They came to craue his good will Valinford It is giuen vs to vnderstand that your daughter Is sodenly become both blind and deafe Miller Marie God for bid I haue sent for her in deed She hath kept her chamber this three daies It were no litle griefe to me if it should be so Manuile This is Gods iudgement for her trecherie Enter Trotter leading Em Miller Gentlemen I feare your wordes are two true See where Trotter comes leading of her What ayles my Em not blind I hope Em Mountney and Valingford both together And Manuile to whom I haue faithfullie vowed my loue Now Em suddenly helpe thy selfe Mountney This is no desembling Valingford Valingford If it be it is cunningly contriued of all sides Em Trotter lend me thy hand And as thou louest me keepe my counsell And iustifie what so euer I saie and I le largely requite thee Trotter Ah that 's as much as to saie you would tell a monstrous Terrible horrible outragious lie And I shall sooth it no berladie Em My present extremitie wills me if thou loue me Trotter Trotter That same word loue makes me to doe any thing Em Trotter where 's my father He thrusts Em vpon her father Trotter Why what a blynd dunce are you can you not see He standeth right before you Em Is this my father Good father giue me leaue to sit Where I may not be disturbed Sith God hath visited me both of my sight and hearing Miller Tell me sweete Em how came this blindnes Thy eyes are louely to looke on And yet haue they lost the benefit of their sight What a griefe is this to thy poore father Em Good father let me not stand as an open gazing stock to euerie one But in a place a lone as fits a creature so miserable Miller Trotter lead her in the vtter ouerthrowe Of poore Goddardes ioy and onely solace Exit the Miller Trotter and Em Manuile Both blind and deafe then is she no wife for me And glad am I so good occasion is hapned Now will I awaie to Manchester And leaue these gentlemen to their blind fortune Exit Manuile Mountney Since fortune hath thus spitefully crost our hope Let vs leaue this guest and harken after our King Who is at this daie landed at Lirpoole Exit Mountney Valingford Goe my Lord I le follow you VVell now Mountney is gone I le staie behind to solicit my loue For I imagine that I shall find this but a fained inuention Thereby to haue vs leaue off our sutes Enter Marques Lubeck and the King of Denmark angerly with some attendants Zweno K. VVell Lubeck well it is not possible But you must be concenting to this acte Is this the man so highly you extold And playe a parte so hatefull with his friend Since first he came with thee into the court What entertainement and what countenance He hath receiued none better knowes than thou In recompence whereof he quites me well To steale awaie faire Mariana my prisoner Whose raunsome being lately greed vpon I am deluded of by this escape Besides I know not how to answere it When shee shal be demaunded home to Swethia Lubeck My gracious Lord coniecture not I pray Worser of Lubeck than he doth deserue Your highnes knowes Mariana was my loue Sole paragon and mistres of my thoughts Is it likely I should know of her departure Wherein there is no man iniured more than I Zweno That carries reason Marques I confesse Call foorth my daughter Yet I am perswaded That shee poore soule suspected not her going For as I heare shee likewise loued the man Which he to blame did not at all regard Rocilia My Lord here is the Princesse Mariana It is your daughter is conueyed away Zweno What my daughter gone Now Marques your villanie breakes foorth This match is of your making gentle sir And you shall dearly know the price thereof Lubeck Knew I thereof or that there was intent In Robert thus to steale your highnes daughter Let heauens in Iustice presently confound me Zweno Not all the protestations thou canst vse Shall saue thy life Away with him to prison And minion otherwise it cannot be But you are an agent in this trecherie I will reuenge it throughly on you both Away with her to prison Here 's stuffe in deede My daughter stolen away It booteth not thus to disturbe my selfe But presently to send to English William To send me that proud knight of Windsor hither Here in my Court to suffer for his shame Or at my pleasure to be punished there Withall that Blanch be sent me home againe Or I shall fetch her vnto Windsors coste Yea and VVilliams too if he denie her mee Exit Zweno Enter VVilliam taken with souldiers William Could any crosse could any plague be worse Could heauen or hell Did both conspire in one To afflict my soule inuent a greater scourge Then presently I am tormented with Ah Mariana cause of my lament Ioy of my hart and comfort of my life For thee I breath my sorrowes in the ayre And tyre my selfe for silently I sigh My sorrowes afflictes me soule with equall passion Souldier Go to sirha put vp it is to small purpose VVilliam Hence villaines hence dare you lay your hands Vpon your Soueraigne Souldier Well sir we will deale for that But here comes one will remedie all this Enter Demarch Souldier My Lord watching this night in the campe We tooke this man and know not what he is And in his companie was a gallant dame A woman faire in outward shewe shee seemde But that her face was maskte we could not see The grace and fauour of her countenance Demarch Tell me good fellow of whence and what thou art Souldier Why do you not answere my Lord He takes scorne to answere Demarch And takest thou scorne to aunswer my demaund Thy proud behauiour verie well deserues This misdemeanour at the worst be construed Why doest thou neither know nor hast thou heard That in the absence of the Saxon Duke Demarch is his especiall Substitute To punish those that shall offend the lawes William In knowing this I know thou art a traytor A rebell and mutenous conspirator Why Demarch knowest thou who I am Demarch Pardon my dread Lord the error of my sence And misdemeaner to your princely excellencie Willi. Why Demarch what is the cause my subiects are in armes Demarch Free are my thoughts my dread and gratious Lord From treason to your state and common weale Only reuengement of a priuate grudge By Lord Dirot lately profered me That standes not with the honor of my name Is cause I haue assembled for my guard Some men in armes that may withstand his force Whose setled malice aymeth at my life VVilliam Where is Lord Dirot Demarch In armes my gratious Lord Not past two miles from hence As credibly I am assertained VVilliam Well come let vs goe I feare I shall find traytors of you both Exit Enter the Citizen of Manchester
A Pleasant Commodie of faire Em the Millers daughter of Manchester VVith the loue of William the Conqueror As it was sundrie times publiquely acted in the honourable citie of London by the right honourable the Lord Strange his seruaunts Imprinted at London for T.N. and I.VV. and are to be solde in S. Dunstones Church-yarde in Fleete-streete A Pleasant Commodie of faire Em the Millers daughter of Manchester With the loue of William the Conquerour Actus Primus Scaena prima Enter William the Conqueror Marques Lubeck with a picture Mountney Manuile Valingford and Duke Dirot Marques WHat meanes faire Britaines mighty Conqueror So suddenly to cast away his staffe And all in passion to forsake the tylt D. Dirot My Lord this triumph we solemnise here Is for meere loue to your increasing ioyes Only expecting cheerefull lookes for all What sudden pangs than moues your maiestie To dimme the brightnes of the day with frownes W. Conqueror Ah good my Lords misconster not the cause At least suspect not my displeased browes I amorously do beare to your intent For thanks and all that you can wish I yeeld But that which makes me blush and shame to tell Is cause why thus I turne my conquering eyes To cowardes lookes and beaten fantasies Mountney Since wee are giltlesse wee the lesse dismay To see this sudden change possesse your cheere For if it issue from your owne conceits Bred by suggestion of some enuious thoughts Your highnes wisdome may suppresse it straight Yet tell vs good my Lord what thought it is That thus bereaues you of your late content That in aduise we may assist your grace Or bend our forces to reuiue your spirits W Con. Ah Marques Lubeck in thy power it lyes To rid my bosome of these thraled dumps And therefore good my Lords forbeare awhile That we may parley of these priuate cares Whose strength subdues me more than all the world Valingford We goe and wishe thee priuate conference Publicke affectes in this accustomed peace Exit all but William and the Marques William Now Marques must a Conquerer at armes disclose himselfe thrald to vnarmed thoughts And threatned of a shaddowe yeeld to lust No sooner had my sparkeling eyes beheld The flames of beautie blasing on this peece But sodenly a sence of myracle Imagined on thy louely Maistres face Made me abandon bodily regarde And cast all pleasures on my woonded soule Then gentle Marques tell me what she is That thus thou honourest on thy warlike shield And if thy loue and interest be such As iustly may giue place to myne That if it be my soule with honors wings May fly into the bosome of my deere Yf not close them and stoope into my graue Marques Yf this be all renowned Conquerer Aduance your drooping spirites and reuiue The wonted courage of your Conquering minde For this faire picture painted on my shield Is the true counterfeit of loveli Blaunch Princes and daughter to the King of Danes Whose beautie and excesse of ornamentes Deserues another manner of defence Pompe and high person to attend her state Then Marques Lubeck any way presents Therefore her vertues I resigne to thee Alreadie shrinde in thy religious brest To be aduaunced and honoured to the full Nor beare I this an argument of loue But to renowne faire Blaunch my Soueraignes child In euerie place where I by armes may do it William Ah Marques thy wordes bring heauen vnto my soule And had I heauen to giue for thy reward Thou shouldst be thronde in no vnworthie place But let my vttermost wealth suffice thy worth Which here I vowe and to aspire the blisse That hangs on quicke atchiuement of my loue Thy selfe and I will traueile in disguise To bring this Ladie to our Brittaine Court Marques Let VVilliam but bethinke what may auayle And let me die if I denie my ayde VVilliam Then thus the Duke Dirot and Th erle Dimach Will I leaue substitutes to rule my Realme While mightie loue forbids my being here And in the name of Sir Robert of VVindsor Will goe with thee vnto the Danish Court Keepe VVilliams secretes Marques if thou loue him Bright Blaunch I come sweete fortune fauour me And I will laud thy name eternally Exeunt Enter the Miller and Em his daughter Miller Come daughter we must learne to shake of pomp To leaue the state that earst beseemd a Knight And gentleman of no meane discent To vndertake this homelie millers trade Thus must we maske to saue our wretched liues Threatned by Conquest of this haplesse Yle Whose sad inuasions by the Conqueror Haue made a number such as we subiect Their gentle neckes vnto their stubborne yoke Of drudging labour and base pesantrie Sir Thomas Godard now old Goddard is Goddard the miller of faire Manchester Why should not I content me with this state As good Sir Edmund Trofferd did the flail And thou sweete Em must stoope to high estate To ioyne with mine that thus we may protect Our harmeles liues which ledd in greater port Would be an enuious obiect to our foes That seeke to roote all Britaines Gentrie From bearing countenance against their tyrannie Em Good Father let my full resolued thoughts With setled patiens to support this chaunce Be some poore comfort to your aged soule For therein restes the height of my estate That you are pleased with this deiection And that all toyles my hands may vndertake May serue to worke your worthines content Miller Thankes my deere Daughter these thy plesant words Transferre my soule into a second heauen And in thy setled minde my ioyes consist My state reuyued and I in former plight Although our outward pomp be thus abased And thralde to drudging stayless of the world Let vs retaine those honorable mindes That lately gouerned our superior state Wherein true gentrie is the only meane That makes vs differ from base millers borne Though we expect no knightly delicates Nor thirst in soule for former soueraintie Yet may our myndes as highly scorne to stoope To base desires of vulgars worldlynes As if we were in our presedent way And louely daughter since thy youthfull yeares Must needes admit as yong affections And that sweete loue vnpartiall perceiues Her daintie subiects through euery part In chiefe receiue these lessons from my lippes The true discouerers of a Virgins due Now requisite now that I know thy mynde Somthing enclynde to fauour Manuils sute A gentleman thy Louer in protest And that thou maist not be by loue deceiued But trye his meaning fit for thy desert In pursuite of all amorous desires Regard thine honour Let not vehement sighes Nor earnest vowes importing feruent loue Render thee subiect to the wrath of lust For that transformed to former sweete delight Will bring thy bodie and thy soule to shame Chaste thoughts and modest conuersations Of proofe to keepe out all inchaunting vowes Vaine sighes forst teares and pittifull aspectes Are they that make deformed Ladies faire Poore wretch and such intycing men
some place for to meete the man For my conueiance from the Denmarke Court Which determined vpon he will appoynt some certaine time For our departure whereof you hauing intelligence You may soone set downe a plot to were the English Crowne And than Blanch What then Mariana If Sir Robert proue a King and you his Queene How than Blanch Were I assured of the one as I am perswaded Of the other there were some possibilitie in it But here comes the man Mariana Madam begon and you shall see I will worke to your desire and my content Exit Blanch William Con Ladie this is well and happelie met Fortune hetherto hath beene my foe And though I haue oft sought to speake with you Yet still I haue beene crost with sinister happs I cannot Madame tell a louing tale Or court my Maistres with fabulous discoursies That am a souldier sworne to followe armes But this I bluntly let you vnderstand I honor you with such religious Zeale As may become an honorable minde Nor may I make my loue the seege of Troye That am a straunger in this Countrie First what I am I know you are resolued For that my friend hath let you that to vnderstand The Marques Lubeck to whome I am so bound That whilest I liue I count me onely his Mariana Surely you are beholding to the Marques For he hath beene an earnest spokes-man in your cause William And yealdes my Ladie then at his request To grace Duke VVilliam with her gratious loue Mariana My Lord I am a prisoner and hard it were To get me from the Courte VVilliam An easie matter to get you from the Court If case that you will thereto giue consent Mariana Put case I should how would you vse me than William Not otherwise but well and honorably I haue at Sea a shipp that doth attend Which shall foorthwith conducte vs into England Where when we are I straight will marrie thee We may not stay deliberating long Least that suspition enuious of our weale Set in a foote to hinder our pretence Mariana But this I think were most conuenient To maske my face the better to scape vnknowen VVilliam A good deuise till then Farwell faire loue Mariana But this I must intreat your grace You would not seeke by lust vnlawfully To wrong my chast determinations VVilliam I hold that man most shameles in his sinne That seekes to wrong an honest Ladies name Whome he thinkes worthie of his mariage bed Mariana In hope your othe is true I leaue your grace till the appoynted tyme Exit Mariana William O happie William blessed in thy loue Most fortunate in Marianaes loue Well Lubeck well this courtesie of thine I will requite if God permit me life Exit Enter Valingford and Mountney at two sundrie dores looking angerly each on other with Rapiers drauen Mountney Valingford so hardlie I disgest an iniurie Thou hast profered me as were not that I detest to doe what stands Not with the honor of my name Thy death should paie thy ransome of thy fault Valingford And Mountney had not my reuenging wrath Incenst with more than ordinarie loue beene such for to depriue thee of thy life Thou hadst not liude to braue me as thou doest wretch as thou arte wherein hath Valingford offended thee That honourable bond which late we did confirme In presence of the Gods When with the Conqueror we arriued here For my part hath beene kept inuiolably Till now too much abused by thy villanie I am inforced to cancell all those bands By hating him which I so well did loue Mountney Subtil thou art and cunning in thy frawd That giuing me occasion of offence Thou pickst a quarrell to excuse thy shame Why Valingford was it not enough for thee To be a ryuall twixt me and my loue But counsell her to my no small disgrace That when I came to talke with her of loue Shee should seeme deafe as fayning not to heare Valingford But hath shee Mountney vsed thee as thou sayest Mountney Thou knowest too well shee hath Wherein thou couldest not do me greater iniurie Valingford Then I perceiue we are deluded both For when I offered many gifts of Gold and Iewels To entreat for loue shee hath refused them with a coy disdaine Alledging that shee could not see the Sunne The same coniectured I to be thy drift That fayning so shee might be ridd of mee Mountney The like did I by thee But are not these naturall impediments Validgford In my coniecture merely counterfeit Therefore le ts ioyne hands in frindship once againe Since that the iarre grewe only by coniecture Mountney With all my heart Yet le ts trye the truth hereof Valingf. With right good will We wil straight vnto her father And there to learne whither it be so or no Exeunt Enter VVilliam and Blanch disguised with a maske ouer her face William Come on my loue the comfort of my life Disguised thus we may remaine vnknowen And get we once to Seas I force not then We quickly shall attaine the English shore Blaunch But this I vrge you with your former oath You shall not seeke to violate mine honour Vntill our marriage rights be all performed VVilliam Mariana here I sweare to thee by heauen And by the honour that I beare to Armes Neuer to seeke or craue at hands of thee The spoyle of honourable chastitie Vntill we do attaine the English coast Where thou shalt be my right espoused Queene Blanch In hope your oath proceedeth from your heart Le ts leaue the Court and betake vs to his power That gouernes all things to his mightie will And will reward the iust with endlesse ioye And plague the bad with most extreame annoy William Lady as little tarriance as wee may Lest some misfortune happen by the way Exit Blanch William Enter the Miller his man Trotter Manuile Miller I tell you sir it is no little greefe to mee You should so hardly conseit of my daughter Whose honest report though I saie it Was neuer blotted with any title of defamation Manuile Father Miller the repaire of those gentlemen to your house Hath giuen me great occasion to mislike Miller As for those gentlemen I neuer saw in them Any euill intreatie But should they haue profered it Her chaste minde hath proofe enough to preuent it Trotter Those gentlemen are as honest as euer I sawe For yfaith one of them gaue me sixe pence To fetch a quart of Seck See maister here they come Enter Mountney and Valingford Miller Trotter call Em now they are here together I le haue this matter throughly debated Exit Trotter Mountney Father well met We are come to conferre with you Manuile Nay with his daughter rather Valingford Thus it is father we are come to craue your frindship in a matter Miller Gentlemen as you are straungers to me Yet by the waie of courtesie you shall demaund Any reasonable thing at my hands Manuile What is the matter so forward
and his daughter Elner and Manuile Citizen In deed sir it would do verie well If you could intreat your father to come hither But if you thinke it be too farr I care not much to take horse and ride to Manchester I am sure my daughter is content with either How saiest thou Elner art thou not Elner As you shall think best I must be contented Manuile Well Elner farwell onely thus much I pray make all things in a readines Either to serue here or to carry thither with vs Citizen As for that sir take you no care And so I betake you to your iournie Enter Valingford But soft what gentleman is this Valingf. God speed sir might a man craue a word or two with you Citizen God forbid els sir I praye you speake your pleasure Valingford The gentleman that parted from you was he not Of Manchester his father lyuing there of good account Citizen Yes mary is he sir why doe you aske Belike you haue had some acquaintance with him Valingford I haue beene acquainted in times past But through his double dealing I am growen werie of his companie For be it spoken to you He hath beene acquainted with a poore millers daughter And diuers tymes hath promist her mariage But what with his delayes and floutes He hath brought her into such a taking That I feare me it will cost her her life Citizen To be playne with you sir His father and I haue beene of old acquaintance And a motion was made Beteewene my daughter and his sonne Which is now throughly agreed vpon Saue onely the place appoynted for the mariage Whether it shall be kept here or at Manchester And for no other occasion he is now ridden Elner What hath he done to you That you should speake so ill of the man Valingford Oh gentlewoman I crie you mercie He is your husband that shal be Elner If I knew this to be true He should not be my husband were he neuer so good And therefore good father I would desire you to take the paines To beare this gentleman companie to Manchester to know whether this be true or no Citizen Now trust me gentleman he deales with me verie hardly Knowing how well I ment to him But I care not much to ride to Manchester To know whether his fathers will be He should deale with me so badlie Will it please you sir to goe in we will presently take horse awaie Valingford If it please you to go in I le followe you presently Exit Elner and her father Now shall I be reuenged on Manuile And by this meanes get Em to my wife And therefore I will strayght to her fathers And informe them both of all that is hapned Exit Enter William the Ambassador of Denmarke Demarch and other attendants William What newes with the Denmark Embassador Embassador Mary thus the King of Denmark and my Soueraine Doth send to know of thee what is the cause That iniuriously against the law of armes Thou hast stolen awaie his onely daughter Blaunch The onely staie and comfort of his life Therefore by me he willeth thee to send his daughter Blaunch Or else foorthwith he will leuy such an hoste As soone shall fetch her in dispite of thee William Embassador this answer I retorne thy King He willeth me to send his daughter Blaunch Saying I conuaid her from the Danish court That neuer yet did once as think thereof As for his menacing and daunting threats I nill regard him nor his Danish power For if he come to fetch her foorth my Realme I will prouide him such a banquet here That he shall haue small cause to giue me thanks Embassador Is this your answer then William It is and so begone Embassador I goe but to your cost Exit AmBassador William Demarch our subiects earst leuied in ciuill broyles Musterd foorthwith for to defend the Realme In hope whereof that we shall find you true We freely pardon this thy late offence Demarch Most humble thanks I render to your grace Exeunt Enter the Miller and Valingford Miller Alas gentleman why should you trouble your self so much Considering the imperfections of my daughter Which is able to with-drawe the loue of any man from her As alreadie it hath done in her first choyce Maister Manuile hath forsaken her And at Chester shal be maried to a mans daughter of no little wealth But if my daughter knew so much It would goe verie neere her heart I feare me Valing Father miller such is the entyre affection to your daughter As no misfortune whatsoeuer can alter My fellow Mountney thou seeste gaue quicly ouer But I by reason of my good meaning Am not so soone to be changed Although I am borne off with scornes and deniall Enter Em to them Miller Trust me sir I know not what to saie My daughter is not to be compelled by me But here she comes herself speake to her and spare not For I neuer was troubled with loue matters so much before Em Good Lord shall I neuer be rid of this importunate man Now must I dissemble blyndnes againe Once more for thy sake Manuile thus am I inforced Because I shall complete my full resolued mynde to thee Father where are you Miller Here sweete Em answer this gentleman That would so fayne enioye thy loue Em Where are you sir wil you neuer leaue This idle and vaine pursuite of loue Is not England stord enought to content you But you must still trouble the poore Contemptible mayd of Manchester Valing. None can content me but the fayre maide of Manchester Em I perceiue loue is vainly described That being blynd himselfe Would haue you likewise troubled with a blinde wife Hauing the benefite of your eyes But neither follow him so much in follie But loue one in whome you may better delight Valingford Father Miller thy daughter shall haue honor By graunting mee her loue I am a Gentleman of king Williams Court And no meane man in king Williams fauour Em If you be a Lorde syr as you saye You offer both yourselfe and mee great wrong Yours as apparant in limitting your loue so vnorderly For which you rashly endure reprochement Mine as open and euident When being shut from the vanities of this world you would haue me as an open gazing stock to all the world For lust not loue leades you into this error But from the one I will keepe me as well as I can And yeeld the other to none but to my father As I am bound by duetie Valingford Why faire Em Manuile hath forsaken thee And must at Chester be married which If I speake otherwise than true Let thy father speake what credibly he hath heard Em But can it be Manuile will deale so vnkindly To reward my iustice with such monstrous vngentlenes Haue I dissembled for thy sake And doest thou now thus requite it In deede these many daies I haue not seene him Which hath made me marueile at his long
absence But father are you assured of the wordes he spake were concerning Manuile Miller In sooth daughter now it is foorth I must needes confirme it Maister Manuile hath forsaken thee And at Chester must be married To a mans daughter of no little wealth His owne father procures it And therefore I dare credit it And do thou beleeue it For trust mee daughter it is so Em Then good father pardon the iniurie That I haue don to you onely causing your griefe By ouer-fond affecting a man so trothlesse And you likewise sir I pray holde me excused As I hope this cause will allow sufficiently for mee My loue to Manuile thinking he would requite it Hath made me double with my father and you And many more besides Which I will no longer hyde from you That inticing speeches should not beguile mee I haue made my selfe deafe to any but to him And lest any mans person should please mee more than his I haue dissembled the want of my sight Both which shaddowes of my irreuocable affections I haue not sparde to confirme before him My father and all other amorous soliciters Wherewith not made acquainted I perceiue My true intent hath wrought mine owne sorrow And seeking by loue to be regarded Am cut of with contempt and dispised Miller Tell me sweet Em hast thou but fained all this while for his loue That hath so descourteously forsaken thee Em Credit me father I haue told you the troth Wherewith I desire you and Lord Valingford not to be displeased For ought else I shall saie Let my present griefe hold me excused But may I liue to see that vngratfull man Iustly rewarded for his trecherie Poore Em woulde think her selfe not a little happie Fauour my departing at this instant For my troubled thought desires to meditate alone in silence Exit Em Valingf VVill not Em shew one chereful looke on Valingford Miller Alas sir blame her not you see she hath good cause being so handled by this gentleman And so I le leaue you and go comfort my poore wench As well as I may Exit the Miller Valingford Farewell good father Exit Valingford Enter Zweno king of Denmarke with Rosilio and other attendants Zweno Rosilio Is this the place whereas the Duke William should meete mee Rosilio It is and like your grace Zweno Goe captaine away regard the charge I gaue See all our men be martialed for the fight Dispose the VVardes as lately was deuised And let the prisoners vnder seuerall gardes Be kept apart vntill you heare from vs Let this suffise you know my resolution If William Duke of Saxon be the man That by his answere sent vs he would send Not words but wounds not parleis but alarmes Must be descider of this controuersie Rosilio stay with mee the rest begone Exeunt Enter VVilliam and Demarch with other attendants VVilliam All but Demarch go shroud you out of sight For I will goe parley with the Prince my selfe Demarch Should Zweno by this parley call you foorth Vpon intent iniuriously to deale This offereth too much oportunitie VVilliam No no Demarch that were a breach Against the law of Armes therefore begon And leaue vs here alone Exeunt I see that Zweno is maister of his worde Zweno VVilliam of Saxonie greeteth thee Either well or yll according to thy intent If well thou wish to him and Saxonie He bids thee frindly welcome as he can If yll thou wish to him and Saxanie He must withstand thy mallice as he may Zweno VVilliam for other name and title giue I none To him who were he worthie of those honours That Fortune and his predecessors left I ought by right and humaine courtesie To grace his style with Duke of Saxonie But for I finde a base degenerate mynde I frame my speech according to the man And not the state that he vnworthie holdes VVilliam Herein Zweno dost thou abase thy state To breake the peace which by our auncesters Hath heretofore bene honourably kept Zweno And should that peace for euer haue been kept Had not thy selfe beene author of the breach Nor stands it with the honor of my state Or nature of a father to his childe That I should so be robbed of my daughter And not vnto the vtmost of my power Reuenge so intollerable an iniurie VVilliam Is this the colour of your quarrell Zweno I well perceiue the wisest men may erre And thinke you I conueyed away your daughter Blanch Zweno Art thou so impudent to denye thou didst VVhen that the proofe thereof is manifest VVilliam VVhat proofe is there Zweno Thine owne confession is sufficient proofe VVilliam Did I confesse I stole your daughter Blanch Zweno Thou didst confesse thou hadst a Ladie hence VVilliam I haue and do Zweno VVhy that was Blanch my daughter William Nay that was Mariana who wrongfully thou detainest prisoner Zweno Shamelesse persisting in thy ill Thou doest mayntaine a manifest vntrothe As shee shall iustifie vnto thy teethe Rosilio fetch her and the Marques hether Exit Rosilio for Mariana William It cannot be I should be so deceiued Demarch I heard this night among the souldiers That in their watch they tooke a pensiue Ladie Who at the appoyntment of the Lord Dirot is yet in keeping What she is I know not Onely thus much I ouer-hard by chance William And what of this Demarch It may be Blaunch the King of Denmarkes daughter William It may be so but on my lyfe it is not Yet Demarch goe and fetch her strayght Enter Rosilio with the Marques Rosilio Pleaseth your highnes here is the Marques and Mariana Zweno See here Duke VVilliam your competitors That were consenting to my daughters scape Let them resolue you of the trueth herein And here I vowe and solemly protest That in thy presence they shall lose their heds Vnlesse I here where as my daughter is William O Marques Lubeck how it grieueth me That for my sake thou shouldest indure these bondes Be iudge my soule that feeles the martirdome Marques Duke VVilliam you know it is for your cause It pleaseth thus the King to misconceiue of me And for his pleasure doth me iniurie Enter Demarch with the Ladie Blaunch Demarch May it please your hightnes Here is the Ladie you sent me for William Awaie Demarch what tellest thou me of Ladies I so detest the dealing of their sex As that I count a louers state to be the base And vildest slauerie in the world Demarch What humors are these here 's a straunge alteration Zweno See Duke William is this Blaunch or no You know her if you see her I am sure William Zweno I was deceiued yea vtterly deceiued Yet this is shee this same is Ladie Blaunch And for mine error here I am content To do whatsoeuer Zweno shall set downe Ah cruell Mariana thus to vse The man which loued and honored thee with his heart Mariana When first I came into your highnes court And VVilliam often importing me of loue I did deuise to