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A12954
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Cinthia's reuenge: or Mænanders extasie
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Stephens, John, fl. 1613-1615.
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my eare I should againe recouer should recoyle Skip forty fadome from the couch and sing Dance without shame though naked without noise Trample amid the pauement touch my roofe Run giddy with glad passion rub my veines Like one reuiu'd anew esteeme all base Vnder bloud-royall be a ranke mad man Till ioy and rapture both were cleane digested How readily mans temper is traduc'd How forceable temptation doth oppose The supernaturall act of doing well Wee are like windemils on ambitious mounts Open to euery tempest which will turne Our sailes without resistance like the waues Wurried from shores to rocks from rocks to shelfe Man is not man till he deny himselfe Yet on our state 's impos'd a slauish curse To see things good though we conniue at worse Act. 2. Scoen. 2. PHEVDIPPE LVCILLA LVC. Ah husband husband what excessiue care Inuaded me with violence shot farre Into my shaking bosome when I saw Your sudden absence heauy sleepe alas No sooner left mine eye-lids gaue me leaue To aske how does the comfort of my soule How does my silent loue my deere Pheudippe But with familiar lip and flexile arme I seiz'd vpon the pillow stead of thee Thinke how intruding iealously began To blurre whateuer I could wisedome call Within me or without me which alas All know's extreamely dwarffish in out sexe PH. Iealous the first night wife Lv. O then or neuer An honest louing wife is iealous euer Iealous at home least husbands ouer-vex A painfull heart with meditation Of matters which concerne his family Iealous when husbands bee enforc'd to trauell Danger exceeds the obiects they do meet Whether by sea or in the publicke street I peeuish foole perceiuing you were gone Thus in my choler did expostulate Doth hee for some dislike abhorre my sheets Neglect what others loue the maiden sweets Of mutuall embracement may mens taste Loose their accustom'd relish and refuse The mellow ioyes of ripe virginity Will hee contemne the sportiue dalliance That married couples may engrosse with leaue Will he this mid-night shew himselfe no man The first night of our meeting bee disgrac'd Or will hee by disaster end all strife Perish and so preuent a formall taxe That may impeach his manhood Thus euen thus Poore foolish I did thus praevaricate Thus for indeed wee women struggle much Vntill deliuer'd of opinion thus Did louing zeale praeiudicate amisse You are offended loue I doe suspect See how his colour 's chang'd astonishment Prethee what pensiue thoughts oppresse thy soule I reade the humor of a malecontent Written betweene your eye-browes recollect The common sparkes of scatter'd Maiesty Speake gentle sir PHE. Women women women LV. What of women PHE. Most women loue to talke To scatter tales and yet sweare silence too To breed sedition to deceiue all those Who in simplicity are confident Of honest meaning ô they doe insult With a tyrannicke boldnesse ouer one Who through bewitch'd opinion doth impart The substance of included secresie O they wil dare the soule of such a man Make him so subiect to their base command As if they had his heart-strings in their hand LV. Raile at our sexe why husband though perhap Such women do suruiue what will you hence Conclude within their guilt my innocence PHE. Cry mercy wise good faith I did imagine Their wicked conuersation generall All in good time be otherwise But wise The painters of our age be culpable Of high abuse committed they portraict Each mentall vice in habit of a whore A Hagge a Witch or Woman at the least LV. Vertue although the others opposite Is painted with the like habiliment Therefore conclude if tender woman-hood Take any full impression of deceit Vertue or vice of either strong beleefe Or colourable incredulity To change her minde will aske another age You may conuert beliefe you may reuoke Errors of wise-men by a deepe dispute But women setled nothing will confute For painters do imply this consequent By embleme that our sexe is permanent PHEV. Are you so philosophicall I'faith Well dost thou argue for they sexe and selfe Shee hath a ripe conceit and I approue Her subtill apprehension out of loue I relish her deepe iudgement for indeed My railing labour'd onely to obtaine Of wits reply the due experience That in our wisedome of credulity We may impart a proud conspirasie women shoot faire sometimes though seldome true Like whetstones they giue edge to trickes a new Braue Catiline for this cause did account Yong Orestilla worthy to partake Of his attempt though farre aboue the braine Of woman to accomplish hee approu'd The talkatiue Sempronia Thus will I Induce my wife through cunning circumstance To giue directions for a raw conceit Though man is rather bless'd who may with-hold His closet counsell from a womans eare Yet am I of such spungy clay compact As till I am dis-burthen'd of my care Nothing yeelds comfort ô I must vnclaspe A volume which may preiudice my life Happy 's the man who dares beleeue his wife LV. What magicke may this motion ocular Of lips without all vtterance portend PHE. For men to pause at a poore stile of Dukes Most frequent Lords and yet more common knights Proclaimes them base and triuiall if meanes Of more aduantage may be thought vpon Thy father was a King Lucilla LV. Iust PHE. And shall the Chronicles of age report Lucilla was no Queene Were I a woman LV. The Madam Fauorina doth vsurpe My due respect PHE. Shall Fauorina liue Shall she out-shine the beauty whom I loue Nature nay Gods deny a double Moone They both are ominous they do import A prodigie of vprores and of death LV. O man assist our weakenesse wee 'le enforce The potent succour of religious fate Con-iure by solemne othe deepe secresy So crowne the vigor of conspiracy PHE. Now spoke dame resolution I adore Such credible ingagement and embrace Faction aboue all true faelicity I can discouer yet a childish vice Within my nature named cowardise I feele a fearefull and familiar stamp That shewes I am a coward I recoyle In thought of high atchieuements I dissolue With repetition of a sound so braue As conquest and impartiall victory Yet would subdue Dominions would enthrall The vast Horizon of our vniuerse But I abhorre the sound of enemies Of proud resistance Ambiguities With cowards are begotten of each tale Of each phantasticke rumour idle care A new suggestion will beget new feare If notwithstanding women will bee stout Women the badge of clamorous affrights This would encourage slaues to victory And shall encourage mee my wife is valiant No creature liuing must Lucilla dare When twise two Moones haue made a change in Greece Dare to accost thy super-eminence Nor with like priuiledge as now affront My then sublim'd authority be iudge Thou happy time when that more haughty phrase Long liue shall be pronounc'd with {non-Roman} twise Wee 'le then disclaime acquaintance liue re-cluse Then if wee are dispos'd to imitate Some liuely gesture of disdainefull grace
too-open-breasted for this age And so the world doth honest men account By way of high reproach PHE. Smooth Orator Ingeniously well worded is thy speech May not the sequele perish now proceed LAE. To supper you 'le inuite this honest King Hee not mis-doubting home-bred violence With a select strong millitary troupe I and the Guard together will inuade Murther a-midst the cups and Magistrates Him who shall surfet of each fatall wound Shall rather dye then see Pheudippe crown'd PHE. Captaine thy apprehension is acute Thus bounty will oblige men resolute With-draw your seuerall reward is future A pregnant Pupill thriues without his Tutor Act. 3. Scoen. 2. MENANDER PHEVDIPPE HYARCHVS HIPPONAX EVPHORIUS HY. The popular inuectiue doth exclaime Vpon Pheudippe sweare with open voyce Hee bred this famine PHE. Am I then betraid Will my sage Steward turne delinquent ha MEN. Can my Pheudippe proue disloyall no Doth hee intend subuersion of my state EV. Wee may consult of war-like discipline Amidst our heigth of solace though secure Although at league with euery Potentate Who sits enthron'd vpon the spacious Orbe So may wee well aduise your Maiesty To haue a watchfull ouer-looking spy Vpon your haughty Duke though innocent Though in himsefe obsequiously bent Learning aduanc'd may proue iudicious But if mis-ledde extremely vitious ME. Tell mee my proper Genius may proue false My bloud become a traitor to my life The issue of my loines degenerate Say this right hand conspires against my head Tell mee the Gods whom I adore neglect Religion doe forbid all sacrifice And I beleeue you but the villaines lye Who dare imagine my Pheudippe false In-faith I am affraid you do abuse My honest friends integrity too much Pheudippe false my bosome-counsellour The earth will shake at such a prodigy Some Phaeton shall mount the Chariot Of our vp-rising Phoebus and enflame The world againe each widdow shall conceiue Without mans aide fiue dragons at a birth All threatning this impossible euent Ere I do entertaine a sillable Of your sug-gestion though the Gods descend Though they admonish my credulity In speciall to beware of whom wee speake And call him traitor ô I should reply Within the bounds I feare of blasphemy See how hee walks perplex'd with agony My anger shall im-proue his patience Pheudippe PHE. Doth my dread Soueraigne call MEN. What doth my demi-selfe Pheudippe doe PHE. Beshrew my melancholique dumps I doe Which preter-mit Menanders Maiesty Without obeysance whilst I walke secure In a blind corner thus extrauagant ME. His aro-maticke breath perfumes the aire The spicy fields where gossa-moure doth grow Haue not one vapour halfe so redolent I must for fashion chide him fatherly Friend friend you are ambitous of rule Report exclaimes vpon your dignity All attribute the times calamity Of dearth to you the Authour who ingrosse Heapes of prouision without reall cause I must not winke at fraudulent abuse Done to my Subiects rather abuse mee Thou mightst enioy full many blessed yeares Liue in an aequall happinesse with mee Rather then thus neglect my sincere loue And loose the hope of our munificence Do not I pray deserue that infamy VVith which our scandalizing age condemnes Thy whole endeuours ô redeeme the losse Of Loyalty a thing so pretious Reiect those machinations infinite VVith which the people charge thee I conceale The horrour of a rage so violent As some censorious Critticks haue adiug'd To dwell within thy bosome prethee thinke Whether I do deserue thy impious hand To thrust me from a lineall descent Or being downe deserue thy helping hand To rescue and vphold my primacy PHE. Some better Angell be auspicious Vnto my naked answere mighty King Your deepe discretion may with ease collect Though I were dumb and did through silence purge This weighty accusation that per-force To publicke censure all authority Is often subiect so ir-regular Be sudden apprehensions as vpright And politicke proceedings are condemn'd The Prudent fam'd for ignominious Mad Authors of sicke innovation Though not resolued how this language meanes I do in ample and with open tearmes Confesse the crime suppos'd not culpable Though burthen'd with ambition I confesse A dutious loue vnto the Common-weale Hath bred my damage Ouer-diligence May summon actiue zeale to a defence Which doth appeare in my ill-tun'd event As you perceiue or call me insolent The famous Art of Mathe-maticke Rules Wherein my ignorance will never boast A singularity of knowledge or conceit Did by infallible demonstrations Fore-signifie this famine ô resolue Whether then by the law of Nations I be accomptable vnto the Gods For this pretended accusation Seeing to the safety of our Common-weale A prouidence coniecturall hath vrg'd My whole indevour If vnto the Gods I am excus'd what impudence will dare With false-hood to accuse my innocence For those designes which Gods allow ne're can Be in themselues offensiue vnto man Know therefore vpon hopefull prae-science I did ingage a new dexterity To counteruaile the famishment fore-knowne I did ingrosse provision did expend Twelue-months revenew to accomplish corne Ill be my paines acquited worse my loue Which labours in the common cause may proue Thus imputations are too vsuall And bad constructions are authenticall Some Kings to manifest praedominance Accumulate on subiects heavy wealth Honour aboue de-merit offices Popular Cities and in-franchis'd Townes Nay whole dominions Dukedomes they 'le bestow And raise a simple Mushrom to the height Of any monarch's due magnificence Till by excesse of labour sweate of braines Hee hath enrich'd his beggerly estate Then like a full-ripe Orenge or indeed Like a deceitfull spunge whose empty pores The owner doth replenish hee must looke To feele a sudden crush a nip will squease Him who pretends hee may be rich and please If then my Title ô iuditious King My now desertlesse wealth or eminence Which by especiall fauour I enioy Which freely were bestow'd long since if these Shall be accounted error and offence Or be imputed to my sawcinesse I doe submit and will my crime confesse If your vn-reprehended sapience Thinke it a pollicy expedient I l'e runne to exile dye in banishment Liue like a scritch-owle in some secret caue Turne errant caitife and so dye a slaue If you suppose it bee availe-able Or to diminish or annihilate To dis-anull or to abbreviate My large allowance if you doe account The base degrading of a loyall peere Will giue aduantage and security To your successiue regiment may which Continue to the worlds aeternity If thus you doe imagine dreaded Liege Loe I will prostrate fall and aske a boone Begge that the heads-mans Axe may ouer-take May with a bloody sentence mee salute With willing voyce and a more willing arme Would I the messenger of death re-greet Till then most lowly kisse your graces feet ME. Arise my faithfull honourer arise Good honest soule thy language would enforce The Cannibals to turne compassionate I will trans-mit thee into Scythia To Pontus to the fierce vn-tamed Getes Till with a fluent phrase