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B00396 Campaspe, played beefore the Queenes Maiestie on newyeares day at night, by her Maiesites children, and the children of Paules.; Alexander and Campaspe Lyly, John, 1554?-1606. 1584 (1584) STC 17048A; ESTC S94063 28,033 58

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meet with Manes who I dare say lookes as leane as if Diogenes dropped out of his nose Manes And here comes Manes whoe hath as muche meate in his maw as thou hast honestie in thy head Psyllus Then I hope thou art very hungry Manes They that know thee know that Psyllus But doest thou not remember that wee haue certaine licour to conferre withall Manes I but I haue busines I must go cry a thing Psyllus Why what hast thou lost Manes That which I neuer had my dinner Psyllus Foule lubber wilt thou crye for thy dinner Manes I meane I must cry not as one would saye cry but cry that is make a noyse Psyllus Why foole that is al one for if thou cry thou must needes make a noise Manes Boy thou art deceiued Cry hath diuerse significations and may bee alluded to manye things knaue but one and can be applyed but to thee Psyllus Profound Manes Manes Wee Cynickes are madde fellowes didste thou not finde I did quip thee Psyllus No verely why what is a quip Manes We great girders cal it a short saying of a sharp witte with a bitter sense in a sweete word Psyllus How canst thou thus diuine deuide define dispute and all on the suddaine Manes Wit wil haue his swing I am bewitcht inspird inflamed infected Psyllus Well then will not I tempt thy gybing spirite Manes Do not Psyllus for thy dull head will bee but a grindstone for my quick wit which if thou whet with ouerwhartes peristi actum est de te I haue drawne bloud at ones braines with a bitter bob Psyllus Let me crosse my selfe for I die if I crosse thee Manes Let me do my busines I my self am afraid least my wit should waxe warm and then must it needs consume some hard head with fine prety iests I am some times in such a vaine that for want of some dull pate to worke on I begin to gird my selfe Psyllus The Gods shield mee from such a fine fellowe whose words melt wits like waxe Manes Well then let vs to the matter In fayth my maister meaneth to morrow to fly Psyllus It is a iest Manes Is it a iest to flye shouldest thou flye so soone thou shouldest repent it in earnest Psyllus Well I will be the cryer Manes and Psyl one after an other O ys o ys o ys Al manner of men women or children that will come to morow into the market place between the houres of nine and ten shall see Diogenes the Cynick flye Psyllus I do not think he will flye Manes Tush say fly Psyllus Fly Manes Now let vs goe for I will not see him againe til midnight I haue a back way into his tub Psyllus Which way callest thou the backwaye when euery way is open Manes I meane to come in at his back Psyllus Well let vs goe away that wee may returne speedily Exeunt Actus tertius Schaena tertia Apelles Campaspe Apel. I shall neuer drawe your eies well because they blind mine Camp Why thē paint me without eies for I am blind Apel. Were you euer shadowed before of any Camp No. And would you could so now shadow me that I might not be perceiued of any Apel. It were pittie but that so absolute a face should furnish Venus temple amongst these pictures Camp What are these pictures Apel. This is Laeda whom loue deceiued in likenes of a swan Camp A faire woman but a foule deceit Apel. This is Alcmena Vnto whō Iupiter came in shape of Amphitriō her husband and begat Hercules Camp A famous sonne but an infamous fact Apel. He might do it because he was a God Camp Nay therefore it was euill done because he was a God Apel. This is Danae into whose prison Iupiter drisled a golden shewre and obtained his desire Camp What Gold can make one yeelde to desire Apel. This is Europa whom Iupiter rauished this Antiopa Camp Were al the Gods like this Iupiter Apel. There were many Gods in this like Iupiter Camp I thinke in those dayes loue was wel ratified among men on earth when lust was so ful authorised by the Gods in heauen Apel. Nay you may imagine there wer womē passing amiable when there were Gods exceeding amorous Camp Were women neuer so faire mē wold be false Apel. Were womē neuer so false men wold be fond Camp What counterfeit is this Appelles Apel. This is Venus the Goddesse of loue Camp What be there also louing Goddesses Apel. This is she that hath power to commaunde the very affections of the heart Camp How is she hired by praier by sacrifice or bribs Apel. By praier sacrifice and bribes Camp What praier Apel. Vowes irreuocable Camp What sacrifice Apel. Heartes euer sighing neuer dissembling Camp What bribes Apel. Roses and kisses but were you neuer in loue Camp No nor loue in me Apel. Then haue you iniuried many Camp How so Apel. Because you haue beene loued of many Camp Flattered parchance of some Apel. It is not possible that a face so faire a wit so sharpe both without comparison shuld not be apt to loue Camp If you begin to tip your tongue with cunning I pray you dip your pensil in colours and fall to that you must doe not that you would doe Actus tertius Schaena quarta Clytus Parmenio Alexander Hephestion Crisus Diogenes Apelles Campaspe Clytus Parmenio I cannot tel how it commeth to passe that in Alexander now a daies there groweth an vnpatiēt kinde of life in the morning he is melancholy at noone solomne at all times either more sower or seuere then he was accustomed Parme. In kinges causes I rather loue to doubt then coniecture and think it better to be ignoraunt then inquisitiue they haue long eares and stretched armes in whose heades suspition is a proofe and to be accused is to be condemned Clytus Yet betweene vs there canne be no danger to finde out the cause for that there is no malice to withstand it It may be an vnquenchable thirste of conquering maketh him vnquiet it is not vnlikly his long ease hath altred his humour that he should bee in loue it is not impossible Parme. In loue Clytus no no it is as farre from his thought as treason in ours he whose euer waking eye whose neuer tried heart whose body patient of labour whose mind vnsatiable of victory hath alwayes bin noted cannot so soone be melted into the weak conceites of loue Aristotle told him there were many worlds that he hath not conquered one that gapeth for al galleth Alexander But here he commeth Alex. Parmenio and Clitus I would haue you both redy to go into Persia about an ambassage no lesse profitable to me then to your selues honourable Clytus We are ready at all commaundes wishing nothing els but continually to be commaunded Alex. Well then withdraw your selues till I haue further considered of this matter Exeunt Clytus Parmenio Now we wil see how Apelles goeth forward I doubt me that nature
like a queene then in a poore shop like a huswife and esteme it sweeter to be the concubine of the Lord of the world then spouse to a painter in Athēs Yes yes Apelles thou maist swimme against the streame with the Crab and feede against the winde with the deere and pecke against the steele with the Cockatrice starres are to be looked at not reched at princes to bee yeelded vnto not contended with Campaspe to bee honored not obtained to be painted not possessed of thee O fair face O vnhappy hand why didst thou draw it so faire a face O bewtifull countenance the expresse image of Venus but sowhat fresher the only pattern of that eternitie which Iupiter dreaming of aslepe could not conceiue again wakīg Blush Venus for I am ashamed to end thee Now must I paint things vnpossible for mine arte but agreeable with my affections deepe and hollowe sighes sadde and melancholye thoughtes wounds and slaughters of conceites a life posting to death a death galloping from life a wauering constancie an vnsetled resolution and what not Apelles And what but Apelles But as they that are shaken with a feuer are to bee warmed with clothes not groanes as he that melteth in a consumption is to bee recured by Colices not conceites so the feeding cāker of my care the neuer dying worm of my hart is to be killed by coūsel not cries by applying of remedies not by replying of reasons And sith in cases desperat there must be vsed medicines that are extreme I wil hazard that litle life that is left to restore the greater part that is lost this shal be my first practise for wit must work where authoritie is not Assoone as Alexander hath viewed this portraiture I will by deuise giue it a blemish that by that meanes she may come again to my shop and then as good it were to vtter my loue and die with deniall as conceale it liue in despaire The Song Actus quartus Schaena prima Solinus Psyllus Granichus Manes Diogenes Populus Soli. This is the place the day the time that Diogenes hath appointed to flye Psyl I will not loose the flight of so faire a fowle as Diogenes is though my maister cogel my no bodie as he threatned Grani. What Psyllus will the beaste wag his winges to day Psyl We shall heare for here commeth Manes Manes will it be Manes Be he were best be as cunning as a Bee or else shortly he will not be at all Grani. How is he furnished to fly hath he feathers Manes Thou art an asse Capons Geese Owles haue feathers He hath found Dedalus old waxen wings and hath beene peecing them this moneth he is so broade in the shoulders O you shall see him cut the ayre euen like a Tortoys Soli. Me thinkes so wise a man should not be so mad his body must needes be to heauy Manes Why hee hath eaten nothing this seuennight but corke and feathers Psyllus Tutch him Manes Manes He is so light that he can scarse keepe him from flying at midnight Populus intrat Manes See they begin to flocke and behold my mayster bustles himselfe to flye Diog. Yee wicked and beewtiched Atheneans whose bodies make the earth to groane and whose breathes infect the aire with stench Come ye to see Diogenes fly Diogenes commeth to see you sinke yee call me dog so I am for I long to gnaw the boanes in your skins Yee tearme me an hater of menne no I am a hater of your maners Your liues dissolute not fearing death will proue your deaths desperate not hoping for life what do you els in Athens but sleepe in the day and surfeite in the night back Gods in the morning with pride in the euening belly Gods with gluttonie You flatter kings call them Gods speake trueth of your selues confesse you are diuels From the Bee you haue taken not the honney but the wax to make your religion framing it to the time not to the trueth Your filthy luste you colour vnder a courtly colour of loue iniuries abroad vnder the title of pollicies at home and secrete malice creepeth vnder the name of publick iustice You haue caused Alexander to dry vp springs plant Vines to sow roket and weede endiffe to sheare sheepe and shrine foxes Al cōscience is sealed at Athens Swearing commeth of a hot mettal lying of a quick wit flattery of a flowing tongue vndecent talk of a mery disposition Al things are lawfull at Athens Either you thinke there are no Gods or I must think ye are no men You build as though you should liue for euer and surfet as though you should die to morow None teacheth true Phylosophy but Aristotle because he was the kings schoolemaister O times O menne O coruption in manners Remember that greene grasse must turne to dry hay When you sleep you are not sure to wake and when you rise not certeine to lye downe Looke you neuer so hie your heads must lye leuell with your feete Thus haue I flowne ouer your disordered liues and if you wil not amend your manners I wil study to fly further from you that I may be neerer to honesty Soli. Thou rauest Diogenes for thy life is different from thy words Did not I see thee come out of a brothel house was it not a shame Diog. It was no shame to go out but a shame to goe in Grani. It were a good deede Manes to beate thy maister Manes You were as good eate my maister One of the people Hast thou made vs all fooles and wilt thou not flye Diog. I tell thee vnlesse thou be honest I will flye People Dog dog take a boane Diog. Thy father neede feare no dogs but dogs thy father People We wil tel Alexander that thou reprouest him behinde his back Diog. And I will tell him that you flatter him before his face People We wil cause al the boyes in the streete to hisse at thee Diog. Indeede I thinke the Athenians haue their children ready for any vice because they be Athenians Manes Why maister meane you not to flye Diog. No Manes not without wings Manes Euery body will account you a lyar Diog. No I warrant you for I will alwaies say the Athenians are mischieuous Psyllus I care not it was sport ynogh for me to see these old huddles hit home Gran. Nor I. Psyllus Come let vs goe and hereafter when I meane to raile vpon any body openly it shall be giuen out I will flye Exeunt Actus quartus Schaena secunda Campaspe Apelles Campaspe sola Campaspe It is hard to iudge whether thy choice be more vnwise or the chaunce vnfortunate Doest thou preferre but stay vtter not that in woordes which maketh thine eares to glow with thoughts Tush better thy tongue wagge then thy heart break Hath a painter crept further into thy mind then a Prince Apelles thē Alexander Fond wench the basenes of thy mind bewraies the meannesse of thy