Muce. I le wait on thee sometime upon thy Queen Such service shalt thou shortly have as Bremo never had Exeunt Enter Segasto the Clown and Rumbelo Segast. Come sirs what shall I never have you find out Amadine and the Shepherd Clow. I have been thorow the woods and thorow the woods and could see nothing but an Emmet Rum Why I see a thousand Emmets thou meanest a little one Clow. Nay that Emmet that I saw was bigger then thou art Rum Bigger then I what a fool have you to your man I pray you Master turn him away Segast. But dost thou hear was he not a man Clow. I think he was for he said he did lead a salt-sellers life round about the woods Seg. Thou wouldst say a solitarie life about the wood Clow. I think it was indeed Rum I thought what a fool thou art Clow. Thou art a wise man why he did nothing but sleep since he went Seg. But tell me Mouse how did he go Clo. In a white Gown and a white hat on his head And a staff in his hand Seg. I thought so he was an Hermite that walked a solitarie life in the woods Well get you to dinner and after never leave seeking till you bring some news of them or I le hang you both Exit Clow. How now Rumbelo what shall we do now Rum Faith I le whom to dinner and afterwards to sleep Clow Why then thou wilt be hanged Rum Faith I care not for I know I shall never find them Well I le once more abroad and if I cannot find them I le never come home again Clow. I tell thee what Rumbelo thou shalt go in at one end of the wood and I at the other and we will both meet together in the midst Rum Content le ts away to dinner Exeunt Enter Mucedorus solus Muce. Unknown to any here within these woods With bloody Bremo do I lead my life The Monster he doth murder all he meets He spareth none and none doth him escape Who would continue who but onely I In such a cruel cut-throats company Yet Amadine is there how can I chuse Ah silly soul how oftentimes she sits And sighs and calls Come Shepherd come Sweet Mucedorus come set me free When Mucedorus Peasant stands her by But here she comes What news fair Lady As you walk these woods Enter Amadine Ama. Ah Hermite none but bad And such as thou knowest Muce. How do you like your Bremo and his woods Ama. Not my Bremo nor his Bremo woods Muce. And why not yours methinks he loves you well Ama. I like not him his love to me is nothing worth Muce. Lady in this methinks you offer wrong To hate the man that ever loves you best Ama. Ah Hermite I take no pleasure in his love Neither doth Bremo like me best Muce. Pardon my boldness fair Lady sith we both May safely talk now out of Bremoes sight Unfold to me if you please the full discourse How when and why you came into these woods And fell into this bloody butchers hands Ama. Hermite I wil Of late a worthy Shepherd I did love Muce. A Shepherd Lady sure a man unfit to match with you Ama. Hermite this is true and when we had Muce. Stay there the wild man comes Refer the rest until another time Enter Bremo Bre. What secret tale is this what whispering have we here Villain I charge thee tell thy tale again Muce. If needs I must lo here it is again When as we both had lost the sight of thee It griev'd us both but specially thy Queen Who in thy absence evers fears the worst Lest some mischance befall your Royal Grace Shall my sweet Bremo wander through the wood Toil to and fro for to redress my want Hazard his life and all to cherish me I like not this quoth she And thereupon crave to know of me If I could teach her handle weapons well My answer was I had small skill therein But gladsome mighty King to learn of thee And this was all Bre. Wast so none can mislike of this I le teach you both to fight but first my Queen begin Here take this weapon see how thou canst use it Ama. This is too big I cannot wield it in mine arm Bre. Is 't so wee 'l have a knotty Crab-tree staff for thee But sirrah tell me what saiest Muce. With all my heart I willing am to learn Bre. Then take my staff and see how thou canst wield it Muce. First teach me to how hold it in mine hand Bre. Thou holdest it well look how he doth Thou mayest the sooner learn Muce. Next tell how and when 't is best to strike Bre. 'T is best to strike when time doth serve T is best to lose no time Muce. Then now or never it is time to strike Bre. And when thou strikest be sure to hit the head Muce. The head Bre. The very head Muce. Then have at thine He strikes him down dead So lie there and die a death no doubt according to desert Or else a worse as thou deservest worse Ama. It glads my heart this Tyrants death to see Muce. Now Lady it remains in you To end the tale you lately had begun Being interrupted by this wicked wight You said you loved a Shepherd Ama. I so I do and none but onely him And will do still as long as life shall last Muce. But tell me Lady sith I set you free What course of life do you intend to take Ama. I will disguised wander thorow the world Till I have found him out Muce. How if you find your Shepherd in these woods Ama. Ah! none so happy then as Amadine He discloseth himself Muce. In tract of time a man may alter much Say Lady do you know your Shepherd well Ama. My Mucedorus hath he set me free Muce. He hath set thee free Ama. And liv'd so long unknown to Amadine Muce. Ay that 's a question whereof you may not be resolved You know that I am banisht from the Court I know likewise each passage is beset So that we cannot long escape unknown Therefore my will is this that we return Right thorow the thickets to the wild mans Cave And there a while live on his provision Untill the search and narrow watch be past This is my councel and I like it best Ama. I think the very same Muce. Come let 's be gone The Clown searcheth and fals over the wild man and so caries him away Clow. Nay soft sir are you here abots on you I was like to be hang'd for not finding of you We would borrow a certain stray Kings daughter of you A wench a wench sir we would have Muce. A wench of me I le make thee eat my sword Clow. O Lord nay and you are so lusty I le call a cooling-card for you O Master Master come away quickly Enter Segasto Segast. What 's the matter Clow. Look Amadine and the Shepherd O brave Seg. What minion have
According to my purpose Ansel. That action craves no councels Since what you rightly are will more commend Thâ—â— best usurped shape Muce. Thou still art opposite in disposition A more obscure servile habiliment Beseems this enterprise Ansel. Then like a Florentine or Mountebanke Muc. 'T is much too tedious I dislike thy judgement My mind is grafted on an humbler stock Ansel. Within my closset does there hang a Cassock Though base the weed is 't was a Shepherds Which I presented in Lord Julius Mask Muce. That my Anselmo and none else but that Mask Mucedorus from the vulgar view That habite suits my mind fetch me that weed Exit Anselmo Better then Kings have not disdain'd that state And much inferiour to obtain their mate Enter Anselmo with a Shepherds coat So let our respect command thy secrecie At once a brief farewell Delay to Lovers is a second Hell Exit Mucedorus Ansel. Prosperitie fore-run thee Auckward chance Never be neighbour to thy wishes venture Content and Fame advance thee Ever thrive And glory thy mortality survive Enter Mouse with a bottle of hay Mouse O horrible terrible Was ever poor Gentleman so scar'd out of his seven senses A Bear Nay sure it cannot be a Bear but some Devil in a Bears doublet for a Bear could never have had that agility to have frighted me Well I le see my father hang'd before I le serve his Horse any more Well I le carry home my bottle of hay and for once make my fathers Horse turn Puritan and observe Fasting days for he gets not a bit But soft this way she followed me therefore I le take the other path and because I le be sure to have an eye to her I will shake hands with some foolish Creditor and make every step backward As he goes backward the Bear comes in and he tumbles over her and runs away and leaves his bottle of hay behind him Enter Segasto running and Amadine after him being Pursued with a Bear Seg. O flie Madam flie or else we are but dead Ama. Help Segasto help help sweet Segasto or else I die Segasto runs away Segast. Alas Madam there is no way but flight Then haste and save your self Ama. Why then I dye Ah help me in distress Enter Mucedorus like a Shepherd with a sword drawn and a Bears head in his hand Muce. Stay Lady stay and be no more dismaid That cruel beast most merciless and fell Affrighted many with his hard pursues Prying from place to place to find his prey Prolonging thus his life by others death His carkass now lies headless void of breath Ama. That foul deformed Monster is he dead Muce. Assure your self thereof behold his head Which if it please you Lady to accept With willing heart I yield it to your Majestie Ama. Thanks worthy Shepherd thanks a thousand times This gift assure thy self contents me more Than greatest bounty of a mighty Prince Although he were the Monarch of the world Muce. Most gratious Goddess more than mortal wight Your heavenly hue of right imports no less Most glad am I in that it was my chance To undertake this enterprise in hand Which doth so greatly glad our princely mind Ama No Goddess Shepherd but a mortall wight A mortall wight distressed as thou seest My father here is King of Aragon I Amadine his only daughter am And after him sole air unto the Crown Now whereas it is my fathers will To marrie me unto Segasto One whose wealth through Fathers former usury Is known to be no less then wonderfull We both of custome oftentimes did use Leaving the Court to walk within the fields For recreation especially the Spring In that it yields great store of rare delights And passing further then our wonted walks Scarce entered within these luckless woods But right before us down a steepfall hill A monstrous ugly Bear did hie him fast To meet us both I faint to tell the rest Good Shepherd but suppose the gastly looks The hideous fears the hundred thousand woes Which at this instant Amadine sustain'd Muce. Yet worthy Princess let thy sorrow cease And let this sight your former joys revive Ama. Believe me Shepherd so it doth no less Muce Long may they last unto your hearts content But tell me Lady what is become of him Segasto cal'd what is become of him Ama. I know not I that know the powers divine But God grant this that sweet Segasto live Muce. Yet hard hearted he in such a case So cowardly to save him self by flight And leave so brave a Princess to the spoil Ama. Well Shepherd for thy worthy valour tried Endangering thy self to set me free Unrecompenced sure thou shalt not be In Court thy courage shall be plainly known Throughout the Kingdom will I spread thy name To thy renoun and never dying fame And that thy courage may be better known Bear thou the head of this most monstrous beast In open sight to every Courtiers view So will the King my father thee reward Come let 's away and guard me to the Court Muce. With all my heart Exeunt Enter Segasto solus Segast. When heaps of harms do hover over head T is time as then some say to look about And of ensuing harms to chuse the least But hard yea hapless is that wretches chance Luckless his lot and caitiff-like accurst At whose proceedings Fortune ever frowns My self I mean most subject unto thrall For I the more I seek to shun the worst The more by proof I finde my self accurst Ere whiles assaulted with an ugly Bear Fair Amadine in company all alone Forthwith by flight I thought to save my self Leaving my Amadine unto her shifts For death it was for to resist the Bear And death no less of Amadines harms to hear Accursed I in lingring life thus long In living thus each minute of an hour Doth pierce my heart with darts of thousand deaths If she by flight her fury doth escape What will she think Will she not say yea flatlie to my face Accusing me of meer disloyaltie A trusty friend is tried in time of need But I when she in danger was of death And needed me and cried Segasto help I turn'd my back and quicklie ran away Unworthy I to bear this vital breath But what what need those plaints If Amadine do live then happy I She will in time forgive and so forget Amadine is merciful not Iuno like In harmful hearts to harbour hatred long Enter Mouse the Clown running crying clubs Mou. Clubs Prongs Pitchforks Bills O help A Bear a Bear a Bear Seg. Still Bears and nothing but Bears Tell me sirrah where she is Clow. O sir she is run down the woods I saw her white head and her white belly Segast. Thou talkst of wonders to tell me of white Bears But sirrah didst thou ever see any such Clow. No faith I never saw any such But I remember my fathers words He bad me take heed I was not caught with the
Clow. I cannot tell wherefore doth he keep his chamber else Segast. To keep out such knaves as thou art Clow. Nay by Lady then go your self Segast. You will go sir will you not Clow. Yes marry will I O t is come to my head And he be not within I le bring his chamber to you Segast. What will you pluck down the Kings house Clow. No by Lady I le know the price of it first Master it is such a hard name I have forgotten it again I pray you tell me his name Segast. I tell thee Captain Tremelio Clow. O Captain treble knave Captain treble knave Enter Tremelio Tre. How now sirrah dost thou call me Clow. You must come to my Master Captain treble knave Tre. My Lord Segast did you send for me Segast. I did Tremelio Sirrah about your business Clow. I marry what 's that can you tell Segast. No not well Clo. Marry then I can straight to the Kitchin-dresser to John the Cook and get me a good piece of Bief and Brewis and then to the Buttery hatch to Thomas the Butler for a Jack of Beer and there for an hour I le so belabour my self and therefore I pray you call me not till you think I have done I pray you good Master Exit Segast. Well Sir away Tremelio This it is thou knowest the valour of Segasto Spread through all the kingdom of Aragon And such as have found triumph and favours Never daunted at any time but now a Shepherd Admired in Court for worthiness And Segastoes honour laid aside My will therefore is this that thou dost finde some means to work the Shepherds death I know thy strength sufficient to perform my desire and to love no otherwise then to revenge my injuries Tre. It is not the frowns of a Shepherd that Tremelio fears Therefore account it accomplish'd what I take in hand Segast. Thanks good Tremelio and assure thy self What I promise that I will perform Tre. Thanks good my Lord And in good time See where he cometh stand by awhile And you shall see me put in practise your intended drift Have at thee Swain if that I hit thee right Enter Mucedorus Muce. Vild Coward so without cause to strike a man Turn Coward turn now strike and do thy worst Mucedorus killeth him Segast. Hold Shepherd hold spare him kill him not Accursed villain tell me what hast thou done Ah Tremelio Trusty Tremelio I sorrow for thy death And since that thou living didst prove faithful to Segasto So Segasto now living will honour the dead Corps of Tremelio with revenge Blood-thirsty villain born and bred in merciless murder Tell me how durst thou be so bold As once to lay thy hands upon the least of mine Assure thy self thou shalt be us'd according to the Law Muce. Segasto cease these threats are needless Accuse me not of murder that have done nothing But in mine own defence Segast. Nay Shepherd reason not with me I le manifest thy fact unto the King Whose doom will be thy death as thou deservest What hoe Mouse come away Enter Mouse Clow. Why how now what 's the matter I thought you would be calling before I had done Segast. Come help away with my friend Clow. Why is he drunk can he not stand on his feet Segast. No he is not drunk he is slain Clow. Slain No by Lady he is not slain Segast. He is kill'd I tell thee Clow. What do yo use to kill your friends I will serve you no longer Segast. I tell thee the Shepherd killed him Clow. O did he so But Master I will have all his apparell if I carry him away Segast. Why so thou shalt Clow. Come then I will help Mass Master I think his mother sung looby to him he is so heavy Exeunt Muce. Behold the fickle state of man always mutable never at one Sometime we feed our fancies with the sweet of our desires Sometimes again we feel the heat of extream miseries Now am I in favour about the Court and Country To morrow those favours will turn to frowns To day I live revenged on my foe To morrow I die my foe revenged on me Exit Enter Bremo a wild man Bremo No passenger this morning what not one A chance that seldom doth befall What not one Then lie thou there And rest thy self til I have further need Now Bremo sith thy leasure so affords An endless thing who knows not Bremoes strength Who like a King commands within these woods The Bear the Boar dare not abide his sight But haste away to save themselvess by flight The Chrystal waters in the bubling brooks When I come by do swiftly slide away And claps themselves in closets under banks Afraid to look bold Bremo in the face The aged Oaks at Bremoes breath do bow And all things else are still at my command Else what would I Rend them in pieces and pluck them from the earth And each way else I would revenge myself Why who comes here with whom dare I not fight Who fights with me and doth not die the death Not one What favour shews this sturdy stick to those That here within these woods are combatants with me Why death and nothing else but present death With restless rage I wander through these woods No creature here but feareth Bremoes force Man woman child beast and bird And every thing that doth approach my sight Are forst to fall if Bremo once do frown Come Cudgel come my partner in my spoils For here I see this day it will not be But when it falls that I encounter any One pat sufficeth for to work my will What comes not one then le ts be gone A time will serve when we shall better speed Exit Enter the King Segasto the Shepherd the Clown with others King Shepherd thou staft heard thine accusers Murther is laid to thy charge What canst thou say thou hast deserved death Muce. Dread Soveraign I must needs confess I slew this Captain in my own defence Not of any malice but by chance But mine accuser hath a further meaning Segast. Words will not here prevail I seek for justice and justice craves his death King Shepherd thine own confession hath condemned thee Sirrah take him away and do him to execution straight Clo. So he shall I warrant him But do you hear Master King he is kin to a Monky His neck is bigger then his head Seg. Come sirrah away with him And hang him about the middle Clo. Yes forsooth I warrant you come you sirrah A so like a sheep-biter a looks Enter Amadine and a Boy with a Bears head Ama. Dread Soveraign and wel beloved sir On bended knee I crave the life of this condemned Shepherd which heretofore preserved the life of thy sometime distressed daughter King Preserved the life of my sometime distressed daughter How can that be I never knew the time Wherein was thou distrest I never knew the day But that I have maintained thy estate As best
I found you out Clow. Nay that 's a lye I found her out my self Seg. Thou gadding huswife what cause hadst thou To gad abroad When as thou knowest our wedding day so nigh Ama. Not so Segasto no such thing in hand Shew your assurance then I le answer you Segast. Thy fathers promise my assurance is Ama. But what he promis'd he hath not perform'd Segast. It rests in thee for to perform the same Ama. Not I Segast. And why Ama. So is my will and therefore even no Clow. Master with a none none so Segast. Ah wicked villain art thou here Muce. What need these words weigh them not Segast. We weigh them not proud Shepherd I scorn thy company Clow. Wee l not have a corner of thy company Muce. I scorn not thee nor yet the least of thine Clo. That 's a lie a would have kild me with his pugs-nando Segast. This stoutness Amadine contents me not Ama. Then seek another that may you better please Muce. Well Amadine it only rests in thee Without delay to make thy choise of three There stands Segasto a second here There stands the third now make thy choice Clow. A Lord at the least I am Ama. My choice is made for I will none but thee Segast. A worthy mate no doubt for such a wife Muce. And Amadine why wilt thou none but me I cannot keep thee as thy father did I have no Lands for to maintain thy state Moreover if thou mean to be my wife Commonly this must be thy use To bed at midnight up at four Drudge all day and trudge from place to place Whereby our daily victuall for to win And last of all which is the worst of all No Princess then but a plain Shepherds wife Clow. Then God gee you good morrow goody Shepherd Ama. It shall not need if Amadine do live Thou shalt be crowned King of Aragon Clow. O Master laugh when he is a King I le be a Queen Muc. Then know that which heretofore was known I am no Shepherd no Aragonion I But born of Royal blood my Father 's of Valentia King My Mother Queen who for thy sacred sake Took this hard task in hand Ama. Ah how I joy my fortune is so good Segast. Well now I see Segasto shall not speed But Mucedorus I as much do joy To see thee here within our Court of Aragon As if a kingdom had befaln me this time I with my heart surrender her to thee He gives her to him And look what Right to Amadine I have Clow. What barns door and born where my Father was Constable a bots on thee how dost thou Muc. Thanks Segasto but you leveld at the Crown Clow. Master bear this and bear all Segast. Why so sirrah Clow. He saies you take a goose by the Crown Segast. Go too sirrah away post you to the King Whose heart is fraught with careful doubts Glad him up and tell him these good news And we will follow as fast as we may Clow. I go Master I run Master Exeunt Enter the King and Collin King Break heart and end my pallid woes My Amadine the comfort of my life How can I joy except she were in sight Her absence breeds great sorrow to my soul And with a thunder breaks my heart in twain Collin Forbear those passions gentle King And you shall see t will turn unto the best And bring your soul to quiet and to joy King Such joy as death I do assure me that And nought but death except of her I hear And that with speed I cannot sigh thus long But what a tumult do I hear within They cry within Joy and happiness Collin I hear a noise of over-passing joy Within the Court my Lord be of good comfort And here comes one in hast Enter the Clown running Clow. A King a King Col. Why how now sirrah what 's the matter Clow. O 't is news for a King t is worth mony King Why sirrah thou shalt have silver and gold if it be good Clow. O 't is good 't is good Amadine King O what of her tell me and I will make thee a knight Clow. How a Spright no by Lady I will not be a Spright Master get you away if I be a Spright I shall be so lean I shall make you all afraid Col. Then Sot the King means to make thee a Gentleman Clow. Why I shall want parrell King Thou shalt want for nothing Clow. Then stand away strike up thy self here they come Enter Segasto Mucedorus and Amadine Ama. My gracious Father pardon thy disloyall daughter King What do mine eyes behold my daughter Amadine Rise up daughter and let these embracing arms Shew some token of thy Fathers joy Which ever since thy departure hath languished in sorrow Ama. Dear Father never were your sorrows Greater than my griefs Never you so desolate as I comfortless Yet nevertheless knowing my self To be the cause of both on bended knees I humbly crave your pardon King I le pardon thee dear daughter but as for him Ama. Ay Father what of him King As sure as I am King and wear the Crown I le be reveng'd on that accursed wretch Muc. Yet worthy Prince work not thy will in wrath shew favour King I such favour as thou deservest Muc. I do deserve the daughter of a King King Oh impudent A Shepherd and so insolent Muc. No Shepherd I but a worthy Prince King In fair conceit not princely born Muc. Yes Princely born my Father is a King My Mother a Queen and of Valentia both King What Mucedorus welcome to our Court What cause hadst thou to come to me disguis'd Muc. No cause to fear I caused no offence But this desiring thy daughters vertues for to see Disguis'd my self from out my Fathers Court Unknown to any in secret I did rest And passed many troubles near to death So hath your daughter my partaker been As you shall know hereafter more at large Desiring you you will give her to me Even as mine own and Soveraign of my life Then shall I think my travels all well spent King With all my heart but this Segasto claims my promise made tofore That he should have her as his only Wife Before my Councel when he came from war Segasto may I crave thee let it pass And give Amadine as Wife to Mucedorus Segast. With all my heart were it a far greater thing And what I may to furnish up their rites With pleasing sports and pastimes you shall see King Thanks good Segasto I will think of this Muc. Thanks good my Lord and whilst I live Account of me in what I can or may Ama. Good Segasto these great courtesies Shall not be forgot Clow. Why hark you Master bones what have you done What given away the wench you made me take such pains for You are wise indeed Mass and I had known of that I would have had her my self faith Master now we may go to breakfast with a