you another Caue to send me too Tec. Ah talke no more of that but come avvay As euer you will saue the wofull life Of a distressed man that dyes for you Clo. Why what doth Colax whom you sent to me Into the Caue faint now with his repulse Tec. I sent him not you would so wisely goe In open sight as men might see you goe And trace you thither all the way you went But come ah 't is not he it is the man You ought to saue Amyntas is the man Your cruelty and rigour hath vndone O quickly come or it will be too late For 't was his chance and most vnluckely To see both you and Colax as you came Out of the Caue and he thinkes verily You are possest by him which so confounds His spirits and sinckes his heart that sure h 'is runne T' vndoe himselfe and ô I feare 't is done Clo. If it be done my helpe will come too late And I may stay and saue that labour here Am. Ah Cloris haste away if this be so And doe not if thou hast a heart of flesh And of a woman stay and trifle time Goe runne and saue thine owne for if he die 'T is thine that dyes his bloud is shed for thee And what a horrour this will euer be Hereafter to thy guiltie conscience when Yeares shall haue taught thee wit and thou shalt finde This deed instampt in bloudy Characters Within the black recordes of thine owne thoughts Which neuer will be raz'd whilst thou hast breath Nor yet will be forgotten by thy death Besides wide Fame will Trumpet forth thy wrong And thou shalt be with all posteritie Amongst th' examples held of crueltie And haue this sauage deed of thine be made A sullein subiect for a Tragedie Intitled Cloris that thereby thy name May serue to be an euerlasting shame And therefore goe preuent so foule a staine Do. Ah goe goe Cloris haste away with speed Clo. Why whether should I goe I know not where To finde him now and if he doe this deed It is his error and no fault of mine Yet pray thee Techne which way went the man Tec. Come Cloris I will shew which way he went In most strange furie and most desperate speed Still crying Cloris hast thou done this deed Clo. Why had not you staid and perswaded him Tec. I could not stay him by no meanes I vsd Though all the meanes I could deuise I vsd Clo. Well I will goe poore man to seeke him out Though I can do him else no other good I know indeed he hath deseru'd my loue And if I would like any should be him So that I thought he would be true to me But thus my dreame may now chance come to passe And I may happen to bring home indeed Montanus sonne Amyntas that deere Lambe He loues so well and by my gracious deed He may escape the danger he was in Which if I doe and thereby doe inthrall My selfe to free anothers misery Then will I sit and sigh and talke of loue As well as you and haue your company For something I doe feele begin to moue And yet I hope 't is nothing else but feare Yet what know I that feare may hap be loue Well Techne come I would not haue him yet To perish poore Amyntas in this fit Exeunt Ama. Well Cloris yet he may for ought I see Before you come vnlesse you make more haste Ah cruell maide she little knowes the griefe Of such a heart that 's desperate of reliefe Nor vnderstands she her owne happinesse To haue so true a louer as he is And yet I see sh 'is toucht if not too late For I perceiu'd her coulour come and goe And though in pride she would haue hid her woe Yet I saw sorrow looke out at her eyes And poore Amyntas if thou now be gone Thou hast like to the Bee that stinging dyes And in anothers wound leaft his owne life Transpierced by thy death that marble heart Which liuing thou couldst touch by no desert And if thou shalt escape thou hast suruiu'd Her crueltie which now repents her wrong And thou shalt by her fauours be reuiu'd After the affliction thou hast suffred long Which makes me thinke that time and patience may Intenerat at length the hardest heart And that I may yet after all my woe Liue t' ouertake Carinus mercie too Do. And here this sad distresse of such a true And constant louer ouercome with griefe Presents vnto my guilty memorie The wrongs Mirtillus hath indur'd of me And ô I would I knew now how he doth I feare he is not well I saw him not Scarse these three dayes I meruaile where he is And yet what need I meruaile who haue thus Chac'd him from me with frownes and vsage vile And fondly leaft the substance of his faith To catch the shadow of deceipt and guile Was Colax he I thought the onely man And is he now prou'd to be such a one O that I euer lent an easie eare Vnto so false a wretches flatteries Whose very name I now abhorre to heare And loath my selfe for being so vnwise What shall I doe sweete Amarillis now Which way shall I betake me to recouer The losse of shame and losse of such a louer Ama. Indeed Dorinda you haue done him wrong But your repentance and compassion now May make amends and you must learne to do As I long time haue done indure and hope And on that turne of Fortunes Scene depend When all extremities must mend or end Scen. 5. Melibaeus Ergastus Mel. Well come Ergastus we haue seene ynow And it is more then time that we prepare Against this Hydra of confusion now Which still presents new hideous heads of feare And euery houre we see begets new broiles And intricates our youth in desperate toyles And therefore let th' aduantage of this day Which is the great and generall hunting day In Eremanthus serue for this good deed And when we meete as all of vs shall meete Here in this place anone as is decreed We will aduise our Shepheards to intermit That worke and fall to this imports vs more To chase out these wild mischiefes that doe lurke And worse infest then th' Eremanthian Boare Or all Beasts else which onely spoile our fields Whilst these which are of more prodigious kindes Bend all their forces to destroy our mindes Erg. And this occasion will be very fit Now to be tooke for one day lost may lose More by example then we shall reget In thousands for when men shall once disclose The way of ill that lay vnknowne before Scarce all our paines will euer stop it more Man is a creature of a wilfull head And hardly'i 's driuen but easily is lead Actus 5. Scen. 1. Amarillis Carinus Ama. Ah gentle Lelaps prety louing dogge Where hast thou leaft thy maister where is hee That great commander ouer thee and mee Thou wert not wont be far off from his feete And
the place she sodainely Stopt startes and shrikt and hauing made such haste T' haue something done now could she nothing doe Perhaps our presence might perplexe her too As being asham'd that any eye should see The new appearing of her naked heart That neuer yet before was seene till now Car. And 't is ill hap for me it was seene now Mir. For we perceiu'd how Loue and Modestie With seu'rall Ensignes stroue within her cheekes Which should be Lord that day and charged hard Vpon each other with their fresh supplies Of different coulours that still came and went And much disturb'd her but at length dissolu'd Into affection downe she casts her selfe Vpon his senselesse body where she saw The mercie she had brought was come too late And to him calles ô deare Amyntas speake Looke on me sweete Amyntas it is I That calles thee sit is that holds thee here Within those armes thou haste esteem'd so deare And though that loue were yet so young in her As that it knew not how to speake or what And that she neuer had that passion prou'd Being first a louer ere she knew she lou'd Yet what she could not vtter she supplide With her poore busie hands that rubb'd his face Chafd his pale temples wrung his fingers ends Held vp his head and puld him by the hands And neuer leaft her worke nor euer ceast Ama. Alas the least of this regarde before Might haue holpe all then when 't was in her power T' haue sau'd his heart and to reuiue his minde Now for all this her mercie is vnkinde The good that 's out of season is not good There is no difference now twixt cruelty And the compassion that 's not vnderstood Mir. But yet at length as if those daintie hands Had had a power to haue awakened death We might perceiue him moue his heauie eyes Which had stood fixt all the whole time before And fastens them directly vpon her Which when she saw it strooke her with that force As that it pierc'd through all the spirits she had Made all the powers and parts of her shrinke vp With that conuulsion of remorse and griefe As out she shrik'd ô deere ô my deere heart Then shrinkes againe and then againe cryes out For now that looke of his did shake her more Then death or any thing had done before That looke did read t' her new conceiuing heart All the whole tragicke Lecture of his loue All his sad suffrings all his griefes and feare And now in th' end what he had done for her And with that powerfull force of mouing too As all a world of words could neuer doe Ah what a silly messenger is Speach To be imploi'd in that great Embassie Of our affections in respect of th' eye Ah 't is the silent rhetorick of a looke That worker the league betwixt the states of hearts Not words I see nor knowledge of the booke Nor incantations made by hidden artes For now this looke so melts her into teares As that she powr'd them downe like thunder droppes Or else did Nature taking pittie now Of her distresse imploy them in that store To serue as vailes and to be interposde Betwixt her griefe and her t' impeach her sight From that full view of sorrow thus disclosde And now with this came in Vrania there With other women to imploy their best To saue his life if b'any meanes they can And so we came our way being sent for now About some conference for our hunting sportes And with vs Techne comes who is supposde T' haue bene a speciall cause of much of this Car. Alas this sad reporte doth grieue me much And I did neuer thinke that Cloris had So deerely lou'd him as I finde she doth For by this act of hers I plainely see There will be neuer any hope for me Ama. There may for me if now Carinus thou Wilt stand but to thy word as thou hast said Mir. Ah would to God Dorinda had bene there T' haue seene but Cloris acte this wofull part It may be it might haue deterr'd her heart From cruelty so long as she had liu'd Am. And I am glad Carinus hath but heard So much this day for he may hap thereby To haue some feeling of my miserie But for Dorinda neuer doubt at all She is more yours Mirtillus then you thinke Mir. Ah Amarillis I would that were true But loe where come our chiefest heardsmen now Of all Arcadia we shall know more newes Scen. 3. Melibaeus Ergastus Montanus Acrisius with other Arcadians bringing with them Alcon Lincus Colax Techne Pistophoenax Meli. You gentle Shepheards and inhabitors Of these remote and solitarie parts Of Montaynous Arcadiae shut vp here Within these Rockes those vnfrequented Clifts The walles and Bulwarkes of our libertie From out the noise of tumult and the throng Of sweating toyle ratling concurrencie And haue continued still the same and one In all successions from antiquitie Whilst all the states on earth besides haue made A thousand reuolutions and haue rowld From change to change and neuer yet found rest Nor euer bettered their estates by change You I inuoke this day in generall To doe a worke that now concernes vs all Least that we leaue not to posteritie Th' Arcadia that we found continued thus By our forefathers care who leaft it vs For none of you I know whose iudgment 's graue Can ought discerne but sees how much we are Transformd of late and changd from vvhat we were And what distempers dayly doe arise Amongst our people neuer felt before At which I know you meruaile as indeed You well may meruaile whence they should proceed And so did good Ergastus here and I Vntill we set our selues more warily To search it out which by good hap we haue And found the Authors of this wickednesse Which Diuels attyr'd here in the shape of men We haue produc'd before you to the end You may take speedy order to suppresse Our growing follies and their impiousnesse Erg. Indeed these odious wretches which you see Are they who haue brought in vpon our rest These new and vnknowne mischiefes of debate Of wanton pride of scandalous reportes Of vile deluding chaste and honest loues Of vndeseru'd suspitious desperate griefes And all the sadnesse we haue seene of late And first this man this Lincus here you see Montanus you and you Acrysius know With what deceipt and with what cunning arte He intertaind your strifes abusd you both By first perswading you that you had right In your demandes and then the right was yours And would haue made as many rightes as men Had meanes or power or will to purchase them Could he haue once attain'd to his desires Mon. We doe confesse our errour that we were Too easily perswaded by his craft To wrangle for imagin'd titles which We here renounce and quit for euermore Acry. And we desire the memory thereof May dye with vs that it be neuer knowne Our feeble age hath such example
showne Erg. And now this other strange impostour here This Alcon who like Lincus hath put on The habite too of emptie grauitie To catch opinion and conceipt withall Comes here to set vs all at variance too With nature as this other with our selues And would confound her working with his arte And labours how to make our minds first sick Before our bodies and perswade our health It is not well that he may haue thereby Both it and sicknesse euer vnder cure And forraine druggs bringes to distemper's here And make vs like the wanton world abroad Mel. But there are two the most pernicious spirit The world I thinke did euer yet produce Colax and Techne two such instruments Of Wantonnesse of Lust and treacherie As are of power t' intice and to debaush The vniuersall state of honestie Erg. But Techne who is that standes their by you What is your companie increast of late Te. Truely it is a very honest man A friend of mine that comes to see me here Erg. He cannot then but be an honest man If he be one of your acquintance sure Mel. This man I found with them now since you went Mayntayning hote dispute with Titerus About the rites and misteries of Pan Erg. H 'is like to be of their associats then Er. Techne what is this secret friend of yours Tec. For-sooth he is a very holy man Erg. A very holy man what is his name Tec. Truely his name Sir is Pistophoenax Erg. What is he maskt or is that face his ovvne Tec. He is not maskt t is his complection sure Erg. Techne we cannot credite thy report Let one try whether it be so or not O see a most deformed ougly face Wherewith if openly he should appeare He would deterre all men from comming nere And therefore hath that cunning wretch put on This pleasing visor of apparencie T' intice and to delude the world withal So that you see with what strange inginiers The proiect of our ruine is forecast How they implanted haue their battery here Against all the maine pillors of our state Our Rites our Customes Nature Honestie T' mbroyle and to confound vs vtterly Reckning vs barbarous but if thus their skill Doth ciuilize let vs be barbarous still Mel. But now to shew the horrible effects Of Colax and of Technes practises Besides this last exploit they wrought vpon Amyntas who poore youth lies now full weake Vnder Vranias cure whose skill we heare Hath yet recall'd him to himselfe againe We haue sent out abrode into the woods For Siluia and Palamon two chast soules Whom they haue torturd so with iealosie Of each the other as they made them run A part to languish seuerally alone And we haue sent for diuers others too Whose heartes haue felt what impious craft can do And here they come and now you shall know all Scen. 4. Palaemon Mirtillus Carinus Siluia Dorinda Amarillis Daphne Cloris Amyntas Erg. Come good Palaemon and good Siluia come You haue indurd too much and too too long Sil. Ah why Ergastus doo you set our names So nere together when our hearts so far Are distant from each other as they are Indeed whilst we were one as once we were And as we ought to be were faith obserud Palaemon should not haue bene nam'd without A Siluia nor yet Siluia without him But now we may Ergastus we are two Pal. Siluia there in the greater wrong you doe Sil. Palaemon nay the greater wrong you doe Erg. Alas we know well where the wrong doth lie Sil. I know you doe and all the world may know Pal. Siluia you see your fault cannot be hid Sil. It is no fault of mine Palaemon that Your shame doth come to be reuealed here I neuer told it you your selfe haue not Conceald your worke so closely as you should Pal. But there stands one can tel what you haue bene Sil. Nay there he standes can tel what you haue bene And sure is now in publicke here producd To testifie your shame but not set on But me I doe protest who rather would Haue dide alone in secret with my griefe Then had your infamie discouerd here wherein my shame must haue so great a share Pal. I haue not sought to manifest your shame Which Siluia rather then haue done I would Haue bene content t' indure the worst of deathes I hauing such an intrest in the same Col, No Siluia no Palaemon I stand here Not to accuse you but t' accuse my selfe Of wrong you both God knowes are cleare I haue abusd your apt credulitie With false reportes of things that neuer were And therefore here craue pardon for the same Pal. why Colax did not Siluia intertaine The loue of Thyrsis then as you told me Col. Palaemon no she neuer intertaind His loue nor wrongd you as I euer knew Sil. But Colax you saw how Palaemon did With Nisa falsifie his vow to me Col. Siluia by heauen and earth I sweare not I But onely faind it out of subtiltie For some vngodly ends I had decreed Pal. O let not this be made some cunning baite To take my griefes with false beleefe for I Had rather liue with sorrow then deceipt And still b' vndone then to haue such reliefe Sil. Ah let not this deuise be wrought to guild My bitternesse to make me swallow it now That I might be another time beguilde With confidence and not trust what I know Pal. Ah Siluia now how were I cleer'd of griefe Had I the power to vnbeleeue beliefe But ah my heart hath dwelt so long in house With that first tale at this which is come new Cannot be put in trust with my desire So soone besides 't is too good to be true Sil. Could I Palaemon but vnthinke the thought Of th' ill first heard and that it were not so How blest were I but loe I see how doubt Comes in farre easier then it can get out And in these miseries of iealousie Our eare hath greater credit then our eye Mel. Stand not confusd deare louers any more For this is now the certaine truth you heare And this vile wretch hath done you both this wrong Pa. I st possible and is this true you say And doe I liue and doe I see the day Ah then come Siluia for I finde this wound That pierc'd into the center of my heart Hath let in loue farre deeper then it was Sil. If this be so why then Palaemon know I likewise feele the loue that was before Most in my heart is now become farre more And now ô pardon me you worthy race Of men it I in passion vttred ought In preiudice of your most noble sexe And thinke it was m' agrieued errour spake It knew not what transported so not I Pal. And pardon me you glorious company You starres of women if m' inraged heat Haue ought profan'de your reuerent dignitie And thou bright Pallas sou'raigne of at Nimphes The royall Mistresse of our Pastorall Muse And thou Diana honour of