take Some physick too Sir every thing will help Would I were whipt my Lord Me. Whipt with a vengeance Pe. But I am griev'd For your vexation and my scurvey fortune But if there be a wench a witch a medicine Above ground that can give me any charm Your Grace shall hear no more on 't So your pardon And now my Lord let your unworthy servant Have leave to ask one question does not your Grace Suspect me monstrously nay d' ee not think I do presume too much upon your fears And that the knowledge of this Secret makes Me bold and sawcy my good Lord Me. 'T is all too true but 't is not in my brain To help 't unless I take some course to kill thee Pe. How Me. I fear I shall be driven to 't one fit Like this will work my impatience up look to 't Pe. Why then I 'll tel your Grace an easie way To remove all your jealousie and never Trouble your brain with study how to kil me A most compendious way Me. I would I knew it Pe. 'T is but my going to the Court my Lord And if you be not cur'd within an hour After I have told the King a story how Your wife the Dutchess lost I ha' done Fear nothing Enter Lord Lo. Is not Prince Carlo here Me. Not here my Lord Lo. 'T is the Kings pleasure you attend him presently Your daughters presence is expected too Among the Ladies for the entertainment Of Princess Isabella new arriv'd the Court Me. We humbly wait to kiss his hand Pe. Shall I attend Me. I am resolv'd now not to sleep without thee And in the day I 'll look upon thee Pedro As thou wert my great Seal and I thy keeper Pe. Yet I may give you a slip Me. We 'll to Clara The Princess Isabella come so private ha Pedro Pe. I am here my Lord Exeunt Enter Manuel Ma. This is the place by his commands to meet in It has a sad and fatall invitation A Hermit that forsakes the world for prayer And solitude would be timorous to live here There 's not a spray for birds to perch upon For every tree that over-looks the vale Carries the mark of lightning and is blasted The day which smil'd as I came forth and spread Fair beams about has taken a deep melancholy That fits more ominous in her face than night All darkness is less horrid than half light Never was such a scene for death presented And there 's a ragged mountain peeping over VVith many heads seeming to crowd themselves Spectators of some Tragedy but I 'll Prevent 'em all though my obedience Instructed me to wait here it shall not Be brib'd to draw my sword against the Prince And in his honor I am safe how e'r This sense of Clara's loss transport him 't is not VVithin his nature to be impious And if I gain his friendship I return VVith triumph to my Clara Within help help Enter Prince Carlo's Page Pa. Oh help Don Manuel help for heavens sake Ma. Celio the Princes page where is the Prince Pa. Oh Sir I fear he 's slain Ma. By whom Pa. The Devill or one not very much unlike him A More that basely set upon him sure He has dispatcht the Prince he persues me And if he have Death shall be welcome to me For I am not fit to live and lose my Master He 's here and his sword bloudy Enter Carlo like a More Ma. Villain were all thy bloud rivers of balm Or such a floud as would restore a life To the departed World it should be all A sacrifice to Carlo They fight Pa Hold hold Don Manuell Ma. Canst thou be mercifull to the Princes Murderer Pa. Curse on my Duty to obey so far My Lord the Prince is slain you are wounded too Ma. The Prince Car. Don Manuell I forgive thee Ma. Pray Heaven this be a Dream for if my hand Have been so much a Traitour it shall call No other aid in your revenge Are you Prince Carlo Car. I was Ma. That voyce shall be my sentence Car. Hold I charge thee by thy honour Manuell Ma. Why did you wear this black upon you Sir Or how could art of man contrive a Cloud Which this Soul had no eyes to penetrate Car. I knew thou wouldst not fight against me knowingly And if I fell I meant it to secure Thy act from punishment when in this darkness I took my leave o' th' World onely that boy Whom I compel'd to feign me wounded so To make thee draw thy sword but with my bloud I feel my spirits vanish if I have but breath enough I send by thee a kiss To thy own Clara now Ma. Oh help good boy For 't is no time to curse thee now my horse Is not far off this scarf may stay his bleeding Untill we meet with better Surgerie Now Heaven reprieve my strength but to convey him To some good place and I resign my self To all the justice you will call me to Exit Enter King Mendoza Roderigo Antonio Pedro Lord Ki. Y' are all but my tormentors where 's Piraecquo Enter Piracquo Ro. His son is absent too Pir. Have comfort Sir An. Our neglect is lost in the Generall Cause What doe you think my Lord Mendoza Men. This no news of the Prince is not so comfortable Enter 1 Lord Ki. The news you bring Lo. Unless he had left the Kingdom Ki. Be dumb and he had left the World Your cares might have persued him if he Return not you have murdred him Ro. My Stars are now At work in Heaven their influence is powerful I will adore the Sun if it dissolve not This mist in which the Prince is lost I am Content thou be a Constellation Carlo In any Sphere but this Enter a Messenger with a Letter to Piracquo Pir. To me 't is Manuel's character Lo. Unless we hear some good news of the Prince I fear we lose the King too An. 'T is strange none should attend him but his Page Ro. I fear some plot is practis'd 'gainst his life But dare not speak 2 Lo. That 's it distracts the King Whose fears are helpt by a sad dream he had Last night Ro. My Lord Piracquo's son is missing too Pi. Comfort your self till my return I 'll find 'em or ne'r see your face agen Ki. Well said Piracquo all my prayers go with thee Me. Pedro Exit Pir. Pe. My Lord Me. I know not what to say but stand Before they may not see me weep Pe. Sir I must confess Me. Ha! Confess Pe. You are still suspicious have a true heart And let your conscience look less abroad Sir If he be dead your trouble 's over Sir We must all dye Death has his severall waies And times to take us off some expire humbly I' th' Cradle some dismist upon a Scaffold Enter Isabella Maria Clara Me. Come hither doe not name a Scaffold I Was innocent thou knowst the plot was all My Ladies and not
learn'd simplicity and truth You are a Prince and in your Creation But one degree from Angels strive to rise That one round higher and y' are perfect I am By my good Fathers leave and the sweet rules Of this Religious order now i' th' way To meet another Bridegroom before whom While you stand a competitor you fall To Atomes sir my love is planted here And I have made a vow which your own charity Will bid me not to violate your triumph Being the spring of my imperfect duty That for a year I 'l spend my time among This happy Quire to offer up my Prayers And humble gratitude to Heaven a weak Oblation for our safeties Flav. Ha how 's this Leon. My Lord did you not say you had prevail'd What mockery is this Flav. I am undone What does the Gipsey mean shee 'l betray all Most excellent Madam Iu. Oh my Lord imploy Your counsell to advance not Kill our Virtue Remember where and what I am Flav. So so Volt. Sir will you suffer this a new affront Iulia I am resolv'd To live and pay you better tribute here For your affection and unequal'd service Here no distraction will afflict my prayers Which trust me I will offer chastly for you At every hour of my devotion 'T is you next Heaven that gave this blessing to us To meet and in the holy Quire breath up Our sacred Hymes while Angells Eccho to us And Heaven delighted with our harmony Opening her azure curtaines will present us A vision of all the joyes we pray and hope for Flav. This my instructions Iulia O think my Lord To what a loss of Heaven your love invites me Yet let me not be thought while I pretend The choice and sweetness of a Recluse I Should in a thought accuse your worth who are The man of all the World I most could fancie If I be seen to blush make it no sin I know it is but honourable love Wings your desire and that which should prefer you Is merit of your Sword that cut our way To freedom and soft peace Religions Pillow The Nurse of Science and the generall blessing You have a title yet more strong pleads for you The contract and the promise of a Prince A chain with many Links of Adamant Duke I like not that Iuli. To bind and make me yours When I have nam'd these severall interests And look upon my self so short of merit I chide your unkind destiny at such Expence of honor to go off unsatisfied And quickly should despise my self the cause Of your distast but that my vow confirms me And mustring up Religious thoughts prevailes Above my other will made to obey you T is but a year my Lord that I have bound My self this exile Leon. T is an age Iuli. But while Time hath one minute in his Glass of that Nothing shall take me hence unless you bring An impious strength upon this holy dwelling And force me from my cell but you are far From such a sacrilege oh think not on it I 'l place you in my heart while you are virtuous But such an Act might lose those noble thoughts Of you I wish preserv'd but I offend And am too large in this unwelcome argument May wisdom guide your Princely thoughts Whilst I return to pray for you Flav. She has orethrown all Volt. Sir if you love her she Hath taught you a cunning way to make her yours This habit is compel'd a little force For form will disingage her she does love you And pleaded hansomely against her self Leon. No more I 'l not despair yet of your Daughter This is but Virgin nicety at the next Meeting she may incline to smile upon me Shee 's too much treasure to be won at first Assault Volterino Exit Leon Volt. Hort Duke Flaviano Flav. I did expect a storm Duke We are not safe yet Flav. I wonder why Iuliana kept not promise The Dog-dayes thaw her chastity I 'm mad Oh for some stratagem to save all yet But you Sir give me leave to say are timorous Princes should fix in their resolves your conscience Should be as subject to your will as I am Duke I must confess Flaviano I had No fancy to Iulianas mariage Flav. That was all my hope how could I love the man Durst kill him now Duke I shudder what noise is that Flav. These horrors will eternally affright us Enter Leon Bert. Volterino Hortensio with swords drawn Leo. The man that dares be guilty of least Insolence To any Virgin dyes Exeunt Leon Volt. Horten Ber. My hopes are nipt I thought to have tasted Nuns flesh but the General has made it fasting day Ex. Flav. I hope he means to force away Iuliana Ha they attempt it prosper 'em deer fate Blest beyond expectation Duke Dost think We shall be safe Enter Leonato Iuliana in her habit Volterino Hortensio Leon. Injoy the other benefit of my Sword In peace this shall be mine Exit Leon Iul. Vol. Hort. Flav. The stars dote on us Enter Honorio and Claudio Hon. VVhat unexpected tumults fright the City Du. You are too bold upon your wound Honorio To come abroad Flav. The Prince has stoln your Sister From the Nunnery Hono. He dares not Blemish his honor so though he deserv'd her And all our lives should she be obstinate Flav. T is done Honor. This Act shall lose him death upon The Surgeon that hath dallied with my wounds But I 'l revenge this rape Duke Look to the Prince Exit Flav. I could adore my destiny the wench sure Meant to be ravish'd thus I kiss thy policy This chance hath made a dancing in my blood While sin thrives t is too early to be good Exeunt ACT III Enter Antonio and Fioretta Fior. IS this Ferraras Court Anto Yes Madam Fior. I will not yet discover I shall find A time Antonio to reward thy faith And service to me Enter Donabella Florelia Ladies Anto. Here are Ladies Madam Dona. I have a great desire to see this wonder The Princess Fioretta so much fam'd For beauty Flor. Comes she with his Excellence Do. Most certainly so speaks the Prince Leonato's My Brothers Letters and that with some difficulty He gaind her from the Nunnery Flor. Who is this Don. She has an excellent shape some stranger Prethee Florelia ask Anto. This Lady Madam Seems to make some address this way I know not Upon what Jealousie my Lady left aside Placentia so privatly where she Was entertain'd by Flavianos Mother Though old a Lady of no decrepit brain Fior. Antonio Flor. A Lady Madam calls her self Lauriana Born in Placentia but the Warrs affrighting Both Mantua and the confines she came hither With confidence of safety till the storm At home be over Dona. It is not fit a person of your quality And presence should be ingag'd to common persons And if I may entreat you shall consent To be my guest at Court which will be proud To entertain such beauty Fior. It must
Officer a place Poor Gentlemen at Court are forc'd to serve in To please luxurious greatness younger brothers Who cannot live by fair and honest wayes Must not sterve sir Leon Flaviano's Whore Where can we hope to trust our faith when such White browes deceive us Enter Iuliana Iul I do not like This Claudio's business here the Duke is troubled My whole frame trembles Leon. Madam Iuliana My excellent white Devil you are welcome Where is your Catamountain Flaviano You are no Serpents spawn Iuli. Oh hear me sir by your own goodness Leon. When didst thou kneel to Heaven Iul. I see my leprosie unveild that sin Which with my loss of honor first ingag'd My miserie is with a Sun-beam writ Upon my guilty forehead but I have not Excepting the concealment of my shame Which charity might privelege offended Above what I confest and you have pardond Leon. She hath a tongue would almost tempt a Saint To unbeleeve Divinity she learnd Some accents from the first Apostate Angell That mutin'd in Heaven away I dare not trust my frailty where 's Flaviano Exit Leon and Claud. Iul. My soul doth apprehend strange shapes of horror Enter Fioretta Ha t is the Princess Fioretta Fior. Can you direct me Madam how I may speak with the noble Lady Iuliana Iuli. I can instruct you Madam where to find A miserable woman of that name Fior. Where Iul. Here Kneels Fior. Do not deceive me I came to visit her whom the Dukes love And confluence of glories must create A Duchess to whose greatness I must pay My adoration Iul. Do not mock her Madam To whose undoing nothing wants but death Let not my sin which cannot hope your pardon Make you forget your virtue Princely natures As they are next to Forms Angelicall Shew the next acts of pitty not derision When we are fall'n from Innocence Fior. Do you know me Iul. For the most injur'd Princess Fioretta Fior. You must know more I come to take revenge And kill thee Iul. Thus I kneel to meet your wounds And shall account the drops my proud veines weep Spent for my cure oh Madam you are not cruell You have too soft too mercifull a look When you see me your countenance should wear Upon it all the terrors that pale men Can apprehend from the wild face of War A civill War that wo' not spare the womb That gron'd and gave it life this would become you Or fancie meager Famine when she hunts With hollow eyes and teeth able to grind A rock of Adamant to dust or what Complexion the devouring pest should have Were it to take a shape and when you put Their horrors in your visage look on me Fior. What hath prepar'd this bold resolve Iul. A hope To be your sacrifice I was not before Without a thought to wish my self thus layd And at your feet to beg you would destroy me Fior. Can you so easily consent to dy And know not whither afterwards this guilt Would fling thy wandring soul Iul. Yes I would pray And ask your self and the wrong'd world forgiveness Fior. Why didst thou use me thus weeps Iul. I could if you Durst hear me say something perhaps would take Your charity Do you weep gentle Madam And not one crimson drop from me to wait Upon those precious shewers not to invite Your patience upon the lost Iuliana But to call back your tears into their spring And stay the weeping stream I can inform you The Duke looks on me now with eyes of anger I have no interest in a thought from him That is not arm'd with hate and scorn against me Fior. This will undoe my pitty and assure me Thou hast all this while dissembled with my Justice Iul. I would I might as soon invest my soul With my first purity as clear this truth Or would the loss of him were all that sits Heavy upon my heart I cannot hope For comfort in delayes of death and dare Attend you to him though it more undo me Fior. Rise and obey me then Iul. I follow Madam My use of life is only meant to serve you Exeunt Enter Hortensio Hort. This is the place within the wood he promis'd To meet in there is Saint Felices Chapell That Father Cyprians cell I hope my Gamster Will think it fit I should not walk and wait Too long for him these businesses of fighting Should be dispatch'd as Doctors do prescribe Physicall Pills not to be chewd but swallow'd Time spent in the considering deads the appetite If I were not to fight now I could pray These terms of honor have but little grace with 'em Like Oisters we do open one another Without much preface he that fights a duell Like a blind man that falls but cares to keep His staffe provides with art to save his honor But trusts his soul to chance t is an ill fashion Enter Frier Fri. This is the Gentleman by her description That comes to fight another Champion Enter Flaviano Fla. Do none persue me what a timerous Hare This guilty conscience is I am not safe I had no time to think of a disguise And this can be no wilderness the Duke Would give his Pallace for my head Hor. Say so Flav. Oh for some Pegasus to mount a Frier His habit will serve rarely seeming holiness Is a most excellent shrovvd to cheat the world Good Father sanctity I must be bold Or cut your throat nay I can follovv Fri. Help help Hort. Thou sacrilegious Villain Flav. I am caught already Hort. My good Lord Flaviano Father You may come back and help to bind the Gentleman If I did understand him well he said The Duke has some affairs to use his head-peece I would not have him out o' th' way when I Return to that tree you were best be gentle Flav. I can but dye Flav. is tied to a Tree Hort. Oh yes you may be damn'd All in good time and it is very likely Fri. You have preserv'd my life Son Hort. It was my happiness to be so near VVhen virtue was distrest Frier You have not done sir As you are noble follow me there is Another enemy to meet but I Dare be your second and direct you Hort. VVhat means the Fryer I 'l walk and see the worst on 't Exeunt all but Flav. Enter Bertoldi Bert. Oh for a Tenement under ground to hide me This wood will hardly do 't if I can lurk Here but till night I am furnish'd well with ducats Your melancholy mole is happy now He fears no Officers but walks invisible Would I were chamber-fellow to a worm The Rooks have princely lives that dwell upon The tops of Trees the Owls and Bats are Gentlemen They fly and fear no warrants every Hare Out-runs the Constable only poor man By nature slow and full of flegm must stay And stand the cursed Law I do not think T is so much Penance to be hang'd indeed As to be thus in fear on 't Flav. Sir look this way
one survives the Secret But we two Pe. Keep your own counsell Sir This Fatherly affection may doe harm He could not dye in better time Ki. Madam can you Whose honour seems to suffer by this absence Have so much charity to comfort me Isa. He is not desperate while we have hope My Lord Piracquo's son may wait upon him Enter Manuell An. Don Manuell Ki. Hast brought news of my Son Ma. I can inform you a sad story Sir Isa. Where is the Prince Ma. Not dead I hope Ki. Hast thou a jealousie will concern that fear My soul has been a Prophet what misfortune Ma. If you have strength to hear a truth So sad he has been wounded Ex. Ladies Ki. By what Traitour look to the Princess Ma. I had not with such boldness undertook The Tragick Story if I had not brought The great Offender Ki. Oh welcome Manuell where 's the Body Ma. Where it doth want no Surgery but my Father Is gone with all the wings his fear and duty Can aid him with at his return to acquaint you With Carlo's life or death Ro. Would I were his Surgeon Ki. Thou hast not nam'd the Villain yet he may Escape Ma. I have took order for his stay Untill your anger and the Laws conclude him Ki. Thou hast done us service Ma. And it will sink by slow degrees into Your faith that he who gave him all his wounds Was one that lov'd him faithfully An. Lov'd him Ma. Above his own life Ro. Torments oretake the Traitour Ma. 'T is not well said with pardon of the King When I shall bring you to the weeping heart Of this poor man some may allow his penitence So great it may invite a mercy to him Alass he was betray'd to the black deed Both sword and soul compell'd to 't Ki. Here 's a prodigie Ro. Are you acquainted with the guilty person That you dare thus extenuate his fact Ma. I am and dare produce him here he stands So far from wishes to out-live the Prince He begs to wait upon his Shade An. Does he not bleed Ki. Apprehend his person Ma. They are but churlish drops And know not their own happiness this wound Was made by Carlo yet how slow it weeps To answer his effusion could I reach Their orifice I 'd kiss the crimson lips For his dear name that made 'em Men. Did he kill him Justice Sir Justice I beg for Justice Upon this Murderer Pe. Now it works Ki. You by what nearer interest in Carlo Should you imagine we are slow to punish him 'T was a black hour when Carlo saw thee first Rewarded now for all his love to prison with him And let him see no day Ex. guarded Ma. I kiss your Sentence An. This circumstance is strange I am not satisfied Ex. Ant. after Manuell Enter Clara Ki. How is the Princess Cl. Sir she is alive And would be glad to hear the Prince were so Ki. We cannot promise Clara Roderigo We should be satisfied where his Body is for 't is without a Soul I fear by this time Ro. I could instruct the Surgeon a way To make that sure Me. And Manuell hath confess'd himself the Murderer To Clara Pe. This change was unexpected Cla. Is he gone to Prison then Me. Go home by that time thou Hast wept out all thy tears I 'll come and tell thee A little sad tale Clara that shall make An end and we will break our hearts together Ki. Mendoza Me. Sir Ki. Why does thy grief appear So rude to out-swell mine he was my Son Me. My tears are anger Sir as well as grief That he that did commit this Paricide Should be so impudent to say he lov'd him Ki. That amazes me Me. But Traitours have their Gloss And dare expound their disobedient acts A branch of their allegiance precious jugglings Treason would be too ugly to appear With his own face but Duty and Religion Are hansome visors to abuse weak sight That cannot penetrate beyond the bark And false complexion of things I hope You wo'not think a single death sufficient If Iulio dye Ki. Carlo thou meanst Me. I I the Prince I know not what I say Sir Things make me wild Pe. Take heed Sir what you say Enter Antonio Roderigo at one dore and at the other dore Piracquo and a Lord discoursing Piracquo is return'd Pi. My son confess the deed and sent to Prison so Ki. Now Sir An. How is the Prince my Lord Pi. This was an act of his last strength as when A short-liv'd Taper makes a blaze it has Direction to your Sister Sir and I His last commands I fear Pir. gives Ant. a Letter An. For the conveyance Trust that to me give this Sir to my Sister To his Servant Ki. Then he is dead Piracquo Pi. Not yet Sir But he hath such a wound will not allow Him many minutes life 't is mortall Sir They say and wo'not pain him past next dressing Ro. How things succeed to my Ambition Sir Me. I care not for my head now let him take it 'T is but for keeping counsell Ro. It is apparent this misfortune grew From both their loves to Clara Ki. Thy son Piracquo dyes Pi. Great Sir hear me An. Manuell affirms he did not know the Prince I' th' habit of a More and that his Page By the command of Carlo told him that His Master had been wounded by that More To engage their fight Pi. All this the Prince acknowledg'd Ro. These are devices to paint Manuel's Treason Pi. I sooner dare believe one accent from The Prince's breath when his just soul was parting Than all your Commentaries I am bold Nor can the Law and all your anger weigh So heavy as my curse upon his head That durst lift up a Sword to wound the Prince But let not passion take away your justice 'T is that I kneel for Ki. Against whom Piracquo Pi. 'gainst him that 's guilty of the Prince's loss You may incline to think poor Manuell innocent Ki. What riddle 's this Ro. Has not your son Piracquo Confess'd himself the Murderer An. Manuel's fortune Distracts the old man Pi. Pardon my love of truth I here accuse Mendoza that hath slept so long in Treason Me. Ha Pe Pedro Pi. If he deny I ha' proof to make him blush And sink him with dishonour Pedro can Relate a Story will be worth your wonder Me. Nay then 't is come about I see I cannot Sir confess in better time Don Manuel has accus'd himself unjustly For Carlo's death that Prince if I may trust A Wife upon her death-bed Enter Isabella Ki. Roderigo Give us account from their examination And guide us in this Labyrinth Piracquo Return toth ' Prince what Death hath left of him Command may be attended hither Isa. Sir if you please I have a great desire To take a sad leave of the Prince and kiss His pale hand ere his Body be embalm'd And sear-cloths hide him from us Ki. It will but Enlarge