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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A27178	Fifty comedies and tragedies written by Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher, Gentlemen ; all in one volume, published by the authors original copies, the songs to each play being added.; Plays. Selections	Beaumont, Francis, 1584-1616.; Fletcher, John, 1579-1625.	1679 (1679)	Wing B1582; ESTC R13766	2,374,878	1,160

Anno. First let me be resolv'd does the Law favour None be they ne're so mighty Porp. Not the greatest Anno. Then justly I accuse of foul ingratitude My Lords you of the Senate all not one Excepted Pos Porp. Us Phil. Annophel Ann. You are the Authors Of this unthrifty bloud-shed when your enemies Came marching to your gates your children suck'd not Safe at their Mothers breasts your very Cloysters Were not secure your starting-holes of refuge Not free from danger nor your lives your own In this most desperate Ecstasie my Father This aged man not only undertook To guard your lives but did so and beat off The daring foe for you he pawn'd his lands To pay your Souldiers who without their pay Refus'd to strike a blow but Lords when peace Was purchas'd for you and victorie brought home Where was your gratitude who in your Coffers Hoarded the rustie treasure which was due To my unminded Father he was glad To live retir'd in want in penurie Whilst you made feasts of surfeit and forgot Your debts to him The sum of all is this You have been unthankfull to him and I crave The rigor of the Law against you all Cas My Royal spirited daughter Ero. Annophel Thou art a worthy wench let me embrace thee Ann. Lords why do ye keep your seats they are no places For such as are offenders Pos Though our ignorance Of Cassilanes engagements might asswage Severity of justice yet to shew How no excuse should smooth a breach of Law I yield me to the trial of it Porp. So must I Great Prince of Cyprus you are left The only Moderator in this difference And as you are a Prince be a Protector To wofull Candy Phil. What a Scene of miserie Hath thine obdurate frowardness old man Drawn on thy Countries bosom and for that Thy proud ambition could not mount so high As to be stil'd thy Countries only Patron Thy malice hath descended to the depth Of Hell to be renowned in the Title Of the destroyer dost thou yet perceive What curses all posterity will brand Thy grave with that at once hast rob'd this Kingdom Of honour and of safety Erot. Children yet unborn Will stop their ears when thou art nam'd Arc. The world will be too little to contain The memorie of this detested deed The Furies will abhorr it Dec. What the sword Could not enforce your peevish thirst of honour A brave cold weak imaginarie fame Hath brought on Candy Candy groans not these That are to die Phil. 'T is happiness enough For them that they shall not survive to see The wounds wherewith thou stab'st the land that gave Thee life and name Dec. 'T is Candy's wrack shall feel Cas The mischief of your folly Porp. Pos Annophel Ann. I will not be entreated Cas Prethee Annophel Ann. Why would ye urge me to a mercy which You in your self allow not Cas 'T is the Law That if the party who complains remit The offender he is freed is' t not so Lords Porp. Pos 'T is so Cas Antinous By my shame observe What a close witch-craft popular applause is I am awak'd and with clear eyes behold The Lethargie wherein my reason long Hath been be-charm'd live live my matchless son Blest in thy Fathers blessing much more blest In thine own vertues let me dew thy cheeks With my unmanly tears Rise I forgive thee And good Antinous if I shall be thy Father Forgive me I can speak no more Ant. Dear Sir You new beget me now Madam your pardon I heartily remit you Erot. I as freely Discharge thee Cassilane Anno. My gracious Lords Repute me not a blemish to my Sex In that I strove to cure a desperate evil With a more violent remedy your lives Your honours are your own Phil. Then with consent Be reconcil'd on all sides Please you Fathers To take your places Pos Let us again ascend With joy and thankfulness to Heaven and now To other business Lords Enter Gaspero and Melitus with Gonzalo Mel. Two hours and more Sir The Senate hath been set Gonz. And I not know it Who sits with them Mel. My Lord the Prince of Cyprus Gonz. Gaspero Why how comes that to pass Gas Some weighty cause I warrant you Gonz. Now Lords the business ha Who 's here Erota Porp. Secretarie do your charge Upon that Traitor Gonz. Traitor Gas Yes Gonzalo Traitor Of treason to the peace and state of Candy I do attest thee Gonz. Me thou Dog Enter Fernando and Michael Mich. With Licence From this grave Senate I arrest thee likewise Of treason to the State of Venice Gonz. Ha Is Michael here nay then I see I am undone Erot. I shall not be your Queen Your Dutchess or your Empress Gonz. Dull dull brain O I am fool'd Gas Look Sir do you know this hand Mic. Do you know this Seal First Lords he writes to Venice To make a perfect league during which time He would in private keep some Troops in pay Bribe all the Centinels throughout this Kingdom Corrupt the Captains at a Banquet poyson The Prince and greatest Peers and in conclusion Yield Candy slave to Venice Gas Next he contracted With the Illustrious Princess the Lady Erota In hope of marriage with her to deliver All the Venetian gallantry and strength Upon their first arrival to the mercy Of her and Candy Erot. This is true Gonzalo Gonz. Let it be true what then Pos My Lord Ambassadour What 's your demand Mich. As likes the State of Candy Either to sentence him as he deserves Here or to send him like a slave to Venice Porph. We shall advise upon it Gonz. O the Devils That had not thrust this trick into my pate A Politician fool destruction plague Candy and Venice both Pos Porp. Away with him Mel. Come Sir I 'le see you safe Exeunt Gonz. Mel. Erot. Lords e're you part Be witness to another change of wonder Antinous now be bold before this presence Freely to speak whether or no I us'd The humblest means affection could contrive To gain thy love Ant. Madam I must confess it And ever am your servant Erot. Yes Antinous My servant for my Lord thou shalt be never I here disclaim the interest thou hadst once In my too passionate thoughts Most noble Prince If yet a relique of thy wonted flames Live warm within thy bosom then I blush not To offer up the assurance of my faith To thee that hast deserv'd it best Phil. O Madam You play with my calamity Erot. Let heaven Record my truth for ever Phil. With more joy Than I have words to utter I accept it I also pawn you mine Ero. The man that in requital Of noble and un-sought affection Grows cruel never lov'd nor did Antinous Yet herein Prince ye are beholding to him For his neglect of me humbled a pride Which to a vertuous wife had been a Monster Phil. For which I 'le rank him my deserving friend Ant. Much comfort dwell with you as I

coming thither was to play the villain To 〈◊〉 the Powder to blow up that part o' th' City Rut. Yes with my nose why were the trap doors open M●●● n●● you ●●ll 〈◊〉 you had you gone that way I thought your C●ty 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 la●● 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 ther● 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

'll carry it Ru. Does this become you Princess Arm. The Captain 's jealous Jealous of that he never durst deserve yet Goe freely goe I 'll give thee leave Ru. Your leave Sir Arm. Yes my leave Sir I 'll not be troubled neither Nor shall my heart ake or my head be jealous Nor strange suspitious thoughts reign in my memory Go on and do thy worst I 'll smile at thee I kiss your fair hand first then farewel Captain Exit Quisar What a pure soul inherits here what innocence Sure I was blind when I first lov'd this fellow And long to live in that fogg still how he blusters Ru. Am I your property or those your flatteries The banquets that ye bid me to the trust I build my goodly hopes on Quisar Be more temperate Ru. Are these the shews of your respect and favour What did he here what language had he with ye Did ye invite could ye stay no longer ●o be so gracious in your eye Quisar You are too forward Ru. Why at these private hours Quisar You are too saucy Too impudent to task me with those errors Do ye know what I am Sir and my prerogative Though you be a thing I have call'd by th' name of friend ● never taught you to dispose my liberty ●ow durst you touch mine honor blot my meanings ●nd name an action and of mine but noble Thou poor unworthy thing how have I grac'd thee ●ow have I nourisht thee and raised thee hourly Are these the gratitudes you bring Ruy Dias The thanks the services I am fairly paid Was 't not enough I saw thou wert a Coward ●nd shaddowed thee no noble sparkle in thee Daily provok'd thee and still found thee coward ●ais'd noble causes for thee strangers started at Yet still still still a Coward ever Coward And with those taints dost thou upbraid my virtues Ruy. I was too blame Lady Quisar So blindly bold to touch at my behaviour Durst thou but look amiss at my allowance If thou hadst been a brave fellow thou hadst had some licence Some liberty I might have then allowed thee For thy good face some scope to have argued with me But being nothing but a sound a shape The meer sign of a Soldier of a Lover The dregs and draffy part disgrace and jealousie I scorn thee and contemn thee Ru. Dearest Lady If I have been too free Quisar Thou hast been too foolish And go on still I 'll study to forget thee I would I could and yet I pity thee Exit Ru. I am not worth it if I were that 's misery The next door is but death I must aim at it Exit Actus Quartus Scaena Prina Enter King and Governor like a Moor-Priest Kin. SO far and truly you have discovered to me The former currents of my life and fortune That I am bound to acknowledge ye most holy And certainly to credit your predictions Of what are yet to come Gov. I am no lyer 'T is strange I should and live so near a neighbor But these are not my ends Kin. Pray ye sit good father Certain a reverend man and most religious Gov. I that belief 's well now and let me work then I 'll make ye curse Religion e'r I leave ye I have liv'd a long time Son a mew'd up man Sequester'd by the special hand of Heaven From the worlds vanities bid farewel to follies And shook hands with all heats of youth and pleasures As in a dream these twenty years I have slumber'd Many a cold Moon have I in meditation And searching out the hidden Wils of heaven Lain shaking under many a burning Sun Has fear'd my body and boil'd up my blood Feebl'd my knees and stampt a Meagerness Upon my figure all to find out knowledge Which I have now attained to thanks to heaven All for my countreys good too and many a vision Many a mistick vision have I seen Son And many a sight from heaven which has been terrible Wherein the Goods and Evils of these Islands Were lively shadowed many a charge I have had too Still as the time grew ripe to reveal these To travel and discover now I am come Son The hour is now appointed My tongue is touch'd and now I speak Kin. Do Holy man I 'll hear ye Gov. Beware these Portugals I say beware 'em These smooth-sac'd strangers have an eye upon ' em The cause is now the God's hear and believe King King I do hear but before I give rash credit Or hang too light on belief which is a sin father Know I have found 'em gentle faithful valiant And am in my particular bound to 'em I mean to some for my most strange deliverance Gov. Oh Son the future aims of men observe me Above their present actions and their glory Are to be look'd at the Stars shew many turnings If you could see mark but with my eyes pupil These men came hither as my vision tells me Poor weather-beaten almost lost starv'd feebled Their vessels like themselves most miserable Made a long sute for traffique and for comfort To vent their childrens toys cure their diseases They had their sute they landed and to th' rate Grew rich and powerful suckt the fat and freedom Of this most blessed Isle taught her to tremble Witness the Castle here the Citadel They have clapt upon the neck of your Tidore This happy Town till that she knew these strangers To check her when she 's jolly King They have so indeed Father Gov. Take heed take heed I find your fair delivery Though you be pleas'd to glorifie that fortune And think these strangers gods take heed I say I find it but a handsome preparation A fair-fac'd Prologue to a further mischief Mark but the end good King the pin he shoots at That was the man deliver'd ye the mirror Your Sister is his due what 's she your heir Sir And what 's he a kin then to the kingdom But heirs are not ambitious who then suffers What reverence shall the gods have and what justice The miserable people what shall they do King He points at truth directly Gov. Think of these Son The person nor the manner I mislike not Of your preserver nor the whole man together Were he but season'd in the Faith we are In our Devotions learn'd King You say right Father Gov. To change our Worships now and our Religion To be traytor to our God King You have well advised me And I will seriously consider Father In the mean time you shall have your fair access Unto my Sister advise her to your purpose And let me still know how the gods determine Gov. I will but my main end is to advise The destruction of you all a general ruine And when I am reveng'd let the gods whistle Exeunt Enter Ruy Dias and Pyniero Ruy. Indeed I am right glad ye were not greedy And sudden in performing what I will'd you Upon the person of Armufia I was afraid for I well