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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A53060	Playes written by the thrice noble, illustrious and excellent princess, the Lady Marchioness of Newcastle.	Newcastle, Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of, 1624?-1674.; Newcastle, William Cavendish, Duke of, 1592-1676.	1662 (1662)	Wing N868; ESTC R17289	566,204	712

the Enemies hope to gain an advantage of his absence but he hath put a Deputy in his place to command in chief untill he recovers 1 Gent. What is become of the Female Army Messenger I hear they are marched towards the Masculine Army but upon what design I cannot understand Exeunt Scene 21. Enter Madam Jantil and her Maid Nell Careless Madam Iantil. Call my Steward The Maid goes out The Lady walks in a musing posture her eyes fixt on the ground Enter the Steward weeping Steward O Madam that I should live to hear this cursed news of my dear Lord and Masters Death Madam Iantil. Life is a curse and there 's none happy but those that dye in the womb before their birth because they have the least share of misery and since you cannot weep out life bear it with patience but thy tears have almost washt out the memory of what I was to say but this it is that I would have you sell all my Jewels Plate and Houshold Furniture to the best advantage and to turn off all my Servants but just those to attend my person but to reward all of them with something more than their wages and those Servants that are old and have spent their youth with my Lords Predecessors and in his service but especially those he favoured most give them so much during their lives as may keep them from the miseries of necessity and vexations of poverty Thirdly I would have you hire the best and curioust Carvers or Cutters of Stones to make a Tomb after my direction as First I will have a marble piece raised from the ground about half a mans height or somthing more and somthing longer than my Husbands dead body and then my Husbands Image Carved out of Marble to be laid thereupon his Image to be Carved with his Armor on and half a Head-piece on the Head that the face might be seen which face I would have to the life as much as Art can make it also let there be two Statues one for Mercury and another for Pallas these two Statues to stand at his head and the hands of these Statues to join and to be laid under as carrying the head of my Husbands figure or as the head lay thereupon and their hands as his Pillow on the right side of his figure let there be a Statue for Mars and the hand of Mars's Statue holding the right hand of my Husbands figure and on the left hand a Statue for Hymen the hand on the place of the heart of my Husbands figure and at the feet of the figure let there be placed a Statue for Fortune also about a yard distance from the Tomb at the four Corners thereof let there be four Marble Pillars raised of an indifferent height and an Arched Marble Cover thereupon and let all the ground be paved underneath with Marble and in the midst on the outside of the marble roof let the Statute of Fame be placed in a flying posture and as blowing a Trumpet then some two yards distance square from those Pillars let the ground be paved also with Marble and at the four Corners four other Marble Pillars raised as high as the former with Capitals at top and the body of those Pillars round and the Statues of the four Cardinal Virtues placed on those Capitals sitting as in a weeping posture and at the feet of those Pillars the Statues of the Graces imbracing each Pillar as the Statue of Charity the Pillar whereon the Statue of Justice sits and the Statue of Patience the Pillar of Temperance and the Statute of Hope the Pillar of Prudence and the Statue of Faith the Pillar of Fortitude then set a grove of Trees all about the out-side of them as Lawrel Mirtle Cipress and Olive for in Death is Peace in which Trees the Birds may sit and sing his Elegy this Tomb placed in the midst of a piece of ground of some ten or twenty Acres which I would have incompassed about with a Wall of Brick of a reasonable height on the inside of the Wall at one end I would have built a little house divided into three Rooms as a Gallery a Bed-chamber and a Closet on the outside of the Wall a House for some necessary Servants to live in to dress my meat and to be ready at my call which will be but seldome and that by the ring of a Bell but the three Rooms I would have furnished after this manner my Chamber and the Bed therein to be hung with white to signify the Purity of Chastity wherein is no Colours made by false lights the Gallery with several Colours intermixt to signify the varieties changes and incombrances of life my Closet to be hung with black to signify the darkness of Death wherein all things are forgotten and buried in Oblivion thus will I live a signification not as a real substance but as a shaddow made betwixt life and death from this House which shall be my living Tomb to the Tomb of my dead Husband I would have a Cloyster built through which I may walk freely to my Husbands Tomb from the injuries of the weather and this Cloyster I would have all the sides thereof hung with my Husbands Pictures drawn to the life by the best Painters and all the several accidents studies and exercise of his life thus will I have the story of his life drawn to the life see this my desire speedily carefully and punctually done and I shall reward your service as a carefull and diligent Steward and Servant Steward It shall be done but why will not your Ladyship have my Lords figure cast in Brass Madam Iantil. Because the Wars ruin Tombs before Time doth and metals being usefull therein are often taken away by necessity and we seldome find any ancient Monuments but what are made of Stone for covetousness is apt to rob Monuments of metal committing Sacrileges on the dead for metals are soonest melted into profit but Stone is dull and heavy creeping slowly bringing but a cold advantage wherein lies more pains than gains Steward But your Ladyship may do all this without selling your Jewels Plate and Houshold Furniture Madam Iantil. It is true but I would not let so much wealth ly dead in Vanity when exchanging them for money I can imploy it to some good use Steward Your Ladyship hath forgotten to give order for blacks Madam Iantil. No I have not but I will give no mourning untill my Husbands body be carried to the Tomb wherefore I have nothing more to imploy you in at this time but only to send hither my Chaplain Doctor Educature The Steward goes out Enter Doctor Educature Madam Iantil. Doctor although it is not the profession of a Divine to be an Historian yet you knowing my Husbands life and natural disposition best being in his Childhood under you Tutorage and one of his Family ever since I know none so proper for that work as you and though you are

him to stir out no not so much as out his Lodgings but that 's not all for they will not suffer him to think for their Tongues disturb all his Meditations the one fills his Ears and Head with promises the other rants in threats the Prince strives to hire him with Wealth and Honour to marry his Neece and his Father stands ready if he denyes to load him with Curses 2 Man The Princes Hire will sooner bring him to consent than the Fathers Load Exeunt Scene 15. Enter Father and Son LOrd Dorato Son if you disobey my commands concerning this marriage as to refuse it by heavens fair light I swear I will load you with so many Curses as shall sink you down to Hell The Father goes out Lord Melancholy alone Lord Melancholy By Heavens fair light I swear I wish I were covered with the darkness of Death but my Fathers Curses may exclude me from Heavens blessings Enter a Servant Servant My Lord your Father desires your presence Exeunt Scene 16. Enter Mistriss Odd-Humour and her Maid Nan MIstriss Odd-Humour O Nan I have had such a misfortune as never was Nan What misfortune Mistriss Odd-Humour Why I was sitting in that little Chair you know I take delight to sit in and was singing of Ballads not expecting that any stranger would come into my Chamber without my notice but as I was sitting and singing in comes my Father and the Gentleman you told me of that was to be my Husband whereat I was so surprized as I forgot the Chair was so little I could not readily part from it I started up in a fright and run away the Chair being so little in the seat stood so close to me as it went a-long with me and my back being towards my Father and the Gentleman saw the Chair as it stuck to me the Gentleman seeing the Chair hanging there told my Father that he perceived that I his Daughter was of so lazy a Nature that rather than stay or want a seat I would have a Chair tyed to my breech whereupon he hath broak the agreement he made with my Father and my Father for anger hath vowed to break or burn my Chair O Nan what shall I do to save my Chair for to lose both Chair and Husband will be too great a loss Nan Which had you rather lose the Gentleman or the Chair Mistriss Odd-Humour O the Gentleman Nan for he will not do me half so much service as the Chair hath done me he will never bear with me as the Chair hath bore me and I perceive by his she humour and Courteous Nature that he would sooner break my head with a Chair than ease my hips with a Seat therefore good Nan devise some way to save my Chair from Execution and the fates I hope as a blessing to me have made the Chair a means to break the marriage betwixt this Gentleman and me Nan It seems he loves an active wife Mistriss Odd-Humour Faith all Fools love busy women Nan The best way is to speak to your Mother to pacify your Father Mistriss Odd-Humour I will take your advice Exeunt Scene 17. Enter the Lady Perfection LAdy Perfection And is he married Heavens send him joy and me patience Heaven Crown his life with Happiness and mine with Peace and may he have posterity that may live long and flourish high that may keep alive his memory though I should be forgotten in the grave yet Heaven grant his fame may live eternally Enter Lady Gravity Lady Gravity Daughter have you heard of your Husbands marriage Lady Perfection Yes Madam Lady Gravity 'T is reported that the Princess whom he is married to is ill-favoured foolish and peevish Lady Perfection He is too wise to consider outward favour and for wit he hath enough for himself and his wife and his sweet and noble Nature and behaviour will equalize her peevish humour Lady Gravity There are Balls Masks and Playes to be extraordinary for the joy of this marriage wherefore Daughter I desire you to adorn your self and appear in those Assemblyes Lady Perfection I shall obey you Madam Exeunt Scene 18. Enter Lord Melancholy and an old Servant of his SErvant I wonder your Lordship should be so Melancholy that hath wealth at will it is enough for such poor men as I to be Melancholy Lord Melancholy I would thou hadst my wealth so I had thy freedome Servant O Sir there is no Freedome in Poverry Lord Melancholy Nor no Poverty in Freedome for freedome is the wealth of the Gods Servant If it pleased the Gods would I was bound to Riches Lord Melancholy I wish thou wert so I was free of my Princesses Shackels Exeunt Scene 19. Enter Sir Thomas Gravity and his Lady LAdy Husband the Arch-Prince hath sent a Messenger to give us notice he will come and visit my Daughter Sir Thomas Gravity I hear he is much enamored with your Daughters Beauty since he saw her at the last Ball Lady I will go to her and make her dress her self fine to entertain him Sir Thomas Gravity Her Beauty is bravery enough wherefore she needs no other adornment but what Nature hath drest her in Lady But Art gives additions Exeunt Scene 20. Enter two Gentlemen 1 GEnt. The Emperor I hear is sending Embassadors to the Arch-Prince to treat of a marriage betwixt the Arch-Prince and the Emperors Daughter 2 Gent. The report is that she is a fair and Virtuous Lady and the Prince will have great advantages by the alliance with the Emperour 1 Gent. He will so wherefore I hope and pray that the match may be for the good of this Kingdome Exeunt Scene 21. Enter the Arch-Prince and the Lady Perfection ARch-Prince Fair Lady grant me your love and I will ask no more but what accompanyes it your person which I will make an equal to my self Lady Perfection Gracious Sir had I a Virgins Love and Person pure to equal it I would present it to your Highness but both my Love and Person have been wedded unto another man and though the Law hath made a divorce yet Death hath not dissolved the marriage Arch-Prince Heaven hath given you Virtue which keeps your person pure and like a precious Diamond doth remain for though it hath or should have several purchasers yet doth it lose nothing of its value or worth and though you have been wedded to another man your Virtuons Chastity is still as pure as in your Virgins Estate and by the Laws your person is set free and for the Love you gave may be called back or drawn away since 't is not entertained Lady Perfection 'T is true I am Chast and so I will remain and though the law hath set my person free my conscience is not yet at liberty nor will that love I gave away return no more than life that 's past rise from the Urn wherefore most noble Sir ask me not for that which I have not to give you Arch-Prince Equal