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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A07649	The shepheard's paradise a comedy : privately acted before the late King Charls by the Queen's Majesty, and ladies of honour / written by W. Mountague ...	Montagu, Walter, 1603?-1677.	1629 (1629)	STC 18040.5; ESTC R2909	116,338	182

as a stranger to discover whether his thoughts be not more fixt on Bellesa's life then Saphira's death Enter Votorio Voto The Gods protect you Sir Moramente told me you demanded me Gen. He hath obliged me Sir in so speedy procuring of this favour I am come to intreat your help in an audience for the delivery of my pretence to be admitted into the Society Fortune since I went from hence hath so intended my persecution as if my having been but here had been a declaration of my selfe against her Therefore now I am come back hither for Sanctuary with this to recommend my sad pretence the having suffered for my b●ing here Exit Votorio Enter G mella Gem. It is you Sir have brought this darknesse with you that hath ore-cast Moramente thus Gen. I assured only his enquiry in somewhat he desired to know abroad which if it hath afflicted him it will adde somewhat to my pretence The misfortune of having been so cursed as to bring sorrows hither it will be in your power Madam now to over-pay that which you were so lately pleased to call civility my direction of you hither Your happy admittance here must needs indebt you to any body that did but contribute so much as showing you the way Gem. That which helped you to retaine me in your memory may excuse me for your being fallen allmost out of mine This black made me notorious to you and hath disguised you to me It seems you are owner as well as bearer of part of Morament's greife● Gen. Among all misfortunes Madam I have not this of nature the being insensible of what friendship should affect me with and so only this particular toucheth me my own dysasters challenging this habit Gem. Your own misfortunes are now to be releeved by our knowledg of them but you may ease us by the acquaintance of this greife which you have brought to Moramente Gen. I wonder Madam it falls so heavy on him to cause this dejection since it falls on him but from another whom it fell on first 'T is the death Madam of the Princesse of Navarr whom the Prince his Highnesse was so in love with as he left his fathers Court even to ask nothing but her pardon The story is too long to satisfy you by of the Prince his reasons But this is enough to possess you of the reason of Moraments sorrowes his love and duty to the Prince Enter Votorio Voto The Queen Sir is going to the audience-seat and t is time for you to move that way Gen. I follow you Sir In hope of time enough hereafter to ask your pardon Lady Gem. I shall meet you presently Sir and I hope embrace you as one the gods seem to favour and to have forgiven by their direction of you into this Society Exeunt Vo●orio Genorio Gemella The gods should too much enlarge me to furnish me with more ad●iration of the virtue of this place Sure th●y chose to make me thus happy as the subject whereon the virtue of this place might get the greatest honor by the despaire of my condition that I should live to misse Genori● to endeare the finding him here This is he my joyes tell it me better then my eyes The Prince is here left the sense of the Princess Saphiras death might qualify these joyes the Prince being in love with the divine Bel●esa is fallen out to make her death as it were a sacrifice to all our lives This free 's the Prince from any scruple in his love and so prepares the wished successe unto Agenor and my self I will conceale my self still unto Agenor It is not jealousie but to do him right by this allowance of so much merit as his constancy must be in this place imparadised in the strength of temptations of our Sex and I love him so I 'de have him out-merit me in what only I can alleadg it constancy which in a defence against this place's beauty will be done I do not despaire of Belles●s taking too my approaches have been succes●ull yet Love 's well advanc'd intrench'd within our eares It workes securely covered from our feares If e're it come to parley under ground But with our thoughts we likely do compound Enter the Queen and all the Society Voto Moramente by me begs your Majestie 's pardon for his absence which his indisposition hath occasioned Bel. I am sorry for the justnesse of his excuse Let the ●●tender begin 〈◊〉 Behold deaths Herald sent to proclaim a Victory 〈◊〉 he lately had o're love by which both sexes are defeated so as men may feare the being loved and women may justly leave from loving since nothing but dying can shew that they can love enough Behold and pity me whom death keeps thus alive by my despaire In living to proclame his Triumph not only in my love but in my life I am that wretched he that shame unto my sex that was beloved by such a one as had not sin enough to dy but death was faine her virtue to imploy This treachery did death use me with whilst I was as I may say even in his company as much as darknesse and absence represent him In this separation then death I may say betray'd love too for 't was the deadly sinn of lust armed with the power of a Prince that did assault the virtue of this matchlesse Shee To save whose life she gave her own to death delivering it with her own hands Which being not strong enough to defend her innocence were innocent in the defeate of her own life when it stood against her innocence After this do not beleeve that I pretend admission here for comfort but bound to seeke through all the world the place which is the truest enemy to lust and death which all consent is this for that virtue which defyes the first defeates the last of his power Therefore I must implore your ayde in this that in revenge of this injurious life which nature is not so kind as to allow me hope of a justifiable freeing of my selfe of I may live here where only life is such as it despiseth death Bel. Votorio collect the votes Voto They agree for his admission Bel. And I confirme it too But methinks death hath not been so injurious as your sense would make it in this cause for it seemes to have come in upon the rescue not the arrest and we are interessed in your life as a record of the virtue of our sex Gen. Did I not justly prefer the estimation of this place before the rest of the world I should have been a moving monument and should have disperst her Epitaph as farr as life would have have served to carry me But since in this one cent● meets all the extended lines of virtue that touch this worlds circumference here I have chosen to fix my selfe that in a firm consistency the dimension of this virtue might be trulier taken here Bel. Votorio let him be sworne Vot

may yet owe you more Mar. Divinest Lovers 'bove the praise of breath So much you scorn'd to joyne by lesse than Death By which emission you so much enjoy As one another would but seem a toy Accept this tribute and our souls inspire So farre tow'rds your example as desire Gem. Illustrious Lights of honour and of Love We but your shaddowes are that shine above Vouchsafe t' obtaine that we as shaddowes do May be admitted too to follow you Gen. Blessed souls that coppied Heaven here so Together as each other not to know I find these marks which Paradise imply As gain of sight and losse of memory This scruple onely now doth here remaine That I cannot from wishing yet refraine If it were ment this Heavenly residence Should but refine and not extinguish sence Let it my grosser spirits so refine As my undarken'd soul may through them shine The Fifth Act. After the Ceremony of the Toomb Genorio stayes alone Gen. ME-thinks I find my mind on wing loose from my senses which like limed twigs held it till now It is so light and so ascensive now it meanes to work it selfe above Martiroes I am already so farre towards it as the beliefe that I did never love till now O how I was deceived while I conceived that Love was so Materiall it could be touched and grasp't I find it an undepending ayrinesse that both supports and fills it selfe and is to be felt by what it nourisheth no more then aire whose virtue onely we discerne I knew before all I could have I am so farre above that now I cannot suppose what I can hope and yet am better pleased with this this inoffensive purity of my love emboldens me to shew it to Bellesa and in humility to her it shall ask somewhat of her as begging is the onely Present impotency hath to make to power and it shall be so far from being sensuall it shall be nothing but beliefe Enter Bellesa Bel. Your sadnesse seemes so welcome to you as I may excuse the interruption of it Gen. You are so farre from interruption of it Madam as you bring the cause along with you Bel. Have you not yet forgiven my curiousity to see the Picture are you of Martiroes mind Gen. Why she 's an Angell even in the knowledge of mens thoughts I what Madam do you think I am of Marti●oes mind Bel. In keeping your love invisible and therefore are displeased that we saw so much as the shaddow of it Gen. I am not of his mind in that I would shew mine because 't is such a wonder 't will not else be believed and as wonders Madam hardlyobtaine that so mine shall pretend to no more Bel. Do you pretend Genorio to be a friend unto the Prince and will make the Loving Fidamira a wonder in any body Gen. Yes Madam that were a greater after having seen you then that which I shall tell you Bel. I have onely leisure now to tell you Genorio that in revenge of this flattery I will accuse you of it to your friend Moramente who loves the Prince so much a● he will chide you for it I am now going into a privacy I must desire to leave you Gen. I am so cursed Madam as truth seemes dis-lustred by my bringing it I never committed sinne enough against another to be equall to this punishment As He goes out He sayes of leaving you To what am I transform'd when the name Fidamira is a torture to me Bellesa alone Bel. Sure M●ramente hath imploy'd his friend Genorio to save him the shame of speaking for himselfe Genorio speaks so boldly it must needs be for another I need not be so shie of this my though●fullnesse since all the virtues they should fix upon are here objected to them in Moramants carriage Love and honour bent by humility into a lovely Arch on which my thoughts may safely passe on towards his person which when I consider I find it such as scarce needs humility to recommend it His Fate hath so directed him to me as he hath had a reall sence of my misfortune and his destiny hath been so kind to him in that as to indebt me some pitty to him as my selfe and the reviving of Saphira though it be by Bell●sa's death t' will not be welcome to him Me-thinks my tho●ghts would take aire a little to refresh themselves That Infant love that 's come to visit them would carry them abroad with him they shall go with him and be so civill as to entertaine him with musick Presse me no more kind love I will confesse And tell you all nay rather more than lesse So you will promise me when I have told you then Not to bring m● to witnesse it to men Though thusy ' are strong enough to make me speak Help't out by virgin-shame you 'le be too weak If I find thus I may be safely free Best by this freedom I engag'd may be I find a glowing heat that turnes red hot My heart but yet it doth not flame a jot It doth but yet to such a colour turne It seemes to me rather to blush than burne You would perswade me that that flaming light Rising will change this colour into white I would fain know if this whites inference Pretend pale guilt or candid innocence If you you will tell me which without deceit I will allow you light as well as heat Then take you care of me a mean● so rare B●twixt mens vanity and their dispaire I finde so gentle drowsinesse flow o're my senses as if my thoughts had wearied them in carrying them thus farr and my thoughts are so innocent they do not oppose the rest my senses ask She falls a sleep And Moramente enters to her Mor. Was it the rapture my soule was allwayes in when she contemplates the divine Bellesa that did present her voyce unto me here in heaven Sure it was her soul uselesse now unto her body is gon to He sees her here lie sleeping and stands wondering visit heaven and did salute the Angels with a song Let sleep no more be called death's Image here is an animation of it Sure all the life that sleep takes from the rest of the world he hath brought hither and lives here Methinks I should be innocent too now Sure had I but even an ill coloured thought her soul that is in heaven would know it and come back to awake her with the alarum I will stay at this distance still and only take this advantage now to wonder Neerer her thus parted from her soule then I can do united he goes to step toward her Doth the ground move to carry me neerer then my soul durst goe T is true I find it is the earthlynesse about me moves me neerer then my reverence should keep me Methinks I am so neere her now as I all soul my body by whose carriage it was brought is now recoyl'd and my spirit is now shot out upon Bellesa And thus all