Why writ you dead in your last letters Sick was I and no likelihood of life Iames. What then was that a iust excuse To varnish ouer this base counterfeiting no I l'e make it knowne Lady I care not I will thus excuse it All opposite of iniurie was yours Putting to teast our weakenesse by your letters VVhich carrying credit woman in her will Guiltlesse is causer of this open ill Iames. Had I beene thus aduiz'd but all too late Acquainted with your speede I had preuented what now is past and done Lady Why did you not Baud to your owne misdeede Three quarters guiltie of this accident That might would not stop the hazard VVill ye now heape vp miracle And make it worse in note by adding too 't A bauins blaze t' is not so soone extinct Being fierce of flame quensht must it be By water-course of sounder pollicie Iames. I am from my selfe in this what shall I doe O I am madde and mischiefe mennass is vnwitting of all purpose Ladie Why did I cast my gloue Proclaim'd the finder stickler of our sports But to a point preuailing practise Iames. I know not how Lady Leaue all to me women that wade in sinne Haue their wits-charter to authorize it And they haue antidotes that to digest Which better iudgements lose themselues in let me alone Iames. To ly with him the while Ladie T is true to ly with him but not in sheetes To vse the flourish of a womans skill In windes and turnings other lying My new made husband iniures not the old As I am simply false I will be found Constant to death knowing my businesse Is to heale vp the fractures of the time And to salue vertue in her taint of ill Iames. I build on this Lady Some moneth VVhile I possesse the glory of my name Attendances according marrie our sonne Vnto his eldest daughter that 's the point Of all regaine my ioynter next T' is not amisse to satisfie your debts These two atchieu'd the third is bedding And if this braine beguile him not of that Say I am single no since blame sits nie Behooues giue care to vse true policie Iames. Our sonne Exit Lady Aside Enter Humil Humil Mother the noble guest expects ye The present meeting doos neglect it selfe VVhere our faire bride is wanting Pray come in you doe them wrong Lady I am not well and this commanding aire Retaines my health I came to fetch it Wherefore inricht with what was ours before VVe yeeld fresh duetie and attend them Humil Will you be mindfull of our marriage mother Begin so happily in yours Lady I shall indeauour in it come Exeunt Enter Marie Tabithe Toures and Filbon Tabithe Close and husht not a fly stirring VVhile they feede hungerly we that loues detie Doos proclaime pardon to presume and speake Challendge libertie now by my maiden-head Filbon Sweare not loue Tabithe Can you forbid my oath Sir I will sweare till I lacke it say nought shall confine me I had rather feast in fancies pittance then to seede gag'd with attention soothing euery bit with curiositie no I can fill my bellie in a minute satisfie my stomacke in a breath Louers digest their sighes and chow their spleene while other appetites fall hungry too t and let them greedily graze on Marie VVhat 's all this Toures Louers talke any thing Filbon I vnderstand ye not Tabithe I would not that you should for I speake Greeke Marie Regard her not for she talkes Id'ly Filbon Tabi. Be you aduiz'd then sister I 'me a foole Yet not so simple but I talke by rule I say dine they that list I will not for my dish Drest to my hand is here here let me feede Ti 's the maids modicum God send vs speede Marie In that I claime a part Who euer feedes this dish hath Maries hart Tabi. So then said I well ye wicked thing Toures Mot as I am of Louers vnion Contracted to a sollitarie life By thus retayning singlenes of heart Changing all doubts that the world affords But one so to thy sweetest selfe Which onely art idea of my thoughts I vowe a reconciled amitie Which violated doos command my life To yeeld his intrest to the shade of death May be your father alienates our choice And showes as sunne-shine threatning raine To the all-hoping haruest present VVhich to make cleare the honourable word And fatherly regard in present office Haue past their speede in our attention I know your father will receiue their on-set Soldier-like ioying the siege begunne VVhich tho resisted bids them gladly come Marie Pause in that trust giue eare Enter Iames with the musitions Iames. Sound proclamation It is inacted by the bride and bride-groome And by our selfe chiefe in authoritie That all receiue their pleasures From the most high in this assembly To the lowest all pastimes are made free Dauncing carding dicing reuelling And other dues oftimes fit merriments Vnto the bride and bride-groomes health Tabit. The daies short and the night's Filb. Stop there Tabit. I will to pleasure thee Iames. There take your places And in your sweetest key of musique strokes Sound pleasant melody eccho those sounds Which true-loue-hearts in concords chiefest grounds Haue their blest being vse art in times Which may giue welcome to our noblest guests Enter Humil Tour. We are betraid yong Humill is at hand Daunce and excuse it so Filb. Sound musique there Tour. Content a dance and in againe Content no daunce yet in againe Tour. It is vngently don to snatch her so Hum. I snatch but that which promise saies is mine Haue I offended Tour. I Hum. Right what is wrong Tour. Here Or where you dare go seeke in Brainford go Tour. Brainford Iam. Put vp or I shall be offending vnto one Against the brides sonne dare ye Hum. I repent not what is done come you with me Tour. So slaues by violence do hurry hence The rights of Iames. Peace we on you do impose command Yeeld duty in it hall a hall there Musique sound and to the bride do consecrate this round Enter all the traine to daunce S. Wil. Squire of the day cul out your gadding bucks Select your light-heel'd does open your Labits Turne them to the toiles we that are Venus Huntsmen may partake the sports Earle You 'r a gallant woodman sir Audit My sonne for one S. Rafe And mine the other S. Wil. Good my daughters for them both A course or so go too lead on the bucks that haue imployment for these does are not these giddy gamsters I 'le be the Forester and looke too 't Tour. Heare you that Mary A lightning before heat Filb. Your fathers aire is harrald to his tongue Tabit. A knowes the coate but thinkes not who shall weare it S. Wil. Ther 's two and two Iames. A coople more too makes no show our measure is for three Audit Why then the bride S. Kafe. And bridegroome S. Wil. O sir pardon me My ioints were oild to pleasure
a troubled day Haue their abiding in our cares at night Hard censur'd and atton'd by late aduice Saluing the worlds scares as we would your care Knew we the burthen of it Lo. With vs the morn is mated with the moone And we are retrograde to what you doe Esteeming conscience benefite and good Challeng'd in seruice of our country Sir though our blood affirme vs labour free It bindes thee more to busie industry Wonder not at our late vpsitting therefore S. Vil. Your humors toile in our extremities But we vnthankfull merit contrary Thinke it a want and weaknesse in our kind I poste and labour in a toile my selfe Seeking my owne midnight to me is noone And all the houres of dull past night Sun-shine eclipses that do much molest me Pardon me that am so tedious Earle Seeking your owne S. Wil. My eldest daughter is conuei'd from me Hurri'd away as theeues by violence Conuey their booties from the true mans store Auditor Toures sonne hath done this deede A rescue noble Lords Ear. Rescue and right challeng the benefite S. Wil. A warrant for a generall search Restraints for Cinck-ports and all passages That theeuish water doth dispoile vs of Ear. It shall be sign'd i' th morning Draw the contents as you affect the meanes And let attendance vrge the early act Lord Good night Ear. God morrow is it not S. Wil. Betwixt them both The morall of my misery seeking too late That to recouer which I lost too soone Lord And yet in each you stand indifferent S. Wil. I must till perfected by you Either late losse or timely victory Recouering what I feare is past aduantage Ear. Hope the best sir things at worst Season in their decay as children mend Bent in their eye to ruine yet they pause Resting in grace does reobtaine at will Opinion in rash iudgement dooming ill Lord Good rest for we go too 't S. VVil. The peace of happinesse be with ye I will retire me to my Inne and wish Howres as short as momentary breath For till the morning minutes howres be And howres yeares such is reuengd to me Might I enioy it Man Sir Sir Wil. My man a midnight messenger what is thy haste in leathe sleept speake is that all one one all that we call daughter gone too is she Man No sir S. Wil. Wherefore starest thou so wildly say weart thou asleepe and wakened com'st to vs here without thy better part and sent abroad leauing thy wits at home Man Your sonne sir in all haste sends you his talles wishes your wit and iudgement sodainely read and regard sir S. Wil. Giue the torch if you wil see my mother your wife fellow'd in bed make haste Iames your man writes on your pillow c. my eies are witnesses to their adulterie Seruant What 's the newes Man Plague on these iauntings once we shall be old then this trotting life will linger in our bones all howres are our nights we dally with our owne destruction S. Wil. It cannot be or if or if what if if it be so I am vndone poison'd am I with faire promises no maruell tho you doe forsweare my bed if yet againe if what make I here whē treason is at home away Enter yong Humil Humil The bird that greets the dawning of the daie Signes with his wings the midnights parture And the sleetie deaw moistning the cheekes Of morrowes welcome giues earnest of the morne Yet all secure adultrate lust dos sleepe And I the hatcht yong of this troden henne Stands Centinell to her idolatrie Blow you sweld windes and crack the battlements Rouse their incestious luxurie with feare Of what 's to come yet that were my mishap No silent aire fan on them bawdie breath That as they reeke in their licentious loue Diuell may seale sure and Morpheus so pleas'd May to their pastime adde affliction Deliuer'd by the hand of him that 's wrongd And stands indebted to his desteny Yet are they as the hower whose sandy minutes Runs out at pleasure till the period comes Fast sleeping and enioy their quiet Rouse the blacke mischiefe from thy ebben cell Land in the bosomes of this twin in lust Him whose heapt-wrong calles vengeance to be iust S. Wil. Locke fast that dore and leaue me Giue me your light Sonne Humil Humil Father Enter sir William and his men S. Wil. Thou seest I am obedient at thy call Exit seruants I come as messengers that bring their bale Sign'd in their lookes be well aduis'd Thou makest a chalenge goes beyond all grace Should it be false Humil It is my loue to you that makes me step Heart-deepe in disobedience to my mother Wretch that I am to thinke her so It makes me desperat of prioritie Fore thinking my beginning to be bace Conceau'd in such mistrust and frailty My front hath that impression still Adding a blush to my distemperature And I am crest-falne in sanguinitie Pray ye beleeue me would it were not so S. Wil Enough watch be secret I will enter Sit as the night rauen or the skreeking owle Ouer my portall menasing ill chance To all within for death is to my blood A blessing while this feuor killes Almost my intellect or better part Yet shee s thy mother and no sonne but hates His owne disgrace so highly merrited And I beleeue thee Hu. Sir trueth is trueth my conscience and religion Bindes vp in me and since I doe proclaime Detraction from my blood by her misdeede Giue me leaue to report a flye a flye If it offend the vertue of mine eie S. Wil. T is true And yet me thinkes it should not be How hardlie will this scandall take impression Where resolu'd christianity dos dwell But I will trie the gold perhaps t is base Who knowes the hearts affection by the face Exit Humil Scarlet is scarlet and her sin blood red Wil not be washt hence with a sea of water Is this my hand or is the fire fire whose scorching heate dissolues relēting mettall When as it tries the substance yes and I Make knowne my mother is an alien From my blood so to fall off and perish Euen in her pride of blisse damn'd be the slaue That so attempts her spotlesse chastitie To ruine I know that yet smooth looke Plotted contriu'd and woon her with deuise She neuer knew a double character till now But single singler she euer rulde Euen modesty her selfe Vesta resignd to her And vertue hand in hand at barly-breake Ran the swift course none but a hound of hell Hunted this fawne of fortune to his kennell But my mother forgetting her degree Dos captiuate loue life and liberty By one deedes practise wicked nay farre worse Fatall disgrace honours created course S. Wil. Foole foole foole Enter S. Wil. Humil Ha S. Wil. Light bubble swell and breake would'st thou beleeue all this and giue a glosse to slaunders crueltie ripening reproch it selfe with thy fond eare o Humil Humil Humil Sir S Wil. Thou
art a villaine and hast cast vp hilles against heauen it selfe when sonnes vnto their mothers are so false O where is grace hud winket from honour sham'd to shew her face Humil Is it not so S. Wil. Trust thy owne eies go thou shalt see a sight Will melt thy stubborne spleene in pittie Sweetely she sleepes whose innocent respect Smiles in her dreames the childlike gouerne Laughing lowd in their simplicitie While waking mischiefe seekes that to vndoe Which true requir'd stands centinell vnto Goe and returne with shame Humil With shame diuell of mischance what 's this Did I not see their cutted guilt looke big Was I in traunce of my beleefe ha was I Can be no iugling in it can there Exit S. Wil. No thou art constant as the northren starre And I as giddy as the vntam'd Leopard That sees no meanes but dire destruction Flinging his foame to poison in his waie Mans mischiefe plotted to his ouerthrow He to'd me true o that I liue to thinke so Or they so wretched to deserue the thought Soundly they slept whose slūbers kild me waking Yet to recouer halfe slaine reputation Done haue I what to purpose practiseth If it preuaile our honour so reseru'd Will kicke at all malignant crueltie That taints our name with euer liuing skorne Fortune be for me I will that recouer Which diuell him selfe cries guilty too my fame The flight it wings imps feathers of renowne That left al 's lost my birth-right tumbles downe Enter Humil amazed Humil Sir I am sorry S. Wil. How can they excuse such wanton loosenesse know they I stand here to thunder vengeance on their luxury Humil My mother 's fast asleepe and I awake am in a transiue maze vnwitting how to make my peace with God her selfe and you S. VVil. why are they not together Humil Not in bed S. VVil. Thou should'st with Argos hundred eyes Search in the chinkes and corners round about It cannot be but she is extant there ha is she not Hum. I am confounded in the search please your iustice be my torture I haue murdered innocence sorrow is not the way death is the least I challenge cruelty and vrge the exactest point of perill slaue that I am to liue S. Wil. A sonne a sonne to do so to a mother Humil Fare ye well rather then be a witnes of my wrong I will not see my selfe in 't go thou worse then I le sacrifice to the diuill that tempted thee all thy Distempered thoughts cry mercy to her sectes To spotlesse innocence be free say all thy treasons Build on slippery ice and thou art frozen cruelty Sir for your wrongs if you remit black torture t is My hell and I appeale to sterne rigor O you sonues Whose true obedience shines in maiesty While mine more vgly then is vulcans tithye Smels ranker then despised Hemlocke Curse and ban him I am your subiect to 't And euery mother whose snow innocence Feeles soft and tender as the downe on palme Rate my rebellion with a blisseles name And for my sake giue misaduenture aime Guide 'hem to me say I am such a sonne Through whom a mother is so soone vndoone S Wil. Let me not see the while thou liu'st away Let thy repentance shew it selfe in this Not to be seene where thou hast done amisse Catiue depart Hum. I will this tongue that slandered S Wil. Be her slaunder still Hum. It is too much already was I bewitcht That thus at hud-man blind I dallied With her I honor'd ô you times how haue you Nurst me but no more Humil hath branded on his Mothers name an Aethyops blacknesse and A spotted staine forgiue me that and all Exit S Wil. What need I to afflict reuenge on him That on himselfe exasperates farewell thou pride Of sonnes who to a father in supposition onely and by law art all so louing that thy mother dalling With wātones as girles with gauds thou not respectes The womb that brought thee forth but ill attempting So and so thou rumorst as the fault ripe in act Is blowne to aire and though her sonne thou Vtter'st what they were thou shalt not loose by 't Now it fits I challenge from the offence some right And adde confine to this adultery Wife wife rise and come forth Enter Lady in her night gowne and night attire Lady Call ye sir S Wil. Yes take my closset key let forth your louer Giue me some ease by way of reason yet and t' will Allay our discontent O God so new to marriage and So stale couldst thou so soone reuolt so soone ha Enter Iames vnready in his night-cap garterles with the Lady Iames. I must acknowledg all Lady O No some better looze This will but adde to mischiefe torture Vse patience now be reconcil'd to feare Be doue-like humble and leaue that to me Iame. How can I when the brand is on my brow But by exclaime giue ease to torture My braine is scar'd and I am liueles in 't S Wil. Kneele not Ambo A sentence let vs dy S Wil. No maruel though you vow this abstinence When deputed by him you shunne my bed You do deserue your iointer well To admit a fellow in a true mans place I thanke ye for it yes Lady Sir S Wil. No no words I know you can alleadge The diuell has scripture for his damned ill And this dos neighbor it go and attire ye Be smilefull and expresse no griefe in sithes Rather be tickling sportfull topt in pleasure Then daunted any way that me concernes To vse the mad-mans guise but I am past it Since what is done no reference hath to wish I am for credit sake supportable al 's well Content am I to be senseable and feele my Fortunes as I may ranking my selfe with such As sometime liu'd in my repute most base Faith all is well beleeue it I am satisfied I know you do repent and that 's my remedy Other amends I looke not for In and attire ye But stay you with me Lady I am obedient Exit Lady S Wil. Go thou shame neuer till now possest And in a breath confounded sir you see your wrongs Shine through the herne as candles in the eue To light out others thinke you this misdeede Merits saluation Iames. I must acknowledge contrary S. VVil. Wilt thou for all this spight yet vse me kindly in the next Iames Command me sir S. VVil. Not 〈◊〉 the second this mistake me not Ratl to binde thee from it if here after Fashion of frailty summon vs to feare I must be plaine and therfore thus Looke when soeuer I hold vp this finger Signing my lippes with it and cry begone Euen then be speedy to depart the land If not all power of mischiefe that I can I will and so resolue Iames. Sir I am ready to the minute S. VVi. It may be other reasons wil restraine me As causelesse motiues nor seeing guiltinesse In needy sequences perhaps our heart will in it selfe bake truce with
this is it And here I leaue thee to thy virgen slumber Neuer attempted as thy birth bestowd Madam beginning take it in thy end So liue thus die onely my married friend And nothing else gone art thou to a power Which will with welcomes take thee left I am To the worlds crosse thy father who inrag'd Will bitterly reuenge thy death on me But I will proue his martyr se-thee Moll Foole that I am to say so here is all Gownes tire all abilliments of thine No rag shall rest remembrant in my viewe To stirre the imbers of thy dying fire I kisse thy key cold corse and with this key Lock thee for euer vp farewell farewell My mouth the Church my voice thy Parting knell All cares that liue and heare This bell to toule Christian-like bid peace vnto her soule Mr. Amen be speedy mates see ye not looke The blewnesse of you cloud dos threaten winde If it rise faire we shall be lodgd in France But not where please the fates Dispatch Within A board a board heie a crie within Mr. Hollo linger no time aboard you heare With me ho will the rest stay how a yeare O God that man should leaue behind And liue the loue of soule and minde Exeunt and leaue the pikax and spades behinde Enter Gouernour and a Gentleman Gouernour Sir welcome to Scillie Where I command my brothers friends haue welcome But now my flattery gets you on this beach Where you prospectiuely see many countries Learn this of me where dāger shootes her string We in our neighbour neerenesse ought to feare But arm'd by our foresight make bold resist Aginst the brags of forraigne enemies Gentle I haue not seene a better glasse to looke in What country call you you whose cliffes are as the cloudes smoake and all shadowing mists Gouer. Sir that is France a faire beseeming friend On yonder continent stands Ireland On this side Brittaine and on that side Garsie Ilands besides of much hostillitie Which are as sun-shine sometimes splendious Anon disposed to altering frailtie We that all neighbor must so strēgth our being As fearelesse we may frolicke yet not seeing Gentle I vnderstand ye sir Gouer. Now let my longing haue content in you With the report of them you lately saw My brother Vergir and his children Is he a widower still at More-clacke Gent. Married sir vnto a London cast a way One whose decaied husband left to liue Though poorely yet your brothers Lady Gouer. It is his choice and I subscribd to 't But for his daughters sir Gen. Alas in them is he vnhappy One is haild from him by stolne practises The other liues as though she were not his A goodly gentle woman but her owne in heart She will be gone to for her gouernement Stands vpon will as men stand on the beach Seeing the sea wherein they must be dround Yet fearelesse venter on the ruthelesse maine She will regardlesse of her father marry And dos as most long for the miserie Signd to them in their cradles Gouer. Sorry am I Ha what scrambled ends heape vp confusedly New digd and ript vp is this plot of ground Some Shipwrack on my life hid to deceiue The Queene and me of our aduantages Gentle Likely sir And see our sodaine comming scar'd from hence In the new ending such as pil'de this heape Behinde them haue they left their implements Which did the theft what thinke ye sir if we Redig the ground should we depart leaue it At midnight wold they fetch their borrowings Gouer. I like your purpose I le make one Gentle What doe you thinke it is sir Gouer. No bodie buried it is sure some goods wrackt on the sea money or rich commoditie Gentleman Tabacco then Gouernour T is likely for with vs men smoke ther lands thorough their nostrels shall I tell ye sir t is a commoditie may well be spared Gentle Good lucke a gods name sir it is a truncke Gouer. Lift sir They lift it out Gentle T is quicke it heau'd as I heau'd it Gouer. Yfaith I thinke so to in heart of hope I will be all so bold as to breake way Gentle Ha They breake the Truncke open and she sits vp Mary If you be men and borne of that weake sex Which I my selfe professe being woman Pittie the liuing sorrowe of a maide Buried for dead but backe againe recal'd By the diuinitie of heauenly power Amaze not I am creature flesh and blood Not as I see me a pale and earthly Ghost The story when you heare it shall make plaine The wofull chance of life so lately slaine Gouer. I had acquaintance with this voice my cosin Gentle T is she sir t is Mistris Mary Virger I know her Marie My name recalles my memorie And I am such a creature oh My vnckle where am I returne againe Death thou art wanton in a louers paine Gouer. Cosin I will not question the particulars The time calles on a present comfort And your life halfe spent Makes true necessitie delay no longer Therefore come as leasure we shall heare The dying story of your miserie How euer glad I am that such a chance Lāded in Scilly not in neighboring Frāce Enter in Filbon in welch attire and Tutch in seruingmans like one another with them S. Rafe M. Auditor Tabitha Auditor If euer you vs'd speede be swift as lightning Shoote as the starres in their celestiall sphears Go and returne as Paris did from Greece With that immatchles Hellen tell the Priest It must be done he will beleeue your haste Because t was quickned with the former grant And promised by the knight himselfe S. Rafe Let me alone to make the way follow you sonne Exit Filbon And if I doe not let me loose my prize Auditor Where 's the knight Tabitha Busie with one who comes as coniur'd vp from Cupids quiuer stroken deepe in loue he is a Pothecary Tutch I know him his mother was a. Audi. Peace Him will I busily attend go you dispatch while I detaine the father if this proue t is comicke pleasure in the schoole of loue Exit Filbon We must be quick and sodaine come Tutch. Slip like your Eele Tabitha If any man know any lawfull cause why these two may not marry now speake or else for euer mumb I am gone y faith Tutch. Master remember you ha my tongue Filb. yes and thou mine let me alone to counterfeit exeūt Enter sir William with Humil like a Pothecary S. VVil. Thinke on your oth Hum. Sir if I do not let me dye When I haue poison'd her with this confection Be you cloudy kild with sorrow t is a skin Will draw to purpose on the straitest gloue But then your promised reward S. VVil. My daughter and my goods I haue no other sonne but you all is thine Question not the reason why this is For I haue many and amongst them one Sites all the rest that knowne to thee Will rather hasten death then pitty it Go I will