 'll spend it fasting As I live noble Lady there is nothing I have found directly cures the melancholy But want and wedlock when I had store of money I simper'd sometime and spoke wondrous wise But never laught out-right now I am empty My heart sounds like a Bell and strikes at both sides Lam. You are finely temper'd Montague Mont. Pardon Lady if any way my free mirth have offended 'T was meant to please you if it prove too saucy Give it a frown and I am ever silenc'd Lam. I like it passing well pray follow it This is my day of choice and shall be yours too 'T were pity to delay ye call to the Steward And tell him 't is my pleasure he should give you Five hundred Crowns make your self handsome Montague Let none wear better cloaths 't is for my credit But pray be merry still Mont. If I be not and make a fool of twice as many hundreds Clap me in Canvas Lady Exeunt Enter La-poop Laverdine and Malycorne Lav. I am strangely glad I have found the mystery Of this disguised boy out I ever trusted It was a woman and how happily I have found it so and for my self I am sure One that would offer me a thousand pound now And that 's a pretty sum to make one stagger In ready Gold for this concealment could not Buy my hope of her she 's a dainty wench And such a one I find I want extreamly To bring me into credit beauty does it Mal. Say we should all meach here and stay the Feast now what can the worst be we have plaid the knaves that 's without question La-p. True and as I take it this is the first truth We told these ten years and for any thing I know may be the last but grant we are knaves Both base and beastly knaves Mal. Say so then Lav. Well La-p. And likewise let it be considered we have wrong'd And most maliciously this Gentlewoman We cast to stay with what must we expect now Mal I there 's the point we would expect good eating La-p. I know we would but we may find good beating Lav. You say true Gentlemen and by Though I love meat as well as any man I care not what he be if a eat a Gods name Such a crab-sauce to my meat will turn my pallate Mal. There 's all the hazard for the frozen Montague Has now got spring again and warmth in him And without doubt dares beat us terribly For not to mint the matter we are cowards And have and shall be beaten when men please To call us into cudgeling La-p. I feel we are very prone that way Lav. The sons of Adam La-p. Now here then rests the state o' th' question Whether we yield our bodies for a dinner To a sound dog-whip for I promise ye If men be given to correction We can expect no less or quietly Take a hard Egg or two and ten mile hence Bait in a ditch this we may do securely For to stay
Lean. I will go our a little Amar. He looks not like a fool his face is noble How still he stands Lean. I am strucken dumb with wonder Sure all the Excellence of Earth dwells here Amar. How pale he looks yet how his eyes like torcââs Fling their beams round how manly his face shews He comes on surely he will speak he is made most handsomâ This is no Clerk behaviour now I have seen ye I 'le take my time Husband ye have brought home tinder Exit Lean. Sure she has transform'd me I had forgot my tongue clean I never saw a face yet but this rare one But I was able boldly to encounter it And speak my mind my lips were lockt up here This is divine and only serv'd with reverence O most fair cover of a hand far fairer Thou blessed Innocence that guards that whiteness Live next my heart I am glad I have got a relick A ãâ¦ã A relick when I pray to it may work wonders Hark there 's some noise I must retire again This blessed Apparition makes me happy I 'le suffer and I 'le sacrifice my substance But I 'le enjoy now softly to my Kennel Exit Actus Tertius Scena Prima Enter Henrique and Bartolus Hen. YOU know my cause sufficiently Bar. I do Sir Hen. And though it will impair my honesty And strike deep at my Credit yet my Bartolus There being no other evasion left to free me From the vexation of my spightful Brother That most insultingly raigns over me I must and will go forward Bar. Do my Lord And look not after credit we shall cure that Your bended honesly we shall set right Sir We Surgeons of the Law do desperate Cures Sir And you shall see how heartily I 'le handle it Mark how I 'le knock it home be of good chear Sir âou give good Fees and those beget good Causes âhe Prerogative of your Crowns will carry the matter Carry it sheer the Assistant sits to morrow And he 's your friend your monyed men love naturally ând he 's your loves are clear so are your Causes Hen. He shall not want for that Bar. No no he must not âe your Cause warmly Sir the times are Aguish âhat holds a Plea in heart hang the penurious âheir Causes like their purses have poor Issues Hen. That way I was ever bountiful Bar. 'T is true Sir âhat makes ye fear'd forces the Snakes to kneel to ye âive full of mony and supply the Lawyer And take your choice of what mans lands you please Sir What pleasures or what profits what revenges They are all your own I must have witnesses âhough and ready Hen. You shall not want my Bartolus Bar. Substantial fearless souls that will swear suddenly That will swear any thing Hen. They shall swear truth too Bar. That 's no great matter for variety They may swear truth else 't is not much look'd after â will serve Process presently and strongly Upon your Brother and Octavio âacintha and the Boy provide your proofs Sir And set 'em fairly off be sure of Witnesses Though they cost mony want no store of witnesses â have seen a handsome Cause so foully lost Sir âo beastly cast away for want of Witnesses Hen. There shall want nothing Bar. Then be gone be provident âend to the Judge a secret way you have me And let him understand the heart Hen. I shall Sir Bar. And feel the pulses strongly beat I 'le study And at my hour but mark me go be happy Go and believe i' th' Law Hen. I hope 't will help me Exeunt SCENA II. Enter Lopez Diego and four Parishioners and Singers Lop. Ne're talk to me I will not stay amongst ye Oâ baush'd and ignorant lazie knaves I found ye And fools I leave ye I have taught these twenty years Preacht spoon-meat to ye that a Child might swallow Yet ye are Block heads still what should I say to ye Ye have neither faith nor mony left to save ye Am I a fit companion for such Beggers 1 If the Shepheard will suffer the sheep to be scab'd Sir Lop. No no ye are rotten Die Would they were for my sake Lop. I have Nointed ye and Tarr'd ye with my Doctrine And yet the Murren sticks to ye yet ye are Mangy ãâã will avoid ye 2 Pray ye Sir be not angry ân the pride of your new Cassock do not part with us We do acknowledge ye are a careful Curate And one that seldom troubles us with Sermons A short slice of a Reading serves us Sir We do acknowledge ye a quiet Teacher Before you 'll vex your Audience you 'll sleep with 'em And that 's a loving thing 3 We grant ye Sir The only benefactor to our Bowling To all our merry Sports the first provoker And at our Feasts we know there is no reason But you that edifie us most should eat most Lop. I will not stay for all this ye shall know me A man born to amore beseeming fortune Than ringing all in to a ront of Dunces 4 We will increase your Tithes you shall have Eggs too Though they may prove most dangerous to our Issues 1 I am a Smith yet thus âaâ out of my love You shall have the tenth Horse I prick to pray for I am sure I prick five hundred in a year Sir 2 I am a Cook a man of a dri'd Conscience Yet thus far I relent you shall have tith Pottage 3 Your stipend shall be rais'd too good Neighbour Diego Die Would ye have me speak for ye I am more angry Ten times more vex'd not to be pacified No there be other places for poor Sextons Places of profit Friends fine stirring places And people that know how to use our Offices Know what they were made for I speak for such Capons Ye shall find the Key o' th' Church Under the door Neighbours You may go in and drive away the Dawes Lop. My Surpless with one sleeve you shall find there For to that death of Linnen you have driven me And the old Cut work Cope that hangs by Geometry 'Pray ye turn 'em carefully they are very tender The remnant of the Books lie where they did Neighbours Half puft away with the Church wardens pipings Such smoaky zeals they have against hard places The Poor mans Box is there too if ye find any thing Besiâe the Posie and that half rub'd out too For fear it should awake too much charity Give it to pious uses that is spend it Die The Bell-ropes they are strong enough to hang ye So we bequeath ye to your destiny 1 'Pray ye be not so hasty Pie I 'le speak a proud word to ye Would ye have us stay 2 We do most heartily pray ye 3 I 'le draw as mighty drink Sir Lop. A strong motive The stronger still the more ye come unto me 3 And I 'le send for my Daughter Lop. This may stir too The Maiden is of age and must be edified 4 You shall have
the reliques of their scatter'd faction A new head 's sprung Say I defeat all these too I come home crown'd an honourable Rebel I hear the Noise still and it still comes nearer Are the Guards fast Who waits there Enter Sceva with a Packet Cleopatra in it Sce. Are ye awake Sir Caes I' th' name of Wonder Sce. Nay I am a Porter A strong one too or else my sides would crack Sir And my sins were as weighty I should scarce walk with ' em Caes What hast thou there Sce. Ask them which stay without And brought it hither your Presence I deny'd 'em And put 'em by took up the load my self They say 't is rich and valu'd at the Kingdome I am sure 't is heavy if you like to see it You may if not I 'll give it back Caes Stay Sceva I would fain see it Sce. I 'll begin to work then No doubt to flatter ye they have sent ye something Of a rich value Jewels or some rich Treasure May be a Rogue within to do a mischief I pray you stand farther off if there be villany Better my danger first he shall ' scape hard too Ha! what art thou Caes Stand farther off good Sceva What heavenly Vision do I wake or slumber Farther off that hand Friend Sce. What Apparition What Spirit have I rais'd sure 't is a Woman She looks like one now she begins to move too A tempting Devil o' my life go off Caesar Bless thy self off a Bawd grown in mine old days Bawdry advanc'd upon my back 't is noble Sir if you be a Souldier come no nearer She is sent to dispossess you of your honour A Spunge a Spunge to wipe away your Victories And she would be cool'd Sir let the Souldiers trim her They 'll give her that she came for and dispatch her Be loyal to your self Thou damned Woman Dost thou come hither with thy flourishes Thy flaunts and faces to abuse mens manners And am I made the instrument of Bawdry I 'll find a Lover for ye one that shall hug ye Caes Hold on thy life and be more temperate Thou Beast Sce. Thou Beast Caes Could'st thou be so inhumane So far from noble Men to draw thy Weapon Upon a thing divine Sce. Divine or humane They are never better pleas'd nor more at hearts case Than when we draw with full intent upon ' em Caes Move this way Lady 'Pray ye let me speak to ye Sce. And Woman you had best stand Caes By the gods But that I see her here and hope her mortal I should imagine some celestial sweetness The treasure of soft love Sce. Oh this sounds mangily Poorly and scurvily in a Souldiers mouth You had best be troubled with the Tooth-ach too For Lovers ever are and let your Nose drop That your celestial Beauty may be friend ye At these years do you learn to be fantastical After so many bloody fields a Fool She brings her Bed along too she 'll lose no time Carries her Litter to lye soft do you see that Invites ye like a Gamester note that impudence For shame reflect upon your self your honour Look back into your noble parts and blush Let not the dear sweat of the hot Pharsalia Mingle with base Embraces am I he That have receiv'd so many wounds for Caesar Upon my Target groves of darts still growing Have I endur'd all hungers colds distresses And as I had been bred that Iron that arm'd me Stood out all weathers now to curse my fortune To ban the blood I lost for such a General Caesar Offend no more be gone Sce. I will and leave ye Leave ye to womens wars that will proclaim ye You 'l conquer Rome now and the Capitol With Fans and Looking-glasses farewel Caesar Cleo. Now I am private Sir I dare speak to ye But thus low first for as a God I honour ye Sce. Lower you 'l be anon Caesar Away Sce. And privater For that you covet all Exit Caesar Tempt me no farther Cleo. Contemn me not because I kneel thus Caesar I am a Queen and coheir to this country The Sister to the mighty Ptolomy Yet one distress'd that flyes unto thy justice One that layes sacred hold on thy protection As on an holy Altar to preserve me Caesar Speak Queen of beauty and stand up Cleo. I dare not 'Till I have found that favour in thine eyes That godlike great humanity to help me Thus to thy knees must I grow sacred Caesar And if it be not in thy will to right me And raise me like a Queen from my sad ruines If these soft tears cannot sink to thy pity And waken with their murmurs thy compassions Yet for thy nobleness for vertues sake And if thou beest a man for despis'd beauty For honourable conquest which thou doat'st on Let not those cankers of this flourishing Kingdom Photinus and Achillas the one an Eunuch The other a base bondman thus raign over me Seize my inheritance and leave my Brother Nothing of what he should be but the Title As thou art wonder of the world Caesar Stand up then And be a Queen this hand shall give it to ye Or choose a greater name worthy my bounty A common love makes Queens choose to be worshipped To be divinely great and I dare promise it A suitor of your sort and blessed sweetness That hath adventur'd thus to see great Caesar Must never be denied you have found a patron That dare not in his private honour suffer So great a blemish to the Heaven of beauty The God of love would clap his angry wings And from his singing bow let flye those arrows Headed with burning griefs and pining sorrows Should I neglect your cause would make me monstrous To whom and to your service I devote me Enter Sceva Cleo. He is my conquest now and so I 'le work him The conquerour of the world will I lead captive Sce. Still with this woman tilting still with Babies As you are honest think the Enemy Some valiant Foe indeed now charging on ye Ready to break your ranks and fling these Caesar Hear me But tell me true if thou hadst such a treasure And as thou art a Souldier do not flatter me Such a bright gem brought to thee wouldst thou not Most greedily accept Sce. Not as an Emperour A man that first should rule himself ât hen others As a poor hungry Souldier I might bite Sir Yet that 's a weakness too hear me thou Tempter And hear thou Caesar too for it concerns thee And if thy flesh be deaf yet let thine honour The soul of a commander give ear to me Thou wanton bane of war thou guilded Lethargy In whose embraces ease the âust of Arms And pleasure that makes Souldiers poor inhabites Caesar Fye thou blasphem'st Sce. I do when she is a goddess Thou melter of strong minds dar'st thou presume To smother all his triumphs with thy vanities And tye him like a slave to thy proud beauties To thy imperious
Thom. Kiss me and be my friend we two were twins And shall we now grow strangers Dor. 'T is not my fault Thom. Well there be other women and remember You you were the cause of this there be more lands too And better People in 'em fare ye well And other loves what shall become of me And of my vanities because they grieve ye Dor. Come hither come do you see that Cloud that flies there So light are you and blown with every fancy Will ye but make me hope ye may be civil I know your Nature's sweet enough and tender Not grated on nor curb'd do you love your Mistress Thom. He lies that says I do not Dor. Would ye see her Thom. If you please for it must be so Dor. And appear to her A thing to be belov'd Thom. Yes Dor. Change then A little of your wildness into wisdom And put on a more smoothness I 'll do the best I can to help ye yet I do protest she swore and swore it deeply She would never see you more where 's your mans heart now What do you faint at this Thom. She is a woman But him she entertains next for a servant I shall be bold to quarter Dor. No thought of fighting Go in and there we 'll talk more be but rul'd And what lies in my power ye shall be sure of Exeunt SCENE III. Enter Alice and Mary Alice He cannot be so wild still Mary 'T is most certain I have now heard all and all the truth Alice Grant all that Is he the first that has been giv'n a lost man And yet come fairly home he is young and tender And fit for that impression your affections Shall stamp upon him age brings on discretion A year hence these mad toys that now possess him Will shew like Bugbears to him shapes to fright him Marriage dissolves all these like mists Mary They are grounded Hereditary in him from his father And to his grave they will haunt him Alice 'T is your fear Which is a wise part in you yet your love However you may seem to lessen it With these dislikes and choak it with these errors Do what you can will break out to excuse him Ye have him in your heart and planted Cousin From whence the power of reason nor discretion Can ever root him Mary Planted in my heart Aunt Believe it no I never was so liberal What though he shew a so so comely fellow Which we call pretty or say it may be handsom What though his promises may stumble at The power of goodness in him sometimes use too Al. How willingly thy heart betrays thee Cousin Cozen thy self no more thou hast no more power To leave off loving him than he that 's thirsty Has to abstain from drink standing before him His mind is not so monstrous for his shape If I have Eyes I have not seen his better A handsome brown Complexion Mary Reasonable Inclining to a tawncy Alice Had I said so You would have wish'd my tongue out then his making Mar. Which may be mended I have seen legs straighter And cleaner made Alice A body too Mary Far neater And better set together Alice God forgive thee For against thy Conscience thou lyest stubbornly Mary I grant 't is neat enough Alice 'T is excellent And where the outward parts are fair and lovely Which are but moulds o' th' mind what must the soul be Put case youth has his swinge and fiery Nature Flames to mad uses many times Mary All this You only use to make me say I love him I do confess I do but that my fondness Should sling it self upon his desperate follies Alice I do not counsel that see him reclaim'd first Which will not prove a miracle yet Mary I am afraid 't will vex thee horribly To stay so long Mary No no Aunt no believe me Alice What was your dream to night for I observ'd ye Hugging of me with good dear sweet Tom. Mary Fye Aunt Upon my Conscience Alice On my word 't is true Wench And then ye kiss'd me Mary more than once too And sigh'd and O sweet Tom again nay do not blush Ye have it at the heart Wench Mary I 'll be hang'd first But you must have your way Enter Dorothea Alice And so will you too Or break down hedges for it Dorothea The welcom'st woman living how does thy Brother I hear he 's turn'd a wondrous civil Gentleman Since his short travel Dor. 'Pray Heaven he make it good Alice Mary How do ye friend I have a quarrel to ye Ye stole away and left my company Dor. O pardon me dear friend it was to welcome A Brother that I have some Cause to love well Mary Prithee how is he thou speak'st truth Dor. Not perfect I hope he will be Mary Never h 'as forgot me I hear Wench and his hot love too Alice Thou would'st howl then Mary And I am glad it should be so his travels Have yielded him variety of Mistresses Fairer in his eye far Alice O cogging Rascal Mary I was a fool but better thoughts I thank heaven Dor. 'Pray do not think so for he loves you dearly Upon my troth most firmly would fain see you Mary See me friend do you think it fit Dor. It may be Without the loss of credit too he 's not Such a prodigious thing so monstrous To fling from all society Mary He 's so much contrary To my desires such an antipathy That I must sooner see my grave Dor. Dear friend He was not so before he went Mary I grant it For then I daily hop'd his fair Conversion Alice Come do not mask your self but see him freely Ye have a mind Mary That mind I 'll master then Dor. And is your hate so mortal Mary Not to his person But to his qualities his mad-cap follies Which still like Hydras heads grow thicker on him I have a credit friend and Maids of my sort Love where their modesties may live untainted Dor. I give up that hope then 'pray for your friends sake If I have any interest within ye Do but this courtesie accept this Letter Mary From him Dor. The same 't is but a minutes reading And as we look on shapes of painted Devils Which for the present may disturb our fancy But with the next new object lose 'em so If this be foul ye may forget it ' pray Mary Have ye seen it friend Dor. I will not lie I have not But I presume so much he honours you The worst part of himself was cast away When to his best part he writ this Mary For your sake Not that I any way shall like his scribling Alice A shrewd dissembling Quean Dor. I thank ye dear friend I know she loves him Alice Yes and will not lose him Unless he leap into the Moon believe that And then she 'l scramble too young wenches loves Are like the course of quartans they may shift And seem to cease sometimes and yet we
bless me Sure if I had provok'd 'em they had quarter'd me I am a most ridiculous Ass now I perceive it A Coward and a Knave too 1 Gent. 'T is the mad Gentleman Let 's set our Faces right Bel. No no laugh at me And laugh aloud 2 Gent. We are better manner'd Sir Bel. I do deserve it call me Patch and Puppy And beat me if you please 1 Gent. No indeed we know ye Bel. ' Death do as I would have ye 2 Gent. You are an Ass then A Coxcomb and a Calf Bel. I am a great Calf Kick me a little now Why when Sufficient Now laugh aloud and scorn me so good b'ye And ever when ye meet me laugh 1 Gent. We will Sir Exeunt SCENE III. Enter Nantolet La-Castre De-Gard Lugier Mirabel Mir. Your patience Gentlemen why do ye bait me Nan. Is' t not a shame you are so stubborn hearted So stony and so dull to such a Lady Of her Perfections and her Misery Lug. Does she not love ye does not her distraction For your sake only her most pitied lunacie Of all but you shew ye does it not compel ye Mir. Soft and fair Gentlemen pray ye proceed temperately Lug. If ye have any feeling any sense in ye The least touch of a noble heart La Cas Let him alone It is his glory that he can kill Beauty Ye bear my Stamp but not my Tenderness Your wild unsavoury Courses set that in ye For shame be sorry though ye cannot cure her Shew something of a Man of a fair Nature Mir. Ye make me mad De-Gard Let me pronounce this to ye You take a strange felicity in slighting And wronging Women which my poor Sister feels now Heavens hand be gentle on her Mark me Sir That very hour she dies there 's small hope otherwise That minute you and I must grapple for it Either your life or mine Mir. Be not so hot Sir I am not to be wrought on by these policies In truth I am not Nor do I fear the tricks Or the high sounding threats of a Savoyan I glory not in Cruelty ye wrong me Not grow up water'd with the tears of Women This let me tell ye howsoe'r I shew to ye Wild as ye please to call it or self-will'd When I see cause I can both do and suffer Freely and feelingly as a true Gentleman Enter Rosalure and Lelia Ros O pity pity thousand thousand pities Lel. Alas poor Soul she will dye she is grown sensless She will not know nor speak now Ros Dye for love And love of such a Youth I would dye for a Dog first He that kills me I 'll give him leave to eat me I 'll know men better ere I sigh for any of ' em Lel. Ye have done a worthy act Sir a most famous Ye have kill'd a Maid the wrong way ye are a conqueror Ros A Conquerour a Cobler hang him Sowter Go hide thy self for shame go lose thy memory Live not ' mongst Men thou art a Beast a Monster A Blatant Beast Lel. If ye have yet any honesty Or ever heard of any take my Counsel Off with your Garters and seek out a Bough A handsom Bough for I would have ye hang like a Gentleman And write some doleful matter to the World A Warning to hard hearted men Mir. Out Kitlings What Catterwauling's here what Gibbing Do you think my heart is softned with a black Santis Shew me some reason Enter Oriana on a Bed Ros Here then here is a reason Nant. Now if ye be a man let this sight shake ye La. C. Alas poor Gentlewoman do you know me Lady Lug. How she looks up and stares Ori. I know ye very well You are my Godfather and that 's the Monsieur De-Gar And who am I Ori. You are Amadis de Gaul Sir Oh oh my heart were ye never in love sweet Lady And do you never dream of Flowers and Gardens I dream of walking Fires take heed it comes now Who 's that pray stand away I have seen that face sure How light my head is Ros Take some rest Ori. I cannot For I must be up to morrow to go to Church And I must dress me put my new Gown on And be as fine to meet my Love Heigh ho Will not you tell me where my Love lies buried Mir. He is not dead beshrew my heart she stirs me Ori. He is dead to me Mir. Is' t possible my Nature Should be so damnable to let her suffer Give me your hand Ori. How soft you feel how gentle I 'll tell you your fortune Friend Mir. How she stares on me Or. You have a flattering face but 't is a fine one I warrant you may have a hundred Sweet-hearts Will ye pray for me I shall dye to morrow And will ye ring the Bells Mir. I am most unworthy I do confess unhappy do you know me Ori. I would I did Mir. Oh fair tears how ye take me Ori. Do you weep too you have not lost your Lover You mock me I 'l go home and pray Mir. 'Pray ye pardon me Or if it please ye to consider justly Scorn me for I deserve it Scorn and shame me Sweet Oriana Lel. Let her alone she trembles Her sits will grow more strong if ye provoke her La Cas Certain she knows ye not yet loves to see ye How she smiles now Bel. Where are ye Oh why do you laugh come laugh at me What a Devil art thou sad and such a subject Such a ridiculous subject as I am Before thy face Mir. Prithee put off this lightness This is no time for mirth nor place I have us'd too much on 't I have undone my self and a sweet Lady By being too in dulgent to my foolery Which truly I repent look here Bel. What aââs she Mir. Alas she 's mad Bel. Mad Mir. Yes too sure for me too Bel. Dost thou wonder at that by this light they are all so They are coz'ning mad they are brawling mad they are proud mad They are all all mad I came from a World of mad Women Mad as March-Hares get 'em in Chains then deal with ' em There 's one that 's mad she seems well but she is dog mad Is she dead dost think Min. Dead Heaven forbid Bel. Heaven further it For till they be key cold dead there 's no trusting of 'em Whate'r they seem or howsoe'r they carry it Till they be chap faln and their Tongues at peace Nail'd in their Coffins sure I 'll ne'r believe 'em Shall I talk with her Mir. No dear friend be quiet And be at peace a while Bel. I 'll walk aside And come again anon but take heed to her You say she is a Woman Mir. Yes Bel. Take great heed For if she do not cozen thee then hang me Let her be mad or what she will she 'll cheat thee Exit Mir. Away wild Fool how vile this shews in him now Now take my faith before ye all I speak it
my self take heed boy Jul. If you be he that have receiv'd these blessings And this the Lady love her honor her You cannot do too much to shew your gratitude Your greatest service will shew off too slender Vir. This is the Lady Lady of that bounty That wealth that noble name that all I spoke of The Prince Ascanio and my self the slaves Redeem'd brought home still guarded by her goodness And of our liberties you tast the sweetness Even you she has preserv'd too lengthen'd your lives Jul. And what reward do you purpose it must be a main one If love will do it we 'll all so love her serve her Vir. It must be my love Jul. Ha! Vir. Mine my only love My everlasting love Pand. How Vir. Pray have patience The recompence she ask'd and I have render'd Was to become her husband then I vowed it And since I have made it good Pand. Thou durst not Vir. Done Sir Jul. Be what you please his happiness yet stays with me You have been mine oh my unhappy fortune Pand. Nay break and dye Jul. It cannot yet I must live Till I see this man blest in his new love And then Pand. What hast thou done thou base one tell me Thou barren thing of honesty and honor What hast thou wrought Is not this she look on her Look on her with the eyes of gratitude And wipe thy false tears off Is not this she That three times on the Rack to guard thy safety When thou stood'st lost and naked to the Tyrant Thy aged Father here that shames to know thee Ingag'd i th' jaws of danger was not this she That then gave up her body to the torture That tender body that the wind sings through And three times when her sinews crack'd and tortur'd The beauties of her body turn'd to ruines Even then within her patient heart she lock'd thee Then hid thee from the Tyrant then preserv'd thee And canst thou be that slave Martia This was but duty She did it for her Husband and she ought it She has had the pleasure of him many an hour And if one minutes pain cannot be suffer'd Mine was above all these a nobler venter I speak it boldly for I lost a Father He has one still I left my friends he has many Expos'd my life and honor to a cruelty That if it had seiz'd on me racks and tortures Alas they are Triumphs to it and had it hit For this mans love it should have shewed a triumph Twise lost I freed him Rossana lost before him His fortunes with him and his friends behind him Twise was I rack'd my self for his deliverance In honor first and name which was a torture The hang-man never heard of next at Sea In our escape where the proud waves took pleasure To toss my little Boat up like a bubble Then like a meteor in the ayr he hung Then catch'd and flung him in the depth of darkness The Cannon from my incensed Fathers Ship Ringing our Knell and still as we peep'd upward Beating the raging surge with fire and Bullet And I stood fixt for this mans sake and scorn'd it Compare but this Vir. 'T is too true O my fortune That I must equally be bound to either Jul. You have the better and the nobler Lady And now I am forc'd a lover of her goodness And so far have you wrought for his deliverance That is my Lord so lovingly and nobly That now methinks I stagger in my Title But how with honesty for I am a poor Lady In all my dutious service but your shadow Yet would be just how with fair fame and credit I may go off I would not be a strumpet O my dear Sir you know Vir. O truth thou knowest too Jul. Nor have the world suspect I fell to mischief Law Take you no care for that here 's that has done it A fair divorce 't is honest too Pand. The devil Honest to put her off Law Most honest Sir And in this point most strong Pand. The cause the cause Sir Law A just cause too Pand. As any is in hell Lawyer Law For barrenness she never brought him children Pand. Why art thou not divorc'd thou canst not get 'em Thy neighbors thy rank neighbors O base jugling Is she not young Jul. Women at more years Sir Have met that blessing 't is in heavens high power Law You never can have any Pand. Why quick Lawyer My Philosophical Lawyer Law The Rack has spoil'd her The distentions of those parts hath stopt all fruitfulness Pand. O I could curse Jul. And am I grown so miserable That mine own pitty must make me wretched No cause against me but my love and duty Farewell Sir like obedience thus I leave you My long farewell I do not grudge I grive Sir And if that be offensive I can dye And then you are fairly free good Lady love him You have a noble and an honest Gentleman I ever found him so the world has spoke him And let it be your part still to deserve him Love him no less than I have done and serve him And heaven shall bless you you shall bless my ashes I give you up the house the name of wife Honor and all respect I borrowed from him And to my grave I turn one farewell more Nothing divide your Loves not want of Children Which I shall pray against and make you fruitful Grow like two equal flames rise high and glorious And in your honor'd age burn out together To all I know farewell Ronver. Be not so griev'd Lady A nobler fortune Jul. Away thou parasite Disturb not my sad thoughts I hate thy greatness Ron. I hate not you I am glad she 's off these hinges Come let 's pursue Ex. Ronvere and Law Pand. If I had breath to curse thee Or could my great heart utter farewell villain Thy house nor face agen Exit Pand. Mar. Let 'em all go And now let us rejoyce now freely take me And now embrace me Virolet give the rites Of a brave Husband to his love Vir. I 'll take my leave too Mar. How take your leave too Vir. The house is furnish'd for you You are Mistress may command Mar. Will you to bed Sir Vir. As soon to hell to any thing I hate most You must excuse me I have kept my word You are my Wife you now enjoy my fortune Which I have done to recompence your bounty But to yield up those chast delights and pleasures Which are not mine but my first vowes Mar. You jeast Vir. You will not find it so to give you those I have divorc'd and lost with Juliana And all fires of that nature Mar. Are you a Husband Vir. To question hers and satisfie your flames That held an equal beauty equal bounty Good heaven forgive no no the strict forbearance Of all those joys like a full sacrifice I offer to the sufferings of my first love Honor and wealth attendance state all duty Shall wait upon
Pal. No no we 'll use no horses I perceive You would fain be at that Fight Arc. I 'm indifferent Pal. Faith so am I Good Cosen thrust the buckle Through far enough Arc. I warrant you Pal. My Cask now Arc. Will you fight bare-arm'd Pal. We shall be the nimbler Arc. But use your Gantlets though those are o' th' least Prethee take mine good Cosen Pal. Thank you Arcite How doe I look am I falen much away Arc. Faith very little Love has us'd you kindly Pal. I 'll warrant thee I 'll strike home Arc. Doe and spare not I 'll give you cause sweet Cosen Pal. Now to you Sir Me thinks this Armor's very like that Arcite Thou wor'st that day the 3. Kings fell but lighter Arc. That was a very good one and that day I well remember you out-did me Cosen I never saw such valour When you charg'd Upon the left wing of the Enemie I spur'd hard to come up and under me I had a right good horse Pal. You had indeed A bright Bay I remember Arc. Yes but all Was vainly labour'd in me you out-went me Nor could my wishes reach you Yet a little I did by imitation Pal. More by virtue Yor are modest Cosen Arc. When I saw you charge first Me thought I heard a dreadfull clap of Thunder Break from the Troop Pal But still before that flew The lightning of your valour Stay a little Is not this peece too streight Arc. No no 't is well Pal. I would have nothing hurt thee but my Sword A bruise would be dishonor Arc. Now I 'm perfect Pal. Stand off then Arc. Take my Sword I hold it better Pal. I thank ye No keep it your life lyes on it Here 's one if it but hold I aske no more For all my hopes My Cause and honor guard me They bow severall wayes then advance and stand Arc. And me my love Is there ought else to say Pal. This only and no more Thou art mine Aunts Son And that blood we desire to shed is mutuall In me thine and in thee mine My Sword Is in my hand and if thou killst me The gods and I forgive thee If there be A place prepar'd for those that sleep in honor I wish his wearie soul that falls may win it Fight bravely Cosen give me thy noble hand Arc. Here Palamon This hand shall never more Come near thee with such friendship Pal. I commend thee Arc. If I fall curse me and say I was a coward For none but such dare die in these just Tryalls Once more farewell my Cosen Pal. Farewell Arcite Fight Horns within they stand Arc. Loe Cosen loe our Folly has undone us Pal. Why Arc. This is the Duke a hunting as I told you If we be found we 're wretched O retire For honors sake and safely presently Into your Bush agen Sir we shall find Too many hours to dye in gentle Cosen If you be seen you perish instantly For breaking prison and I if you reveal me For my contempt Then all the world will scorn us And say we had a noble difference But base disposers of it Pal. No no Cosen I will no more be hidden nor put off This great adventure to a second Tryall I know your cunning and I know your cause He that faints now shame take him put thy self Upon thy present guard Arc. You are not mad Pal. Or I will make th' advantage of this hour Mine own and what to come shall threaten me I fear less then my fortune Know weak Cosen I love Emilia and in that I 'll bury Thee and all crosses else Arc. Then come what can come Thou shalt know Palamon I dare as well Die as discourse or sleep Only this fears me The law will have the honor of our ends Have at thy life Pal. Look to thine own well Arcite Fight again Horns Enter Theseus Hippolita Emilia Perithous and train Theseus What ignorant and mad malicious Traitors Are you That ' gainst the tenor of my Laws Are making Battail thus like Knights appointed Without my leave and Officers of Armes By Castor both shall dye Pal. Hold thy word Theseus We are certainly both Traitors both despisers Of thee and of thy goodness I 'm Palamon That cannot love thee he that broke thy Prison Think well what that deserves And this is Arcite A bolder Traytor never trod thy ground A Falter never seem'd friend This is the man Was beg'd and banish'd this is he contemnes thee And what thou dar'st doe and in this disguise Against this own Edict follows thy Sister That fortunate bright Star the fair Emilia Whose servant iâ there be a right in seeing And first bequeathing of the soul to justly I 'm and which is more dares think her his This treacherie like a most trusty Lover I call'd him now to answer If thou be'st As thou art spoken great and virtuous The true descider of all injuries Say Fight again and thou shalt see me Theseus Doe such a Justice thou thy self wilt envie Then take my life I 'll wooe thee to 't Per. O Heaven What more than man is this Thes I have sworn Arc. We seek not Thy breath of mercy Theseus 'T is to me A thing as soon to dye as thee to say it And no more mov'd where this man calls me Traitor Let me say thus much If in love be Treason In service of so excellent a Beautie As I love most and in that faith will perish As I have brought my life here to confirme it As I have serv'd her truest worthiest As I dare kill this Cosen that denies it So let me be most Traitor and ye please me For scorning thy Edict Duke aske that Lady Why she is fair and why her eyes command me Stay here to love her And if she say Traytor I 'm a villain fit to lye unburied Pal. Thou shalt have pity of us both O Theseus If unto neither thou shew mercy stop As thou art just thy noble ear against us As thou art valiant For thy Cosens soul Whose 12. strong labors crown his memory Let 's die together at one instant Duke Only a little let him fall before me That I may tell my Soul he shall not have her Thes I grant your wish for to say true your Cosen Has ten times more offended for I gave him More mercy than you found Sir your offences Being no more than his None here speak for 'em For ere the Sun set both shall sleep for ever Hippol. Alas the pity now or never Sister Speak not to be denied That face of yours Will bear the curses else of after ages For these lost Cosens Emil. In my face dear Sister I find no anger to 'em Nor no ruin The misad venture of their own eyes kill 'em Yet that I will be woman and have pitty My knees shall grow to 'th ground but I 'll get mercie Help me dear Sister in a deed so virtuous The powers of all women will
be with us Most royall Brother Hippol. Sir by our tye of Marriage Emil. By your own spotless honor Hip. By that faith That fair hand and that honest heart you gave me Emil. By that you would have pitty in another By your own virtues infinite Hip. By valor By all the chast nights I have ever pleas'd you Thes These are strange Conjurings Per. Nay then I 'll in too By all our friendship Sir by all our dangers By all you love most wars And this sweet Lady Emil. By that you would have trembled to deny A blushing Maid Hip. By your own eyes By strength In which you swore I went beyond all women Almost all men and yet I yielded Theseus Per. To crown all this By your most noble soul Which cannot want due mercie I beg first Hip. Next hear my prayers Emil. Last let me intreat Sir Per. For mercy Hip. Mercy Emil. Mercy on these Princes Thes Ye make my faith reel Say I felt Compassion to 'em both how would you place it Emil. Upon their lives But with their banishments Thes You are a right woman Sister You have pitty But want the understanding where to use it If you desire their lives invent a way Safer than banishment Can these two live And have the agony of love about 'em And not kill one another Every day They 'ld fight about you Hourly bring your honor In publique question with their Swords Be wise then And here forget 'em It concerns your credit And my o' th equally I have said they die Better they fall by th' Law than one another Bow not my honor Emil. O my noble Brother That o' th was rashly made and in your anger Your reason will not hold it if such vows Stand for express will all the world must perish Beside I have another oath gainst yours Of more authority I 'm sure more love Not made in passion neither but good heed Thes What is it Sister Per. Urge it home brave Lady Emil. That you would never deny me any thing Fit for my modest suit and your free granting I tye you to your word now if ye fall in 't Think how you maim your honor For now I 'm set a begging Sir I 'm deaf To all but your compassion how_their lives Might breed the ruin of my name Opinion Shall any thing that loves me perish for me That were a cruell wisdom doe men proyn The straight young Bows that blush with thousand Blossoms Because they may be rotten O Duke Theseus The goodly Mothers that have groan'd for these And all the longing Maids that ever lov'd If your vow stand shall curse me and my Beauty And in their funerall songs for these two Cosens Despise my crueltie and cry woe worth me Till I 'm nothing but the scorn of women For Heavens sake save their lives and banish ' em Thes On what conditions Emil. Swear'em never more To make me their Contention or to know me To tread upon the Dukedome and to be Where ever they shall travel ever strangers to one another Pal. I 'll be cut a peeces Before I take this oath forget I love her O all ye gods dispise me then Thy Banishment I not mislike so we may fairly carry Our Swords and cause along Else never trifle But take our lives Duke I must love and will And for that love must and dare kill this Cosen On any peece the earth has Thes Will you Arcite Take these conditions Pal. He 's a villain then Per. These are men Arcite No never Duke 'T is worse to me than begging To take my life so basely though I think I never shall enjoy her yet I 'll preserve The honor of affection and dye for her Make death a Devill Thes What may be done For now I feel compassion Per. Let it not fall again Sir Thes Say Emilia If one of them were dead as one must are you Content to take th' other to your husband They cannot both enjoy you They are Princes As goodly as your own eyes and as noble As ever same yet spoke of Look upon 'em And if you can love end this difference I give consent are you content too Princes Both. With all our souls Thes He that she refuses Must dye then Both. Any death thou canst invent Duke Pal. If I fall from that mouth I fall with favor And Lovers yet unborn shall bless my ashes Arc. If she refuse me yet my grave will wed me And Soldiers sing my Epitaph Thes Make choice then Emil. I cannot Sir they are both too excellent For me a hayr shall never fall of these men Hip. What will become of ' em Thes Thus I ordain it And by mine honor once again it stands Or both shall dye You shall both to your Countrey And each within this month accompanied With three fair Knights appear again in this place In which I 'll plant a Pyramid And whether Before us that are here can force his Cosen By fair and knightly strength to touch the Pillar He shall enjoy her The other loose his head And all his friends Nor shall he grudge to fall Nor think he dies with interest in this Lady Will this content ye Pal. Yes Here Cosen Arcite I'm friends again till that hour Arc. I embrace ye Thes Are you content Sister Emil. Yes I must Sir Ecel both miscarry Thes Come shake hands again then And take heed as you are Gentlemen this Quarrell Sleep till the hour perfixt and hold your course Pal. We dare not fail thee Theseus Toes Come I 'll give ye Now usage like to Princes and to Friends When ye return who wins I 'll settle here Who loses yet I 'll weep upon his Beer Exeunt Actus Quartus Scaena Prima Enter Jailor and his freind Jail HEar you no more was nothing said of me Concerning the escape of Palamon Good Sir remember 1 Fr. Nothing that I heard For I came home before the business Was fully ended yet I might perceive E'r I departed a great likelyhood Of both their pardons for Hippolita And fair-ey'd Emilia upon their knees Begg'd with such handsome pitty that the Duke Methought stood staggering whether he should follow His rash oath or the sweet compassion Of those two Ladies and to second them That truly noble Prince Perithous Half his own heart set in too that I hope All shall be well neither heard I one question Of your name or his scape Enter 2 Friends Jail Pray Heaven it hold so 2 Fr. Be of good comfort man I bring you news Good news Jail They are welcome 2 Fr. Palamon has clear'd you And got your pardon and discover'd How and by whose means he scap'd which was your Daughter's Whose pardon is procured too and the prisoner Not to be held ungrateful to her goodness Has given a sum of money to her Marriage A large one I 'll assure you Jail Ye are a good man And ever bring good news 1 Fr. How was it ended 2 Fr. Why
be Lys As Mask can be Strat. Yes they must commend their King and speak in praise of the Assembly bless the Bride and Bridegroom in person of some God th' are tyed to rules of flattery Cle. See good my Lord who is return'd Lys Noble Melantius Enter Melantius The Land by me welcomes thy vertues home to Rhodes thou that with blood abroad buyest us our peace the breath of Kings is like the breath of Gods My brother wisht thee here and thou art here he will be too kind and weary thee with often welcomes but the time doth give thee a welcome above this or all the worlds Mel. My Lord my thanks but thââ scratcht limbs of mine have spoke my love and truth unto my friends more than my tongue ere could my mind 's the same it ever was to you where I find worth I love the keeper till he let it go And then I follow it Diph. Hail worthy brother He that rejoyces not at your return In safety is mine enemy for ever Mel. I thank thee Diphilus but thou art faulty I sent for thee to exercise thine armes With me at Patria thou cam'st not Diphilus 'T was ill Diph. My noble brother my excuse Is my King 's strict command which you my Lord Can witness with me Lys 'T is true Melantius He might not come till the solemnity Of this great match were past Diph. Have you heard of it Mel. Yes I have given cause to those that Envy my deeds abroad to call me gamesome I have no other business here at Rhodes Lys We have a Mask to night And you must tread a Soldiers measure Mel. These soft and silken wars are not for me The Musick must be shrill and all confus'd That stirs my blood and then I dance with armes But is Amintor Wed Diph. This day Mel. All joyes upon him for he is my friend Wonder not that I call a man so young my friend His worth is great valiant he is and temperate And one that never thinks his life his own If his friend need it when he was a boy As oft as I return'd as without boast I brought home conquest he would gaze upon me And view me round to find in what one limb The vertue lay to do those things he heard Then would he wish to see my Sword and feel The quickness of the edge and in his hand Weigh it he oft would make me smile at this His youth did promise much and his ripe years Will see it all perform'd Enter Aspatia passing by Melan. Hail Maid and Wife Thou fair Aspatia may the holy knot That thou hast tyed to day last till the hand Of age undo 't may'st thou bring a race Unto Amintor that may fill the world Successively with Souldiers Asp My hard fortunes Deserve not scorn for I was never proud When they were good Mel. How 's this Exit Aspatia Lys You are mistaken for she is not married Mel. You said Amintor was Diph. 'T is true but Mel. Pardon me I did receive Letters at Patria from my Amintor That he should marry her Diph. And so it stood In all opinion long but your arrival Made me imagine you had heard the change Mel. Who hath he taken then Lys A Lady Sir That bears the light above her and strikes dead With flashes of her eye the fair Evadne your vertuous Sister Mel. Peace of heart betwixt them but this is strange Lys The King my brother did it To honour you and these solemnities Are at his charge Mel. 'T is Royal like himself But I am sad my speech bears so unfortunate a sound âo beautiful Aspatia there is rage âid in her fathers breast Calianax Bent long against me and he should not think If I could call it back that I would take So bââe revenges as to scorn the state Of his neglected daughter holds he still his greatness with the King Lys Yes but ââis Lady Walks discontented with her watry eyes Bent on the earth the unfrequented woods Are her delight and when she sees a bank Stuck full of flowers she with a sigh will tell Her servants what a pretty place it were To bury lovers in and make her maids Pluck 'em and strow her over like a Corse She carries with her an infectious grief That strikes all her beholders she will sing The mournful'st things that ever ear hath heard And sigh and sing again and when the rest Of our young Ladies in their wanton blood Tell mirthful tales in course that fill the room With laughter she will with so sad a look Bring forth a story of the silent death Of some forsaken Virgin which her grief Will put in such a phrase that ere she end She 'l send them weeping one by one away Mel. She has a brother under my command Like her a face as womanish as hers But with a spirit that hath much out-grown The number of his years Enter Amintor Cle. My Lord the Bridegroom Mel. I might run fiercely not more hastily Upon my foe I love thee well Amintor My mouth is much too narrow for my heart I joy to look upon those eyes of thine Thou art my friend but my disorder'd speech cuts off my love Amin. Thou art Melantius All love is spoke in that a sacrifice To thank the gods Melantius is return'd In safety victory sits on his sword As she was wont may she build there and dwell And may thy Armour be as it hath been Only thy valour and thy innocence What endless treasures would our enemies give That I might hold thee still thus Mel. I am but poor in words but credit me young man Thy Mother could no more but weep for joy to see thee After long absence all the wounds I have Fetch not so much away nor all the cryes Of Widowed Mothers but this is peace And what was War Amin. Pardon thou holy God Of Marriage bed and frown not I am forc't In answer of such noble tears as those To weep upon my Wedding day Mel. I fear thou art grown too sick for I hear A Lady mourns for thee men say to death Forsaken of thee on what terms I know not Amin. She had my promise but the King forbad it And made me make this worthy change thy Sister Accompanied with graces above her With whom I long to lose my lusty youth And grow old in her arms Mel. Be prosperous Enter Messenger Messen My Lord the Maskers rage for you Lys We are gone Cleon Sârato Diphilus Amin. Wee 'l all attend you we shall trouble you With our solemnities Mel. Not so Amintor But if you laugh at my rude carriage In peace I 'le do as much for you in War When you come thither yet I have a Mistress To bring to your delights rough though I am I have a Mistress and she has a heart She saies but trust me it is stone no better There is no place that I can challenge in 't But you stand still and here
I forget not all respects That are Religious on another word Sounded like that and through a Sea of sins Will wade to my revenge though I should call Pains here and after life upon my soul King Well I am resolute you lay not with her And so leave you Exit King Evad. You must be prating and see what follows Amint. Prethee vex me not Leave me I am afraid some sudden start Will pull a murther on me Evad. I am gone I love my life well Exit Evadne Amint. I hate mine as much This 't is to break a troth I should be glad If all this tide of grief would make me mad Exit Enter Melantius Mel. I 'le know the cause of all Amintors griefs Or friendship shall be idle Enter Calianax Cal. O Melantius my Daughter will die Mel. Trust me I am sorry would thou hadst ta'ne her room Cal. Thou art a slave a cut-throat slave a bloody treacherous slave Melan. Take heed old man thou wilt be heard to rave And lose thine Offices Cal. I am valiant grown At all these years and thou art but a slave Mel. Leave some company will come and I respect Thy years not thee so much that I could wish To laugh at thee alone Cal. I 'le spoil your mirth I mean to sight with thee There lie my Cloak this was my Fathers Sword And he durst sight are you prepar'd Mel. Why wilt thou doat thy self out of thy life Hence get thee to bed have careful looking to and eat warm things and trouble not me my head is full of thoughts more weighty than thy life or death can be Cal. You have a name in War when you stand safe Amongst a multitude but I will try What you dare do unto a weak old man In single sight you 'l ground I fear Come draw Mel. I will not draw unless thou pul'st thy death Upon thee with a stroke there 's no one blow That thou canst give hath strength enough to kill me Tempt me not so far then the power of earth Shall not redeem thee Cal. I must let him alone He 's stout and able and to say the truth However I may set a face and talk I am not valiant when I was a youth I kept my credit with a testie trick I had Amongst cowards but durst never sight Mel. I will not promise to preserve your life if you do stay Cal. I would give half my Land that I durst sight with that proud man a little if I had men to hold I would beat him till he ask me mercy Mel. Sir will you be gone Cal. I dare not stay but I will go home and beat my servants all over for this Exit Calianax Mel. This old fellow haunts me But the distracted carriage of mine Amintor Takes deeply on me I will find the cause I fear his Conscience cries he wrong'd Aspatia Enter Amintor Amint. Mens eyes are not so subtil to perceive My inward misery I bear my grief Hid from the World how art thou wretched then For ought I know all Husbands are like me And every one I talk with of his Wife Is but a well dissembler of his woes As I am would I knew it for the rareness afflicts me now Mel. Amintor We have not enjoy'd our friendship of late for we were wont to charge our souls in talk Amint. Melantius I can tell thee a good jest of Strato and a Lady the last day Mel. How wa st Amint. Why such an odd one Mel. I have long'd to speak with you not of an idle jest that 's forc'd but of matter you are bound to utter to me Amint. What is that my friend Mel. I have observ'd your words sall from your tongue Wildly and all your carriage Lâke one that strove to shew his merry mood When he were ill dispos'd you were not wont To put such scorn into your speech or wear Upon your face ridiculous jollity Some sadness sits here which your cunning would Cover o're with smiles and 't will not be What is it Amint. A sadness here what cause Can sate provide for me to make me so Am I not lov'd through all this Isle the King Rains greatness on me have I not received A Lady to my bed that in her eye Keeps mounting fire and on her tender cheeks Inevitable colour in her heart A prison for all vertue are not you Which is above all joyes my constant friend What sadness can I have no I am light And feel the courses of my blood more warm And stirring than they were faith marry too And you will feel so unexprest a joy In chast embraces that you will indeed appear another Mel. You may shape Amintor Causes to cozen the whole world withal And your self too but 't is not like a friend To hide your soul from me 't is not your nature To be thus idle I have seen you stand As you were blasted midst of all your mirth Call thrice aloud and then start feigning joy So coldly World what do I here a friend Is nothing Heaven I would ha' told that man My secret sins I 'le search an unknown Land And there plant friendship all is withered here Come with a complement I would have fought Or told my friend he ly'd ere sooth'd him so Out of my bosom Amint. But there is nothing Mel. Worse and worse farewel From this time have acquaintance but no friend Amint. Melantius stay you shall know what that is Mel. See how you play'd with friendship be advis'd How you give cause unto your self to say You ha' lost a friend Amint. Forgive what I have done For I am so ore-gone with injuries Unheard of that I lose consideration Of what I ought to do oh oh Mel. Do not weep what is' t May I once but know the man Hath turn'd my friend thus Amint. I had spoke at first but that Mel. But what Amint. I held it most unfit For you to know saith do not know it yet Mel. Thou feest my love that will keep company With thee in tears hide nothing then from me For when I know the cause of thy distemper With mine own armour I 'le adorn my self My resolution and cut through thy foes Unto thy quiet till I place thy heart As peaceable as spotless innocence What is it Amint. Why 't is this it is too big To get out let my tears make way a while Mel. Punish me strangely heaven if he escape Of life or same that brought this youth to this Amint. Your Sister Mel. Well said Amint. You 'l wish 't unknown when you have heard it Mel. No. Amint. Is much to blame And to the King has given her honour up And lives in Whoredom with him Mel. How this Thou art run mad with injury indeed Thou couldst not utter this else speak again For I forgive it freely tell thy griefs Amint. She 's wanton I am loth to say a Whore Though it be true Mel. Speak yet again before mine anger grow
There 's theme enough for one man for an age Meg. Sir they stand right and my lips are yet even Smooth young enough ripe enough red enough Or my glass wrongs me Pha. O they are two twin'd Cherries died in blushes Which those fair suns above with their bright beams Reflect upon and ripen sweetest beauty Bow down those branches that the longing taste Of the faint looker on may meet those blessings And taste and live Meg. O delicate sweet Prince She that hath snow enough about her heart To take the wanton spring of ten such lines off May be a Nun without probation Sir you have in such neat poetry gathered a kiss That if I had but five lines of that number Such pretty begging blanks I should commend Your fore-head of your cheeks and kiss you too Pha. Do it in prose you cannot miss it Madam Meg. I shall I shall Pha. By my life you shall not I 'le prompt you first Can you do it now Meg. Methinks 't is easie now I ha' don 't before But yet I should stick at it Pha. Stick till to morrow I 'le ne'r part you sweetest But we lose time Can you love me Meg. Love you my Lord How would you have me love you Pha. I 'le teach you in a short sentence cause I will not load your memory this is all love me and lie with me Meg. Was it lie with you that you said 'T is impossible Pha. Not to a willing mind that will endeavour if I do not teach you to do it as easily in one night as you 'l go to bed I 'le lose my Royal blood sor't Meg. Why Prince you have a Lady of your own that yet wants teaching Pha. I 'le sooner teach a Mare the old measures than teach her any thing belonging to the function she 's afraid to lie with her self if she have but any masculine imaginations about her I know when we are married I must ravish her Meg. By my honour that 's a foul fault indeed but time and your good help will wear it out Sir Pha. And for any other I see excepting your dear self dearest Lady I had rather be Sir Tim the Schoolmaster and leap a Dairy-maid Meg. Has your Grace seen the Court-star Galatea Pha. Out upon her she 's as cold of her favour as an apoplex she sail'd by but now Meg. And how do you hold her wit Sir Pha. I hold her wit The strength of all the Guard cannot hold it if they were tied to it she would blow 'em out of the Kingdom they talk of Jupiter he 's but a squib cracker to her Look well about you and you may find a tongue-bolt But speak sweet Lady shall I be freely welcome Meg. Whither Pha. To your bed if you mistrust my faith you do me the unnoblest wrong Meg. I dare not Prince I dare not Pha. Make your own conditions my purse shall seal'em and what you dare imagine you can want I 'le furnish you withal give two hours to your thoughts every morning about it Come I know you are bashful speak in my car will you be mine keep this and with it me soon I will visit you Meg. My Lord my Chamber 's most unsafe but when 't is night I 'le find some means to slip into your lodging till when Pha. Till when this and my heart go with thee Ex. several ways Enter Galatea from behind the hangings Gal. Oh thou pernicious Petticoat Prince are these your vertues Well if I do not lay a train to blow your sport up I am no woman and Lady Towsabel I 'le sit you for 't Exit Gal. Enter Arethusa and a Lady Are. Where 's the boy La. Within Madam Are. Gave you him gold to buy him cloaths La. I did Are. And has he don 't La. Yes Madam Are. 'T is a pretty sad talking boy is it not Askt you his name La. No Madam Enter Galatea Are. O you are welcome what good news Gal. As good as any one can tell your Grace That saies she hath done that you would have wish'd Are. Hast thou discovered Gal. I have strained a point of modesty for you Are. I prethee how Gal. In listning after bawdery I see let a Lady live never so modestly she shall be sure to find a lawful time to harken after bawdery your Prince brave Pharamond was so hot on 't Are. With whom Gal. Why with the Lady I suspect I can tell the time and place Are. O when and where Gal. To night his Lodging Are. Run thy self into the presence mingle there again With other Ladies leave the rest to me If destiny to whom we dare not say Why thou didst this have not decreed it so In lasting leaves whose smallest Characters Were never altered yet this match shall break Where 's the boy La. Here Madam Enter Bellario Are. Sir you are sad to change your service is' t not so Bell. Madam I have not chang'd I wait on you To do him service Are. Thou disclaim'st in me Tell me thy name Bell. Bellario Are. Thou canst sing and play Bell. If grief will give me leave Madam I can Are. Alas what kind of grief can thy years know Hadst thou a curst master when thou went'st to School Thou art not capable of other grief Thy brows and cheeks are smooth as waters be When no dreath troubles them believe me boy Care seeks out wrinkled brows and hollow eyes And builds himself caves to abide in them Come Sir tell me truly does your Lord love me Bell. Love Madam I know not what it is Are. Canst thou know grief and never yet knew'st love Thou art deceiv'd boy does he speak of me As if he wish'd me well Bell. If it be love To forget all respect of his own friends In thinking of your face if it be love To sit cross arm'd and sigh away the day Mingled with starts crying your name as loud And hastily as men i' the streets do fire If it be love to weep himself away When he but hears of any Lady dead Or kill'd because it might have been your chance If when he goes to rest which will not be 'Twixt every prayer he saies to name you once As others drop a bead be to be in love Then Madam I dare swear he loves you Are. O y' are a cunning boy and taught to lie For your Lords credit but thou knowest a lie That bears this sound is welcomer to me Than any truth that saies he loves me not Lead the way Boy Do you attend me too 'T is thy Lords business hasts me thus Away Exeunt Enter Dion Cleremont Thrasilin Megra and Galatea Di. Come Ladies shall we talk a round As men Do walk a mile women should take an hour After supper 'T is their exercise Gal. 'T is late Meg. 'T is all My eyes will do to lead me to my bed Gal. I fear they are so heavy you 'l scarce find The way to your lodging with 'em to night Enter
't To which I dedicate my beaten body I must trouble you a little further Gentlemen o' th' Sword 2 No trouble at all to us Sir if we may Profit your understanding we are bound By vertue of our calling to utter our opinions Shortly and discreetly Bes My forest business is I have been kick'd 2 How far Sir Bes Not to flatter my self in it all over my sword forc'd but not lost for discreetly I rendred it to save that imputation 1 It shew'd discretion the best part of valour 2 Brother this is a pretty cause pray ponder on 't Our friend here has been kick'd 1 He has so brother 2 Sorely he saies Now had he set down here Upon the meer kick 't had been Cowardly 1 I think it had been Cowardly indeed 2 But our friend has redeem'd it in delivering His sword without compulsion and that man That took it of him I pronounce a weak one And his kicks nullities He should have kick'd him after the delivering Which is the confirmation of a Coward 1 Brother I take it you mistake the question For say that I were kick'd 2 I must not say so Nor I must not hear it spoke by the tongue of man You kick'd dear brother you 're merry 1 But put the case I were kick'd 2 Let them put it that are things weary of their lives and know not honour put the case you were kick'd 1 I do not say I was kickt 2 Nor no silly creature that wears his head without a Case his soul in a Skin-coat You kickt dear brother Bes Nay Gentlemen let us do what we shall do Truly and honesty good Sirs to the question 1 Why then I say suppose your Boy kick't Captain 2 The Boy may be suppos'd is liable 1 A foolish forward zeal Sir in my friend But to the Boy suppose the Boy were kickt Bes I do suppose it 1 Has your Boy a sword Bes Surely no I pray suppose a sword too 1 I do suppose it you grant your Boy was kick't then 2 By no means Captain let it be supposed still the word grant makes not for us 1 I say this must be granted 2 This must be granted brother 1 I this must be granted 2 Still this must 1 I say this must be granted 2 I give me the must again brother you palter 1 I will not hear you wasp 2 Brother I say you palter the must three times together I wear as sharp Steel as another man and my Fox bites as deep musled my dear brother But to the cause again Bes Nay look you Gentlemen 2 In a word I ha' done 1 A tall man but intemperate 't is great pity Once more suppose the Boy kick'd 2 Forward 1 And being thorowly kick'd laughs at the kicker 2 So much for us proceed 1 And in this beaten scorn as I may call it Delivers up his weapon where lies the error Bes It lies i' th' beating Sir I found it four dayes since 2 The error and a sore one as I take it Lies in the thing kicking Bes I understand that well 't is so indeed Sir 1 That is according to the man that did it 2 There springs a new branch whose was the foot Bes A Lords 1 The cause is mighty but had it been two Lords And both had kick'd you if you laugh 't is clear Bes I did laugh But how will that help me Gentlemen 2 Yes it shall help you if you laught aloud Bes As loud as a kick'd man could laugh I laught Sir 1 My reason now the valiant man is known By suffering and contemning you have Enough of both and you are valiant 2 If he be sure he has been kick'd enough For that brave sufferance you speak of brother Consists not in a beating and away But in a endgell'd body from eighteen To eight and thirty in a head rebuk'd With pots of all size degrees stools and bed-staves This showes a valiant man Bes Then I am valiant as valiant as the proudest For these are all familiar things to me Familiar as my sleep or want of money All my whole body's but one bruise with beating I think I have been endgell'd with all nations And almost all Religions 2 Embrace him brother this man is valiant I know it by my self he 's valiant 1 Captain thou art a valiant Gentleman To bide upon a very valiant man Bes My equall friends o'th'Sword I must request your hands to this 2 'T is fit it should be Bes Boy get me some wine and pen and Ink within Am I clear Gentlemen 1 Sir the world has taken notice what we have done Make much of your body for I 'll pawn my steel Men will be cover of their legs hereafter Bes I must request you goe along and testife to the Lord Bacurius whose foot has struck me how you find my cause 2 We will and tell that Lord he must be rul'd Or there are those abroad will rule his Lordship Exeunt Enter Arbaces at one door and Gob. and Panthea at another Gob. Sir here 's the Princess Arb. Leave us then alone For the main cause of her imprisonment Must not be heard by any but her self Exit Gob. You 're welcome Sister and would to heaven I could so bid you by another name If you above love not such sins as these Circle my heart with thoughts as cold as snow To quench these rising flames that harbour here Pan. Sir does it please you I should speak Arb. Please me I more than all the art of musick can Thy speech doth please me for it ever sounds As thou brought'st joyfull unexpected news And yet it is not fit thou shouldst be heard I pray thee think so Pan. Be it so I will Am I the first that ever had a wrong So far from being sit to have redress That 't was unfit to hear it I will back To prison rather than disquiet you And wait till it be fit Arb. No do not goe For I will hear thee with a serious thought I have collected all that 's man about me Together strongly and I am resolv'd To hear thee largely but I do beseech thee Do not come nearer to me for there is Something in that that will undoe us both Pan. Aâas Sir am I vânome Arb. Yes to me Though of thy self I think thee to be In equall degree of heat or cold As nature can make yet as unfound men Convert the sweetest and the nourishing'st meats Into diseases so shall I distemper'd Do thee I pray thee draw no nearer to me Pan. Sir this is that I would I am of late Shut from the world and why it should be thus Is all I wish to know Arb. Why credit me Panthea Credit me that am thy brother Thy loving brother that there is a cause Sufficient yet unsit for thee to know That might undoe thee everlastingly Only to hear wilt thou but credit this By Heaven 't is true believe it if thou canst Pan. Children and fools
are ever credulous And I am both I think for I believe If you dissemble be it on your head I 'le back unto my prison yet me-thinks I might be kept in some place where you are For in my self I find I know not what To call it but it is a great desire To see you often Arb. Fie you come in a step what do you mean Dear sister do not so Alas Panthea Where I am would you be Why that 's the cause You are imprison'd that you may not be Where I am Pan. Then I must indure it Sir Heaven keep you Arb. Nay you shall hear the case in short Panthea And when thou hear'st it thou wilt blush for me And hang thy head down like a Violet Full of the mornings dew There is a way To gain thy freedome but 't is such a one As puts thee in worse bondage and I know Thou wouldst encounter fire and make a proof Whether the gods have care of innocence Rather than follow it Know that I have lost The only difference betwixt man and beast My reason Pan. Heaven forbid Arb. Nay 't is gone And I am left as far without a bound As the wild Ocean that obeys the winds Each sodain passion throwes me where it lists And overwhelms all that oppose my will I have beheld thee with a lustfull eye My heart is set on wickedness to act Such sins with thee as I have been afraid To think of if thou dar'st consent to this Which I beseech thee do not thou maist gain Thy liberty and yield me a content If not thy dwelling must be dark and close Where I may never see thee For heaven knows That laid this punishment upon my pride Thy sight at some time will enforce my madness To make a start e'ne to thy ravishing Now spit upon me and call all reproaches Thou canst devise together and at once Hurle 'em against me for I am a sickness As killing as the plague ready to seize thee Pan. Far be it from me to revile the King But it is true that I shall rather choose To search out death that else would search out me And in a grave sleep with my innocence Than welcome such a sin It is my fate To these cross accidents I was ordain'd And must have patience and but that my eyes Have more of woman in 'em than my heart I would not weep Peace enter you again Arb. Farwell and good Panthea pray for me Thy prayers are pure that I may find a death However soon before my passions grow That they forget what I desire is sin For thither they are tending if that happen Then I shall force thee tho' thou wert a Virgin By vow to Heaven and shall pull a heap Of strange yet uninvented sin upon me Pan. Sir I will pray for you yet you shall know It is a fullen fate that governs us For I could wish as heartily as you I were no sister to you I should then Imbrace your lawfull love sooner than health Arb. Couldst thou affect me then Pan. So perfectly That as it is I ne're shall sway my heart To like another Arb. Then I curse my birth Must this be added to my miseries That thou art willing too is there no stop To our full happiness but these meer sounds Brother and Sister Pan. There is nothing else But these alas will separate us more Than twenty worlds betwixt us Arb. I have liv'd To conquer men and now am overthrown Only by words Brother and Sister where Have those words dwelling I will find 'em out And utterly destroy 'em but they are Not to be grasp'd let 'em be men or beasts And I will cut 'em from the Earth or Towns And I will raze 'em and them blow 'em up Let 'em be Seas and I will drink 'em off And yet have unquencht fire left in my breast Let 'em be any thing but meerly voice Pan. But 't is not in the power of any force Or policy to conquer them Arb. Panthea What shall we do Shall we stand firmly here and gaze our eyes out Pan. Would I could do so But I shall weep out mine Arb. Accursed man Thou bought'st thy reason at too dear a rate For thou hast all thy actions bounded in With curious rules when every beast is free What is there that acknowledges a kindred But wretched man Who ever saw the Bull Fearfully leave the Heifer that he lik'd Because they had one Dam Pan. Sir I disturb you and my self too 'T were better I were gone Arb. I will not be so foolish as I was Stay we will love just as becomes our births No otherwise Brothers and Sisters may Walk hand in hand together so will we Come nearer is there any hurt in this Pan. I hope not Arb. Faith there is none at all And tell me truly now is there not one You love above me Pan. No by Heaven Arb. Why yet you sent unto Tigranes Sister Pan. True but for another for the truth Arb. No more I 'le credit thee thou canst not lie Thou art all truth Pan. But is there nothing else That we may do but only walk methinks Brothers and Sisters lawfully may kiss Arb. And so they may Panthea so will we And kiss again too we were too scrupulous And foolish but we will be so no more Pan. If you have any mercy let me go To prison to my death to any thing I feel a sin growing upon my blood Worse than all these hotter than yours Arb. That is impossible what shou'd we do Pan. Flie Sir for Heavens sake Arb. So we must away Sin grows upon us more by this delay Exeunt several wayes Actus Quintus Enter Mardonius and Lygones Mar. SIR the King has seen your Commission and believes it and freely by this warrant gives you power to visit Prince Tigranes your Noble Master Lyg I thank his Grace and kiss his hand Mar. But is the main of all youâ business ended in this Lyg I have another but a worse I am asham'd it is a business Mar. You serve a worthy person and a stranger I am sure you are you may imploy me if you please without your purse such Offices should ever be their own rewards Lyg I am bound to your Nobleness Mar. I may have need of you and then this courtesie If it be any is not ill bestowed But may I civilly desire the rest I shall not be a hurter if no helper Lyg Sir you shall know I have lost a foolish Daughter And with her all my patience pilfer'd away By a mean Captain of your Kings Mar. Stay there Sir If he have reacht the Noble worth of Captain He may well claim a worthy Gentlewoman Though she were yours and Noble Lyg I grant all that too but this wretched fellow Reaches no further than the empty name That serves to seed him were he valiant Or had but in him any noble nature That might hereafter promise him a good man
Artillery that a Gentleman a dear friend of your Lordships sent me with to get it mended Sir for if you mark the nose is somewhat loose Bac. A friend of mine you Rascal I was never wearier of doing any thing than kicking these two Foot-balls Enter Servant Serv. Here is a good Cudgel Sir Bac. It comes too late l'me weary pray thee do thou beat them 2 Sword My Lord this is soul play i'saith to put a fresh man upon us men are but men Sir Bac. That jest shall save your bones Captain Rally up your rotten Regiment and be gone I had rather thrash than be bound to kick these Rascals till they cry'd ho Bessus you may put your hand to them now and then you are quit Farewel as you like this pray visit me again 't will keep me in good health Exit Bac. 2 Sword H 'as a devilish hard foot I never felt the like 1 Sword Nor I and yet I am sure I have felt a hundred 2 Sword If he kick thus i' th' Dog-daies he will be dry foundred what cure now Captain besides Oyl of Baies Bes Why well enough I warrant you you can go 2 Sword Yes heaven be thanked but I feel a shrowd ach sure h 'as sprang my huckle-bone 1 Sword I ha' lost a hanch Bes A little butter friend a little butter butter and parseley and a soveraign matter probatum est 2 Sword Captain we must request your hand now to our honours Bes Yes marry shall ye and then let all the world come we are valiant to our selves and there 's an end 1 Sword Nay then we must be valiant O my ribs 2 Sword O my small guts a plague upon these sharptoed shooes they are murtherers Exeunt clear Enter Arbaces with his sword drawn Arb. It is resolv'd I bare it whilst I could I can no more I must begin with murther of my friends and so go on to that incestuous ravishing and end my life and sins with a forbidden blow upon my self Enter Mardonius Mar. What Tragedy is near That hand was never wont to draw a sword but it cry'd dead to something Arb. Mardonius have you bid Gobrias come Mar. How do you Sir Arb. Well is he coming Mar. Why Sir are you thus why do your hands proclaim a lawless War against your self Arb. Thou answerest me one question with an other is Gobrias coming Mar. Sir he is Arb. 'T is well I can forbear your questions then be gone Mar. Sir I have mark't Arb. Mark less it troubles you and me Mar. You are more variable than you were Arb. It may be so Mar. To day no Hermit could be humbler than you were to us all Arb. And what of this Mar. And now you take new rage into your eyes as you would look us all out of the Land Arb. I do confess it will that satisfie I prethee get thee gone Mar. Sir I will speak Arb. Will ye Mar. It is my duty I fear you will kill your self I am a subject and you shall do me wrong in 't 't is my cause and I may speak Arb. Thou art not train'd in sin it seems Mardonius kill my self by Heaven I will not do it yet and when I will I 'le tell thee then I shall be such a creature that thou wilt give me leave without a word There is a method in mans wickedness it grows up by degrees I am not come so high as killing of my self there are a hundred thousand sins 'twixt me and it which I must doe and I shall come to 't at last but take my oath not now be satisfied and get thee hence Mar. I am sorry 't is so ill Arb. Be sorry then true sorrow is alone grieve by thy self Mar. I pray you let me see your Sword put up before I go I 'le leave you then Arb. Why so what folly is this in thee is it not as apt to mischief as it was before can I not reach it thinkst thou these are toyes for Children to be pleas'd with and not men now I am safe you think I would the book of fate were here my Sword is not so sure but I would get it out and mangle that that all the destinies should quite forget their sixt decrees and hast to make us new for other fortunes mine could not be worse wilt thou now leave me Mar. Heaven put into your bosome temperate thoughts I 'le leave you though I fear Arb. Go thou art honest why should the hasty error of my youth be so unpardonable to draw a sin helpless upon me Enter Gobrias Gob. There is the King now it is ripe Arb. Draw near thou guilty man that art the authour of the loathedst crime five ages have brought forth and hear me speak curses more incurable and all the evils mans body or his Spirit can receive be with thee Gob. Why Sir do you curse me thus Arb. Why do I curse thee if there be a man subtil in curses that exceeds the rest his worst wish on thee thou hast broke my heart Gob. How Sir have I preserv'd you from a child from all the arrows malice or ambition could shoot at you and have I this for my pay Arb. 'T is true thou didst preserve me and in that wert crueller than hardned murtherers of infants and their Mothers thou didst save me only till thou hadst studied out a way how to destroy me cunningly thy self this was a curious way of torturing Gob. What do you mean Arb. Thou knowst the evils thou hast done to me dost thou remember all those witching letters thou sent'st unto me to Armenia fill'd with the praise of my beloved Sister where thou extol'st her beauty what had I to do with that what could her beauty be to me and thou didst write how well she lov'd me dost thou remember this so that I doted something before I saw her Gob. This is true Arb. Is it and when I was return'd thou knowst thou didst pursue it till thou woundst me into such a strange and unbeliev'd affection as good men cannot think on Gob. This I grant I think I was the cause Arb. Wert thou Nay more I think thou meant'st it Gob. Sir I hate to lie as I love Heaven and honesty I did it was my meaning Arb. Be thine own sad judge a further condemnation will not need prepare thy self to dy Gob. Why Sir to dy Arb. Why shouldst thou live was ever yet offender so impudent that had a thought of Mercy after confession of a crime like this get out I cannot where thou hurl'st me in but I can take revenge that 's all the sweetness left for me Gob. Now is the time hear me but speak Arb. No yet I will be far more mercifull than thou wert to me thou didst steal into me and never gav'st me warning so much time as I give thee now had prevented thee for ever Notwithstanding all thy sins if thou hast hope that there is yet a prayer to save thee turn
Now you may kiss me 'T is the first kiss I ever askt I swear to ye Arn. That I dare do sweet Lady Hip. You do it well too You are a Master Sir that makes you coy Arn. Would you would send your people off Hip. Well thought on Wait all without Exit Zab. and Servants Zab. I hope she is pleas'd throughly Hip. Why stand ye still here 's no man to detect ye My people are gone off come come leave conjuring The Spirit you would raise is here already Look boldly on me Arn. What would you have me do Hip. O most unmanly question have you do Is' t possible your years should want a Tutor I 'le teach ye come embrace me Arn. Fye stand off And give me leave more now than e're to wonder A building of so goodly a proportion Outwardly all exact the frame of Heaven Should hide within so base inhabitants You are as fair as if the morning bare ye Imagination never made a sweeter Can it be possible this frame should suffer And built on slight affections fright the viewer Be excellent in all as you are outward The worthy Mistress of those many blessings Heaven has bestowed make 'em appear still nobler Because they are trusted to a weaker keeper Would ye have me love ye Hip. Yes Arn. Not for your beauty Though I confess it blowes the first fire in us Time as he passes by puts out that sparkle Nor for your wealth although the world kneel to it And make it all addition to a woman Fortune that ruines all makes that his conquest Be honest and be vertuous I 'le admire ye At least be wise and where ye lay these nets Strow over 'em a little modesty 'T will well become your cause and catch more Fools Hip. Could any one that lov'd this wholesome counsel But love the giver more you make me fonder You have a vertuous mind I want that ornament Is it a sin I covet to enjoy ye If ye imagine I am too free a Lover And act that part belongs to you I am silent Mine eyes shall speak my blushes parly with ye I will not touch your hand but with a tremble Fitting a Vestal Nun not long to kiss ye But gently as the Air and undiscern'd too I 'le steal it thus I 'le walk your shadow by ye So still and silent that it shall be equal To put me off as that and when I covet To give such toyes as these Arn. A new temptation Hip. Thus like the lazie minutes will I drop 'em Which past once are forgotten Arn. Excellent vice Hip. Will ye be won look stedfastly upon me Look manly take a mans affections to you Young women in the old world were not wont Sir To hang out gaudy bushes for their beauties To talk themselves into young mens affections How cold and dull you are Arn. How I stagger She is wise as fair but 't is a wicked wisdom I 'le choak before I yield Hip. Who waits within there Zabulon within Make ready the green Chamber Zab. It shall be Madam Arn. I am afraid she will injoy me indeed Hip. What Musick do ye love Arn. A modest tongue Hip. We 'l have enough of that sye sye how lumpish In a young Ladyes arms thus dull Arn. For Heaven sake Profess a little goodness Hip. Of what Country Arn. I am of Rome Hip. Nay then I know you mock me The Italians are not frighted with such bug bears Prethee go in Arn. I am not well Hip. I 'le make thee I 'le kiss thee well Arn. I am not sick of that sore Hip. Upon my Conscience I must ravish thee I shall be famous for the first example With this I 'le tye ye first then try your strength Sir Arn. My strength away base woman I abhor thee I am not caught with stales disease dwell with thee Exit Hip. Are ye so quick and have I lost my wishes Hoe Zabulon my servants Enter Zabulon and Servants Zab. Call'd ye Madam Hip. Is all that beauty scorned so many su'd for So many Princes by a stranger too Musâ I endure this Zab. Where 's the Gentleman Hip. Go presently pursue the stranger Zabulon He has bâoke from me Jewels I have given him Charge him with theft he has stoln my love my freedome Draw him before the Governour imprison him Why dost thou stay Zab. I 'le teach him a new dance For plaâââ fast and loose with such a Lady Come fellows come I 'le execute your anger And to the sail Hip. His scorn shall feel my vengeance Exeunt Scena Tertia Enter Sulpicia and Jaques Sul Shall I never see a lusty man again Ja. Faith Mistress You do so over labour 'em when you have 'em And so dây sounder 'em they cannot last Sul. Where 's the French-man Ja. Alas he 's all to fitters And lyes taking the height of his fortune with a Syringe He 's chin'd he 's chin'd good man he is a mourner Sul. What 's become of the Dane Ja. Who goldy-locks He 's soul i' th' touch-hole and recoils again The main Spring 's weaken'd that holds up his coâk He lies at the sign of the Sun to be new breech'd Sul. The Rutter too is gone Ja. O that was a brave Rascal He would labour like a Thrasher but alas What thing can ever last he has been ill mew'd And drawn too soon I have seen him in the Hospital Sul. There was an English-man Ja I there was an English-man You 'l sâant find any now to make that name good There were those English that were men indeed And would perform like men but now they are vanisht They are so taken up in their own Country And so heatân of their speed by their own women When they come here they draw their legs like Hackneys Drink and their own devices have undone ' em Sul I must have one that 's strong no life in Lisbon else Perfect and young my Custom with young Ladies And ââgh sâd City dames will fall and break else I want my self too in mine age to nourish me They are all sunk I mantain'd now what 's this business What goodly fellow 's that Enter Rutilio and Officers Rut. Why do you dâag me Pox o' your justice let me loose 1 Offi. Not so Sir Rut. Cannot a man fall into one of your drunken Collars And venture the breaking on 's neck your trap-doors open But he must be us'd thus rascally 1 Offi. What made you wandring So late i' th' night you know that is imprisonment Rut May be I walk in my sleep â Offi. May be we 'l walk ye What made you wandring Sir into that vault Where all the City store and the Munition lay Rât I fell into it by chance I broke my shins sor't Your worships feel not that I knockt my head Against a hundred pasts would you had had it Cannot I break my neck in my own defence 2 Offi. This will not serve you cannot put it off so Your
coming thither was to play the villain To ãâã the Powder to blow up that part o' th' City Rut. Yes with my nose why were the trap doors open Mâââ nââ you ââll ãâã you had you gone that way I thought your Câty had sunk 1 Offi. You did your bell Sir We must presume to help it into th' Air If you call that sinking we have told you what 's the laââ He that is taken there unless a Magistrate And have command in that place presently If there be nothing found apparent near him Worthy his torture or his present death Must eitheir pay his fine for his presumption Which is six hundred Duckets or for six years Tug at an Oar i' th' Gallies will ye walk Sir For we presume you cannot pay the penalty Rut. Row in the Gallies after all this mischief 2 Offi. May be you were drunk they 'l keep you sober therâ Rut. Tug at an Oar you are not arrant rascals To catch me in a pit-fall and betray me Sul. A lusty minded man Ja. A wondrous able Sul. Pray Gentlemen allow me but that liberty To speak a few words with your prisoner And I shall thank you 1 Offi. Take your pleasure Lady Sul. What would you give that woman should redeem ye Redeem ye from this slavery Rut. Besides my service I would give her my whole self I would be her vassal Sul. She has reason to expect as much considering The great sum she pays sor't yet take comfort What ye shall do to merit this is easie And I will be the woman shall befriend ye 'T is but to entertain some handsome Ladies And young fair Gentlewomen you guess the way But giving of your mind Rut. I am excellent at it You cannot pick out such another living I understand ye is' t not thus Sul. Ye have it Rut. Bring me a hundred of 'em I 'le dispatch ' em I will be none but yours should another offer Another way to redeem me I should scorn it What women you shall please I am monstrous lusty Not to be taken down would you have Children I 'le get you those as fast and thick as flie-blows Sul. I admire him wonder at him Rut. Hark ye Lady You may require sometimes Sul. I by my faith Rut. And you shall have it by my faith and handsomly This old Cat will suck shrewdly you have no Daughters I flye at all now am I in my Kingdom Tug at an Oar no tug in a Feather-bed With good warm Caudles hang your bread and water I 'le make you young again believe that Lady I will so frubbish you Sul. Come follow Officers This Gentleman is free I 'le pay the Duckets Rut. And when you catch me in your City-powdring-tub Again boil me with Cabbidge 1 Offi. You are both warn'd and arm'd Sir Exeunt Scena quarta Enter Leopold Hippolyta Zenocia Zen. Will your Ladyship wear this Dressing Hip. Leave thy prating I care not what I wear Zen. Yet 't is my duty To know your pleasure and my worst affliction To see you discontented Hip. Weeping too Prethee forgive me I am much distemper'd And speak I know not what to make thee amends The Gown that I wore yesterday is thine Let it alone awhile Leo. Now you perceive And taste her bounty Zen. Much above my merit Leo. But have you not yet sound a happy time To move for me Zen. I have watched all occasions But hitherto without success yet doubt not But I 'le embrace the first means Leo. Do and prosper Excellent creature whose perfections make Even sorrow lovely if your frowns thus take me What would your smiles doe Hip. Pox o' this stale Courtship If I have any power Leo. I am commanded Obedience is the Lovers sacrifice Which I pay gladly Hip. To be forc'd to wooe Being a woman could not but torment me But bringing for my advocates youth and beauty Set off with wealth and then to be deni'd too Do's comprehend all tortures They flatter'd me That said my looks were charms my touches fetters My locks soft chains to bind the arms of Princes And make them in that wish'd for bondage happy I am like others of a courser feature As weak to allure but in my dotage stronger I am no Carce he more than Vlysses Scorns all my offer'd bounties slights my favours And as I were some new Egyptian flyes me Leaving no pawn but my own shame behind him But he shall finde that in my fell revenge I am a woman one that never pardons The rude contemner of her proffered sweetness Enter Zabulon Zab. Madam 't is done Hip. What 's done Zab. The uncivill stranger Is at your suite arrested Hip. 'T is well handled Zab. And under guard sent to the Governour With whom my testimony and the favour He bears your Ladiship have so prevail'd That he is sentenc'd Hip. How Zab. To lose his head Hip. Is that the means to quench the scorching heat Of my inrag'd desires must innocence suffer Cause I am faulty or is my Love so fatall That of necessity it must destroy The object it most longs for dull Hippolyta To think that injuries could make way for love When courtesies were despis'd that by his death Thou shouldst gain that which only thou canst hope for While he is living My honour 's at the stake now And cannot be preserv'd unless he perish The enjoying of the thing I love I ever Have priz'd above my fame why doubt I now then One only way is left me to redeem all Make ready my Caroch Leo. What will you Madam Hip. And yet I am impatient of such stay Bind up my hair fye fye while that is doing The Law my feise his life thus as I am then Not like Hippolyta but a Bacchanall My frantique Love transports me Exit Leo. Sure she 's distracted Zab. Pray you follow her I will along with you I more than guess the cause women that love Are most uncertain and one minute crave What in another they refuse to have Exit Scena Quinta Enter Clodio Charino Clo. Assure thy self Charino I am alter'd From what I was the tempests we have met with In our uncertain voyage were smooth gales Compar'd to those the memory of my lusts Rais'd in my Conscience and if ere again I live to see Zenocia I will sue And seek to her as a Lover and a Servant And not command affection like a Tyrant Char. In hearing this you make me young again And Heaven it seems favouring this good change in you In setting of a period to our dangers Gives us fair hopes to find that here in Lisbon Which hitherto in vain we long have sought for I have receiv'd assur'd intelligence Such strangers have been seen here and though yet I cannot learn their fortunes nor the place Of their abode I have a Soul presages A fortunate event here Clo. There have pass'd A mutual enterchange of courtesies Between me and the Governour therefore boldly We may presume of him
you wish you well But never see you more nor receive comfort From any thing Arnoldo Arn. You are too tender I neither doubt you nor desire longer To be a man and live than I am honest And only yours our infinite affections Abus'd us both Zab. VVhere are your favours now The courtesies you shew'd this stranger Madam Hip. Have I now sound the cause Zab. Attend it further Zen. Did she invite you do you say Arn. Most cunningly And with a preparation of that state I was brought in and welcom'd Zen. Seem'd to love you Arn. Most infinitely at first sight most dotingly Zen. She is a goodly Lady Arn. VVondrous handsom At first view being taken unprepar'd Your memory not present then to assist me She seem'd so glorious sweet and so far stir'd me Nay be not jealous there 's no harm done Zen. Prethee didst thou not kiss Arnoldo Arn. Yes saith did I. Zen. And then Arn. I durst not did not Zen. I forgive you Come tell the truth Arn. May be I lay with her Hip. He mocks me too most basely Zen. Did ye faith did ye forget so far Arn. Come come no weeping I would have lyen first in my grave believe that VVhy will you ask those things you would not hear She is too untemperate to betray my vertues Too openly lascivious had she dealt But with that seeming modesty she might And stung a little Art upon her ardor But 't was forgot and I forgot to like her And glad I was deceiv'd No my Zenocia My first love here begun rests here unreapt yet And here for ever Zen. You have made me happy Even in the midst of bondage blest Zab. You see now What rubs are in your way Hip. And quickly Zabulon I 'le root 'em out Be sure you do this presently Zab. Do not you alter then Hip. I am resolute Exit Zabulon Arn. To see you only I came hither last Drawn by no love of hers nor base allurements For by this holy light I hate her heartily Leop. I am glad of that you have sav'd me so much vengeance And so much fear From this hour fair besal you Arn. Some means I shall make shortly to redeem you Till when observe her well and fit her temper Only her lust contemn Zen. When shall I see you Arn. I will live hereabouts and bear her fair still Till I can find a sit hour to redeem you Hip. Shut all the doors Arn. Who 's that Zen. We are betray'd The Lady of the house has heard our parly Seen us and seen our Loves Hip. You courteous Gallant You that scorn all I can bestow that laugh at The afflictions and the groans I suffer for you That slight and jeer my love contemn the fortune My favours can sting on you have I caught you Have I now sound the cause ye fool my wishes Is mine own slave my bane I nourish that That sucks up my content I 'le pray no more Nor wooe no more thou shalt see foolish man And to thy bitter pain and anguish look on The vengeance I shall take provok'd and slighted Redeem her then and steal her hence ho Zabulon Now to your work Enter Zabulon and Servants some holding Arnoldo some ready with a cord to strangle Zenocia Arn. Lady but hear me speak first As you have pity Hip. I have none You taught me When I even hung about your neck you scorn'd me Zab. Shall we pluck yet Hip. No hold a little Zabulon I 'le pluck his heart-strings first now am I worthy A little of your love Arn. I 'le be your Servant Command me through what danger you shall aime at Let it be death Hip. Be sure Sir I shall fit you Ara. But spare this Virgin Hip. I would spare that villain first Had cut my Fathers throat Arn. Bounteous Lady If in your sex there be that noble softness That tenderness of heart womân are crown'd for Zen. Kneel not Arnoldo doe her not that honour She is not worthy such submission I scorn a life depends upon her pity Proud woman do thy worst and arm thy anger With thoughts as black as Hell as hot and bloody I bring a patience here shall make 'em blush An innocence shall outlook thee and death too Arn. Make me your slave I give my freedom to ye For ever to be fetter'd to your service 'T was I offended be not so unjust then To strike the innocent this gentle maid Never intended fear and doubt against you She is your Servant pay not her observance With cruel looks her duteous faith with death Hip. Am I fair now now am I worth your liking Zen. Not fair not to be liked thou glorious Devil Thou vernisht piece of lust thou painted fury Arn. Speak gently sweet speak gently Zen. I 'le speak nobly 'T is not the saving of a life I aim at Mark me lascivious woman mark me truly And then consider how I weigh thy anger Life is no longer mine nor dear unto me Than usefull to his honour I preserve it If thou hadst studied all the courtesies Humanity and noble blood are linkt to Thou couldst not have propounded such a benefit Nor heapt upon me such unlookt for honour As dying for his sake to be his Martyr 'T is such a grace Hip. You shall not want that savour Let your bones work miracles Arn. Dear Lady By those fair eyes Hip. There is but this way left ye To save her life Arn. Speak it and I embrace it Hip. Come to my private chamber presently And there what love and I command Arn. I 'le doe it Be comforted Zenocia Zen. Do not do this To save me do not lose your self I charge you I charge you by your love that love your bear me That love that constant love you have twin'd to me By all your promises take heed you keep 'em Now is your constant tryal If thou dost this Or mov'st one foot to guide thee to her lust My curses and eternal hate pursue thee Redeem me at the base price of dis-loyalty Must my undoubted honesty be thy Bawd too Go and intwine thy self about that body Tell her for my life thou hast lost thine honour Pull'd all thy vows from heaven basely most basely Stoop'd to the servile flames of that foul woman To add an hour to me that hate thee for it Know thee not again nor name thee for a Husband Arn. What shall I do to save her Hip. How now what hast there Enter a Servant Ser. The Governour attended with some Gentlemen Are newly entred to speak with your Ladiship Hip. Pox o' their business reprieve her for this hour I shall have other time Arn. Now fortune help us Hip. I 'le meet 'em presently retire awhile all Exeunt Zab. You rise to day upon your right side Lady You know the danger too and may prevent it And if you suffer her to perish thus As she must do and suddenly believe it Unless you stand her friend you know the
gladly I would hear thee But that 's impossible Dua. Please you but read this You shall know better there why I am sent Than if I should deliver it Gui. From whom comes it Dua. That will instruct you I suspect this stranger Yet she spake something that holds such alliance With his reports I know not what to think on 't What a frown was there she looks me through through Now reads again now pauses and now smiles And yet there 's more of anger in 't than mirth These are strange changes oh I understand it She 's full of serious thoughts Gui. You are just you Heavens And never do forget to hear their prayers That truly pay their vows the defer'd vengeance For you and my words sake so long defer'd Under which as a mountain my heart groans yet When 't was despair'd of now is offer'd to me And if I lose it I am both wayes guilty The womans mask dissimulation help me Come hither friend I am sure you know the Gentleman That sent these charms Dua. Charms Lady Gui. These charms I well may call them so they 've won upon me More than ere letter did thou art his friend The confidence he has in thee confirms it And therefore I 'le be open breasted to thee To hear of him though yet I never saw him Was most desir'd of all men let me blush And then I 'le say I love him Dua. All men see In this a womans vertue Gui. I expected For the courtesie I did long since to have seen him And though I then forbad it you men know Between our hearts and tongues there 's a large distance But I 'le excuse him may be hitherto He has forborn it in respect my Son Fell by his hand Dua. And reason Lady Gui. No he did me a pleasure in 't a riotous fellow And with that insolent not worth the owning I have indeed kept a long solemn sorrow For my friends sake partly but especially For his long absence Dua. O the Devil Guio. Therefore Bid him be speedy a Priest shall be ready To tye the holy knot this kiss I send him Deliver that and bring him Dua. I am dumb A good cause I have now and a good sword And something I shall do I wait upon you Exeunt Enter Manuel Charino Arnoldo Zenocia born in a chair 2 Doctors Clodio Doct. Give her more air she dyes else Arn. O thou dread power That mad'st this all and of thy workmanship This virgin wife the Master piece look down on her Let her minds virtues cloth'd in this fair garment That worthily deserves a better name Than flesh and bloud now sue and prevail for her Or if those are denyed let innocence To which all passages in Heaven stand open Appear in her white robe before thy throne And mediate for her or if this age of sin Be worthy of a miracle the Sun In his diurnal progress never saw So sweet a subject to imploy it on Man Wonders are ceas'd Sir we must work by means Arno. 'T is true and such reverend Physicians are To you thus low I fall then so may you ever Be stil'd the hands of Heaven natures restorers Get wealth and honours and by your success In all your undertakings propagate Your great opinion in the world as now You use your saving art for know good Gentlemen Besides the fame and all that I possess For a reward posterity shall stand Indebted to you for as Heaven forbid it Should my Zenocia dye robbing this age Of all that 's good or gracefull times succeeding The story of her pure life not yet perfect Will suffer in the want of her example Doct. Were all the world to perish with her we Can do no more than what art and experience Give us assurance of we have us'd all means To find the cause of her disease yet cannot How should we then promise the cure Arn. Away I did bely you when I charg'd you with The power of doing ye are meer names only And even your best perfection accidental What ever malady thou art or Spirit As some hold all diseases that afflict us As love already makes me sensible Of half her sufferings ease her of her part And let me stand the butt of thy fell malice And I will swear th' art mercifull Doct. Your hand Lady What a strange heat is here bring some warm water Arn. She shall use nothing that is yours my sorrow Provides her of a better bath my tears Shall do that office Zeno. O my best Arnoldo The truest of all lovers I would live Were heaven so pleas'd but to reward your sorrow With my true service but since that 's denied me May you live long and happy do not suffer By your affection to me I conjure you My sickness to infect you though much love Makes you too subject to it Arn. In this only Zenocia wrongs her servant can the body Subsist the Soul departed 't is as easie As I to live without you I am your husband And long have been so though our adverse fortune âândying us from one hazard to another Would never grant me so much happiness As to pay a husbands debt despite of fortune In death I 'le follow you and guard mine own And there enjoy what here my fate forbids me Clod. So true a sorrow and so feelingly Exprest I never read of Man I am struck With wonder to behold it as with pity Char. If you that are a stranger suffer for them Being tied no further than humanity Leads you to soft compassion think great Sir What of necessity I must endure That am a Father Hippolyta Zabulon and Sulpitia at the door Zab. Wait me there I hold it Unfit to have you seen as I find cause You shall proceed Man You are welcom Lady Hip. Sir I come to do a charitable office How does the patient Clod. You may enquire Of more than one for two are sick and deadly He languishes in her her health 's despair'd of And in hers his Hip. 'T is a strange spectacle With what a patience they sit unmov'd Are they not dead already Doct. By her pulse She cannot last a day Arn. Oh by that summons I know my time too Hip. Look to the man Clod. Apply Your Art to save the Lady preserve her A town is your reward Hip. I 'le treble it In ready gold if you restore Arnoldo For in his death I dye too Clod. Without her I am no more Arn. Are you there Madam now You may feast on my miseries my coldness In answering your affections or hardness Give it what name you please you are reveng'd of For now you may perceive our thred of life Was spun together and the poor Arnoldo Made only to enjoy the best Zenocia And not to serve the use of any other And in that she may equal my Lord Clodio Had long since else enjoyed her nor could I Have been so blind as not to see your great And many
excellencies far far beyond Or my deservings or my hopes we are now Going our latest journey and together Our only comfort we desire pray give it Your charity to our ashes such we must be And not to curse our memories Hip. I am much mov'd Clod. I am wholly overcome all love to women Farewell for ever ere you dye your pardon And yours Sir had she many years to live Perhaps I might look on her as a Brother But as a lover never and since all Your sad misfortunes had original From the barbarous Custom practis'd in my Country Heaven witness for your sake I here release it So to your memory chaste Wives and Virgins Shall ever pay their vowes I give her to you And wish she were so now as when my lust Forc'd you to quit the Country Hip. It is in vain To strive with destiny here my dotage ends Look up Zenocia health in me speaks to you She gives him to you that by divers ways So long has kept him from you and repent not That you were once my servant for which health In recompence of what I made you suffer The hundred thousand Crowns the City owes me Shall be your dower Man 'T is a magnificent gift Had it been timely given Hip. It is believe it Sulpitia Enter a Servant and Sulpitia Sulp. Madam Hip. Quick undoe the charm Ask not a reason why let it suffice It is my will Sulp. Which I obey and gladly Exit Man Is to be married sayest thou Ser. So she sayes Sir And does desire your presence They are born off in chairs Man And tell her I 'le come Hip. Pray carry them to their rest for though already They do appear as dead let my life pay for 't If they recover not Man What you have warranted Assure your self will be expected from you Look to them carefully and till the tryal Hip. Which shall not be above four hours Man Let me Intreat your companies there is something Of weight invites me hence All. We 'll wait upon you Exeunt Enter Guiomar and Servants Guio. You understand what my directions are And what they guide you to the faithfull promise You have made me all All. We do and will perform it Guio. The Governour will not fail to be here presently Retire a while till you shall find occasion And bring me word when they arrive All. Wee shall Madam Guio. Only stay you to entertain 1 Ser. I am ready Guio. I wonder at the bold and practis'd malice Men ever have o' foot against our honours That nothing we can do never so vertuous No shape put on so pious no not think What a good is be that good ne're so noble Never so laden with admir'd example But still we end in lust our aims our actions Nay even our charities with lust are branded Why should this stranger else this wretched stranger Whose life I sav'd at what dear price sticks here yet Why should he hope he was not here an hour And certainly in that time I may swear it I gave him no loose look I had no reason Unless my tears were flames my curses courtships The killing of my Son a kindness to me Why should he send to me or with what safety Examining the ruine he had wrought me Though at that time my pious pity found him And my word fixt I am troubled strongly troubled Enter a Servant Ser. The Gentlemen are come Guio. Then bid 'em welcom I must retire Exit Enter Rutilio and Duarte. Ser. You are welcom Gentlemen Rut. I thank you friend I would speak with your Lady Ser. I 'le let her understand Rut. It shall besit you How do I look Sir in this handsome trim Exit Servant Me thinks I am wondrous brave Duar. You are very decent Rut. These by themselves without more helps of nature Would set a woman hard I know 'em all And where their first aims light I 'le lay my head on 't I 'le take her eye as soon as she looks on me And if I come to speak once woe be to her I have her in a nooze she cannot scape me I have their several lasts Dua. You are throughly studied But tell me Sir being unacquainted with her As you confess you are Rut. That 's not an hours work I 'le make a Nun forget her beads in two hours Dua. She being set in years next none of those lusters Appearing in her eye that warm the fancy Nor nothing in her face but handsom ruines Rut. I love old stories those live believ'd Authentique When 20. of your modern faces are call'd in For new opinion paintings and corruptions Give me an old confirm'd face besides she sav'd me She sav'd my life have I not cause to love her She 's rich and of a constant state a fair one Have I not cause to wooe her I have tryed sufficient All your young Phillies I think this back has try'd 'em And smarted for it too they run away with me Take bitt between the teeth and play the Devils A staied pace now becomes my years a sure one Where I may sit and crack no girths Dua. How miserable If my Mother should confirm what I suspect now Beyond all humane cure were my condition Then I shall wish this body had been so too Here comes the Lady Sir Enter Guiomar Rut. Excellent Lady To shew I am a creature bound to your service And only yours Guio. Keep at that distance Sir For if you stir Rut. I am obedient She has found already I am for her turn With what a greedy hawks eye she beholds me Mark how she musters all my parts Guio. A goodly Gentleman Of a more manly set I never look'd on Rut. Mark mark her eyes still mark but the carriage of ' em Guio. How happy am I now since my Son fell He fell not by a base unnoble hand As that still troubled me how far more happy Shall my revenge be since the Sacrifice I offer to his grave shall be both worthy A Sons untimely loss and a Mothers sorrow Rut. Sir I am made believe it she is mine own I told you what a spell I carried with me All this time does she spend in contemplation Of that unmatch'd delight I shall be thankfull to ye And if you please to know my house to use it To take it for your own Guio. Who waits without there Enter Guard and Servants they seize upon Rut. and bind him Rut. How now what means this Lady Guio. Bind him fast Rut. Are these the bride-laces you prepare for me The colours that you give Dua. Fye Gentle Lady This is not noble dealing Guio. Be you satisfied If seems you are a stranger to this meaning You shall not be so long Rut. Do you call this wooing Is there no end of womens persecutions Must I needs fool into mine own destruction Have I not had fair warnings and enough too Still pick the Devils teeth you are not mad Lady Do I come fairly and
that desires To ravish our wants from us and less hope There can be so much Justice left on earth âough seed and call'd upon to case us of ãâã burthen of our wrongs Octa. What thinks Ascanio âhould we be call'd in question or accus'd ânjustly what would you do to redeem us ârom tyrannous oppression Asc I could pray âo him that ever has an open ear âo hear the innocent and right their wrongs âay by my troth I think I could out-plead ân Advocate and sweat as much as he Do's for a double Fee ere you should suffer ân an honest cause Enter Jamie and Bartolus Octa. Happy simplicitie Jac. My dearest and my best one Don Jamie Octa. And the Advocate that caus'd us to be summon'd Asc My Lord is mov'd I see it in his looks And that man in the Gown in my opinion âooks like a proguing Knave Jac. Peace give them leave Jam. Serve me with Process Bar. My Lord you are not lawless Jam. Nor thou honest One that not long since was the buckram Scribe That would run on mens errands for an Asper And from such baseness having rais'd a Stock To bribe the covetous Judge call'd to the Bar. âo poor in practice too that you would plead A needy Clyents Cause for a starv'd Hen Or half a little Loin of Veal though fly-blown And these the greatest Fees you could arrive at For just proceedings but since you turn'd Rascal Bar. Good words my Lord. Jam. And grew my Brothers Bawd ân all his vitious courses soothing him ân his dishonest practises you are grown The rich and eminent Knave in the Devils name What am I cited for Bar. You shall know anon And then too late repent this bitter language Or I 'll miss of my ends Jam. Were 't not in Court ãâã would beat that fat of thine rais'd by the food Snatch'd from poor Clyents mouths into a jelly ãâã would my man of Law but I am patient And would obey the Judge Bar. 'T is your best course Would every enemy I have would beat me I would wish no better Action Octa. 'Save your Lordship Asc My humble service Jam. My good Boy how dost thou Why art thou call'd into the Court Enter Assistant Henrique Officer and Witnesses Asc I know not But 't is my Lord the Assistants pleasure I should attend here Jam. He will soon resolve us Offi. Make way there for the Judge Jam. How my kind Brother Nay then 't is rank there is some villany towards Assist This Sessions purchas'd at your suit Don Henrique Hath brought us hither to hear and determine Of what you can prefer Hen. I do beseech The honourable Court I may be heard In my Advocate Assist 'T is granted ãâã Humh humh âam That Preface If left out in a Lawyer spoils the Cause Though ne're so good and honest Bar. If I stood here To plead in the defence of an ill man Most equal judge or to âââuse the innocent To both which I profess my self a stranger It would be requisite I should d ct my Language With Tropes and Figures and all flourishes That grace a Rhetorician 't is confess'd A iulterate Metals need the Gold-smiths Art To set 'em off what in it self is perfect Contemns a borrowed gloss this Lord my Client Whose honest cause when 't is related truly Will challenge justice finding in his Conscience A tender scruple of a fault long since By him committed thinks it not sufficient To be absolv'd of 't by his Confessor If that in open Court he publish not What was so long conceal'd Jam. To what tends this Bar. In his young years it is no miracle That youth and heat of blood should mix together He look'd upon this woman on whose face The ruines yet remain of excellent form He look'd on her and lov'd her Jac. You good Angels What an impudence is this Bar. And us'd all means Of Service Courtship Presents that might win her To be at his devotion but in vain Her Maiden Fort impregnable held out Until he promis'd Marriage and before These Witnesses a solemn Contract pass'd To take her as his Wife Assist Give them their Oath Jam. They are incompetent Witnesses his own Creature And will swear any thing for half a Royal. Offi. Silence Assist Proceed Bar. Upon this strong assurance He did enjoy his wishes to the full Which satisfied and then with eyes of Judgement Hood wink'd with Lust before considering duly The inequality of the Match he being Nobly descended and allyed but she Without a name or Family secretly He purchas'd a Divorce to disanul His former Contract Marrying openly The Lady Violante Jac. As you sit here The Deputy of the great King who is The Substitute of that impartial Judge With whom or wealth or titles prevail nothing Grant to a much wrong'd Widow or a Wife Your patience with liberty to speak In her own Cause and let me face to face To this bad man deliver what he is And if my wrongs with his ingratitude ballanc'd Move not compassion let me die unpitied His Tears his Oaths his Perjuries I pass o're To think of them is a disease but death Should I repeat them I dare not deny For Innocence cannot justifie what 's false But all the Advocate hath alledged concerning His falshood and my shame in my consent To be most true But now I turn to thee To thee Don Henrique and if impious Acts Have left thee blood enough to make a blush I 'le paint it on thy cheeks Was not the wrong Sufficient to defeat me of mine honour To leave me full of sorrow as of want The witness of thy lust left in my womb To testifie thy falshood and my shame But now so many years I had conceal'd Thy most inhumane wickedness and won This Gentleman to hide it from the world To Father what was thine for yet by Heaven âhough in the City he pass'd for my husband He never knew me as his wife Assist 'T is strange Give him an Oath Oââ I gladly swear and truly Jaâ After all this I say when I had born These wrongs with Saint-like patience saw another Freely enjoy what was in Justice mine Yet still so tender of thy rest and quiet I never would divulge it to disturb Thy peace at home yet thou most barbarous To be so careless of me and my fame âor all respect of thine in the first step To thy base lust was lost in open Court To publish my disgrace and on record To write me up an easie-yielding wanton I think can find no precedent In my extreams One comfort yet is left that though the Law Divorce me from thy bed and made free way To the unjust embraces of another It cannot yet deny that this thy Son Look up Ascanio since it is come out Is thy legitimate heir Jam. Consederacie A trick my Lord to cheat me e're you give Your Sentence grant me hearing Assist New Chimera's Jam. I am my Lord since he is without
of his eyes quicker than lightning And when it breaks as blasting his legs though litle ones Yet movers of a mass of understanding Who shall commend their Cloaths who shall take notice Of the most wise behaviour of their Feathers Ye live a raw man here 2 Vsh I think I do so Enter 2 Citizens and Wives 1 Vsh Why whither would ye all press 1 Cit. Good Master Vsher 2 Cit. My wife and some few of my honest neighbours here 1 Vsh Prethee begone thou and thy honest Neighbours Thou lookst like an Ass why whither would you sith face 2 Cit. If I might have But the honour to see you at my poor house Sir A Capon bridled and sadled I 'le assure your worship A shoulder of Mutton and a pottle of Wine Sir I know your Brother he was as like ye And shot the best at Buts 1 Vsh A upon thee 2 Cit. Some Musick I 'le assure you too My toy Sir can play o' th' Virginals 1 Vsh Prethee good toy Take away thy shoulder of Mutton it is flie-blown And shoulder take thy flap along here 's no place for ye Nay then you had best be knock'd Ex. Cit. Enter Celia Cel. I wou'd fain see him The glory of this place makes me remember But dye those thoughts dye all but my desires Even those to death are sick too he 's not here Nor how my eyes may guide me 1 Vsh What 's your business Who keeps the outward door there here 's fine shuffling You wastcoateer you must go back Cel. There is not There cannot be six days and never see me There must not be desire Sir do you think That if you had a Mistris 1 Vsh Death she is mad Cel. And were your self an honest man it cannot 1 Vsh What a Devil hast thou to do with me or my honesty Will you be jogging good nimble tongue My fellow door-keeper 2 Vsh Prethee let her alone 1 Vsh The King is coming And shall we have an agent from the Suburbs Come to crave audience too Cel. Before I thought ye To have a little breeding some tang of Gentry But now I take ye plainly Without the help of any perspective For that ye cannot alter 1 Vsh What 's that Cel. An Ass Sir you bray as like one And by my troth me thinks as ye stand now Considering who to kick next you appear to me Just with that kind of gravity and wisdom Your place may beaâ the name of Gentleman But if ever any of that butter stick to your bread 2 Vsh You must be modester Cel. Let him use me nobler And wear good Cloaths to do good Offices They hang upon a fellow of his vertue As though they hung on Gibbets 2 Vsh A perillous wench 1 Vsh Thrust her into a corner I 'le no more on her 2 Vsh You have enough go pretty Maid stand close And use that little tongue with a little more temper Cel. I thank ye Sir 2 Vsh When the show's past I 'le have ye into the Cellat there we 'll dine A very pretty wench a witty Rogue And there we 'll be as merry can ye be merry Cel. O very merry 2 Vsh Only our selves this churlish fellow shall not know Cel. By no means 2 Vsh And can you love a little Cel. Love exceedingly I have cause to love you dear Sir 2 Vsh Then I 'le carry ye And shew you all the pictures and the hangings The Lodgings Gardens and the walks and then sweet You shall tell me where you lye Cel. Yes marry will I. 2 Vsh And 't shall go hard but I 'le send ye a Venison Pasty And bring a bottle of wine along 1 Vsh Make room there 2 Vsh Room there afore stand close the train is coming Enter King Antigonus Timon Charinthus Menippâ Cel. Have I yet left a beauty to catch fools Yet yet I see him not O what a misery Is love expected long deluded longer Ant. Conduct in the Embassadors 1 Vsh Make room there Ant. They shall not wait long answer ãâã Cle. Yet he comes not Enter 3 Embassadors Why are eyes set on these and multitudes Follow to make these wonders O good gods What would these look like if my love were here But I am fond forgetful Ant. Now your grievance Speak short and have as short dispatch 1 Emb. Then thus Sir In all our Royal Masters names We tell you Ye have done injustice broke the bonds of concord And from their equal shares from Alexander Parted and so possess'd not like a Brother But as an open Enemy Ye have hedged in Whole Provinces man'd and maintain'd these injuries And daily with your sword though they still honour ye Make bloudy inroads take Towns and ruin Castles And still their sufferance feels the weight 2 Em. Think of that love great Sir that honor'd friendship Your self held with our Masters think of that strength VVhen you were all one body all one mind VVhen all your swords struck one way when your angers Like so many brother Billows rose together And curling up your foaming Crests defied Even mighty Kings and in their falls entomb'd 'em O think of these and you that have been Conquerours That ever led your Fortunes open ey'd Chain'd fast by confidence you that fame courted Now ye want Enemies and men to match ye Let not your own Swords seek your ends to shame ye Enter Demetrius with a Javelin and Gentlemen 3 Em. Choose which you will or Peace or War We come prepar'd for either 1 Vsh Room for the Prince there Cel. Was it the Prince they said how my heart trembled 'T is he indeed what a sweet noble fierceness Dwells in his eyes young Meleager like When he return'd from slaughter of the Boar Crown'd with the loves and honours of the people With all the gallant youth of Greece he looks now Who could deny him love Dem. Hail Royal Father Ant. Ye are welcome from your sport Sir do you see thâs Gent. You that bring Thunders in your mouths and Earthquakes To shake and totter my designs can you imagine You men of poor and common apprehensions VVhile I admit this man my Son this nature That in one look carries more fire and fierceness Than all your Masters in their lives dare I admit him Admit him thus even to my side my bosom When he is fit to rule when all men cry him And all hopes hang about his head thus place him His weapon hatched in bloud all these attending When he shall make their fortunes all as sudden In any expedition he shall point 'em As arrows from a Tartars bow and speeding Dââe I do this and fear an enemy Fear your great Master yours or yours Dem. O Hercules Who saies you do Sir Is there any thing In these mens faces or their Masters actions Able to work such wonders Cel. Now he speaks O I could dwell upon that tongue for ever Dem. You call 'em Kings they never wore those Royalties Nor in the
runs off Satyr See the day begins to break And the light shoots like a streak Of subtil fire the wind blows cold Whilst the morning doth unfold Now the Birds begin to rouse And the Squirril from the boughs Leaps to get him Nuts and fruit The early Lark that erst was mute Carrols to the rising day Many a note and many a lay Therefore here I end my watch Lest the wandring swain should catch Harm or lose himself Amo. Ah me Satyr Speak again what e're thou be I am ready speak I say By the dawning of the day By the power of night and Pan I inforce thee speak again Amo. O I am most unhappy Satyr Yet more blood Sure these wanton Swains are wode Can there be a hand or heart Dare commit so vile a part As this Murther By the Moon That hid her self when this was done Never was a sweeter face I will bear her to the place Where my Goddess keeps and crave Her to give her life or grave Exeunt Enter Clorin Clor. Here whilst one patient takes his rest secure I steal abroad to doe another Cure Pardon thou buryed body of my love That from thy side I dare so soon remove I will not prove unconstant nor will leave Thee for an hour alone When I deceive My first made vow the wildest of the wood Tear me and o're thy Grave let out my blood I goe by wit to cure a lovers pain Which no herb can being done I 'le come again Exit Enter Thenot. The. Poor Shepherd in this shade for ever lye And seeing thy fair Clorins Cabin dye O hapless love which beingâ answer'd ends And as a little infant cryes and bends His tender Brows when rowling of his eye He hath espy'd some thing that glisters nigh Which he would have yet give it him away He throws it straight and cryes afresh to play With something else such my affection set On that which I should loath if I could get Enter Clorin Clor. See where he lyes did ever man but he Love any woman for her Constancie To her dead lover which she needs must end Before she can allow him for her friend And he himself must needs the cause destroy For which he loves before he can enjoy Poor Shepherd Heaven grant I at once may free Thee from thy pain and keep my loyaltie Shepherd look up The. Thy brightness doth amaze So Phoebus may at noon bid mortals gaze Thy glorious constancie appears so bright I dare not meet the Beams with my weak sight Clor. Why dost thou pine away thy self for me The. Why dost thou keep such spotless constancie Clor. Thou holy Shepherd see what for thy sake Clorin thy Clorin now dare under take He starts up The. Stay there thou constant Clorin if there be Yet any part of woman left in thee To make thee light think yet before thou speak Clor. See what a holy vow for thee I break I that already have my fame far spread For being constant to my lover dead The. Think yet dear Clorin of your love how true If you had dyed he would have been to you Clor. Yet all I 'le lose for thee The. Think but how blest A constant woman is above the rest Clor. And offer up my self here on this ground To be dispos'd by thee The. Why dost thou wound His heart with malice against woman more That hated all the Sex but thee before How much more pleasant had it been to me To dye than to behold this change in thee Yet yet return let not the woman sway Clor. Insult not on her now nor use delay Who for thy sake hath ventur'd all her fame The. Thou hast not ventur'd but bought certain shame Your Sexes curse foul falshood must and shall I see once in your lives light on you all I hate thee now yet turn Clor. Be just to me Shall I at once both lose my fame and thee The. Thou hadst no fame that which thou didst like good Was but thy appetite that sway'd thy blood For that time to the best for as a blast That through a house comes usually doth cast Things out of order yet by chance may come And blow some one thing to his proper room So did thy appetite and not thy zeal Sway thee be chance to doe some one thing well Yet turn Clor. Thou dost but try me if I would Forsake thy dear imbraces for my old Love's though he were alive but do not fear Th. I do contemn thee now and dare come near And gaze upon thee for me thinks that grace Austeritie which sate upon that face Is gone and thou like others false maid see This is the gain of foul inconstancie Exit Clor. 'T is done great Pan I give thee thanks for it What art could not have heal'd is cur'd by wit Enter Thenot again The. Will ye be constant yet will ye remove Into the Cabin to your buried Love Clor. No let me die but by thy side remain The. There 's none shall know that thou didst ever stain Thy worthy strictness but shall honour'd be And I will lye again under this tree And pine and dye for thee with more delight Than I have sorrow now to know the light Clor. Let me have thee and I 'le be where thou wilt The. Thou art of womens race and full of guilt Farewel all hope of that Sex whilst I thought There was one good I fear'd to find one naught But since their minds I all alike espie Henceforth I 'le choose as others by mine eye Clor. Blest be ye powers that give such quick redress And for my labours sent so good success I rather choose though I a woman be He should speak ill of all than die for me Actus Quintus Scena Prima Enter Priest and old Shepherd Priest SHepherds rise and shake off sleep See the blushing Morn doth peep Through the window whilst the Sun To the mountain tops is run Gilding all the Vales below With his rising flames which grow Greater by his climbing still Up ye lazie grooms and fill Bagg and Bottle for the field Clasp your cloaks last lest they yield To the bitter North-east wind Call the Maidens up and find Who lay longest that she may Goe without a friend all day Then reward your Dogs and pray Pan to keep you from decay So unfold and then away What not a Shepherd stirring sure the grooms Have found then beds too easie or the rooms Fill'd with such new delight and heat that they Have both forgot their hungry sheep and day Knock that they may remember what a shame Sloath and neglect layes on a Shepherds name Old Shep. It is to little purpose not a swain This night hath known his lodging here or lain Within these cotes the woods or some near town That is a neighbour to the bordering Down Hath drawn them thither 'bout some lustie sport Or spiced Wassel-Boul to which resort All the young men and maids of many a cote
bounty His honour that he gives me to beget Sawey and fullen fears The. You are not mad sure By this fair light I speak But what is whisper'd And whisper'd for a truth Ar. A Dog drunken people That in their Pot see visions And turn states mad-men and Children Prethee do not follow me I tell thee I am angry Do not follow me The. I am as angry As you for your heart I and as wilful too go like a Wood-cock And thrust your neck i' th' noose Ar. I 'le kill thee And thou speakst but three words more Do not follow me Exit The. A strange old foolish fellow I shall hear yet And if I do not my part hiss at me Exit SCENE V. Enter two Servants preparing a Banquet 1 Serv. Believe me fellow here will be lusty drinking Many a washt pate in Wine I warrant thee 2 Ser. I am glad the old General 's come upon my Coâscience That joy will make half the Court drunk Hark the Trumpets They are coming on away 1 Ser. We 'll have a rowse too Exeunt Enter Duke Archas Burris Boroskie Attend. Gent. Duke Come seat your selves Lord Archas sit you there Ar. 'T is far above my worth Duke I 'le have it so Are all things ready Bor. All the Guards are set The Court Gates are shut Duke Then do as I prescrib'd ye Be sure no further Bor. I shall well observe ye Du. Come bring some wine here 's to my Sister Gentlemen A health and mirth to all Ar. Pray fill it full Sir 'T is a high health to vertue here Lord Burris A maiden health you are most sit to pledge it You have a maiden soul and much I honour it Passion o' me ye are sad man Duke How now Burris Go to no more of this Ar. Take the rowse freely 'T will warm your bloud and make ye fit for jollity Your Graces pardon when we get a cup Sir We old men prate a pace Du. Mirth makes a Banquet As you love me no more Bur. I thank your Grace Give me it Lord Boroskie Boros I have ill brains Sir Bur. Damnable ill I know it Boros But I 'le pledge Sir This vertuous health Bur. The more unfit for thy mouth Enter two Servants with Cloaks Du. Come bring out Robes and let my guests look nobly Fit for my love and presence begin downward Off with your Cloaks take new Ar. Your grace deals truly Like a munificent Prince with your poor subjects Who would not fight for you what cold dull coward Durst seek to save his life when you would ask it Begin a new health in your new adornments The Dukes the Royal Dukes ha what have I got Sir ha the Robe of death Du. You have deserv'd it Ar. The Livery of the Grave do you start all from me Do I smell of earth already Sir look on me And like a man is this your entertainment Do you bid your worthiest guests to bloudy Banquets Enter a Guard A Guard upon me too this is too soul play Boy to thy good thine honour thou wretched Ruler Thou Son of fools and flatterers Heir of hypocrites Am I serv'd in a Hearse that sav'd ye all Are ye men or Devils Do ye gape upon me Wider and swallow all my services Entomb them first my faith next then my integrity And let these struggle with your mangy minds Your fear'd and seal'd up Consciences till they burst Boros These words are death Ar. No those deeds that want rewards Sirrah Those Battels I have sought those horrid dangers ââaner than death and wilder than destruction Leave march'd upon these honour'd wounds times story The bloud I have lost the youth the sorrows suffer'd These are my death these that can ne're be recompenced These that ye sit a brooding on like Toads Socking from my deserts the sweets and favours And render me no pay again but poysons Bor. The proud vain Souldier thou hast set Ar. Thou lyest Now by my little time of life lyest basely Malitiously and loudly how I scorn thee If I had swel'd the Souldier or intended Anact in person leaning to dishonour As ye would sain have forced me witness Heaven Where clearest understanding of all truth is For these are spightful men and know no piety When Olin came grim Olin when his marches His last Incursions made the City sweat And drove before him as a storm drives Hail Such showrs of frosted fears shook all your heart-strings Then when the Volga trembled at his terrour And hid his seven curl'd heads afraid of bruising By his arm'd Horses hoofs had I been false then Or blown a treacherous fire into the Souldier Had but one spark of villany liv'd within me Ye âad had some shadow for this black about me Where was your Souldiership why went not you out And all your right honourable valour with ye Why met ye not the Tartar and desi'd him Drew your dead doing sword and buckl'd with him Shot through his Squadrons like a fiery Meteor And as we see a dreadful clap of Thunder Rend the stiff hearted Oaks and toss their roots up Why did not you so charge him you were sick then You that dare taint my credit slipt to bed then Stewing and fainting with the fears ye had A whorson shaking fit opprest your Lordship Blush Coward Knave and all the world hiss at thee Da. Exceed not my command Exit Bor. I shall observe it Ar. Are you gone too Come weep not honest Burris Good loving Lord no more fears 't is not his malice This fellows malice nor the Dukes displeasure By bold bad men crowded into his nature Can startle me fortune ne're raz'd this Fort yet I am the same the same man living dying The same mind to 'em both I poize thus equal Only the jugling way that toll'd me to it The Judas way to kiss me bid me welcome And cut my throat a little sticks upon me Farewel commend me to his Grace and tell him The world is full of servants he may have many And some I with him hon st he s undone else But such another doating Archas never So try'd and touch'd a saith farewell for ever Bor. Be strong my Lord you must not go thus lightly Ar. Now what s to do what sayes the Law unto me Give me my great offence that speaks me guily Bor. Laâââ asââe a thousand petty matters As scorns and insolencies both from your self and followers Which you put first fire to and these are deadly I come to one main cause which though it carries A strangeness in the circumstance it carries death too Not to be pardon'd neither ye have done a sacriledge Ar. High Heaven desend me man how how Boroskie Bor. Ye have took from the Temple those vow'd Arms The holy Ornament you hung up there No absolution of your vow no order From holy Church to give 'em back unto you After they were purified from War and rested From bloud made clean by ceremony from the Altar You
again Ant. Madam you have prevail'd yet give me leave Without offence ere I resign the interest Your heart hath in my heart to prove your secresie Er. Antinous 't is the greatest argument Of thy affections to me Ant. Madam thus then My Father stands for certain sums engag'd To treacherous Gonzalo and has morgag'd The greatest part of his estate to him If you receive this Morgage and procure Acquittance from Gonzalo to my Father I am what you would have me be Er. You 'll love me then Ant. Provided Madam that my Father know not I am an Agent for him Er. If I fail In this I am unworthy to be lov'd Ant. Then with your favour thus I seal my truth Today and Decius witness how unchangingly I shall still love Erota Er. Thou hast quickned A dying heart Antinous Dec. This is well Much happiness to both Enter Hyparcha Hyp. The Lord Gonzalo Attends you Madam Er. Comes as we could wish Withdraw Antinous here 's a Closet where You may partake his errand let him enter Enter Gonzalo Ant. Madam you must be wary Exit Er. Fear it not I will be ready for him to entertain him With smiling Welcome Noble Sir you take Advantage of the time it had been fit Some notice of your presence might have fashion'd A more prepared state Gonz. Do you mock me Madam Er. Trust me you wrong your judgment to repute My Gratitude a fault I have examin'd Your portly carriage and will now confess It hath not slightly won me Gonz. The Wind 's turn'd I thought 't would come to this it pleas'd us Madam At our last interview to mention Love Have you consider'd on 't Er. With more than common Content but Sir if what you spoke you meant As I have cause to doubt then Gonz. What sweet Lady Er. Methinks we should lay by this form of stateliness Loves Courtship is familiar and for instance See what a change it hath begot in me I could talk humbly now as Lovers use Gonz. And I and I we meet in one self-centre Of blest Consent Er. I hope my weakness Sir Shall not deserve neglect but if it prove so I am not the first Lady has been ruin'd By being too credulous you will smart for 't one day Gonz. Angel-like Lady let me be held a Villain If I love not sincerely Er. Would I knew it Gonz. Make proof by any fit Command Er. What do you mean to marry me Gonz. How mean nay more I mean To make you Empress of my Earthly Fortunes Regent of my desires for did you covet To be a real Queen I could advance you Er. Now I perceive you slight me and would make me More simple than my Sexes frailty warrants Gonz. But say your mind and you shall be a Queen Er. On those Conditions call me yours Gonz. Enough But are we safe Er. Assuredly Gonz. In short Yet Lady first be plain would you not chuse Much rather to prefer your own Sun-rising Than any 's else though ne'r so near entituled By Blood or right of Birth Er. 'T is a question Needs not a resolution Gonz. Good what if I set the Crown of Candy on your head Er. I were a Queen indeed then Gonz. Madam know There 's but a Boy 'twixt you and it suppose him Transhap'd into an Angel Er. Wise Gonzalo I cannot but admire thee Gonz. 'T is worth thinking on Besides your Husband shall be Duke of Venice Er. Gonzalo Duke of Venice Gonz. You are mine you say Er. Pish you but dally with me and would lull me In a rich golden dream Gonz. You are too much distrustfull of my truth Er. Then you must give me leave to apprehend The means and manner how Gonz. Why thus Er. You shall not We may be over-heard Affairs and counsels Of such high nature are not to be trusted Not to the Air it self you shall in writing Draw out the full design which if effected I am as I profess Gonz. O I applaud Your ready care and secresie Er. Gonzalo There is a bar yet 'twixt our hopes and us And that must be remov'd Gonz. What is' t Er. Old Cassilane Gonz. Ha fear not him I build upon his ruines Already Er. I would find a smoother course To shift him off Gonz. As how Er. We 'l talk in private I have a ready plot Gonz. I shall adore you Exeunt Enter Fernando and Annophel Fer. Madam although I âate unnoble practices And the ãâã âave perform d no more than what I onâââ for honours safety yet Annophel Tâ love hath been the spur to urge me forward For speedier diligence Anno. Sir your own fame And memory will best ââward themselves Fer. All gain is loss sweet beauty if I miss My comforts here The Brother and the Sister Have double conquer'd me but thou maist triumph Anno. Good Sir I have a Father Fern. Yes a brave one Could'st thou obscure thy beauty yet the happiness Of being but his Daughter were a dower Fit for a Prince what say ye Anno. You have deserv'd As much as I should grant Fer. By this fair hand I take possession Anno. What in words I dare not Imagine in my silence Fer. Thou art all vertue Enter Cassilanes and Arcanes Cas I 'le tell thee how Baldwin the Emperour Pretending title more through tyranny Than right of conquest or descent usurp'd The stile of Lord o're all the Grecian Islands And under colour of an amity With Creet prefer'd the Marquess Mountferato To be our Governor the Cretians vex'd By the ambitious Turks in hope of aid From the Emperour receiv'd for General This Mountferato he the wars appeased Plots with the state of Venice and takes money Of them for Candy they paid well he steals Away in secret since which time that right The state of Venice claims o're Candy is By purchase not inheritance or Conquest And hence grows all our quarrel Arc. So an Usurer Or Lumbard-Jew might with some bags of trash Buy half the Western world Cas Mony Arcanes Is now a God on Earth it cracks virginities And turns a Christian Turk Bribes justice cut-throats honour does what not Arc. Not captives Candy Cas Nor makes thee dishonest Nor me a Coward Now Sir here is homely But friendly entertainment Fer. Sir I find it Arc. And like it do ye not Fer. My repair speaks for me Cas Fernando we were speaking off how this Enter Gonzalo and Gaspero with a Casket Gon. Your friend and servant Cas Creditors my Lord Are Masters and no Servants as the world goes Debters are very slaves to those to whom They have been beholding to in which respect I should fear you Gonzalo Gon. Me my Lord You owe me nothing Cas What nor love nor mony Gon. Yes love I hope not mony Cas All this braverie Will scarcely make that good Gonz. 'T is done already See Sir your Mortgage which I only took In case you and your son had in the wars Miscarried I yield it up again 't is yours
Cas Are ye so conscionable Gonz. 'T is your own Cas Pish pish I 'le not receive what is not mine That were a dangerous business Gon. Sir I am paid for 't The summes you borrowed are return'd The bââds Cancell'd and your acquittance formerly seal'd Look here Sir Gaspero is witness to it Gas My honoured Lord I am Gon. My Lord Fernando Arcanes and the rest you all shall testifie That I acquit Lord Cassilane for ever Of any debts to me Gas 'T is plain and ample Fortune will once again smile on us fairly Cas But hark ye hark ye if you be in earnest Whence comes this bounty or whose is' t Gon. In short The great Erota by this Secretary Return'd me my full due Cas Erota why Should she do this Gon. You must ask her the cause She knows it best Cas So ho Arcanes none But women pity us soft-hearted women I am become a brave fellow now Arcanes Am I not Arc. Why Sir if the gracious Princess Have took more special notice of your services And means to be more thankfull than some others It were an injury to gratitude To disesteem her favours Anno. Sir she ever For your sake most respectively lov'd me Cas The Senate and the body of this Kingdom Are herein let me speak it without arrogance Beholding to her I will thank her for it And if she have reserv'd a means whereby I may repay this bounty with some service She shall be then my Patroness come Sirs We 'l taste a cup of wine together now Gon. Fernando I must speak with you in secret Fer. You shall Now Gaspero all 's well Gas There 's news You must be acquainted with Come there is no master-piece in Art like Policie Exeunt Actus Quintus Scena Prima Enter Fernando and Michael Fer THE Senate is inform'd at full Mic. Gonzalo Dreams not of my arrival yet Fer. Nor thinks 'T is possible his plots can be discover'd He sats himself with hopes of Crowns and Kingdoms And laughs securely to imagine how He means to gull all but himself when truly None is so grosly gull'd as he Mich. There was never A more arch villain Fer. Peace the Senate comes Enter Porphicio Pos Senators and Gaspero Attend. Por. How closely Treason cloaks it self in forms Of Civil honesty Pos And yet how palpably Does heaven reveal it Fer. Gracious Lords Gas The Embassadour Lord Paulo Michael Advocate To the great Duke of Venice Por. You are most welcome Your Master is a just and noble Prince Mic. My Lords he bad me say that you may know How much he scorns and as good Princes ought Defies base indirect and godless treacheries To your more Sacred wisdomes he refers The punishment due to the false Gonzalo Or else to send him home to Venice Pos Herein âhe Duke is royal Gaspero the Prince ãâã Cyprus answer'd he would come Gas My Lords He will not long be absent Enter Philander and Melitus Porp. You Fernando Have made the State your debter worthy Prince We shall be sutors to you for your presence ãâã hearing and determining of matters Greatly concerning Candy Phi. Fathers I am A stranger Pos Why the cause my Lord concerns A stranger please you seat your self Phi. How e're Infit since you will have it so my Lords You shall command me Por. You my Lord Fernando With the Ambassador withdraw a while Fer. My Lords we shall Ex. Pos Melitus and the Secretary Give notice to Gonzalo that the Senate Requires his presence Ex. Gas and Mel. Enter Cassilane and Arca. Phi. What concerns the business Por. Thus noble Prince Cas Let me alone thou troublest me will be heard Arc. You know not what you do Pos Forbear who 's he that is so rude what 's he that dares âo interrupt our counsels Cas One that has guarded Those Purple robes from Cankers worse than Moths One that hath kept your fleeces on your backs That would have been snatch'd from you but I see 'T is better now to be a Dog a Spaniel In times of Peace then boast the bruised scars Purchas'd with loss of bloud in noble wars My Lords I speak to you Por. Lord Cassilane We know not what you mean Cas Yes you are set Upon a bench of justice and a day Will come hear this and quake ye potent great ones When you your selves shall ãâã before a judge Who in a pair of scales will wâigh your actions Without abatement of one grain as then You would be sound full weight I charge ye fathers Let me have justice now Pos Lord Cassilane What strange distemperature provokes distrust Of our impartiality be sure We 'l flatter no mans injuries Cas 'T is well You have a Law Lords that without remorse Dooms such as are belepred with the curse Of soul ingratitude unto death Por. We have Cas Then do me justice Enter Antinous Decius Erota Hyparcha Dec. Mad-man whither run'st thou Ant. Peace Decius I am deaf Hyp. Will you forget Your greatness and your modesty Er. Hyparcha leave I will not hear Ant. Lady great gentle Lady Er. Prethee young man forbear to interrupt me Triumph not in thy fortunes I will speak Pos More uproars yet who are they that disturb us Cas The viper 's come his fears have drawn him hither And now my Lords be Chornicled for ever And give me justice against this vile Monster This bastard of my bloud Er. 'T is justice Fathers I sue for too and though I might command it If you remember Lords whose child I was Yet I will humbly beg it this old wretch Has forfeited his life to me Cas Tricks tricks Complots devices 'twixt these pair of young ones To blunt the edge of your well temper'd Swords Wherewith you strike offenders Lords but I Am not a baby to be fear'd with bug bears 'T is justice I require Er. And I. Ant. You speak too tenderly and too much like your self To mean a cruelty which would make monstrous Your Sex yet for the loves sake which you once Pleas'd to pretend give my griev'd Father leave To urge his own revenge you have no cause For yours keep peace about ye Cas Will you hear me Phil. Here 's some strange novelty Pos Sure we are mock'd Speak one at once say wherein hath your Son Transgress'd the Law Cas O the gross mists of dulness Are you this Kingdomes Oracles yet can be So ignorant first hear and then consider That I begot him gave him birth and life And education were I must confess But duties of a Father I did more I taught him how to manage Arms to dare An Enemy to court both death and dangers Yet these were but additions to compleat A well accomplish'd Souldier I did more yet I made him chief Commander in the field Next to my self and gave him the full prospect Of honour and preferment train'd him up In all perfections of a Martiallist ââat he unmindful of his gratitude You know with what contempt of my
strong forces And if thou serv'st an use must not all justifie it Sep. I am Rogue enough Pho. Thou wilt be more and baser A poor Rogue is all Rogues open to all shames Nothing to shadow him dost thou think crying Can keep thee from the censure of the Multitude Or to be kneeling at the altar save thee 'T is poor and servile Wert thou thine own Sacrifice 'T would seem so low people would spit the fire out Achil. Keep thy self glorious still though ne're so stain'd And that will lessen it if not work it out To goe complaining thus and thus repenting Like a poor Girl that had betrai'd her maidend-head Sep. I 'le stop mine ears Achil. Will shew so in a Souldier So simply and so ridiculously so tamely Pho. If people would believe thee 't were some honesty And for thy penitence would not laugh at thee As sure they will and beat thee for thy poverty If they would allow thy foolery there were some hope Sep. My foolery Pho. Nay more than that thy misery Thy monstrous misery Achil. He begins to hearken Thy misery so great men will not bury thee Sep. That this were true Pho. Why does this conquering Caesar Labour through the worlds deep Seas of toyls and troubles Dangers and desperate hopes to repent afterwards Why does he slaughter thousands in a Battel And whip his Country with the sword to cry for 't Thou killd'st great Pompey he 'l kill all his kindred And justifie it nay raise up Trophies to it When thou hear'st him repent he 's held most holy too And cry for doing daily bloody murthers Take thou example and go ask forgiveness Call up the thing thou nam'st thy conscience And let it work then 't will seem well Septinius Sep. He does all this Achil. Yes and is honour'd for it Nay call'd the honour'd Caesar so maist thou be Thou wert born as near a Crown as he Sep. He was poor Pho. And desperate bloody tricks got him this credit Sep. I am afraid you will once more Pho. Help to raise thee Off with thy pining black it dulls a Souldier And put on resolution like a man A noble Fate waits on thee Sep. I now feel My self returning Rascal speedily O that I had the power Achil. Thou shalt have all And do all through thy power men shall admire thee And the vices of Septinius shall turn vertues Sep. Off off thou must off off my cowardize Puling repentance off Pho. Now thou speakst nobly Sep. Off my dejected looks and welcom impudence My daring shall be Deity to save me Give me instructions and put action on me A glorious cause upon my swords point Gentlemen And let my wit and valour work you will raise me And make me out-dare all my miseries Pho. All this and all thy wishes Sep. Use me then Womanish fear farewell I 'le never melt more Lead on to some great thing to wake my spirit I cut the Cedar Pompey and I 'le fell This huge Oak Caesar too Pho. Now thou singst sweetly And Ptolomy shall crown thee for thy service Achil. He 's well wrought put him on apace for cooling Exeunt Actus Quintus Scena Prima Enter Caesar Antony Dolabella Ant. THE tumult still encreases Caesar O my fortune My lustfull folly rather but 't is well And worthily I am made a bondmans prey That after all my glorious victories In which I pass'd so many Seas of dangers When all the Elements conspir'd against me Would yield up the dominion of this head To any mortal power so blind and stupid To trust these base Egyptians that proclaim'd Their perjuries in noble Pompeys death And yet that could not warn me Dol. Be still Caesar Who ever lov'd to exercise his fate Where danger look't most dreadful Ant. If you fall Fall not alone let the King and his Sister âe buried in your ruines on my life They both are guilty reason may assure you Photinus nor Achillas durst attempt you Or shake one Dart or sword aim'd at your safety Without their warrant Caesar For the young King I know not How he may be misled but for his Sister Unequall'd Cleopatra 't were a kind Of blasphemy to doubt her ugly treason Durst never dwell in such a glorious building Nor can so clear and great a spirit as hers is Admit of falsehood Ant. Let us seize on him then And leave her to her fortune Ptol. If he have power Use it to your security and let His honesty acquit him if he be false It is too great an honour he should dye By your victorious hand Caesar He comes and I Shall do as I find cause Enter Ptolomy Achoreus Apollodorus Ptol. Let not great Caesar Impute the breach of hospitality To you my guest to me I am contemn'd And my rebellious subjects lift their hands Against my head and would they aim'd no farther Provided that I fell a sacrifice To gain you safety that this is not feign'd The boldness of my innocence may confirm you Had I been privy to their bloody plot I now had led them on and given fair gloss To their bad cause by being present with them But I that yet taste of the punishment In being false to Pompey will not make A second fault to Caesar uncompel'd With such as have not yet shook off obedience I yield my self to you and will take part In all your dangers Caesar This pleads your excuse And I receive it Ach. If they have any touch Of justice or religion I will use The authority of our Gods to call them back From their bad purpose Apo. This part of the palace Is yet defensible we may make it good Till your powers rescue us Caesar Caesar besieg'd O stain to my great actions 't was my custom An Army routed as my feet had wings To be first in the chase nor walls nor Bulworks Could guard those that escap'd the Battels fury From this strong Arm and I to be enclos'd My heart my heart but 't is necessity To which the Gods must yield and I obey 'Till I redeem it by some glorious way Exeunt SCENA II. Enter Photinus Achillas Septinius Souldiers Pho. There 's no retiring now we are broke in The deed past hope of pardon if we prosper 'T will be stil'd lawfull and we shall give laws To those that now command us stop not at Or loyalty or duty bold ambition To dare and power to do gave the first difference Between the King and subject Caesars Motto Aut Caesar aut Nihil each of us must claim And use it as our own Achil. The deed is bloody If we conclude in Ptolomies death Pho. The better The globe of Empire must be so manur'd Sep. Rome that from Romulus first took her name Had her walls water'd with a Crimson showr Drain'd from a Brothers heart nor was she rais'd To this prodigious height that overlooks Three full parts of the Earth that pay her tribute But by enlarging of her marrow bounds By
please Sam. Something I 'le do goe rally up your Causes Enter La-writ and a Gentleman at the door 2 Cly. Now you may behold Sir And be a witness whether we lie or no. La-writ I 'le meet you at the Ordinary sweet Gentâemen And if there be a wench or two Gen. We 'll have ' em La writ No handling any Duells before I come We 'll have no going else I hate a coward Gent. There shall be nothing done La-writ Make all the quarrels You can devise before I come and let 's all fight There is no sport else Gent. We 'll see what may be done Sir 1 Cly. Ha Monsieur La writ La-writ Baffled in way of business My causes cast away Judgement against us Why there it goes 2 Cly. What shall we do the whilst Sir La-wr. Breed new dissentions goe hang your selves 'T is all one to me I have a new trade of living 1 Cli. Do you hear what he saies Sir Sam. The Gentleman speaks finely La-wr. Will any of you fight Fighting's my occupation If you find your selves aggriev'd Sam. A compleat Gentleman La-writ Avant thou buckram budget of petitions Thou spittle of lame causes I lament for thee And till revenge be taken Sam. 'T is most excellent La-wr. There every man chuse his paper and his place I 'le answer ye all I will neglect no mans business But he shall have satisfaction like a Gentleman The Judge may do and not do he 's but a Monsieur Sam. You have nothing of mine in your bag Sir La-writ I know not Sir But you may put any thing in any fighting thing Sam. It is sufficient you may hear hereafter La-writ I rest your servant Sir Sam. No more words Gentlemen But follow me no more words as you love me The Gentleman 's a noble Gentleman I shall do what I can and then Cli. We thank you Sir Ex. Sam. and Clients Sam. Not a word to disturb him he 's a Gentleman La-writ Not cause go o' my side the judge cast all And because I was honourably employed in action And not appear'd pronounce 't is very well 'T is well faith 't is well Judge Enter Cleremont Cler. Who have we here My little furious Lawyer La-writ I say 't is well But mark the end Cler. How he is metamorphos'd Nothing of Lawyer left not a bit of buckram No solliciting face now This is no simple conversion Your servant Sir and Friend La-writ You come in time Sir Cler. The happier man to be at your command then La-writ You may wonder to see me thus but that 's all one Time shall declare 't is true I was a Lawyer But I have mew'd that coat I hate a Lawyer I talk'd much in the Court now I hate talking I did you the office of a man Cler. I must confess it La-w. And budg'd not no I budg'd not Cler. No you did not La w. There 's it then one good turn requires another Cler. Most willing Sir I am ready at your service La-w. There read and understand and then deliver it Cler. This is a Challenge Sir La-w. 'T is very like Sir I seldom now write Sonnets Cler. O admirantis To Monsieur Vertaign the President La w. I chuse no Fool Sir Cler. Why he 's no Sword-man Sir La w. Let him learn let him learn Time that trains Chickens up will teach him quickly Cler. VVhy he 's a Judge an Old Man La-w. Never too Old To be a Gentleman and he that is a Judge Can judge best what belongs to wounded honour There are my griefs he has cast away my causes In which he has bowed my reputation And therefore Judge or no Judge Cler. 'Pray be rul'd Sir This is the maddest thing La w. You will not carry it Cler. I do not tell you so but if you may be perswaded La w. You know how you us'd me when I would not fight Do you remember Gentleman Cler. The Devil 's in him La w. I see it in your Eyes that you dare do it You have a carrying face and you shall carry it Cler. The least is Banishment La-w. Be banish'd then 'T is a friends part we 'll meet in Africa Or any part of the Earth Cler. Say he will not fight La w. I know then what to say take you no care Sir Cler. Well I will carry it and deliver it And to morrow morning meet you in the Louver Tiâl when my service La-w. A Judge or no Judge no Judge Exit La-writ Cler. This is the prettiest Rogue that e'r I read of None to provoke to th'field but the old President What face shall I put on if I come in earnest I am sure to wear a pair of Bracelets This may make some sport yet I will deliver it Here comes the President Enter Vertaign with two Gentlemen Vert. I shall find time Gentlemen To do your causes good is not that Cleremont 1 Gent. 'T is he my Lord. Vert. Why does he smile upon me Am I become ridiculous has your fortune Sir Upon my Son made you contemn his Father The glory of a Gentleman is fair bearing Cler. Mistake me not my Lord you shall not find that I come with no blown Spirit to abuse you I know your place and honour due unto it The reverence to your silver Age and Vertue Vert. Your face is merry still Cler. So is my business And I beseech your honour mistake me not I have brought you from a wild or rather Mad-man As mad a piece of you were wont to love mirth In your young days I have known your Honour woo it This may be made no little one 't is a Challenge Sir Nay start not I beseech you it means you no harm Nor any Man of Honour or Understanding 'T is to steal from your serious hours a little laughter I am bold to bring it to your Lordship Vert. 'T is to me indeed Do they take me for a Sword-man at these years Cler. 'T is only worth your Honours Mirth that 's all Sir 'T had been in me else a sawcy rudness Vert. From one La writ a very punctual Challenge Cler. But if your Lordship mark it no great matter Vert. I have known such a wrangling Advocate Such a little figent thing Oh I remember him A notable talking Knave now out upon him Has challeng'd me downright defied me mortally I do remember too I cast his Causes Cler. Why there 's the quarrel Sir the mortal quarrel Vert. Why what a Knave is this as y' are a Gentleman Is there no further purpose but meer mirth What a bold Man of War he invites me roundly Cler. If there should be I were no Gentleman Nor worthy of the honour of my Kindred And though I am sure your Lordship hates my Person Which Time may bring again into your favour Yet for the manners Vert. I am satisfied You see Sir I have out-liv'd those days of fighting And therefore cannot do him the honour to beat him my self But I have
Have you any more mind to Wenches Cler. To be abus'd too Lady you might have help'd this Ana. Sit now 't is past but 't may be I may stand Your friend hereafter in a greater matter Cler. Never whilst you live Ana. You cannot tell now Sir a parting hand Cler. Down and Roses Well I may live to see you again A dull Rogue No revelation in thee Lam. Were you well frighted Were your fitts from the heart of all colds and colours That 's all your punishment Cler. It might have been all yours Had not a block-head undertaken it Cham. Your swords you mnst leave to these Gentlemen Verd. And now when you dare fight We are on even lee again Din. 'T is well To be a Mistris is to be a monster And so I leave your house and you for ever Lam. Leave your wild lusts and then you are a master Cham. You may depart too Cler. I had rather stay here Cham. Faith we shall fright you worse Cler. Not in that manner There 's five hundred Crowns fright me but so again Din. Come Cleremont this is the hour of fool Cler. Wiser the next shall be or we 'll to School Exeunt Champ. How coolly these hot gallants are departed Faith Cousin 't was unconscionably done To lye so still and so long Anab. 'T was your pleasure If 't were a fault I may hereafter mend Champ. O my best Wife Take now what course thou wilt and lead what life Lam. The more trust you commit the more care still Goodness and vertue shall attend my will Cham. Let 's laugh this night out now and count our gains We have our honours home and they their pains Exeunt omnes Actus Quartus Scena Prima Enter Cleremont Dinant Din. IT holds they will go thither Cler. To their Summer-house Din. Thither i' th' evening and which is the most infliction Only to insult upon our miseries Cler. Are you provided Din. Yes yes Cler. Throughly Din. Throughly Cler. Basâa enough I have your mind I will not fail you Din. At such an hour Cler. Have I a memory A Cause and Will to do thou art so sullen Din. And shall be till I have a fair reparation Cler. I have more reason for I scaped a fortune Which if I come so near again I say nothing But if I sweat not in another fashion O a delicate Wench Din. 'T is certain a most handsome one Cler. And me thought the thing was angry with it self too It lay so long conceal'd but I must part with you I have a scene of mirth to drive this from my heart And my hour is come Din. Miss not your time Cler. I dare not Exeunt severally Enter Sampson and a Gentleman Gent. I presume Sir you now need no instruction But fairly know what belongs to a Gentleman You bear your Uncles cause Sam. Do not disturb me I understand my cause and the right carriage Gent. Be not too bloody Sam. As I find my enemy if his sword bite If it bite Sir you must pardon me Gent. No doubt he is valiant He durst not undertake else Sam. He 's most welcome As he is most valiant he were no man for me else Gent. But say he should relent Sam. He dies relenting I cannot help it he must dies relenting If he pray praying ipso facto praying Your honourable way admits no prayer And if he fight he falls there 's his quietus Gent. Y' are nobly punctual let 's retire and meet 'em But still I say have mercy Samp. I say honour Exeunt Enter Champernel Lamira Anabel Beaupre Verdone Charlote and a Servant Lam. Will not you go sweet-heart Champ. Go I 'le fly with thee I stay behind Lam. My Father will be there too And all our best friends Beau. And if we be not merry We have hard luck Lady Verd. Faith let 's have a kind of play Cham. What shall it be Verd. The story of Dinant Lam. With the merry conceits of Cleremont His Fits and Feavers Ana. But I 'le lie still no more Lam. That as you make the Play 't will be rare sport And how 't will vex my gallants when they hear it Have you given order for the Coach Charl. Yes Madam Cham. My easie Nag and padd Serv. 'T is making ready Cham. Where are your Horses Beau. Ready at an hour Sir we 'll not be last Cham. Fie what a night shall we have A roaring merry night Lam. We 'll flie at all Sir Cham. I 'le flie at thee too finely and so ruffle thee I 'le try your Art upon a Country pallet Lam. Brag not too much for fear I should expect it Then if you fail Cham. Thou saiest too true we all talk But let 's in and prepare and after dinner Begin our mirthful pilgrimage Lam. He that 's sad A crab-face'd Mistris cleave to him for this year Exeunt Enter Cleremont and La-writ La-writ Since it cannot be the Judge Cler. 'T is a great deal better La-writ You are sure he is his kinsman a Gentleman Cler. As arrant a Gentleman and a brave fellow And so near to his blood La-writ It shall suffice I 'le set him further off I 'le give a remove Shall quit his kindred I 'le lopp him Clor. Will ye kill him La-w. And there were no more Cousins in the world I kiâ him I do mean Sir to kill all my Lords kindred For every cause a Cousin Cler. How if he have no more Cousins La-writ The next a kin then to his Lordships favour The man he smiles upon Cler. Why this is vengeance horrid and dire La writ I love a dire revenge Give me the man that will all others kill And last himself Cler. You stole that resolution La-writ I had it in a Play but that 's all one I wou'd see it done Cler. Come you must be more merciful La-writ To no Lords Cousins in the world I hate 'em A Lords Cousin to me is a kind of Cockatrice If I see him first he dies A strange Antipathy Cler. What think you of their Nieces La-writ If I like 'em They may live and multiply 't is a cold morning Cler. 'T is sharp indeed you have broke your fast La-writ No verily Cler. Your valour would have ask'd a good foundation La-writ Hang him I 'le kill him fasting Enter Sampson and the Gent. Cler. Here they come Bear your self in your language smooth and gently When your swords argue La-writ 'Pray Sir spare your precepts Gent. I have brought you Sir La-writ 'T is very well no words You are welcome Sir Sam. I thank you Sir few words La writ I 'le kill you for your Uncles sake Sam. I love you I 'le cut your throat for your own sake La-writ I esteem of you Cler. Let 's render 'em honest and fair Gentlemen Search my friend I 'le search yours Gent. That 's quickly done Cler. You come with no Spells nor Witchcrafts Sam. I come fairly to kill him honestly La-writ Hang Spells and Witchcrafts I come
gardens of thee Spreading thy living goodness into branches Fry from thee and the hot Sun find thy vices Pho. You are a welcom woman Ard. Bless me Heaven How did you find the way to Court Luci. I know not Would I had never trod it Phor. Prethee tell me Good noble Lady and good sweet heart love us For we love thee extreamly is not this place A Paradise to live in Luci. To those people That know no other Paradise but pleasure That little I enjoy contents me better Ard. What heard ye any Musick yet Luci. Too much Phor. You must not be thus froward what this gown Is one o' th' prettiest by my troth Ardelia I ever saw yet 't was not to frown in Lady Ye put this gown on when ye came Ard. How do ye Alas poor wretch how cold it is Luci. Content ye I am as well as may be and as temperate If ye will let me be so where 's my Lord For there 's the business that I came for Ladies Phor. We 'l lead ye to him he 's i' th' Gallery Ard. We 'l shew ye all the Court too Luci. Shew me him And ye have shew'd me all I come to look on Phor. Come on we 'l be your guides and as ye goe We have some pretty tales to tell ye Lady Shall make ye merry too ye come not here To be a sad Lucina Luci. Would I might not Exeunt Enter Chilax and Balbus Chil. Now the soft Musick Balbus run Bal. I flye Boy Exit Balbus Chil. The women by this time are worming of her If she can hold out them the Emperour Musick Takes her to task he has her hark the Musick Enter Emperour and Lucina Luci. Good your Grace Where are my women Sir Emp. They are wise beholding What you think scorn to look on the Courts bravery Would you have run away so slily Lady And not have seen me Luci. I beseech your Majestie Consider what I am and whose Emp. I do so Luci. Believe me I shall never make a whore Sir Emp. A friend ye may and to that man that loves ye More than you love your vertue Luci. Sacred Caesar Emp. You shall not kneel to me sweet Luci. Look upon me And if ye be so cruel to abuse me Think how the Gods will take it does this beauty Afflict your soul I 'le hide it from you ever Nay more I will become so leprous That ye shall curse me from ye My dear Lord Has serv'd ye ever truly fought your Battels As if he daily long'd to dy for Caesar Was never Traytor Sir noâ nâver tainted In all the actions of his life Emp. I know it Luci. Hiâ same and family have grown together And spred together like to sailing Cedars Over the Roman Diadem O let not As ye have any flesh that 's humane in you The having of a modest wife decline him Let not my vertue be the wedge to break him I do not think ye are lascivious These wanton men belye ye you are Caesar Which is the Father of the Empires honour Ye are too near the nature of the Gods To wrong the weakest of all creatures women Emp. I dare not do it here rise fair Lucina I did but try your temper ye are honest And with the commendations wait on that I 'le lead ye to your Lord and give you to him Wipe your fair eyes he that endeavours ill May well delay but never quench his hell Exeunt Actus Tertius Scena Prima Enter Chilax Licinius Proculus and Balbus Chil. 'T IS done Licinius Lici How I hil I shame to tell it If there be any justice we are Villains And must be so rewarded Bal. If it be done I take it 't is no time now to repent it Let 's make the best o' th' trade Pro. Now vengeance take it Why should not he have setled on a beauty Whose honesty stuck in a piece of tissue Or one a Ring might rule or such a one That had an itching husband to be honourable And ground to get it if he must have women And no allay without 'em why not those That know the misery and are best able To play a game with judgement such as she is Grant they be won with long siege endless travel And brought to opportunity with millions Yet when they come to motion their cold vertue Keeps 'em like cakes of Ice I 'le melt a Crystal And make a dead flint fire himself e're they Give greater heat than new departing embers Give to old men that watch ' em Lici A good Whore Had sav'd all this and happily as wholsom I and the thing once done too as well thought of But this same chastity forsooth Pro. A Pox on 't Why should not women be as free as we are They are but not in open and far freer And the more bold ye bear your self more welcom And there is nothing you dare say but truth But they dare hear Enter Emperour and Lucina Chi. The Emperour away And if we can repent let 's home and pray Exeunt Emp. Your only vertue now is patience Take heed and save your honour if you talk Luci. As long as there is motion in my body And life to give me words I 'le cry for justice Emp. Justice shall never hear ye I am justice Luci. Wilt thou not kill me Monster Ravisher Thou bitter bane o' th' Empire look upon me And if thy guilty eyes dare see these ruines Thy wild lust hath laid level with dishonour The sacrilegious razing of this Temple The mother of thy black sins would have blush'd at Behold and curse thy self the Gods will find thee That 's all my refuge now for they are righteous Vengeance and horror circle thee the Empire In which thou liv'st a strong continued surfeit Like poyson will disgorge thee good men raze thee For ever being read again but vicious Women and fearfull Maids make vows against thee Thy own Slaves if they hear of this shall hate thee And those thou hast corrupted first fall from thee And if thou let'st me live the Souldier Tir'd with thy Tyrannies break through obedience And shake his strong Steel at thee Emp. This prevails not Nor any Agony ye utter Lady If I have done a sin curse her that drew me Curse the first cause the witchcraft that abus'd me Curse those fair eyes and curse that heavenly beauty And curse your being good too Luci. Glorious thief What restitution canst thou make to save me Emp. I 'le ever love and honour you Luci. Thou canst not For that which was mine honour thou hast murdred And can there be a love in violence Emp. You shall be only mine Luci. Yet I like better Thy villany than flattery that 's thine own The other basely counterfeit flye from me Or for thy safety sake and wisdom kill me For I am worse than thou art thou maist pray And so recover grace I am lost for ever And if thou let'st me live th' art lost
through for if I offer To taââe my way without him like a Sea He b aâs his high Command 'twixt me and vengeance And in mine own road sinks me he is honest Of a most constant loyalty to Caesar And when he shall but doubt I dare attempt him But make a question of his ill but say What is a Caesar that he dare do this Dead sure he cuts me off Aecius dyes Or I have lost my self why should I kill him Why should I kill my self for 't is my killing Aecius is my root and wither him Like a decaying Branch I fall to nothing Is he not more to me than Wife than Caesar Though I had now my safe revenge upon him Is he not more than rumour and his friendship Sweeter than the love of women what is honour We all so strangely are bewitch'd withal Can it relieve me if I want he has Can honour 'twixt the incensed Prince and Envy Bear up the lives of worthy men he has Can honour pull the wings of fearful Cowards And make 'em turn again like Tigers he has And I have liv'd to see this and preserv'd so Why should this empty word incite me then To what is ill and cruel let her perish A friend is more than all the world than honour She is a woman and her loss the less And with her go my griefs but hark ye Maximus Was she not yours Did she not dye to tell ye She was a ravish'd woman Did not Justice Nobly begin with her that not deserv'd it And shall he live that did it Stay a little Can this abuse dye here Shall not mens tongues Dispute it afterward and say I gave Affecting dull obedience and tame duty And led away with fondness of a friendship The only vertue of the world to slander Is not this certain was not she a chaste one And such a one that no compare dwelt with her One of so sweet a vertue that Aecius Even he himself this friend that holds me from it Out of his worthy love to me and justice Had it not been on Caesar had reveng'd her He told me so what shall I do then Enter a Servant Can other men affect it and I cold I fear he must not live Serv. My Lord the General Is come to seek ye Max. Go entreat him to enter O brave Aecius I could wish thee now As far from friendship to me as from fears That I might cut thee off like that I weigh'd not Is there no way without him to come near it For out of honesty he must destroy me If I attempt it he must dye as others And I must lose him 't is necessity Only the time and means is the difference But yet I would not make a murther of him Take him directly for my doubts he shall dye I have found a way to do it and a safe one It shall be honour to him too I know not What to determine certain I am so troubled And such a deal of conscience presses me Enter Aecius Would I were dead my self Aecius You run away well How got you from me friend Max. That that leads mad men A strong imagination made me wander Aecius I thought you had been more setled Max. I am well But you must give me leave a little sometimes To have a buzzing in my brains Aecius Ye are dangerous But I 'll prevent it if I can ye told me You would go to th' Army Max. Why to have my throat cut Must he not be the bravest man Aecius That strikes me first Aeci. You promised me a freedom From all these thoughts and why should any strike you Max. I am an Enemy a wicked one Worse than the foes of Rome I am a Coward A Cuckold and a Coward that 's two causes Why every one should beat me Aeci. Ye are neither And durst another tell me so he dyed for 't For thus far on mine honour I 'le assure you No man more lov'd than you and for your valour And what ye may be fair no man more follow'd Max. A doughty man indeed but that 's all one The Emperour nor all the Princes living Shall find a flaw in my Coat I have suffer'd And can yet let them find inflictions I 'le find a body for 'em or I 'le break it 'T is not a Wife can thrust me out some look't for 't But let 'em look till they are blind with looking They are but fools yet there is anger in me That I would fain disperse and now I think on 't You told me friend the Provinces are stirring We shall have sport I hope then and what 's dangerous A Battle shall beat from me Aeci. Why do ye eye me With such a setled look Max. Pray tell me this Do we not love extreamly I love you so Aeci. If I should say I lov'd not you as truly I should do that I never durst do lye Max. If I should dye would it not grieve you much Aeci. Without all doubt Max. And could you live without me Aeci. It would much trouble me to live without ye Our loves and loving souls have been so us'd But to one houshold in us but to dye Because I could not make you live were woman Far much too weak were it to save your worth Or to redeem your name from rooting out To quit you bravely fighting from the foe Or fetch ye off where honour had ingag'd ye I ought and would dye for ye Max. Truly spoken What beast but I that must could hurt this man now Would he had ravish'd me I would have paid him I would have taught him such a trick his Eunuchs Nor all his black-eyed Boys dreamt of yet By all the Gods I am mad now now were Caesar Within my reach and on his glorious top The pile of all the world he went to nothing The Destinies nor all the dames of Hell Were I once grappl'd with him should relieve him No not the hope of mankind more all perished But this is words and weakness Aeci. Ye look strangely Max. I look but as I am I am a stranger Aeci. To me Max. To every one I am no Roman Nor what I am do I know Aeci. Then I 'le leave ye Max. I find I am best so if ye meet with Maximus Pray bid him be an honest man for my sake You may do much upon him for his shadow Let me alone Aeci. Ye were not wont to talk thus And to your fried ye have some danger in you That willingly would run to action Take heed by all our love take heed Max. I danger I willing to do any thing I dig Has not my Wife been dead two dayes already Are not my mournings by this time moth-eaten Are not her sins dispers'd to other Women And many one ravish'd to relieve her Have I shed tears these twelve hours Aeci. Now ye weep Max. Some lazie drops that staid behind Aeci. I 'le tell ye And I must tell ye truth were it not
ye Valentine Is wild Oats yet come over Val. Yes with me Sir Mary How does he bear himself Val. A great deal better Why do you blush the Gentleman will do well Mary I should be glad on 't Sir Val. How does his father Hyl. As mad a worm as e'er he was Val. I lookt for 't Shall we enjoy your Company Hyl. I 'll wait on ye Only a thought or two Val. We bar all prayers Exeunt all but Hylas Hyl. This last Wench I this last wench was a fair one A dainty Wench a right one a Devil take it What do I ail to have fifteen now in liking Enough a Man would think to stay my stomach But what 's fifteen or fifteen score to my thoughts And wherefore are mine Eyes made and have lights But to encrease my Objects This last Wench Sticks plaguey close to me a hundred pound I were as close to her If I lov'd now As many foolish men do I should run mad SCENE II. Enter old Sebastian and Launcelot Seb. Sirrah no more of your French shrugs I advise you If you be lowzie shift your self Laun. May it please your Worship Seb. Only to see my Son my Son good Launcelot Your Master and my Son Body O me Sir No money no more money Monsieur Launcelot Not a Denier sweet Signior bring the Person The person of my Boy my Boy Tom Monsieur Thomas Or get you gone again du gata whee Sir Bassa micu good Launcelot valetote My Boy or nothing Laun. Then to answer punctually Seb. I say to th' purpose Laun. Then I say to th' purpose Because your Worships vulgar Understanding May meet me at the nearest your Son my Master Or Monsieur Thomas for so his Travel stiles him Through many foreign plots that Vertue meets with And dangers I beseech ye give attention Is at the last arriv'd To ask your as the French man calls it sweetly Benediction de jour en jour Seb. Sirrah do not conjure me with your French furies Laun. Che ditt'a vou Monsieur Seb. Che doga vou Rascal Leave me your rotten language and tell me plainly And quickly Sirrah lest I crack your French Crown What your good Master means I have maintain'd You and your Monsieur as I take it Launcelot These two years at your ditty vous your jours Jour me no more for not another penny Shall pass my purse Laun. Your Worship is erroneous For as I told you your Son Tom or Thomas My master and your Son is now arriv'd To ask you as our Language bears it nearest Your quotidian Blessing and here he is in Person Enter Thomas Seb. What Tom Boy welcome with all my heart Boy Welcome ' saith thou hast gladded me at soul Boy Infinite glad I am I have pray'd too Thomas For you wild Thomas Tom I thank thee heartily For coming home Thom. Sir I do find your Prayers Have much prevail'd above my sins Seb. How 's this Thom. Else certain I had perish'd with my rudeness Ere I had won my self to that discretion I hope you shall hereafter find Seb. Humh humh Discretion is it come to that the Boy 's spoil'd Thom. Sirrah you Rogue look for 't for I will make thee Ten times more miserable than thou thought'st thy self Before thou travell'dst thou hast told my Father I know it and I find it all my Rogueries By meer way of prevention to undo me Laun. Sir as I speak eight languages I only Told him you came to ask his benediction De jour en jour Thom. But that I must be civil I would beat thee like a Dog Sir however The Time I have mispent may make you doubtful Nay harden your belief ' gainst my Conversion Seb. A pox o' travel I say Thom. Yet dear Father Your own experience in my after courses Enter Dorothea Seb. Prithee no more 't is scurvy there 's thy Sister Undone without Redemption he eats with picks Utterly spoil'd his spirit baffled in him How have I sin'd that this affliction Should light so heavy on me I have no more Sons And this no more mine own no spark of Nature Allows him mine now he 's grown tame my grand curse Hang o'r his head that thus transform'd thee travel I 'll send my horse to travel next we Monsieur Now will my most canonical dear Neighbours Say I have found my Son and rejoyce with me Because he has mew'd his mad tricks off I know not But I am sure this Monsieur this fine Gentleman Will never be in my Books like mad Thomas I must go seek an Heir for my inheritance Must not turn Secretary my name and quality Has kept my Land three hundred years in madness And it slip now may it sink Exit Thom. Excellent Sister I am glad to see thee well but where 's thy father Dor. Gone discontent it seems Thom. He did ill in it As he does all for I was utterring A handsome Speech or two I have been studying E'r since I came from Paris how glad to see thee Dor. I am gladder to see you with more love too I dare maintain it than my Father 's sorry To see as he supposes your Conversion And I am sure he is vext nay more I know it He has pray'd against it mainly but it appears Sir You had rather blind him with that poor opinion Than in your self correct it dearest Brother Since there is in our uniform resemblance No more to make us two but our bare Sexes And since one happy Birth produc'd us hither Let one more happy mind Thom. It shall be Sister For I can do it when I list and yet Wench Be mad too when I please I have the trick on 't Beware a Traveller Dor. Leave that trick too Thom Not for the world but where 's my Mistress And prithee say how does she I melt to see her And presently I must away Dor. Then do so For o' my faith she will not see you Brother Thom. Not see me I 'll Dor. Now you play your true self How would my father love this I 'll assure you She will not see you she has heard and loudly The gambols that you plaid since your departure In every Town ye came your several mischiefs Your rowses and your wenches all your quarrels And the no causes of 'em these I take it Although she love ye well to modest ears To one that waited for your reformation To which end travel was propounded by her Uncle Must needs and reason for it be examined And by her modesty and fear'd too light too To fyle with her affections ye have lost her For any thing I see exil'd your self Thom. No more of that sweet Doll I will be civil Dor. But how long Thom. Would'st thou have me lose my Birth-right For yond old thing will disinherit me If I grow too demure good sweet Doll prithee Prithee dear Sister let me see her Dor. No. Thom. Nay I beseech thee by this light Dor. I swagger
the matter Whither go all these men-menders these Physicians Whose Dog lies sick o' th' mulligrubs Sam. O the Gentleman The young smug Seigniour Master Valentine Brought out of travel with him as I hear Is faln sick o' th' sudden desperate sick And likely they go thither Thom. Who young Frank The only temper'd spirit Scholar Souldier Courtier and all in one piece 't is not possible Enter Alice Sam. There 's one can better satisfie you Thom. Mistress Alice I joy to see you Lady Alice Good Monsieur Thomas You 're welcome from your travel I am hasty A Gântleman lyes sick Sir Thom. And how dost thou I must know and I will know Alice Excellent well As well as may be thank ye Thom. I am glad on 't And prithee hark Alice I cannot stay Thom. A while Alice Sam. Never look so narrowly the mark 's in her mouth still Hyl. I am looking at her legs prithee be quiet Alice I cannot stay Thom. O sweet Alice Hyl. A clean instep And that I love a life I did not mark This woman half so well before how quick And nimble like a shadow there her leg shew'd By th' mass a neat one the colour of her Stocking A much inviting colour Alice My good Monsieur I have no time to talk now Hyl. Pretty Breeches Finely becoming too Thom. By Heaven Alice She will not I can assure you that and so Thom. But this word Alice I cannot nor I will not good Lord Exit Hyl. Well you shall ãâã more from me Thom. We 'll go ãâã 'T is Charity bâââies I know she is there And under visitation I shall see her Will ye along Hyl. By any meanâ Thom. Be sure then I be a civil man I have sport ân hand Boââ Shall make mirth for a Mââriage dây Hyl. Away then Exeunt SCENE III. Enter three Physicians with an Vâââal 1 Phy. A Pleurisie I see it 2 Phy. I rather hold it For tremor Cordis 3 Phy. Do you mark the Faeceâ 'T is a most pestilent contagious âeaâââ A suâââit a plaguey surfeit he must blâeâ 1 Phy. By no means 3 Phy. I say bleed 1 Phy. I say 't is dangerous The Person being spent so much bâfore hand And Nature drawn so low Clysters Cool Clysters 2 Phy. Now with you favours I should think a Vomit For take away the Cause the Effect must follow The Stomach's soul and fur'd the pot 's unflam'd yet 3 Phy. No no we 'll rectifie that part by mild means Nature so sunk must find no violence Enter a Servant Serv. Will 't please ye draw near the weak Gentleman Grows worse and worse still 1 Phy. Come we will attend him 2 Phy. He shall do well my friend Serv. My Masters love Sir 1 Excellent well I warrant thee right and straight friend 3 Phy. There 's no doubt in him none at all ne'r fear him Exeunt SCENE IV. Enter Valentine and Michael Mich. That he is desperate sick I do believe well And that without a speedy cure it kills him But that it lyes within the help of Physick Now to restore his health or art to cure him Believe it you are cozen'd clean beside it I would tell ye the true cause too but 't would vex ye Nay run ye mad Val. May all I have restore him So dearly and so tenderly I love him I do not know the cause why yea my life too Mich. Now I perceive ye so well set I 'll tell you Hei mihi quod nullis Amor est medicabilis herbis Val. 'T was that I only fear'd good friend go from me I find my heart too full for further conference You are assur'd of this Mich. 'T will prove too certain But bear it nobly Sir Youth hath his errours Val. I shall do and I thank ye 'pray ye no words on 't Mich. I do not use to talk Sir Exit Val. Ye are welcome Is there no Constancy in earthly things No happiness in us but what must alter No life without the heavy load of Fortune What miseries we are and to our selves Even ãâã wh n full content seems to sit by us What âaily sores and sorrows Eâter Alice Alice O dear Brother The Gentleman if ever you will see him Alive as I think Enter Cellide Cel. O he faints for Heavens sake For Heavens sake Sir Val. Go comfort him dear Sister Exit Alice And ouâ word sweet with you then we 'll go to him What think you iâ this Gentleman Cel. Mâ p ty thinks Sir 'T is greââ miâfortunâ that ãâã should thus perish Val Iâ is inâeed ãâã he must dye Cel. That were a cruelty when carâ may cure him Why do you weep so Sir he may recover Val. He may but with much danger my sweet Cellide You have a powerful tongue Cel. To do you service Val. I will betray his grief he loves a Gentlewoman A friend of yours whose heart another holds He knows it too yet such a sway blind fancy And his not daring to deliver it Have won upon him that they must undo him Never so hopeful and so sweet a Spirit Misfortune fell so foul on Cel. Sure she 's hard hearted That can look on and not relent and deeply At such a misery she is not married Val. Not yet Cel. Nor near it Val. When she please Cel. And pray Sir Does he deserve her truly that she loves so Val. His love may mââât much his Person little For there the match lyes mangled Cel. Is he your friend Val. He should be for he is near me Cel. Will not he dye then When th' other shall recover Val. Ye have pos'd me Cel. Methinks he should go near it if he love her If she love him Val. She does and would do equal Cel. 'T is a hard task you put me yet for your sake I will speak to her all the art I have My best endeavours all his Youth and Person His mind more full of beauty all his hopes The memory of such a sad example Ill spoken of and never old the curses Of loving maids and what may be alledg'd I 'll lay before her what 's her Name I am ready Val. But will you deal effectually Cel. Most truly Nay were it my self at your entreaty Val. And could ye be so pitiful Cel So dutiful Because you urge it Sir Val. It may be then It is your self Cel. It is indeed I know it And now know how ye love me Val. O my dearest Let but your goodness judge your own part 's pity Set but your eyes on his afflictions He is mine and so becomes your charge but think What ruine Nature suffers in this young man What loss humanity and noble manhood Take to your better judgment my declining My Age hung full of impotence and ills My Body budding now no more seer Winter Hath seal'd that sap up at the best and happiest I can but be your infant you my Nurse And how unequal dearest where his years His sweetness and his ever spring
his cold stone took life You do not know with what zeal I shall ask Sir And what rare miracle that may work upon ye Still blush prescribe your Law Val. I prethee pardon me To bed and I 'le sit by thee and mourn with thee Mourn both our fortunes our unhappy ones Do not despise me make me not more wretched I pray to Heaven when I am gone Evanthe As my poor date is but a span of time now To recompence thy noble patience Thy love and vertue with a fruitfull husband Honest and honourable Evant Come you have made me weep now All fond desire dye here and welcom chastity Honour and chastity do what you please Sir Exeunt Actus Quartus Scena Prima Enter at one door Rugio and Frier Marco at the other door Sorano with a little glass viol Rug. WHat all 's this piece of mischief to look sad He seems to weep too Mar. Something is a hatching And of some bloody nature too Lord Rugio This Crocodile mourns thus cunningly Sor. Hail holy Father And good day to the good Lord Rugio How fares the sad Prince I beseech ye Sir Rug. 'T is like you know you need not ask that question You have your eyes and watches on his miseries As near as ours I would they were as tender Mar. Can you do him good as the King and you appointed him So he is still as you desir'd I think too For every day he is worse Heaven pardon all Put off your sorrow you may laugh now Lord He cannot last long to disturb your Master You have done worthy service to his Brother And he most memorable love Sor. You do not know Sir With what remorse I ask nor with what weariness I groan and bow under this load of honour And how my soul sighs for the beastly services I have done his pleasures these be witness with me And from your piety believe me Father I would as willingly unclothe my self Of title that becomes me not I know Good men and great names best agree together Cast off the glorious favours and the trappings Of sound and honour wealth and promises His wanton pleasures have slung on my weakness And chuse to serve my countries cause and vertues Poorly and honestly and redeem my ruines As I would hope remission of my mischiefs Rug. Old and experienc'd men my Lord Sorano Are not so quickly caught with gilt hypocrisie You pull your claws in now and sawn upon us As lyons do to intice poor foolish beasts And beasts we should be too if we believ'd ye Go exercise your Art Sor. For Heaven sake scorn me not Nor adde more Hell to my afflicted soul Than I feel here as you are honourable As you are charitable look gently on me I will no more to Court be no more Devil I know I must be hated even of him That was my Love now and the more he loves me For his foul ends when they shall once appear to him Master before his conscience and accuse him The fouler and the more falls his displeasure Princes are fading things so are their favours Mar. He weeps again his heart is toucht sure with remorse Sor. See this and give me fair attention good my Lord And worthy Father see within this viol The remedy and cure of all my honour And of the sad Prince lyes Rug. What new trick 's this Sor. 'T is true I have done Offices abundantly Ill and prodigious to the Prince Alphonso And whilst I was a knave I sought his death too Rug. You are too late convicted to be good yet Sor. But Father when I felt this part afflict me This inward part and call'd me to an audit Of my misdeeds and mischiefs Mar. Well go on Sir Sor. O then then then what was my glory then Father The favour of the King what did that ease me What was it to be bow'd to by all creatures Worship and courted what did this avail me I was a wretch a poor lost wretch Mar. Still better Sor. Till in the midst of all my grief I found Repentance and a learned man to give the means to it A Jew an honest and a rare Physician Of him I had this Jewel 't is a Jewel And at the price of all my wealth I bought it If the King knew it I must lose my head And willingly most willingly I would suffer A child may take it 't is so sweet in working Mar. To whom would you apply it Sor. To the sick Prince It will in half a day dissolve his melancholy Rug. I do believe and give him sleep for ever What impudence is this and what base malice To make us instruments of thy abuses Are we set here to poison him Sor. Mistake not yet I must needs say 't is a noble care And worthy vertuous servants if you will see A flourishing estate again in Naples And great Alphonso reign that 's truly good And like himself able to make all excellent Give him this drink and this good health unto him Drinks I am not so desperate yet to kill my self Never look on me as a guilty man Nor on the water as a speedy poison I am not mad nor laid out all my treasure My conscience and my credit to abuse ye How nimbly and how chearfully it works now Upon my heart and head sure I am a new man There is no sadness that I feel within me But as it meets it like a lazie vapour How it flyes off Here give it him with speed You are more guilty than I ever was And worthier of the name of evil subjects If but an hour you hold this from his health Rug. 'T is some rare vertuous thing sure he is a good man It must be so come let 's apply it presently And may it sweetly work Sor. Pray let me hear on 't and carry it close my Lords Mar. Yes good Sorano Ex. Rugio Marco Sor. Do my good fools my honest pious coxcombs My wary fools too have I caught your wisedoms You never dream't I knew an Antidote Nor how to take it to secure mine own life I am an Asse go give him the fine cordial And when you have done go dig his grave good Frier Some two hours hence we shall have such a bawling And roaring up and down for Aqua vitae Such rubbing and such nointing and such cooling I have sent him that will make a bonfire in 's belly If he recover it there is no heat in Hell sure Exit Enter Frederick and Podrano Fred. Podrano Pod. Sir Fred. Call hither Lord Valerio and let none trouble us Pod. It shall be done Sir Exit Fred. I know he wants no additions to his tortures He has enough for humane blood to carry Yet I must vex him further So many that I wonder his hot youth And high-bred spirit breaks not into fury I must yet torture him a little further And make my self sport with his miseries My anger is too poor else Here he comes Enter
none of the maids came near ye Clarin. Madam they did Cal. 'T was one in your Cousins cloaths then And wore a sword and sure I keep no Amazons Wench do not lye 't will but proclaim thee guilty Lyes hide our sins like nets like perspectives They draw offences nearer still and greater Come tell the truth Clarin. You are the strangest Lady To have these doubts of me how have I liv'd Madam And which of all my careful services deserves these shames Cal. Leave facing 't will not serve ye This impudence becomes thee worse than lying I thought ye had liv'd well and I was proud of 't But you are pleas'd to abuse my thoughts who was 't Honest repentance yet will make the fault less Clarin. Do ye compel me do you stand so strict too Nay then have at ye I shall rub that sore Madam Since ye provoke me will but vex your Ladyship Let me alone Cal. I will know Clarin. For your own peace The peace of your own conscience ask no farther Walk in and let me alone Cal. No I will know all Clar. Why then I 'le tell ye 't was a man I lay with Never admire 't is easie to be done Madam And usual too a proper man I lay with Why should you vex at that young as Lisander And able too I grudge not at your pleasure Why should you stir at mine I steal none from ye Cal. And dost thou glory in this sin Cla. I am glad on 't to glory in 't is for a mighty Lady That may command Cal. Why didst thou name Lisander Clari. Does it anger ye does it a little gall ye I know it does why would ye urge me Lady Why would ye be so curious to compel me I nam'd Lisander as my president The rule I err'd by you love him I know it I grudg'd not at it but am pleas'd it is so And by my care and diligence you enjoy'd him Shall I for keeping counsel have no comfort Will you have all your self ingross all pleasure Are ye so hard hearted why do ye blush now Madam Cal. My anger blushes not my shame base woman Clari. I 'le make your shame blush since you put me to 't Who lay with you t'other night Cal. With me ye monster Clari. Whose sweet embraces circled ye not your husbands I wonder ye dare touch me in this point Madam Stir her against ye in whose hand your life lies More than your life your honour what smug Amazon Was that I brought you that maid had ne're a petticoat Cal. She 'l half perswade me anon I am a beast too And I mistrust my self though I am honest For giving her the Helm thou knowest Clarinda Ev'n in thy conscience I was ever vertuous As far from lust in meeting with Lisander As the pure wind in welcoming the morning In all the coversation I had with him As free and innocent as you fair Heaven Didst not thou perswade me too Clarin. Yes I had reason for 't And now you are perswaded I 'le make use on 't Cal. If I had sin'd thus and my youth entic'd me The nobleness and beauty of his person Beside the mighty benefits I am bound to Is this sufficient warrant for thy weakness If I had been a whore and crav'd thy counsel In the conveyance of my fault and faithfulness Thy secrecie and truth in hiding of it Is it thy justice to repay me thus To be the Master sinner to compel me And build thy lusts security on mine honour Cla. They that love this sin love their security Prevention Madam is the nail I knock'd at And I have hit it home and so I 'le hold it And you must pardon me and be silent too And suffer what ye see and suffer patiently I shall do worse else Cal. Thou canst not touch my credit Truth will not suffer me to be abus'd thus Clarin. Do not you stick to truth she is seldom heard Madam A poor weak tongue she has and that is hoarse too With pleading at the bars none understand her Or if you had her what can she say for ye Must she not swear he came at midnight to ye The door left open and your husband cozen'd With a feign'd sickness Cal. But by my soul I was honest thou know'st I was honest Clarin. That 's all one what I know What I will testifie is that shall vex ye Trust not a guilty rage with likelihoods And on apparent proof take heed of that Madam If you were innocent as it may be ye are I do not know I leave it to your conscience It were the weakest and the poorest part of ye Men being so willing to believe the worst So open eyed in this age to all infamie To put your fame in this weak bark to the venture Cal. What do I suffer O my precious honour Into what box of evils have I lock'd thee Yet rather than be thus outbrav'd and by My drudg my footstool one that sued to be so Perish both life and honour Devil thus I dare thy worst defie thee spit at thee And in my vertuous rage thus trample on thee Awe me thy Mistris whore to be thy baud Out of my house proclaim all that thou knowest Or malice can invent fetch jealousie From Hell and like a furie breath it in The bosom of my Lord and to thy utmost Blast my fair fame yet thou shalt feel with horror To thy sear'd conscience my truth is built On such a firm base that if e're it can Be forc'd or undermin'd by thy base scandals Exit Heaven keeps no guard on innocence Clarin. I am lost In my own hopes forsaken and must fall The greatest torment to a guilty woman Without revenge till I can fashion it I must submit at least appear as if I did repent and would offend no farther Monsieur Beronte my Lords Brother is Oblig'd unto me for a private favour 'T is he must mediate for me but when time And opportunity bids me strike my wreak Shall pour it self on her nice chastitie Like to a torrent deeds not words shall speak me Exit Actus Quartus Scena Prima Enter Alcidon and Beronte severally Alci YE are opportunely net Ber. Your countenance expresses hast mixt with some fear Alci You 'l share with me in both as soon as you are made Acquainted with the cause if you love vertue In danger not secure I have no time For circumstance instruct me if Lisander Be in your Brothers house Ber. Upon my knowledge he is not there Alci I am glad on 't Ber. Why good Sir Without offence I speak it there 's no place In which he is more honour'd or more safe Than with his friend Cleander Alci In your votes I grant it true but as it now stands with him I can give reason to make satisfaction For what I speak you cannot but remember The ancient difference between Lisander And Cloridon a man in grace at Court Ber. I do and the soul
prevail so with you That you a while should leave your Hermits strictness And on his Monument pay a tear or two To witness how you lov'd him Lid. O my heart to witness how I lov'd him would he had not Led me into his Grave but sacrific'd His sorrows upon mine he was my friend My noble friend I will bewail his ashes His fortunes and poor mine were born together And I will weep 'em both I will kneel by him And on his hallow'd Earth do my last duties I 'll gather all the pride of Spring to deck him Wood bines shall grow upon his honour'd Grave And as they prosper clasp to shew our friendship And when they wither I 'll dye too Clar. Who would not Desire to dye to be bewail'd thus nobly Fry There is a Legacy he hath bequeath'd you But of what value I must not discover Until those Rites and pious Ceremonies Are duly tender'd Lid. I am too full of sorrow to be inquisitive Lis To think of his I do forget mine own woes Enter Alcidon Alc. Graze thy fill now Thou hast done thy business ha who have we here Lisander Lidian and two Reverend Fryars What a strange scene of sorrow is express'd In different postures in their looks and station A common Painter eying these to help His dull invention might draw to the life The living Sons of Priam as they stood On the pale Walls of Troy when Hector fell Under Achilles's Spear I come too late My Horse though good and strong mov'd like a Tortoise Ill News had wings and hath got here before me All Pythagoreans not a word Lid. O Alcidon Deep Rivers with soft murmurs glide along The shallow roar Clarange Lis Cloridon Chrysanthes spare my grief and apprehend What I should speak Alc. Their fates I have long since For your sakes mourn'd Clarange's death for so Your silence doth confirm till now I heard not Are these the bounds that are prescrib'd unto Tââ swelling seas of sorrow Lis The bounds Alcidon Can all the winds of mischief from all Quarters Euphrates Ganges Tigris Volga Po Paying at once their tribute to this Ocean Make it swell higher I am a Murtherer Banish'd proscrib'd is there ought else that can Be added to it Lid. I have lost a friend Priz'd dearer than my being and he dead My miseries at the height contemn the worst Of Fortunes malice Alc. How our humane weakness Grown desperate from small disasters makes us Imagine them a period to our sorrows When the first syllable of greater woes Is not yet written Lid. How Lis Speak it at large Since grief must break my heart I am ambitious It should be exquisite Alc. It must be told Yet ere you hear it with all care put on The surest armour anvil'd in the Shop Of passive fortitude the good Cleander Your friend is murther'd Lis 'T is a terrible pang And yet it will not do I live yet act not The Torturers part if that there be a blow Beyond this give it and at once dispatch me Alc. Your Sword died in his heart-bloud was found near him Your private Conference at mid-night urg'd With fair Calista which by her whose pure truth Would never learn to tell a lie being granted She by enrag'd Beronte is accus'd Of Murther and Adultery and you However I dare swear it false concluded Her principal Agent Lid. Wave upon wave rowls o'r me My Sister my dear Sister Clar. Hold great heart Fry Tear open his Doublet Lis Is this wound too narrow For my life to get out at Bring me to A Cannon loaded and some pitying friend Give fire unto it while I nail my breast Unto his thundring mouth that in the instant I may be piece-meal torn and blown so far As not one joint of my dismember'd limbs May ever be by search of man found out Cleander Yet why name I him however His fall deserv'd an Earth-quake if compar'd With what true honour in Calista suffers Is of no moment my good Angel keep me From Blasphemy and strike me dumb before In th' agony of my spirit I do accuse The Powers above for their unjust permission Of Vertue innocent Vertue to be branded With the least vicious mark Clar. I never saw a man so far transported Alc. Give it way 't is now no time to stop it Enter Lancelot Lanc. Sir I have bought Fresh horses and as you respect your life Speedily back 'em the Archers of the Kings guard Are every where in quest of you Lis My life Perish all such with thee that wish it longer Let it but clear Calista's innocence Strikes Lancelot And Nestor's Age to mine was Youth I 'll flye To meet the rage of my incensed King And wish his favourites Ghost appear'd in Flames To urge him to revenge let all the tortures That Tyranny e're found out circle me Provided Justice set Calista free Exeunt Lisander Alcidon and Lancelot Alc. I 'll follow him Lid. I am rooted here Fry Remember your dear friends last request your sisters dangers With the aids that you may lend her Lid 'Pray you support me My Legs deny their Office Clar. I grow still Farther engag'd unto his matchless vertues And I am dead indeed until I pay The debt I owe him in a noble way Exeunt Actus Quintus Scena Prima Enter Dorilaus and Servant Dor. THou hast him safe Serv. As fast as locks can make him He must break through three doors and cut the throats Of ten tall fellows if that he ' scape us Besides as far as I can apprehend He hath no such invention for his looks Are full of penitence Dor. Trust not a Knaves look They are like a Whores Oaths How does my poor Daughter Brook her restraint Serv. With such a resolution As well becomes your Lordships Child Knock within Dor. Who 's that Enter Lemure Serv. Monsieur Lemure Dor. This is a special favour And may stand an example in the Court For courtesie it is the Clients duty To wait upon his Patron you prevent me That am your humble Suitor Lem. My near place About the King though it swell others cannot Make me forget your worth and Age which may Challenge much more respect and I am sorry That my endeavours for you have not met with The good success I wish'd I mov'd the King With my best advantage both of time and place I' th' favour of your Daughter Dor. How do you find his Majesty affected Lem. Not to be Sway'd from the rigour of the Law yet so far The rarity of the Cause hath won upon him That he resolves to have in his own person The hearing of it her tryal will be noble And to my utmost strength where I may serve her My aids shall not be wanting Dor. I am your servant Lem. One word more if you love Lisanders life Advise him as he tenders it to keep Out of the way if he be apprehended This City cannot ransom him so good morrow Exit Dor. All happiness
tenderness In his affection to me that no dotage But a reward of humbleness the friendship Echo'd through France between him and Lisander All make against her for him in his absence What ever imputation it draw on me I must take leave to speak 't is true he lov'd me But not in such a wanton way his reason Master'd his passions I grant I had At mid-night conference with him but if he Ever receiv'd a farther favour from me Than what a Sister might give to a Brother May I sink quick and thus much did he know The shame I suffer for him with the loss Of his life for appearing on my soul He would maintain Enter Lisander and Alcidon Lisa And will thou clear example of womens pureness King Though we hold her such Thou hast express'd thy self a desperate fool To thrust thy head into the Lions jawes The justice of thy King Lisan I came prepar'd for t And offer up a guilty life to clear Her innocence the oath she took I swear to And for Cleanders death to purge my self From any colour malice can paint on me Or that she had a hand in 't I can prove That fatal night when he in his own house fell And many daies before I was distant from it A long daies journey Clarin. I am caught Ber. If so How came your sword into this stewards hands stand forth Mal. I have heard nothing that you spake I know I must dye and what kind of death Pray you resolve me I shall go away else In a qualm I am very faint Enter Leon Servants and Guard King Carry him off his sear will kill him Ex. with Mal. Dor. Sir 't was my ambition My Daughters reputation being wounded I' th' general opinion to have it Cur'd by a publick trial I had else Forborn your Majesties trouble I 'le bring forth Cleanders murtherer in a wood I heard him As I rode sadly by unto himself With some compunction though this devil had none Lament what he had done cursing her lust That drew him to that blody fact Le. To lessen The foulness of it for which I know justly I am to suffer and with my last breath To free these innocents I do confess all This wicked woman only guilty with me Clari. Is' t come to this thou puling Rogue dye thou With prayers in thy mouth I 'le curse the laws By which I suffer all I grieve for is That I dye unreveng'd Leon. But one word more Sir And I have done I was by accident where Lisander met with Cloridon and Crysanthes Was an ear witness when he sought for peace Nay begg'd it upon colder terms than can Almost find credit his past deeds considered But they deaf to his reasons severally Assaulted him but such was his good fortune That both fell under it upon my death I take it uncompel'd that they were guilty Of their own violent ends and he against His will the instrument Acâ This I will swear too for I was not far off Dor. They have alledg'd As much to wake your sleeping mercy Sir As all the Advocates of France can plead In his defence King The criminal judge shall sentence These to their merits with mine own hand Lady I take you from the bar and do my self Pronounce you innocent Ex. with Leon and Clari. All. Long live the King King And to confirm you stand high in our favour And as some recompence for what you have With too much rigour in your trial suffered Ask what you please becoming me to grant And be possest of 't Cal. Sir I dare not doubt Your royal promise in a King it is A strong assurance that emboldens me Upon my humble knees to make my boon Lisander's pardon Dor. My good Genius did prompt her to it ãâã At your feet thus prostrate I second her petition Alci Never King Pour'd forth his mercie on a worthier subject Ber. To witness my repentance for the wrong In my unjust suspicion I did both I join in the same suit Lis The life you give Still ready to lay down for your service Shall be against your enemies imploy'd Nor hazarded in brawles All. Mercie dread Sir King So many pressing me and with such reasons Moving compassion I hope it will not Be censur'd levity in me though I borrow In this from justice to relieve my mercy I grant his pardon at your intercession But still on this condition you Lisander In expiation of your guilt shall build A monument for my Cloridon and Crysanthes And never henceforth draw a Sword but when By us you are commanded in defence of The flower de Luce and after one years sorrow For your dear friend Cleanders wretched fate Marry Calista Enter Lidian Lis On your sacred hand I vow to do it seriously Lid. Great Sir stay Leave not your seat of justice till you have Given sentence in a cause as much important As this you have determined King Lidian Enter Clarange and Frier Lid. He Sir your humblest subject Jaccuse Clarange Of falshood in true friendship at the height We both were suiters to this Lady both Injoyn'd one pennance Clar. Trouble not the King With an unnecessarie repetition Of what the court 's familiar with already Kin. Clarange Dor. With a shaven crown Olin. Most strange Clar. Look on thy rival your late servant Madam But now devoted to a bâtter Mistris The Church whose orders I have took upon me There deliver up my interest to her And what was got with cunning as you thought I simply thus surrender heretofore You did outstrip me in the race of friândship I am your equal now Dor. A suit sooâ ãâã Clar. And joyning thus your hands I know ãâ¦ã I may do in the Church my Friers Oââ In marrying you Lid ãâã victory is ãâã Sir King It is a glorious one and well sets oâ Our Scene of mârcy to the dead we tender Our sorrow to the living ample wishes Of future happiness 't is a Kings duty To prove himself a Father to his subjects And I shall hold it if this wâll succeed A meritorious and praise worthy deed Exeunt Prologue A Story and a known one long since writ Truth must take place and by an able wit Foul mouth'd detraction daring not deny To give so much to Fletchers memory If so some may object why then do you Present an old piece to us for a new Or wherefore will your profest Writer be Not tax'd of theft before a Plagiary To this he answers in his just defence And to maintain to all our Innocence Thus much though he hath travell'd the same way Demanding and receiving too the pay For new Poem you may find it due He having neither cheated us nor you He vowes and deeply that he did nor spare The utmost of his strengths and his best care In the reviving it and though his powers Could not as he desired in three short hours Contract the Subject and much less express The changes and the various
poverty wench you must learn a wise rule Look not upon the youths of men and making How they descend in bloud nor let their tongues Though they strike suddainly and sweet as musick Corrupt thy fancy see and say them fair too But ever keep thy self without their distance Unless the love thou swallow be a pill Gilded to hide the bitterness it brings Then fall on without fear wench yet so wisely That one encounter cloy him not nor promise His love hath made thee more his than his monies Learn this and thrive Then let thine honour ever For that 's the last rule be so stood upon That men may fairly see 'T is want of means not vertue makes thee fall And if you weep 't will be a great deal better And draw on more compassion which includes A greater tenderness of love and bounty This is enough at once digest it well Go let him in wench if he promise profit Not else Enter Julio O you are welcome my fair Servant Upon my troth I have been longing for ye Wom. This by her rule should be a liberal man I see the best on 's may learn every day Lel. There 's none come with you Jul. No. Lel. You do the wiser For some that have been here I name no man Out of their malice more than truth have done me Some few ill offices Jul. How Sweet Lel. Nay nothing Only have talkt a little wildly of me As their unruly Youth directed 'em Which though they bite me not I would have wisht Had light upon some other that deserv'd ' em Jul. Though she deserve this of the loosest tongue Which makes my sin the more I must not see it Such is my misery I would I knew him Lel. No no let him go He is not worth your anger I must chide you For being such a stranger to your Mistriss Why would you be so Servant Jul. I should chide If chiding would work any thing upon you For being such a stranger to your Servant I mean to his desires when my dear Mistress Shall I be made a happy man Lel. Fye Servant What do you mean unhand me or by Heav'n I shall be very angry this is rudeness Jul. 'T was but a kiss or two that thus offends you Lel. 'T was more I think than you have warrant for Jul. I am sorry I deserv'd no more Lel. You may But not this rough way Servant we are tender And ought in all to be respected so If I had been your Horse or Whore you might Back me with this intemperance I thought You had lov'd as worthy men whose fair affections Seek pleasures warranted not pull'd by violence Do so no more Jul. I hope you are not angry Lel. I should be with another man I am sure That durst appear but half thus violent Jul. I did not mean to ravish ye Lel. You could not Jul. You are so willing Lel. How Jul. Methinks this shadow If you had so much shame as fits a woman At least of your way Mistriss long e're this Had been laid off to me that understand ye Lel. That understand me Sir ye understand Nor shall no more of me than modesty Will without fear deliver to a stranger You understand I am honest else I tell ye Though you were better far than Julio You and your understanding are two fools But were we Saints thus we are still rewarded I see that Woman had a pretty catch on 't That had made you the Master of a kindness She durst not answer openly O me How easily we Women may be cozen'd I took this Julio as I have a faith This young Dissembler with the sober Vizard For the most modest temper'd Gentleman The coolest quietest and best Companion For such an one I could have wish'd a Woman Jul. You have wish'd me ill enough o' conscience Make me no worse for shame I see the more I work by way of service to obtain ye You work the more upon me Tell me truly While I am able to believe a Woman For if you use me thus that faith will perish What is your end and whither you will pull me Tell me but tell me that I may not start at And have a cause to curse ye Lel. Bless me goodness To curse me did you say Sir let it be For too much loving you then such a curse Kill me withal and I shall be a Martyr You have found a new way to reward my doting And I confess a fit one for my folly For you your self if you have good within ye And dare be Master of it know how dearly This heart hath held you ever Oh good Heaven That I had never seen that false mans eyes That dares reward me thus with fears and curses Nor never heard the sweetness of that tongue That will when this is known yet cozen women Curse me good Julio curse me bitterly I do deserve it for my confidence And I beseech thee if thou hast a goodness Or power yet in thee to confirm thy wishes Curse me to earth for what should I do here Like a decaying flower still withering Under his bitter words whose kindly heat Should give my poor heart life No curse me Julio Thou canst not do me such a benefit As that and well done that the Heav'ns may hear it Jul. O fair tears were you but as chast as subtil Like Bones of Saints you would work miracles What were these women to a man that knew not The thousand thousand ways of their deceiving What riches had he found O he would think Himself still dreaming of a blessedness That like continual spring should flourish ever For if she were as good as she is seeming Or like an Eagle could renew her vertues Nature had made another world of sweetness Be not so griev'd sweet Mistriss what I said You do or should know was but passion Pray wipe your eyes and kiss me take these trifles And wear them for me which are only rich When you will put them on indeed I love ye Beshrew my sick heart if I grieve not for ye Lel. Will you dissemble still I am a fool And you may easily rule me if you flatter The sin will be your own Jul. You know I do not Lel. And shall I be so childish once again After my late experience of your spight To credit you you do not know how deep Or if you did you would be kinder to me This bitterness of yours has struck my heart Jul. I pray no more Lel. Thus you would do I warrant If I were married to you Jul. Married to me Is that your end Lel. Yes is not that the best end And as all hold the noblest way of love Why do you look so strange Sir do not you Desire it should be so Jul. Stay Lel. Answer me Jul. Farewel Exit Julio Lel. I are you there are all these tears lost then Am I so overtaken by a fool In my best days and tricks my wise fellow I 'll
pay'd boyes Lod. A pox of Sack Host Marry bless my Buts Sack is a jewel 'T is comfortable Gentlemen Jac. More Beer boy Very sufficient single Beer Boy Here Sir How is it Gentlemen Jac. But ev'n so so Host Go before finely Robin and prepare My wife bid her be right and streight I come boy And Sirrah if they quarrel let 'em use Their own discretions by all means and stir not And he that 's kill'd shall be as sweetly buried Captain adieu adieu sweet bully Captain One kiss before I dye one kiss Jac. Farewel Boy Host All my sweet boys farewel Exit Host Lod. Go sleep you are drunk Ja. Come gentlemen I 'le see you at your lodging You look not lustily a quart more Lod. No Boy Piso Get us a Torch Boy 'T is day Sir Jac. That 's all one Piso Are not those the stars thou scurvy Boy Lod. Is not Charles-wain there tell me that there Jac. Yes I have paid 'em truly do not vex him Sirrah Piso Confess it Boy or as I live I 'le beat Mid-night into thy brains Boy I do confess it Piso Then live and draw more small Beer presently Jac. Come Boyes let 's hug together and be loving And sing and do brave things cheerly my hearts A pox o' being sad now could I fly And turn the world about upon my finger Come ye shall love me I am an honest fellow Hang care and fortune we are friends Lod. No Captain Jac. Do not you love me I love you two dearly Piso No by no means you are a fighting Captain And kill up such poor people as we are by th' dozens Lod. As they kill flyes with Fox-tails Captain Jac. Well Sir Lod. Me thinks now as I stand the Captain shews To be a very mercifull young man And pre'thee Piso let me have thy opinion Piso Then he shall have mercy that merciful is Or all the Painters are Apocrypha Jac. I am glad you have your wits yet will ye go Piso You had best say we are drunk Jac. Ye are Lod. Ye lye Jac. Y' are rascals drunken rascals Piso 'T is sufficient Jac. And now I 'le tell you why before I beat ye You have been tampring any time these three days Thus to disgrace me Piso That 's a lye too Jac. Well Sir Yet I thank fate I have turn'd your points on you For which I 'le spare ye somewhat half a beating Piso I 'le make you fart fire Captain by this hand And ye provoke do not provoke I 'de wish you Jac. How do you like this Lod. Sure I am inchanted Piso Stay till I draw Jac. Dispatch then I am angry Piso And thou shalt see how suddenly I 'll kill thee Jac. Thou darst not draw ye cold tame mangy Cowards Ye drunken Rogues can nothing make you valiant Not wine nor beating Lod. If this may be suffer'd 'T is very well Jac. Go there 's your way go and sleep I have pity on you you shall have the rest To morrow when we meet Piso Come Lodowick He 's monstrous drunk now there 's no talking with him Jac. I am so when I am sober I 'le do more Ex. Lod. and Piso Boy where 's mine Host Boy He 's on his bed asleep Sir Ex. Boy Jac. Let him alone then now am I high proof For any action now could I fight bravely And charge into a wild fire or I could love Any man living now or any woman Or indeed any creature that loves Sack Extreamly monstrously I am so loving Just at this instant that I might be brought I feel it with a little labour now to talk With a Justice of peace that to my nature I hate next an ill Sword I will do Some strange brave thing now and I have it here Pray Heaven the air keep out I feel it buzzing Exit SCENE III. Enter Frederick Frank Clora Clora She loves him too much that 's the plain truth Frederick For which if I might be believ'd I think her A strange forgetter of her self there 's Julio Or twenty more Fred. In your eye I believe you But credit me the Captain is a man Lay but his rough affections by as worthy Clora So is a resty Jade a horse of service If he would leave his nature give me one By your leave Sir to make a husband of Not to be wean'd when I should marry him Me thinks a man is misery enough Fred. You are too bitter I would not have him worse Yet I shall see you hamper'd one day Lady I do not doubt it for this heresie Clo. I 'le burn before come pre'thee leave this sadness This walking by thy self to see the Devil This mumps this Lachrymae this love in sippets It sits thee like a French-hood Fra. Does it so I am sure it fits thee to be ever talking And nothing to the purpose take up quickly Thy wit will founder of all four else wench If thou hold'st this pace take up when I bid thee Clora Before your Brother fy Fred. I can endure it Enter Jacomo Clo. Here 's Raw-head come again Lord how he looks Pray we ' scape with broken pates Fra. Were I he Thou should'st not want thy wish he has been drinking Has he not Frederick Fred. Yes but do not find it Clor. Peace and let 's hear his wisdom Fred. You will mad him Jac. I am somewhat bold but that 's all one Clor. A short and pithy saying of a Souldier Fra. A I live Thou art a strange mad wench Clor. To make a Parson Jac. Ladyes I mean to kiss ye Clora How he wipes his mouth like a young Preacher We shall have it Jac. In order as you lye before me first I 'le begin with you Fra. With me Sir Jac. Yes Fra. If you will promise me to kiss in ease I care not if I venture Jac. I will kiss according to mine own inventions As I shall see cause sweetly I would wish you I love ye Fra. Do you Sir Jac. Yes indeed do I Would I could tell you how Fra. I would you would Sir Jac. I would to Heaven I could but 't is sufficient I love you with my heart Fra. Alas poor heart Jac. And I am sorry but we 'l talk of that Hereafter if it please Heaven Fra. Ev'n when you will Sir Clor. He 's dismal drunk would he were muzled Jac. You I take it are the next Fra. Go to him fool Clor. Not I he will bite me Jac. When wit when Clor. Good Captain Jac. Nay and you play bo peep I 'le ha' no mercy But catch as catch may Fred. Nay I 'le not defend ye Clor. Good Captain do not hurt me I am sorry That e're I anger'd ye Jac. I 'le tew you for 't By this hand wit unless you kiss discreetly Clor. No more Sir Jac. Yes a little more sweet wit One tast more o' your office go thy wayes With thy small kettle Drums upon my conscience Thou art the best that e're man laid his leg o'er
The ports are ours The treasure and the port fight bravely Gentlemen Cry to the Town cry liberty and honor crying liberty and freedom within Waken their persecuted souls cry loudly We 'll share the wealth among ye Cast Do you hear Captain If ever you hear me name a King Sess You shall not Cast Or though I live under one obey him Gun This Rogue again Sess Away with him good Gunner Cast Why look ye Sir I 'll put you to no charge I 'll never eat Gun I 'll take a course you shall not Come no more words Enter Boatswine Cast Say nothing when you kill me Sess He 's taken to the Towers strength Now stand sure Gentlemen We have him in a pen he cannot scape us The rest oth'Castle's ours liberty liberty What is this City up Boatsw They are up and glorious And rouling like a storm they come their Tents Ring nothing but liberty and freedome The women are in Arms too Sess Let 'em come all Honour and liberty All. Honor and liberty Exeunt Enter Juliana Jul. This woman threats her eyes even red with fury Which like prodigious meteors foretold Assur'd destruction are still before me Besides I know such natures unacquainted With any mean or in their love or hatred And she that dar'd all dangers to possess him Will check at nothing to revenge the loss Of what she held so dear I first discover'd Her bloody purposes which she made good And openly profess'd 'em that in me Was but a cold affection charity Commands so much to all for Virolet Methinks I should forget my Sexes weakness Rise up and dare beyond a womans strength Then do not counsel he is too secure And in my judgment 't were a greater service To free him from a deadly Enemy Then to get him a friend I undertook too To cross her plots oppos'd my piety Against her malice and shall vertue suffer No Martia wer 't thou here equally armed I have cause spite of thy masculine breeding That would assure the victory my angel Direct and help me Enter Virolet like Ronvere Vir. The State in Combustion Part of the Cittadel forc'd the treasure seiz'd on The guards corrupted arm themselves against Their late protected Master Ferrant fled too And with small strength into the Castle 's Tower The only Aventine that now is left him And yet the undertakers nay performers Of such a brave and glorious enterprize Are yet unknown they did proceed like men I like a child and had I never trusted So deep a practice unto shallow fools Besides my souls peace in my Juliana The honor of this action had been mine In which accurs'd I now can claim no share Jul. Ronvere 't is he a thing next to the devil I most detest and like him terrible Martia's right hand the instrument I fear too That is put to her bloody will into act Have I not will enough and cause too mighty Weak womens fear fly from me Vir. Sure this habit This likeness to Ronvere which I have studied Either admits me safe to my design Which I too cowardly have halted after And suffer'd to be ravisht from my glory Or sinks me and my miseries together Either concludes me happy Jul. He stands musing Some mischief is now hatching In the full meditation of his wickedness I 'll sink his cursed soul guide my hand heaven And to my tender arm give strength and fortune That I may do a pious deed all ages Shall bless my name for all remembrance crown me Vir. It shall be so Jul. It shall not take that token And bear it to the lustful arms of Martia Tell her for Virolets dear sake I sent it Vir. O I am happy let me see thee That I may bless the hand that gave me liberty O courteous hand nay thou hast done most nobly And heaven has guided thee 't was their great justice O blessed wound that I could come to kiss thee How beautiful and sweet thou shew'st Jul. Oh! Vir. Sigh not Nor weep not dear shed not those sovereign Balsames Into my blood which must recover me Then I shall live again to do a mischief Against the mightiness of love and virtue Some base unhallowed hand shall rob thy right of Help me I faint so Jul. O unhappy wench How has my zeal abus'd me you that guard virtue Were ye asleep or do you laugh at innocence You suffer'd this mistake O my dear Virolet An everlasting curse follow that forme I strook thee in his name be ever blasted For his accursed shadow has betray'd The sweetness of all youth the nobleness The honour and the valor wither'd for ever The beauty and the bravery of all mankind O my dull devils eyes Vir. I do forgive you By this and this I do I know you were cozen'd The shadow of Ronvere I know you aym'd at And not at me but 't was most necessary I should be struck some hand above directed you For Juliana could not shew her justice Without depriving high heaven of his glory Or any subject fit for her but Virolet Forgive me too and take my last breath sweet one This the new marriage of our souls together Think of me Juliana but not often For fear my faults should burthen your affections Pray for me for I faint Jul. O stay a little A little little Sir Offers to kill her self Vir. Fye Juliana Jul. Shall I outlive the virtue I have murder'd Vir. Hold or thou hat'st my peace give me the dagger On your obedience and your love deliver it If you do thus we shall not meet in heaven sweet No guilty blood comes there kill your intentions And then you conquer there where I am going Would you not meet me Dear Jul. Yes Vir. And still love me Jul. And still behold you Vir. Live then till heaven calls you Then ripe and full of sweetness you rise sainted Then I that went before you to prepare Shall meet and welcome you and daily court you With Hymnes of holy Love I go out Give me your hand farewell in peace farewell Remember me farewell dyes Jul. Sleep you sweet glasses An everlasting slumber crown those Chrystals All my delight adue farewell Dear Virolet Dear Dear most Dear O I can weep no more My body now is fire and all consuming Here will I sit forget the world and all things And only wait what heaven shall turn me to For now methinks I should not live She sits down Enter Pandulfo Pond O my sweet daughter The work is finisht now I promis'd thee Here are thy virtues shewed here register'd And here shall live for ever Jul. Blot it burn it I have no virtue hateful I am as hell is Pand. Is not this Virolet Jul. Ask no more questions Mistaking him I kill'd him Pand. O my Son Nature turns to my heart again my dear Son Son of my age would'st thou go out so quickly So poorly take thy leave and never see me Was this a kind stroak daughter could you
their horned moons And oft hath brought in profitable conquest We must not see him perish in our view How far off fight they Mir. Sir within a League Val. 'T is well our next occasion of conventing Are these too gentlemen standing in your sight Ye are noble props of Malta royally Descended are they both valiant as war Miranda and Gomera full ten years They have serv'd this Island perfected exploits Matchless and infinite they are honest wise Not empty of one ornament of man Most eminent agents were they in that slaughter That great marvelous slaughter of the Turks Before St. Elme where five and twenty thousand Fell for five thousand of our Christians These ripe considerations moving us Having had your allowance on their worths Here we would call 'em to our Brotherhood If any therefore can their manners tax Their faith their chastity any part of life Let 'em speak now Ast None do's All. None can great Master Val. The dignity then dignifie by them As their reward tender Miranda first Because he is to succor Norandine Our sacred Robe of Knight-hood our white Cross The holy cognizance of him we serve The sword the spurs Mir. Grave and most honor'd Master With humble duty and my souls best thanks To you and all this famous Conventicle Let me with modesty refuse acceptance Of this high order I alass am yet Unworthy and uncapable of such honor That merit which with favor you enlarge Is far far short of this propos'd reward Who take upon him such a charge as this Must come with pure thoughts and a gathered mind That time nor all occasions ever may After disperse or stain did this title here Of Knighthood ask no other ornaments Then other Countries glittring show poor pride A gingling spur a feather a white hand A frizled hayr powder'd perfumes and lust Drinking sweet wines surfeits and ignorance Rashly and easily should I venture on 't But this requires an other kind of man Mount A staid and mature judgement speak on sir Mir. May it please you then to allow me some small time To rectifie my self for that high seat Or give my reasons to the contrary ãâã mean space to dismiss me to the ayd Of Norandine my Ships ride in the bay Ready to disembogue tack'led and mann'd Even to my wishes Mount His request Is fair and honest Val. At your pleasure go Mir. I humbly take my leave of all of you My noble friend Mountferrat gratious Mistriss Oh that auspitious smile doth arm your souldier Who fights for those eyes and this sacred Cross Can neither meet sad accident nor loss Exit Ori. The mighty master of that Livory Conduct thee safely to these eyes again Mount Blowes the wind that way Val. Equally belov'd Equally meriting Gomera you Without excuse receive that dignity Which our provincial chapter hath decreed you Gom. Great Master of Jerusalems Hospital From whence to Rhodes this blest Fraternity Was driven but now among the Maltois stands Long may it flourish whilst Gomera serves it But dares not enter farther All. This is strange Val. What do ye object Gom. Nothing against it but my self fair Knights I may not wear this Robe Val. Express your reasons Doth any hid sin goar your conscience Ast Are you unstedfast in Religion Cast Or do ye intend to forsake Malta now And visit your own Countrey fruitful Spaine Gom. Never good sir Val. Then explicate your thoughts Gom. This then I should be perjur'd to receive it Once in Melita your next City here When I was yonger read I the decrees Touching this point being ambitious then To approach it once none but a Gentleman Can be admitted Val. That 's no obstacle In you Gom. I should be sorry that were it No married man Mount You never felt that yoak Gom. None that hath been contracted Cast Were you ever Gom. Nor married nor contracted none that ever Hath vowed his love to any woman kind Or finds that secret fire within his thoughts Here I am cast this Article my heart Objects against the title of my fame I am in love laugh not though time hath set Some wrinkles in this face and these curl'd locks Will shortly dye into an other hew Yet yet I am in love yfaith your smile What age what sex or what profession Divine or hmane from the man that cries For Almes the high way to him that sings At the high Altar and doth sacrifice Can truly say he knows not what is Love Val. 'T is honestly profest with whom Gomera Name the Lady that with all the advantage We may advance your suit Gom. But will you Sir Val. Now by our holy rock were it our Sister Spaniard I hold thee worthy freely name her Gom. Be master of your word it is she Sir The matchless Oriana Val. Come down Lady You have made her blush let her consent I will Make good my oath Mount Is' t so stay I do love So tenderly Gomera your bright flame As not to suffer your perdition Gom. What means Mountferrat Enter Guard Mount This whole auberge hath A Guard upon this Lady wonder not ' Tane publick notice of the Bassaes love Of Tripoli unto her and consented She should return this answer as he writ For her conversion and betraying Malta She should advise him betray Tripoli And turning Christian he should marry her All. All this was so Mount How weakly do's this court then Send Vessels forth to Sea to guard the Land Taking such special care to save one Bark Or strive to add fam'd men unto our cloak When they lurk in our bosomes would subvert This State and us presuming on their blood And partial indulgence to their sex Val. Who can this be Mount Your Sister great Valetta Which thus I prove demand the Bassa's Letter Ori. 'T is here nor from this pocket hath been mov'd Nor answer'd nor perus'd by Mount Do not swear Cast not away your fair soul to your treason Add not foul perjury is this your hand Ori. 'T is very like it Mount May it please the Master Confer these Letters and then read her answer Which I have intercepted pardon me Reverend Valetta that am made the means To punish this most beautious Treachery Even in your Sister since in it I save Malta from ruine I am bolder in 't Because it is so palpable and withall Know our great Master to this Countrey firm As was the Roman Marcus who spar'd not As dear a Sister in the publique cause Val. I am amaz'd attend me Reads the Letter Let your Forces by the next even be ready my Brother feasts then put in at St. Michaels the ascent at that Port is easiest the Keys of the Castle you shall receive at my hands that possest you are Lord of Malta and may soon destroy all by fire then which I am hotter till I embrace you Farewell Your Wife ORIANA From this time let me never ready again Get. 'T is certain her hand Val. This Letter too So close
her Which made me make that haste I knew ye priz'd her As all fair minds do goodness Mir. Good Astorius I much confess I do much honor her And worthily I hope still Ast 'T is no doubt Sir For on my life she is much wrong'd Mir. Very likely And I as much tormented I was absent Ast You need not fear Peter Gomera 's Noble Of a try'd faith and valour Mir. This I know too But whilst I was not there and whilst she suffer'd Whilst Virtue suffer'd friend oh how it loads me Whilst innocence and sweetness sunk together How cold it sits here if my arm had fought her My truth though naked stood against all treasons My sword here grasped Love on the edge and Honor And but a signal from her eye to seal it If then she had been lost I brag too late And too much I decline the Noble Peter Yet some poor service I would do her sweetness Alas she needs it my Astorius The gentle Lady needs it Ast Noble spirit Mir. And what can prethee bear with this weakneââ Often I do not use these Womens weapons But where true pity is I am much troubl'd And something have to do I cannot form yet Ast I 'll take my leave Sir I shall but disturb ye Mir. And please you for a while and pray to fortune to smile upon this Lady Ast All my help Sir Exiâ Mir. Gomera 's old and stiff and he may lose her The winter of his years and wounds upon him And yet he has done bravely hitherto Mountferrat's fury in his heat of Summer The whistling of his Sword like angry storms Renting up life by th' roots I have seen him scale As if a Falcon had run up a train Clashing his warlike pinions his steel'd Curasse And at his pitch inmew the Town below him I must doe something Enter Collonna Col. Noble Sir for Heaven sake Take pity of a poor afflicted Christian Redeem'd from one affliction to another Mir. Boldly you ask that we are bound to give it From what affliction Sir Col. From cold and hunger From nakedness and stripes Mir. A prisoner Col. A slave Sir in the Turkish prize new taken That in the heat of sight when your brave hand Brought the Dane succor got my irons off And put my self to mercy of the Ocean Mer. And swom to Land Col. I did Sir Heaven was gracious But now a stranger and my wants upon me Though willingly I would preserve this life Sir With honesty and truth I am not look'd on The hand of pity that should give for heaven sake And charitable hearts are grown so cold Sir Never remembring what their fortunes may be Mir. Thou sayst too true of what profession art thou Col. I have been better train'd and can serve truly Where trust is laid upon me Mir. A handsome fellow Hast thou e'r bore Arms Col. I have trod full many a march Sir And some hurts have to shew before me too Sir Mir. Pity this thing should starve or forced for want Come to a worse end I know not what thou mayst be But if thou thinkst it fit to be a servant I 'll be a Master and a good one to thee If ye deserve Sir Col. Else I ask no favour Mir. Then Sir to try your trust because I like you Go to the Dane of him receive a woman A Turkish prisoner for me receive her I hear she is my prize look fairly to her For I would have her know though now my prisoner The Christians need no Schoolmasters for honor Take this to buy thee clothes this Ring to help thee Into the fellowship of my house ye are a stranger And my servants will not know ye else there keep her And with all modesty preserve your service Col. A foul example find me else Heaven thank ye Of Captain Norandine Mir. The same Col. 'T is done Sir And may Heavens goodness ever dwell about ye Mir. Wait there till I come home Col. I shall not fail Sir Exeunt Scaena Tertia Enter Mountferrat with a Letter and Abdella Abd. 'T is strange it should be so that your high mettle Should check thus poorly dully most unmanly Mount Let me alone Abd. Thus leadenly Mount Take ye Abd. At every childish fear at every shadow Are you Mountferrat that have done such deeds Wrought through such bloudy fields men shake to speak of Can ye go back is there a safety left yet But fore-right is not ruine round about ye Have ye not still these arms that Sword that heart-whole Is' t not a man ye fight with and an old man A man half kill'd already Am not I here As lovely in my black to entertain thee As high and full of heat to meet thy pleasures Mount I will be alone Abd. Ye shall farewel Sir And do it bravely never think of conscience There is none to a man resolved be happy Exit Enter Miranda Mount No most unhappy wretch as thou hast made me More devil than thy self I am Mir. Alone And troubled too I take it how he starts All is not handsome in thy heart Mountferrat God speed ye Sir I have been seeking of ye They say you are to fight to day Mount What then Mir. Nay nothing but good fortune to your Sword Sir Ye have a cause requires it the Islands safety The Orders and your Honors Mount And do you make a question I will not fight it Nobly Mir. Ye dare fight Ye have and with as great a confidence as justice I have seen ye strike as home and hit as deadly Mount Why are these questions then Mir. I 'll tell ye quickly Ye have a Lady in your cause a fair one A gentler never trode on ground a Nobler Mount Do ye come on so fast I have it for ye Mir. The Sun ne'r saw a sweeter Mount These I grant ye Nor dare I against beauty heave my hand up It were unmanly Sir too much unmanly But when these excellencies turn to ruine To ruine of themselves and those protect 'em When virtue 's lost lust and dishonor enter'd Loss of our selves and souls basely projected Mir. Do you think 't is so Mount Too sure Mir. And can it be Can it be thought Mountferrat so much sweetness So great a Magazine of all things precious A mind so heavenly made prethee observe me Mount I thought so too now by my Holy Order He that had told me till experience found it Too bold a proof this Lady had been vitious I wear no dull Sword Sir nor hate I virtue Mir. Against her brother to the man has bred her Her Bloud and Honor Mount Where ambitious lust Desires to be above the rule prescrib'd her Takes hold and wins poor chastity cold duty Like fashions old forgot she flings behind her And puts on bloud and mischief death and ruine To raise her new-built hopes new faith to fasten her Ma' foy she is as foul as Heaven is beauteous Mir. Thou liest thou liest Mountferrat
hours absent Gom. Thy pardon sweet I have been looking on The Prize that was brought in by the brave Dane The valiant Norandine and have brought something That may be thou wilt like of but one kiss And then possess my purchase there 's a piece Of cloth of Tissue this of purple Velvet And as they swear of the right Tyrian dye Which others here but weakly counterfeit If they are worth thy use wear them if not Bestow them on thy women Abd. Here 's the Husband Gom. While there is any trading on the Sea Thou shalt want nothing 't is a Soldiers glory However he neglect himself to keep His Mistriss in full lustre Ori. You exceed Sir Gom. Yet there was one part of the prize dispos'd of Before I came which I grieve that I miss'd of Being almost assured it would have been A welcome present Ori. Pray you say what was it Gom. A Turkish Captive of incomparable beauty And without question in her Countrey Noble Which as companion to thy faithful Moor I would have given thee for thy slave Ori. But was she Of such an exquisite form Gom. Most exquisite Ori. And well descended Gom. So the habit promis'd In which she was taken Ori. Of what years Gom. 'T is said A Virgin of fourteen Ori. I pity her And wish she were mine that I might have the means T' entertain her gently Gom. She 's now Miranda's And as I have heard made it her suit to be so Ori. Miranda's then her fate deserves not pity But envy rather Gom. Envy Oriana Ori. Yes and their envy that live free Gom. How 's this Ori. Why she 's falln into the hands of one So full of that which in men we stile goodness That in her being his slave she is happier far Than if she were confirm'd the Sultan's Mistriss Gom. Miranda is indeed a Gentleman Of fair desert and better hopes but yet He hath his equals Ori. Where I would go far As I am now though much unfit for travails But to see one that without injury Might be put in the scale or paralell'd In any thing that 's Noble with Miranda His knowledge in all services of war And ready courage to put into act That knowing judgement as you are a Soldier You best may speak of Nor can you deliver Nor I hear with delight a better subject And heaven did well in such a lovely feature To place so chaste a mind for he is of So sweet a carriage such a winning nature And such a bold yet well-dispos'd behaviour And to all these h 'as such a charming tongue That if he would serve under Loves fresh colours What monumental Trophies might he raise Of his free conquests made in Ladies favors Gom. Yet you did resist him when he was An earnest suitor to you Ori. Yes I did And if I were again sought to I should But must ascribe it rather to the fate That did appoint me yours than any power Which I can call mine own Gom. Even so Abd. Thanks fortune The plot I had to raise in him doubts of her Thou hast effected Ori. I could tell you too What cause I have to love him with what reason In thankfulness he may expect from me All due observance but I pass that as A benefit for which in my behalf You are his debtor Abd. I perceive it takes By his chang'd looks Ori. He is not in the City Is he my Lord Gom. Who Lady Ori. Why Miranda Having you here can there be any else Worth my enquiry Gom. This is somewhat more Than love to virtue Ori. Faith when he comes hither As sometimes without question you shall meet him Invite him home Gom. To what end Ori. To dine with us Or sup Gom. And then to take a hard bed with you Mean you not so Ori. If you could win him to it 'T would be the better for his entertainment Leave that to me he shall find Noble usage And from me a free welcome Gom. Have you never Heard of a Roman Lady Oriana Remembred as a president for Matrons Chaste ones I pray you understand whose husband Tax'd for his sowre breath by his enemy Condemn'd his wife for not acquainting him With his infirmity Ori. 'T is a common one Her answer was having kiss'd none but him âhe thought it was a general disease All men were subject to but what infer you From that my Lord Gom. Why that this virtuous Lady Had all her thoughts so fixed upon her Lord That she could find no spare time to sing praises Of any other nor would she imploy Her husband though perhaps in debt to years As far as I am for an instrument To bring home younger men that might delight her With their discourse or Ori. What my Lord Gom. Their persons Or if I should speak plainer Ori. No it needs not You have said enough to make my innocence know ât is suspected Gom. You betray your self To more than a suspition could you else To me that live in nothing but love to you Make such a gross discovery that your lust Had sold that heart I thought mine to Miranda Or rise to such a height in impudence âs to presume to work my yielding weakness To play for your bad ends to my disgrace The Wittal or the Pander Ori. Do not study To print more wounds for that were tyranny Upon a heart that is pierced through already Gom. Thy heart thou hast pierc'd through mine honor false one The honor of my house fool that I was To give it up to the deceiving trust Of wicked woman for thy sake vild creature For all I have done well in my life I have dig'd a grave all buried in a wife For thee I have defi'd my constant Mistriss That never fail'd her servant glorious war For thee refus'd the fellowship of an Order Which Princes through all dangers have been proud To fetch as far as from Jerusalem And am I thus rewarded Vel. By all goodness You wrong my Lady and deserve her not When you are at your best repent your rashness 'T will show well in you Abd. Do and ask her pardon Ori. No I have liv'd too long to have my faith My tri'd faith call'd in question and by him That should know true affection is too tender To suffer an unkind touch without ruine Study ingratitude all from my example For to be thankful now is to be false But be it so let me dye I see you wish it Yet dead for truth and pities sake report What weapon you made choice of when you kild me Vel. She faints Abd. What have ye done Ori. My last breath cannot Be better spent than to say I forgive you Nor is my death untimely since with me I take along what might have been hereafter In scorn delivered for the doubtful issue Of a suspected mother Vel. Oh she 's gone Abd. For ever gone Are you a man Gom. I grow here Abd. Open her mouth and power this Cordial in it
made of you And think upon his merit Ori. Only thought Can comprehend it Mir. And can you be so Cruel thankless to destroy his youth That sav'd your honor gave you double life Your own and your fair Infants that when fortune The blind foe to all beauty that is good Pandied you from one hazard to another Was even heavens Messenger by providence Call'd to the Temple to receive you there Into these Arms to give ease to your throwes As if 't had thunder'd take thy due Miranda For she was thine Gomera's jealousie Struck death unto thy heart to him be dead And live to me that gave thee second life Let me but now enjoy thee Oh regard The torturing fires of my affections Ori. Oh master them Miranda as I mine Who follows his desires such tyrants serves As will oppress him insupportably My flames Miranda rise as high as thine For I did love thee 'fore my marriage Yet would I now consent or could I think Thou wert in earnest which by all the souls That have for chastity been sanctified I cannot in a moment I do know thou 'ldst call fair temperance up to rule thy blood Thy eye was ever chaste thy countenance too honest And all thy wooings was like Maidens talk Who yieldeth unto pleasures and to lust Is a poor captive that in Golden Fetters And pretious as he thinks but holding gyves Frets out his life Mir. Find such another woman And take her for his labour any man Ori. I was not worthy of thee at my best Heaven knew I was not I had had thee else Much less now gentle Sir Miranda's deeds Have been as white as Oriana's fame From the beginning to this point of time And shall we now begin to stain both thus Think on the legend which we two shall breed Continuing as we are for chastest dames And boldest Soldiers to peruse and read I and read thorough free from any act To cause the modest cast the book away And the most honour'd Captain fold it up Mir Fairest let go my hand my pulse beats thick And my mov'd blood rides high in every vain Lord of thy self now Soldier and ever I would not for Aleppo this frail Bark This bark of flesh no better steers-man had Than has Mountferrat's may you kiss me Lady Ori. No though 't be no essential injury It is a circumstance due to my Lord To none else and my dearest friend if hands Playing together kindle heat in you What may the game at Lips provoke unto Mir. Oh what a tongue is here whil'st she doth teach My heart to hate my fond unlawful love She talks me more in love with love to her My fires she quencheth with her arguments But as she breathes 'em they blow fresher fires âit further now my flame cools Husband Wife There is some holy mystery in those names That sure the unmarried cannot understand Ori. Now thou art strait and dost enamour me âo far beyond a carnal earthly love My very soul doats on thee and my spirits âo embrace thine my mind doth thy mind kiss And in this pure conjunction we enjoy â heavenlier pleasure than if bodies met This this is perfect love the other short âet languishing fruition every Swain ând sweating Groom may clasp but ours refin'd Two in ten ages cannot reach unto Nor is our spiritual love a barren joy For mark what blessed issue we 'll beget Dearer than children to posterity A great example to mens continence And womens chastity that is a child More fair and comfortable than any heir Mir. If all wives were but such lust would not find One corner to inhabit sin would be So strange remission superfluous But one petition I have done Ori. What Sweet Mir. To call me Lord if the hard hand of death Seize on Gomera first Ori. Oh much too worthy How much you undervalue your own price To give your unbought self for a poor woman That has been once sold us'd and lost her show I am a garment worn a vessel crack'd A Zone unti'd a Lilly trode upon A fragrant Flower cropt by another hand My colour sully'd and my odor's chang'd If when I was new blossom'd I did fear My self unworthy of Miranda's spring Thus over-blown and seeded I am rather Fit to adorn his Chimney than his bed Mir. Rise miracle save Malta with thy virtue If words could make me proud how has she spoke Yet I will try her to the very block Hard-hearted and uncivil Oriana Ingrateful payer of my Industries That with a soft painted hypocrisie Cozen'st and jeer'st my perturbation Expect a witty and a fell revenge My comfort is all men will think thee false Beside thy Husband having been thus long On this occasion in my Fort and power Enter Nor. Collonna Lucinda with a Child I 'll hear no more words Captain let 's away With all care see to her and you Lucinda Attend her diligently she is a wonder Nor Have you found she was well deliver'd What had she a good Midwife is all well Mir. You are merry Norandine Luc. Why weep you Lady Ori. Take the poor Babe along Col Madam 't is here Ori. Dissembling death why didst thou let me live To see this change my greatest cause to grieve Exeunt Scaena Secunda Enter Astorius Castriot Valetta Gomera Synnet Knights two Bishops Mountferrat guarded by Corporal and Soldiers Abdella a Gentleman with a Cloak sword and Spurââ Gomera Val. A tender Husband hast thou shew'd thy self My dearest brother and thy memory After my life in brazen Characters Shall monumentally be register'd To ages consequent till times running hand Beats back the world to undistinguish'd Chaos And on the top of that thy name shall stand Fresh and without decay Gom. Oh honor'd Sir If hope of this or any bliss to come Could lift my load of grief off from my soul Or expiate the trespass ' gainst my wife That in one hours suspition I begat I might be won to be a man again And fare like other Husbands sleep and eat Laugh and forget my pleasing penitence But till old nature can make such a wife Again I vow ne'r to resume the order And habits that to men are necessary All breath I 'll spend in sighs all sound in groans And know no company but my wasting moans Ast This will be wilful murder on your self Nor like a Christian do you bear the chance Which th' inscrutable Will of Heaven admits Gom. What would you have my weakness do that Suffer'd it self thus to be practis'd on By a damn'd hell-hound and his agent dam The impious Midwife to abortive births And cruel instrument to his decrees By forgery they first assail'd her life Heaven playing with us yet in that he wrought My dearest friend the servant to her virtue To combat me against his Mistriss truth That yet effectless this enchanting Witch Bred baneful jealousie against my Lady My most immaculate Lady which seiz'd on her Almost to death Oh yet
cause to love those wanton motions They having hope you to an excellent whipping For doing something I but put you in mind of it With the Indian Maid the Governor sent my mother From Mexico Bob. Why I but taught her a Spanish trick in charity and holpe the King to a subject that may live to take Grave Maurice prisoner and that was more good to the State than a thousand such as you are ever like to doe and I will tell you in a fatherly care of the Infant I speak it if he live as bless the babe in passion I remember him to your years shall he spend his time in pinning painting purling and perfuming as you do no he shall to the wars use his Spanish Pike though with the danger of the lash as his father has done and when he is provoked as I am now draw his Toledo desperately as Luc. You will not kill me oh Bob. I knew this would silence him how he hides his eies If he were a wench now as he seems what an advantage Had I drawing two Toledo's when one can do this But oh me my Lady I must put up young Master I did but jest Oh custom what hast thou made of him Enter Eugenia and Servants Eug. For bringing this be still my friend no more A servant to me Bob. What 's the matter Eug. Here Even here where I am happy to receive Assurance of my Alvarez return I will kneel down and may those holy thoughts That now possess me wholly make this place A Temple to me where I may give thanks For this unhop'd for blessing Heavens kind hand Hath pour'd upon me Luc. Let my duty Madam Presume if you have cause of joy to intreat I may share in it Bob. 'T is well he has forgot how I frighted him yet Eug. Thou shalt but first kneel with me Lucio No more Posthumia now thou hast a Father A Father living to take off that name Which my too credulous fears that he was dead Bestow'd upon thee thou shalt see him Lucio And make him young again by seeing thee Who only hadst a being in my Womb When he went from me Lucio Oh my joyes So far transport me that I must forget The ornaments of Matrons modesty And grave behaviour but let all forgive me If in th' expression of my soul's best comfort Though old I do a while forget mine age And play the wanton in the entertainment Of those delights I have so long despair'd of Luc. Shall I then see my Father Eug. This hour Lucio Which reckon the beginning of thy life I mean that life in which thou shalt appear To be such as I brought thee forth a man This womanish disguise in which I have So long conceal'd thee thou shalt now cast off And change those qualities thou didst learn from me For masculine virtues for which seek no tutor But let thy fathers actions be thy precepts And for thee Zancho now expect reward For thy true service Bob. Shall I you hear fellow Stephano learn to know me more respectively how dost thou think I shall become the Stewards chair ha will not these slender hanches show well with a chain and a gold night-Cap after supper when I take the accompts Eug. Haste and take down those Blacks with which my chamber Hath like the widow her sad Mistriss mourn'd And hang up for it the rich Persian Arras Us'd on my wedding night for this to me Shall be a second marriage send for Musique And will the Cooks to use their best of cunning To please the palat Bob. Will your Ladyship have a Potato-pie 't is a good stirring dish for an old Lady after a long Lent Eug. Begone I say why Sir you can goe faster Bob. I could Madam but I am now to practise the Stewards pace that 's the reward I look for every man must fashion his gate according to his calling you fellow Stephano may walk faster to overtake preferment so usher me Luc. Pray Madam let the wastcoat I last wrought Be made up for my Father I will have A Cap and Boot-hose sutable to it Eug. Of that We 'll think hereafter Lucio our thoughts now Must have no object but thy Fathers welcome To which thy help Luc. With humble gladness Madam Exeunt Scaena Tertia Enter Alvarez Clara. Alv. Where lost we Syavedra Cla. He was met Ent'ring the City by some Gentlemen Kinsmen as he said of his own with whom For compliment sake for so I think he term'd it He was compell'd to stay though I much wonder A man that knows to do and has done well In the head of his troop when the bold foe charg'd home Can learn so sodainly to abuse his time In apish entertainment for my part By all the glorious rewards of war I had rather meet ten enemies in the field All sworn to fetch my head than be brought on To change an hours discourse with one of these Smooth City-fools or Tissue-Cavaliers The only Gallants as they wisely think To get a Jewel or a wanton Kiss From a Court-lip though painted Alv. My Love Clara For Lucio is a name thou must forget With Lucio's bold behaviour though thy breeding I' th' Camp may plead something in the excuse Of thy rough manners custom having chang'd Though not thy Sex the softnest of thy nature And fortune then a cruel stepdame to thee Impos'd upon thy tender sweetness burthens Of hunger cold wounds want such as would crack The sinews of a man not born a Soldier Yet now she smiles and like a natural mother Looks gently on thee Clara entertain Her proffer'd bounties with a willing bosom Thou shalt no more have need to use thy sword Thy beauty which even Belgia hath not alter'd Shall be a stronger guard to keep my Clara Than that has been though never us'd but nobly And know thus much Cla. Sir I know only that It stands not with my duty to gain-say you In any thing I must and will put on What fashion you think best though I could wish I were what I appear Alv. Endeavour rather Musick To be what you are Clara entring here As you were born a woman Enter Eugenia Lucio Servants Eug. Let choice Musick In the best voice that e'er touch'd humane ear For joy hath ti'd my tongue up speak your welcome Alv. My soul for thou giv'st new life to my spirit Myriads of joyes though short in number of Thy virtues fall on thee Oh my Eugenia Th' assurance that I do embrace thee makes My twenty years of âorrow but a dream And by the Nectar which I take from these I feel my age restor'd and like old Aeson Grow young again Eug. My Lord long wish'd for welcome 'T is a sweet briefness yet in that short word All pleasures which I may call mine begin And may they long increase before they find A second period let mine eies now surfeit On this so wish'd for object and my lips Yet modestly pay back
Bob. 'T wil never be He has been three days practising to drink Yet still he sips like to a waiting woman And looks as he were murdering of a fart Among wild Irish swaggerers Luc. I have still Your good word Zancho father Alv. Milk-sop coward No house of mine receives thee I disclaim thee Thy mother on her knees shall not entreat me Hereafter to acknowledge thee Luc. Pray you speak for me Bob. I would but now I cannot with mine honor Alv. There 's only one course left that may redeem thee Which is to strike the next man that you meet And if we chance to light upon a woman Take her away and use her like a man Or I will cut thy hamstrings Pach. This makes for us Alv. What do'st thou do now Luc. Sir I am saying my prayers For being to undertake what you would have me I know I cannot live Enter Lamorall Genevora Anastro and Pages with Lights Lam. Madam I fear You 'll wish you had us'd your coach your brothers house Is yet far off Gen. The better sir this walk Will help digestion after your great supper Of which I have fed largely Alv. To your task Or else you know what follows Luc. I am dying Now Lord have mercy on me by your favor Sir I must strike you Lam. For what cause Luc. I know not And I must likewise talk with that young Lady An hour in private Lam. What you must is doubtful But I am certain Sir I must beat you Luc. Help help Alv. Not strike again Lam. How Alvarez An. This for my Lord Vitellis love Pach. Break out And like true theeves make prey on either side But seem to help the stranger Bob. Oh my Lord They have beat him on his knees Luc. Though I want courage I yet have a sons duty in me and Compassion of a fathers danger that That wholly now possesses me Alv. Lucio This is beyond my hope Met. So Lazarillo Take up all boy well done Pach. And now steal off Closely and cunningly An. How have I found you Why Gentlemen are you mad to make your selves A prey to Rogues Lam. Would we were off Bob. Theeves theeves Lam. Defer our own contention and down with them Luc. I 'll make you sure Bob. Now he plays the Devil Gen. This place is not for me Exit Luc. I 'll follow her Half of my pennance is past oe'r Exit Enter Alguazier Assistant and other Watches Alg. What noyse What tumult 's there keep the Kings peace I charge you Pach. I am glad he 's come yet Alv. O you keep good Guard Upon the City when men of our ranck Are set upon in the streets Lam. The assistants Shall hear on 't be assur'd An. And if he be That careful Governor he is reported You will smart for it Alg. Patience good Signiors Let me survey the Rascals O I know them And thank you for them they are pilf'ring rogues Of Andaluza that have perus'd All Prisons in Castile I dare not trust The dungeon with them no I 'll have them home To my own house Pach. We had rather go to prison Alg. Had you so dog-bolts yes I know you had You there would use your cunning fingers on The simple locks you would but I 'll prevent you Lam. My Mistriss lost good night Exit Bob. Your Son 's gone too What should become of him Alv. Come of him what will Now he dares fight I care not I 'll to bed Look to your prisoners Alguazier Exit with Bobâ Alg. All 's clear'd Droop not for one disaster let us hug And triumph in our knaveries Assist This confirms What was reported of him Met. 'T was done bravely Alg. I must a little glory in the means We Officers have to play the Knaves and safely How we break through the toyles pitch'd by the Law Yet hang up them that are far less delinquents A simple shopkeeper 's carted for a bawd For lodging though unwittingly a smock-Gamster Where with rewards and credit I have kept Malroda in my house as in a cloyster Without taint or suspition Pach. But suppose The Governor should know 't Alg. He good Gentleman Let him perplex himself with prying into The measures in the market and th' abuses The day stands guilty of the pillage of the night Is only mine mine own fee simple Which you shall hold from me tenants at will And pay no rent for 't Pach. Admirable Landlord Alg. Now we 'll go search the Taverns commit such As we find drinking and be drunk our selves With what we take from them these silly wretches Whom I for form sake only have brought hither Shall watch without and guard us Assist And we will See you safe lodg'd most worthy Alguazier With all of you his comrads Met. 'T is the Governor Alg. We are betray'd Assist My guard there bind them fast How men in high place and authority Are in their lives and estimations wrong'd By their subordinate Ministers yet such They cannot but imploy wrong'd justice finding Scarce one true servant in ten officers ' T' expostulate with you were but to delay Your crimes due punishment which shall fall upon you So speedily and severely that it shall Fright others by th' example and confirm How ever corrupt Officers may disgrace Themselves 't is not in them to wrong their place Bring them away Alg. We 'll suffer nobly yet And like to Spanish Gallants Pach. And we 'll hang so Laz. I have no stomach to it but I 'll endeavor Exeunt Scaena Quarta Enter Lucio and Genevora Gen. Nay you are rude pray you forber you offer now More than the breeding of a Gentleman Can give you warrant for Luc. 'T is but to kiss you And think not I 'll receive that for a favour Which was enjoyn'd me for a pennance Lady Gen. You have met a gentle confessor and for once So then you will rest satisfied I vouchsafe it Luc. Rest satisfied with a kiss why can a man Desire more from a woman is there any Pleasure beyond it may I never live âf I know what it is Gen. Sweet Innocence Luc. What strange new motions do I feel my veins Burn with an unknown fire in every part â suffer alteration I am poyson'd Yet languish with desire again to tast it âo sweetly it works on me Gen. I ne'r saw A lovely man till now Luc. How can this be âhe is a woman as my mother is And her I have kiss'd often and brought off My lips unscortch'd yours are more lovely Lady And so should be less hurtful pray you vouchsafe Your hand to quench the heat tane from your Lip Perhaps that may restore me Gen. Willingly Luc. The flame increases if to touch you burn thus What would more strict embraces do I know not And yet methinks to die so were to ascend To heaven through Paradise Gen. I am wounded too Though modesty forbids that I should speak What ignorance makes him bold in why do you fix Your eyes
These Diamonds of Ormus bought for little Here vented at the price of Princes Ransomes How bright they shine like constellations The South Seas treasure here Pearl fair and orient Able to equal Cleopatra's Banquet Here chains of lesser stones for Ladies lusters Ingotts of Gold Rings Brooches bars of Silver These are my studies to set off in sale well And not in sensual surfeits to consume 'em How rosts mine egg he heats apace I 'll turn him Penurio where you knave do you wait Penurio You lazie knave Pen. Did you call Sir Lop. Where 's your Mistriss What vanity holds her from her attendance Pen. The very sight of this egg has made him cockish What would a dozen butter'd do She is within Sir Lop. Within Sir at what thrif ye knave what getting Pen. Getting a good stomach Sir and she knew where to get meat to it She is praying heartily upon her knees Sir That Heaven would send her a good bearing dinner Lop. Nothing but gluttony and surfeit thought on Health flung behind had she not yesternight sirrah Two Sprats to supper and the oil allowable Was she not sick with eating Hadst not thou Thou most ungrateful knave that nothing satisfies The water that I boil'd my other egg in To make thee hearty broth Pen 'T is true I had Sir But I might as soon make the Philosophers Stone on 't You gave it me in water and but for manners sake I could give it you again in wind it was so hearty I shall turn pissing-Conduit shortly my Mistriss comes Sir Enter Isabella Lop. Welcome my Dove Isab Pray ye keep your welcome to ye Unless it carries more than words to please me Is this the joy to be a Wife to bring with me Besides the nobleness of blood I spring from A full and able portion to maintain me Is this the happiness of youth and beauty The great content of being made a Mistriss To live a Slave subject to wants and hungers To jealousies for every eye that wanders Unmanly jealousie Lop. Good Isabella Isab Too good for you do you think to famish me Or keep me like an Alms-woman in such rayment Such poor unhandsome weeds am I old or ugly I never was bred thus and if your misery Will suffer wilful blindness to abuse me My patience shall be no Bawd to mine own ruine Pen. Tickle him Mistris to him Isab Had ye love in ye Or any part of man Pen. Follow that Mistriss Isab Or had humanity but ever known ye You would shame to use a woman of my way thus So poor and basely you are strangely jealous of me If I should give ye cause Lop. How Isabella Isab As do not venture this way to provoke me Pen. Excellent well Mistriss Lop. How 's this Isabella Isab 'T will stir a Saint and I am but a woman And by that tenure may Lop. By no means chicken You know I love ye fie take no example By those young gadding Dames you are noted virtuous That stick their Husbands wealth in trifles on 'em And point 'em but the way to their own miseries I am not jealous kiss me I am not And for your Diet 't is to keep you healthful Surfeits destroy more than the sword that I am careful Your meat should be both neat and cleanly handled See Sweet I am Cook my self and mine own Cater Pen. A of that Cook cannot lick his fingers Lop. I 'll add another dish you shall have Milk to it 'T is nourishing and good Pen. With Butter in 't Sir Lop. This knave would breed a famine in a Kingdom And cloths that shall content ye you must be wise then And live sequestred to your self and me Not wandring after every toy comes cross ye Nor struck with every spleen what 's the knave doing Penuria Pen. Hunting Sir for a second course of Flies here They are rare new Sallads Lop For certain Isabella This ravening fellow has a Wolf in 's fellow Untemperate knave will nothing quench thy appetite I saw him eat two Apples which is monstrous Pen. If you had given me those 't had been more monstroâ Lop. 'T is a main miracle to feed this villain Come Isabella let us in to supper And think the Roman dainties at our Table 'T is all but thought Exeunt Pen. Would all my thoughts would do it The Devil should think of purchasing that Egg-shell To victual out a Witch for the Burmoothes 'T is Treason to any good stomach living now To hear a tedious Grace said and no meat to 't I have a Radish yet but that 's but transitory Exit Scaena Tertia Enter Soto Soto Can any living man unless a Rascal That neither knows himself nor a fashion'd Gentleman Take me for a worse man than my Master now I am naturally proud in these clothes but if pride now Should catch a fall in what I am attempting 'T is but a Proverb sound and a neck broken That 's the worst can come on 't a Gentleman 's gone then A Gentleman o' th' first house there 's the end on 't My Master lies most pittifully complaining Wringing and kicking up to th' ears in love yonder And such a lamentable noise he keeps it kills me I have got his cloaths and if I can get to her By hook or crook here such a song I 'll sing her I think I shall be hang'd but that 's no matter What 's a hanging among friends I am valiant now as an Elephant I have consider'd what to say too let me see now This is the place 't is plaguy high stay at that lower window Let me aim finely now like a good Gunner ãâã may prove but a whipping Enter Silvio Sil. I saw some body Pass by me now and though it were dark me-thought yet â knew the clothes ha let me not be cozen'd The Ladder too ready to fling it monstrous 'T is he 't is Claudio most voluptuous villain Scandal to womans credit Love I forget thee Soto What will he do i' th' name of Heaven what 's that there Sil. And all the friendship that I bore thee bury here Soto What has he in 's hand I hope but a Cudgel Sil. Thy faul'ts forgive O Heaven farewel thou traitor Soto I am slain I am slain Sil. He 's down and dead dead certain 'T was too rash too full of spleen stark dead This is no place now to repent in only Would I had given this hand that shot the Pistol I had miss'd thee and thou wer 't once more Claudio Exit Enter Claudio Cla. Why should I love thus foolishly thus desperately And give away my heart where no hope 's left me Why should not the true counsel of a friend restrain me The Devils mouth I run into affright me The honor of the Lady charm my wildness I have no power no Being of my self No reason strong enough now left within me To bind my Will Oh Love thou god or devil Or what thou art that playes the
another Were things but well prepar'd this gave her boldness To employ me thus far Ha. A strange message boy Boy If you incline to meet my Mistriss love It may beget your comforts besides that 'T is some revenge that you above their scorn And pride can laugh at them whose perjury Hath made you happy and undone themselves Ha. Have you done boy Boy Only this little more When you but see and know my Mistriss well You will forgive my tediousness she 's fair Fair as Maria was Ha. I 'll hear no more âo foolish boy and tell thy fonder Mistriss âe has no second Faith to give away ââd mine was given to Maria though her death Allow me freedom see the Picture of her Enter Maria Nurse â would give ten thousand Empires for the substance Yet for Maria's sake whose divine Figure That rude frame carries I will love this counterfeit Above all the world and had thy Mistriss had all The grace and blossom of her sex now she âs gone that was walking a Spring of beauty I would not look upon her Boy Sir your pardon ââave but done a message as becomes A servant nor did she on whose commands â gladly waited bid me urge her love To your disquiet she would chide my diligence âf I should make you angry Ha. Pretty boy Boy Indeed I fear I have offended you Pray if I have enjoyn me any pennance for it â have perform'd one duty and could as wiâlingly To purge my faulâ and shew I suffer with you â lâad your cause to another Ha. And I 'll take thee At thy word boy thou hast a moving language That pretty innocent Copy of Maria ãâã all I love I know not how to speak Winn her to think well of me and I wiâl Reward thee to thy wishes Boy I undertake Nothing for gain but since you have resolv'd To love no other I 'll be faithful to you And my prophetick thoughts bid me already âây I shall prosper Ha. Thou wert sent to bless me Boy Pray give us opportunity Ha. Be happy Exit Nur. He 's gone Boy With your fair leave Mistriss Ma. Have you business with her pray you Boy I have a message from a Gentleman Please you vouchsafe your ear more private Nur. You shall have my absence Neece Exit Ma. Was the sentleman afear'd to declare his matters openly here was no bodies was not very honest if her like ãâã her errands the petter was wist to keep her preaths ãâã cool her porridges can tell her that now for aule her ââivate hearings and tawgings Boy You may if please you find another language And with less pains be understood Ma. What is her meaning Boy Come pray speak your own English Ma. Have boyes lost her itts and memories bless us aule Boy I must be plain then come I know you are ââis this thin vail cannot obscure you I 'll tell the world you live I have not lost ye Sââce first with grief and shame to be surpriz'd A violent trance took away shew of life I could discover by what accident You were convey'd away at midnight in Your coffin could declare the place and minute When you reviv'd what you have done since as perfectly Ma. Alas I am betraid to new misfortunes Boy You are not for my knowledge I 'll be dumb For ever rather than be such a traitor ââdeed I pity you and bring no thoughts ãâã fâll of peace call home your modest blood ââle hath too long usurp'd upon your face Think upon love agen and the possession Of full blown joyes now ready to salute you Ma. These words undo me more than my own griefs Boy I see how fear would play the tyrant with you But I 'll remove suspition have you in Your heart an entertainment for his love To whom your Virgin faith made the first promise Ma. If thou mean'st Hartlove thou dost wound me still I have no life without his memory Nor with it any hope to keep it long Thou seest I walk in darkness like a thief That fears to see the world in his own shape My very shadow frights me 't is a death To live thus and not look day in the face Away I know thee not Boy You shall hereafter know and thank me Lady I 'll bring you a discharge at my next visit Of all your fears be content fair Maria 'T is worth your wonder Ma. Impossible Boy Be wise and silent Dress your self you shall be what you wish Ma. Do this and be My better Angel Boy All your care 's on me Exeunt Actus Quintus Scaena Primâ Enter Lurch and Boy Lur. I Must applaud thy diligence Boy It had been nothing To have left him in tâe Porch I call'd his servants With wonders they acknowledg'd him I pretended It was some spice sure of the falling sickness And that 't was charity to bring him home They rubb'd and chaf'd him ply'd him with Strong water Still he was senseless clamors could not wake him I wish'd 'em then get him to bed they did so And almost smother'd him with ruggs and pillows And ' cause they should have no cause to suspect me I watch'd them till he wak'd Lur. 'T was excellent Boy When his time came to yawn and stretch himself I bid 'em not be hasty to discover How he was brought home his eyes fully open With trembling he began to call his servants And told 'em he had seen strange visions That should convert him from his heathen courses They wondred and were silent there he preach'd How sweet the air of a contented conscience Smelt in his nose now ask'd 'em all forgiveness For their hard pasture since they liv'd with him Bid 'em believe and fetch out the cold Sur-loin Pierce the strong beer and let the neighbors joy in 't The conceal'd Muskadine should now lie open To every mouth that he would give to th' poor And mend their wages that his doors should be Open to every miserable sutor Lur. What said his servants then Boy They durst not speak But blest themselves and the strange means that had Made him a Christian in this over-joy I took my leave and bad 'em say their prayers And humor him lest he turn'd Jew agen Lur. Enough enough Who 's this Enter Toby 'T is one of my ringers stand close my Ladies Coachman To. Buy a mat for a bed buy a mat Would I were at rack and manger among my horses We have divided the Sextons Houshold-stuff among us one has the rugg and he 's Turn'd Irish and another has a blanket and he must beg in 't The sheets serve another for a frock and with the bed-cord He may pass for a Porter nothing but the mat would fall To my share which with the help of a tune and a hassock Out o' th' Church may disguise me till I get home A pox o' bell-ringing by the ear if any man take me At it agen let him pull mine to the Pillory I could
Above there Enter Maria and Byancha above Mar. Chevai'a Liv. A friend By. Who are you Liv. Look out and know Mar. Alas poor wench who sent thee What weak fool made thy tongue his Orator I know you come to parly Liv. Y' are deceiv'd Urg'd by the goodness of your cause I come To do as you do Mar. Y' are too weak too foolish To cheat us with your smoothness do not we know Thou hast been kept up tame Liv. Believe me Mar. No prethee good Livia Utter thy Eloquence somewhere else By. Good Cosin Put up your Pipes we are not for your palate Alas we know who sent you Liv. O' my word By. Stay there you must not think your word Or by your Maidenhead or such Sunday oaths Sworn after Even-Song can inveigle us To losâ our hand-fast did their wisdoms think That sent you hither we would be so foolish To entertain our gentle Sister Sinon And give her credit while the wooden Jade Petruchio stole upon us no good Sister Go home and tell the merry Greeks that sent you Ilium shall burn and I as did Aeneas Will on my back spite of the Myrmidons Carry this warlike Lady and through Seas Unknown and unbeliev'd seek out a Land Where like a race of noble Amazons We 'll rooâ our selves and to our endless glory Live and despise base men Liv. I 'll second ye By. How long have you been thus Liv. That 's all one Cosin I stand for freedom now By. Take heed of lying For by this light if we do credit you And find you tripping his infliction That kill'd the Prince of Orange will be sport To what we purpose Liv. Let me feel the heaviest Mar. Swear by thy Sweet-heart Rowland for by your maiden-head I fear 't will be too late to swear you mean Nothing but fair and safe and honourable To us and to your self Liv. I swear By. Stay yet Swear as you hate Moroso that 's the surest And as you have a certain fear to sind him Worse than a poor dry'd Jack full of more aches Than Autumn has more knavery and usury And foolery and brokery than dogs-ditch As you do constantly believe he 's nothing But an old empty bag with a grey beard And that Beard such a bob-tail that it looks Worse than a Mares tail eaten off with Fillies As you acknowledge that young handsome wench That lies by such a Bilboa blade that bends With ev'ry pass he makes to th' hilts miserable A dry Nurse to his Coughs a fewterer To such a nasty fellow a robb'd thing Of all delights youth looks for and to end One cast away on course beef born to brush That everlasting Cassock that has worn As many Servants out as the Northeast passage Has consum'd Sailors if you swear this and truly Without the reservation of a gown Or any meritorious Petticoat 'T is like we shall believe you Liv. I do swear it Mar. Stay yet a little came this wholsome motion Deal truly Sister from your own opinion Or some suggestion of the Foe Liv. Nev'r fear me For by that little faith I have in Husbands And the great zeal I bear your cause I come Full of that liberty you stand for Sister Mar. If we believe and you prove recreant Livia Think what a maim you give the noble Cause We now stand up for Think what women shall An hundred years hence speak thee when examples Are look'd for and so grâat ones whose relations Spoke as we do 'em wench shall make new customs By. If you be false repent go home and pray And to the serious women of the City Confess your self bring not a sin so hainous To load thy soul to this place mark me Livia If thou be'st double and betray'st our honors And we fail in our purpose get thee where There is no women living nor no hope There ever shall be Mar. If a Mothers daughter That ever heard the name of stubborn husband Find thee and know thy sin By. Nay if old age One that has worn away the name of woman And no more left to know her by but railing No teeth nor eyes nor legs but wooden ones Come but i' th' wind-ward of thee for sure she 'll smell theâ Thou 'lt be so rank she 'll ride thee like a night-Mare And say her Prayers back-ward to undo thee She 'll curse thy meat and drink and when thou marriest Clap a sound spell for ever on thy pleasures Mar. Children of five year old like little Fairies Will pinch thee into motley all that ever Shall live and hear of thee I mean all women Will like so many furies shake their keys And toss their flaming distaffs o'r their heads Crying revenge take heed 't is hideous Oh 't is a fearful office if thou hadst Though thou be'st perfect now when thou cam'st hither A false imagination get thee gone And as my learned Cosin said repent This place is sought by soundness Liv. So I seek it Or let me be a most despis'd example Mar. I do believe thee be thou worthy of it You come not empty Liv. No here 's Cakes and cold meat And Tripe of proof behold here 's Wine and Beer Be suddain I shall be surpriz'd else Mar. Meet at the low parlour door there lies a close way What fond obedience you have living in you Or duty to a man before you enter Fling it away 't will but defile our Off'rings By. Be wary as you come Liv. I warrant ye Exeunt Scaena Tertia Enter three Maids 1 Mai. How goes your business Girls 2. A foot and fair 3. If fortune favour us away to your strength The Countrey Forces are arriv'd be gone We are discover'd else 1. Arm and be valiant 2. Think of our cause 3. Our Justice 1. 'T is sufficient Exeunt Scaene Quarta Enter Rowland and Tranio at several doors Tra. Now Rowland Row How doe you Tra. How dost thou man Thou look'st ill Bow Yes pray can you tell me Tranio Who knew the devil first Tra. A woman Row So. Were they not well acquainted Tra. May be so For they had certain Dialogues together Row He sold her fruit I take it Tra. Yes and Cheese That choak'd all mankind after Row Canst thou tell me Whether that woman ever had a faith After she had eaten Tra. That 's a School-question Row No 'T is no question for believe me Tranio That cold fruit after eating breâd naught in her But windy promises and chollick vows That broke out both ways Row Thou hast heard I am sure Of Esculapius a far famed Surgeon One that could set together quarter'd Traitors And make 'em honest men Tra. How dost thou Rowland Row Let him but take if be dare do a cure Shall get him fame indeed a faithless woman There will be credit for him that will speak him A broken woman Tranio a base woman And if he can cure such a rack of honor Let him come here and practice Tra. Now for honors
travel Enter Rowland Livia Byancha and Tranio Petro. What have we here Row Another Morris Sir That you must pipe too Tra. A poor married couple Desire an offering Sir Bya. Never frown at it You cannot mend it now there 's your own hand And yours Moroso to confirm the bargain Petron. My hand Mor. Or mine Bya. You 'll find it so Petro. A trick By a trick Bya. Yes Sir we trickt ye Liv. Father Petro. Hast thou lain with him speak Liv. Yes truly Sir Petro. And hast thou done the deed boy Row I have Sir That that will serve the turn I think Petru. A match then I 'll be the maker up of this Moroso There 's now no remedy you see be willing Mor be or be not he must have the wench Mor. Since I am over-reach'd let 's into dinner And if I can I 'll drink 't away Tra. That 's well said Petro. Well sirrah you have plaid a trick look to 't And let me be a Grandsire within 's twelve-month Or by this hand I 'll curtail half your fortunes Row There shall not want my labour Sir your money Here 's one has undertaken Tra. Well I 'll trust her And glad I have so good a pawn Row I 'll watch ye Petru. Let 's in and drink of all hands and be jovial I have my Colt again and now she carries And Gentlemen whoever marries next Let him be sure he keep him to his Text. Exeunt EPILOGUE THe Tamer 's tam'd but so as nor the men Can find one just cause to complain of when They fitly do consider in their lives They should not reign as Tyrants o'er their wives Nor can the Women from this president Insult or triumph it being aptly meant To teach both Sexes due equality And as they stand bound to love mutually If this effect arising from a cause Well laid and grounded may deserve applause We something more than hope our honest ends Will keep the Men and Women too our friends THE ISLAND PRINCESS A Tragi-Comedy The Persons represented in the Play King of Sidore an Island Suitors to the Princess Quisara King of Bakam King of Siana Governor of Terna an Issand An ill man Ruy Dias a Captain of Portugal also suitor to the Prin. Piniero Nephew to Ruy Dias a merry Captain Soldiers and Friends to Piniero Christophero Pedro Armusia a noble daring Portugueze in love with the Princess companions to Armusia and his valiant followers Soza Emanuel Keeper Moors Guard Captain Citizens Townsmen Women Quisara the Island Princess Sister to the King of Sidore Quisaâa Aunt to the Princess Panura Waiting-woman to the Princess Quisara Citizens wives The Scene India The Principal Actors were John Lowin John Vnderwood William Eglestone Rich. Sharpe Joseph Tailor Robert Benfield George Birch Tho. Polard Actus Primus Scaena Prima A Bell Rings Enter Pymero Christophero and Pedro. Pymero. OPen the Ports and see the Watch reliev'd And let the guards be careful of their business Their vigilant eyes fixt on these Islanders They are false and desperate people when they find The least occasion open to encouragement Cruel and crafty souls believe me Gentlemen Their late attempt which is too fresh amongst us In which against all arms and honesty The Governor of Ternata made surprize Of our Confederate the King of Tidore As for his recreation he was rowing Between both Lands bids us be wise and circumspect Chr. It was a mischief suddenly imagin'd And as soon done that Governor 's a fierce knave Unfaithful as he is fierce too there 's no-trusting But I wonder much how such poor and base pleasures As tugging at an Oar or skill in Steerage Should become Princes Py. Base breedings love base pleasure They take as much delight in a Baratto A little scurvy boat to row her tightly And have the Art to turn and wind her nimbly Think it as noble too though it be slavish And a dull labour that declines a Gentleman As we Portugals or the Spaniards do in riding In managing a great horse which is princely The French in Courtship or the dancing English In carrying a fair presence Ped. He was strangely taken But where no faith is there 's no trust he has paid for 't His Sister yet the fair and great Quisara Has shew'd a noble mind and much love in 't To her afflicted brother and the nobler still it appears And seasons of more tenderness because his ruin stiles her absolute And his imprisonment adds to her profit Feeling all this which makes all men admire her The warm beams of this fortune that fall on her Yet has she made divers and noble Treaties And propositions for her brothers freedom If wealth or honor Py. Peace peace you are fool'd Sir Things of these natures have strange outsides Pedro And cunning shadows set'em far from us Draw 'em but near they are gross and they abuse us They that observe her close shall find her nature Which I doubt mainly will not prove so excellent She is a Princess and she must be fair That 's the prerogative of being Royal Let her want eyes and nose she must be beauteous And she must know it too and the use of it And people must believe it they are damn'd else Why all our neighbor Princes are mad for her Chr. Is she not fair then Py. But her hopes are fairer And there 's a haughty Master the King of Bakan That lofty Sir that speaks far more and louder In his own commendations than a Cannon He is strucken dumb with her Ped. Beshrew me she is a sweet one Py. And there 's that hopeful man of Syana That sprightly fellow he that 's wise and temperate He is a Lover too Chr. Wou'd I were worth her looking For by my life I hold her a compleat one The very Sun I think affects her sweetness And dares not as he does to all else dye it Into his tauny Livery Py. She dares not see him But keeps her self at distance from his kisses And her complexion in a Case let him but like it A week or two or three she would look like a Lion But the main sport on 't is or rather wonder The Governor of Ternata her mortal enemy He that has catcht her brother King is struck too And is arriv'd under safe conduct also And hostages of worth delivered for him And he brought a Letter from his prisoner Whether compell'd or willingly delivered From the poor King or what else dare be in 't Chr. So it be honourable any thing 't is all one For I dare think she 'll do the best Py. 'T is certain He has admittance and sollicites hourly Now if he have the trick Ped. What trick Py. The true one To take her too if he be but skill'd in Bat-fowling And lime his bush right Chr. I 'll be hang'd when that hits For 't is not a compell'd or forc'd affection That must take her I guess her stout and virtuous But where 's your Uncle Sir our
not flatter you Nor do I dote in telling this I am amazed Lady And as I think the gods bestow'd these on ye The gods that love ye Quisar I confess their bounty Gov. Apply it then to their use to their honor To them and to their service give this sweetness They have an instant great use of your goodness You are a Saint esteem'd here for your beauty And many a longing heart Quisar I seek no fealty Nor will I blemish that heaven has seal'd on me I know my worth indeed the Portugals I have at those commands and their last services Nay even their lives so much I think my handsomness That what I shall enjoyn Gov. Use it discreetly For I perceive ye understand me rightly For here the gods regard your help and suddainly The Portugals like sharp thorns mark me Lady Stick in our sides like Razors wound Religion Draw deep they wound till the Life-bloud follows Our gods they spurn at and their worships scorn A mighty hand they bear upon our government These are the men your miracle must work on Your heavenly form either to root them out Which as you may endeavour will be easie Remember whose great cause you have to execute To nip their memory that may not spring more Or fairly bring 'em home to our devotions Which will be blessed and for which you sainted But cannot be and they go let me buzle Quisar Go up with me Where we 'll converse more privately I 'll shew ye shortly how I hold their temper And in what chain thir souls Gov. Keep fast that hold still And either bring that chain and those bound in it And link it to our gods and their fair worships Or Daughter pinch their hearts a pieces with it I 'll wait upon your grace Quisar Come reverend father Wait you below Ex. Quisar and Gov. Pan. If this Prophet were a young thing I should suspect him now he cleaves so close to her These holy Coats are long and hide iniquities Quisan Away away fool a poor wretch Pan. These poor ones Warm but their stomachs once Quisan Come in thou art foolish Ex. Quisania and Panura Enter Armusia Emanuel and Pyniero Arm. I am sorry Sir my fortune is so stubborn To court my sword against my Countreyman I love my Nation well and where I find A Portugal of noble Name and Virtue I am his humble servant Signior Pyniero Your person nor your Uncles am I angry with You are both fair Gentlemen in my opinion And I protest I had rather use my sword In your defences than against your safeties 'T is methinks a strange dearth of enemies When we seek foes among our selves Em. You are injured And you must make the best on 't now and readiest Arm. You see I am ready in the place and arm'd To his desire that call'd me Py. Ye speak honestly And I could wish ye had met on terms more friendly But it cannot now be so Enter Ruy Dias Em. Turn Sir and see Py. I have kept my word with ye Uncle The Gentleman is ready Enter Governor and Quisara above Arm. Ye are welcome Ru. Bid those fools welcome that affect your courtesie I come not to use compliment ye have wrong'd me And ye shall feel proud man e'r I part from ye The effects of that if fortune do not fool me Thy life is mine and no hope shall redeem thee Arm. That 's a proud word More than your saith can justifie Quisar Sure they will fight Ruy. She 's there I am happy Gov. Let 'em alone let 'em kill one another These are the main posts if they fall the buildings Will tumble quickly Quisar How temperate Armusia No more be quiet yet Arm. I am not bloody Nor do not feel such mortal malice in me But since we cannot both enjoy the Princess I am resolv'd to fight Ruy. Fight home Armusia For if thou faint'st or fall'st Arm. Do ye make all vantages Ruy Always unto thy life I will not spare thee Nor look not for thy mercy Arm. I am arm'd then Ruy. Stand still I charge ye Nephew as ye honor me Arm. And good Emanuel stir not Py. Ye speak fitly For we had not stood idle else Gov. I am sorry sor't Em. But since you will have it so Ruy. Come Sir Arm. I wait ye Py. I marry this looks handsomely This is warm work Gov. Both fall and 't be thy Will Ruy. falls Py. My Uncle dead Em. Stand still or my swords in Arm. Now brave Ruy Dias Now where 's your confidence your prayers quickly Your own spite has condemn'd ye Quisar Hold Armusia Ar. Most happy Lady Quisar Hold and let him rise Spare him for me Ar. Along life may he enjoy Lady Gov. What ha you done 't is better they had all perisht Quisar Peace father I work for the best Armusia Be in the Garden an hour hence Ex. Qu. and Gov. Ar. I shall Madam Py. Now as I live a Gentleman at all inches So brave a mingled temper saw I never Ar. Why are ye sad Sir how would this have griev'd you If ye had fall'n under a profest enemy Under one had taken vantage of your shame too Pray ye be at peace I am so far from wronging ye Or glorying in the pride of such a victory That I desire to serve ye pray look chearfully Py. Do you hear this Sir this love Sir do you see this Gentleman How he courts ye why do you hold your head down 'T is no high Treason I take it to be equall'd To have a slip i' th field no sin that 's mortal Come come thank fortune and your friend Ar. It may be You think my tongue may prove your enemy And though restrain'd sometimes out of a bravery May take a License to disable ye Believe me Sir so much I hate that liberty That in a strangers tongue 't will prove an injury And I shall right you in 't Py. Can you have more Uncle Ru. Sir you have beat me both ways yet so nobly That I shall ever love the hand that did it Fortune may make me worthy of some title That may be near your friend Ar. Sir I must leave ye But with so hearty love and pray be confident I carry nothing from this place shall wrong ye Exit Arm. and Em. Py. Come come you are right agen Sir love your honor And love your friend take heed of bloody purposes And unjust ends good heaven is angry with ye Make your fair virtues and your fame your Mistriss And let these trinkets go Ru. You teach well Nephew Now to be honourably even with this Gentleman Shall be my business and my ends his Enter Governor and King Gov. Sir Sir you must do something suddainly To stop his pride so great and high he is shot up Upon his person too your state is sunk else You must not stand now upon terms of gratitude And let a simple tenderness besot ye I 'll bring ye suddenly where you
For a stronger lace to keep my breath That I may laugh the nine days till the wonder Fall to an ebb the high and mighty Duchess The high and mighty God what a stile is this Methinks it goes like a Duchy lope-man A ladder of 100 rounds will fail To reach the top on 't well my gentle Cosin I know by these contents your itch of honor You must to the Court you say and very shortly You shall be welcome and if your wife have wit I 'll put her in a thriving course if not Her own sin on her own head not a blot Shall stain my reputation only this I must for healths sake sometimes make an ass Of the tame moil my Husband 't will do him good And give him fresher brains Me fresher bloud Now for the noble Duke I hear him coming Enter Duke his train Your Grace is well return'd Duke As well as may be Never in younger health never more able I mean to be your bed-fellow this night Let me have good encounter Bew. Bless me heaven What a hot meat this greatness is Long. It may be so For I 'll be sworn he hath not got a snap This two months on my knowledge or her woman Is damn'd for swearing it Duke I thank you Gentlemen for your attendance And also your great pains pray know my Lodgings Petter and oftner do so Gentlemen Now by my honor as I am a Prince I speak sincerely know my lodgings better And be not strangers I shall see your service And your deservings when you least expect Om. We humbly thank your grace for this great favor Du. Jaques Jaq. Your Grace Du. Be ready for the Countrey And let my Tenants know the Kings great love Say I would see them but the weight at Court Lies heavy on my shoulders let them know I do expect their duties in attendance Against the next feast wait for my coming To take up Post-horse and be full of speed Exit Jaq. Wife I would desire your Grace Du. You shall desire and have your Fâll desire sweet Duchess speak Wife To have some conference with a Gentleman That seems not altogether void of reason He talks of Titles and things near the Crown And knowing none so fit as your Grace To give the difference in such points of State Du. What is he if he be noble or have any part That 's worthy our converse we do accept him Wife I can assure your Grace his strain is noble But he 's very subtle Duke Let him be so Let him have all the brains I shall demonstrate How this most Christian Crown of France can bear No other shew of Title than the Kings â will go in and meditate for half an hour ând then be ready for him presently â will convert him quickly or confound him Serv. Is mad Shattillion here Wife Is here and 's Lady I prethee servant fetch him hither Serv. Why what do you mean to put him to Wife To chat with the mad lad my Husband 'T will be brave to hear them speak babble Stare and prate Bew. But what shall be the end of all this Lady Enter Shattillion and Lady Wife Leave that to me now for the grand dispute For see here comes Shattillion as I live methiâks All France should bear part of his griess Long. I 'll fetch my Lord the Duke Shat. Where am I now or whether will you lead me To my death I crave my priviledge I must not dye but by just course of Law Serv His Majesty hath sent by me your pardon He meant not you should dye but would intreat you To laâ the full state of your Title open Unto a grave and Noble Gentleman Enter Duke and Longovile The Duke of Burgundy who here doth come Who either by his wisdom will confute you Or else inform and satisfie the King Bew. May 't please your grace this is the Genâleman Duke Is this he that chops Logick with my Liege Shat. D' ye mock me you are great the time will come When you shall be as much contemn'd as I Where are the antient compliments of France The upstarts brave the Princes of the bloud Duke Your Title Sir in short Shat. He must Sir Be a better States-man than your self that can Trip me in any thing I will not speak Before these witnesses Duke Depart the room for none shall stay No not my dearest Duchess Wife We 'll stand behind the Arras and hear all Exeunt Duke In that chair take your place I in this Discourse your Title now Shat. Sir you shall know My Loves true Title mine by Marriage Setting aside the first race of French Kings Which will not here concern us as Pharamond With Clodian Meroveus and Chilperick And to come down unto the second Race Which we will likewise slip Duke But take me with you Shat. I pray you give me leave of Martel Charles The Father of King Pippin who was Sire To Charles the Great and famous Charlemain And to come to the third Race of French Kings Which will not be greatly pertinent in this cause Betwixt the King and me of which you know HVGH CAPET was the first Next his Son Robert Henry then and Philip With Lewis and his Son a Lewis too And of that name the Seventh but all this Springs from a Female as it shall appear Duke Now give me leave I grant you this your Title At the first sight carries some shew of truth But if ye weigh it well ye shall find light Is not his Majesty possest in peace And justice executed in his name And can you think the most Christian King Would do this if he saw not reason for it Shat. But had not the Tenth Lewis a sole Daughter Duke I cannot tell Shat. But answer me directly Duke It is a most seditious question Shat. Is this your justice Duke I stand for my King Shat. Was ever Heir-apparant thus abus'd I 'll have your head for this Duke Why do your worst Shat. Will no one stir to apprehend this Traitor A guard about my person will none come Must my own royal hands perform the deed Then thus I do arrest you Duke Treason help Enter Wife Long. Bew. and Serv. Wife Help help my Lord and Husband Duke Help the Duke Long. Forbear his grace's person Shat. Forbear you to touch him that Your Heir-apparent weds But by this hand I will have all your heads Exit Serv. How doth your Grace Duke Why well Serv. How do you find his Title Duke 'T is a dangerous one As can come by a female Serv. I 't is true But the Law Salique cuts him off from all Long. I do beseech your Grace how stands his Title Duke Pew nothing the Law Salique cuts him off from all Wife My gracious Husband you must now prepare In all your Graces pomp to entertain Your Cosin who is now a convertite And follows here this night he will be here Duke Be ready all in haste I do intend To
Longaveil Long. Nay Monsieur I 'll forbid that we 'll have fair play Lend me your candle are you taken Bewford A lecher of your practice and close carriage To be discovered thus I am asham'd So great a master in his art should fail And stagger in his grounds Bew. You 're wide This woman and my self are man and wife And have been so this half year Where are you now have I been discover'd You cannot break so easily on me Sir I am too wary to be open'd by you Long. But these are but illusions to give colour To your most mystick leachery but Sir The belly hath betraid you all it must out Bew. Good Longaveil believe me on my faith I am her husband Long. On my faith I cannot unless I saw Your hands fast and your hearts Bew. Why Longavile when did I give that to your ears That was not truth by all the world she 's mine She is my wife and to confirm you better I give my self again here take my hand And I yours we are once more married Will this content you Long. Yes I am believing and God give you joy Bew. My loving wife I will not wrong thee Since I am thine and only loved of thee From this hour I vow my self a new man Be not jealous for though I had a purpose To have spent an hour or two in solace otherwise And was provided for it yet my love Shall put a better temper to my blood Come out thou woman of unwholsome life Be sorry for thy sins and learn to mend Nay never hide your face you shall be seen Long. Jaques why Jaques art thou that Jaques The very staffe and right hand of our Duke Speak thou bearded Venus Jaq. I am he by miracle preserv'd to be that Jaques Within this two hours Gentlemen poor Jaques Was but as coarse in grave a man of wisdom That of my conscience if he had his right Should have a pretty State but that 's all one That Noble Gentleman did save this life I keep it for him 't is his own Long. Oh Bacchus is all the world drunk come we 'll to the Duke And give thanks for this delivery Actus Quintus Scaena Prima Enter Duke and Jaques Duke NOt gone unto my Tenants to relate My Grace and Honor the mightiness Of my new name which would have struck a terror Through their course doublets to their very hearts Jaq. Alas great Lord and Master I could scarce With safety of my life return again Unto your graces house and but for one That had some mercy I had sure been hang'd Duke My house Jrq. Yes Sir this house your house i' th' Town Duke Jaques we are displeas'd hath it no name Jaq. What name Duke Dull rogue what hath the King bestow'd So many honors open'd all his springs And show'red his graces down upon my head And has my house no name no title yet Burgundy house you ass Jaq. Your graces mercy And when I was come off and had recover'd Burgundy house I durst not yet be seen But lay all night for fear of pursevants In Burgundy privie house Duke Oh Sir 't is well Can you remember now but Jaques know Since thy intended journey is so crost I will go down my self this morning Jaq. Sir Duke Have I not said this morning Jaq. But consider That nothing is prepared yet for your journey Your graces teams not here to draw your cloaths And not a Carrier yet in town to send by Duke I say once more go about it You 're a wise man you 'd have me linger time Till I have worn these cloaths out will ye go Ex. Jaq. Make ye ready Wife Enter Wife Duc. I am so mighty Duke Duke Nay for the Countrey Duc. How for the Countrey Duke Yes I am resolv'd to see my Tenants in this bravery Make them a sumptuous feast with a slight shew Of Dives and Lazarus and a squib or two And so return Duc. Why Sir you are not mad Duke How many Dukes have ye known mad I pray speak Duc. You are the first Sir and I hope the last But you are stark horn-mad Duke Forbear good wife Duc. As I have faith you 're mad your horns Have been too heavy for you and have broke Your skull in pieces If you be in earnest Duke Well you shall know my skull and wits are whole E'r I have done and yet I am in earnest Duc. Why do you think I 'll go Duke I know you shall Duc. I shall by what authority shall I Duke I am your Husband Duc. True I confess it And by that name the world hath given you A power to sway me but Sir you shall know There is a greater bond that ties me here Allegeance to the King has he not heapt Those honors on you to no other end But to stay you here and shall I have a hand In the offending such a gracious Prince Besides our own undoings lies upon 't Were there no other cause I do not see Why you should go If I should say you should not Duke Do you think so Duc. Yes faith Duke Now good wife make me understand that point Duc. Why that you shall did I not bring you hither Duke Yes Duc. And were not all these honors wrought out of the fire by me Duke By you Duc. By me how strange you make it When you came first did you not walk the Town In a long Cloak half compass an old Hat Lin'd with Vellure and on it for a band A skein of crimson Cruil Duke I confess it Duc. And took base courses Duke Base Duc. Base by this light extream base and scurvie monstrous base Duste What were these courses wife Duc. Why you shall know Did you not thus attir'd trot up and down Plotting for vild and lowsie Offices And agreed with the Sergeant of the Bears To buy his place deny this if you can Duke Why it is true Duc. And was not that monstrous base Duke Be advis'd wife a Bear 's a Princely beast Duc. A Bear Duke Yes wife and one side venison Duc. You 're more than one side fool I am sure of that Duke But since you have vext me wife know you shall go Or you shall never have penny from me Duc. Nay I have done and though I know 't will be Your overthrow I 'll not forsake you now Duke Be ready then Exit Duke Duc. I will Enter Bewf. Long Serv. Maria. Long. What are you married Bewford Bew. I as fast as words and hearts and hands and Prieâ can make uâ Duc. Oh Gentlemen we are undone Long. For what Duc. This Gentleman the Lord of Lorgue my Husband Will be gone down to shew his play-fellows Where he is gay Bew. What down into Countrey Duc. Yes faith was ever fool but he so cross I would as fain be gracious to him As he could wish me but he will not let me Speak faithfully will he deserve my mercy Long. According to his merits he
absolute Lisimachus Our power and Titles meet before we are but A shadow and to give you that were nothing Lis Excellent Queen My love took no original from State Or the desire of other greatness Above what my birth may challenge modestly I love your virtues mercenary souls Are taken with advancement you 've an Empire Within you better than the worlds to that Looks my ambition Qu. T'other is not Sir To be despis'd Cosmography allows Epire a place i' th' Map and know till I Possess what I was born to and alone Do grasp the Kingdoms Scepter I account My self divided he that marries me Shall take an obsolute Queen to his warm bosom My temples yet are naked until then Our Loves can be but compliments and wishes Yet very hearty ones Lis I apprehend Qu. Your Father Enter Cassander and Seleucus Cas Madam a Gentleman has an humble suit Qu. 'T is in your power to grant you are Protector I am not yet a Queen Cas How 's this Lis I shall expound her meaning Qu. Why kneel you Sir Sel. Madam to reconcile two families That may unite both Counsels and their blood To serve your Crown Qu. Macarius and Eubulus That beare inveterate malice to each other It grew as I have heard upon the question Which some of either family had made Which of their Fathers was the best Commander If we believe our stories they have both Deserved well of our state and yet this quarrel Has cost too many lives a severe faction Sel But I 'll propound a way to plant a quiet And peace in both our houses which are torn With their dissentions and lose the glory Of their great names my blood speaks my relation To Eubulus and I wish my veins were emptied To appease their war Qu. Thou hast a noble soul This is a charity above thy youth And it flows bravely from thee name the way Sel. In such a desperate cause a little stream Of blood might purge the foulness of their hearts If you 'll prevent a deluge Qu. Be particular Sel. Let but your Majesty consent that two May with their personal valour undertake The honor of their family and determine Their difference Qu. This rather will inlarge Their hate and be a means to call more blood Into the stream Sel. Not if both families Agree and swear Qu. And who shall be the Champions Sel. I beg the honor for Eubulus cause To be ingag'd if any for Macarius Worthy to wager heart with mine accept it I am confident Arcadius For honor would direct me to his sword Will not deny to stake against my life His own if you vouchsafe us priviledge Qu. You are the expectation and top boughs Of both your houses it would seem injustice To allow a civil war to cut you off And your selves the instruments besides You appear a soldier Arcadius Hath no acquaintance yet with rugged war More fit to drill a Lady than expose His body to such dangers a small wound I' th' head may spoil the method of his hair Whose curiosity exacts more time Than his devotion and who knows but he May lose his ribond by it in his lock Dear as his Saint with whom he would exchange His head for her gay colours then his band May he disorder'd and transform'd from Lace To Cutwork his rich cloaths be discomplexioned With bloud beside the infashionable slashes And at the next Festival take Physick Or put on black and mourn for his slain breeches His hands cas'd up in gloves all night and sweet Pââatum the next day may be endangerd'd To blisters with a sword how can he stand Upon his guard who hath Fidlers in his head To which his feet must ever be a dancing Beside a falsify may spoil his cringe Or making of a leg in which consists Much of his Court-perfection Sel. Is this Character Bestow'd on him Qu. It something may concern the Gentleman Whom if you please to challenge To Dance play on the Lute or Sing Sel. Some Ketch Qu. He shall not want those will maintain him For any sum Sel. You are my Sovereign I dare not think yet I must speak somewhat I shall burst else I have no skill in Jiggs Nor Tumbling Qu. How Sir Sel. Nor was I born a Minstrel and in this you have So infinitely disgrac'd Arcadius But that I have heard another Character And with your royal Licence do believe it I should not think him worth my killing Qu. Your killing Sel. Does she not jeer me I shall talk treason presently I find it At my tongues end already this is an Affront I 'll leave her Qu. Come back do you know Arcadius Sel. I ha' chang'd but little breath with him our persons Admit no familiarity we were Born to live both at distance yet I ha' seen him Fight and fight bravely Qu. When the spirit of Wine Made his brain valiant he fought bravely Sel. Although he be my enemy should any Of the gay flies that buzze about the Court Sit to catch trouts i' th' summer tell me so â durst in any presence but your own Qu. What Sel. Tell him he were not honest Qu. I see Selecus thou art resolute And I but wrong'd Arcadius your first Request is granted you shall fight and he That conquers be rewarded to confirm First place and honor to his Family Is it not this you plead for Sel. You are gracious Qu. Lisimachus Lis Madam Cas She has granted then Sel. With much ado Cas I wish thy sword may open His wanton veins Macarius is too popular And has taught him to insinuate Qu. It shall But haste the confirmation of our loves And ripen the delights of marriage Seleucus Exit cum Sel. Lis As I guest It cannot be too soon Cas To morrow then we crown her and invest My Son with Majesty 't is to my wishes âeget a race of Princes my Lisimachus Lis First let us marry Sir Cas Thy brow was made To wear a golden circle I 'm transported Thou shalt rule her and I will govern thee Lis Although you be my Father that will not Concern my obedience as I take it Enter Philocles Lisander and Antigonus Gentlemen Prepare your selves for a solemnity Will turn the Kingdom into triumph Epire Look fresh to morrow 't will become your duties In all your glory to attend the Queen At her Coronation she is pleased to make The next day happy in our Calendar My office doth expire and my old blood Renews with thought on 't Phi. How 's this Ant. Crown'd to morrow Lisa And he so joyful to resign his Regency There 's some trick in 't I do not like these hasty Proceedings and whirls of state they have commonâ As strange and violent effects well heaven save the Queen Phi. Heaven save the Queen say I and send her a sprightly Bed-fellow for the Protector let him pray for Himself he is like to have no benefit of my devotion Cas But this doth quicken my old heart Lisimachus
careful Within Vi. As ever you had pity let me in I am undone else Ant. Who are you Vio. My name is Viola a Gentlewoman that ill chance hath distressed you know my Father Mer. Alas of god we 'll let her in 't is one of the Gentlewomen were here i' th' evening I know her by her name poor soul shee 's cold I warrant her let her have my warme Bed and I 'll take her fortune come pray come Ant. It is not Viola that 's certain she went home to her Fathers I am sure Vio. Will not you be so good to let me in Ant. I 'll be so good to have you whipt away if you stay a little longer Shee 's gone I warrant her now let me know your cause for I will hear it and not repent the knowing Mer. Since you are so importunate I 'll tell you I love your Wife extreamly Ant. Very well Mer. And so well that I dare not stay Ant. Why Mer. For wronging you I know I am flesh and blood and you have done me friendships infinite and often that must require me honest and a true Man and I will be so oâ I 'll break my heart Ant. Why you may stay for all this methinks Mer. No though I wood be good I am no saint nor is it safe to try me I deal plainly Ant. Come I dare try you do the best you can Mer. You shall not when I am right agen I 'll come and see you till when I 'll use all Countryes and all means but I will lose this folly 't is a Divel Ant. Is there no way to stay you Mer. No unless you will have me such a villain to you as all men shall spit at me Ant. Do's she know you love her Mer. No I hope not that were recompence fit for a Rogue to render her Ant. If ever any had a faithful friend I am that Man and I may glory in 't this is he that ipse he that passes all Christendome for goodness he shall not over goe me in his friendship 't were recreant and base and I 'll be hang'd first I am resolv'd go thy wayes a Wife will never part us I have consider'd and I find her nothing to such a friend as thou art I 'll speak a bold world take your time and woe her you have overcome me clearly and do what 's fitting with her you conceive me I am glad at heart you love her by this light ne're stare upon me for I will not flye from it if you had spoken sooner sure you had been serv'd Sir you are not every Man now to your taske I give you free leave and the sin is mine if there be any in it Mer. He will be hang'd before he makes this good he cannot be so innocent a Coxcombe he can tell ten sure if I had never known you as I have done I might be one as others perhaps sooner but now 't is impossible there 's too much good between us Ant. Well thou art e'en the best man I can say no more I am so over-joy'd you must stay this night and in the morning go as early as you please I have a toy for you Mer. I thought this pill would make you sick Ant. But where you mean to be I must have notice And it must be hard by too do you mark me Mer. Why What 's the matter Ant. There is a thing in hand Mer. Why What thing Ant. A sound one if it take right and you be not peevish We two will be you would little think it as famous for our friendship Mer. How Ant. If Heaven please as ever Damon was and Pytheas or Pylades and Orestes or any two that ever were do you conceive me yet Mer. No by my troth Sir he will not help me up sure Ant. You shall anon and for our names I think they shall live after us and be remember'd while there is a story or I 'll lose my aime Mer. What a vengeance ailes he How do you Ant. Yes faith we two will be such friends as the world shall ring of Mâr. And why is all this Ant. You shall enjoy my wife Mer. Away away Ant. The wonder must begin so I have cast it 't will be scurvy else you shall not stir a foot in 't pray be quiet till I have made it perfect Mer. What shall a Man do with this wretched fellow there is no mercy to be used towards him he is not capable of any pitty he will in spight of course be a Cuckold And who can help it must it begin so needs Sir think agen Ant. Yes marry must it and I my self will woe this woman for you Do you perceive it now ha Mer. Yes now I have a little sight i th' matter O that thy head should be so monstrous that all thy Servants hats may hang upon 't but do you meane to do this Ant. Yes certain I will woe her and for you strive not against it 't is the overthrow of the best plot that ever was then Mer. Nay I 'll assure you Sir I 'll do no harm you have too much about you of your own Ant. Have you thought of a place yet Mer. A place Ant. I a place where you will bide prethee no more of this modesty 't is foolish and we were not determin'd to be absolute friends indeed 't were tolerable Mer. I have thought and you shall hear from me Ant. Why this will gain me everlasting glory I have the better of him that 's my comfort good night Exit Mer. Good night well go thy wayes thou art the tydiest wittall this day I think above ground and yet thy end for all this must be mottly Exit Enter a Tinker with a Cord and Dorothy Tink 'T is better cold a plague upon these Rogues how wary they are grown not a door open now but double barr'd not a Window but up with a case of wood like a spice box and their locks unpickable the very Smiths that were half ventures drink penitent single Ale this is the Iron age the Ballad sings of well I shall meet with some of our loose Linnen yet good fellows must not starve here 's he shall shew God a mighties dog bolts if this hold Dorothy Faith thou art but too merciful that 's thy fault thou art as sweet a Thief that sin excepted as ever suffer'd that 's a proud word and I 'll maintain it Tinck. Come prethee let 's shogg off and browze an hour or two there 's Ale will make a Cat speak at the harrow we shall get nothing now without we batter 't is grown too near morning the Rogues sleep sober and are watchful Dorit. We want a Boy extreamly for this function kept under for a year with milk and knot-grass in my time I have seen a boy do wonders Bobbin the red Tinker had a Boy Rest his Soul he suffer'd this time 4 years for two Spoons and a Pewter Candlestick that sweet
Man had a Boy as I am Curstend Whore would have run through a Cat hole he would have boulted such a piece of Linen in an evening Tinck. Well we will have a Boy prethee le ts go I am vengeance cold I tell thee Dorothy I 'll be hang'd before I stir without some purchase by these ten bones I 'll turn she-ape and untile a house but I 'll have it it may be I have a humor to be hang'd I cannot tell Enter Viola Tinck. Peace you flead Whore thou hast a mouth like a Bloodhound here comes a night-shade Dorit. A Gentlewoman Whore by this darkness I 'll case her to the skin Tinck. Peace I say Viola What fear have I endur'd this dismal night And what disgrace if I were seen and known In which this darkness onely is my friend That onely has undone me a thousand curses Light on my easie foolish childish love That durst so lightly lay a confidence Upon a Man so many being false My weariness and weeping makes me sleepy I must lie down Tinck. What 's this a Prayer or a Homily or a Ballad of good councel she has a Gown I am sure Dor. Knock out her brains and then shee 'll nee'r bite Tinck. Yes I will knock her but not yet you woman Viol. For Gods sake what are you Tinck. One of the groomes of your wardrobe come uncase uncase by r Lady a good Kersey Vio. Pray do not hurt me Sir Dor. Let 's have no pitty for if you do here 's that shall cut your whistle Viol. Alas what would you have I am as miserable as you can make me any way Dor. That shall be try'd Vio. Here take my Gown if that will do you pleasure Tink Yes marry will it look in the Pockets Doll there may be birds Dor. They are flown a pox go with them I 'll have this Hat and this Ruffe too I like it now will I flourish like a Lady brave I faith boy Vio. Y' are so gentle people to my seeming That by my truth I could live with you Tin Could you so a pretty young round wench well bloudded I am for her Theeves Dor. But by this I am not coole your Codpiece Rogue or I 'll clap a spell upon 't shall take your edge off with a very vengeance Tin Peace horse-flesh peace I 'll cast off my Amazon she has walk'd too long and is indeed notorious shee 'll fight and scould and drink like one of the worthies Dort Uds pretious you young contagious Whore must you be ticing and Is your flesh so wranck Sir that two may live upon 't I am glad to hear your Cortalls grown so lusty he was dry founder'd t'other day wehee my pamper'd Jade of Asia Vio. Good Woman do not hurt me I am sorry that I have given any cause of anger Dor. Either bind her quickly and come away or by this steel I 'll tell thee though I truss for company now could I eate her broyl'd or any way without Vinegar I must have her Nose Vio. By any thing you love best good Sir good Woman Tin Why her Nose Dorothy Dor. If I have it not and presently warm I lose that I go withal Tin Wood the Devil had that thou goest withall and thee together for sure he got thy whelps if thou hast any shee s thy deere dad Whore put up your cutpurse an I take my switch up 't will be a black time with you else sheth your bung Whore Dor. Will you bind her we shall stand here prating and be hang'd both Tin Come I must bind you not a word no crying Vio. Do what you will indeed I will not cry Tin Hurt her not if thou dost by Ale and Beer I 'll clout thy old bald brain pan with a piece of Brass you Bitch incarnate Exeunt Tinker and Dorothy Viola O Heaven to what am I reserv'd that knew not Through all my childish hours and actions More sin than poor imagination And too much loving of a faithless Man For which I 'm paid and so that not the day That now is rising to protect the harmless And give the innocent a sanctuary From theeves and spoilers can deliver me From shame at leaât suspition Enter Valerio Val. Sirrah lead down the horses easily I 'll walke a foot till I be down the hill 't is very early I shall reach home betimes How now whose there Vio. Night that was ever friend to Lovers yet Has rais'd some weary Soul that hates his bed To come and see me blush and then laugh at me Val. H 'ad a rude heart that did this Vio. Gentle Sir If you have that which honest men call pitty And be as far from evil as you shew Help a poor Maid that this night by bad fortune Has been thus us'd by Robbers Val. A pox upon his heart that would not help thee this Thief was half a Lawyer by his bands How long have you been tyed here Viol. Alas this hour and with cold and fear am almost perisht Val. Where were the watch the while good sober Gent. âhey were like careful members of the City drawing in diligent Ale and singing catches while Mr. Constable contriv'd the Tosts these fellows would be more severely punisht than wandring Gipsies that every statute whips for âf they had every one two eyes a piece more three pots would put them out Viol. I cannot tell I found no Christian to give me succor Val. When they take a Thief I 'll take Ostend agen the âhorsons drink Opium in their Ale and then they sleep like âops as for their bills they only serve to reach down Baâon to make Rashers on now let me know whom I have âone this courtesie too that I may thank my early rising for it Viol. Sir All I am you see Val. You have a name I 'm sure and a kindred a Father âriend or something that must own you shee 's a handsome âoung Wench What Rogues were these to Rob âer Vio. Sir you see all I dare reveale And as you are a Gentleman press me no further For there begins a grief whose bitterness Will break a stronger heart than I have in me ând 't will but make you heavy with the hearing For your own goodness sake desire it not Val. If you would not have me enquire that How do you live then Viol. How I have liv'd is still one question Which must not be resolv'd How I desire to live is in your liking So worthy an opinion I have of you Val. Is in my liking How I pray thee tell me i'faith I 'll do you any good lies in my power she has an eye would raise a bedrid man come leave your fear and tell me that 's a good Wench Viol. Sir I would serve Val. Who would'st thou serve do not weep and tell me Viol. Faith Sir even some good woman and such a wife if you be married I do imagine yours Val. Alas thou art young and tender let me see thy
'l answer for 't Cun. Alas What seek you Neece Sir mine own with loss Cun. You shall Neece I never made so hard a bargain Cun. Sweet Lady Neece Unjust man let my wrath reach her As you owe virtue duty Cun. falls on purpose Your cause trips you Now Minion you shall feel what loves rage is Before you taste the pleasure smile you false Sir Cun. How can I chuse to see what pains you take Upon a thing will never thank you for 't Neece How Cun. See what things you women be Lady When cloaths are taken for the best part of you This was to show you when you think I love you not How y' are deceiv'd still there the Moral lies 'T was a trap set to catch you and the only bait To take a Lady nibling is fine clothes Now I dare boldly thank you for your love I 'm pretty well resolv'd in 't by this fit For a jealous ague alwayes ushers it Neece Now blessings still maintain this wit of thine And I have an excellent fortune coming in thee Bring nothing else I charge thee Cun. Not a groat I warrant ye Neece Thou shalt be worthily welcome take my faith for 't Next opportunity shall make us Cun. The old Gentlewoman has fool'd her revenge sweetly Neece ' Lass 't is her part she knows her place so well yonder Alwayes when Women jumpe upon threescore Love shoves e'm from the chamber to the door Cun. Thou art a precious she-wit Exeunt Actus Quintus Scaena Prima Enter Cunningame at one door Witty-Pate Ruinous L. Ruinous and Priscian at the other Cun. FRiend met in the harvest of our designs Not a thought but 's busie Wit I knew it Man And that made me provide these needful Reapers Hooks Rakers Gleaners we 'll sing it home With a melodious Horne-pipe this is the Bond That as we further in your great affair You 'l suffer us to glean pick up for crums And if we snatch a handful from theÌ sheaf You will not look a churle on 's Cuâ Friend we 'll share The sheaves of gold only the Love Aker Shall be peculiar Wit Much good do you Sir Away you know your way and your stay get you The Musick ready while we prepare the dancers Ruin We are a consort of our selves Pris And can strike up lustily Wit You must bring Sir Fop. Cun That 's perfect enough Ruin Bring all the Fops you can the more the better fare So the proverb runs backwards Exeunt Ruin and Pris L. Ruin I 'll bring the Ladies Exit Wit Do so first and then the Fops will follow I must to my Father he must make one Exit Enter two Servants with a Banquet Cun. While I dispatch a business with the Knight And I go with you Well sed I thank you This small Banquet will furnish our few Guests With taste and state enough one reach my Gown The action craves it rather than the weather 1 Serv. There 's one stayes to speak with you Sir Cun. What is he 1 Serv. Faith I know not what Sir a Fool I think That some Brokers shop has made half a Gentleman Has the name of a Worthy too Cun. Pompey Is' t not 1 Ser. That 's he Sir Cun. Alas poor fellow prethee enter him he will need too Enter second Servant with a Gown He shall serve for a Witness Oh Gramercy âf my friend Sir Gregory comes you know him Enter Clown Entertain him kindly Oh Master Pompey How is' t man Clow. ' Snails I 'm almost starv'd with Love and cold and one thing or other Has not my Lady sent for me yet Cun. Not that I hear sure some unfriendly Messenger âs imploy'd betwixt you Clow. I was ne'er so cold in my life in my Conscience I âave been seven mile in length along the New River I âave seen a hundred stickle bags I do not think but there 's âudgeons too 't will ne'er he a true water Cun. Why think you so Clow. I warrant you I told a thousand Millers thumbs in it I 'll make a little bold with your Sweet-meats Cun. And welcome Pompey Clow. 'T is a strange thing I have no taste in any thing Cun. Oh that 's Love that distasts any thing but it self Clow. 'T is worse than Cheese in that point may not a Man break his word with a Lady I could find in my heart and my hose too Cun. By no means Sir that breaks all the Laws of Love Clow. Well I 'll ne'er pass my word without my deed to A Lady while I live agen I would fain recover my taste Cun. Well I have news to tell you Clow. Good news Sir Cun. Happy news I help you away with a Rival your Master bestow'd Clow. Where for this Plumbs sake Cun. Nay listen me Clow. I warrant you Sir I have two ears to one mouth I hear more than I eat I 'de ne'er row by Queen Hive While I liv'd else Cun. I have a Wife for him and thou shalt witness the Contract Clow. The old one I hope 't is not the Lady Cun. Choak him first 't is one which thou shalt see See him see him deceiv'd see the deceit only The injunction is you shall smile with modesty Clow. I 'll simper I'faith as cold as I am yet the old one I hope Enter Servant Serv. Sir here 's Sir Gregory Cun. U'd so shelter shelter if you be seen All 's ravell'd out again stand there private And you 'll find the very opportunity To call you forth and place you at the Table Enter Sir Gregory You are welcome Sir this Banquet will serve When it is crown'd with such a dainty as you Expect and must have Sir Greg. ' Tush these sweet-meats are but sauce to that Well if there be any honesty or true word in a dream She 's mine own nay and chang'd extreamly Not the same Woman Cun. Who not the Lady Sir Greg. No not to me the edge of her tongue iS taken off Gives me very good words turn'd up-side-down to me And we live as quietly as two Tortoises if she hold on As she began in my dream Soft Musick Cun. Nay if Love send forth such Predictions You are bound to believe 'em there 's the watch-word Of her coming to your practis'd part now If you hit it Aequus Cupido nobis Both go into the Gown Sir Greg. I will warrant you Sir I will give armes to Your Gentry look you forward to your business I am an eye behind you place her in that Chair And let me alone to grope her out Enter Mirabell Cun. Silence Lady your sweet presence illustrates This homely roof and as course entertainment But where affections are both Host and Guest They cannot meet unkindly please you sit Your something long stay made me unmannerly To place before you you know this friend here He 's my Guest and more especially That this our meeting might not be too single Without a witness to 't Mirab. I came not
else I 'll choose And end their strife two such young handsome men Shall never fall for me their weeping Mothers Following the dead cold ashes of their Sons Shall never curse my cruelty Good Heaven What a sweet face has Arcite if wise nature With all her best endowments all those beauties She shews into the births of noble bodies Were here a mortal woman and had in her The coy denials of young Maids yet doubtless She would run mad for this man what an eye Of what a fiery sparkle and quick sweetness Has this young Prince here Love himself sits smiling Just such another wanton Ganimead Set Love a fire with and enforc'd the god Snatch up the goodly Boy and set him by him A shining constellation what a brow Of what a spacious Majesty he carries Arch'd like the great ey'd Juno's but far sweeter Smoother than Pelops Shoulder Fame and Honor Methinks from hence as from a Promontory Pointed in heaven should clap their wings and sing To all the under world the Loves and Fights Of gods and such men near ' em Palamon Is but his soil to him a mere dull shadow He 's swarth and meagre of an eye as heavy As if he had lost his mother a still temper No stirring in him no alacrity Of all this sprightly sharpness not a smile Yet these that we count errors may become him Narcissus was a sad Boy but a heavenly Oh who can find the bent of womans fancy I 'm a fool my reason is lost in me I have no choice and I have ly'd so lewdly That Women ought to beat me On my knees I ask thy pardon Palamon thou art alone And only beautiful and these thy eyes These the bright lamps of Beauty that command And threaten Love and what young Maid dare cross 'em What a bold gravity and yet inviting Has this brown manly face Oh Love this only From this hour is complexion lye there Arcite Thou art a changling to him a mere Gipsie And this the noble Bodie I am sotted Utterly lost My Virgins faith has fled me For if my Brother but even now had ask'd me Whether I lov'd I had run mad for Arcite Now if my Sister More for Palamon Stand both together now come ask me Brother Alas I know not ask me now sweet Sister I may go look what a mere child is Fancie That having two fair gawds of equal sweetness Cannot distinguish but must cry for both Enter Emil. and Gent. Emil. How now Sir Gent. From the Noble Duke your Brother Madam I bring you news the Knights are come Emil. To end the quarrel Gent. Yes Emil. Would I might end first What sins have I committed chaste Diana That my unspotted youth must now be soil'd With bloud of Princes and my Chastity Be made the Altar where the Lives of Lovers Two greater and two better never yet Made Mothers joy must be the sacrifice To my unhappy Beauty Enter Theseus Hippolita Perithous and Attendants Thes Bring 'em in quickly By any means I long to see ' em Your two contending Lovers are return'd And with them their fair Knights Now my fair Sister You must love one of them Emil. I had rather both So neither for my sake should fall untimely Enter Messenger Curtis Thes Who saw ' em Per. I a while Gent. And I. Thes From whence come you Sir Mess From the Knights Thes Pray speak You that have seen them what they are Mess I will Sir And truly what I think six braver spirits Than those they have brought if we judge by the outside I never saw nor read of he that stands In the first place with Arcite by his seeming Should be a stout man by his face a Prince His very looks so say him his complexion Nearer a brown than black stern and yet noble Which shews him hardy fearless proud of dangers The circles of his eyes shew fair within him And as a heated Lion so he looks His hair hangs long behind him black and shining Like Ravens wings his shoulders broad and strong Arm'd long and round and on his Thigh a Sword Hung by a curious Bauldrick when he frowns To seal his Will with better o' my conscience Was never Soldiers friend Thes Thou hast well describ'd him Per. Yet a great deal short Methinks of him that 's first with Palamon Thes Pray speak him friend Per. I ghess he is a Prince too And if it may be greater for his show Has all the ornament of honor in 't He 's somewhat bigger than the Knight he spoke of But of a face far sweeter his complexion Is as a ripe Grape ruddy he has felt Without doubt what he fights for and so apter To make this cause his own in 's face appears All the fair hopes of what he undertakes And when he 's angry then a setled valour Not tainted with extreams runs through his body And guides his arm to brave things Fear he cannot He shews no such soft temper his head 's yellow Hard haiâ'd and curl'd thick twin'd like Ivy tops Nor to undoe with thunder in his face The Livery of the warlike Maid appears Pure red and white for yet no beard has blest him And in his rowling eyes sits victory As if she ever meant to correct his valour His Nose stands high a Character of honor His red Lips after sights are sit for Ladies Emil. Must these men die too Per. When he speaks his tongue Sounds like a Trumpet all his lineaments Are as a man would wish 'em strong and clean He wears a well-steel'd Axe the staffe of Gold His age some five and twenty Mess There 's another A little man but of a tough soul seeming As great as any fairer promises In such a Body yet I never look'd on Per. Oh he that 's freckle fac'd Mess The same my Lord Are they not sweet ones Per Yes they are well Mess Methinks Being so few and well dispos'd they shew Great and fine Art in nature he 's white hair'd Not wanton white but such a manly colour Next to an aborn tough and nimble set Which shows an active soul his arms are brawny Lin'd with strong sinews to the shoulder-piece Gently they swell like Women new conceiv'd Which speaks him prone to labour never fainting Under the weight of Arms stout-hearted still But when he stirs a Tiger he 's grey ey'd Which yields compassion where he conquers sharp To spie advantages and where he finds 'em He 's swift to make 'em his He does no wrongs Nor takes none he 's round fac'd and when he smiles He shows a Lover when he frowns a Soldier About his head he wears the winners oak And in it stuck the favour of his Lady His age some six and thirty In his hand He bears a Charging Staffe emboss'd with Silver Thes Are they all thus Per. They are all the sons of honor Thes Now as I have a soul I long to see 'em Lady you shall see men fight now
that defect a torture In marking her to death for whom alone I felt that weakness as a want requires More than the making the head bald or falling Thus flat upon the earth or cursing that way Or praying this oh such a Scene of grief And so set down the world the stage to act on May challenge a Tragedian better practis'd Than I am to express it for my cause Of passion is so strong and my performance So weak that though the part be good I fear Th' ill acting of it will defraud it of The poor reward it may deserve mens pity Brun. I have given you way thus long a King and what Is more my Son and yet a slave to that Which only triumphs over cowards sorrow For shame look up Thier. Is' t you look down on me And if that you are capable to receive it Let that return to you that have brought forth One mark'd out only for it what are these Come they upon your privilege to tread on The Tomb of my afflictions Prot. No not we Sir Thier. How dare you then omit the ceremony Due to the funeral of all my hopes Or come unto the marriage of my sorrows But in such colours as may sort with them Prot. Alas we will wear any thing Brun. This is madness Take but my counsel Thier. Yours dare you again Though arm'd with th' authority of a mother Attempt the danger that will fall on you If such another syllable awake it Goe and with yours be safe I have such cause Of grief nay more to love it that I will not Have such as these be sharers in it Lecu. Madam Prot. Another time were better Brun. Do not stirr For I must be resolv'd and will be statues Enter Martel Thier. I thou art welcome and upon my soul Thou art an honest man do you see he has tears To lend to him whom prodigal expence Of sorrow has made bankrupt of such treasure Nay thou dost well Mart. I would it might excuse The ill I bring along Thier. Thou mak'st me smile I the heighth of my calamities as if There could be the addition of an Atome To the gyant-body of my miseries But try for I will hear thee all sit down 't is death To any that shall dare to interrupt him In look gesture or word Mart. And such attention As is due to the last and the best story That ever was deliver'd will become you The griev'd Ordella for all other titles But take away from that having from me Prompted by your last parting groan enquir'd What drew it from you and the cause soon learn'd For she whom barbarism could deny nothing With such prevailing earnestness desir'd it 'T was not in me though it had been my death To hide it from her she I say in whom All was that Athens Rome or warlike Sparta Have registred for good in their best Women But nothing of their ill knowing her self Mark'd out I know not by what power but sure A cruel one to dye to give you children Having first with a setled countenance Look'd up to Heaven and then upon her self It being the next best object and then smil'd As if her joy in death to do you service Would break forth in despight of the much sorrow She shew'd she had to leave you and then taking Me by the hand this hand which I must ever Love better than I have done since she touch'd it Go said she to my Lord and to goe to him Is such a happiness I must not hope for And tell him that he too much priz'd a trifle Made only worthy in his love and her Thankful acceptance for her sake to rob The Orphan Kingdom of such guardians as Must of necessity descend from from him And therefore in some part of recompence Of his much love and to shew to the world That 't was not her fault only but her fate That did deny to let her be the mother Of such most certain blessings yet for proof She did not envy her that happy her That is appointed to them her guick end Should make way for her which no sooner spoke But in a moment this too ready engine Made such a battery in the choisest Castle That ever nature made to defend life That strait it shook and sunk Thier. Stay dares any Presume to shed a tear before me or Ascribe that worth unto themselves to merit To do so for her I have done now on Mart. Fall'n thus once more she smil'd as if that death For her had studied a new way to sever The soul and body without sense of pain And then tell him quoth she what you have seen And with what willingness 't was done for which My last request unto him is that he Would instantly make choice of one most happy In being so chosen to supply my place By whom if heaven bless him with a daughter In my remembrance let it bear my name Which said she dy'd Thier. I hear this and yet live Heart art thou thunder proof will nothing break thee She 's dead and what her entertainment may be In th' other world without me is uncertain And dare I stay here unresolv'd Mart. Oh Sir Brun. Dear son Prot. Great King Thier. Unhand me am I fall'n So low that I have lost the power to be Disposer of my own life Mart. Be but pleas'd To borrow so much time of sorrow as To call to mind her last request for whom I must confess a loss beyond expression You turn your hand upon your self 't was hers And dying hers that you should live and happy In seeing little models of your self By matching with another and will you Leave any thing that she desir'd ungranted And suffer such a life that was laid down For your sake only to be fruitless Thier. Oh thou dost throw charms upon me against which I cannot stop my ears bear witness heaven That not desire of life nor love of pleasure Nor any future comforts but to give Peace to her blessed spirit in satisfying Her last demand makes me defer our meeting Which in my choice and suddain choice shall be To all apparent Brun. How doe I remove one mischief To draw upon my head a greater Thier. Go thou only good man to whom for her self Goodness is dear and prepare to interr it In her that was oh my heart my Ordella A monument worthy to be the casket Of such a jewel Mart. Your command that makes way Unto my absence is a welcome one For but your self there 's nothing here Martel Can take delight to look on yet some comfort Goes back with me to her who though she want it Deserves all blessings Exit Brun. So soon to forget The loss of such a wife believe it will Be censur'd in the world Thier. Pray you no more There is no argment you can use to cross it But does increase in me such a suspition I would not cherish who 's that Enter Memberge Memb. One no
some hope I have me thinks a kind of fever upon me Exit Boy A certain gloominess within me doubting as it were betwixt two passions there is no young maid upon her wedding night when her husband sets first foot in the bed blushes and looks pale again oftner than I doe now There is no Poet acquainted with more shakings and quakings towards the latter end of this new play when he 's in that case that he stands peeping betwixt Curtains so fearfully that a Bottle of Ale cannot be opened but he thinks some body hisses than I am at this instant Count. Are they in consultation If they be either my young Duke hath gotten some Bastard and is persuading my Knight yonder to father the child and marry the wench or else some Cock-pit is to be built Laz. My Lord what Nobleman's that Count. His name is Lucio 't is he that was made a Lord at the request of some of his friends for his wives sake he affects to be a great States-man and thinks it consists in night-caps and jewells and tooth-picks Laz. And what 's that other Count. A Knight Sir that pleaseth the Duke to favour and to raise to some extraordinary fortunes he can make as good men as himself every day in the week and doth Laz For what was he raised Count. Truely Sir I am not able to say directly for what But for wearing of red breeches as I take it he 's a brave man he will spend three Knighthoods at a Supper without Trumpets Laza. My Lord I 'll talk with him for I have a friend that would gladly receive the humor Count. If he have the itch of Knighthood upon him let him repair to that Physitian he 'll cure him but I will give you a note is your friend fat or lean Laz Something fat Count. 'T will be the worse for him Laza. I hope that 's not material Count. Very much for there is an impost set upon Knighthoods your friend shall pay a Noble in the pound Duke I doe not like examinations We shall find out the truth more easily Some other way less noted and that course Should not be us'd till we be sure to prove Some thing directly for when they perceive Themselves suspected they will then provide More warily to answer Luc. Doth she know your Grace doth love her Duke She hath never heard it Luc. Then thus my Lord. They whisper again Laz. What 's he that walks alone so sadly with his hands behind him Count. The Lord of the house he that you desire to be acquainted with he doth hate women for the same cause that I love them Laz. What 's that Count. For that which Apes want you perceive me Sir Laz. And is he sad Can he be sad that hath so rich a gem under his roof as that which I doe follow What young Lady 's that Count. Which Have I mine eye-sight perfect 't is my sister did I say the Duke had a Bastard What should she make here with him and his Councell She hath no papers in her hand to petition to them she hath never a husband in prison whose release she might sue for That 's a fine trick for a wench to get her husband clapt up that she may more freely and with less suspition visit the private studies of men in authority Now I doe discover their consultation you fellow is a Pander without all salvation But let me not condemn her too rashly without weighing the matter she 's a young Lady she went forth early this morning with a waiting woman and a Page or so This is no garden house in my conscience she went forth with no dishonest intent for she did not pretend going to any Sermon in the further end of the City Neither went she to see any odd old Gentlewoman that mourns for the death of her husband or the loss of her friend and must have young Ladys come to comfort her those are the damnable Bawds 'T was no set meeting certainly for there was no wafer-woman with her these three days on my knowledge I 'll talk with her Good morrow my Lord. Gond. Y' are welcome Sir here 's her brother come now to doe a kind office for his sister is it not strange Count. I am glad to meet you here sister Orian. I thank you good brother and if you doubt of the cause of my coming I can satisfie you Count. No faith I dare trust thee I doe suspect thou art honest for it is so rare a thing to be honest amongst you that some one man in an age may perhaps suspect some two women to be honest but never believe it verily Luci. Let your return be suddain Arri. Unsuspected by them Duke It shall so shall I best perceive their Love if there be any Farewell Count. Let me entreat your grace to stay a little To know a gentleman to whom your self Is much beholding he hath made the sport For your whole Court these eight years on my knowledge Duke His name Count. Lazarello Duke I heard of him this morning which is he Count. Lazarello pluck up thy spirits thy Fortune is now raising the Duke calls for thee and thou shalt be acquainted with him Laz. He 's going away and I must of necessity stay here upon business Count. 'T is all one thou shalt know him first Laz. Stay a little if he should offer to take me away with him and by that means I should loose that I seek for but if he should I will not goe with him Count. Lazarello the Duke stayes wilt thou lose this opportunity Laz. How must I speak to him Count. 'T was well thought of you must not talk to him as you doe to an ordinary man honest plain sence but you must wind about him for example if he should aske you what a clock it is you must not say If it please your grace 't is nine but thus thrice three a clock so please my Sovereign or thus Look how many Muses there doth dwell Upon the sweet banks of the learned Well And just so many stroaks the clock hath struck And so forth And you must now and then enter into a description Laz. I hope I shall doe it Count. Come May it please your grace to take note of a Gentleman wel seen deeply read and throughly grounded in the hidden knowledge of all sallets and pot-herbs whatsoever Duke I shall desire to know him more inwardly Laz. I kiss the Oxe-hide of your graces foot Count. Very well will your grace question him a little Duke How old are you Laz. Full eight and twenty several Almanacks Have been compiled all for several years Since first I drew this breath four prentiships Have I most truely served in this world And eight and twenty times hath Phoebus Car Run out his yearly course since Duke I understand you Sir Luci. How like an ignorant Poet he talks Duke You are eight and twenty years old what time of the day doe you
now 'Fore Heaven I am angrie with thee Sirha sirha This whitmeat spirit 's not yours legitimate Advance your hope and 't please you ghess again Ang. And let your thoughts flee higher aim them right Sir you may hit you have the fairest white Ferd. If I may be so bold then my good Lord Your favour doth encourage me to aspire To catch my Ladyes Gentlewoman Ben. Where Where would you catch her Do you know my daughter Violanta Sir Ang. Well said no more about the bush Ferd. My good Lord I have gaz'd on Violanta and the stars Whose Heavenly influence I admir'd not knew Nor ever was so sinful to believe I might attain 't Ben. Now you are an aââ again For if thou ne'er attain'st 't is onely long Of that faint heart of thine which never did it She is your Lords heir mine Benvoglio 's heir My brothers too Randulpho s her descent Not behinde any of the Millanois And Ferdinand although thy parentage Be unknown thou know'st that I have bred thee up From five yeers old and do not blush to hear it Have found thy wisdom trust and fair success So full in all my affaris that I am fitter To call thee Master then thou me thy Lord. Thou canst not be but sprung of gentlest blood Thy minde shines thorow thee like the radiant sun Although thy body be a beauteous cloud Come seriously this is no flatterie And well thou know'st it though thy modest blood Rise like the morning in thy cheek to hear 't Sir I can speak in earnest Vertuous service So meritorious Ferdinand as yours Yet bashful still and silent should extract A fuller price then impudence exact And this is now the wages it must have My daughter is thy wife my wealth thy slave Ferd. Good Madam pinch I sleep does my Lord mock And you assist Custom 's inverted quite For old men now adays do flout the young Ben. Fetch Violanta As I intend this Religiously let my soul finde joy or pain Exit Angelina Ferd. My honor'd Lord and Master if I hold That worth could merit such felicitie You bred it in me and first purchas'd it It is your own and what productions In all my faculties my soul begets Your very mark is on you need not add Rewards to him that is in bebt to you You sav'd my life Sir in the Massacre There you begot me new since foster'd me O! can I serve to much or pray for you Alas 't is slender paiment to your bountie Your daughter is a paradice and I Unworthie to be set there you may chuse The royalst seeds of Milain Ben. Prethee peace Thy goodness makes me weep I am resolv'd ââm no Lord o' th' time to tie my blood To sordid muck I have enough my name My estate and honors I will store in thee Whose wisdom will rule well keep and increase A knave or fool that could confer the like Would bate each hour diminish every day Thou art her price-lot than drawn out by fate An honest wise man is a Princes mate Ferd. Sir Heaven and you have over-charg'd my brest With grace beyond my continence I shall burst The blessing you have given me witness Saints I would not change for Millain But my Lord Is she prepar'd Ben. What needs Preparative Where such a Cordial is prescrib'd as thou Thy person and thy virtues in one scale Shall poize hers with her beautie and her wealth If not I add my will unto thy weight Thy mother 's with her now Son take my keys And let this prepartion for this Marriage This welcome Marriage long determin'd here Be quick and gorgeous Gerrard Enter Gerrard Ger. My good Lord My Lord your brother craves your conference Instantly on affairs of high import Ben. Why what news Ger. The Tyrant my good Lord Is sick to death of his old Apoplexie Whereon the States advise that Letters-missive Be straight dispatcht to all the neighbour-Countreys And Schedules too divulg'd on every post To enquire the lost Duke forth their purpose is To re-instate him Ben. 'T is a pious deed Ferdinand to my daughter this delay Though to so good a purpose angers me But I 'll recover it Be secret son Go woo with truth and expedition Exit Ferd. O my unsounded joy how fares my Gerrard My noble twin-friend fie thy loook is heavie Sullen and sowre blanch it didst thou know My cause of joy thou ' Idst never sorrow more I know thou lov'st me so How dost thou Ger. Well Too well my fraught of health my sickness is In life I am dead by living dying still Ferd. What sublunary mischief can predominate A wise man thus or doth thy friendship play In this antipathous extreme with mine Lest gladness suffocate me I I I do feel My spirit 's turn'd to fire my blood to air And I am like a purifi'd essence Tri'd from all drossie parts Ger. Were 't but my life The loss were sacrifie'd but virtue Must for me be slain and innocence made dust Ferd. Fare well good Gerrard Ger. Dearest friend stay Ferd. Sad thoughts are no companions for me now Much less sad words thy bosom bindes some secret Which do not trust me with for mine retains Another which I must conceal from thee Ger. I would reveal it 't is a heavie tale Canst thou be true and secret still Ferd Why friend If you continue true unto your self I have no means of falshood Lock this door Come yet your prisoner 's sure Ger. Stay Ferdinand Ferd. What is this trouble Love Why thou art capable of any woman Doth want oppress thee I will lighten thee Hast thou offended law My Lord and thine And I will save thy life Does servitude Upbraid thy freedom that she suffers it Have patience but three days and I will make thee Thy Lords companion Can a friend do more Ger. Lend me the means How can this be Ferd. First let this Cabinet keep your pawn and I will trust Yet for the form of satisfaction Take this my Oath to boot By my presum'd Gentrie and sacred known Christianitie I 'll die ere I reveal thy trust Ger. Then hear it Your Lords fair daughter Violanta is My betrothed wife goes great with childe by me And by this deed both made a pray to Law How may I save her life advise me friend Ferd. What did he say Gerrard whose voice was that O death unto my heart bane to my soul My wealth is vanish'd like the rich mans store In one poor minute all my daintie fare But jugling dishes my fat hope despair Ger. Is this so odious where 's your mirth Ferd. Why thou Hast robb'd me of it Gerrard draw thy sword And if thou lov'st my Mistris chastitie Defend it else I 'll cut it from thy heart Thy theevish heart that stole it and restore 't Do miracles to gain her Ger. Was she thine Ferd Never but in my wish and her fathers vow Which now he left with me on such sure terms He call'd