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A18331	The Spanish bavvd, represented in Celestina: or, The tragicke-comedy of Calisto and Melibea Wherein is contained, besides the pleasantnesse and sweetnesse of the stile, many philosophicall sentences, and profitable instructions necessary for the younger sort: shewing the deceits and subtilties housed in the bosomes of false seruants, and cunny-catching bawds.; Celestina. English	Rojas, Fernando de, d. 1541.; Mabbe, James, 1572-1642?	1631 (1631)	STC 4911; ESTC S107195	207,517	216

place in her wheele that you may say vnto me Mich you good dich you with your old ware you hindges are now growne rustie for want of oyling Sempr. Mother you make my haire stand on end to heare these strange things which you recount vnto vs would your Nobles your Knights and Learned men fall so low I am sure they are not all of them so badde as you make them to be Celest. No my son Ioue forbid that I should raise any such report or lay a generall scandall vpon any of their ranke For there were many old good men amongst them with whom I had but small dealings and could scarce endure to see me But amongst the greatest as they grew great in number so had I a great number of them some of one sort and some of another some I found very chaste and some that took the charge vpon them to maintaine such Traders as my selfe And I am still of this beliefe that of these there is no lack and these forsooth would send their Squires and young men to waite vpon me whithersoeuer I went and I should scarce haue set my foote within mine owne doores but straight at the heeles of me you should haue one come in with chickens another with Hens a third with Geese a fourth with Ducks This man sends me in Partriges that man Turtle Doues he a gammon of Bacon such a one a Tart or a Custard and some good fellow or other a good sucking Pigge or two for euery one as soone as he had a conuenient present so they came presently to register them in my house that I and those their pretty soules might merrily eat them together and as for wine we wanted none the best that a man could lay his lips to in the whole City was sent vnto me from diuers parts and corners of the Towne as that of Monviedro of Lugne of Toro of Madrigall of San-Martin and many other Townes and Villages And indeed so many that albeit I still keepe the differences of their taste and relish in my mouth yet doe I not retaine the diuersity of their foyles in my remembrance For it is enough for such an old woman as I that when a good cuppe of wine comes neer my nose I can be able to say This is such a wine or it comes from such a place or person why your presents from all parts from all sorts came vpon me as thicke as hops as flies to a pot of hony or as stones that are throwne vpon a stage boyes came tumbling in at my doore with as much prouision as they could carry on their backs But now those good daies are past I haue eaten all my white bread in my youth and know not how in the world to liue being fallen from so happy an estate Areusa Since we are come hither to be merry good mother doe not weepe I pray doe not vexe your selfe be of good cheere plucke vp your heart like a woman the world while wee are in it is bound to keepe vs all and no doubt but you shall haue enough Celest. O daughter I haue cause enough I think to weep when I call to mind those pleasant daies that are past and gone that merry life which then I led and how I had the world at will being serued honoured and sought to of all Why then there was not any new fruit or any the like dainty which I had not in my hands before others knew they were scarce blossom'd in those daies they were sure to be found in my house if any one with child should long for such a Toy Sempr. Mother the remembrance of the good time we haue had doth profit vs nothing when it cannot be recouered againe but rather brings griefe and sorrow to our selues as this interrupting discourse hath done but mother we will goe off and solace our selues whil'st you stay heere and giue this maid her answer Celest. Daughter Lucrecia passing ouer our former discourse I pray you tell mee what is the cause of your happy comming hither Lucrecia Beleeue me I had almost forgot my chiefe errand vnto you with thinking on that merry time which you talkt of Me thinkes I could continue fasting almost a whole yeere in harkening vnto thee and thinking on that pleasant life which those young wenches led me thinkes that with the very talking therof I haue a conceit with my selfe that at this present I feele my selfe in the same happinesse with them I shall now mistresse giue you to vnderstand the cause of my comming I am sent vnto you for my Ladies Girdle and moreouer my Ladie intreats you that you would come and visit her and that out of hand for shee feeles her selfe very ill and much pained and troubled with griefes and pangs about the heart I assure you she is very heart-sicke Celestina Of these petty griefes the report is more then the paine Is 't about the heart say you I maruell I promise you that so young a Gentlewoman as shee is should be pained at the heart Lucrecia Would thou wert as well drag'd along the streetes thou old traiterous Hagge as thou know'st well inough what shee ayles The subtill old Bawd comes and does her witcheries and her tricks and then goes her waies and afterwards when one comes vnto her for helpe she makes forsooth as if she knew no such matter it is newes forsooth to her Celest. What sai'st thou Daughter Lucrecia Mary I say mother would we were gone once and that you would giue me the Girdle Celest. Come let vs goe I will carry it along with me ACTVS X. THE ARGVMENT VVHilest Celestina and Lucrecia goe onward on their way Melibea talkes and discourses with her selfe Being come to the doore first enters Lucrecia anon after causes Celestina to come in Melibea after some exchange of words opens her mind to Celestina telling her how feruently she was falne in loue with Calisto They spy Alisa Melibea's mother comming they take their leaue each of other Alisa askes her daughter Melibea what businesse she had with Celestina and what she made there disswading her from conuersing with her and forbidding her her company INTERLOCVTORS Melibea Celestina Alisa Lucrecia MElibea O wretch that I am O vnfortunate Damsell Had I not beene better yesterday to haue yeelded to Celestina's petition and request when in the behalfe of that Gentleman whose sight hath made me his prisoner I was so earnestly sued vnto and so haue contented him and cured my selfe then to be thus forcibly driuen to discouer my heart when haply he will not accept of it when as already disaffianced in his hope for want of a good and faire answer hee hath set both his eyes and his heart vpon the loue and person of another how much more aduantageous vnto me would an intreated promise haue beene then a forced offerture to grant being requested then to yeeld being constrained O my faithfull seruant Lucrecia what wilt thou say of me what wilt thou thinke

shouldst goe along with her and hasten her on since thou knowst that on her dililigence dependeth my well-fare on her slownesse my painfulnesse on her neglect my despaire Thou art wise I know thee to bee faithfull I hold thee a good seruant And therefore so handle the matter that she shall no sooner see thee but that shee may iudge of that paine which I feele and of that fire which tormenteth mee whose extreme heat will not giue me leaue to lay open vnto her the third part of my secret sickenesse So did it tye my tongue and tooke such hold on my sences that they were not onely busied but in a manner wasted and consumed which thou as one that is free from the like passion maist more largely deliuer letting thy words runne with a looser reyne Sempr. Sir I would faine goe to fulfill your command And I would fayne stay to ease you of your care your feare puts spurs to my sides and your solitarinesse like a bridle pulls mee backe But I will obey and follow your councell which is to goe and labour the old woman But how shall I goe For if I leaue you thus all alone you will talke idlely like one that is distracted doe nothing but sigh weepe and take on shutting your selfe vp in darknesse desiring solitude and seeking new meanes of thoughtfull torment wherein if you still perseuere you cannot escape either death or madnesse For the auoyding whereof get some good company about you that may minister vnto you occasion of mirth by recounting of witty conceits by intertaining you with Musicke and singing merry songs by relating Stories by deuising Motto's by telling tales by playing at cards iesting sporting In a word by inuenting any other kinde of sweet and delightfull recreation for to passe away the time that you may not suffer your thoughts to run still wandring on in that cruell errour whereinto they were put by that your Lady and Mistresse vpon the first trance and encounter of your Loue Calisto How like a silly foole thou talkest Know'st thou not that it easeth the paine to bewaile it's cause O how sweet is it to the sorrowfull to vnsheathe their griefes What ease doe broken 〈◊〉 bring with them O what a diminishing and refreshing to tearefull complaints is the vnfolding of a mans woes and bitter 〈◊〉 As many as euer writ of comfort and consolation doe all of them iumpe in this Sempr. Read a little farther and but turne ouer the leafe and you shall finde they say thus That to trust in things temporall and to seek after matter of sorrow is a kinde of foolishnesse if not madnesse And that Macias the Idoll of Louers forgetfull of himselfe because his mistresse did forget him and carelesse of his well fare because she cared not for him complaines himselfe thus That the punishment of loue consists in the contemplation thereof And that the best remedy against loue is not to thinke on thy loue The ease lies in the forgetting it Kick not therefore against the pricke feyne thy selfe to be merry pluck vp your spirits and be of good cheere and all you shall see shall be well for oftentimes opinion brings things whither it listeth Not that it should cause vs to swarue from the truth but for to teach vs to moderate our se●ce and to gouerne our iudgement Calisto Sempronio my friend for so thy loue makes me stile thee since it so grieues thee that I should be alone call Parmeno hither and hee shall stay with me and henceforth be thou as thou hast euer beene faithfull and loyall vnto mee For in the seruice of the seruant consisteth the Masters remuneration O Parmeno Parme. Heere Sir Calisto O I thinke not for I cannot see thee Leaue her not Sempronio Ply her hard follow her at an inch Forget mee not I pray thee Now Parmeno what thinkest thou of that which hath past to day My paine is great Melibea stately Celestina wise she is her crafts Master and we cannot doe amisse Thou hast maynly opposed thy selfe against her and to draw me to a detestation of her thou hast painted her forth to the purpose and set her out in her colours and I beleeue thee For such and so great is the force of truth that it commands euen the tongues of our enemies But be she such as thou hast described her to be yet had I rather giue her an hundred Crownes then giue another fiue Parme. Is the winde in that doore Doe you beginne to complaine already Haue you now better bethought your selfe Wee shall shortly complaine too at home for I feare mee we shall fast for this frankenesse Calisto It is thy opinion Parmeno that I aske Gratifie mee therein Hold dost thou looke Why hang'st thou downe thy head when thou shouldest answer me But I perceiue that as enuy is sad and sadnesse without a tongue thine owne will can doe more with thee then feare of my displeasure What is that thou grumblest at What didst thou mutter to thy selfe as though thou wert angry Parm. I say Sir that it had been better you had imployed your liberality on some present or the like seruices vpon Melibea her selfe then to cast away your money vpon this old Bawd I know well enough what shee is and which is worse on such a one as mindes to make you her slaue Calisto How you foole her slaue Parme. I her slaue For to whom thou tellest thy secret to him doest thou giue thy liberty Calisto It is something that the foole hath said but I would faine know this of thee whether or no when as there is a great distance betwixt the intreater and the intreated the suitor and the party sued vnto either out of authority of obedience or greatnesse of estate and dignity or noblenesse of descent of bloud as there is betwixt my Mistresse and my selfe Whether or no I pray it be not necessary to haue an intercessour or mediatour for mee who may euery foot go to and fro with my messages vntill they arriue at her eares of whom to haue a second Audience I hold it impossible And if it be thus with me tell me whether thou approuest of what I haue done or no Parm. The diuell approue it for mee Calisto What saist thou Parme. Marry I say Sir that neuer any errour came yet vnaccompanied and that one inconuenience is the cause of another and the doore that opens vnto many Calisto Thy saying I approue but vnderstand not thy purpose Parme. Then thus Sir your losing of your Hawke the other day was the cause of your entring into the Garden where Melibea was to looke if she were there your entring the cause that you both saw her and talked with her your talke ingendred loue your loue brought forth your paine and your paine will be the cause of your growing carelesse and wretchlesse both of your body soule and goods And that which grieues me most is that you must fall into the hands of that same

no melancholy or other bad humour that raigneth in him Nobly descended as your selfe well knowes a great Tilter and to see him in his armour it becomes him so well that you would take him to be another Saint George Hercules had not that force and courage as he hath His diportment his person his feature his disposition his agility and actiuenesse of body had neede of another manner of tongue to expresse it then mine I ake him all together and for all in all you shall not finde such another and for admired forme a miracle and I am verily perswaded that that faire and gentle Narcissus who was inamored with his owne proper beauty when as in a glasse he view'd himselfe in the water was nothing so faire as he whom now one poore tooth with the extremity of its paine doth so torment that hee doth nothing but complaine Melibea The Age I pray How long hath hee had it Celest. His age Madame Mary I thinke hee is about some three and twenty For heere stands shee who saw him borne and tooke him vp from his mothers feet Melibea This is not that which I aske thee Nor doe I care to know his age I aske thee how long he hath beene troubled with his tooth-ache Celest. Some eight daies Madame but you would thinke he had had it a yeere hee is growne so weake with it and the greatest ease and best remedy he hath is to take his Viall whereto hee sings so many songs in such dolefull notes that I verily beleeue they did farre exceed those which that great Emperor and Musician Hadrian composed concerning the soules departure from the body the better to endure without dismayment his approaching death For though I haue but little skill in musicke me thinks he makes the Viall when he plaies thereon to speake and when hee sings thereunto the birds with a better will listen vnto him then to that Musician of old which made the trees and stones to moue Had he been borne then Orpheus had lost his prey Weigh then with your selfe Sweet Lady if such a poore old woman as I am haue not cause to count my selfe happy if I may giue life vnto him to whom the heauens haue giuen so many graces Not a woman that sees him but praiseth Natures workemanship whose hand did draw so perfect a piece and if it bee their hap to talke with him they are no more mistresses of themselues but are wholy at his disposing and of Commanders desire to be commanded by him Wherfore seeing I haue so great reason to doe for him conceiue good Lady my purpose to be faire and honest my courses commendable and free from suspicion and iealousie Melibea O how I am falne out with mine owne impatience How angry with my selfe that hee being ignorant and thou innocent of any intended Ill thou hast endured the distemperature of my inraged tongue But the great reason I had for it frees mee from any fault of offence vrged thereunto by thy suspicious speaches but in requitall of thy sufferance I will forthwith fulfill thy request and likewise giue thee my Girdle And because I haue not leysure to write the charme till my mother comes home if this will not serue the turne come secretly for it to morrow morning Lucrecia Now now is my Mistresse quite vndone All the world cannot saue her she will haue Celestina come secretly to morrow I smell a Rat there is a Padde in the straw I like not this Come secretly to morrow I feare mee shee will part with something more then words Melibea What sai'st thou Lucrecia Lucrecia Mary I say Madame you haue worded well For it is now somewhat late Melibea I pray mother say nothing to this Gentleman of what hath passed betwixt you and mee lest he should hold me either cruell sudden or dishonest Lucrecia I did not lye euen now I see well inough how ill the world goes Celest. Madame I much maruell you should entertaine any the least doubt of my seruice Feare you not for I can suffer and couer any thing and I well perceiue that your great iealousie and suspicion of mee made you as commonly it doth to interpret my speeches to the worst sense Well I will take my leaue and goe hence with this Girdle so merrily as if I did presently see his heart leaping for ioy that you haue graced him with so great a kindnesse and I doubt not but I shall finde him much eased of his paine Melibea I will doe more for your sicke Patient then this if need require in requitall of your great patience Celest. Wee shall need more and you must doe more then this though perhaps you will not so well like of it and scarce thanke vs for it Melibea Mother what 's that thou talkest of thankes Celestina Mary I say Madame That we both giue you thanks that wee are both at your seruice and rest both deepely indebted to your Ladiship and that the paiment is there most certaine where the party is most bound to satisfie Lucrecia Heere 's Cat in the Panne What Chop-Logicke haue we heere Celestina Daughter Lucrecia Hold thy peace Come hither to me If to morrow I may see thee at my house I will giue thee such a Lye as shall make thy haire as yellow as gold but tell not your Mistresse of it Thou shalt also haue a powder of mee to sweeten thy breath which is a little of the strongest There is not any in this kingdome that can make it but my selfe And there is not any thing in a woman that can be worse then a stinking breath Lucrecia A blessing on your aged heart for I haue more need of this then of my meate Celestina And yet you foole you will be talking and prating against mee Hold thy peace for thou know'st not what need thou maist haue of mee Doe not exasperate your Mistresse and make her more angry now then shee was before But let mee goe hence in peace Melibea What sai'st thou to her mother Celest. Nothing Madame wee haue done already Melibea Nay you must tell me what you said to her for I cannot abide that any body should speake any thing in my presence and I not haue a part therein And therefore without any more adoe let mee know it Celest. I intreated her to put your Ladiship in minde of the Charme that it might be writ out ready for mee and that shee should learne of mee to temper her selfe in the time of your anger putting her in mind of that ancient Adage From an angry man get thee gone but for a while but from an enemy for euer But you Madame had onely a quarell to those words of mine which you suspected and not any enmity to my person And say they had bin such as you conceited them yet were they not so bad as you would haue made them to be For it is euery daies experience to see men pain'd tormented for women and women as much for men And this

of my iudgement and vnderstanding when thou shalt see me to publish that which I would neuer discouer vnto thee how wilt thou stand astonished of my honesty and modesty which like a Recluse shut vp from all company I haue euer hitherto kept inuiolable I know not whether thou hast suspected or no whence this my sorrow proceedeth or whether thou art now comming with that Solicitresse of my safety O thou high and supreme Power thou vnto whom all that are in misery and affliction call and cry for helpe the appassionated begge remedy the wounded craue healing thou whome the heauens seas earth and the Center of hell it selfe doth obey thou who submittedst all things vnto men I humbly beseech thee that thou wilt giue sufferance and patience to my wounded heart whereby I may be able to dissemble my terrible passion Let not this Leafe of my chastity lose it 's guylding which I haue laid vpon this amorous desire publishing my paine to be otherwise then that which indeed tormenteth me But how shall I be able to doe it That poysoned morsell so cruelly tormenting mee which the sight of that Gentlemans presence gaue me O Sexe of woman kind feeble and fraile in thy being why was it not granted as well vnto women to discouer their tormentfull and feruent flames as vnto men For then neither should Calisto haue cause to complaine nor I to liue in paine Lucrecia Aunt stay heere a while behinde this doore whilest I goe in and see with whom my Mistresse is talking Come in she is talking alone to her selfe Melibea Lucrecia make fast the doore there and pull downe the hanging ouer it O wise and honest old Dame you are exceeding welcome what thinke you that chance should so dispose of things and fortune so bring about her wheele that I should stand in neede of this wisdome and craue so suddenly of you that you would ●dy me in the selfe-same coyne the courtesie which was by you demanded of me for that Gentleman whome you were to cure by the vertue of my Girdle Celest. Say Lady what is your disease that you so liuely expresse the tokens of your torment in those your maiden blushes Melibea Truly mother I thinke there be some Serpents within my body that are gnawing vpon my heart Celest. It is well euen as I would haue it I will be euen with you you foole for your yesterdaies anger I will make you pay for it with a witnesse Melibea What 's that you say Haue you perceiued by my lookes any cause from whence my malady proceedeth Celest. You haue not Madame told me the quality of your disease and would you haue mee diuine of the cause That which I say is this that I am heartily sorry to see your Ladiship so sad and so ill Melibea Good old woman Doe thou make me merry then For I haue heard much of thy wisdome Celest. Madame as farre as humane knowledge can discerne of inward griefe I dare presume And for as much as for the health and remedy of infirmities and diseases these graces were imparted vnto men for the finding out of fit and conuenient medicines whereof some were attained to by experience some by Art and some by a naturall instinct some small portion of these good gifts this poore old creature my selfe haue gotten who is heere present to doe you the best seruice she can Melibea O how acceptable and pleasing are thy words to mine eares it is a comfortable thing to the sicke patient to see his physician to look cheerfully vpon him Me thinks I see my heart broken betweene thy hand in pieces which with a little labour and by power and vertue of thy tongue thou art able if thou wilt to ioyne together and make it whole againe euen as easily as Alexander that great King of Macedon dream't of that wholesome roote in the mouth of a Dragon wherewith he healed his seruant Ptolomy who had beene bitten by a Viper and therefore for the loue of Ioue disroabe your selfe that you may more easily and more diligently looke into the nature of my disease and affoord me some remedy for it Celest. A great part of health is the desiring of health And a good signe of mending to be willing to mend For which reason I reckon your griefe the lesse and hold it the lesse dangerous But that I may minister a wholesome medicine vnto you and such a one as may be agreeable to your disease it is requisite that you first satisfie me in these three particulars The first is on which side of your body your paine doth lye most The second how long you haue had this paine whether it hath taken you but of late or no For your newly growing infirmities are sooner cured in the tendernesse of their growth then when they haue taken deepe rooting by ouer-long perseuering in their office So beasts are sooner tamed when they are young and more easily brought to the yoake then when their hide is throughly hardned So far better doe those plants grow vp and prosper which are remooued when they are young and tender then those that are transplanted hauing long borne fruit The third is whether this your euill hath proceeded of any cruell thought which hath taken hold on you This being made knowne you shall see mee set my selfe roundly to worke about your cure for it is very fit and conuenient that you should open the whole truth as well to your Physician as your Confessour Melibea Friend Celestina Thou wise Matrone and great Mistresse in thy Art thou hast well opened vnto me the way by which I may manifest my maladie vnto thee Beleeue me you haue questioned me like a wise woman and like one that is well experienced in these kind of sickenesses My paine is about my heart it's residence neere vnto my left Pappe but disperseth it selfe ouer euery part of my body Secondly it hath beene so but of late nor did I euer thinke that any paine whatsoeuer could haue so depriued me of my vnderstanding as this doth it troubles my sight changes my countenance takes away my stomacke I cannot sleepe for it nor will it suffer mee to inioy any kinde of pleasure touching the thought which was the last thing you demanded concerning my disease I am not able to deliuer it vnto you and as little the cause thereof For neither death of kinsfolke nor losse of temporall goods nor any sudden passion vpon any vision nor any doting dreame nor any other thing can I coniecture to be the cause of it saue onely a kinde of alteration caused by your selfe vpon your request which I suspected in the behalfe of that Gentleman Calisto when you entreated me for my Charme Celest. What Madame Is Calisto so bad a man Is his name so bad that onely but to name him should vpon the very sound thereof send forth such poyson Deceiue not your selfe Doe not beleeue that this is the cause of your griefe I haue another thing