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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

been questioned For without any contradiction they would all of them haue yeelded and ioyntly haue giuen their consent that Melibea should haue borne it from them so that it should rather haue been called the Apple of concord then of discord Besides as many women as are now borne and doe know her curse themselues and their fortune complaining of heauen because it did not remember them when it made her consuming as well their bodies as their liues with enuy being ready to eat their owne flesh for very anger still augmenting martyrdomes to themselues thinking to equall that perfection by arte which Nature had bestowed vpon her without any labour They pill and dis-haire their eye-browes with nippers with playsters of Pitch or Barme and other the like instruments They seeke after Wall-wort and the like hearbs roots sprigs and flowres to make Lyes wherewithall to bring their haire to the colour of hers spoyling and martyring their faces clothing them with diuers colourings glissenings paintings vnctions oyntments strong waters white and red pargetings which to auoide prolixity I repeate not Now iudge then whether shee whom Nature hath so richly beautified be worthy the loue and seruice of so meane a man as my selfe Celest. Sempronio I vnderstand your meaning but giue him leaue to runne on for he will fall anon from his Asse and then his iourney will be at an end you shall see he will come by and by to a full poynt and so conclude Calisto In her Nature as in a glasse did wholy behold her selfe that she might make her most absolutely perfect for those graces which she had diffused vnto diuers she had ioyntly vnited them in her and ouer-viewed this her worke with so curious an eye that nothing might be added to make it fairer To the end that they might know who had the happinesse to see her the worthinesse and excellency of her Painter only a little faire Fountaine-water with a combe of yuorie is sufficient without any other slibber-slabbers to make her surpasse all other of her Sexe in beauty and courtesie These are her weapons with these she kils and ouer-comes and with these hath she bound mee in so hard and strong a chaine that I must for euer remaine her prisoner Celestina Sir put a period to your words trouble your selfe no more for this chaine which shackles thee is not so strong but my file is as sharpe to cut it in sunder which I will doe for thee that thou mayst be at liberty And therefore giue me now licence to take my leaue of you For it growes very late and let me haue the girdle a●ng with me For you know I must needs vse it Calisto O disconsolate that I am my misforunes still pursue me for with thee or with this girdle or with both I would willingly haue beene accompanied all this darke and tedious night But because there is no perfect happinesse in this our painefull and vnhappy life let solitarinesse wholy possesse my soule and cares be my continuall companions What ho Where be these men Why Parmeno I say Parmeno Heere Sir Calisto Accompany this Matrone home to her house and as much pleasure and ioy goe with her as sorrow and woe doth stay with me Celest. Sir fare you well To morrow I shall make my returne and visit you againe not doubting but my gowne and her answer shall meete heere together for now time doth not serue And in the interim let me intreate you to be patient Settle your thoughts vpon some other things and doe not so much as once thinke vpon her Calisto Not thinke vpon her It is impossible Nay it were prophane to forget her for whom my life onely pleaseth mee ACTVS VIJ. THE ARGVMENT CELESTINA talkes with Parmeno inducing him to concord and amitte with Sempronio Parmeno puts her in mind of the promise she made him for the hauing of Areusa whom he exceedingly loued They goe to Areusa's house where that night Parmeno remained Celestina hies her home to her owne house and knocking at the doore Elicia opens it vnto her blaming her for her tarrying so long INTERLOCVTORS Celestina Parmeno Areusa Elicia CElestina Parmeno my sonne since we last talkt together I haue not had any fit opportunitie to expresse vnto thee the infinitenesse of that loue which I beare vnto thee and as all the world can well witnesse for mee how well I haue spoken of thee in thy absence Euery man eare hath beene filled with the good reports I haue made of thee The reason thereof I need not to repeate for I euer held thee to be my sonne at least by adoption and therefore thought thou wouldst haue shew'd thy selfe more naturall and louing towards me But in stead thereof thou gau'st me bad payment euen to my face crossing whatsoeuer I said thinking ill of all that I spake whispering and murmuring against me in the presence of Calisto I was well perswaded that after thou hadst once yeelded to my good counsell that you would not haue turned your heele and kickt against me as you did nor haue falne off from your promise But notwithstanding all this I perceiue some old relique yet still remaining of my former folly And so speaking rather to satisfie thine owne humor then that thou canst render any reason for it thou dost hinder thy selfe of profit to giue thy tongue contentment Heare me my sonne if thou hast not heard me already Looke I say and consider with thy selfe that I am old and well strucken in yeeres and good counsell only lodgeth with the elder sort it being proper to youth to follow pleasure and delight But my hope is that of this thy errour thy youth onely is in fault and I trust that you will beare your selfe better towards mee heereafter and that you will alter your ill purpose together with your tender yeeres For as it is in the Prouerbe Our customes suffer change together with our hayres and wee vary our disposition as we vary our yeeres I speake this my sonne because as we grow in age so grow we in experience new things daily offring themselues to our view for youth lookes no farther then to things present occupying his eie only in that he sees set before him but riper yeeres omit neither things present things past nor things to come And sonne Parmeno if you would but bethink your selfe of the loue I haue heeretofore borne you I know it cannot escape your knowledge that the first nights lodging that you tooke when you were a stranger and came newly to this City was in my house But you young men care not for vs that are old but gouerne your selues according to the sauour and relish of your owne palates you neuer think that you haue or shall haue need of vs you neuer thinke vpon sicknesse you neuer think that this flowre of your youth shall fade But doe you heare me my friend and marke what I say vnto you That in such cases of necessitie as these an old

Sempronio remaines in the house with Elicia INTERLOCVTORS Sempronio Celestina Elicia SEmpronio Looke what leysure the old bearded Bawd takes How softly she goes How one leg comes drawling after another Now she has her money her armes are broken Well ouertaken Mother I perceiue you will not hurt your selfe by too much haste Celest. How now sonne What newes with you Sempr. Why this our sicke patient knowes not well himselfe what hee would haue Nothing will content him hee will haue his cake bak'd before it be dough and his meat rosted before it be spitted He feares thy negligence and curseth his owne couetousnesse hee is angry with his close fistednesse and offended that he gaue thee no more Celest. There is nothing more proper to Louers then impatience Euery small tarriance is to them a great torment the least delay breedes dislike In a moment what they imagine must be fully effected nay concluded before begunne especially these new Louers who against any luring whatsoeuer flie out to checke they care not whither without any aduisemēt in the world or once thinking on the harme which the meate of their desire may by ouer●●●●●●ing occasion vnto them intermingled amidst the affayres and 〈◊〉 concerning their owne persons and their seruants Sempr. What sayst thou of seruants Thinkest thou that any 〈◊〉 is like to come vnto vs by labouring in this businesse Or that wee shall be burned with those Sparkles which scatteringly flye foorth of Calisto's 〈◊〉 I had rather see him and all his loue 〈◊〉 to the diuell vpon the 〈◊〉 discouery therefore of any danger 〈◊〉 chance to goe 〈◊〉 I will eate no more of his bread I will not stay with him no not an 〈◊〉 For it is better to lose his serue then 〈◊〉 in seruing him But Time will tell mee what I 〈◊〉 doe For before his finall downe-fall he will like a house that is ready to fall giue some token himselfe of his owne ruine And therefore Master let vs in any case keepe our persons from perill let vs doe what may be done if it be possible let vs work her for him this yeer if not this the next if not the next when we may if neuer the worse lucke his Though there is not any thing so hard to suffer in it's beginning which time doth not soften and reduce to a gentle sufferance And there is no wound so painefull which in time doth not slacken much of it's torment Nor was there euer any pleasure so delightfull which hath not by long continuance beene much diminished and lessened Ill and good prosperity and aduersity glory and griefe all these with time lose the force and strength of their rash and hasty beginning Whereas matters of admiration and things earnestly desired once obtained haue no sooner beene come then forgotten no sooner purchased but relinquished Euery day we see new and strange accidents wee heare as many and wee passe them ouer leaue those and hearken after others them also doth time lessen make contingible as things of common course And I pray what wonder would you thinke it if some should come and tell you There was such an earth-quake in such a place or some such other things tell me would you not streight forget it As also if one should say vnto you Such a Riuer is frozen such a blinde man hath recouered his sight thy father is dead such a thunder bolt fell in such a place Granada is taken the King enters it this day the Turke hath receiu'd an ouer-throw to morrow you shall haue a great Eclypse such a bridge is carried away with the flood such a one is now made a Noble man Peter is rob'd Annes hath hang'd her selfe Now in such cases what wilt thou say saue onely this That some three daies past or vpon a second view thereof there will be no wonder made of it All things are thus they all passe after this maner all is forgotten and throwne behind vs as if they had neuer beene Iust so will it be with this my Masters Loue the farther it goes on the more it will slacken For long custome doth allay sorrow weakeneth and subdueth our delights and lesseneth wonders Let vs make our profit of him whilest this plea is depending and if wee may with a dry roote doe him good the easier the better if not by little and little wee will solder vp this flaw and make all whole by Me●●●●● holding him in scorne and contempt And if this will doe no good vpon him Better it is that the Master be pained then his man 〈◊〉 Celestina Well hast thou said I hold with thee and iumpe in thy opinion thy words haue well pleased me wee cannot erre Yet notwithstanding my sonne it is necessary that a good Proctour should follow his Clyents cause diligently and painfully that hee colour his plea with some feyned show of reason that hee presse some quillet or quirke of Law to goe and come into open Court though hee be check't and receiue some harsh words from the Iudges mouth to the end that they who are present may both see and say that though hee did not preuaile yet he both spake and laboured hard for his fee So shall not hee want Clyents nor Celestina suitors in cases of Loue Sempr. Doe as thou thinkst good Frame it to thine own liking This is not the first businesse thou hast taken in hand Celest. The first my sonne Few virgins I thanke Fortune for it hast thou seene in this Citty which haue opened their shops and traded for themselues to whom I haue not beene a broaker to their first spunne thread and holpe them to vent their wares there was not that wench borne in the world but I writ her downe in my Register and kept a Catalogue of all their names to the intent that I might know how many escap'd my net Why what didst thou thinke of mee Parmeno Can I liue by the ayre Can I feed my selfe with winde Doe I inherit any other land Haue I any other house or Vineyard Knowest thou of any other substance of mine besides this office By what doe I eate and drinke By what doe I finde clothes to my backe and shooes to my feete In this City was I borne in it was I bred Liuing though I say it in good credit and estimation as all the world knowes And dost thou thinke then that I can goe vnknowne Hee that knowes not both my name and my house thou maist hold him a meere stranger Sempr. Tell me Mother what past betwixt you and my fellow Parmeno when I went vp with Calisto for the Crownes Celest. I told him his dreame and the interpretation thereof and how that hee should gaine more by our company and ioyning in friendship with vs then with all his gay glozings and imbroydered works which he vttereth to his Master How he would alwaies liue poore and in want and be made a scoffe and laughing stocke vnlesse he would turne ouer a new

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

into a pecke of troubles I tell you truely I like not of his comming This loue of theirs I verily perswade my selfe was begunne in an vnlucky houre if you will goe goe for I 'll stay heere no longer Sempr. Peace harke shee will not consent wee come Melibea What meanes my Loue Will you vndoe me Will you wound my reputation Giue not your will the reines your hope is certaine and the time short euen as soone as your selfe shall appoint it Besides your paine is single mine double yours for your selfe mine for vs both you onely feele your owne griefe I both your own and mine Content your selfe therefore and come you to morrow at this very houre and let your way be by the wall of my garden for if you should now breake downe these cruell doores though haply wee should not be presently heard yet to morrow morning there would arise in my fathers house a terrible suspition of my errour and you know besides that by so much the greater is the errour by how much the greater is the party that erreth And in the turning of a hand will be noysed thorow the whole City Sempr. In an vnfortunate houre came we hither this night we shall stay heere till the day hath ouertaken vs if our master goe on thus leysurely and make no more haste And albeit fortune hath hitherto well befriended vs in this businesse yet I feare me if we stay ouerlong we shall be ouerheard either by some of Pleberio's houshold or of his neighbours Par. I would haue had thee bin gone 2. houres ago for he wil neuer giue ouer but still find some occasion to continue his discourse Calisto My deare Lady my ioy and happinesse why dost thou stile this an error which was granted vnto me by the Destinies and seconded by Cupid himselfe to my petitions in the Mirtle-Groue Parme. Calisto talkes idly surely he is not well in his wits I am of the beliefe brother that he is not so deuout That which that old traiterous Trot with her pestiferous Sorceries hath compassed and brought about he sticks not to say that the Destinies haue granted and wrought for him and with this confidence he would aduenture to breake ope these doores who shall no sooner haue giuen the first stroke but that presently he will be heard and taken by her fathers seruants who lodge hard by Sempr. Feare nothing Parmeno for we are farre inough off And vpon the very first noyse that we heare we will betake vs straight to our heeles and make our flight our best defence Let him alone let him take his course for if he doe ill he shall pay for it Parm. Well hast thou spoken thou knowst my mind as well as if thou hadst bin within me Be it as thou hast said let vs ●●un death for we are both young and not to desire to dye nor to kill is not cowardize but a naturall goodnesse Pleberio's followers they are but fooles and mad-men they haue not that minde to their meate and their sleep as they haue to be brabbling and quarrelling What fooles then should we be to fall together by the eares with such enemies who doe not so much affect Victory and Conquest as continuall Warre and endlesse contention O if thou didst but see brother in what posture I stand thou wouldst be ready to burst with laughing I stand sideling my legs abroad my left foote formost ready to take the start the skirts of my Cassocke tuckt vnder my girdle my Buckler clapt close to my arme that it may not hinder me and I verily beleeue that I should out-runne the swiftest Buck so monstrously am I afraid of staying heere Sempronio I stand better for I haue bound my Sword and Buckler both together that they may not fall from me when I run and haue clapt my Caske in the cape of my cloake Parme. But the stones you had in it What hast thou done with them Sempro. I haue turn'd them all out that I might goe the lighter for I haue inough to doe to carry this Corslet which your importunity made me put on for I could haue been very well content to haue left it off because I thought it would be too heauy for me when I should runne away Harke harke hearest thou Parmeno the businesse goes ill with vs wee are but dead men Put on away be gone make towards Celestina's house that we may not be cut off by betaking vs to our owne house Parmeno Flye flye you runne too slowly Passion of me if they should chance to ouertake vs Throw away thy Buckler and all Sempr. Haue they kild our Master Can you tell Parmeno I know not Say nothing to mee I pray Runne and hold your peace as for him he is the least of my care Sempronio Zit zit Parmeno not a word turne and be still for it is nothing but the Alguazills men who make a noyse as they passe thorow this other street Parme. Take your eyes in your hand and see you be sure Trust not I say too much to those eyes of yours they may mistake taking one thing for another they haue not left mee one drop of bloud in my body Death had e'n almost swallowed me vp for me thought still as I ranne they were cutting and carbonading my shoulders I neuer in my life remember that I was in the like feare or euer saw my selfe in the like danger of an affront though I haue gone many a time thorow other mens houses and thorow places of much perill and hard to passe Nine yeeres was I seruant to Guadaluppe and a thousand times my selfe and others were at buffets cutting one another for life yet was I neuer in that feare of death as now Sempronio And did not I pray serue at Saint Michaels and mine Host in the Market-place and Molleias the gardiner I also I tro was at fisty-cuffes with those which threw stones at the Sparrowes and other the like birds which sate vpon a green Popler that we had because with their stones they did spoile the hearbes in the garden But God keepe thee and euery good man from the sight of such weapons as these these are shrewd tooles this is true feare indeede and therefore it is not said in vaine Laden with Iron laden with feare Turne turne backe for it is the Alguazill that 's certaine Melibea What noyse is that Calisto which I heare in the street It seemes to be the noise of some that flye and are pursued for your owne sake and mine haue a care of your selfe I feare me you stand in danger Calisto I warrant you Madame feare you nothing for I stand on a safegard They should be my men who are madcaps and disarme as many as passe by them and belike some one hath escapt them after whom they hasten Melibea Are they many that you brought Calisto No Madame no more but two but should halfe a dozen set vpon them they would not be long in disarming them and